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See also: the Kalshi guy's quote here

bsky.app/profile/jble...
Lol (but also shudder) @ the Kalshi guy talking about prediction markets surfacing truth essentially.

Somebody in critical LIS or history of economics more well-versed in this than me please write about this!
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
January 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
This was in all sparked by:

bsky.app/profile/denn...
Starting to think that as society we didn’t consider how slippery the legalized gambling slope would be
January 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM
"Nets give us forceful hypotheses not because we collectively accept them but because they run on the collective systems of signs that already have the force of social value in them. The social system of judgment is mirrored and then extended into uncanny statistical regions..."

🤯
December 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
God I love Sophia Stel lol

(www.thelunacollective.co/journal/qa-s...)
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It's because of you that I now know that Scott Foster likes Michael Franti & Spearhead lol
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM