Neil Freiman

I am absolutely a serial situation monitor.

I don't think it's just necessarily an instance of there's so much going on right now.

It's also an instance of a couple other factors.

One of them is we have more data at our fingertips than ever.

We have X. We have flight tracking information.

We have weather from all around the world.

And thanks to vibe coding and AI, we can all put that in one place as this guy did for that particular situation.

And then the other thing I think is contributing to the rise of situation monitoring is Polymarket Kalshi prediction markets.

And I think it's no surprise that Polymarket opened this particular bar dedicated to situation monitoring, because now at this point, people can actually

wager on world events that they would on a sports game.

So everyone's treating it.

Everyone's treating world events like sports and betting on it and thinking things like, oh, who's going to win the Academy Award?

When will Iran strike Israel before or after March 31st?

So I think prediction markets and the availability of data are two of the big factors.

I do agree.

And I think it's probably broader, part of a broader trend of the red zonification of everything.

It does tie into a lot of how people consume sports now, which is where red zone came along and all of a sudden you don't want to just watch one football game for three hours.

You watch everything.

eight or nine or ten and you are monitoring the situation every nfl sunday and then that was ported over to the olympics and this is how people watch the olympics now with gold zone which is the red zone of the olympics and you got eight things going on at once you're watching curling you're watching you know surfing whatever summer summer or winter olympics it doesn't matter but i think there's a lot of parallels to what's happening in the sports world to the world to current and global events similar to what's happening in prediction markets sort of expanding the purview of sports gambling

Yeah, we don't know a lot about him, but he absolutely changed the content, the online content game forever, not just adult content, but just across the board.