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Was The Reddit X Link Ban Kickstarted By Coordinated Astroturfing?
Apr 4

or was it just the largest-scale NPC cascade in human history?

Ashley Rindsberg

Spy Season
Apr 2

deel’s rippling spy is the latest in a storied history of corporate espionage

G. B. Rango

Bad Ghibli
Apr 2

pirate wires #137 // an openAI update ghiblifies the world, “ethical questions” raised, and the white house social media team innovates within the form (a fascinating disaster)

Mike Solana

I Used AI to Email 3,800 Ivy League Bureaucrats, Now My School Is Investigating Me
Apr 1

it costs $93,064 to attend brown university. the annual budget deficit is $46 million. i wanted to know where the hell all the money was going.

Alex Shieh

Will Cultivated Meat Survive?
Mar 31

the daunting obstacles facing a future-bound cultivated meat industry

G. B. Rango

Paywall the Border
Mar 28

let immigrants bid for citizenship, pay cash dividends to americans — and beat china

Matt Mireles

Bluesky Blues: A New Investigatory Series
Mar 27

bluesky blues #1 // a recurring column in which riley takes a closer look at some of the things people are bluecrying about over on the other side™ of the internet (spoiler: stephen king is unwell)

Riley Nork

The First AI Meme God
Mar 27

a butthole-obsessed artificial intelligence might hold the key to humanity’s future

Blake Dodge

The Cholesterol Cult
Mar 21

how the process of science becomes The Science™ of public policy

Nick Jikomes

The DoorDash x Klarna Partnership, a Cultural Review (Memes)
Mar 21

cataloging one of the rare moments a b2b partnership seed-generated a bunch of great memes

Brandon Gorrell

Slop World
Mar 19

pirate wires #136 // paid influencers, foreign bot armies, and a biblical flood of AI-generated content — how much of our internet is real? and is there any way to save ourselves from slop?

Mike Solana