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Sam Blum

@samblum.bsky.social
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As supreme emperor of media ethics and institutor of rules I’m decreeing that no more major publications shall profile Hassan Piker until we find out what the hell is going on
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Coming from a Senator who gladly takes crypto money, no less!
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Next person who asks "is it unprofessional to bring an iced coffee to a job interview" gets a swirly
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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...
futurism.com
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
Hucksters and creeps want to "Make America Healthy Again" 🤪
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stay tuned for Cheryl Hines' "Special Announcement!" at 5pm EST!
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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
🎵 if you can go broke here....you can go broke....also heeerrrreeeee.....New York New Yooooooorrrrk 🎵
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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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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
El Scorcho was such a big risk after how polished Blue was. Definitely viewed as a regression creatively at the time but idk, I think it was probably the opposite.
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tired of Sex solo also whips major ass
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's how I cope as well. It's just a sign of what's happening to the informational environment and how pernicious forces are capturing it while "the opposition" stands by.
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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @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
technologyreview.com
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
I forget which scholar said it but it goes something like "Fascism in the 20th century involved a phalanx of tanks and fascism in the 21st century involves a phalanx of lawyers."
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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...
cnbc.com
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
It's so sick that our enemies log onto X dot com and see these cool ass dudes all up at the Pentagon and shit holding it down for freedom they have no idea how cooked they are
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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-...
rollingstone.com
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
I love how the lede is also just a blatant confession made by one of the guys behind the scheme.
In September 2024, an entrepreneur named Justin Brown uploaded a YouTube video in which he argued that writers should be “scared right now” about the rise of AI.

“I think that one of the big dangers is that AI is going to take many people’s jobs,” Brown muses to the camera as he hikes through a national park in Australia. “This includes writers, by the way.”
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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
if you don't laugh you'll cry
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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...
futurism headline:

> 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
Thank you very much Ian!
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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I got my black belt in BJJ on a steady diet of cheeseburgers and Pad See Ew
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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...
ctinsider.com
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
My alma mater bro
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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 · 10/09/2026
I read that as "Whitey Springs" and was like "yup."
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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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