Ben Cohen

thwart leader

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Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-14

If 5 minutes of CFTC time are spent on this, it will be the biggest waste of government resources in history.

An excerpt from the NYT coverage of the Super Bowl half time show prediction markets:

Confused yet? So were many people who placed bets — or bought "event
ontracts" — on whether she would perform. At least one trader on Kalshi
filed a complaint with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over
how the company resolved the market on Cardi B's appearance.
Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-12

RE: mastodon.social/@airspeedswift

narrator: but something had gone wrong

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-11

The stock market is supposed to hit record highs constantly, if it doesn't something has gone wrong. The current admin bragging about it is like them yelling "2026 is the highest year number ever achieved".

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-06

Pressing the button to silence my fire alarm like it’s the world’s most inconvenient tamagotchi.

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-06

simpsons most racist thing so far.gif

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-06

The thing about having a racist president is he’s still a racist even after he takes down his racist tweet.

A post on twitter by Senator Tim Scott, in reply to trump’s posting of a video of the Obama as apes. It says “Praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”
Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-04

The hatred millennials had for their boomer parents’ noxious political views is going to be nothing compared to the upcoming zoomer/gen x war.

A poll showing support for abolishing ice broken down by different demographics. 59% of those 18-29 support abolishing ice, versus only 39% in the 45-64 age range, the lowest % of all generations
Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-02

Overall the wide variety of use cases and platforms shown off in the talks was very exciting, thanks to everyone who came and especially proposed a talk. And big thanks to all the community organizers for making it happen.

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-02

This demo of ElementaryUI from the pre-fosdem meetup was very impressive. Looking forward to seeing where it can go.

youtu.be/OmQ881sOTIc

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-02

@schwa well, that was Walmart in those days

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-02-01

I'm mystified by Whole Foods popping up in London given the deal with Whole Foods is "what if a US grocery store had the same food quality and cleanliness of a normal British supermarket".

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-01-30

@hansv thank you

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-01-30

RE: todon.nl/@hansv/11598625554236

Ahhh this makes more sense

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-01-30

Weirdly specific US state catching strays here in Brussels

Graffiti on a roadside barricade on the streets of Brussels at night. It says “fuck Arizona“
Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-01-26

I appreciate the service podcast publishers are doing to help jump me out of my jet lag by inserting jarringly British ads into my regular listens where I don’t expect them while traveling.

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-01-24
Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-01-21

@kyleve they will then make a second billion dollars selling non-unsubscribable email delivery to businesses

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-01-21

if you don't know what "treasuries" are, for the love of god please don't share your hot takes on what selling them means

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-01-20

@gbargoud that would conflict with the narrative that what programmers are supposed to do with their spare time is more programming

Ben Cohenairspeedswift
2026-01-19

(for those that don’t get the dentists thing… they’re used as the archetypal medium-net-worth prosumers for this kind of nonsense because proper market participants have zero interest in trading stocks 24/7)

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