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Thu, 22/01/2026 - 05:05

This market will resolve to “Yes” if the world ends before December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No.”

Note that personal tragedy will not cause this market to resolve to “Yes,” no matter how disruptive it is to your daily life or sense of well-being. A breakup won’t qualify. Neither will the death of a beloved parent.

And don’t even start about losing your job. We’re all struggling, employed or not. I mean, look at me. I have a job, but I’m helping people throw their money into the void over the stupidest stuff. Want to blow a month’s rent because you’re sure Taylor Swift will drop another surprise album in this calendar year? You can if you want to.

I’m basically helping some guy run a farm for gambling addicts who want to bet on the specific way things will burn down. Well, unless you want to bet on the number of tweets Elon Musk will excrete in a fourteen-day period. Is that a more noble form of betting? Better question: Do you want my job? If that question resolves to yes for you, send me a note.

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Thu, 22/01/2026 - 01:02

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Wed, 21/01/2026 - 20:09

In inner-city Dublin, almost hidden between the eighteenth century terraces and the shiny luxury flats of the twenty-first century, you’ll find a series of large blocks of flats in brick and concrete: Countess Markiewicz House, Oliver Bond House, Chancery Place, Pearse House, Thorncastle Street, among others. Inspired by the modern housing of Amsterdam and Vienna, […]

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Wed, 21/01/2026 - 19:00
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Wed, 21/01/2026 - 16:33
I think this is worth posting in full. Once again Carney and Canada are moving faster than any of America’s vassals, which is fascinating because Canada is the most vulnerable to the US of all the vassals. But then, that’s why, plus some luck. Carney was the UK’s and Canada’s central banker. He did a […]