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Saints' Mickey Loomis addresses uncertain futures of veteran Alvin Kamara, Cam Jordan, Taysom Hill https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-mickey-loomis-addresses-uncertain-futures-of-veteran-alvin-kamara-cam-jordan-taysom-hill…

Sports Illustrated deleted the profile and articles of writer Parker Loverich, after Sportico editor Dan Bernstein accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sp…

Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
Sports Illustrated deleted an author, and his entire archive of published work, after allegations of AI plagiarism.

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

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

What 81,000 people want from AI
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.

Zocalo: Ramadan Invites Us to Imagine a Better Future
I have a new piece on Zócalo about Ramadan as a futurist practice. Ramadan is a futurist practice. Ritual fasting and increased spiritual contemplation are ruptures in Muslims’ daily habits, not just in eating, but in our movement through the world. They force you to pay attention, with eyes misty with spirituality—to feel viscerally what is wrong with the world. Ramadan invites Muslims to imagine how we can remake…

Hussein RashidZocalo: Ramadan Invites Us to Imagine a Better Future
I have a new piece on Zócalo about Ramadan as a futurist practice. Ramadan is a futurist practice. Ritual fasting and increased spiritual contemplation are ruptures in Muslims’ daily habits, not ju…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Future Islands:
🎵 Seasons (Waiting On You)
#FutureIslands
https://futureislands.bandcamp.com/track/seasons-waiting-on-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/522YBf6WqBwJVAe7oHLymu

National Today, a site that mimics news outlets and includes subdomains for dozens of US cities, appears to use AI to plagiarize articles from multiple sources (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/national-today-ai-plagiari…

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Father John Misty:
🎵 She Cleans Up
#FatherJohnMisty
https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/track/she-cleans-up-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ebFwjg7AyBUjFdOTZLIU8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Father John Misty:
🎵 I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All
#FatherJohnMisty
https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/track/i-guess-time-just-makes-fools-of-us-all-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/0QA1dDs6A2xLr7nxWFpeJN