For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/...

One day there's going to be a very long article about Eric Schmidt's personal life

The Tether-Cantor-WLFI network just bought three positions in eleven days: a Bitcoin treasury, a Wall Street tokenization rail, and a sovereign currency pilot. Different announcements. Same map. This is what it looks like when a private financial system stops hiding and starts organizing. 🧵

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the only radical center i respect is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Anthropic went from a distant #2 in the AI startup race to winning news cycles, sharing the stage with the pope, eclipsing OpenAI's valuation and barreling towards an historic IPO, all in a matter of months. How did Anthropic pull it off? By doubling down on its key export: AI ethics slop.

A $2.5m Bitcoin sale caused the price to drop 2.8%. No liquidity or demand, insecure investors. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

i feel like the "story" of "Tilly Norwood", in terms of the newsworthy thing that's happening, would be a behind-the-scenes report on the company's PR team that keeps getting these articles placed in major news outlets and keeps getting them written with the company's preferred framing.

Sarah’s book is jaw-dropping, and Meta has been pulling this clown shit for over a year. As the article points out, it’s clearly a personal vendetta rather than good crisis comms. Too bad the Streisand Effect exists!

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said.  About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

Being non AI is about to be a marketing flex and folks are still avoiding engaging the human over the bot

New -- I wrote about ChatGPT's April 2025 cross-chat memory update, which many people whose lives were upended by ChatGPT obsessions point to as an inflection point. It “takes people into cul-de-sacs... [my wife] is like a Waymo driving around in a circle endlessly.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Platner hasn't attained a political position beyond harbormaster but he has the baggage of a far more accomplished candidate.

In a small cemetery in northern Vietnam, farmers are digging up graves to make way for a $1.5bn golf course and luxury residential project by the Trump Organization and its local partners. Read the full story here: ft.trib.al/HAtLxCh

It'd be cool if this is why Thiel moved to South America. Just wants to dance. Maybe he'll get into the Buenos Aires psychoanalysis scene.

This is just the latest in a seemingly never ending string of concerning stories about the ad tech industry and its rampant privacy invasions. But note that not a single lawmaker quoted in this piece comes to the obvious conclusion that we ought to ban the sale of cellphone location data.

"ProPublica’s reporting on the Vulcan loan represents the first time the awarding of a contract from a federal agency [to a company linked to the Trumps] has been directly linked to White House intervention." www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Woah: Feds arrested a Google employee today, who they say made $1M+ betting on Google-related Polymarket events. Here are a few of the markets the account allegedly belonging to the employee wagered on. abcnews.com/US/google-em...

Currently working on a freelance piece about Ray Ban Meta glasses -- if anyone has any wild stories about encounters with Meta glasses in the workplace, at schools, in stores, etc, please feel free to send me a tip! :)

Within hours of ringing Eduardo Bolsonaro's doorbell, he and his family falsely accused me of crimes on social media, and also called the local police. The Southlake Police Department confirmed to me that no charges have been filed and that there is not an open investigation.

Whereabouts of missing Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.) remain unknown, but he’s trading stocks again. From today’s @notus.com newsletter:

Has anyone ever profiled Tom Haviland? A real magazine profile, not a light interview.

Hard to take this seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...

My 97 year old cousin, born in Germany: "Mr Hindenburg was a nice man, but he was weak."

Terracotta Pig, East Java, 15th century

Eco brutalist building (apartment?) in central Quito

Le prince charmant / Prince charming - 1948 #artbots #magritte

Marine - 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110007

Another day of life, another bite at the apple.

Just noting here that journalism is not a crime.

Hi, Jack. www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-dir...

The Trump family earns ~$189M/year from USD1 automatically — whether a court is reviewing it, whether the OCC has decided, whether Congress has acted. While everyone debates the OCC charter, the Fed proposed a second entrance. The machine doesn't need the front door. 🧵

Truth has its own particular inertia.

Also a great laurel in here for @jessicavalenti.bsky.social @kylietcheung.bsky.social's "Abortion, Every Day": Even in the reddest states, “we have not just the majority on our side, but the vast, vast majority" www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Abdul El Sayed benching 315 is pretty impressive. www.instagram.com/reel/DS-P4wI...

BCCI 2.0 www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The long tail of Jan Marsalek www.bbc.com/news/article...

I appreciate seeing GILDED RAGE quoted in this profile of authoritarian liberal billionaire Chris Larsen and his role in SF policing. Not sure if it's mentioned here but Larsen's new command center for the SFPD is in a building partially owned by Donald Trump. nymag.com/intelligence...

please, listen to me carefully

It was always about right wing politics, power consolidation, information warfare, rigging markets, and elections. It was key to Trump's 2024 victory. I wrote a book about it.

A Sportico editor accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism, suggesting that AI may have been used to generate the plagiarized piece. SI deleted the author and his entire archive from its website. Social media profiles associated with the author have also disappeared. futurism.com/artificial-i...

i cannot. I CANNOT.

Once I was in a final interview for a journalism job -- writing about tech and its discontents -- and the interviewer mentioned being friends with a "liberal billionaire" tech mogul. I knew I was cooked.

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The President made 3,642 stock trades in 3 months, millions and millions involving donor corps, govt contractors, and a sushi conveyor belt company. extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...

DOGE was a successful attempt to pillage the federal government for data and contracts.

gildedrage.com www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/t...

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.