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Q&A with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on his vision to "financialize everything", sports betting, Kalshi's "philosophical misalignment" with Polymarket, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
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Q&A with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on his vision to "financialize everything", sports betting, Kalshi's "philosophical misalignment" with Polymarket, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
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Anyone truly interested in negotiation would at minimum try to find one smidgen of common ground...
Trump rejects Iran peace proposal as Tehran vows to confront 'enemies'
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/iran-war-trump-negotiation-hormuz-nuclear-talks.html
I've spent months rethinking and rebuilding my programming languages course from scratch for the agentic coding era. I wrote myself a memo explaining what I'm doing. I figure others might be interested in the redesign, so here goes! Feedback welcome of course.
https…
Anybody has Xctdoor/Xctloader samples that can share? I was trying to get the samples from this AhnLabs blog https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/94847/ alas, they are not in VirusTotal or Malware Bazaar...
More than anything, I'm interested in samples employing these basic "obfuscation" techniques…
Interested in learning about accents and dialects for your #writing or #voiceover work? Check out The International Dialects of English Archive (https://www.
Anthropic released Fable 5, basically a strongly guardrailed version of Mythos. They make some big claims in the announcement - let’s see what people actually say in the next few days. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
I’m particularly interested in ind…
3 EDGE Rushers Cowboys Should Target Instead of Von Miller https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/3-edge-rushers-cowboys-should-target-instead-von-miller
Hey @… new cursed idea if you're interested: QSFP to 4x RJ45 Ethernet module. I'm not sure if 4 rows, 4 columns, or 2x2 would look more absurd.
As far as i can tell it's technically possible but doesn't exist, i hope it never is created, but I'd love to see just how derpy it would look lol
RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/117067025692147098
I have a Zoom call in an hour or so and I look forwarding to seeing how Zoom background audio scrubbing deals with this sign clacking its way through an update.
Also, still interested in if anyone has mad…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@regehr/117061794371597834
“How can we avoid losing an entire generation of students to AI” very simply is the old question of: how can we get students to intrinsically learn because they want to know, are interested, want to rea…
RE: https://tapbots.social/@paul/117057384187079118
So glad I bought my 64G M2Max Studio when I did. Not interested in the resale value, just glad it will remain useful long enough to get past the price insanity.
Sources: Netflix, Disney, and YouTube are interested in challenging Fox for 2030 and 2034 World Cup US broadcast rights; Amazon and Apple also potential bidders (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/fifa-world-cup-media-rights-netflix-dis…
@…
I have an idea for a new Witcher story set in the modern Suwalki Gap. Would you be interested in kicking some ideas around and if so what's the best email address for you these days?
Could we agree that anyone posting something about *any* sport includes the hashtag #sport ?
That way those of us who are not interested in sports could filter the hashtag. Please?
3 EDGE Rushers Cowboys Should Target Instead of Von Miller https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/3-edge-rushers-cowboys-should-target-instead-von-miller
Kris van Rens at @… "The XZ Utils backdoor -- Digging into a major cybersecurity incident"
After skipping very quickly through the technical section during the talk because of time constraints, afterwards Kris gave an interactive session on the technicalities for a handful of interested people. Lovely! Also: food for thought.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/116714937336905238
Good details for those interested.
The accuracy of the figures for "cost" is really fuzzy - lots of unknowns. But this article gives some good ideas of what to think about.
And mak…
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116699217319237996
Huh! Interested to hear more of the science behind this — and to hear it summarized, because I’m not likely to jump into a 94-minute podcast episode just this minute.
The International Online Organ Forum is the place to go if you are interested in organ music or think you might be. It's on several social media channels (not Mastodon - yet!). Sign-up for their free monthly newsletter and get an amazing free feature-length organ film each month, FREE too. https://io-of.org/st-vi…
RE: #SotM, but I have very few ideas on what to make.
Or maybe I …
With recent news I'm curious about what a plagiarism detector would say about my thesis, but as a non-academic I don't have access to the tools.. Do you just upload a pdf to them? If anyone has access to one I'd be interested in what it says ! It'd also be interesting to see what an AI detector thinks about it but maybe it would just look at the date of it..
Call for Panelists and Discussants at AAS 2027: Negotiating Orthodoxy: Canon Formation, Intellectual Lineage, and Boundary-Making in Chinese Religions
https://ift.tt/jrgAOXK
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-16 on Levine, _Allies and Rivals_ H-Diplo | Robert…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Still very much WIP but I'm linking my Sokoban Fan Game here for anyone who might be interested. Few dozen levels; just a few mechanics. Designed in part to be fun for my then-4-year-old, with varying success. PuzzleScript is great.
#Game #GameDesign #PuzzleScript
There's a #degrowthUK email list to connect with people working for, on, or interested in, #degrowth.
To join, send an email to the following address: degrowthuk-subscribe[at]lists.riseup.net
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Would any of y'all be interested in an archival curation tool that can handle merging large collections of files?
I'm in the middle of designing something — git is inspiration but the wrong tool for this job — but that allows reintegrating diverged collections of materials, and propagating enough information that if you were to merge two folders, you'd get a relevant set of questions about the contents to successfully and meaningfully merge them.
It's aware of the fact that embedded metadata changes.
My goal is to make a library simple enough that one could embed it in an operating system's file browser to surface intelligent behavior, and that it could form the basis of media servers too, taking the scanning-and-recording-files duties.
I probably have enough recommendations now to last me for a few years 😅 — thank you everyone!
Compiled a lot of them here, if folks are interested: https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/profile/zachleat/wish-list
@… Thought you might be interested in this.
https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116859731748508400
I don't want Meta or Google or Microsoft smart glasses because there isn't a reason to trust any of them and plenty of reasons to not trust them. I might be interested in something from Samsung, though.
NFL Catchup: Latest On Browns QB Battle; Shade In Dallas? Broncos Interested In QB? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-catchup-latest-browns-qb-battle-shade-dallas-broncos-interested-qb
Newly installed EMU president Brendan Kelly warns anyone interested: “When I say these jobs are hard, they are impossibly hard. These are just incredibly complex organizations in a really unstable environment.”
#QuoteOfTheDay
lifted from an ann arbor observer article (behind a paywall #alas)
I've been experimenting with welcome posts to new members who sign up to the https://gardenstate.social instance.
Have other had luck with those kind of posts? Interested to hear other's experience with both onboarding and bot detection ion this area.
Raiders Receive Major Update on Vita Vea Amid Trade Rumor https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/buccaneers-update-vita-vea-trade-rumor/
Recipe for those interested:
Mix 20ml simple syrup (mix one cup sugar with one cup water in a saucepan and heat until dissolved, this makes enough for a lot of cocktails and keeps well in the fridge) with juice of half a lemon and about 15ml of aqua faba (water from can of chickpeas, red kidney beans also works well). Shake with lots of ice in cocktail shaker and strain into glass. If you're not strictly no-alcohol, add a dash of angostura bitters before shaking.
Enjoy in cool, twilit garden, ideally in a hammock while listening to the swifts screaming overhead...
#SummerInDenmark
Netflix says it is "not interested" and has no plans to pursue Lionsgate; Lionsgate shares closed up 13.85% on Tuesday before falling ~4% after hours (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/netflix-lionsg…
Pretty sure here are people interested in the history of NeXT, Inc. On the occasion of the new book "Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary" by Geoffrey Cain, the Computer History Museum published a recent discussion with Geoffrey Cain with some early and central NeXT people. Enjoy: https://www.
14 year old comes into my office and asks if he can borrow my copy of Snow Crash.
Me:
“Oh you’re interested in that kind book now, I suppose. Cool. Yeah you can definitely borrow it!”
*me, remembering how that book ends*
“Ummmm maybe we should save that one for later. Here’s my copy of Cyptonomicon. You’ll love it.”
He’s on a pretty long leash as far as content goes, but he does not need to read about the events surrounding the dentata quite yet… 😬
RE: https://mastodon.social/@digiresacademy/117002632463303568
Interested in reproducible research and research software? Then this event is for you!
Online workshop ( optional evening social in Sheffield)
Are any vegetarians / vegans at #DH2026 who aren't going to the banquet interested in finding a properly veg*n-friendly dinner?
#Seattle folks who are interested in #DisasterPrep organizing might also be interested in the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods matching funds (closed for 2026, but thinking forward to 2027). We talked about getting grants, but I don't think we ever applied.
#Amsterdam has one too. We don't have to do everything ourselves. It's OK to use money like this to build capacity if we can find good targets. At least, that's my take.
any #cybersecurity people interested in getting into a webserver in order to rescue a dying website?
boosts appreciated :P
#cybersec #infosec
any #cybersecurity people interested in getting into a webserver in order to rescue a dying website?
boosts appreciated :P
#cybersec #infosec
LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319
My two cents on the new Hyprland:
Hypr, hypr, bring out the mango 🥭 !
#slackware #mango #archlabs
Are you interested in how dependency-heavy your (or another) package is and why? #rstats
Another Ukrainian innovation:
interceptor drones are being mounted on small transport aircraft like An-28s to take down Russian attack drones
https://bsky.app/profile/mariadrutska.bsky.social/post/3mk6oatoggc2t
Ethan Mollick has some first impressions of using the model that are worth reading if you are interested in that kind of thing: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos
Modern industrial fertilisers are made from fossil hydrocarbons. In future we can't use that. But, although I am prejudiced in favour of #organic agriculture, I'd be interested to know whether it would be possible to synthesise fertiliser from widely available resources without using fossil hydrocarbon.
Anyone got any pointers?
This is hilarious so I had to look it up, and yes it’s true; Bumble kicked Sharon Stone off their site 😂
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qakvaly2sy7dqeav7xcebrap/post/3mmosmuuibk2t
Librarian, archivist, or curator looking to level up your digital game? You might be interested in our online courses that teach #DigitalCuration skills. Cherrypick your favorite or take the full grad certificate https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.ed…
Opening a video from https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse/116669065965297499 the very first thing is LLM generated image, closing the video. Not interested.
I give my blog very few people read and its silly post pictures more attention than this. And I can barely use Inkscape and ha…
I've been mistaken as a jew again. It's fine, but no I am not interested in doing aliyah or whatever.
My youngest sister was recently diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. She is raising money to support underinsured cancer patients. Please send her some love and contribute if you are interested and able. Thank you!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-lymphoma-researc…
Extreme precipitation in Central Asia connected to drought in mainland Southeast Asia #Asia
For those interested, all the animation news from the middle of this year, and everything coming up - so much good! https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/mid-to-end-of-20…
Ok, as someone who's never used/paid for either, I'm interested to know what folks, either on a biz/org capacity, or personal/family level are paying Microsoft or Google for MSO 365 or Google Workspace these days, and what you get for it. Please clarify the currency you're using. Feel free to DM if you prefer results not to be public. My discretion is assured.
During the past 5 months, the armed forces have sent questionnaires about the voluntary military service to 300k 18-year-old Germans.
90% of the men (who are required to fill out the form) answered immediately, further 6% after being reminded (the others are facing fines). ¼ of the replying men were initially interested, and ½ of them remained so after being called.
1500 of them were examined for their fitness for service, and 80% passed. ~530 were finally recruited.
🇩🇪
An update on the status of the race for my House seat: When I last posted about it, the 2 Dems interested in running for it were Jason Quinno and Tom Brennan. However, they have decided to run for the floterial instead, so now Nate Giffard is running for my seat. I met him today, and he seems good. Since he is now the only Dem running for the seat, I'd like to officially endorse him for the position. He's running on a platform of housing, general affordability, and civil rights. Here's a link to his website:
#NHPolitics
A tiny hymenopteran - I think - extremely interested in sage plants on our balcony in Bochum, Germany. The size of a common fly and very hectic so the pics didn't come out too well, but perhaps good enough to ID this #Insect.
RE: #AI, this is a great opportunity to get this e-book!
(…
Ich denke immer mal wieder die Probleme der Tech Industrie bzw. die vielen falschen Entwicklungen in diesem Bereich nach. Angefangen beim Copyright auf CD und DVD ( ich kaufe etwas, darf aber für mich keine Kopie davon machen) über Software bis hin zum E-Auto. Die Produkte, die wir "kaufen" gehören immer öfter nicht uns, sondern wir dürfen sie nur nutzen.
Bisher war es immer irgendwie möglich für die Einschränkungen eine Umgehung zu finden.
Wie wird das aber in Zukunft …
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117032953432293891
Balaji: “If you are building a startup society, a network state,
should you…pitch Andreessen Horowitz?”
Ben Horowitz: “For sure.
We're very interested in it.
We believe in the whole thing from t…
I figured out a simple way to do callout boxes in pandoc's markdown, and having fiddled with it all morning, I am posting about it in case anyone is interested: https://codeberg.org/ddrake/simple_pandoc_callouts/
@… From your recent interest in eink screens, thought you might be interested in this from Valve: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/SteamHardware/SteamMachine/…
A productive morning at the psychology coalface! Completed a deck for a workshop, listed a new masterclass online, and published my monthly newsletter.
If you're interested, you can read (and subscribe!) here:
https://www.worklifepsych.news/you-are-not-your-task-list/…
It looks like I'm going to have some downtime in The Netherlands in late September / early October due to airline pricing (staying an extra two days after the event I'm attending saves $1200 on airfare, cutting the ticket price by >50% and more than justifying the extra meal/hotel cost)
Anyone interested in a get-together Monday Sep 28th, Friday Oct 2, or Saturday Oct 3? Or have suggestions on things to do in the greater Gouda / Den Haag / Rotterdam area?
If you're interested in the whys and hows of soccer - football analytics, check out this podcast
https://overcast.fm/ AA5AWNcZ8q8
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kangaroo5383/116965695000825164
You know who was also interested in opening Cuba to US trade?
Boston Godot Users group meets tonight: https://www.meetup.com/bostongamedev/events/313618732/
I just learned about the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay and it's pretty cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Garzón_Bridge
(Also, one of my neighbors is from Uruguay so I'm sort of interested in learning more about it.)
RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116594414069573576
PSA for other people interested in my prints/photography/art:
Avatar Aang is *well* worth your time (even if you’re only marginally interested in the series): https://boxd.it/B1BK
hello chat
would anyone here be interested in finding vulnerabilities in an old dying website so we can get into its servers and archive its DB and scripts?
boosts appreciated!
hello chat
would anyone here be interested in finding vulnerabilities in an old dying website so we can get into its servers and archive its DB and scripts?
boosts appreciated!
For those people interested in digital identity , wallets etc., Architecture and Reference Framework for the EU Digital Identity Wallet, version 3.0 has been released.
#EU
I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.
#Wikidata WikiProjects Days 2026 is coming up in mid-June! This virtual conference is a great opportunity to learn about @… and contribute to its numerous WikiProjects!
If you are interested in giving a talk, the deadline for submitting a session is 31 May CEST.
I'm looking to outsource my meowing to give me more nap time.
Please provide evidence of meowing skills if interested
Reuters launches its first documentary, Death in Darfur, on the Reuters website and YouTube, seeking to reach audiences who are less interested in text (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
Cryptocurrency has stopped being a finance story.
In 2026 it's a political-money machine
- woven into our elections, our regulators, the President's family balance sheet, and the everyday plumbing of how Americans get paid, borrow, and save.
You can decide never to buy a single token and still be exposed to the fallout.
A plain-English tour of where crypto stands heading into the 2026 and 2028 elections:
the collapse of regulatory enforcement;
t…
Cowboys Salary Cap: Was Pickens in a trade offer for Browns' Garrett? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/01/cowboys-salary-cap-was-pickens-in-a-trade-offer-for-br…
#WritersCoffeeClub 21 Jul
Do your works contain erotic elements? How far do you go?
Interesting question: what counts as 'erotic'?. I'm interested in relationships, often power relationships, between people. That they have sex and how they have sex is important character and narrative information.
So yes, almost all my stories have scenes in which people have…
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@harrysintonen/116616660520565984
I'd definitely be interested to see if this is legit, but don't have enough context to know. Looking at this person's CVE list suggests it probably is.
Gamedev/graphics/graph theory people: right now the filter graph editor (imgui-node-editor) in ngscopeclient uses a simple spline curve when drawing edges from one node to another, ignoring everything in its path (i.e. edges can cross nodes).
Is anyone interested in trying to rework this to add a bit more intelligence to the routing? It needs to be fast with up to a few hundred nodes in a typical worst-case scenario, and generally "stable" (small motions of a node should not …
Q&A with Vox CEO Jim Bankoff on the sale of Vox Media's podcast network, why buyers were interested in that network, and how remaining sites are in "good shape" (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-bankof
RE: #LibraryJob !
Sources: Netflix is interested in buying Lionsgate and bid on Roku, but the deal would have faced tougher antitrust scrutiny than Fox's (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/16/2026/netflix-wades-into-the-ma-game