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Nate Wilcox
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Historian of dance music & fight sport
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library gavin (aka theanticool) @theanticool.bsky.social · 14h
Best explainer on everything going on with the UFC fight fixing scandal atm
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pud333.bsky.social @pud333.bsky.social · 3d
Fellas, we are in the golden age of grifting. Business has never been this good for the cheaters, liars and scammers. I include the robber baron billionaire class in this as well.
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 4d
There may be an FBI investigation into UFC fight fixing.
A Fixed UFC Fight? The Inevitable Outcome of TKO's Strategy
No matter how much money we stuff into ari Emanuel's mouth, he'll never shit great fights
www.themmadraw.com
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 4d
There may be an FBI investigation into UFC fight fixing.
A Fixed UFC Fight? The Inevitable Outcome of TKO's Strategy
No matter how much money we stuff into ari Emanuel's mouth, he'll never shit great fights
www.themmadraw.com
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 8d
Because you can't get kids dancing without someone calling the narcs.
letitrollpodcast.substack.com/p/technoroll...
TechnoRoll 3.15: The DEA Cracks Down on Disco Donnie and the NOLA Rave Scene
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of “⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Underground is Massive⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠“ with a look at Disco Donnie, the DEA and the rave bust that brought the first ...
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 10d
From Nat Wilson Turner's latest for Naked Capitalism www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/foll...
Follow the Money to the Power Under the East Wing Ballroom There’s been a fair amount of MSM handwringing over Trump’s new ballroom which is being built over the rubble of the East Wing of the White House. Most of it irrelevant boo hoo about the brilliant architecture of the Roosevelt era. CNN accidentally mentions something far more important going on underground in the demolition zone: Initially a carriage entrance during the term of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, it became the modern East Wing as millions of tourists see it each year — or did — under his distant cousin, President Franklin Roosevelt some 40 years later. The build-out was a practical matter: With World War II raging, an emergency underground bunker had been constructed on the spot and needed the building to hide it. … The East Wing was not totally separated from more dire business. The bunker below — officially called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center — is where Vice President Dick Cheney went during the 9/11 attacks, and where Trump was taken during protests in his first term. President George W. Bush used the East Wing to practice his State of the Union address in 2004.
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 8d
From Nat Wilson Turner's latest for Naked Capitalism www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/ice-...
Coffee Break: Ice Barbie on the Bleeding Edge of Trump Era Conflict & Corruption Posted on October 29, 2025 by Nat Wilson Turner The MSM calls her ICE Barbie, but Kristi Noem, and the sprawling empire she rules as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is on the front lines of Trump 2.0 era conflict and corruption. I’ve been covering the action at DHS as part of my effort to parse who’s drugged, who’s delusional, and who’s disnformed in the Trump 2.0 era and also when dissecting what Matt Stoller calls “The Amway Oligarchy. And while I hate to go back to the well so soon when there are so many other topics to cover, these fools just can’t keep they names out of the papers. So let’s dive into their latest antics.
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 8d
www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/ai-s...
In Trump 2.0 Not All the Fights Happen Inside the Cage The AI hogs tend to get especially loud when they meet up cage side at The UFC Octagon. The word is out about the deals cut there after UFC’s Hollywood billionaire owner Ari Emanuel brought Larry Ellison’s nepo-baby son David to meet POTUS Donald Trump, not once but twice, to get his acquisition of Paramount past the president. Elon Musk attended at least one of those fight cards before Scott Bessant reportedly physically kicked Musk out of the MAGA 2.0 entourage. Violent hogs brawling in the West Wing.
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 8d
Because you can't get kids dancing without someone calling the narcs.
letitrollpodcast.substack.com/p/technoroll...
TechnoRoll 3.15: The DEA Cracks Down on Disco Donnie and the NOLA Rave Scene
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of “⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Underground is Massive⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠“ with a look at Disco Donnie, the DEA and the rave bust that brought the first ...
letitrollpodcast.substack.com
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 8d
From Nat Wilson Turner's latest for Naked Capitalism www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/ice-...
Coffee Break: Ice Barbie on the Bleeding Edge of Trump Era Conflict & Corruption Posted on October 29, 2025 by Nat Wilson Turner The MSM calls her ICE Barbie, but Kristi Noem, and the sprawling empire she rules as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is on the front lines of Trump 2.0 era conflict and corruption. I’ve been covering the action at DHS as part of my effort to parse who’s drugged, who’s delusional, and who’s disnformed in the Trump 2.0 era and also when dissecting what Matt Stoller calls “The Amway Oligarchy. And while I hate to go back to the well so soon when there are so many other topics to cover, these fools just can’t keep they names out of the papers. So let’s dive into their latest antics.
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 10d
From Nat Wilson Turner's latest for Naked Capitalism www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/foll...
Follow the Money to the Power Under the East Wing Ballroom There’s been a fair amount of MSM handwringing over Trump’s new ballroom which is being built over the rubble of the East Wing of the White House. Most of it irrelevant boo hoo about the brilliant architecture of the Roosevelt era. CNN accidentally mentions something far more important going on underground in the demolition zone: Initially a carriage entrance during the term of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, it became the modern East Wing as millions of tourists see it each year — or did — under his distant cousin, President Franklin Roosevelt some 40 years later. The build-out was a practical matter: With World War II raging, an emergency underground bunker had been constructed on the spot and needed the building to hide it. … The East Wing was not totally separated from more dire business. The bunker below — officially called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center — is where Vice President Dick Cheney went during the 9/11 attacks, and where Trump was taken during protests in his first term. President George W. Bush used the East Wing to practice his State of the Union address in 2004.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 14d
I'm really proud to feature this at the MMA Draw. It puts together a lot of the big picture context behind TKO's multi sport monopoly and the utter lack of competition www.themmadraw.com/p/tkos-golia...
TKO’s Goliath and the Reckoning Ragnarok Incoming
Ragnarok in Real Time: TKO controls the grid, the rest of the players scramble to keep the lights on.
www.themmadraw.com
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 14d
I came out and admitted I'm Nat Wilson Turner so I could connect the dots behind the death of rural locally owned newspapers and Google's Helpful Content update by way of retelling how they killed independent Bloody Elbow www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/trum...
The Personal Is the Political for Publishers and Presidents Alike
To better understand Presidents and the publishing business, it helps to analyze events through a lens of personal interests.
www.nakedcapitalism.com
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 14d
I came out and admitted I'm Nat Wilson Turner so I could connect the dots behind the death of rural locally owned newspapers and Google's Helpful Content update by way of retelling how they killed independent Bloody Elbow www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/trum...
The Personal Is the Political for Publishers and Presidents Alike
To better understand Presidents and the publishing business, it helps to analyze events through a lens of personal interests.
www.nakedcapitalism.com
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 14d
I'm really proud to feature this at the MMA Draw. It puts together a lot of the big picture context behind TKO's multi sport monopoly and the utter lack of competition www.themmadraw.com/p/tkos-golia...
TKO’s Goliath and the Reckoning Ragnarok Incoming
Ragnarok in Real Time: TKO controls the grid, the rest of the players scramble to keep the lights on.
www.themmadraw.com
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 15d
oh it was obviously a limited hangout, Platner knew Schumer would find out soon enough. Advanced PR to put it out there himself.
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 15d
The bittersweet part of joining ICE is giving up the uniform.

On the other hand you no longer have to wear a ridiculoous costume to abduct strangers under false premises.
Officer Dick Udown costume
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 15d
from Nat Wilson Turner at www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/main...
The D.C. consensus is becoming clear, the gerontocrats, led by Chuck Schumer, are on the verge of crushing the pesky “viral fantasy” of progressive Maine lobsterman turned U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner. Or are they? More on that below. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been largely AWOL from politics this year, seemingly lost after Trump’s 2024 electoral win. But nothing stirs the ancient Democratic establishment leader like the need to crush a promising progressive campaign for U.S. Senate so when Bernie Sanders’ supported war veteran Graham Platner started raising millions and getting called “The Maine Mamdani”, Schumer lept strollered into action and drafted 77-year-old Governor Janet Mills into the race.
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 16d
who's on first? who's on klonopin?
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 16d
Nat Wilson Turner grappling with WTF? www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/trum...
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 17d
"Another thing Musk and Ellison have in common are serious financial pressures on their empires, making them desperate.

"The nature of the polycrisis means all players are assailed on all fronts at all times."
After Pyrrhic Gaza Victory, Israel & Tech Allies Drive for Dystopian Control
After claiming a pyrrhic victory in Gaza, Israel and its allies in Silicon Valley make a desperate grab for control via dystopian means.
www.nakedcapitalism.com
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 17d
The latest TechnoRoll re-cast with @ryanharkness.bsky.social letitrollpodcast.substack.com/p/technoroll...
TechnoRoll 3.11: Daft Punk Make Their US Debut at Even Furthur in Wisconsin
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of “⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Underground is Massive⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠“ with a look at the Even Further event and Daft Punk’s American debut.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21d
Hey everyone! Quick question: are these margins good? is Negative 220% good? If it helps the thing in question cost $50,000 and you need hundreds or thousands of them.

Also the thing with negative 100% gross margins costs $1.9m, is that good?
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Seeking Profits A chip-by-chip breakdown of gross margins from Oracle's $900 million cloud-GPU rental revenue in the August quarter Chip (Date Available*) Gross Profit Margin Percent of Revenue Nvidia H100 (Fall 2023) 26% 49% Nvidia H200 (Fall 2024) 19% 19% Nvidia A100 (Fall 2020) 9% 14% Other GPUs** 0% _ 7% AMD MI300X (Fall 2024) -8% 3% Nvidia B200 (2025) -220% |2% Nvidia GB200 (Mid-2025) -100% _6% Average 14% * Date of general availability ** Approximate figures Note: Margin figures include most depreciation expenses Source: The Information, Oracle
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Nate Wilcox @kidnate.bsky.social · 18d
mind if I repost that as a comment on our substack piece?
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