Does Spike’s jersey say “POPE LEO” on the back??? King shit #NBAsky

I love a good bad science debunk and this one is excellent. Turns out that imperceptible stimuli tend to have equally imperceptible behavioral effects

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five black and white images of different species of whales

Whale Chart, by Ashlie Chavez for you Melvilleans

JAMAL MURRAY, HOW? 🤯

Testing the bedraggled stranger who claims to be me from 30 years in the future by sitting him down with a pen and paper and asking him to list all the samples in Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals" in chronological order from memory. I have him covered at gunpoint under the table.

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

The first good thing the NYT has published on this topic:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

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Gotta be the time the guy next to me sat down and immediately took his shoes off. Sir, we paid three figures to be here

Can’t get over the Jeopardy contestant tonight claiming, of the Cold War, “We won that one”. Uh, did we????? Crack open a newspaper!!

this is what true love looks like. if your girlfriend doesn't ask wtf you're talking about every now and then does she even love you

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ML455588201 - Common Dolphin - Macaulay Library © Jay McGowan; Suffolk, New York, United States; 23 May 2022

Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)

Family Delphinidae
Range: Marine
IUCN status: Least Concern

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I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GOD DAMN THING, WORD PROCESSOR

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I'm not even into bitcoin or any of that crypto shit, I just hate bad research methods and strong claims not supported by the evidence. Thx for reading

Anyway, implicit in the piece is the assumption that Satoshi must be A Poster, and so we can find his identity by analyzing Posts. How just like a writer to think that the mystery can be solved w/the Power of Words. Maybe Satoshi was just a lurker. He certainly doesn't post much these days!

Reporter's "smoking gun" wherein he confronts Back with a quote from Satoshi: "I'm better with code than with words" Back's response: "I did a lot of talking though for somebody, I mean, I mean I'm not saying I'm good with words but I sure did a lot of yakking on these lists actually" The reporter seems to interpret this as some sort of "mask fall[ing]" but to me it reads like he's just saying, that's not something I would say because my behavior demonstrates the opposite

Then the pièce de résistance of the whole thing is his purported smoking gun which to me reads as...an entirely normal exchange???
REPORTER: Satoshi once said, "I'm better with code than with words."
SUSPECT: That's not something I would say because I use words a lot
REPORTER: Gotcha!!!!

Suspicious: "they posted software updates listing new features and bug fixes in a format and style that looked strikingly similar"

It's literally just the new features listed in bullet points

Seriously, the updates on my iphone look exactly like this too. Hmmmmm

Another big laugh line is when he claims that both Back and Satoshi "posted software updates [...] in a format and style that looked strikingly similar". The format and style is...literally the format and style of every software update in the history of computers

While a few paragraphs ago these hyphenation errors were something both men did, now they are just "Satoshi's"!

Again with mixed British/American spelling, searching for a writing pattern that he PREVIOUSLY ALREADY IDENTIFIED as something both Satoshi and Back doo

AND THEN. After again, SPECIFICALLY SELECTING similarities between the two men's writing styles, he has an AI model LOOK FOR THOSE EXACT CHARACTERISTICS among a corpus of text from many suspects. I WONDER WHAT WE WILL FIND

I quote: "I HAD DETECTED SOME WRITING TICS THEY NONETHELESS SHARED". Example 1: hyphen usage errors/inconsistency (weak in and it of itself, I couldn't tell you if "double spending" should be hyphenated or not any day of the week and who among us hasn't written "full blown" as two words)

Another example: inconsistency in use of British or American spelling

Okay and HERE is the best part. Dude scours through Satoshi and Back's posts to EXPLICITLY IDENTIFY characteristics where their writing styles match:

After the overall result of stylometric analysis is "inconclusive", his analyst "changed the way he computed the distance" but alas: "the result was the opposite of what I'd hoped." Just put it in the file drawer like the rest of us

He literally doesn't get the result he wants, attempts to p-hack, and still doesn't get the result he wants. Please open a research methods textbook

PGP, an obscure "cryptographic technique"

C++, an obscure programming language

It becomes immediately apparent that to credibly investigate a computer-related mystery you need to send someone who knows literally anything about computer

"Mr. Back's demeanor--his shifty eyes, his awkward chuckle, the jerky movement of his left hand--struck me as fishy." Has this reporter ever met a nerd before

I am not kidding when I say the ENTIRE INVESTIGATION starts w/our award-winning journalist just catching a vibe and then working backward from it

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

This Satoshi "unmasking" in the NYT is a master class in confirmatory hypothesis testing. I actually laughed out loud at multiple points
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

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