America's new food pyramid is almost indistinguishable from the diet of a hardcore CrossFitter www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

WaPo is reporting that one of 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton's top staffers just resigned to run for her seat. The fact that one of Norton's top staffers is jumping in the race to replace her, but is also unwilling to comment on Norton's acuity or address reports about her, really sums things up

This AI-generated smear was a success for the Redditor. They got millions of views on a falsified post & compelled statements from DoorDash + Uber. Part 2 of their scheme—getting a journalist to publish libelous documents—didn’t work. But there’s a blueprint here that other fraudsters will emulate

“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

A self-identified “engineer” went viral on Reddit (& on social media) w/damning allegations about one of the food delivery apps. Then they circulated a legit-looking “internal document” to journalists, including me. The whole thing was an AI-generated scam intended to smear Uber. Here’s the story

A self-identified “engineer” went viral on Reddit (& on social media) w/damning allegations about one of the food delivery apps. Then they circulated a legit-looking “internal document” to journalists, including me. The whole thing was an AI-generated scam intended to smear Uber. Here’s the story

Trump visibly falling asleep in the background, very inspiring.

Charging someone in a different country with “possession of machine guns” the day after the Ninth Circuit ruled it’s unconstitutional for California to ban open carry of firearms in populated areas

It's impossible for me to do a year-end thread without first apologizing for doing so, and adding another disclaimer that I will keep it brief! But it's been a good year, and I want to highlight a few pieces I wrote. If you like any of them, consider subscribing to Hard Reset, where I write weekly

“Palantir CEO Alex Karp will take a mysterious leave of absence.” 😂

Here are my 26 locks for 2026, presented by FanDuel and DraftKings and Kalshi and Polymarket and Robinhood

Man of the people David Sacks is complaining about a possible 5% reduction of the net worth of billionaires

FaZe Swagg announces he has left FaZe Clan.

great news from the Department of Education's invaluable student loans calculator: if I increase my monthly payments, I can pay off my balance by December 1969, instead of November 2035. Very helpful info!

In early November, I wrote a newsletter titled "Sequoia Still Has a Shaun Maguire Problem." Last week, Maguire falsely accused a Brown University student of being a mass murderer. I would say Sequoia now has a much bigger Shaun Maguire problem—and Maguire himself is vulnerable to a massive lawsuit.

My favorite holiday read. lot of strong contenders this year

In early November, I wrote a newsletter titled "Sequoia Still Has a Shaun Maguire Problem." Last week, Maguire falsely accused a Brown University student of being a mass murderer. I would say Sequoia now has a much bigger Shaun Maguire problem—and Maguire himself is vulnerable to a massive lawsuit.

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

from this (bad) Free Press story from October, which is premised on anonymous NYPD complaints and speculation: "the Mamdani campaign did not respond to requests for comment." Funny how it was deemed publishable by EIC Bari Weiss

just saw this -- yesterday, Eleanor Holmes Norton apparently once again told a reporter she's going to run for re-election in 2026. Previously, her office has walked those claims back afterwards. But they've been radio silent this week, perhaps because of my requests for comment for this story

just saw this -- yesterday, Eleanor Holmes Norton apparently once again told a reporter she's going to run for re-election in 2026. Previously, her office has walked those claims back afterwards. But they've been radio silent this week, perhaps because of my requests for comment for this story

For @nymag.com I reported on 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton, who was recently a victim of credit card fraud. Among my findings: The Norton campaign listed a deceased person as campaign treasurer for 2.5 years Between '23-25, amid q's about her mental acuity, Norton loaned $110k to her campaign

@nymag.com @alexshultz.bsky.social reporting that while Eleanor Holmes Norton has been showing steep signs of mental decline, she is suddenly loaning a large amount of money to her campaign — which only pays her campaign manager / treasurer / confidant and one adviser. nymag.com/intelligence...

For @nymag.com I reported on 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton, who was recently a victim of credit card fraud. Among my findings: The Norton campaign listed a deceased person as campaign treasurer for 2.5 years Between '23-25, amid q's about her mental acuity, Norton loaned $110k to her campaign

playbook for Trump/his orbiters: 1. gossip about how an appointee/staffer is doing a bad job or is desperate to leave 2. Story comes out that appointee/staffer is leaving soon 3. Appointee/staffer can't give an inch, cries fake news, is stuck for 3-6 months 4. News cycle passes, they slink away

The reporter who interviewed Susie Wiles 11 times on the record should call her later and ask her how her day went. Seems like a pretty decent chance she will immediately dive into on the record interview number 12

Sam Altman's assertion that he needs ChatGPT to raise his child was widely ridiculed, but the timing of Altman’s Jimmy Fallon interview coupled with a lack of viewership for the full segment (which has 2x more thumbs-down reactions than thumbs-up reactions on YouTube) also don't bode well for OpenAI

"Unfettered" sold ~4450 hardcover copies over its first month, and sales are dropping precipitously; Fetterman's memoir recorded 398 hardcover sales last week, according to bookscan. Not a great ROI for a project that, as I reported, netted Senator Fetterman roughly $700-800k in total

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less than half of the first-week sales of John Fetterman's memoir, which also flopped big-time

I suspect the Netflix angle here will be subsumed by news of Paramount's hostile bid, which gives cover to California politicians to say absolutely nothing (or at least nothing of substance) about the ramifications of a potential Netflix-Warner Bros. merger

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

The dude fired Breznican, the studio tentpole exclusive king, and Lawson, one of the greatest critical talents of this generation, as his first moves. And IDK if you flipped through his first issue as EIC, but the ad sales… woof. Barely any new buys apart from cat food. He was hired to kill VF.

IMO not enough scrutiny directed at VF's Mark Guiducci, who hired Nuzzi. The RFK affair was disqualifying on its own ofc, but the fact that it happened (it's RFK Jr!) was an obvious sign more ethical lapses + embarrassing stuff was floating around. Reflects poorly on an EIC to not anticipate as much

@aristeinhorn.bsky.social is such a great writer: open.substack.com/pub/ariellas...

"Sacks has long claimed that his position with the White House is above-board because he and Craft sold most of their crypto investments and divested from AI-oriented companies. The sourcing for this claim is David Sacks on his self-reported financial disclosures ..." -- @alexshultz.bsky.social

Wrote about AI Czar David Sacks, who's currently throwing a fit on X (and garnering the support of his oligarch friends) because of a NYT investigation that, lucky for Sacks, actually somewhat buries its most damning bit of reporting/analysis

@alexshultz.bsky.social and I have a long discussion of how all those packages show up on your door so quickly--and who is paying the price of "free Prime delivery." Hint: There is no such things as a free lunch...

The Meta internal comms/docs are (understandably) getting lots of attention, but the stuff I found about Snapchat is really, really rough

For @hardresetmedia.com, I sifted through recently unsealed filings from lawsuits against the major social media platforms and hooooo boy… the allegations in here are worse than whatever you can imagine

Update: “Unfettered” sold ~2,600 copies during its first week, according to data I obtained from a source who requested anonymity. That ranks No. 19 in the adult biographies/autobiographies category, two spots behind Chris Matthews’ RFK hagiography. Not what you want, numbers-wise

“It’s frankly embarrassing that executives would make baseless claims about a fact-checker.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A former Fetterman advisor texted me: “I think what comes across is the reality of who he is, which is a petulant child who never became a man and is always the victim of his own narrative—even though he’s never had a real job and lives off his dad’s money. It's all pretty sad and pathetic."

I present my review of "Unfettered," John Fetterman's memoir. In between petty grievances about doing his job, Fetterman asserts that he's feeling good. Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.

I present my review of "Unfettered," John Fetterman's memoir. In between petty grievances about doing his job, Fetterman asserts that he's feeling good. Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.

got-DAMN (and the closing paragraph hits even harder)

“Bissinger did little to quell those rumors; he yelled at me, then hung up on me, when reached by phone, and later told the New York Times that while he provided the template for Unfettered, it was Fetterman who delivered the content. “The book is John’s,” he said.” defector.com/john-fetterm...

With Black Friday fast approaching, @alexshultz.bsky.social spoke with David Weil (@profsheenalives.bsky.social) about how Amazon leans on gig workers, a profoundly anti-labor practice, for their billions of deliveries: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...

For @hardresetmedia.com: Lots of great and unfortunately depressing insights from David Weil (@profsheenalives.bsky.social), formerly head of Labor Dept's Wage and Hour Division under Obama, about how the American workforce is being squeezed into independent contracting + subcontracted employment

I had a long discussion with @alexshultz.bsky.social of @hardresetmedia.com about how the rise of Amazon undermines work for delivery drivers and wider impacts on labor. www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...