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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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— Excerpt from the social platform Academia.edu’s terms of service.

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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 […]
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Wed, 21/01/2026 - 12:20

Following reporting by The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Google confirmed it has suspended the account of Desi Banks Productions LLC for violations of advertising policies and deleted the Mossad recruitment ads from its transparency portal. This article was originally published by All-Source Intelligence. The Mountain View-based advertising and technology giant Google confirmed on Tuesday that it has suspended the advertising account of the Atlanta-based comedian Desi T. Banks Jr., Desi Banks Productions LLC, following exposure of a months-long, international ad campaign attempting […]

The post Grayzone report prompts Google to suspend ads from Atlanta influencer recruiting Iranians for Mossad first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Grayzone report prompts Google to suspend ads from Atlanta influencer recruiting Iranians for Mossad appeared first on The Grayzone.

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Wed, 21/01/2026 - 05:01

“As support for abolishing ICE grows among Democratic voters, party leadership continues to argue for reform instead.” —Salon

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The Delegation to the Wall

When word reached King’s Landing that the dead were stirring beyond the Wall, the brave Democrats of the Seven Kingdoms sent a delegation north. They did not bring dragonglass, nor men for the Night’s Watch, nor coin to repair the Wall where it wept with meltwater. They brought parchment marked with sternly written words.

The Lord Commander thanked them while a savage wind cut through his heavy cloak and the dead moaned incessantly down below. The letters expressed concern about the White Walkers, but urged restraint. They reminded the Wildlings, should they be listening, that their murderous behavior did not represent who the Realm was. The delegation stayed long enough to be seen shivering as they glanced briefly northward, then rode south, satisfied that the issue had been thoroughly acknowledged.