Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account
yeah I’ve had so many story ideas just end up being too on-the-nose. and a few that are “if I put this idea out there, someone will use it and make things worse for people I don’t know.” I don’t need that kind of karma.
20 years ago, if you wrote a story about a dystopian future sci-fi setting that included polymarket, readers would interpret it as a heavy-handed metaphor for widespread cynicism and derealization
Polymarket is one of many direct evidence of the impending fall of society.
It’s one of those things that would seem excessive in a story.
A place so decadent that everything was to bet for. Even as the world ended around them, they gambled on how.
It’s the real life version of the intro to Cyberpunk 2077, with the radio host talking about bets on the death toll in Night city.
Cyberpunk was supposed to be a dystopia, not a fucking instruction manual!
But seriously, I’ve lost about all enjoyment in cyber-dystopian stories because these days they cut depressingly close to home.
yeah I’ve had so many story ideas just end up being too on-the-nose. and a few that are “if I put this idea out there, someone will use it and make things worse for people I don’t know.” I don’t need that kind of karma.
Really seems like a future dystopian sci-fi, where the main character is going to bring the whole system down.
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20 years ago, if you wrote a story about a dystopian future sci-fi setting that included polymarket, readers would interpret it as a heavy-handed metaphor for widespread cynicism and derealization