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AI has (incorrectly) identified me as the author of a smut book called “My Grumpy Billionaire Secret” and offered to replace my AI audiobooks with new AI audio the future is now

Hi Molly, My Grumpy Billionaire Secret is on Audible with a virtual voice edition, and that flat read is the first thing a listener hears. We'd remake it and get it onto 20+ audiobook platforms. Still a synthetic voice, but directed, with pacing and music, so it actually holds attention. Want the first chapter done free so you can hear it? Alek

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All of this drama for the $200 million that’s been on the table the whole time lol. I don’t understand money.

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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Senate has passed a silly piece of legislation that they claim will "save college sports". In about ten minutes this morning, I wrote this story. College sports does not need saving. The Senate bill is really about taking money from players. wagesofwins.substack.com/p/college-sp...

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College Sports Does Not Need Protecting!

Here are many reasons why that is true. And why people need to be less guillible.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m sorry. Is the message “invest in us OR we’ll destroy humanity” or “invest in us AND we’ll destroy humanity“?

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KeithSmithNBA @keithsmithnba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NBA camp player to keep an eye on: John Ukomadu with the Detroit Pistons. He was one of the better defenders in the G League last year. 6'7" versatile wing with good hands and instincts. Shot well in the GL last year too. Someone to know for a future callup or two-way spot.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How can you not love this guy? Bball Paul, future Pistons legend.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can’t even fathom turning down $200 million guaranteed dollars.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Penalties and turnovers, the story of the season so far.

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James Makula @jmakula87.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Perhaps unwarranted 15 yard personal fouls aren't great football.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I struggle to see the path to 50 wins without Jalen Duren. None of the rumored sign and trades are good, and Jalen is very good even if flawed and incomplete. #Pistons

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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tick-borne diseases are spreading like crazy and a lot of them are fucking awful. DEET is your friend. Use it.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A free press seems like a pretty good idea, actually.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

is it normal to be tired all the time

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Has anyone found Siri AI to be useful yet?

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That personal foul is literally killer. Wow.

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James Makula @jmakula87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That might be Underwood's best drive of his career.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Michigan’s offense can’t get behind the chains.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I need Underwood to show me something today. Some signs of life and promise, at least.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Will Michigan score an offensive touchdown today?

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve had a bad feeling about the Jalen Duren situation all summer, and today’s reporting is not helping.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He threw it through the end zone 🤣

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m waiting for a reason to believe in Underwood.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I wonder what Ausar’s thinking.

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KeithSmithNBA @keithsmithnba.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Jalen Duren wants something around $40M per year. The Pistons are offering $35M per year. This will probably land with Duren getting $37-38M per year. Just gotta battle it out for a bit longer. (This is what happened with Josh Giddey/Bulls last season.)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

telling that periodically someone would go "man dolly parton can't really be all that" and then they'd go look into it and come back with "actually she's even better than we thought"

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 25/08/2026

NEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:

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Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

3pm on a Tuesday is ridiculous, NBA.

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404 Media @404media.co · 31/07/2026

NEW: “I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam... What on earth is Google doing?” Google new AI tool lets anyone make up completely bullshit satellite images....

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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have a theory for why LeBron keeps playing basketball. I think he likes playing basketball! That's the entire theory.

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Ben Gulker @brgulker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The establishment is very afraid of him.

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