Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade
Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and Polymarket reaches new lows.
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update: the library director was in today and showed me his secret space opera hoard. new additions to the list:
- August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Alex White
- You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo
(haven’t read either yet, but he highly recommends)
he also had two of the books i’d been wanting to include in the display!
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
- Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
what could go wrong with running betting markets like this?
filed under “Reddit comments that didn’t age well”
Finally, most of the attention people have given to the announcement has focused on the plan to end the fact-checking program, with a lot of people freaking out about it. I even had someone tell me on Bluesky that Meta ending its fact-checking program was an “existential threat” to truth. And that’s nonsense. The reality is that fact-checking has always been a weak and ineffective band-aid to larger issues. We called this out in the wake of the 2016 election. .... So, if a lot of the functional policy changes here are actually more reasonable, what’s so bad about this? Well, first off, the framing of it all. Zuckerberg is trying to get away with the Elon Musk playbook of pretending this is all about free speech.
"The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritising free speech," said Mark Zuckerberg.
Doublespeak.
As I wrote the other day:
happy monday, i hope everyone also enjoyed the SIX STRAIGHT WEEKS of holidays we just had!
you know when you leave a movie theater and you feel like you're returning from another dimension? that's how i feel rn
call me when you figure out how to make working out more like reading (in bed with a cup of tea)
