Gestault
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What does Kalshi and Polymarket have in common with Enron Online? They both want to let you bet on the weather. I looked at Enron's weird derivatives products, and how they're not that different from prediction markets now: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
How Enron's weirdest, most controversial idea is getting new life
Before Kalshi wanted to "financialize everything," Enron wanted to give it a shot, too.
www.chron.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
What does Kalshi and Polymarket have in common with Enron Online? They both want to let you bet on the weather. I looked at Enron's weird derivatives products, and how they're not that different from prediction markets now: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
This agency needs to be dissolved and its former staff investigated for prosecution.
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This agency needs to be dissolved and its former staff investigated for prosecution.
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NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
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This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office.
More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.
As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.
As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Begins Process to Align U.S. Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries
ALIGNING THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to begin the
www.whitehouse.gov
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office.
More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.
As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.
As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
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It appears that Jnmartin's StarFox 64 port to the Dreamcast is complete! You'll have to build it yourself and combine it with an original copy of StarFox on N64, though — get the files from his GitHub:
github.com/jnmartin84/s...
#sega #dreamcast #segadreamcast #n64 #starfox #retrogaming
github.com/jnmartin84/s...
#sega #dreamcast #segadreamcast #n64 #starfox #retrogaming
GitHub - jnmartin84/sf64-dc: Sega Dreamcast port of Star Fox 64 decompilation
Sega Dreamcast port of Star Fox 64 decompilation. Contribute to jnmartin84/sf64-dc development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It appears that Jnmartin's StarFox 64 port to the Dreamcast is complete! You'll have to build it yourself and combine it with an original copy of StarFox on N64, though — get the files from his GitHub:
github.com/jnmartin84/s...
#sega #dreamcast #segadreamcast #n64 #starfox #retrogaming
github.com/jnmartin84/s...
#sega #dreamcast #segadreamcast #n64 #starfox #retrogaming
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My god
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My god
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So "anonymous sources in the Pentagon" were lying when they said the survivors called on their radio for help retrieving their cargo and continuing their (alleged) drug run.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So "anonymous sources in the Pentagon" were lying when they said the survivors called on their radio for help retrieving their cargo and continuing their (alleged) drug run.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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“The brushing is far too brief and involves too little force to have been intended to inflict any kind of injury on the officer whatsoever," Lucy C. Shepherd's lawyers argued.
Assault charge dismissed against ICE protester after video shows no attack on officer in Portland
“The brushing is far too brief and involves too little force to have been intended to inflict any kind of injury on the officer whatsoever," Lucy C. Shepherd's lawyers argued.
www.oregonlive.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“The brushing is far too brief and involves too little force to have been intended to inflict any kind of injury on the officer whatsoever," Lucy C. Shepherd's lawyers argued.
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New in PN: A war criminal without a war
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
New in PN: A war criminal without a war
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
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Look at these ICE thugs with their masks on chasing this woman down the street. Terrifying and grotesque.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
‘It’s attempted kidnapping’: Video shows masked agents chase US-born woman back to her Marrero home
The woman told CNN she was born and raised in the New Orleans area.
www.wwltv.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Look at these ICE thugs with their masks on chasing this woman down the street. Terrifying and grotesque.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
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The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
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They wouldn’t have, because they didn’t want them to say “hey we were just fishermen, go check our boat.”
But they could have. It’s evil.
But they could have. It’s evil.
December 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
They wouldn’t have, because they didn’t want them to say “hey we were just fishermen, go check our boat.”
But they could have. It’s evil.
But they could have. It’s evil.
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41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb).
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb).
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
It would be interesting to see if a judge ever uses on-the-record claims by an AI company about speed/accuracy in its tools *against* them for filings by those same companies asking for undue procedural delays (e.g., needing more time to process materials) in copyright/damages cases about AI.
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It would be interesting to see if a judge ever uses on-the-record claims by an AI company about speed/accuracy in its tools *against* them for filings by those same companies asking for undue procedural delays (e.g., needing more time to process materials) in copyright/damages cases about AI.
If something walks, talks, and unlawfully operates the levers of power like a white supremacist ethno-state, you should probably get more comfortable just reacting like it is.
Instead of, y'know, discounting your own direct observations and asking paid liars (who work for them) what they think.
Instead of, y'know, discounting your own direct observations and asking paid liars (who work for them) what they think.
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If something walks, talks, and unlawfully operates the levers of power like a white supremacist ethno-state, you should probably get more comfortable just reacting like it is.
Instead of, y'know, discounting your own direct observations and asking paid liars (who work for them) what they think.
Instead of, y'know, discounting your own direct observations and asking paid liars (who work for them) what they think.
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Horses' only sin is that its broad themes don't entirely pay off its loaded imagery. Otherwise, it's an effectively uncomfortable games that turns life's mundane humiliations into surreal horror. If anything, its bans fill in its thematic gaps for it. My review. www.polygon.com/horses-banne...
Horses review - the banned Steam game doesn't deserve its ban
Horses tackles life's daily humiliations with surreal horror that will make you squirm
www.polygon.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Horses' only sin is that its broad themes don't entirely pay off its loaded imagery. Otherwise, it's an effectively uncomfortable games that turns life's mundane humiliations into surreal horror. If anything, its bans fill in its thematic gaps for it. My review. www.polygon.com/horses-banne...
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"Santa Ragione finds itself at the center of a humiliation ritual now, as storefronts exert their power to ensure that the studio is punished for daring to make uncomfortable art. But you can’t hold back outsider art for long. History tells us that the fight will always continue..."
Horses' only sin is that its broad themes don't entirely pay off its loaded imagery. Otherwise, it's an effectively uncomfortable games that turns life's mundane humiliations into surreal horror. If anything, its bans fill in its thematic gaps for it. My review. www.polygon.com/horses-banne...
Horses review - the banned Steam game doesn't deserve its ban
Horses tackles life's daily humiliations with surreal horror that will make you squirm
www.polygon.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Santa Ragione finds itself at the center of a humiliation ritual now, as storefronts exert their power to ensure that the studio is punished for daring to make uncomfortable art. But you can’t hold back outsider art for long. History tells us that the fight will always continue..."
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My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America
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RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Shift from “there may be some classified or legal framework that could potentially be a viable excuse for the use of force if it won in court” to “oh this is the Ur war crime, like so clearly a war crime that there is no legal cover for this specific order”.
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Shift from “there may be some classified or legal framework that could potentially be a viable excuse for the use of force if it won in court” to “oh this is the Ur war crime, like so clearly a war crime that there is no legal cover for this specific order”.