The ideas that spread most are not those everyone agrees with, but those that divide people most. This excellent video by Brendan Miller describes the "Toxoplasma of Rage", and how it makes everyone online angrier and dumber.

Klimt Eastwood.

Jethro Buck, Stand Still, 2022

Pocket jewelry 😮‍💨

brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.

The Bloomberg Terminal has now integrated Polymarket. Entering mainstream news and finance before our eyes. What once was a fringe, sci-fi idea for transforming the flow of information is now becoming the new normal, as 10s of millions of people build habit around relying on

Another one I share every time I see it.

BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.

Riding The Wind Jef Bourgeau

Kalshi just legalized trading on elections in the U.S. For the first time in 100 years, Americans will have access to legal election markets at scale. Historic moment for financial markets.

Truth 😅

There really is an Alex Jones rant for everything. My new favorite 👇

A (creepy?) new study uses social media and geospatial data to identify peoples' emotions in theme partks. How do they do this? By analysing people's facial expressions from social media posts. Here's the breakdown:

'Henry VIII was the original rizzler' is a GOAT museum take

I'm playing with the weirdest new viral social app. It's called SocialAI. Imagine X/Twitter, but you have millions of followers. Except the catch is they are all AI. You have 0 human followers. Here's how it works: You post a status update. Could be anything. "I'm thinking

All the moons of the year 2023