#futures

Oof, contact after long radio silence. A wild few months of intense storms, a broken foot & losing access to all my website domains - holy cow. Still, the enforced stillness has nudged me into writing. I’ve written a little about growing our performance workshop, All Worlds, All Times through generous collaboration across #astrobiology & #futures communities, working with astrobiologists Tessa Fisher, Andjelka Kovačević, George Profitiliotis’ WG at @setihub@mastodon.social & many more. https://open.substack.com/pub/kategenevieve/p/all-worlds-all-times

Fed Funds Rate #Futures #Traders pullback #Fed 2026 rate hike outlook, chart @bloomberg.com TV live

Prediction markets function as financial redistribution machines. A small cohort of traders capture most of the gains, while everyone else supplies the cash and the notion that this is collective intelligence. “The top 1 per cent of users capture about 84 per cent of all gains, while the top 0.1 per cent capture nearly 60 per cent. In effect, most participants lose money to a small group of sophisticated traders…” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/article-the-investors-profiting-from-prediction-markets-the-top-1-of-course/ #finance #markets #futures #predictionMarkets

@cstross@wandering.shop One of the short SF stories in #Nature #Futures described the situation of a simulated or copied rather than wholly artificial machine intelligence, once human, which had been put in a phenomenal number of jars and shaken, and then discarded, of course, over a long period into the future. Seemed bad. One of the #basilisks , perhaps.