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A Forbes story about a Louisiana man killing 8 children contained a ForbesPredict box asking readers to predict whether Congress would pass new gun safety laws (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefi…

Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children
Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.

The administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? (Maria Cancian/Brookings)
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-administration-has-detained-400000-immigrants-what-do-we-know-about-their-children/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p81#a260518p81

Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefies-story-about-mass-shooting-of-8-children/

A cluster of 6 in a single neighborhood of a cancer that strikes only 200 kids each year sounds environmental.
✅ Six children in a wealthy suburb developed rare cancers. Authorities are eyeing pesticides | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/

Six children in a wealthy suburb developed rare cancers. Authorities are eyeing pesticides
No link has been confirmed between the rare childhood cancers and possible pesticide exposure in the Orange County community

I found an old WD NAS buried in all my computer parts clutter in the basement. I had completely forgotten about it after switching to the great uGreen NAS.
With 2x 4 TB WD Red drives, this WD NAS will now serve as my personal cloud at home, while the uGreen NAS will no longer function as a cloud solution connecting my smartphones and computers on the go, but rather as pure file and document storage on the internal network. So I’m splitting these functions between two NAS devices.

Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025 (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Prediction Markets’ Next Major Bet: Wall St. Traders
Platforms like Kalshi let millions wager on sports and pop culture. They’re now hoping institutions will use them for big-ticket trading like hedging.

"Nehmt den Kindern nicht noch die letzte Gelegenheit, rumzuhängen und sich auszutauschen"
https://alecmuffett.com/article/160943

@… If you’re still interested in the DSL book by Fowler, I have a spare copy to give away.
I only realized because you asked about it, that it had a slight misprint: 10 pages of some random children’s book were included in the front of the book.
So Pearson sent me a replacement.
The bad one is still perfectly serviceable though. If you’d like it.…

I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI."
People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate change that is currently on track to make complex human society impossible. Meanwhile, cities that weren't destroyed for cars, or that have reversed most of the damage, are some of the most desirable places to live.
Maybe we could take the car analogy as a warning. Maybe it could be a reminder to think about how forcing technology on people against their will can reshape society in a profoundly negative way.
The answer for cities has been to right-size transit. Eliminate cars wherever possible, maintain emergency vehicles and mobility aids, and find more efficient alternatives (bikes, trams, metros, and trains) where possible. I feel as though we can extrapolate from the metaphor.
We do not have to repeat the mistake of reshaping society around a single, oversimplified, solution in order to benefit a tiny minority. Perhaps we can actually choose the right technologies based on use cases, rather than hype or dogma.
Cars didn't replace horses. Cars replaced walkable cities, tram lines and mass transit, and children playing in the streets.
"Cars replaced horses" to the benefit of a small group of elite men, at tremendous cost to literally everyone else. When people say, "AI is the new 'cars replacing horses'" they are saying something very specific about their privilege and intentions.