Polymarket's Note on Middle East Markets: "The promise of prediction markets is to harness the wisdom of the crowd to create accurate, unbiased forecasts for the most important events to society. That ability is particularly invaluable in gut-wrenching times like today. After discussing with those directly affected by the attacks, who had dozens of questions, we realized that prediction markets could give them the answers they needed in ways TV news and X could not."

I'm working on my CLIA piece trying to rough out some ideas re. prediction markets and IL and, have to say, this "Note on Middle East Markets" that Polymarket appends to all its Iran bets made me feel genuinely ill

139 more games of the Jeff Hoffman Experience (TM) could be the end of me lol

This book looks 🔥!

Louis Varland has got that dog in him

Can the Jays win 2 games in a row??? The drama...

Graze the Bell, by David Moore / Bing & Ruth 9 track album

Blown away by this David Moore LP quietly released earlier this year!

bingruth.bandcamp.com/album/graze-...

No idea this was one of the folks in Bing & Ruth.

Gorgeous record.

I crushed all of this yesterday somehow lol

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Re-watching season 1 of "How To with John Wilson" before the Canadian premiere of his new doc at CUFF later this month.

Perfect dang TV show!

This Jays team is torturing me lol

. @redford.bsky.social The "NBR"playoff preview eps are expert-level podding. Loving every minute. Thank you 🙏

LTTP but damn this is phenomenal!!!

Toronto Blue Jays MLB 2004 Vintage Clean Up Cap (Black) with "Angry Bird" logo (2004-2011)

I'm so Jayspilled right now that I think this logo—which I felt was a crime against humanity contemporaneously—is fire. Plz send helppp!

The Allbirds thing is so funny lol

Calgary in mid April lol

AI-powered Sci-Hub (sci-bot.ru) now - interesting!

Tone Glow 221: Cass McCombs An interview with the American singer-songwriter about how all press is fake, how New Orleans is the "ultimate music city," and why he hates the recording studio

toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...

Now I'm listening to case/lang/veirs for the first time in maybe half a decade. Completely blown away.

(Was boygenius Temu case/lang/veirs??? jk lol)

God I loved that dvsn album lol

Imperial Phase OVO

I did this for an alt-weekly in Regina (RIP "Prairie Dog" :( ) in 2016.

"Night Ride Home" is still so dang good.

Found my 2015-2016 year-end lists deep in a laptop archive today - crazy time capsules!

We Belong Together (feat. Thandi Draai) YouTube video by Charles Webster - Topic

Charles Webster's 2020 album "Decision Time"

Randomly remembered today.

So damn good!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5O...

Anthropic is so skilled at this kind of promo.

The "Claude's Constitution" thing strikes me as similar. Long-winded, self-serious, moralistic bafflegab ultimately.

They really are triangulating as the Serious, Thoughtful Lib brand lol

I think I believe in the CD revival lol

Had a bit of an epiphany in a record store yesterday

Multiple Zoomers coming in asking excitedly for Metallica's "Ride the Lightning" on CD and stuff. Absolutely no interest in huge vinyl stacks nearby. Fascinating.

Sidebar ad on Facebook: "The tragic end of O'Leary!" "The morning news has shaken all Canadians!" Both ads appear to show Kevin O'Leary dead(?)

Logged onto Facebook for the first time in a few weeks on my burner and lol these sidebar ads are wild

fish_encyclopedia's post on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/DWmBfQiEdZB/) promoting its "Peer-to-Peer Collection" of hats for Demonoid, Limewire, Oink, Soulseek, BitTorrent, and What.CD

What.CD dad hat is bonko but kinda goes hard lol

lo-fi, farts to study to

Brand new book review from me in "CJAL" of Bales & Budzise-Weaver's very good new volume "Critical Voices in Library and Information Work"!

doi.org/10.33137/cja...

Ron Sexsmith Lightfoot Concert by Joel on Apple Music Playlist · 23 Songs

Made a playlist of the full setlist (not in order) if anyone is looking for this:

music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...

Incredible set of lots of deep cuts.

Gen X must be stopped!!!!111