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Ben Shapiro's Empire is Crumbling w/ Will Sommer
+ Waymo invasions, WordleTV, Halupedia, ballmaxxing, rogue AI radio, NYC roulette, Clav's List, YouTube whisperers, Elon's top reply guy, and another…
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Stop Feeling Helpless About AI
+ 'Screenagers', Bottom G, Labububot, armpods, pew-tubers, Richard Dawkins' AI gf, ASMR subliminals, luxury micro dramas, young Wikipedians, The…
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A pro-AI dark money group tried to recruit me
A few weeks ago, an email hit my inbox that shocked me.
May 4
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How Much of Substack Is Actually AI?
I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing…
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The Girlboss-ification of AI w/ Kat Tenbarge
+ Bezos’s private retreat, Alex Cooper drama, new MrBeast lawsuit, the OpenAI apartment, China’s ‘dark factories', Pasta sauce surveillance, and why big…
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A $30M plan to take back social media from billionaires
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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned about his politics
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Why "we" want insurance executives dead
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Introducing User Magazine
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Influencers Are Replacing Themselves With AI Clones
Anthropic girlypop dinners, new Costco Guys, BuzzBallz summer, Gen Z's silent scream, FBI aura farming, Elon Musk's TikTok, Mahjong mania, SantaCon…
Apr 17
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Skibidi Toilet fans are melting down
+ Boy kibble, cyberdecks, Bierberchella, AI Michael Jackson babies, peptides overtake pickleball, dating app whimsey, deep runs, an AI storefront…
Apr 11
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They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses
+ NeeDoh squishies, Twitch for pets, Waymo influencer merch, OpenClaw crashouts, Alix Earle's skincare blowout, smut book clubs, Surf social, AI's…
Apr 6
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Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media
+ YouTube Shorts rizz party, Clavicular's Club Stream, heat islands, MrBeast's Japan pivot, Costco's chocolate bunny, Twitch streaming as a dog, and the…
Mar 31
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The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial
+ LA's crypto kids, @user3266363816019, AI bedtime stories, slop signage, alpine divorce, a KitKat heist, the White House app, byyourselfmaxxing, and…
Mar 28
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The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Haven’t Noticed)
AI influencer awards season, vaping squirrels, RIP Sora, bestie-fication of media, peak MrBeast, the pop diva extinction, Zuckerberg's claw, a…
Mar 24
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The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies
+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, ‘porn addiction’ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste…
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