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White House staff warned not to place bets on prediction markets

bbc.com

The gambling platforms have grown in popularity, with some users making wagers on conflicts.

Obviously the stock trading is bad enough, but this shit is ridiculous. It’s insider trading that’s basically untraceable and the fact they even have to issue this warning only proves the corruption happening within the administration. Just another downside of crypto—I’ve yet to see an upside in real life.

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Peter Magyar’s Tisza wins Hungary election as Viktor Orban concedes

aljazeera.com

Longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban has conceded defeat in the country's parliamentary election.

Not going to pretend like I know anything about Peter Magyar, but having Orban leave—and do so peacefully—is a huge win. I’ve seen people say things like fascism always loses, but I don’t think that’s the right mindset to have. It takes work and courage to defeat it and just because it eventually loses, doesn’t mean there aren’t real life consequences suffered by real people in the meantime who won’t get to see the fascists lose.

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Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troublesome, Judge Says

wired.com

Hamilton acknowledged that Hegseth has no legal authority to bar military contractors from using Anthropic for work unrelated to the Department of Defense. When asked by Lin why Hegseth would have posted that, Hamilton said, “I don’t know.”

It’s 100% punitive. You don’t go from using the product and negotiating a new contract to expand capabilities to declaring they are a supply chain risk and can’t be used by any government contractor. It’s ridiculous.

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Donald Trump’s latest climbdown suggests he wants to end the war

economist.com

On Monday Mr Trump did the rounds of American business television channels, repeating his claims of “great conversations” with Iran. Iran has firmly denied the existence of such talks in public and rejected offers from America in private, according to a Gulf official. The war’s unexpectedly long duration, as well as Mr Trump’s latest climbdown, undermine the idea that Iran’s regime is fragile and that regime change is possible. Instead, it is looking more likely that the ill-judged campaign will either drag on or end messily, with an Iran that is battered but defiant, and
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📱 The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

Politico

The fact that the Commission said TikTok should change the basic design of its service is “ground-breaking for the business model fueled by surveillance and advertising," said Katarzyna Szymielewicz, president of the Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish civil society group.

Honestly, I really love this idea. It’s so easy to just fall into doom scrolling and go down a never-ending rabbit hole. So forcing some kind of decision-making to continue is a good idea, given some of the addiction we’ve seen arise from these types of apps.

I’ve also been thinking defaulting to an algorithmic timeline

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🤖 OpenAI amending deal with Pentagon, CEO Altman says

Reuters

Surprisingly absolutely no one with half a brain, OpenAI actually couldn’t fulfill the same deal as Anthropic while holding to the same high standards and principles.

And it’s all of these shortsighted nincompoops that are going to absolutely destroy the economy—and not just the stock market, but the everyday lives of normal folks—along with the idiotic policies, actions, and war (crimes) of the current administration.

I’m rambling and getting a bit off topic now, but we are at the point (and, to be clear, have been for sometime) in a post-capitalistic society where outputs

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