A few months ago, Larry Ellison briefly passed Elon as the world's richest man. Today, on paper, Elon is, by himself, worth more than *all of Oracle*, the company from which Ellison's vast wealth is derived. Markets are not always rational. View quoted note →

The FBI insider plans out the attack, promises to get them weapons/explosives/etc., and just gets other folks to agree to take part. At no point are any actual weapons or explosives procured, and at no point is anyone actually at risk. But at some point, the FBI arrests everyone.

Now, maybe this isn't that. But it's been happening for over 20 years on the regular. It's not just a MAGA thing. And this has all the hallmarks of the same exact kind of effort.

The scam is basically always pretty similar: undercover FBI agent or an "informant" are dropped into a poor community, where they egg on some down on their luck folks, whipping them into a frenzy with plans (pushed by the FBI's own people) that they should "take action."...

Then there will be weeks of headlines about how the FBI "foiled" a terrorist plot. Some duped folks likely end up in jail. But everyone ignores that if the FBI hadn't gotten involved there wouldn't have been any "plot" in the first place.

Since it looks like we're going through the "liberals who stayed on X/Twitter trying to convince others to go back there," I'll just remind folks I already wrote a long article pointing out how that makes no sense and is, in fact, an incredibly dumb idea. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s... Stop Begging. Start Building

Tyler Cowen interviewed Sam Altman... and what a weird thing to bring up. "They read Twitter less" as if it's a condemnation? https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreie4bwq4r7jlsfk5pgjxejvofrhy3ddxtkwx2ta5uqbnpwbnh5oqk4

ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them. View quoted note →

FWIW, he then also claims that there never was an internet bubble. "The internet was clearly not a bubble. It was a real thing. In the short term, there was a kind of price dislocation that happened..."

Oh, just one of the most famous VCs investing billions into AI saying it *can't* be a bubble because people are asking if it's a bubble. "The fact that it's a question means we're not in a bubble... in order to get to a bubble everyone has to believe it's not a bubble." youtu.be/Y7dwbJ0AtUA?... Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowi...