On the strange case of Katie Lin. Lin was a scam victim who hired a fraudulent tracing service to find her money. The report pointed to Tornado Cash, and she testified in Roman Storm's trial on that basis. Then the fraudulent trace was unmasked. youtu.be/kB5b0hOBuNY?...

The case against Roman Storm raises fundamental questions about freedom and privacy in the digital age. The trial was also marked by a bizarre tangle of procedural shenanigans. Most shocking may be the prosecution's mishandling of a witness named Hanfeng "Katie" Lin. (LIR)

New today at Dark Markets. "Dead Eyes: Sam Altman's Worldcoin, Revisited." davidzmorris.substack.com/p/dead-eyes-...

On these people’s insane beliefs about predicting the future with logic and reason etc, check out @davidzmorris.bsky.social’s book

I’ll be appearing with Wajahat Ali at 3pm today to talk about Palantir’s bizarre manifesto, Iran’s attacks on Data Centers, Sam Altman’s habitual lying … And why the OpenAI IPO might never happen. thelefthook.substack.com

Consulting for a while has mostly been excellent, particularly working on messaging with the teams @HypurrFi, @spruceid and @HalbornSecurity. But my god, it's incredible how optional actually paying for services rendered apparently seems to lower-quality clients.

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Twitter is down, but the one engineer whose passport they keep in a safe in Elon's empty office is working as hard as he can on it

The deal where Perplexity would pay Snap $400M to add their search to Snapchat is dead. This deal never made any sense as there was no way Perplexity could afford this deal and they get very little out of it.

Happy Jackie Robinson Day! “I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.” Jackie Robinson, Stamford, Connecticut 1972

A lot of my readers these days are not crypto natives. So today's Dark Markets is a normie rundown of the hilarious feud between @justinsuntron and @worldlibertyfi. For a crypto fraud watcher, this is basically the Superbowl. davidzmorris.substack.com/p/how-the-tr...

CEOs when the CFO suggests blaming the layoffs on AI instead of the economy or declining sales.

A point I almost never see made: If we get rid of just a few of the billionaires, we'll get a whole lot more millionaires.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

“True story. I was at a public meeting a few weeks ago and went slightly over my speaking time and got thrown in the slammer there in China, I mean Rogers county,” Blanchard shared at another public event. Here's what went down: www.404media.co/farmer-arres...

It’s wild that the biggest threat to world peace and the global economy is the president of the United States of America.

The Great AI Leap Forward draws parallels between the corporate rush to adopt AI and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. It laments people building with AI without knowing how to use evals or the domain knowledge to vet the results. Creating value for customers falls by the wayside to chase AI adoption goals

After two weeks of digging, I think there's a verrrrrrry real possibility that OpenAI's planned IPO for late 2026 crashes and burns. A few points: - OpenAI's $122b raise was co-led by Softbank and Masayoshi Son - the same guy who told WeWork's Adam Neumann that he "wasn't crazy enough." 🧵follows

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

@davidzmorris.bsky.social on the "scary parallels" between OpenAI and WeWork. What part of this #AIBubble story also applies to Anthropic, CoreWeave, and other major AI players with no strategy other than repeating the very dubious narrative about the world-changing properties of LLMs?

People who say gambling makes things more fun have never truly committed themselves to standing on the sidelines, making fun of the people gambling

Tesla getting nuked by a JPMorgan analyst report would objectively be the funniest possible outcome Therefore . . .

JUST IN: JPMorgan warns Tesla could drop 60%, giving TSLA a sell rating with a $145 price target after Tesla missed Q1 deliveries by 7,600 units and built a 50,000-unit inventory surplus.

Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Enjoying @davidzmorris.bsky.social’s book on Sam Bankman-Fried & the philosophy he used to justify his scams and that still today motivates a lot of both crypto and AI proponents. In short, they think they’re philosopher kings who can predict the future with math and logic, and that democracy is bad

A judge has thrown out the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against advertisers for boycotting Twitter after he turned into an online nightclub for Nazis.

This mysterious 15 minutes smacks of insane corruption in Trump's orbit www.rawstory.com/trump-corrup... @benmckenzie.bsky.social @davidzmorris.bsky.social @profgalloway.com

OMG that guy saying Lefties want gambling prohibition was making the argument that gambling prohibition leads to massive increases of criminal funding. You know that Polymarket doing assassination markets is not only great for money laundering, but also would be illegal if we wanted it to be lol

Today's edition of Dark Markets is, for better or worse, a grim meditation on one of the worst weeks for systematic elite fraud in my lifetime. I'll be going live at 10am ET to talk through it. davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-bust-o...

Wild that America has a president who regularly goes “I’ll start World War 3” to tank the stock market and then at the last minute says “j/k I’m not invading Greenland/Iran/Canada/etc” then the market jumps back up with mysterious people making a killing after he backs down. An amazing coincidence.

Will MacAskill spends a couple of pages of the founding text of Effective Altruism arguing that being motivated to fund cancer research because you have a relative dying of cancer is immoral. Empathy has always been their enemy.

OpenAI is offering 17.5% yield to private equity firms. If that were a bond, it would be the most garbage of the garbage penny-stock tier: The high interest rate implies HUGE risk of default. The reason it’s NOT a bond is PE keeps loans from impacting public lending markets. x.com/Techmeme/sta...

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Discussing my recent Epstein-crypto piece for The Verge: open.substack.com/pub/davidzmo...

This shot of me and @davidzmorris.bsky.social from the other night goes hard. (📸: Ben Schiller)

Bizarrely, unintentionally hard pic of me and @markyarm.bsky.social from a Breaker Mag reunion debauch last night

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

Put up some limited edition Public Enemy SHE GOT GAME shirts to raise money for these women athletes. shop.flavorflavofficial.com

Looking for recommendations of good spots to eat, drink, etc in Montmarte!

Epstein may not have fully understood crypto, but he helped shape its culture anyway. Read more from @davidzmorris.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/885252/...

Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US gofund.me/140322128

Only Larry Summers would be so stupid and naive to think you could get Alan Dershowitz to stop talking to the press.

Wow

CSpan came to my book release back in November, and the video has been up nearly this whole time! Whoops! Check me out reading an excerpt from Stealing the Future, and talking with my good friend and editor Ben Schiller. Thanks CSPan! www.c-span.org/program/book...

WATCH OUT, LADIES, two HUNKS are on the LOOSE! No but seriously: watch out

The Epstein files are basically the Marshall Plan for Substack

Trumpism has entirely succeeded in making the case that 30% of Americans shouldn't have the right to vote. It's just a completely different 30% than they had in mind.

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing. 66 years old going 66 mph.