Henrik F

[Ida Turan 🇮🇷 ایده توران @iranidaturan]

It’s day 33 of the war, and my hometown is still being heavily bombed.

Iranians are only now, with great difficulty, realizing that for all these years, they have essentially been living inside a massive military base the size of a country.

They’re finally understanding why Iran, despite all its resources, has remained so poor: because all the money has been spent preparing the regime for its apocalyptic final war.

None of this is defensive. It’s all offensive.

After every strike, Israel posts reports in Persian explaining exactly what it has hit. The main reason for cutting off the internet is so that people won’t see or understand what’s really happening.

Underground missile cities, bunkers built beneath residential neighborhoods, tunnels upon tunnels upon tunnels. It’s horrifying. This regime must go.

#IranWar‌ #ThankYouTrump‌

[Henrik F @hfri]

@LinkN01 @SEBGroup @avanzabank Supersmidigt att rösta på @avanzabank 👏.

[Nate Anderson @NateHindenburg]

I am Nate Anderson, the founder of Hindenburg Research referenced repeatedly in this bizarre and fantastical interview. During my career, I helped expose numerous financial scams, including over a dozen Ponzi schemes and numerous instances of public companies lying to and stealing from investors: https://t.co/a40Lw3zTMp

I am immensely proud of that career including our work on Nikola Motors referenced in the interview.

Trevor Milton is a convicted fraudster held criminally responsible for the incineration of hundreds of millions of dollars in retail investors’ hard-earned money. As should be unsurprising, Milton in this interview seems to just fabricate key events and information out of thin air – unfortunately with zero critical questioning or pushback from Tucker.

For starters, contrary to Trevor Milton’s implications that his prosecution was some sort of Biden administration conspiracy, conveniently neither Milton nor Tucker share that the investigation into Milton was started and disclosed in September 2020 – under the first TRUMP administration and well before the 2020 election.

There were numerous inaccuracies throughout the interview. The claim that Hindenburg paid employees for inside information is patently absurd. The key whistleblower discussed in the interview was only briefly a contractor for Milton. He was so horrified by what he viewed as Milton’s repeated false claims that he did a tremendous amount of research on his own, unraveling numerous additional suspected lies that Milton peddled to the investing public.

Further, Hindenburg didn’t “coordinate” anything with media or the DoJ. Such entities ran their own investigations for their own purposes unconnected to us. There was ample evidence that Milton misstated numerous aspects of his business, as the company itself later acknowledged.

It would take hours to write about all the other absurdities, half-truths, innuendos and false statements in this interview but in the interest of correcting some of the record, here’s a handful:

- Milton waxes on about his pardon, but no one mentioned that Milton’s lawyer was Brad Bondi—the brother of AG Pam Bondi. Nor did anyone mention that Milton donated $900 thousand to Trump in October 2024, less than a month before the recent election—strategically timed well after his criminal conviction and immediately prior to the presidential election. Trump acknowledged he had never heard of Milton before being asked to pardon him but relied on others for the recommendation.

- Milton failed to mention that immediately prior to his resignation from his company, beyond the extensive allegations of fraud, he was also publicly accused of multiple instances of sexual assault, including by his own cousin, who went on-the-record with her allegations.

- I can only wonder what kind of investigation Tucker undertook of the fraud allegations against Milton before having him on. Milton literally video-taped a truck rolling down a hill implying that it was driving under its own power. He also went up on stage and said a truck that didn’t work “fully functions and works.”

- Waxing poetic about hydrogen in the interview echoes Nikola’s lies to retail investors that it successfully produced hydrogen at a cost ~81% lower than anyone on earth, a feat that would have upended the entire energy industry had it been remotely true. Nikola’s head of hydrogen production, presumably in charge of this world-changing scientific breakthrough, turned out to be Milton’s own brother, who had no scientific background and previously did odd construction jobs in Hawaii.

- These weren’t one-off misstatements—there were dozens of examples like these. As the DoJ said – and proved in court – Milton “made false claims regarding nearly all aspects of Nikola’s business.” The company itself admitted to many of these false statements, agreed to a $125 million fine, and won an arbitration against Milton holding him personally liable for his conduct.

- Milton claimed that Hindenburg made $30m-$100m on our Nikola investment—this isn’t even close (we made a fraction of that). Trevor seems to just be making these numbers up out of thin air.

Hilariously, Tucker opened by suggesting that short selling was illegal until 2007, a claim that is completely false. After confirming that he knows nothing about the subject, he went on to suggest that short selling should be criminalized outright.

Short selling has existed for hundreds of years, and for good reason. Short sellers play a critical role in the functioning of healthy markets, similar to the role of investigative journalists, (which I presume Tucker considers himself akin to).

Most companies are a force for good and economic growth. However, some companies lie and engage in fraud. Short sellers have exposed nearly every major corporate fraud in the past several decades because just as there is an economic incentive for identifying the good companies, there is also an economic model for identifying the scams. This is how free markets and free speech works—helping weed out the bad companies and those stealing from investors so good companies have more room to thrive.

Claiming to be a free speech advocate while casually advocating for the imprisonment of anyone who dares to speak critically about public companies is a contradiction of the highest order.

In short, Tucker, I highly suggest you actually vet the people you welcome onto your platform. If you find yourself staring, mouth agape at your interviewee, repeatedly saying “Wow! This is unbelievable!” it may in fact be because it’s unbelievable.

You reach a lot of people and this one was an avoidable miss. Good day.

[Ekonomigurun 𝕏 🇸🇪 @ekonomigurun_]

Aftonbladet hyllar Tesla. Vilken sommarvikarie kommer få sparken efter detta? 🤣

[Matt Smith @nerdalert]

Hey @elonmusk, Tesla’s mission is to “accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy” but EV sales are sadly flatlining.

Despite having extremely compelling cars, most people are completely unaware of Tesla’s lead in safety and autonomy, and many harbor ignorant notions of range anxiety, fire risk, etc.

Why not take this moment to try a robust advertising campaign? We know from this chart you shared 3 years ago that traditional advertising, for all its faults, does lead directly to an increase in sales volume, even when it’s your peers doing boring commercials about their own inferior products!

I’ve spoken to many older folks who didn’t know about FSD, and it immediately clicks when they realize that it would help them to preserve their freedom. I’ve spoken to many “normal” folks who have no idea that charging at home is a better experience than the gas station. And almost everyone thinks Teslas are more fire prone than ICE cars when the opposite is in fact the case.

Despite the amazing strides made to make the cars more affordable in recent years, the bottom line is that the transition to sustainable transportation is not currently accelerating, meaning that Tesla’s mission has hit a temporary speed bump.

Tesla has an amazing story to tell about the value proposition of their products. It’s time that we tell that story with pride!!

[Henrik F @hfri]

@ekonomigurun_ 🍿

[jimmah @jamesdouma]

I’m kind of sad that most folks can’t appreciate how crazy it is that LLMs work, and how lucky were are that they do and that we stumbled onto this technology. The idea that there’s a simple mechanism that lets you load vast, vast amounts of unstructured data into it that will then self-organize to the degree that it will *learn the languages that the data is encoded in* and then talk you about what’s in there and go on to learn the skills captured in the data - it’s just crazy. This wasn’t on my radar. This wasn’t on *anyone’s* radar - it’s completely unforeseen. And then this miracle, this absolute ne-plus-ultra gift from the universe gets discounted by *experts* who nearsightedly focus on the stuff it can’t do yet - the ways in which it doesn’t live up to their personal platonic ideal of intelligence.

Who cares about that? This is arguably the most useful single thing we’ve ever discovered. I feel so lucky that we found it and have it and I’m looking forward to seeing the million and one ways that it’s going to make life better for almost everyone.

We live at the best time. I wish more people knew it.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Kids Get Bitcoin

[Henrik F @hfri]

@iamtomnash 👏

[Dan Korn @SvDan_Korn]

"I veckan som gick konstaterade min läkare att jag har alldeles för högt blodtryck. Det blev inte lägre av att läsa alla korkade uttalanden i svenska medier. Det blev inte heller lägre när jag i synagogan i Manchester på morgonbönen såg 95-årige förintelseöverlevaren herr Vogel sitta i sitt hörn som vanligt och jag tänkte att det knappast var Elon Musk som plågat honom för nu åttio år sen. Det var inte Elon Musk som tvingade in min farfars mor i gaskammaren.
När Viktor Malm, Björn Wiman, Karin Pettersson och alla de andra skriker sig hesa om nazism relativiserar de den verkliga nazismen. Det är djupt ovärdigt, ja avskyvärt. Om några dagar är det Förintelsens minnesdag. Då kommer de säkert att skriva något om det. Kanske får de med Musks heilande också.
Samtidigt är det inte någon större konst att leta fram människor som heilar på fullaste allvar, som inte gör det minsta försök att dölja sin antisemitism, som aldrig skulle drömma om att följa med Ben Shapiro till Auschwitz efter att ha twittrat något antisemitiskt. Det finns gott om foton på heilande Hamas- och Hezbollah-soldater. Men om det håller våra svenska debattörer för det mesta tyst.
Hyckleriet är vidrigt. Dessa hycklare är värda det djupaste förakt. Det stinker om deras självrättfärdighet. Det är just självrättfärdigheten, hur de predikar godhet samtidigt som de blundar för verklig ondska, medan de letar efter annan ondska med förstoringsglas, som är det värsta. De använder som vanligt döda judar för att marknadsföra sig själva."
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[Henrik F @hfri]

@SawyerMerritt ALL car manufacturers that survive the transition to EVs will have to license FSD to survive the next wave.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Trust those who return the shopping cart

[Henrik F @hfri]

@wholemars Someone please check on Gordon.

[Henrik F @hfri]

@alex_avoigt @ianmiles Alex, the memes are very obviously satire, have you seen them?

[Henrik F @hfri]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla I’m confused, Gordon said it was a busted growth story 🤷‍♂️

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

“We are killing our companies.”

💯

[Henrik F @hfri]

@anders_aslund @anders_aslund, kanske bäst att dra tillbaka det här inlägget ändå. Man kan få bilden av att du tar din information från män som Kadyrov.

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

Can we please elect Rowan Atkinson as Prime Minister? #freespeech

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

😬

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

"Why didn't Trump's security try to negotiate with the shooter?"

Ukrainian paramedic asks a stupid question to demonstrate how stupid people sound when they say: “Why doesn’t Ukraine try to negotiate with russia?”