Ethan Cole

Every story has a truth.

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

Ted Bundy’s Final Interview Before Execution - January 24, 1989.

On January 23, 1989, just hours before his execution, Ted Bundy sat down for one final recorded interview.

He was 42 years old. He had spent more than a decade on death row, and the following morning, he would be executed in Florida’s electric chair.

Across the table sat Dr. James Dobson, a religious broadcaster who had been invited to record Bundy’s final public statement.

The conversation began with a question that left little room for escape.

“You are scheduled to be executed tomorrow morning. What is going through your mind?”

Bundy admitted that he hadn’t come to terms with what was about to happen. He described his emotions as constantly changing - sometimes calm, sometimes overwhelmed by fear.

Then Dobson asked him directly whether he was guilty of killing women and girls.

“Yes, that’s correct.”

For the next hour, Bundy spoke about his childhood, his crimes and what he believed had led him down that path.

He repeatedly discussed his exposure to pornography, claiming it had contributed to his violent fantasies. However, he also stated that he took responsibility for his actions.

At one point, Dobson asked him about the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

Bundy broke down in tears and struggled to answer.

The interview ended. The following morning, January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy was executed.

The recording was released to the media on the same day.

But one question remains:

Was Bundy finally trying to tell the truth, or was he still trying to control the story until his very last moments?

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@Alna1319419 It often happens that children pay the price for their parents' actions.

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

In 2021, a 5-year-old girl lost both of her parents in a single day.

Her father, Ali Abulaban, had shot and killed her mother, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron.

He had been listening to their conversations through an iPad hidden in the apartment.

When he heard Ana with another man, he drove back with a loaded gun.

Both were killed.

Three years later, Ali stood in court to hear his sentence.

He turned toward the courtroom and began apologizing to the families.

But then he addressed the person who would grow up without either parent:

His daughter.

“Amira, when you’re old enough to see this, please don’t blame yourself. None of this is your fault.”

He broke down in tears.

He had one final message for the little girl whose life he had changed forever.

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@NadezdaSerikova I fully support your opinion

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

The fact that millions in cash, diamonds, and antiques were left untouched is the key indicator. This was no robbery. When you’re taken out in your own home—slain with a katana, with no signs of forced entry—it’s not the work of random burglars; it’s a message from the Yakuza, or perhaps the result of debts that the story fails to mention.

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@Jinxtory It’s a good thing she at least has her grandparents, so she won’t end up in an orphanage....

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@GarikEryomenko You are absolutely right; no one deserves something like that.

[Mirmalnir @mirmalnir]

Mike Tyson says he got his prison teacher PREGNANT. 💀

When the hosts asked whether he was having sex in jail, they assumed he meant conjugal visits.

Tyson told them he’d been sleeping with the teacher helping him earn his high school equivalency diploma.

He never passed the exam.

“I failed the GED twice, that might make me double dumb.”

Then he mentioned what happened with the teacher:

“I had sex with my school teacher in prison and she got pregnant.”

[Orrovetch @Orrovetch]

MONICA LEWINSKY MADE ABOUT $300K FROM JENNY CRAIG.
BILL CLINTON CHARGED UP TO $750K FOR A SINGLE SPEECH.
SAME SCANDAL. VERY DIFFERENT BALANCE SHEETS.

From 2007 to 2014 the Clintons reported about $140 million in income, mostly from speeches. She got a book, a TV interview and a name she couldn’t use for a career.

Who really paid the price for that scandal?

[Britany Shy @BRitanySHY]

At 30, Elizabeth Holmes was the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world, worth $4.5 billion on paper. Her company sold 240 blood tests. Its famous machine could actually run 15 of them.

She dropped out of Stanford as a sophomore and founded Theranos in 2003. The pitch was one drop of blood from a finger prick, hundreds of tests, results in minutes, a fraction of the price.

The money followed the pitch. Rupert Murdoch put in $125 million. Henry Kissinger sat on the board. In all, Theranos raised more than $700 million, and at its peak it was valued at around $10 billion. Walgreens opened 40 Theranos wellness centers inside its stores in Arizona, and real patients started getting real results.

She played the part perfectly. Black turtlenecks every day, like Steve Jobs, reportedly 150 identical ones. A deep, slow voice that former colleagues say wasn't her real one. It slipped at a company party.

The machine was called the Edison. Behind the scenes, Theranos was running most patients' blood on ordinary lab equipment bought from other companies, and the Edison results it did use were unreliable.

In October 2015, the Wall Street Journal published it all. Two young employees had gone to the reporter, John Carreyrou. One of them, Tyler Shultz, was the grandson of a Theranos board member.

Walgreens walked away. Forbes changed her net worth from $4.5 billion to zero.

In 2022 a jury convicted her of defrauding investors. She got 11 years and 3 months, and a court ordered $452 million in restitution, ruling that the investors' losses were "equal to the total amount of their investments."

She has been in a federal prison in Texas since May 2023. Last year she asked President Trump to commute her sentence. In September the Bureau of Prisons told victims she's set to move to a halfway house in August 2027, with release in February 2030.

The case for letting her out: she's a mother of two, she's served years, and nobody else from that boardroom of famous men went to prison.

The case against: patients made medical decisions based on test results she knew couldn't be trusted.

Should Trump let Elizabeth Holmes out early?

[Filosof @fxlxsxf]

YOUR CRYPTO CAN BE STOLEN FROM A SCREENSHOT IN YOUR CAMERA ROLL.

Sounds paranoid. Then you remember you screenshotted your seed phrase once, just in case.

There is malware that does one thing: read your photos. It opens your gallery, runs text recognition on every image, finds the 12 words, and sends them to a server. No keylogger. No phishing link. It just looks at your pictures.

And it gets worse. It was not some sketchy APK. It passed Apple's review and Google's review and sat on both official stores.

How it works:
→ An app asks for photo access. Feels normal, most apps do.
→ In the background it reads the text in every image.
→ It flags anything shaped like a recovery phrase or a wallet QR.
→ Those images go to the attacker.
→ They restore your wallet on their phone and drain it. You never see a login.

Kaspersky and Check Point both documented it. One batch alone passed 242,000 downloads before it got pulled.

Two-minute fix:
→ Delete every photo or screenshot of a seed phrase right now.
→ Keep recovery phrases on paper or steel. Never in your camera roll, Notes, or cloud.
→ Turn off photo access for apps that have no reason to see your gallery.
→ Install only from developers you actually know.

Your camera roll remembers everything you were too lazy to delete. So does the malware reading it. 👁

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@Acoramaa He meant that because the wiretap was on his daughter’s tablet😔

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@Acoramaa In the past, a presentation like this would have taken two weeks in Blender and left me with a bunch of nervous tics. Now, it’s just one prompt session. Welcome to the future of procedural graphics.

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

In 2021, a 5-year-old girl lost both of her parents in a single day.

Her father, Ali Abulaban, had shot and killed her mother, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron.

He had been listening to their conversations through an iPad hidden in the apartment.

When he heard Ana with another man, he drove back with a loaded gun.

Both were killed.

Three years later, Ali stood in court to hear his sentence.

He turned toward the courtroom and began apologizing to the families.

But then he addressed the person who would grow up without either parent:

His daughter.

“Amira, when you’re old enough to see this, please don’t blame yourself. None of this is your fault.”

He broke down in tears.

He had one final message for the little girl whose life he had changed forever.

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@Petroomg47 All of this consists of mindless actions.

[Sam @SamgreyAi]

Same prompt. Same rooster. One costs 6x more

Claude Opus 5.5 [$2.55]
ChatGPT-6.1 Terra [$0.40]
Both built a 3D desert farm where a rooster sprints down a fence line and steps on a rake. Watch it twice.

What’s different:
→ Claude: a world full of stuff, with a barn, cone, hay bales, scattered cans and a rake you can’t miss
→ ChatGPT: a bigger, bolder rooster in a cleaner, emptier scene
→ Claude: busier frame, more to look at
→ ChatGPT: easier to read at a glance

Scorecard:
Detail → Claude
Price → ChatGPT
Rooster character → ChatGPT
World building → Claude
6x the price doesn’t mean 6x the wow.

But the rake gag hits harder when the scene around it is alive.

So which one would you ship: the $2.55 world or the $0.40 rooster?

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@Alna1319419 I think both sides are right in their own way.

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

1993: A 9-year-old boy witnessed a murder. That moment changed the direction of his life.

Calogero grew up in the Bronx, where two completely different worlds were fighting for his attention.

His father was a hardworking bus driver who taught him the value of honest money.

But across the street was Sonny, a powerful local mob boss.

Sonny had everything a young boy could admire: money, respect, influence, and people who feared him.

Calogero became fascinated by that world. The more time he spent around Sonny, the harder it became to follow his father’s advice.

But there was one lesson he would eventually have to learn:

Is it better to be loved or feared?Who’s right?

A Bronx Tale (1993) is more than a gangster movie. It’s a story about growing up, bad influences, loyalty, and the choices that can shape an entire life.

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@viktoshsa Power grants control temporarily, but only values ​​and love shape a person’s character😁

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

@Petroomg47 Exactly. Children don’t always understand the consequences of the people they look up to. That’s why a parent’s guidance matters so much

[AI Pulse @AIPulseNewsX]

everyone's using the same 3 AI tools

meanwhile there's a whole layer of stuff almost nobody talks about. most have a free plan

20 worth bookmarking

1. Goblin Tools — breaks any task into tiny steps. weirdly good cure for procrastination
2. Napkin AI — paste text, get a clean diagram
3. Granola — meeting notes without a bot joining your call
4. Wispr Flow — you talk, it writes. cleaner than you'd type it
5. Elicit — reads research papers and pulls out the findings
6. Consensus — ask a question, get answers from actual studies
7. Krea — image gen that updates in real time as you draw
8. Recraft — vector icons & illustrations in one consistent style
9. Ideogram — finally AI images where the text isn't gibberish
10. Adobe Podcast Enhance — phone mic audio → studio sound
11. Upscayl — free open source upscaler, runs on your laptop
12. LM Studio — run AI models offline. nothing leaves your computer
13. Pinokio — one-click install for open source AI apps
14. Mapify — PDF or YouTube video → mind map
15. Exa — search engine that finds pages by meaning, not keywords
16. Gling — auto-cuts silences and bad takes from your videos
17. Hedra — one photo + audio = talking video
18. Photoroom — product photos that look shot in a studio
19. Clay — finds and researches leads for outreach
20. Reclaim — AI calendar that guards your focus time

the free ones (10, 11, 12) are kinda insane for $0 tbh

which one did I miss? drop yours below

[Ethan Cole @EthanColeFiles]

1993: A 9-year-old boy witnessed a murder. That moment changed the direction of his life.

Calogero grew up in the Bronx, where two completely different worlds were fighting for his attention.

His father was a hardworking bus driver who taught him the value of honest money.

But across the street was Sonny, a powerful local mob boss.

Sonny had everything a young boy could admire: money, respect, influence, and people who feared him.

Calogero became fascinated by that world. The more time he spent around Sonny, the harder it became to follow his father’s advice.

But there was one lesson he would eventually have to learn:

Is it better to be loved or feared?Who’s right?

A Bronx Tale (1993) is more than a gangster movie. It’s a story about growing up, bad influences, loyalty, and the choices that can shape an entire life.