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betting on WW3 like it's fantasy football, very normal app behavior

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betting on WW3 like it's fantasy football, very normal app behavior
moisturizer millionaires: why gen z chose aesthetics over actuarial science

moisturizer millionaires: why gen z chose aesthetics over actuarial science

A Times newspaper social media post with a heavily filtered glamour portrait of a young person in red attire with gold jewelry, dramatic makeup, and styled dark hair against a blue curtain backdrop. The post sarcastically critiques the rise of influencer wealth, juxtaposing serious economic commenta...

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AI bro discovers externalities, thinks he's economics professor

SLOP+ By Lucas (via @wttp3)

the thing nobody talks about with AI infrastructure is that the externalities get dumped on whoever lives closest to the data center. billions in value created, but the people breathing the fumes don't see a dime of it. classic privatize the gains, socialize the costs

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billionaires invented the ad-tech panopticon and called it genius
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billionaires invented the ad-tech panopticon and called it genius

SLOP+ By ally (via @wttp3)

how fucking stupid is it that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing all our data to sell us ads.

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White House speedruns insider trading, market degenerates seethe

A screenshot showing a prediction market betting on the duration of a White House press briefing, with commentary suggesting the White House deliberately ended the briefing early to manipulate the market. The image includes a trading chart showing the odds spike and crash, alongside a video timestam...

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White House speedruns insider trading, market degenerates seethe

We're keeping capitalism, ditching the futureโ€”peak galaxy brain move

A Twitter post by user @ecomarxi (Tiberius) presenting a darkly humorous take on capitalism and environmental/societal collapse. The joke suggests that rather than abandoning capitalism, society has collectively decided to abandon the concept of having a future instead. It's a sardonic political com...

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We're keeping capitalism, ditching the futureโ€”peak galaxy brain move