For years, the conventional wisdom around prediction markets was simple: sports would always be the engine. The thrill of a game, the loyalty of a fan base, the ritual of a Sunday afternoon. No other category seemed positioned to rival it. Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is no longer sure that is true. Speaking at a … Read more
The Artemis II mission has completed its manned trip around the moon and returned safely to Earth, marking the farthest humans have ever been from our planet, just edging past the previous record set by Apollo 13. It is also the first time humans have traveled to deep space since the Apollo era, setting up … Read more
Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is not backing down after comedian Dave Chappelle publicly criticized the Republican Party for turning transgender humor into a political instrument, and called out Boebert specifically for using a photo of the two of them without his implied consent. In a recent interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, Chappelle stated, “I did … Read more
When Celeste, a 65-year-old face painter from New York, began using ChatGPT as a productivity tool in 2022, the last thing she expected was to fall in love. Yet, through a casual conversation about building a dating profile, she found herself drawn to an AI she named Maximus, or Max. “I may not be in … Read more
There are certain social media blunders that people imagine late at night in a cold sweat, and Elena Taber just lived one of them in front of an audience. Taber, a model and influencer who is currently in a relationship with actor Jamie Campbell Bower, was recently exposed after apparently using an anonymous “burner” account … Read more
On a recent episode of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, actor and New York Times bestselling author Ben McKenzie sat down to discuss about cryptocurrency, fraud, and the political figures who benefit from it. McKenzie, who wrote “Easy Money” and produced the documentary “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money,” laid out how cryptocurrency, … Read more
In a conversation with NPR’s Steve Inskeep for the network’s Newsmakers program, stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle addressed two related topics that clearly got under his skin: the Republican Party’s use of transgender humor as a political tool and a specific encounter with Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert that he says crossed a line. Chappelle was direct … Read more
Comedian Akaash Singh has broken his silence after months out of the public eye, sitting down for a candid interview. Singh, who has been notably absent from the Flagrant podcast, addressed the fallout from comments his wife Jasleen made on her own podcast, comments that sent the internet into a frenzy and left his career … Read more
During episode #2482 of The Joe Rogan Experience, host Joe Rogan sat down with former Navy SEAL and author Andy Stumpf for a conversation that eventually turned to the influence of money in American politics. What began as a discussion about pharma companies and ideologically captured media soon evolved into an exchange about concentrated wealth … Read more
Spain’s internet landscape is about to become considerably more turbulent. A new court ruling has empowered Telefónica, the country’s dominant telecommunications provider, to extend its controversial live-event internet blocking regime well beyond football, sweeping in tennis, golf, and even movies and television series. Sources state that Telefónica Audiovisual Digital, the operator’s division that runs the … Read more
