Mia Sato

What Do You Do and What Do You Make? Conversations with AI engineers, fashion Substackers, and weed clerks about what they brought in last year.

I want to make my extended friend group do this

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at the club until 5 in the morning, come home and there is baseball on all day… i love the WBC

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Like what do you mean you’re bringing your whole ass bike into the store on a weekend afternoon? You are The Penguin

The Brooklyn Court St Trader Joe’s is a normal grocery store to the Joker

Before he faced Aaron Judge, Joseph Contreras had to finish his high school classwork The 17-year-old Team Brazil righty, son of former MLB pitcher Jose Contreras, got out of a huge jam against Team USA's star-studded lineup.

A 17-year-old got Aaron Judge to ground into a bases-loaded double play on Friday night. First, he had to finish his social studies homework. Math homework kept him busy on Thursday. Meet Joseph Contreras, José's son and the youngest player in WBC history - www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Kristi Noem may i interest you in a hat!

Bettors wagered $54 million on Khamenei’s death. Now they’re not getting paid. Kalshi, a prediction market site, has sparked outrage after freezing $54 million in bets on the death of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, citing a rule against profiting from death.

New: I talked to the traders who bet Khamenei would die.

One, an Israeli ex-pat, would've won $63,000 before Kalshi froze the bet: “I was booking my trip to Courchevel.”

“American commercial immorality on steroids," @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me

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wow so awesome! congrats!!

Well… I made a TikTok about my story and the platform is now using it to hawk wireless mics 😶‍🌫️ Too perfect lol

Instagram and TikTok are using your content to sell junk “Shop the look” buttons were added without creators’ consent

Last month, an influencer with 1M+ followers realized that Instagram was adding shoppable links to her content without her consent. A similar feature exists on TikTok. I wrote about the creator economy's final form, where all of us are subsumed by social commerce.

www.theverge.com/tech/887692/...

i also made fresh garlic and ginger paste 😩

one thing about me is i’m going to use a hangover day to make a meal that takes 8 hours every time 🙂‍↕️

i’m making daal for the first time and i’ve been standing over the stove for like 6 hours but i just know heaven awaits me

Oh my god Zohran’s team did the DROP DEAD parody apnews.com/article/dona...

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

The main function of slop is to take something from you: your time, your attention, your trust. It is passive in that it requires nothing from viewers but to sit back and consume it. Slop is boring, repetitive, and often inexpensive to make — the natural evolution of an internet built for scale and ruthless optimization. Before his pivot to conservative politics, Shirley was making slop for babies: YouTube videos with titles like “16 YEAR OLD FLIES TO NEW YORK WITHOUT TELLING PARENTS” and “Giving My Teachers $1,000 for Christmas! *emotional*”

Tyler Oliveira’s early Youtube content, including pranks and “challenges” like “attempting to get everything 100% off at stores”

Nick Shirley’s early slop content (left) vs this other guy, Tyler Oliveira’s early slop content (right)

www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Kalshi reveals insider trading case against editor for MrBeast With prediction markets booming, so have concerns about insider trading. Now, Kalshi has disclosed its first public actions against accounts suspected of trading on confidential information.

NEW: A video editor working for MrBeast is accused of trading on insider information on Kalshi, which has fined, suspended and reported the editor to federal regulators in the first public instance of the platform disclosing an insider trading investigation

www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

Need it so bad!!!!!!

Sure did and all i could think of was this hat!!

Hello I am fleeing the American century of humiliation Collection. Good Shirts is your hub for all good shirts.

sold out but maybe there will be increased demand 😔 thegoodshirts.com/collections/...

Hat embroidered with “hello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

Clavicular and others like him are being seeded by human bot farms that then get sucked up into a machine run by billionaires. “The algorithm” actually feels like a quaint concept with him — it was actually just brute forced via X

The Internet that Made Clavicular "a crazy thing is happening", sponsored by Stake

Media & anyone culture-adjacent should read this and consider if they’re getting got by whatever new trend suddenly bubbles up into mainstream consciousness. It’s also an argument for ditching X, which creates right wing mirages that everyone ends up chasing
www.couldabeenatthe.club/p/the-intern...

they both should get to hunt the people being weird about them for sport