our government is full of people with a Yankees-fan mindset who can't get inside the head of an underdog

"we have the money, power and resources, so you're gonna want to be on our side"

my guy, you are making that pitch to a White Sox fan?

A Kalshi ad that says "We don't do death markets"

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

Yep, quincena in Spanish

it's so interesting that the phrase "de hoy en ocho" in Spanish means "this time next week" because in most of the English-speaking world (I think?) that would be considered 7 days, not 8. I wonder how that divide came about

genuinely like half of the posts on this app are in this kind of Matryoshka-script and once you notice, it's hard to stop noticing it

How the shadow fleet is capitalising on the chaos of war The Iran conflict has offered the illicit oil trade a lifeline — while the easing of US sanctions widens a transatlantic rift

NEW: Just weeks ago, the shadow fleet was on the run amid a crackdown on the illicit oil trade. But the Iran conflict has given these ghost vessels a lifeline. Our latest visual story takes a deep dive into their clandestine operations.
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learned a lot about this today after standing in a 2hr+ line in terminal 5 and missing my flight...

airport people said that the lines have been extremely long every morning and then clear up in the afternoon. no idea how long that will keep being the case for

The ‘Armageddon scenario’ for gas markets Traders and analysts warn of lasting disruption after damage to Qatar facility that supplies a fifth of the world’s LNG

spoke about this a bit for the news briefing: www.ft.com/content/8126...

if you're just in it to make money, then I think you probably don't want to be huddled around a shared "weather predictions" screen displayed on a column?

feels like the part they're ignoring is that people like to watch sports at bars because the games are fun to watch

left side is English and says "Hello, I'm an elephant". right side, translated box says the language is "Elephant" and the text says "Pawoo, I'm an elephant"

lol

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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some interesting stuff happening lately with the truth machines

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The irrepressible Nigel Farage [FREE TO READ] Ten years after they first had lunch together, ‘the Brexit guy’ tells Henry Mance why the country needs his help once again

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electricity maybe?

has there ever been a technology that's as widely-used/poorly-understood as the internet/web?

it's wild that the vast majority of people don't even have the most basic mental model of what happens when they visit a website in their browser or open an app on a phone (obv not saying it's their fault)

yeah, and not trying to be too gatekeeper-y. I think it's great people can vibe-code some software for themselves, but there are a lot of "unknown unknowns" when people vibe-code things that they don't understand under the hood and that can bubble up in a many ways

I'd say it's both. it's about the person's understanding of what it has produced vs. what it has actually produced not matching

accessibility is an example here, but not limited to that at all. can be auth/security issues, performance, etc

"looks good at a glance, actually riddled with little problems" is something that people can see really easily on an AI-generated blueprint, but refuse to believe that it does the same thing with software

it won't always matter, but I promise you don't want an internet full of websites like this

not trying to be annoying, but *every* website in 2026 should be intended for mobile use

it's how the vast majority of people access websites and not accommodating that is a significant design flaw. the concerns she's raising are relevant and the kind of mistakes these AI code tools make a lot

Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since yesterday.

Read the @financialtimes.com Economics editor, Sam Fleming's analysis of what the impact the war in Iran will have on the global economy
www.ft.com/content/31bf...

screenshot of a Polymarket account (TJlaoyang) that shows they joined in Feb 2026, made one trade, buying 167,844.9 shares that the US would strike Iran on Feb 10, 2026 and lost about $2000 https://polymarket.com/@TJlaoyang

here's a random account whose only bet is (incorrectly) buying 167k shares that the US would strike Iran two weeks ago at 1.2¢

that's the exact kind of thing that would look like an obvious signal in retrospect if they were right, but they weren't. how could you know the difference beforehand?

I don't think that's right. people start new accounts and place big bets all of the time. the things that makes the trades suspicious (the timing, the accuracy) are things that are only apparent in retrospect

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at some point in the next few years, I hope people eventually understand that the clunky code these LLMs write is:
- great for replacing common/low-complexity/low-risk programming tasks (a lot of those!)
- not so good for unusual/difficult/high-risk stuff (replacing legacy COBOL)

file this one away for a few months from now, lol

I've got the A1 too! but without the combo, so can't really do multi-color printing (which I think I need for lithophanes)

was looking at getting the AMS for it, but recently I've been considering just reselling my A1 and getting a P1S

A screenshot from blender of the frame base design

A screenshot from Bambu Studio of the two 3D printed sides of the frame base

The finished light-up map frame and base, showing the two relief maps of Rhode Island and of its Salt Ponds, backlit from the LEDs inside of the frame

then finally designed/printed this stand to allow the frame to sit upright and the power cord to run up the side frame to power the lights

A closeup of one of the corner spacers with a glued in bolt. The "wings" on two sides of the spacer slide into the grooves in the frame, which will then prevent the aluminum sheet from falling backwards out of the frame once it is secured on

A top view of one of the corner spacers with a glued in bolt with its "wings" slide into the frame's grooves

A top view of all four corner spacers laid out in the frame and slid into the frame's grooves. Once the aluminum sheet is set onto these, they will prevent it from moving forward or backward in the frame, while the aluminum sheet prevents the spacers from moving up/down or left/right, so their "wings" stay in the frame's grooves

A top view of the back of the frame after the aluminum sheet has been secured onto the spacers' bolts with four nuts on each corner

printed these little corner spacers to keep the aluminum sheet in place on the back of the. they have "wings" on two sides that slide into the groove of the frame and a glued-in bolt that threads through the aluminum sheet. worked out in a pretty nifty way that didn't require gluing the spacers

The LED lights behind the models on the inside of the frame. About a dozen LED strips are soldered together with short wires into rows, which sit on top of an aluminum plate which fits onto the back of the picture frame

The wires connect to a power supply and switch on the side of the frame

I glued the models onto a picture frame and replaced the back with an aluminum sheet that I stuck these LED strips onto. after a bunch of soldering, I had the lights set up and wired to a little switch on the side of the frame