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Great rip today on GET REAL with @EmilyDempsey š
We hit:
- @RoKhanna's egregious wealth tax proposal
- $BTC likely putting in a bottom
- The stock market itself is now Too Big To Fail, and that is NOT good
- Trump memecoin schemes and scams
- Diminishing likelihood of Clarity Act passing, but hopeful that BRCA gets its own standalone bill soon after
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PROF. JIANG PREDICTS CRASH OF GLOBAL ECONOMY IN 2027
YouTube's Professor Jiang predicts that within a year, attention could shift from the Iran conflict to a devastating global economic downturn.
He argues that the unwinding of the yen carry trade will lead to stress on global liquidity, and a popping of the inflated AI and private credit market bubbles.
This could trigger a broader financial crisis marked by unemployment, bankruptcies, and stock market declines.
We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back).
We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize.
This should also help clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.
So, so dumb, @OpenAI
Why would you encourage downloading a new version of your app that doesn't work in the most basic of ways? All of my Projects are gone, unable to display in the new app interface š¤”
We're hiring a Growth Marketer at @Swan! If you love marketing (and Bitcoin, of course), cross-functional go-to-mark work, and have spent the last 7 months heads down with AI tooling, this could be a great fit!
This will be a unique role combining a human touch and AI-native in all things.
Feel free to drop me a DM and check out the details at the link below.
The Scambling Age
No morality.
No shame.
No honor.
The only things that matter are:
1) can they get away with it
2) if they get caught will they pay less than what they stole or scammed
The CEO of StubHub exposed in SEC documents to own a hedge fund thats scalping millions of tickets on StubHub making a fortune
Everything is a scam
āStubHub bills itself as an online marketplace for fans where they can buy and sell tickets, but it turns out that StubHub CEO himself also has a hedge fund that is scalping millions of dollars worth of its own ticketsā
āThe company went public on the New York Stock Exchange last fall. They had to file documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in those SEC filings, we find some interesting information. The CEO, Eric Baker, actually owns and manages a hedge fund by the name of Andro Capital.
Its business: selling millions of dollars worth of tickets on StubHub ā So essentially, StubHub and its CEO are in the business of mass scalpingā
Hereās a step by step of how the scam works
- StubHub CEOās Andro Capital buys large numbers of tickets, sometimes in bulk from primary sellers, other brokers and events
- They then list and sell those same tickets on StubHub at much higher prices
- When fans buy the tickets, Andro makes a profit on the price difference, this is the scalping markup
- StubHub helps them by handling the listing, pricing and delivery of the tickets, sometimes with special arrangements or lower fees for Andro
The result is millions of dollars in ticket sales flow through Andro on StubHub, and the profits go back to the hedge fund that StubHub CEO Baker owns and manages
It means with his big money and influence he can move in early, gets the tickets for events, then mark them and rob everyone blind
Season 1, Episode 4:
THE ONE WHERE RAPHAEL ZAGURY, A CLOSE TETHER ASSOCIATE, IS INSTALLED AS AN āINDEPENDENTā DIRECTOR AT TETHERāS SPAC, XXI/$CEP
I see that our former employee Raphael Zagury @alphazeta has been named an āindependent directorā at Cantor Fitzgeraldās (@cantorfitzgerld@howardlutnick) Tether-funded Bitcoin SPAC, Twenty One Capital (NASDAQ: $CEP). [1]
How can Zagury be āindependentā when he leads Elektron Energy (per his LinkedIn) and Proton Management, two companies with close ties to @tether? In July 2024, while Zagury was still Swanās CIO and Head of Mining, Zagury sent a detailed business plan to Giancarlo Devasini, Zachary Lyons (Tetherās Deputy CIO, and another director at XXI/$CEP), @PaoloArdoino, San Naidoo (then a Swan Investment Director), and Michael Alexander āAlexā Holmes @trojan81 (then Swanās Head of Mining BD) outlining how they would use Elektron to gut the Swan/Tether mining joint venture 2040. Zaguryā proposed plan shows Tether becoming a majority shareholder of Elektron. Not sure how a director of XXI/$CEP can be āindependentā if heās the CEO of a company deeply enmeshed with Tether.
Meanwhile, Tether-controlled Northern Data just signed a $200M agreement to sell its mining arm to an unnamed buyer, likely Elektron Energy LP. Not sure who controls this Elektron entity (there are several recently formed āElektronā-named related entities; check them out in the BVI, Delaware, and Wyoming), but if Tether has any stake in it, then itās on every side of the Rumble-Northern Data-Elektron Energy deal, with Zagury right in the middle of it all. More detail here: https://t.co/AWEuAuJpwM
Perhaps these questions are best answered by Twenty Oneās law firm, @SkaddenArps, which also reps Tether. It would be interesting to know how the law firm that produced information showing Zaguryās ties to Tether also deemed him āindependent.ā For more on director independence, hereās Skadden themselves on the subject: https://t.co/18gjldxuem
Perhaps the most obvious question is how Zagury can serve as a director at all after his own notes from when he was Swanās CIO show he stated that the ārain and hellfire need to startā and that the āteam resignation and move with Tether needs to be on tandem,ā adding āConfidentiality and IP- we would be exposedā and that they needed āLegal cover from Tether.ā [2]
Does CEP/$XXI really want a board member who schemed to start ārain and hellfireā against the company he served? Or is it not really Twenty Oneās management making the decisions, but Devasini, who unilaterally controls Tether, and through Tether, CEP/$XXI?
LOTS more to come. Hope youāre ready for the next episodeā¦
[1] The Twenty One Capital XXI/$CEP SPAC filing https://t.co/lpHCwDX2mj
[2] @Protos coverage: āSwan Bitcoin lawsuit targets former executives, implicates Tetherā
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We're launching The Neutrality Project š, an independent, open-source research collective making AI influence measurable.
AI models answer billions of questions daily. They all come from somewhere: they validate certain options, treat particular middles as reasonable, and leave things out. That influence has been invisible until now.
Founded by @CardilloSamuel, @kaiostephens and @DJLougen, with the help of early contributor @andrewgzavalag1
*Updated*
OpenAIās last 24 hours:
> Head of Safety quit
> Sued by NYTimes
> Top Exec unexpectedly departs
> Shuts down browser tool after 9 months
> Sued for trade theft by Apple
> Caught selling product to China against sanctions
@sama We start flying them next year. Maybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves.
After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Appleās phone technology! Wow.
What do you plan for an encore? Thatās tough to beat.