Writer | Journalist. Views are my own, sadly
London, England
Joined January 2025
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“It is not a historical accident that the mentor of Alexander the Great was Aristotle”
This is from a conversation with @ChessScholar about the distinction between games and gamification, the latter of which has been spreading everywhere for a while:
digitalfrontier.com/articles…
If you’re wealthy and thinking about leaving the UK, you may want to think twice. You could stay and hang out with Liz Truss
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Jonathan Stein retweeted
We need more people willing to call out BS even when it's against their best interest, why do comedians seem to be the only ones willing to do this
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
A world in which #HouseMD doesn't make sense anymore
AI models can predict difficult medical diagnoses better than humans:
arxiv.org/abs/2506.22405v1
Will a bet on the success of Akiva Schaffer’s reboot of #NakedGun affect how much you laugh at it?
On prediction markets, gambling, and the attention economy:
digitalfrontier.com/articles…
Jonathan Stein retweeted
If you want to understand how the UK is really changing, not just the headlines, but the systems, fixes and people behind them, you need UK 2.0 in your inbox. @alys_key reports on what matters before it matters every week 🇬🇧
Subscribe here: digitalfrontier.com/newslett…
From where is the authority on Substack derived?Notably, @DKThomp brings pre-established credibility to the platform, but other means of trust and value are a bit less obvious: 🧵
I'll be writing more about this soon, but for now here are some inaugural thoughts:
dfzine.substack.com/p/substa…
Writing about prediction markets can be very distracting as I now want to place a wager on every single Polymarket trade. What's the craziest thing you have bet on?
Jonathan Stein retweeted
No big deal just @ameliakisaacs rocking the stage at @thenextweb with Matej Pfajfar (CTO @monzo), Natasha Govender-Ropert (Head of AI @Rabobank) and Pernilla Sjöholm (@idfier_).
AI, fraud and the future of money 🕵️♀️💸
One of the more precise definitions of culture is from the theorist Matthew Arnold, who wrote that it is “the best which has been thought and said in the world”. Does Substack rely on the “wisdom of crowds” to determine what is best?
open.substack.com/pub/dfzine…
