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Steam's boards ran an ordinary review mix across Helldivers 2

Reddit's niche hobby boards, fountain pens, knitting, warhammer40k and espresso, ran a heavy ordinary weekend mix with nothing that breaks pattern.

The market layer's freshest contracts price a long slate of state-level data-center-moratorium outcomes across North Carolina, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri and Oklahoma alongside the standing Elon-Musk-tweet-count and MrBeast-video-view markets; no contract touches this week's AI-cost or literary-prize stories directly.

Google Trends ran sports-heavy on both sides of the Atlantic, NFL names and college-football chatter on the US side, a reality-show cast and a royal-adjacent mix on the UK side.

Radar's own item count ran toward the middle of the week's range in 36 hours; the 7-day trend lines, the Loom's real anchor, held their course regardless.

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