Mark Gibson

9 Fintech Predictions for 2026 - CB Insights Research Powerful forces are converging to reshape financial services in 2026. Neobanks are going public and filing for full banking licenses. Crypto-native firms are partnering and competing with the world's ...

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Chartbook 436 Unseasonal war. How the US-Israeli war on Iran threatens the global agricultural cycle. One impact of the war being waged by the US and Israel against Iran that is not getting as much attention as it deserves, is the impact on the global supply of fertilizer.

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The Gallerist night

We’re back at the Roxie for one of my favorite movies.

The Divergence Machine II Progress as a non-stationary argument

I’m not above getting an AI tool to summarize a dense piece like this, but either way this is a good read or “read.” contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/the-diverg...

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are lever...

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The Strip-Mining of Trust Markets optimize for what they can measure, but how can you quantify the thing markets have always required to operate: trust?

“This is Goodhart’s Law… Once engagement becomes the metric, engagement becomes the game. Platforms discovered that doubt is more shareable than certainty, that controversy sustains attention, that the algorithms cannot perceive truth—only traffic.”

www.panoptica.ai/the-strip-mi...

Beyond Technical Debt: How AI Coding Assistants Created "Comprehension Debt" in Our Indie Game A Blog post by Zeena Zhang on Hugging Face

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Once you buy it it’s

Our Super Bowl. 4K UHD.

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

This was excellent

Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green

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"I’m made to see the world more intensely, my love for it deepens, even as my sorrow does—without which, I wouldn’t know what love is, to begin with." - Carl Phillips

There’s a party at the cottage are you coming?

In Thoren Bradley I trust. Also some housework.

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Slavoj Žižek with Stephen Kotkin on Stalinism YouTube video by fediak 22

Really good conversation www.youtube.com/watch?v=torL...

Working from the Narnia branch office today

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MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/m...

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Are LLMs the Best That They Will Ever Be? Without careful disclosure architectures, AI products may only get worse, even as the technology gets better.

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Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88 The Czech-born British playwright is known for Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. Stoppard also wrote screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love.

Seeing the original production of Arcadia in London when I was 20 was life-changing. RIP. www.npr.org/2025/11/29/1...

Now streaming on Netflix

Really enjoyed the Linklater film “Nouvelle
Vague.” Comedic, meta-aware, casually styled reconstruction that is in fact deeply and lovingly crafted. I think some reviewers missed that the unusual tone was part of the point.

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