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Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO
John Rees
@johnrees.bsky.social
Programmer. Game mechanic prospector. AI Safety appreciator.
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Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO
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At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in
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Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
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Oswald Mosley's grandson, Louis, is the UK head of Palantir.
Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
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Building a car in picoCAD. picocad.net #screenshotsaturday #gamedev
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Replying to @martin.kleppmann.com
If we take rate of likes as a general measure of activity, that means X was about 30 times bigger in June than Bluesky is now. That may seem like a big difference, but keep in mind that Bluesky has consistently been doubling user numbers every few months, and a factor of 30 is only 5 doublings.
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You are up to date.