Scammers can spoof phone numbers, but the pitch is always the same.
If my iPhone can transcribe a voicemail about fake loans or car warranties, why can’t it flag the script as spam and spare me the notification?
Give voicemail a junk folder.
In my years as a professional advantage player, @Polymarket’s customer service is absolute worst.
Weeks of restrictions, repetitive requests, and no clear explanations. It’s literally a masterclass in bureaucratic incompetence.
Please take your business to @Novig or @Kalshi
Please escalate this to someone authorized to resolve these issues. If this matter remains unresolved by October 31, I will file complaints with the CFTC, my state’s Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and retain counsel regarding my options. We can resolve this.
I’m still profoundly grateful to @halfkelly for telling my story with such skill and care.
Risk of Ruin has long been one of my favorite podcasts and getting to be a guest on it was a privilege.
It seems “know your customer” might mean very different things depending on which department is asking.
Imagine having this level of data and moral flexibility and still massively underperforming the S&P 500 on a risk-adjusted basis.
TIMES INVESTIGATION
How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
nytimes.com/2026/09/19/busin… via @NYTimes
Mr. Doppy retweeted
I called Nevada Gaming over a year ago to inquire about the legality of casinos resetting slots that have progressive elements to them. My complaint specifically pointed to machines that had an accumulating equity feature that was not displayed in dollars and cents.
I’m going to start a long thread on how I optimized Chase rewards on my organic spend. I was simply trying to maximize the value of my points via merchant coding, an efficient portfolio of cards, adjacent rewards programs, & portals. To be clear, this is my logic, not my advice.
That wraps up the numbered portion (1–6). I’ll keep adding to the thread as things occur to me, just without numbering them from here.
Here is my manual spending summary from a few years ago with various valuation methods:
teapawt.net/mrdoppy/status/1089254…
Now add companion pass:
The value of both the transferred Chase points and the portal earnings effectively doubles:
• 6.5% Chase return → 13%
• 6% gas discount → 6%
• 7.25% portal return → 14.5%
That same well-timed $500 purchase can now generate a 33.5% return!