Sam Blum

Sam Blum

@samblum.bsky.social

Girl dad and Sr. Writer at Inc Magazine. Tech, startups, billionaires, outsiders, investigations. Big face, small razor 🪒 Proton: Sam_Blum1905@proton.me Signal: Sammblum.89

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Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

This just in: Genghis Khan's great great great great great grand nephew developed an LLM that gives whooping cough to anyone who talks shit online.

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Evan Sutton
@evansutton.bsky.social

AI billionaires are trying to buy elections... but when voters know who's pushing ads, it backfires. One of the most important things we can all do right now is make sure our friends and family know which candidates are being backed by freaks like Musk and Andreessen www.inc.com/sam-blum/ai-...

inc.comAI Founders Have Poured Millions Into Politics. Voters Aren't ConvincedSurvey data suggest the AI industry's political spending isn't working with voters who are concerned about jobs and data centers.
Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

New Cop Level unlocked.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

nbcnews.toOfficer who found man dead in Florida home allegedly moved in, renovated and assumed his identity for yearsBrian Louis Sguros, 35, had responded to the Lauderhill home in July 2022 for a welfare check.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social

NEW: Engagement farmers on TikTok are using AI to manipulate footage of real arrests (mostly taken from reality TV shows like TLC's DUI) to show cops kissing and groping people being pulled over: futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.comGrotesque Engagement Farmers Are Using AI to Manipulate Real Arrest Footage So That Cops Grope WomenTikTok users are manipulating real arrest footage to show police officers kissing and groping women being taken into custody, a report found.
Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

Aethel Energy, the energy startup founded by ex-Palantir eomployees, has been acquiring a substantial drilling portfolio in the western US. They've also been handing out checks to people in Wyoming while keeping their data center in stealth.

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Ed Zitron
@edzitron.com

Free newsletter: In July, Apollo Economist Torsten Slok said that "AI better work out, or we have a problem." Facing ever-growing high-interest debt, negative-EBITDA AI labs and $200bn+ in warehoused GPUs, that's exactly what the AI industry has. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-had-bette...

wheresyoured.athttps://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-had-better-work-out/If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return, you get a weekly premium…

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Maggie Harrison Dupré
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social

NEW: Dubious wellness apps including GLP-1 trackers, AI companions, and "wellness" tools are being marketed by sobbing AI-generated women crying over bogus texts from fake loved ones. The posts aren't being disclosed as ads, nor are they disclosed as AI-generated: futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.comGLP-1 Apps are Using Sobbing AI-Generated Women To Market Their ProductsApps including GLP-1 trackers, AI companions, and "wellness" services are being marketed on TikTok via synthetic images of sobbing AI women.
Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

This is Leo from New Yawk. He fuckin' rips in steel toed work boots. Long Island union man. Italian.

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

found an NYC Teamster whose tiktoks are just skate tricks he dedicates to other unions.

Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

One of my favorite follows on IG. My wife rolls her eyes every time she hears "I'm Leo from New York" coming from my phone. I've made her watch a million times.

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Luke Winkie
@lukewinkie.bsky.social

I profiled Neera Tanden, Center For American Progress CEO — nerdy, wonky, a serious woman with a serious job — and also someone who is constantly embroiled in fights with the online left. Being both a shitposter and a hardcore policy wonk is such a strange dual life. I wanted to know more!

Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

If this were remotely true I could AI-slop a book about Al Bundy going to war with the Deep State and sell enough to make 10 million dollars

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social

"If more books were published by men with explicitly masculine themes, would there actually be a wider male readership?" This is very much in the Platnerian mode that presumes all men are only attracted to content by, for, and possibly about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor. jacobin.com/2026/10/lone...

jacobin.comThe Strange Resurrection of Lonesome DoveLarry McMurtry’s 1985 cowboy epic is finding a new generation of readers online. Its revival raises an awkward question for publishing: What happened to the big, bloody, male-coded literary novel and ...
Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

I’m in the movie Matilda and Mara Wilson was very rude to me on set.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Tell me a story about yourself that sounds like a lie but is actually true

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Dhruv Mehrotra
@dmehro.bsky.social

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

wired.comICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal ArrestsBrenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

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

Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

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

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.comThat Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism InvestigationBrown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.
Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

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.

Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

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.

Andy Vitek@avitek.bsky.social

So Nancy Mace is now hosting a podcast called 'Get Maced' in a leather catsuit. And no you did not hallucinate that sentence.

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jab lung
@mobute.bsky.social

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 (is on leave for rest of 2026)
@eileenguo.bsky.social

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.comThe 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.
Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

We're basically Russia in 1991.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

semafor.comExclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investmentA cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
Sam Blum
@samblum.bsky.social

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."