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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 15h
I think we often underestimate how clearly so many AI bros are just full blown AI cultists at this point.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17h
UPDATE: After our investigation into that company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, it has halted publication -- at least for now futurism.com/artificial-i...
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That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Checking in on the MAHA Summit: Yes, that is Russell Brand, red-pilled comedian currently facing multiple criminal rape charges in the UK, speaking to Dan Brillman, Director of the Center for Medicaid at HHS.
Comedian Russel Brand hosting a panel at the MAHA Summit.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ross Douthat and Bari Weiss when Peter Thiel says being evil is good actually
Vince McMahon laser eye meme
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The business elite is one wellness scam away from proudly drinking their own piss
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tell a white conservative lady "woah that's a lot of beans" and next thing you know she'll be wearing a catsuit and discussing Woke 2.0 on a podcast.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Economic/Populist revolt indicator: M'fers charging you for lettuce and tomato bringing your grand total for a turkey sandwich up to $16.
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Much to my surprise, "John le Carré" is a pseudonym, and he's not actually French—he's English. His real name is John The Car.
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Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New investigation from @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social & me into the border #SurveillanceTech by #Anduril, General Dynamics, and Israeli co. Elbit Systems that failed to catch 1 in 4 deaths within range. In other words: 1,050+ people dying on camera. www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1... 1/x
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The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're basically Russia in 1991.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
JD Vance, probably: "Look we can focus on the more important things the FBI is doing, like relaxing application restrictions from bestiality enthusiasts."
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 22/09/2026
this should go well www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/k...
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Kalshi asks CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform, letting users buy with borrowed funds
It's the latest move by the company as it and other event contract exchanges seek to gain greater participation by institutional traders.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 21/09/2026
🚨 5TH PAID-IVERSARY SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE 🚨 Five years ago this week, I turned on paid subscriptions for Fingers. To celebrate, I’m offering 50% off (!!!) on annual subscriptions to the first 50 people to upgrade. Score one before they're gone: www.fingers.email/upgrade?offe...
stonks meme. it reads "🎂 5TH PAID-IVERSARY 🎂 💸 SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE 💸"

instead of "stonks" it says "subscronktions"
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today in images that aren't AI but should be.
Logan and Jake Paul at the Pentagon.
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Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now up, my newest for @rollingstone.com: Private equity firms bought up all the big rock publishing. Now they're going after the indie labels. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Private Equity's Next Target Is Indie Music
For years, private equity firms have snatched up the catalogues of music's biggest names. Now they're after independent labels.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@jonchristian.net and @mharrisondupre.bsky.social are doing important work @futurism.com. This story is nuts and flew under the radar of the biggest media desks in the country! futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
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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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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...
futurism.com
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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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I love that the Big Short guy just blogs now. www.inc.com/sam-blum/mic...
inc.com
Michael Burry Calls AI Apocalypse Warnings a ‘Self-Serving’ IPO Strategy
The Big Short investor says the biggest threat facing OpenAI and Anthropic may not be rogue superintelligence, but the economics behind the AI boom.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026
NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...
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> Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

> Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: I talked to founders who are trying make unapproved peptide injections part of corporate health and wellness packages, despite the drugs lacking clinically backed evidence noting their safety and effectiveness. www.inc.com/sam-blum/the...
inc.com
The Peptide Boom Is Coming for the C-Suite
A growing industry of telehealth startups and coaches is marketing peptides to entrepreneurs and execs, even as most of the drugs remain unapproved and stuck in a regulatory gray zone.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The director of the FBI is saying "fucking dogs is not a crime" and it's only Tuesday.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: I talked to founders who are trying make unapproved peptide injections part of corporate health and wellness packages, despite the drugs lacking clinically backed evidence noting their safety and effectiveness. www.inc.com/sam-blum/the...
inc.com
The Peptide Boom Is Coming for the C-Suite
A growing industry of telehealth startups and coaches is marketing peptides to entrepreneurs and execs, even as most of the drugs remain unapproved and stuck in a regulatory gray zone.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: When elected officials and advocates in Danbury, Connecticut, said ICE arrested a parent at a school bus stop Aug. 26, federal officials denied their accounts. I got video that appears to show such an arrest. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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Video appears to show ICE arrest near CT school bus stop, despite federal denials
ICE has denied it made an arrest at a school bus stop, but confirmed it made 118 arrests in Connecticut that week.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Writing 4,000 words about the existential harms posed by a technology you're at the vanguard of developing instead of just aggressively curbing those harms is probably the best example I've ever seen of the hotdog meme in praxis.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Imagine crashing your car cuz you got distracted by a fucking QR Code in the sky.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
First thing I saw when I woke up and started scrolling was Nathan Fielder talking to Elizabeth Holmes and I promptly threw my phone out the window and went back to sleep
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sad day for bons vivants and enjoyers of fine silken garments www.inc.com/moses-jeanfr...
inc.com
J. Peterman, the Retailer Made Famous by ‘Seinfeld,’ Has Shut Down After Legal Complaints Over Orders and Refunds
The company behind an iconic brand appears to have ceased operations after years of losses.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Really miss the old twitter when you could bitch directly at the MTA and have random bros pop up in your mentions in solidarity
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
8 out of 25 but my household f*cks with Miss Rachel heavily
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 28/08/2026
Some ̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶a̶l̶ professional news: today was my last day as a contributing editor at @vinepair.com. I've been laid off. I've agreed to continue filing my beer industry column, Hop Take, which had run weekly—and virtually uninterrupted!—for nearly four years. It'll publish monthly moving forward.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Grok, is this true?
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Meechy Dorko @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 28/08/2026
these Terry Richardsonesque glamour shots of Tim are sending me
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Michelle Legro @michellelegro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've been thrilled that @theonion.com is back, with a new/old business model, a healthy subscriber base, and the vision to buy InfoWars. @samblum.bsky.social dug deep into how @bencollins.bsky.social and team plan to reimagine Alex Jones' former media empire. www.inc.com/sam-blum/the...
inc.com
The Onion's Audacious Plans for Infowars Are Not a Joke
Owner Jeff Lawson, CEO Ben Collins, and comedian Tim Heidecker tell Inc. how they found themselves owning goblinlove.net and selling gay frog plushies, and what it means for the future of 'The Onion.'
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW: I profiled The Onion's takeover of Infowars. Read to find out how The Onion found itself owning goblinlove dot net, selling gay frog plushies and what it means to subvert the toxic legacy of Alex Jones while building a growing business. www.inc.com/sam-blum/the...
inc.com
The Onion's Audacious Plans for Infowars Are Not a Joke
Owner Jeff Lawson, CEO Ben Collins, and comedian Tim Heidecker tell Inc. how they found themselves owning goblinlove.net and selling gay frog plushies, and what it means for the future of 'The Onion.'
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Got a big fun story about some weird zany guys publishing tomorrow
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
He's probably gonna do both and go with TOILET 1 and TOILET 2
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
PR person to me, after I've just pulled them out of a burning elevator: "While I've got you for a second I'd like to gauge your interest—"
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Good god. Protect Michael Caine at all costs.
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 25/08/2026
I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Excellent choice, sir. Lake America belongs in AMERICA.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you own a business or startup and have been deluged by AI-generated reviews on websites like Trustpilot, don't hesitate to tell me about your experience for a story!
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Premier League offers unparalleled joy for haters
lord sugar wearing a Tottenham shirt
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Boris’ album Pink
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NEW: Dot com era domain probably worth $50 million is resurrected as AI slop chatbot. And they say innovation is dead! www.inc.com/sam-blum/the...
inc.com
The $17,000 Domain That Could Be Worth $70 Million Just Became an AI Chatbot Instead. People Are Asking 'Why?'
Why.com sat dormant for nearly three decades. Its owners could have sold the domain for a fortune. Instead, they built a philosophical chatbot.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
RIP to ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard, the only member of the band with a mustache instead of a giant beard, and one of history's great swaggering Dudes. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/a...
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ZZ Top Drummer Frank Beard Dies at 77
The only member of the Texas power trio without a beard, he propelled the band’s blend of boogie, Southern rock and blues for more than a half-century.
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 18/08/2026
and another one from me, on how Disney went from attempting to pacify Trump and Brendan Carr to finally standing up to the administration—by suing the FCC, in federal court, over its attempts to continuously interfere with Jimmy Kimmel, The View, and ABC broadcast licenses: slate.com/business/202...
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Mickey Mouse, Welcome to the Resistance
It’s a battle for the First Amendment.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 18/08/2026
Absolutely horrific: white nationalists are holding a "Christian Crusader March" today in one of America's largest Muslim communities, and Meta is refusing to remove overt hate speech promoting violence at it. It's like they WANT another Myanmar futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Meta Declines to Remove Horrific Posts Calling for Violence Against Muslims, Calling Them "Cockroaches" and Saying It's "Time for Hunting"
Facebook's parent company Meta refuses to moderate Islamophobic and Anti-Arab content, even posts explicitly calling for ethnic violence.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/08/2026
The day has come! “The Nerd Reich” is now available at your favorite local bookstore. I’ll be on @msnowreports.bsky.social at approximately 10:30 am ET to talk about it. Tune in. And buy it! First week sales make a huge difference. If you keep reading, I keep fighting.
Promotional graphic for the nerd Reich book. Quote from Publishers Weekly: “ transfixing it’s an ominous look at an insular elite arrayed against American democracy.”
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