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Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? — Guardian US
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Have we found football's Wembanyama? Plus: Anonymous NFL execs on free agency https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7176431/2026/04/06/uar-bernard-nfl-draft-prospect-athletic/

🗾 Is it Really Impossible to Make a Living as an Animator in Japan?
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2026-02-20/is-it-really-impossible-to-make-a-living-as-an-animator-in-japan/.233979

Is it Really Impossible to Make a Living as an Animator in Japan?
There have been numerous horror stories about working as a newbie animator in Japan—namely, the inability to earn a living wage. To find out if this was still the case, ANN met freelance and studio-employed animators, studio heads, and animator-rights advocates.

Have we found football's Wembanyama? Plus: Anonymous NFL execs on free agency https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7176431/2026/04/06/uar-bernard-nfl-draft-prospect-athletic/

How The Economist, which has been consistently profitable, is bracing for change amid editorial tensions and questions about its long-term future and stability (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/22/2026/…

Exclusive: Storied, faceless, and stubbornly profitable: The Economist braces for change
A publication famed for its brilliant, monolithic anonymity faces a moment of intense individualization and personalization.

> Parts of Asset Hub are still in beta, Yona said, because SimpleClosure removes all personally-identifiable information from the internal company data, a sensitive and technically difficult process that they want to make sure is “rock solid” before rolling it out more widely.
Can't help but suspect that anonymising HR discussions is going to be difficult when the ability to find who held what position at what time can be derived elsewhere. (eg Linked In)

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

Battery drain on GrapheneOS here the last couple of days has definitely been worse than stock Google Android.
Battery-monitor says Molly is the main culprit.
Apparently Molly, the Signal client, keeps an open connection to the Signal server.
You can't just have the app check every 10 minutes if it has to ring like a phone upon call request. You need actually persistent connection.
On Google's android, google's play-servers do some kind of kung-fu to keep that modem mostly asleep despite this persistence.
Without Play Services, that don't happen.
But, there is a thing in F-Droid called "Sun up".
That does a similar thing I guess? Called "unified push". It uses Mozilla's servers instead of Google's. And does so anonymously apparently, but who knows for sure really? Not me.
End to end encryption means worst you'd be leaking is timing data really.
So install Sun Up from F-Droid and change Molly's settings / notifications / delivery-method to "Unified Push"
We will need a MollyServer too apparently as a bridge from Signal to Unified-Push at Mozilla.
All the cool kids are using molly.adminforge.de - there's the QR code you need at the site there. Maybe molly.notify.dykes.ca or some other one is better? I dunno. Can always use a different one if yours goes away.
We will find out over the next few days if that actually makes any difference to battery consumption.
Might save more if you have lots of other things also using open connections that can use unifed-push too. Emails and Matrix or whatever. Mux all those connections into one.
I don't do those things on my phone though, so it's just Molly, so we'll see.
#grapheneOS #molly #signal