@robertgraham Tbf tho his argument is incredibly funny and on that level I support it.
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Jeremy Arnold
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Jeremy Arnold
@jdotarnold
The Save Journalism Committee. Let’s make the news better. Lover of context, nuance, and whatever the opposite of tribalism is.
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The writer of the NYTimes story claiming to find Satoshi thinks this is a logical argument confirming the person is in fact Satoshi.
John Carreyrou@JohnCarreyrou
If you’re not Satoshi and you know The New York Times is going to publish a big story identifying you as Satoshi, do you agree to participate in a photo shoot for that story?
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@ev_rat @JohnCarreyrou Fwiw I re-read your wired piece last night and just wanted to say I appreciated the humility and honesty of it! And that you thought to look at the code and not just writing samples. Factoring latter alone seems an obvs limited approach.
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I hesitate to enter the NYTimes Satoshi discourse, and I have a huge amount of admiration for @JohnCarreyrou. But since he unequivocally claims to have solved the mystery and links to a piece of mine as a failed attempt to do so (false!), a few thoughts: nytimes.com/2026/04/08/bus…
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@mkonnikova Def agree re: cover art. They also changed subhead from “sports gambling” to just “gambling” based on one session of blackjack (where he seemingly didn’t use PS or know what the house edge was). Piece was an insider edit away from being much stronger.
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It took me a while to put my thoughts together, but I had to write about that Atlantic piece--even though I've never placed a single sports bet in my life. Link below!
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@DrDavidMiano You can't get precision like that without a vigorous HR department. The pharaohs knew this 4500 years ago.
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If you’re looking at the photo on the left and wondering, “Wait, is that how Dunn measured?” The answer is yes, that’s how he measured.
Also he didn’t measure more than one Serapeum box, and it was only a few of the surfaces. Other people have measured more boxes more thoroughly and all were found to be imprecise.
On another note, the years he spent in “precision engineering” were in the HR department.
Megalithic Mysteries@Megalithic12000
🚨 Christopher Dunn spent 40 years in precision manufacturing. Then he measured the Serapeum boxes in Egypt. His results continue to shock engineers around the world. 🔹Squared to 0.00005 inches 🔹That's 1/20th of a human hair 🔹Flat to 0.0001" across 10 foot faces 🔹Repeated across multiple 100 ton boxes His conclusion: this required either tools so advanced they couldn't produce anything less than perfection, or a civilisation far beyond what we accept. We're told these were bull coffins made with copper chisels. Does that sound right to you?
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@simonowens Appreciate you sharing our piece! Tho fwiw the due diligence aspect is different when the ads are for securities (vs say just products/services). The gov mandates a level of scrutiny for former, as potential loss are much higher.
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This is a fascinating investigation into a marketing firm that bought ads in the newsletters of prominent media outlets to promote angel investments in shady companies with misleading balance sheets.
While the piece seems to put the blame on the media ou
hntrbrk.com/shark-tank/
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@HarelDan @hntrbrkmedia Main red flag was the massive gaps between underlying disclosures and the claims in the ads. When you can't sell at high vals on fundamentals, what can you sell on?
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@hntrbrkmedia seen the opposite with good newsletters. hustle fund raised $5m in 2 weeks using transparent sponsorships. feels like it depends on execution and audience trust. what was your biggest red flag in the research?
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BREAKING: Newsletters—from Morning Brew, Robinhood, the WSJ—helped struggling startups crowdfund from small investors using sponsored ads.
We investigated—and mapped a wild west of shady deals, staggering losses, and shirked accountability.
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Also did a companion piece on what reform could look like—were Congress / the SEC to make it a priority.
Note that I don't speak for Hunterbrook in this one. My commentary and proposals are my own.
savingjournalism.substack.com/p/exposing-and…
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New from me, in partnership w/ @hntrbrkmedia.
This one pained me. I love startups and newsletters. But these cases are unusually bad and a stain on both industries.
I hope thoughtful reform follows.
Hunterbrook@hntrbrkmedia
BREAKING: Newsletters—from Morning Brew, Robinhood, the WSJ—helped struggling startups crowdfund from small investors using sponsored ads. We investigated—and mapped a wild west of shady deals, staggering losses, and shirked accountability.
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@peterneil62 @Milo_Edwards I read this in Malcolm Tucker’s voice and really enjoyed it
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@Milo_Edwards This. Bloody Heathrow Bloody Terminal Bloody Five. Heading off somewhere nice? Not until you've had a good look at the A30, some wild ponies, Hatton Cross, a couple of reservoirs and the back of bloody Harmondsworth.
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always feel very cheated at the airport when you get to the gate and they load you onto a bus. this isn’t what we agreed. pull the plane around mate.
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@TrungTPhan The magic of finance in 2026 is that a real company doing something commercially useful can also sell stock at a 1k+ P/E to kids with student loans coz Benjamin Graham is dead and we have killed him
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@jdotarnold If it ends up being a real biz, more power to em. The headline number — as you mentioned — does seem sus and designed to get retail
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Hong Kong-based Rich Sparkle Holding bought Khaby Lame’s company for $975m.
They did it by issuing stock…but the entire market cap of Rich Sparkle Holding is only $848m.
Not clear from filing what time frame the deal is supposed to be completed.
Forbes@Forbes
TikTok Star Khaby Lame Sells His Core Company In Deal Worth $975 Million go.forbes.com/KkWapV
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@TrungTPhan Yeah I mean why not from their pov. Costs holding co $0 to sign them, and costs influencers $0 to see if the stock pumps. Ofc all super cynical and predatory. But we don’t punish it enough so on it goes.
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@jdotarnold Call option is perfect way of framing it.
Another feather for the “gin up bag holders” is sounds like this company also in talks tk offer similar deals to other big influencers
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@posedscaredcity @ScottWu46 You can. It just won’t help. The trick is that any possible edge you can gain by waiting for a run is cancelled out by the inverted odds of that run ever occurring.
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I flip cards of a randomly shuffled 52-card deck over one by one. At any point you can say "STOP" and you win if the next card flipped is black. What's your probability of winning?
It turns out the answer is 50%. It feels like waiting to collect info should help but it doesn't - eg if you wait til the last card you will know for sure what it is, but it will still only be black 50% of the time.
The analogy in startups is: waiting longer makes you more likely to know if you're right. But not more likely to be right.
Just do things!
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@ichbinilya Not sure about other years, but contemporary NYT reporting says ~1k in ‘61 on the west side as a protest to the wall going up / bit of symbolic unity for divided families.
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I am dying to know more about this tree. Which side of the wall is this? Who put it up and why? Was it up every year? It seems insane.
Also… is this a real photo? 😑
East German Visuals@GDRvisuals
Christmas tree at the Berlin Wall, 1961.
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@mattyglesias @leahstokes @SeanCasten Sean/Leah both seem to have missed that bases don’t decide elections. Many Canadian moderates like me both believe in climate change and support Carney’s pragmatism. Imperfect winning policies > perfect losing ones.
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is really bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: nytimes.com/2025/12/18/opi…
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@jdotarnold @AndyMasley What are the others? Are there reviews?
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Two big corrections which imo leave the reader with a much better understanding of where water’s being used, especially the introductory paragraph on water which now goes into detail on energy generation too. Really awesome. Grateful to Hao for her engagement here
Karen Hao@_KarenHao
We have confirmed the unit error in the government document, and I have issued a correction to my publisher. I have also made other updates based on the ongoing feedback. I detail these changes here: karendhao.com/20251217/empir…. Thank you to my readers for strengthening my book 🙏
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@lydialaurenson It’s…very odd. Really the sort of thing that would only make sense for Cirque. But I think anyone into their whole deal would find it the right kind of strange. Also added quite a good song.
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@jdotarnold Oh wow they made a movie?? 💫 Of course they did, they were doing all kinds of experiments
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Amping up to go to Cirque du Soleil, listening to old soundtracks. My parents were so into theatre that I saw like the first 7 shows before I was 12
I am tearing up rn listening to “Alegria.” Man, those guys went SO HARD. They redefined a genre. Like the “Citizen Kane” of circus
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