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Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

• The (Un)Constitutionality Isn’t The Real Problem

  Out of the blue, Trump twitted that he’s banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House, with “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.” Calling critical and unflattering media coverage “fake” has long been a ubiq…

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

• We had $630,000 of elite Blueprint creatine stolen earlier this year. Thief used a fake ID and drove off with the delivery truck. Some of you put in heroic efforts to help us find the person. We got very close. A new batch just came off the line. I may embed myself this time.
  Quoting@bryan_johnsonUpdate on $630,000 creatine heist. A creatine wholesaler saw my post and reached out. The thief tried to sell the stolen product. Based on his bracelet, he appears to be Sikh Indian. His phone number is (209) 707-8906. Help us solve this!

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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

• I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them “alive.” Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant “reporting” FAKE NEWS! Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the Pres…

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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

• Hot Women Keep Becoming Political Problems. To understand the reaction to the latest Sydney Sweeney controversy, you have to understand something critical:

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• Fake CAPTCHA Scams

  New variant of an old scam: Use the framing of a CAPTCHA to get an unsuspecting user to download and run a malicious program.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

• New PR 265 lbs Heel elevated front box squat. +10 lbs from last week. I'm getting proper shoes for these lifts. The slant board was missing so we improvised. I'm training to dunk: > 49 yrs old >6’0” >180 lbs > standing reach: 91” (7’7”) > basketball rim: 120” (10’) > needed vertical: ~35” > NBA ave 34” Here are the thresholds I need to meet: > takeoff velocity 14.5 ft/s > ground force: 585 lbs > time to take off: 0.2 sec > peak power: 14.8 hp (11 kW) Landing is even more intimidating > creates load equal to 6-10x body weight > 1,080 to 1,800 lbs of ground reaction force Injury risk > 3-5x rup…

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Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.

• This is how we do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation to understand what can happen in a study

  In a famous (to readers of this blog) example of statistical error, a researcher reported that beautiful parents were 36% more likely to have girl babies. The saps at Freakonomics fell for this one hook, line, and sinke…

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CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.

• Bonus footage that didn't make the episode. Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) on his dinners with Fidel Castro: "He could be better than average, and he could be the biggest jerk you ever met. A lot of powerful people who are really good at power are both below and above the norm of human reaction."
  Quoting@patrick_oshagMy conversation with Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead). Walter has spent decades studying how America came to dominate the world and whether it can keep doing it in an era of AI, robotics and what he calls personal politics. He's a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of Special Providen…

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Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.

• Apple has clearly thought a lot about how to handle the persistent capture and transmission of audio from a watch. The “Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview” linked below shows this. But it may all be for naught: folks first reaction is “it’s always listening to me!” and that’s an instinctive reaction that’s hard to overcome. This is a societal problem not a technical one.

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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

• 1 hour 18 minutes. Flew by. Good showing by Ternus. Quick honest reaction is: better than Cook at these keynotes, but lacks the off-the-cuff nature and energy of Jobs. It's early. But also we NEED to go back to live. iPhone Duo demos would have been awesome live. #AppleEvent

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• It will be FASCINATING to see what the reaction is to Audio Intelligence. Apple is saying all the right things, of course. But it's still always listening! On the flip side, it will make the Apple Watch even more of a must-buy for some. #AppleEvent

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Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.

• Gurley from the top rope... As we've stated many times before, I think the appropriate reaction here is to calm down and carry on. Things will be amazing, let's get there together.
  Quoting@bgurleyI have a recommendation to help bring some sanity to this whole AI doomerism situation that is appropriately exploding today. If any reporter can get one of the "true believers" to sit for a real interview (if they can't, that is an important tell), they should use a technique known as the "Five Wh…

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

• Terence Tao just posted this really insightful thread which seems to have been written in reaction to the Navier Stokes announcement. Please give it a read.

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• Hey @apple, 80% of these apps in the macOS top list are fake!

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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.

• Data shows that 80% of laughter has absolutely nothing to do with humor. It's a signal people use to say "I want to bond with you," not a reaction to something being funny. So if you want to instantly connect with anyone you meet: laugh with them. Here's how the Laughter Paradox works:

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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.

• A pump-and-dump dressed up as a fake cabinet post?: Elon Musk’s DOGE took money Congress had lawfully appropriated to fight disease and grow the world economy, and simply nixed it. The crypto coin that Musk was then not so quietly promoting made a round-trip: the DogeCoin chart runs $0.09 to $0.40 and back to $0.09. But the 800,000 or so who would be alive today without DOGE’s illegal and unconstitutional chaos-monkey wrecking ball did not come back: **Elon Musk & His DOGE & DogeCoin... 1/

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

• Repetition, I am afraid, is the key to convincing.... So let me repeat (Reaction to comments about Greece and the like. ) The argument that the cancelling of the public debt by the central bank has either zero or a negative effect, the argument that I have made this week, is not an argument about debt cancellation in general. Debt (partial or full) cancellation (or restructuring, or reprofiling) of the debt held by investors is a whole different ballgame. It has big real effects. It decreases the interest rate charge, but makes it harder to issue more debt: Creditors, who just lost money, are…

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Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

• Education teaches you to analyze. Entrepreneurship teaches you to create. The educated mindset is great at dissecting and criticizing. What did Shakespeare mean here? What were the major forces of this historical period? What is the limiting reagent in this chemical reaction? The entrepreneurial mindset is great at building and improving. Design a better product. Craft a new marketing plan. Stop talking about what's wrong and make something better. The trick is to keep learning, but to never lose your ability to build.

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

• Surprise DM

  When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” Matt, I’m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby & Caregiver Attend…

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Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.

• What is wrong with @instagram! Someone has created a fake profile of a friend, registering the exact same username as his, with an added underscore at the end. So username is main account, username_ is the fake one. The fake profile's photo is copied from main, even original photos of friend himself have been lifted and posted as their own. I've never seen a more blatant impersonation. And they're reaching out to his friends asking for money. A bunch of us reported the fake profile for impersonation, and Instagram refused to take any action.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.

• Network School is not shutting down; that’s fake news. We received two notices. The first tells us to change the text of a sign. The second says that our coworking site, which was created by joining two adjacent units, evidently has a valid license on the left hand side but not the right hand side. We have a remedial period for both issues, and will remediate them shortly. But our members are otherwise unaffected.

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Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.

• Yup. Especially the entrepreneurs I see posting a lot on social media. One of the most important things we do with @tinyseedfund companies is try to steer them away from the fake work Laura is talking about.
  Quoting@lkryou can easily spend 40 hours/week on activities that do absolutely nada to grow revenue OR profitability, and I would say that's exactly what most entrepreneurs are doing

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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

• POLL: ICE has been abused by the Fake News Media at levels never seen before. They are Great Patriots who work hard, and do a fantastic job in a very hostile environment. Much of this hostility is caused by the Dumocrats and the Fake News. The concept I have had for quite some time — A strong feeling that the name of these Patriots, “ICE,” should be changed to, “NICE,” in that it will totally discombobulate Crooked, Dishonest, and Unpatriotic Reporters and Journalists. For them to say, “We went to a NICE Facility today,” as opposed to “ICE” or, “NICE Agents have deported a Violent Drug Dealer…

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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.

• You can finally power on a Mac remotely

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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

• Horrible Congressman Thomas Massie put out an old Endorsement, from many years ago, of him by me long before I found out that he was the Worst Congressman in the History of our Country. I endorsed Ed Gallrein, a true American Patriot, which Massie knows full well, so the statement that he put out is fraudulent, just like HE is fraudulent. WITHDRAW YOUR FAKE STATEMENT, MASSIE, RIGHT NOW! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

• The (Fake) Long Decline of Fertility

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Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.

• Data center land use issues are fake

  We have plenty of land, data centers provide more revenue per unit area than any other building, and we should have way less farmland

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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.

• tab-snitch — Fake a browser tab's title and favicon. Cloudflare Worker.

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Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.

• Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake

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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.

• Social media companies baking fake notification indicators into their favicon is borderline abusive behaviour.

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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.

• The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them. Perhaps, worst of all, the soon to be out of business New York Times and the Fake News Media won’t issue a word against this genocide. That’s why all the Liars and Pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business! At the conclus…

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Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

• A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961

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Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.

• The Spatial Regime Conversion Method

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Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.

• New episode 🎙️ Bad Idea #26: “Facts will beat Misinformation.” From fake news to populism, pandemics to AI, this one digs into how misinformation spreads, why it sticks, and what we can do about it... with Cambridge psychologist Sander van der Linden. 🎧

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Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.

• An Open Letter to Everyone I've Butted Heads With

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Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

• Rags to Riches Stories Fake & Real, or Always Look Up Everybody’s Mom!

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Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

• The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars

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• New study out today! We had a bunch of Democrats and Republicans do an Ideological Turing Test. People either portrayed themselves or pretended to be from the opposite party, and then another group tried to pick out the real partisans from the fake ones:

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Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.

• Minimal reaction schemes for pattern formation

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Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.

• The regime-conversion method: a hybrid technique for simulating well-mixed chemical reaction networks

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Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.

• Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers and science

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