WiFi Money News Roundup June 2026
Links from around the web
News you should be paying attention to
Huge Polymarket scandal from Voidzilla - Polymarket set up a fake website poiymarket.com that looks the same as polymarket.com when the ‘I’ is capitalized so that influenzas could film videos of themselves ‘gambling’. Of course none of the money was real. An interesting look at the dark side of influenza marketing.
EU Parliament to switch to French search engine from Google in tech sovereignty push from Reuters - The logic is flawed because Qwant pulls its results from Bing; which is owned by Microsoft, a US company. It’s always good when Big G loses a little bit of market share though.
Nike just can’t do it anymore from The Economist - An article about how Nike is losing market share to newer competitors like On Running. A quote from a marketing consultant about how accounts with huge followings don’t always sell as much as smaller accounts with more engaged followings was interesting to the point that I decided to expand on it here.
Quote of the month
People diminish themselves so horribly by letting themselves get pushed around by nitwits.
- Nordstrom in The Man Who Sold His Name by Jim Harrison
Nothing makes you feel worse than being the bigger man.
From the archive
Desperation is causing people to try to gamble their way out their problems, with disastrous results.
Why you need to avoid the gambling mentality at all costs (and how you should approach your problems instead):
The Casino Economy
Desperate people with a desperate mentality are almost constitutionally incapable of building.