Elizabeth Lopatto

Forbes reports on “evidence of rampant wash trading on Polymarket,” a prediction market site back by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.

The startup has received “tens of millions from investors in short-term loans“ to make sure it can cover election bets:

America's mayor, who lost a defamation case and now owes $148 million to poll workers, didn't turn over his valuables as ordered.

Verge staffers review election.omg.lol: “Both horrifying and kinda helpful.” “This is a hell site.” “This rules.” election.omg.lol

Ben Horowitz has donated a minimum of $7.6 million to fund police purchases. a16z portfolio companies, —such as Skydio, Prepared911, and Flock Safety — benefited.

“That was upsetting to me, because if you have ears, you can definitely hear it’s not our music.”

photo of 18 states want the SEC to stop enforcing crypto regulation image In which various government bodies fight over “permissionless” assets | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Securities and Exchange Commission wants to “unilaterally wrest regulatory authority away from the States” when it comes to crypto, according to a lawsuit from 18 states. These states…

The controversial head of the SEC was targeted by Donald Trump during Trump's presidential campaign.

So this is NSFW because it’s just gonna holler profanity at you, but if that’s what you’ve wanted — well, Bluesky is the kind of platform that lets you build it.

Erin Kissane's take on “the dark forest” idea of the internet suggests that context collapse is what makes the internet deranging. So how do you build a network where people matter?