a closer look at the state of “health twitter,” as framed by the recent discussions of two prominent authorities at the world’s greatest conference for heretics | Continue reading
kalshi funded influencers to imply its competitor polymarket and CEO shayne coplan were engaged in illegal activity after the fbi raided his apartment, per sources and screenshots we viewed | Continue reading
after decades of corruption and chronic mismanagement, chicago might be ready to admit it has a problem — and its far-left crony mayor pushing the city to the brink might trigger a revival | Continue reading
if moderates had refrained from putting prop k on the ballot, they might have secured total victory. instead, they may have handed progressives an advantage for years to come | Continue reading
we spoke with the anon account who created a timeless banger that went viral as americans were heading to polls on election day | Continue reading
we asked the biggest names in tech and crypto where bitcoin is headed, and how high it will go — here’s what they said | Continue reading
though revolutionary technologies are often thought of as categorically secular, byrne hobart and tobias huber argue that they're actually highly spiritual endeavors | Continue reading
enraged by trump’s win, radical feminists in the 4b movement are shaving their heads and pledging no dating, marriage, sex or kids. their male relatives find it refreshing. | Continue reading
digital love and companionship tools appear to be driving people apart | Continue reading
regardless of who’s president, america still risks stumbling into an ai policy regime that's worse than the one in the european union — here's how | Continue reading
pirate wires #128 // season of lies concludes, and the mainstream press monopoly is dead; america votes in favor of the social contract; and it’s a clown world landslide (good news, bad news) | Continue reading
nyt, atlantic, and msnbc are aiming their rage at americans after trump’s win, but other outlets seem ready to navigate an entirely revised political and cultural environment | Continue reading
this week, former wapo reporter taylor lorenz accused us of regularly posting false information, which we categorically deny, and are following up with a list of lies she’s told online | Continue reading
a brief recap of the bangers you missed at the second day of hereticon II (admit it, you have fomo) | Continue reading
a brief recap of the bangers you missed at the first day of hereticon II (admit it, you have fomo) | Continue reading
the “donald trump and fascism” wikipedia page appeared the same day the guardian published a 4,000-word article called “is donald trump a fascist?” — and it’s still up | Continue reading
controlled by banks, b2b payments account for $120 trillion yearly — compared to stripe’s $1 trillion — with the banks extracting fees every step of the way. what if stripe had a way to disrupt this? | Continue reading
a group of anonymous 𝕏 accounts are shaping narratives by influencing industry leaders, public intellectuals, and politicians — we asked them how they got here | Continue reading
a powerful group of editors is hijacking wikipedia, pushing pro-palestinian propaganda, erasing key facts about hamas, and reshaping the narrative around israel with alarming influence | Continue reading
what accounts for the cftc’s “sheer hatred” of political prediction markets that has led it to conduct a years-long campaign to ban them from the united states? | Continue reading
honduras' new government has reneged on its 50-year commitment to charter cities like próspera. now, the city's founders are waiting to find out if their project will be deemed illegal. | Continue reading
we've known for years from mainstream reporting that british-pakistani men perpetrated some of the UK's worst child grooming gang scandals. why is wikipedia now calling it a moral panic? | Continue reading
a cottage industry of wikipedia editing services has emerged since the site's founding, and powerful brands and notable media outlets are some of its biggest clients | Continue reading
how the national park service's 'yosemite mafia' is abusing federal power to enrich themselves, quash investigations, and threaten the adventurous american spirit | Continue reading
despite a well-established, unambiguous supreme court precedent, vp pick tim walz argues (yet again) that hate speech isn't constitutionally protected | Continue reading
after making it through california's legislature, effective altruist-backed sb 1047 was defeated after newsom vetoed it on sunday | Continue reading
new information suggests biden admin regulators deliberately killed off crypto-friendly silvergate in an attempt to decapitate the us crypto industry | Continue reading
a san francisco voter guide for people who aren’t insane | Continue reading
pirate wires #127 // a second attempt on trump’s life (his fault btw) overshadowed by the question of migrants eating cats, immigration, and the devilish power of a meme | Continue reading
inside the quietly growing industry of companies dedicated to fighting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “narrative attacks,” whose primary customers are western governments and global brands | Continue reading
a brief recap of the bangers that you may have missed while you were sunning on your yacht | Continue reading
the telegram ceo’s arrest embodies the white-hot issues of security, censorship, government interference, geopolitics and the manic competition for all-important eyeballs that is the internet today | Continue reading
our astronauts are stuck in space, anduril's arsenal-1, US manufacturing, tariffs, google, trump, media, our vanishing internet, palmer's most heretical thoughts, and hope for the future | Continue reading
palmer luckey on defense contracting, anduril's new weapons factory arsenal, the US industrial base, heretical ideas, the media, and more | Continue reading
pirate wires #126 // brazil bans x as the global war on speech continues, the overton window shifts to jailing founders, and facing the despotism now before us | Continue reading
wikipedia editors churn news articles from an overwhelmingly left-leaning list of “reliable sources” into neutrality-emblazoned fact | Continue reading
in the face of overwhelming resistance to sb 1047, scott wiener continues to defend effective altruists' position, while mischaracterizing opponents as just the "loudest voices" | Continue reading
pirate wires #125 // america goes cuckoo for coconut, VCs for kamala, war on the “substance demanders,” EU moves for global censorship, and how the world has changed since we’ve been vibing | Continue reading
a new labour government is flexing its muscles after a decade and a half out of power, during which time the internet grew exponentially, but british control over the internet didn’t | Continue reading
last week, criticisms of sb 1047 reached a fever pitch, with academics and politicians joining silicon valley in a rejection of the ambiguous regulatory regime it would impose on the industry | Continue reading
wikipedia cofounder dr. larry sanger on the establishment takeover of wikipedia, corporate control of online knowledge, why information disappears from the internet, and more | Continue reading
a house judiciary report suggests an advertising cabal organized a boycott of 𝕏 and took similar actions against other websites it deems ideologically problematic | Continue reading
inside the cultural revolution at wikipedia, which pivoted it from a decentralized database of all the world's knowledge to a top-down social activism and advocacy machine | Continue reading
pirate wires #124 // open war in silicon valley — a question of ethics, politics, or status? — trump’s new dance with venture capital, zenefits, and the other side of “going direct” | Continue reading
for years, the eu has weaponized regulations to extract billions from u.s. tech companies. with their most recent batch of laws, they’ve positioned themselves to destroy tech’s profit margins | Continue reading
dan hendrycks, an executive at a firm that co-sponsored scott wiener's ai bill, co-founded an ai safety compliance company that launched on tuesday | Continue reading
sb 1047 is inching closer to the legislative finish line, and will likely pass easily through the chamber — the only question that remains is if newsom will veto it | Continue reading
pirate wires #123 // attempt on trump’s life, mainstream discourse in the crosshairs, the blueanon distraction from accountability, and thank god for conspiracy theories: the price we pay for truth | Continue reading