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Just as the last decade created Uber drivers, Airbnb hosts, and Tiktok influencers, this decade is creating something new: the superforecaster. This new class of professionals emerging online make a living predicting the future. They trade everything from elections, weather, inflation, to pop culture, economic and onchain data. Prediction markets are the first open marketplace for competitive intelligence, rewarding whoever understands the world more clearly than anyone else. The new Wall Street is here to stay.

“Surveying Emin’s lives,” writes @verdur_in, “Is like witnessing someone experience ego death, over and again” thecritic.co.uk/issues/april-2…

"They recognized the transformation of femininity into optimized systems, by Instagram and by doll manufacturers, and broke both systems by running them in tandem, too many times." - @briandroitcour on 'Ugly Bitches' by @nnHirsch & @mayaonthenet

“Maybe the closest thing the doomscrolling laity gets to a quotidian realization of enlightenment or the Kingdom of Heaven, is not the end of images but the end of the reign of images.” – @Gideon___Jacobs in our Spring 2026 print issue, “Everything’s Computer” – out now!

Strange Rules opening @ Palazzo Diedo Venice Curated with @HUObrist @hollyherndon & Adriana Rispoli Architecture with sub, led by Niklas Bildstein Zaar

A far cry from the days when you’d be intrigued by an author or painter (eg Burroughs, Bacon) precisely because he was a bit of a ne’er-do-well, operating in, or on the fringes of, the criminal underworld.

Peptides are quickly replacing Myers Briggs and other personality tests Notice how each personality already strongly cluster to specific peptides. E.g. with GLP1s: - Ozempic: low IQ / defers to authority - Reta: narcissistic / impatient - Tirzapetide: conscientious / balanced

For @NYMag, I went to a low-profile Palantir conference at Yale, where the firm and its allies spoke freely of the AI-powered future they're building—with or without your consent nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Quite simply the best thing I've read on AI: "...the people who built AI have shown themselves singularly ill-equipped to understand what it can and can’t do. Perhaps that’s because they tend not to understand what humans can and can’t do." "Put simply, we like to think we can get something bigger than us to do the job of being human for us. But we’re it: the highest form of life on this planet, God help us. The buck stops with us." from @SpencerKlavan in @LawLiberty. Read the whole piece here: lawliberty.org/forum/ai-in-an…

GIRL INTERNET SHOW: A KATI KELLI MIXTAPE is (finally) coming to BluRay. I hope you will watch this labor of love that Jordan Wippell and I put together from Kati’s singular archive. Maybe her work will change your life like it did mine. vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/fr…

"Mann first offered it to his readers as a fairy tale, albeit a modern, melancholic, ironic one." Merve Emre on The Magic Mountain yalereview.org/article/merve-…

Paleontologists have long believed that giant reptiles ruled the oceans in the twilight of the dinosaur age. A new study suggests another apex predator dominated the food chain: school-bus-sized octopuses resembling the mythical “kraken” monster. 🔗: on.wsj.com/3OBEnZo

For New Left Review, I analysed what is alive and what is dead in neoliberalism under the conditions of present-day Western capitalism @NewLeftReview

The art hoes all have Dada issues

The nominative determinism of North West’s afrohyperborean aesthetic debut.

@Polymarket we’ve got 5 new sentences left

NEW: A group of more than a dozen dwarfs has reportedly raided the Church of Scientology.

What if the feed were slowed down, its chaotic sensorium recut with a little emotional sense? Read a conversation with filmmaker and “Open Secret” initiator Dana Dawud & author Persis Bekkering in our Spring 2026 issue, “Everything’s Computer” – out now!

Overheard in Silicon Valley: “Hamlet was a prompt inject written by the intelligence agency of the Queen to install modernity into the Elizabethan audience — so the monarchy could navigate their defeat of the Catholic Church and the control of the world.”

Genuinely fucking sucks that the Bay Area got Eliezer Yudkowsky rationalist polyamorous cults instead of Rob Burbea Buddhist Greco-Futurist cults