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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tickets for citifield tonight are $14 in the door, both because the team sucks but also because who wants to spend $60 to spend another $60 on food? The fun and games will still get played but cost of entry will go down, maybe we can even go back to $8 stadium beers (lol or not)

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The stadiums all know how to survive blackout conditions, some teams in some leagues regularly play to half empty rooms. Chase said growing up in Minneapolis you got offered free Timberwolves tickets for buying a sandwich. Worst case they stop broadcasting locally until the stadium fills back up.

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My "what do I know" projection is that the wealth divide will continue to crush smaller artists while larger artists are forced to downsize or take losses on touring (that gets exponetially more $$ to do with gas shortages). But as long as the rich keep showing up for the rich the shows will go on.

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sorry wait how many horses did we sell for international slaughter and how much foreign ground beef are we getting? He's not crazy enough to try and feed us horse meat, right

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My childhood crush/brief middle school gf is publishing her first romantasy novel...I feel compelled to both read and share because I literally remember writing poetry with her in Ms Pagnozzi's 3rd grade class and just feeling utterly smoked as a writer www.kickstarter.com/projects/cit...

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Gilded Wing Editions: Imprint of City Owl Press

Collectible editions paired with immersive experiences.

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Might even be able to make a few Deadwoods

James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oh man think of all the Successions and White Lotuses you could make for $10b

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Dalton was objectively the best actor to play Bond. Connery was a stoic pretty boy when he got the role, Lazenby was a con artist, Moore was a goofball, Brosnan was a theater kid, and Craig was a action star. Dalton suffered because everyone making movies in the late 80s was blown out on good coke

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yeah except we killed the housing market by being so hungover from fucking and partying all night, all we could stomach at brunch (breakfast at noon) was toast with guac (and bottomless mimosas). Now that I think about it, the elder Gen Zs are the kids of millennials who didn't party in their 20s 🤔

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Anthony DeRosa @antderosa.com · 21/07/2026

🚀 LAUNCH DAY I built Frontier because I was sick of AI news reaching me secondhand — filtered through takes, delayed by newsletter cycles. It pulls directly from the biggest AI labs, hourly. Just what happened, sourced, as it happens. frontiernewswire.com

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Frontier — AI intelligence for builders

Frontier — signal for people building with AI.

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I've spent most of my night trying to untangle a Facebook page's monetization set up in Meta business manager, and when I tell you there is no revenue tool less functional than Meta Business Manager, I am speaking with 20 years of internet monetization woes. I used Doubleclick DART, it sucked less

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14/07/2026

The Supreme Court’s six-justice conservative supermajority probably does not exist without Lindsey Graham, who would say and do anything for an attaboy tweet from the president.

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How Lindsey Graham Built the Trump Supreme Court

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Journalists are journaling hard this weekend and i fuckin love it also i'm going to throw up

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

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This is a fascinating, well-told story about a bad idea. A true fable of vanity & a rich man who learned to pronounce “epistemology” but maybe not what it means.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Nobody asked but yes they hung him next to his mistress while both were dressed like Nazi soldiers trying to escape into Switzerland, and the tiramisu was better than anything you could get at any Olive Garden on earth (but just barely)

James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Just got a cheeseburger and tiramisu at the McDonalds in Milan where they hung Mussolini, AMA trueadventurestories.com/2020/09/24/m...

A photo of a deceased Mussolini and his fellow fascists hanging from the rafters of an Esso station in Milan, August 1944.

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Bigger issue is with religion broadly promising eternal forgiveness and life for being a righteous prick to everyone, though capitalism--which capitalists want you to confuse with American culture--certainly helps prime that pump by giving you very little to live for beyond profit. But yes, agreed.

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*preceding weeks, obviously

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Not saying it's any of these one way or another. I saw it on reddit, I went and looked at Google Trends myself, and like you determined "this would be notable if true." Then shared it here because I thought you would agree. But it's just a strange blip and it'd be nice to know what caused it.

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Could totally be a weird glitch. Time zone seems correct. You could look at the data yourself, that name doesn't appear in the proceeding weeks, so it doesn't seem like a common thing to trend. Could be sloppy field work, could be clever false flag by the alleged, could be a whistleblower signaling.

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I don't have nearly enough resources or fortitude to take on that story, I've already been shut down once in my career by Peter Thiel and (besides thumbing my nose at Elon over at Futurism for a number of years) I've mostly tried to avoid poking bears since.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It is a little strange that the alleged shooter was being Googled in Israel several hours before the event took place. Still not hard evidence of staging, he could have used a VPN and done that himself. But worth investigating. (I've worked for independent media outlets for 20 years, not blinking)

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Please read my piece with @nathaliemarechal.net in today’s @bostonglobe.com Age verification mandates are a gift to dictators and a death sentence for dissidents. Non-paywall link: fftf.link/globe

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

NEW: The NYT said that the AI-powered GLP-1 middleman startup Medvi — which is reportedly on track to do $1.8b in sales — cleaned up its act after taking deceptive marketing "shortcuts." But it didn't. More on: fake Medvi clients, fake doctors, and an FDA warning... futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That's Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, and Other Glaring Red F...

The New York Times ran a glowing profile of a company called Medvi that's using AI to sell GLP-1s. The truth is more complicated.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Neil Gorsuch, most cases: In the case of Protester vs. Tank, I find the protester's family liable for stain damage to the treads Neil Gorsuch, in any case involving Native American law:

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

April Fools ended for me in 2009 when Symantec Anti-virus was doing a homepage takeover of Gizmodo, who decided their prank would be "making it seem like Gizmodo got hacked." Symantec didn't see the humor in anti-virus ads sponsoring a hacked site. web.archive.org/web/20090402...

A screenshot of Gizmodo from the Wayback Machine, April 2nd 2009.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

honestly put him on mt rushmore

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/03/2026

BuzzFeed dying after chasing profits into a sinkhole vs. Gawker getting killed for challenging entrenched power is the perfect conclusion to the 2010s content philosophy wars.

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BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

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Idiokratie @idiokratie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

6) that it is a total coincidence that the two outlets with the best Epstein coverage - Gawker and @miamiherald.com - were subsequently sued into oblivion by Peter #Thiel or taken over by private equity;

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Not naming the company because I've seen There Will Be Blood, The Godfather, and Dumb & Dumber enough times to know you don't mess with the gas man.

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Due to an archaic, web 1.0-ass website, I did not confirm my order, i only "placed" it. When I followed up to their email, they tried to charge me today's market rate, which was $4.60-ish. I told you, constant war. I "gently" told them we would not be doing that and they ran the order from Monday.

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

My home uses heating oil, which gets delivered by a company I am at constant war with. I'm also deeply reliant on them. A month ago a gallon was $3.80. Anticipating a spike (and rejecting their price lock after our last argument), I placed a market rate order this past Monday at $4.26.

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I will cop to using Gemini to make this even though I could have totally made it myself (though honestly credit where it's due, it came up with Fly Farts all by itself and somehow knew to keep party poker exactly the same)

Larry Ellison and his son side by side with Beevis and Butthead, who they now own.

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Steve Bowling @steve.gvg.io · 02/03/2026

The kneejerk reaction to say we *should* keep kids out of corners of the internet is one I understand, but this isn’t the way. We’ve seen this in the gaming space. Parents need to monitor their kids’ online habits, not politicians, and certainly not AI. Parent your damn kids.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Highlight so far is this MPD officer stopping his patrol of the USIP building to grab a cooke and saying to himself, "When in Rome, man."

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This reminds me, I haven't watched Ren and Stimpy in forever

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Like i'm sorry where are all my Epstein didn't kill himself MAGA bros on this one? i'd like to be the first one to tell you your conspiracy theory was in fact just a conspiracy

Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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Damn!!!!!!! Watch til the end

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Now look is it possible this is some of that conspiracy bait evidence planted by the administration to place blame on the Russians or a different mob? Sure. I guess. Does that really matter though? Somebody subpeona this guy and let's find out!

Email thread from puggiekiller to Mark Epstein, forwarded to ME's lawyer:

Hey bitch, don't you want to answer? If you don't answer, I'll suffocate you like your brother.

On Tue, May 26, 2020, Puggie wrote:

You don't know our boss's name, I'm sure. If you know him, tell us, he wants to meet you. Just because you don't answer doesn't mean you don't know your brother's killers. it's true?

You know that if you tell the police something, we will kill your children.

On Mon, May 25, 2020, Puggie wrot

If you don't answer, the boss will be very upset. You don't know my boss? it's true?

On Mon, May 25, 2020, at 12:40, Puggie wrote:

Hey Puggie

My boss is a ve e loved your brother. Your brother's mistake was that he wanted to tell the court everything. The ts to meet you. He just wants to see if you know him or not. What's the boss's name?

On Mon, May 25, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Puggie wrote:

Hey Puggie,

You have two choices, Or tell the court you partnered with your brother, Or we kill your family like your brother

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James Del @jdel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Lmao "Deluxe Edition comes with limited floppy disk version" feels like a moneymaker