“On a company called Polymarket, wagers on American military action win far more often than they should. Their investors and operating model took me down a yellow brick road. Enjoy!
On July 2nd, the investigative journalist Whitney Webb published a piece on where a company called Polymarket actually came from. Nikita Bier, the head of product at X, replied to her in public. His entire reply was: “Thinking this way is a form of mental illness btw.””
This re-runs something I put up at the old N.O. and is, imho, a fine overview, in which he takes one of a number of interpretations on each successive point, which together form a cohesive whole. The episodes below are 4 to 8 of some 70+ overall … in these in particular, I thought he did a pretty good job.
The key episode, imho, is n8, as it explains so much of today’s dire situation and for me personally … well I’ve been involved with some of these people, face to face so to speak.
The eighth seems to have been embedding disabled … it says by the video owner but this would only be because Them disapproved of it getting out … which our experience tells us means the nail has indeed been hit on the head.
I’m not upset by this as it could well turn out to be a safety valve.
(0632) Morning all. Grifty, you’ll recall, opens her pieces with “… you gorgeous, good looking people” and I was thinking (dangerous I know) … that that’s quite nice. Critics might call it insincere but I’d call it all-inclusive for those of her mindset. And let’s face it … would you prefer waking up to “we’re doomed, doomed y’hear” or to… “Morning, you intelligent, discerning, patient patrons …” or similar? (Brits of course would recognise Private Frazer in that “doomed” one and might smile at it.) (0734)
5. The formidable Steve at 1462
Senate Confirms Attorney General Todd Blanche in Overnight Vote, Leaves for August Recess Without Passing SAVE Act
Greg Gutfeld on the DSA: ‘I Resent Having to Debate Ideologies That Have Not Only Failed, But Killed Millions’
Long-time Vocal Democrat “Jumps Ship” Says “Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum” – Will Support Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate Election
Italy Shrugs Off Spanish Ultimatum, Says It Has no Plans to Reopen Border With Invaded Country – Madrid to Retaliate
The Numbers Don’t Lie: [The] Ukraine Is Losing The Infrastructure War
Researchers Name Dietary Nutrients Linked to Vision Protection
How Little has Changed Between ‘Political Correctness’ and ‘Woke
Much more.
4. Shorts
Bin thinking … when I group multiple shorts under one number, the power of each seems diminished, unless a single author. I’m thinking let each have it’s own number. Quite like this guy:
3. The Venerable DAD at 1462
a) Britain’s food supply is facing a growing new threat after a wave of suspected arson attacks targeted farms across the country while the UK endures what experts warn could become the worst harvest since records began.
Police have urged farmers to remain on high alert amid a series of suspicious fires destroying hay and straw stores, with investigators examining whether the attacks are being fuelled by a viral challenge circulating on the Chinese Communist Party-linked social media platform TikTok.
b) Despite a raft of measures in recent years, cold telephone calls still plague daily life in France. The government has now opted for a tougher crackdown.
Cold calling is about to come to an end. (JH: I’m taking this one up later, separately.)
c) Giorgia Meloni rejects Sánchez ultimatum to lift Schengen checks
Rome has tied any review of the suspension to intelligence warnings of a fresh mass crossing attempt at Ceuta.
(0452) We get these Damascene moments, esp. if we believe something deep down. And one thing clear to me is that my focus needs to be not only on news gathering as we’ve been doing but also doing my own “magpie mind” thing in “bits from here and there I find” and bring them back to this nest. That starts to make sense. (0539)
The Magpie Mind this Sunday morn
Why is my health alternately good, then terminal, then back to good? It’s currently as fit as a fiddle (are fiddles fit ? No matter).
Saw this after I’d been looking at the Hebrew word “berr eh sheet” (expanded further down):
In other words … integrity, reputation within our “community”, what our name means is everything. Yes, esp. in this community here, where deep diving and accuracy are essential. Also the baddies will always exploit our weaknesses.
This berr-eh-sheet word. It’s the Hebrew start of Genesis but does not mean just “in the beginning” but “at the beginning of”. Apparently, St Jerome took it as just “beginning”, as the Greeks took it that way. But the Hebrew context was that God is, am, always, eternal, and this was, is, will be the beginning of earth, life, of mankind. Even end of His work.
For some reason, I took that line, no idea why, in my long book … that things happen, not just because of a linear timetable, cause and effect, but because of conjunctions of circumstances, even IYE’s “coinky-dinks”. And the obvious question is … how random? Or is it designed and directed?
That berr-eh-sheet youtube had many things wrong with it in itself:
It was AI, so key words were mispronounced
It purported to be Christian, just called Bible Study, but used CE and BCE, which are dead giveaways of either Judaism or modern godless “scholarship”
Which comes back to the short above, about reputation, and youtube’s is poor … sensationalist, with AI voice and errors
Which in turn suggests it needs some site(s) to be dedicated to as many magpie gathered snippets as possible, for readers to be able to follow up, rather than to just sit like veges, soaking up uncritically.
Which in turn means much more work on my part.
Then we come to young women today:
Boys … would you go anywhere near one of these, these days? Need your head read if so. What does she offer, except poor, self-centred nooky?
b. ”Meta must pay $567 million in New Mexico teen safety case
The ruling adds to a $374 million penalty a New Mexico jury decided in March; the combined funds will go to youth mental health programs and platform reforms.”
c. ”The New Mexico Epstein “Truth Commission” Released Its First “Report” Yesterday. It’s Absolute Horseshit.
A government commission ostensibly created to investigate why Jeffrey Epstein and his protectors were never investigated in NM brazenly failed to investigate and continues to protect the powerful.
This is a strange one and I’m trying to decipher why this young guy should go after this Kay Burley. I do know of her … a horror such as Vorderman, Maitlis, Bash, Winfrey etc. For awhile, Lara Logan was like that but Cairo woke her out of it.
13. People are not doing that which they know to be right
Once again @lucyjaynewhite1 absolutely nails it! When you hear me get pissed off at politicians who consistently say they want to protect the "British" people I suggest you watch this because it explains it. The other thing of note is they hid a very nasty clause in Schedule 4 of… https://t.co/Bs6TV0Upsw
