Ben Parker
@benparker140.bsky.social
Humanitarian policy and practice, news, data and tech. Previous: UN South Sudan, CEO at The New Humanitarian, Chief of Staff at the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Gamified prediction markets are a new risky frontier for retail investor / gamblers: finance.yahoo.com/news/this-ye...
This year's crypto Thanksgiving conversation was actually about prediction markets
Prediction markets aim to widen the wagering user base and redefine what a wager is at all.
finance.yahoo.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Gamified prediction markets are a new risky frontier for retail investor / gamblers: finance.yahoo.com/news/this-ye...
Reposted by Ben Parker
Document now deleted by the OBR intern, have reuploaded the PDF here: smallpdf.com/share-docume...
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Document now deleted by the OBR intern, have reuploaded the PDF here: smallpdf.com/share-docume...
Reposted by Ben Parker
Something intensely frustrating which I've seen across academia, NGOs, media orgs and corporations (I mean, just, every professional space in the world) is "WHAT IF WE JUST DIDN'T" is **never** considered an option, and it's the same for this report.
Error rates like that, 3 years in? Ditch it ffs
Error rates like that, 3 years in? Ditch it ffs
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Something intensely frustrating which I've seen across academia, NGOs, media orgs and corporations (I mean, just, every professional space in the world) is "WHAT IF WE JUST DIDN'T" is **never** considered an option, and it's the same for this report.
Error rates like that, 3 years in? Ditch it ffs
Error rates like that, 3 years in? Ditch it ffs