Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness; proves reality does not exist until measured phy.so/351940527

Cool article about what NYC looked like in 1973, the last time the Knicks won. The wildest for me is that it was the year that the New York Times introduced Donald Trump to the world: “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in New York City.” gothamist.com/arts-entertain…

Brian Doherty 1968-2026. Among many other achievements, Brian was a character in Joe Matt's last comic book, Peep Show #15.

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In awe. @VRSVirginia is taking down the monarchy.

My latest: The Federal Public Defender's Office in L.A. has handled every protest and immigration enforcement related case that's gone to trial since June. They're 6 and 0 against the U.S. attorney’s office. Here's their story latimes.com/california/story…

this is extremley smart and this last part "we're increasingly trained to experience the world through models and odds and expected outcomes" is exactly what Baudrillard boils down to. People think of simulation as "the matrix," a fake reality supplanting real life...

Most thoughtful take I’ve seen on sports betting, from the great @liz_franczak embedded.substack.com/p/my-i…

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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA. We're holding X accountable for: 🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ 🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository 🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers ↓

The business model of "influencers" stealing the work of others, presenting it on their platform as their own without any context and then riding the likes and shares is wild. For anyone just looking at this email, one of dozens I obtained via FOIA, here's the context bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

A stat worth knowing: McKinsey the consulting firm has more employees than there are journalists of any kind in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

OpenAI’s $500 Billion Valuation Has A 12-Person Auditor Problem The company building artificial general intelligence is audited by Fontanello, Duffield & Otake … a boutique firm with 12 employees designed for nonprofits. This matters because Michael Burry just exposed the structure: OpenAI reports $3.7 billion in 2024 revenue while Microsoft invests $13 billion, then OpenAI buys Azure compute from Microsoft, which purchases Nvidia chips, inflating both their revenues. IRS filings confirm the same small auditor through 2022 with no public upgrade since. The numbers tell the story. Nvidia’s 2025 earnings show 45% of sales going to three hyperscalers who are simultaneously OpenAI’s investors and customers. When you map the actual money flows, over 85% traces back through these closed loops. Strip away the circular transactions and organic end-user demand appears to be under 1% of the reported ecosystem. 98% of S&P 500 companies use Big Four auditors specifically because boutique firms lack capacity to detect fraud at scale. OpenAI converted to for-profit status in October 2025, bypassing Sarbanes-Oxley requirements entirely. No SEC oversight. No mandatory independent verification of revenue sources. Here’s what breaks: The AI sector now represents $10 trillion in market value built on $1.4 trillion in announced infrastructure spending. These commitments depend on revenue growth that may be accounting artifacts rather than genuine demand. If Q4 2025 earnings show Microsoft or Nvidia deriving more than 50% of growth from these circular arrangements, probability of systemic correction jumps to critical mass. A 20% demand shock cascades through network dependencies to generate 50% sector valuation collapse. This isn’t theory … it’s basic network mathematics applied to the documented ownership and transaction structures. Verify yourself: IRS Form 990 filings through 2022 list Fontanello explicitly at projects.propublica.org/nonp… OpenAI’s trust portal confirms only SOC2 operational controls, not financial audit scope. No Big Four announcement exists in any public disclosure. The 2008 financial crisis happened because complex instruments hid circular risk. This is the same architecture in silicon. The difference is these companies are building the infrastructure that’s supposed to power the next century. When the auditor checking half-trillion-dollar valuations has twelve employees, either everyone else is wrong about audit requirements or we’re watching the setup for the largest market correction in technology history. The math doesn’t lie. The structure is documented. And nobody’s asking the obvious question until now.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Read the deep dive full article here! open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

Harvard student here. His office at the Harvard Kennedy School seems to be gone, empty, no name tag.

If Congress really wants to know about Jeffrey Epstein they should subpoena Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke. nytimes.com/2024/02/16/busin…

Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that he appeared to be texting a member of Congress during a congressional hearing investigating Donald Trump, and that those texts may have influenced the lawmaker’s questions. wapo.st/482uhGt

Lina Khan is quietly mapping out how New York’s incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani can use overlooked city and state laws to make daily life cheaper — from Yankee stadium beer to basic medicines, Semafor reports. People familiar with the transition say she’s identified a broad “unconscionable pricing” rule and new transparency requirements for algorithmic pricing as early tools the city can enforce. It echoes her FTC tenure, where she revived dormant statutes to pressure companies on misleading ads, predatory pricing, and deceptive gig-work claims. Business groups may bristle, but Khan’s approach could give Mamdani a concrete legal path to tackle the city’s affordability crisis, the report suggests. ⬇️

if someone critiques me, everyone dies by eliezer yudkowsky

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