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crypto billionaire Justin Sun has posted an extremely long, extremely weird Twitter post detailing a previous relationship with Chinese actress Jing Tian, suggesting she reneged on a $50 million agreement to use her eggs to have a child with a surrogate (screenshots machine translated)

HE Justin Sun ðŸ‘Ļ‍🚀 🌞 profile justinsuntron 6h My girlfriend Jing Tian The weight of a single egg is 3.5 micrograms. The weight of the $50 million in cash is 2.5 tons. Jing Tian asked me for the latter during the phone call from Montage Laguna Beach, and the former was the collateral. She went there to retrieve her eggs. The surrogate child is expected to be born in 2027, or even earlier, in the Year of the Horse. This was something she initiated. Upon arriving at the clinic, she said she wouldn't proceed without 50 million yuan. Montage Laguna Beach sits on a sea cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She booked that entire area for thirty days, a million dollars, all for her privacy. She stayed for eight days and then left.
We met for the first time at the Rosewood Hotel. I always thought I would be nervous the day I met her. I don't. She was thinner than in the photos, dressed casually, and leaning against the sofa. I looked at her and suddenly couldn't remember what I was waiting for. I took her to see the bananas in Cattleya. She looked at them for a long time and then asked me how much they cost. Six million two hundred thousand US dollars. She said, "What if it rots?" I fell silent. She said, "Never mind, let's go see a movie." I said okay. She said that no one else could be in the screening room except the two of us. I said okay. I went out to make a phone call. When I came back, she was still standing in front of that banana. That movie is Zootopia 2.
She said, "Isn't it a coincidence that my father's surname and my mother's surname are combined?" I said I memorized it on the first day. She hugged me and said, "Don't call me Jing Tian anymore, call me Mom." Okay, Mom.  
On January 2, 2026, Soneva Jani, in the new year, I proposed to my mother. The decision was made on the morning of January 1st. The ring was in Hong Kong. There were no places to buy rings on the island, so my assistant took a seaplane to MalÃĐ and returned in the afternoon. The ring was in a hotel envelope. Mom said the diamond ring was too small. Mom said it's okay, we'll get a bigger one later.
My mother called on the eighth day. It was afternoon there, but it was early morning there. She said, fifty million, US dollars. I said, "Let me think about it." She didn't speak. I could hear the sea coming from her direction. After a while, she said, "Okay." She hung up. Since I met her, I have never said "Let me think about it" to her. I used the Claude Code to read the API and ran through all the cash assets, and the conclusion was that it wouldn't affect me at all. I checked it again. I entered the question into the Claude Code, and Claude said, "Don't give her that $50 million." I asked, "Does she no longer love me?" Claude said, "I don't care about love, and I don't understand it. But you can't give her this fifty million dollars."
This article is entirely fictional; any resemblance to actual events or persons is purely coincidental. No copyright restrictions apply; please feel free to forward and share. Subsequent records and versions: hejustinsun.com github.com/HEJustinSun

although at the very end he included a line claiming the "article is entirely fictional", there were rumors earlier this year involving massive amounts of money and an egg retrieval agreement that fell apart between Jing Tian and an unnamed wealthy boyfriend

Jing has released a statement that Sun is attempting to extort her by attacking her reputation, and that she intends to leave the matter "entirely to the courts".

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Cover image of The Last Devil to Die
Thursday Murder Club series, book 4.
The Last Devil to Die
by Richard Osman.
Published . 421 pages.
crime, humor, mystery
Started ; completed August 21, 2026.
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Rogues of the Republic series, book 1.
The Palace Job
by Patrick Weekes.
Published . 438 pages.
fantasy, heist, humor
Started ; completed August 16, 2026.
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Spotted in Coinbase’s most recent 10-Q: Coinbase has stopped using trading volume as a key metric, which is I’m sure completely unrelated to the 38%/48% decrease in spot trading volume they reported over the past three/six months

Beginning in the second quarter of 2026, we no longer include Trading Volume as a key metric. As our business has evolved to support multiple asset classes, we believe the prior Trading Volume metric which focused on spot crypto volume no longer reflects the breadth of our business. Additionally, we do not believe that a total trading volume metric would fully represent the business given the differences in economics across our diversified trading products. We believe that net income (loss) and Adjusted EBITDA best reflect the financial health of our business, and we believe that metrics focused on users and assets are better operational indicators as they measure the trust customers place in Coinbase and our ability to attract and retain users. See the section titled Non-GAAP and Other Measures for definitions of Adjusted EBITDA, AOP, and MTUs, as well as a reconciliation of net income (loss) to Adjusted EBITDA.
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well that sucks. apparently the ALA/Freedom To Read Foundation have trademarks on the phrase "free people read freely", which i use in a lino print i made into stickers a few years ago.

Why we're reaching outFreedom To Read Foundation recently let us know that they believe some of your listings infringe their intellectual property (IP). In line with our Intellectual Property Policy, we've carefully reviewed their report and have removed these listings from our marketplace.
Review the full report from Freedom To Read Foundation Freedom To Read Foundation Representative's Information [redacted] Freedom To Read Foundation Intellectual Property FREE PEOPLE READ FREELY trademark Trademark registration number: 7446426  
A sticker made from a linocut print, which has the text “Free people read freely” in block capitals above a person in a dress reaching to take a book from a large bookshelf. The sticker is resting on a pile of old books.

i got the phrase from a 2023 speech by librarian and former ALA leader Tracie D. Hall. i didn't think to check if it was trademarked because, lol, what a wild thing to trademark. turns out the trademark had been granted two months before i made the print.

it's no big deal from a business perspective — i don't sell these stickers for much more than they cost, because i mostly just think it's an important message that i want to help people share. i've probably given away at least as many as i've sold, which i guess is now what i'll have to do with the rest.

anyway if you were wondering what happened to the stickers, now you know.

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It's a year and a half after I highlighted the issue, but nice to see...

“Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets”.
Ars Contributors in Ars Technica.
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.