Posts | JA Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social)

The South Sea Bubble ruined Isaac Newton and produced a century of regulatory caution. The $TRUMP memecoin ruined 813,000 wallets and produced a gala dinner. The distance between those two responses is the distance the casino has traveled. It moved from the margins of economic life to the center of political power, and somewhere along the way, the shame burned off completely.

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Everything's Casino

Everything's Casino On the evening of February 28, 2026, American B-2 bombers lifted off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. By the time they reached Iranian airspace, Tomahawk missiles were already in flight from submarines in the Persian Gulf. Operation Epic Fury hit over a thousand targets in its

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