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Editor at Futurism, horror/pinball enthusiast, lover of weird stuff, as previously seen in the Boston Globe, Vice, Slate, Wired etc. Please DM with tips and/or memes
[reading the epstein emails] "ah, memories of a time gone by"
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
just saw bugonia and all i can say is PLEASE cast this man to play Sam Bankman-Fried in the inevitable biopic
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
x the everything site plumbing new depths of brain rot engagement bait
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
economic indicator
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
gas leak journalism
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
he's trying to find the guy who did this
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 2d
President Trump says he's asking the Justice Department to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to high-profile figures, including political foes https://cnn.it/3M1ebp3
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
kinda wild to watch everyone on here lose their minds that making direct threats of violence against specific people will result in a *checks notes* temporary suspension
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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what's wild is we're not even really seeing the impact of the complete and total evisceration of corporate oversight, consumer protection, and the social safety net yet

our regulators genuinely no longer function and the press, politicians, and even policy people also haven't noticed yet
Americans know the truth about Trump’s economy.

Grocery bills and health insurance premiums don’t lie.
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
another day in hell
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
you okay babe? you've barely... uh... actually i give up
Part 4 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

One of Stalin’s pipes, depicting him and FDR playing chess. It was given to him in 1945 by the visiting US chess team
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
it's honestly so freeing to see someone post a horrendous take and just unfollow them instead of engaging
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
an elegant weapon, from a more civilized time

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Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned
Twitter co-founder and blockchain evangelist Jack Dorsey has revived the six-second video platform, Vine — well, sort of.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
starting a podcast about bread called Crumb Town
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
people dogpiling a specific *former* NYT reporter who *did* aggressively investigate epstein's links to powerful figures need to take a hard look in the mirror
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate:

ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires

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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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For those who wished M3GAN was an aspirational, feel-good story of capitalism done right, well...
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"

futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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One of my favorite headlines of the month so far
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
i'm sorry but was epstein brain dead
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
apparently controversial opinion: calling for mortal violence against your enemies on social media just makes everything nastier for everybody, and there's no magical exception if your death threat was a cutesy reference to something
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
not trying to be a hater but has one of these "iconic character lapses out of copyright so someone makes a cheapo splatter horror movie about them" things ever been remotely good
A Betty Boop horror film adaptation ‘BOOP’ is in the works.

The film is being introduced to buyers at the American Film Market by VMI Worldwide.
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM