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A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.

"banklike app" is an intensely cursed phrase

When all this is over one day, I hope there’s a Trump Regime version of the Nazi hunters that just prosecutes everyone who profited from all this illegal shit we’ve witnessed in broad daylight for the last ten years. They’re leaving evidence everywhere. They’re bragging about it.

Hartford police shot and killed two men in nine days.

The victims were both in their 50s and neither was wielding a gun.

We need to call things by their names. We need to insist that reporters and politicians do this as well.

Heck yeah you would.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Holy cow, that’s like the best of all three countries.

YouTube video by STARDOM official 【スターダム】上谷沙弥 vs KAIRIのワンダー王座戦が遂に実現！『白いベルト、泣いてはないかもね』-11.19大阪大会-【STARDOM】

watching her here showed me she really thrives when she’s allowed to go solo and isn’t just part of a tag team. Anyway, here she is fighting for the Wonder of Stardom championship 3 years ago against Saya Kamitani, who deserves her own post someday soon. #stardom #wwrstardom youtu.be/kdpBeEgkxew?...

Here’s another #stardom wrestling highlight. WWE fans are familiar with Kairi Sane, but she had a storied career in Stardom, too, where she wrestled as just Kairi. I’ve admittedly only seen her wrestle a little on US TV, but… 1/

YouTube video by BAND-MAID BAND-MAID / What is justice? (Official Music Video) TVアニメ「桃源暗鬼」エンディング主題歌

Title: What is Justice
Artist: Band-Maid
Album: Scooooop
Genre: hard rock

youtu.be/3kMIh0_Wkpk?...

Report offers firsthand stories of conditions in Aurora ICE facility | Colorado Newsline A report released Monday by advocates details the experience of people detained at the Aurora immigration detention center.

People detained in the Aurora immigration detention center need $80-$100 each week to contact family members and buy enough commissary items to supplement the facility’s food offerings, according to a new report from a coalition of local advocacy organizations.
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Thanks. I am.

Aren’t you jealous you don’t live here?

I’ve seen some dumb things in my time, but…

Woohoo!

The kids are all right.

Time for ice cream!

That’s crazy intense for fifth grade.

Context into consistent antagonism between the West and Iran (also, Iranians love the West)

Hedge funds admitting their staff had not considered significant risk cases to their decisions is a bit, well, you get the idea.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban Trump calls Anthropic a ‘Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about’

Seriously, how come people aren’t screaming about this from the rooftops? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Who’s Deciding Where the Bombs Drop in Iran? Maybe Not Even Humans. Behind last week’s scrum between the Trump administration and Anthropic lies a deeper question of how warfare is conducted—and whether accountability event exists anymore.

My latest piece for @NewRepublic.com is on AI and war. It was painful to write. It might be painful to read. 

newrepublic.com/article/2071...

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.

That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

My niece wants to raise money to go to Taiwan on a school trip next year.

Me: You know what’s an easy way to raise money?

Her: What?

Me: Crime.

Her: I like that idea. (To the other room) HEY GRANDPA, CAN I LOOK AT YOUR WALLET?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Shouldn't be able to *bet on war* in my opinion.

And that’s that for #aewcollision. Thanks for joining as always.