Brian Moritz

Polymarket says “journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets” Predictions market Polymarket and Substack are now "exclusive," the companies announced. And the relationship getting serious is raising a few eyebrows. On Wednesday, Substack announced the new featu...

It would be so much easier to throw deserved scorn at Substack for this nonsense if ESPN and CNN had not already sold their souls to betting markets also.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/poly...

“That’s what I’m f—ing talking about!”


Alysa Liu as she leaves the ice 🔥

Good lord.

"Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets" is the kinda cursed phrase you never even imagined could be written.

At Sports Media Guy this week, a quick riff on how media outlets are writing about prediction markets - and why it's all a little weird.

open.substack.com/pub/sportsme...

This is not a policy oriented around helping students learn meaningful things. Training students to do school by avoiding AI detection is not worth anyone's time.

Adding this to tomorrow's post about it!

(And let's talk papers. Could have fun with it.)

Guaranteed the reds date back to Lanier.

Also, there are those of us who used to teach in computer labs.

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand

it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

Godspeed, Max Mercy.

Also a time before technology allowed for easy writing from the field. Pre laptops and phones. The rewrite man might be the only person with the ability to typing the story up for the editors.

The "rewrite man" is an old journalistic role, an relic of the days when journalistic outfits had more reporters than news hole and lots of people to throw at breaking news. I am certain these are not the Plain Dealer's current problems.

"Removing writing from reporter's workloads" is one hell of a thing to say out loud.

(Safe travels!)

(Reposted to fix typo in the original)

“We are disrupting soup.”

“By removing writing from reporter‘s workloads” is one hell of a thing to say.

At least this kid didn't name his podcast after a Hamilton lyric in 2016. Imagine the horror of doing that.

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Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket to Bet on Strikes The country’s internal security agency indicted a reservist and a civilian for security offenses, bribery and obstruction of justice in connection with the bets.

This is really, really dark.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

How the Phillies’ $100 million marriage with Nick Castellanos ended in divorce When the Phillies ate $20 million on Thursday and released Castellanos, it was an admission that the relationship was irrevocably broken.

Full story here: www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

"The beginning of the end for Nick Castellanos’ time in Philadelphia came on the night when the $100 million outfielder cracked open a Presidente beer and carried the green bottle into the Phillies dugout in the middle of a game."

Well that's an all timer of a led @mattgelb.bsky.social

When I saw they were all going like 30mph the whole time I was stunned!

Remembering Kevin Stevens The intertubes.

Remembering my old colleague Kevin Stevens, a man as Binghamton as a lamb spiedie.

Remembering Kevin Stevens The intertubes.

Remembering my old colleague Kevin Stevens, a man as Binghamton as a lamb spiedie.

You are a foot soldier in the War on Protein.

"I want to build a factory on the moon."

Buddy, I want to do a lot of things ...

"The only thing Big Tech is selling us is their own unprocessed trauma back to us. It's not a revolution. It's a comfort blanket for a managerial class that still can't fathom that all their tech and wealth couldn't protect them from the pandemic."

Damn, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's got hands today.

Wetzel: Giannis/Kalshi deal does NBA no favors All this might be legal, but at some point perception defines reality and optics overwhelm everything.

Dan Wetzel has been a consistent voice in favor of legalized gambling, dating back years. If he's hedging on the prediction market world, that feels significant.

www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Are you suggesting he would not be fully invested in the budget for the cross country team?

This column is good and @davekarpf.bsky.social should feel good.