Author: nick

[ad_1] Only then do we realize that by optimizing profit and efficiency, we’ve also optimized systemic failure. In my essay AI, Money, Human Nature and the Problem with Problems, I refer to boundary conditions but didn’t offer a thorough explanation of the role this concept plays in understanding not just how the world works but more importantly, how things break down. Boundary conditions define what the system needs to function. The more complex the machine / system, the greater the number of conditions. For example, a car needs a source of power, fuel, tires, control mechanisms, seats, and so on–hundreds of components are required for the car to…

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[ad_1] A “ceasefire” that still includes ships getting shot at isn’t a ceasefire, it’s a pressure campaign with a short fuse. Kyle sits down with Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski to make sense of the newest swings in the Iran conflict, from limited strikes and fast Iranian responses to the bigger question nobody wants to answer: what is the actual endgame, and who is paying the price while leaders posture? We dig into the details of the so-called U.S. blockade and why it’s morphing into something far more dangerous. Karen explains how the mission shifts from lawful interdiction to standoff attacks,…

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[ad_1] Social media users are casting doubt and causing confusion about the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, saying that one of the passengers is a “crisis actor.” Their posts are focused on Jake Rosmarin, a Boston-based travel content creator who is now quarantining at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. “They’re really working it with these crisis actors,” said a May 6 X post that shared a video of an emotional Rosmarin describing his experience aboard the ship. Another X post said he “was certainly handpicked for this Honduis-Hanta-CryBaby role” because Rosmarin’s related to people…

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[ad_1] I’m very happy to post a draft of a new article, “Popular Conceptions of Fourth Amendment Curtilage,” written together with my co-author Matthew Kugler, forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review. The article picks up an idea I first pondered here at the Volokh Conspiracy back in 2018. The Supreme Court interprets the Fourth Amendment to extend the privacy of the home beyond the home’s walls to an outside space it calls “curtilage,” and it insists that what counts as curtilage, and the implied license to enter it, is intuitive and widely known. But is it? What do ordinary people…

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[ad_1] A new report from Bitget and Polymarket reveals that prediction markets are evolving into a $240 billion industry driven by retail users who are trading more frequently on everything from crypto to politics. What to know: Prediction markets are shifting from occasional, event-driven bets to continuous platforms built around frequent, smaller trades by retail users. Polymarket’s monthly trading volume has surged from about $1.2 billion in 2025 to more than $20 billion in early 2026, with active wallets more than tripling in six months. As crypto-focused users branch into markets tied to real-world events, prediction prices are increasingly used…

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