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Orioles Owner David Rubenstein Just Proved He Doesn’t Understand Baltimore — or Its Baseball Fans
The billionaire businessman admits he underestimated the challenges of owning a baseball team, initially saw professional sports as a way to make money and still struggles to understand why fans care so much. Baltimore deserves better. David Rubenstein might be one of the most successful businessmen in America, but every time the Baltimore Orioles owner opens his mouth to discuss his baseball franchise, he seems to demonstrate just how little he understands the people who care about it most.
After eventful final day of Winter Meetings, O's still have more to do
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Many times, the Orioles’ front-office members and executives come to the Winter Meetings and leave without getting any signings or trades done. Instead, the time is used to lay the groundwork for potential future moves. Well, that certainly wasn’t the case this year. Baltimore made one of the biggest splashes of the week in Orlando, but not until Wednesday afternoon.
DeSci x Ideamarket
If Bitcoin is money without banks, Ideamarket is credibility without institutions. This could solve several major problems for the Decentralized Science (DeSci) ecosystem, because it allows users to build credibility for discoveries without waiting for a centralized authority like the WHO or the FDA.
An on-chain web of knowledge
This functionality is already live. Posts are linked by citations, creating a network of credible opinions on every topic. It tracks what we believe...AND WHY ... on chain. Here's one way to visualize it: It would work like this: 1. Every post you click, bursts citations out in 4 quadrants around it. UPSTREAM = reasons to believe [psychic abilities are real] DOWNSTREAM = ideas that [psychic abilities are real] provides a reason to believe FOR = in favor AGAINST = against 2.
How to outsmart "the experts" in any domain
Hello friends, I’m starting an experiment in publishing a lot more — multiple times per week, on: psychology music (I play blues guitar) religion Ideamarket controversial thoughts I imagine using Substack somewhat like Twitter, in the sense of self-censoring a lot less and just firing things off. Since this is new and exploratory, I’d love your feedback on what you want more of, less of, or in a different form.
Introducing $IMO - 2/2/2022
This is a big one. We’re launching BOTH our token, AND a simpler, more universal Ideamarket primitive that even web2 users can use. Introducing $IMO Distribution Retroactive airdrop $IMO Rewards Locking listings Staking $IMO Uniswap LP Roadmap URL Market Ghost market Ideamarket User Accounts Blockchain of opinions Auditable consensus Bounties for celebrity opinions TL;DR: 1. $IMO is Ideamarket’s governance and utility token. It stands for “in my opinion,” and it launches 2/2/2022. 2.
What Blockchain Oracles Do Not See
What Blockchain Oracles Do Not See Blockchain promises an immutable history of on-chain data. But the “ledger of record” is merely the newest version of an old trick – the manufacture and distribution of certainty. This pattern of manufacturing certainty (laying claim to truth) and then distributing it (demanding conformity) I call the “certainty-industrial complex,” and it has always been fundamental to maintaining social order. Mike Elias is the founder of Ideamarket.
Decentralizing the search for truth using idea markets
Update: We’re live on Ethereum mainnet at ideamarket.io Media corporations are the central banks of narrative. In the same way that fiat currencies are valuable only because governments say they are, fiat narratives are true only because media corporations say they are. Media corporations have near-limitless power to enforce fiat narratives using tactics like these: Limiting the scope of discussion (“Democrat vs.
Epistemic Reserve Notes
The metaphor of learning-as-purchasing pervades language — “are you buyin’ this?” There must be some kind of currency exchanged when you accept something new. As explored in Wittgenstein’s Revenge, the problem in modern public discourse is not that we disagree on the facts. Instead, we lack a common “epistemic currency.” Perhaps facts used to be our epistemic currency, but facts may have been a proxy for something more fundamental: Trust. Trust vs Facts Trust exists as we think it does.
Wittgenstein’s Revenge
We treat facts like they’re “atoms of truth” — small, indivisible, solid — and if you add them up, you get “big truths.” But like atoms, facts are mostly empty space, and the closer we examine them, the less solidity we find. It may be time to graduate from the metaphor of facts completely, to a metaphor that reflects a healthier relationship between truth and people. Problem 1: Facts do not objectively exist.
Why I’m 100% Sure Civil.co Will Fail (And What They Can Do About It)
Introduction Max de Pree wrote, “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.” What world are we living in? What’s true about it? What story is happening around us? What’s our role in it? Defining reality is a profound and impossible task, one that we can no longer allow centralized media institutions to perform for us. Blockchain journalism fans seem to intuit this, but even platforms like industry-leading Civil.co have major, enormous, galactic flaws: 1.
Blockchain journalism problems are solving the wrong problem
Journalism is broken and blockchain can fix it — but not using the approach you might think. Most blockchain journalism platforms are trying to solve the problem that some publications are good and some are bad, or that some publications promote “fake news.” But that isn’t the problem. The problem is the goals of telling the truth and maintaining an audience are perpetually at odds.
O's officially name Elias general manager
The Baltimore Orioles officially introduced Mike Elias as their new general manager and executive vice president on Friday. It’s official: Mike Elias has been named Executive Vice President and General Manager. Welcome to #Birdland, Mike! pic.twitter.com/SksSF7p0fY — Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) November 16, 2018 Elias, 36, had been serving as the Houston Astros assistant general manager and joins the Orioles to replace Dan Duquette, who was fired last month after seven seasons in charge.
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