NEW: I asked Joe Lonsdale what he meant by this endorsement of blowing up "commies." www.inc.com/sam-blum/pal...

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

NEW: I asked Joe Lonsdale what he meant by this endorsement of blowing up "commies." www.inc.com/sam-blum/pal...

When you ask Grok why it allows deepfake porn, the bot notes that these images are "nonconsensual" and have "flooded the platform in recent weeks."

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

If you still have an account on Non-Consensual Nudes & Child Porn Twitter, today is a great day to delete it.

In other hell site news billionaire VC and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale seemingly endorsed the murder of "commies" the other day.

This is like an old fashioned Gawker blog but somehow British and high-brow. I'll take it. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

"I've a hot piece of data"

Men will literally inject gray-market peptides and attend peptide raves instead of going to therapy www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...

Who is that distinction meant to pacify, other than the dumbest people on earth?

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

The CEO of Microsoft stole my job

We bow at the altar of Slop Baby

Lulu just looked up at me and said “this year I will crush my enemies.”

This year I pledge to continue disliking the band Turnstile.

I'm going on leave in the new year but when I get back in the spring I want to cover prediction markets. If you work at one or know people who use them for bets big and small please yell at me.

I wrote a lot of good stories this year. This one about a woman listed on the paperwork of 70k businesses, many of which are linked to crime, was my favorite. www.inc.com/sam-blum/who...

I wrote a lot of good stories this year. This one about a woman listed on the paperwork of 70k businesses, many of which are linked to crime, was my favorite. www.inc.com/sam-blum/who...

One could call this a calculated pivot, just like JD Vance going MAGA. Also she still does Crossfit, which is disqualifying.

More like Farty Supreme

Me to the homies over beers: You guys ever feel like all the moats are gone?

OWNED is available online and wherever fine books are sold.

Going to tell my children that "LinkedIn is the next TikTok"

The business world is cooked beyond repair.

Drink the rich this holiday season and subscribe to Fingers @dinfontay.com

Joshua vs Paul: the spectacle America deserves ❤️

When you're pouring $100 billion into a new technology with no proven model for profit.

You have to wonder how many Epstein acquaintances have also had an epic meltdown at an airport Chilis and now we know there is at least one

Bari Weiss grand strategy for the future of news and uniting America: Turning broadcast news into the Lex Fridman show.

I spoke to Michael Klotsman, the entrepreneur behind the pilot study of GLP-1 drugs or "Pawzempic in fat cats: "We genuinely believe that we have an opportunity to increase life spans across the board by an average of one to three years," he says. Read more on @inc.com www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

The is the most important thing I have ever written. www.inc.com/sam-blum/big...

We call this the Swag Differentiator.

The is the most important thing I have ever written. www.inc.com/sam-blum/big...

This is the look of a woman who often shouts "WERE YOU RAISED IN A BARN!?!?" at local children for no apparent reason. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

A staple of this canon includes the kid who wouldn't stop shouting "HIT PIECE!" and hung up on me during this interview www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...

Most days I thank god for the comedic train wreck that is Manchester United

If what ultimately causes the fissuring of the MAGA coalition is Rob Reiner's (obviously tragic) murder I am going to drive my head through a wall.

Wherever you are, crank it up to 11 today.

Do you get a commission for this kind of thing?

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

Saw a guy with Beavis and Butthead tattoos and was immediately imbued with a spirit of the holidays and kinship

NEW: I talked to the guy who's rebooting Vine. The app was arguably the internet's last bastion of joy and creativity. He's reviving it with the same spirit, and wants it to take on TikTok and Instagram. Gift link: www.inc.com/sam-blum/vin...

NEW: I talked to the guy who's rebooting Vine. The app was arguably the internet's last bastion of joy and creativity. He's reviving it with the same spirit, and wants it to take on TikTok and Instagram. Gift link: www.inc.com/sam-blum/vin...

To even the playing field the betting markets should do a media layoffs category so we too can get that bag. www.theinformation.com/articles/pol...

The consequences of DOE grant cancellations means a native American reservation is deprived a workforce development center, and affordable housing developments don't get efficient cooling/heating systems.

Clean energy companies and nonprofits have been rocked by layoffs, hiring freezes and cutbacks since the DOE cut about $8 billion worth of grants and loans. Former and current DOE officials and entrepreneurs tell @inc.com what it all means. With @samblum.bsky.social www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

It turns out the vast majority of Americans do not, in fact, give a f*ck.

NEW: Clean energy startups that had gov funding cut by the Trump admin are laying off staff and freezing hiring. DOE offices that gave grants to renewables startups are ghost towns that ‘effectively don’t do anything,’ an official says. With @chloeaiello.bsky.social www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

SCOOP: OSHA is investigating a new crane accident at SpaceX's Starbase facility in Texas that left a worker with a broken hip, knee, and tibia, after he was crushed by a falling metal support. This comes as OSHA is still probing a crane collapse at Starbase in June. techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/o...