Sam Blum

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

Ok, but what about extra, extra innings bro? Just 10 more innings bro. I swear, bro.

Take more selfies showcasing your neck fat and send them to the boys with "what's up tonight, my bros"

Might even name her Sora 2

Pretty cool that as an expectant father I can just program my phone to show Sam Altman singing my daughter lullabies instead of having to do any actual parenting. Every little girl's dream ❤️

This, but walking into a room with 10,000 AI-generated Zucks talking in an infinite loop about Sweet Baby Ray's.

OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation OpenAI has completed a $6.6 billion secondary share sale at a $500 billion valuation, cementing its status as the most valuable private company in the world.

OpenAI's valuation crossed the half-trillion mark today. On the heels of Sora 2, which is essentially a plug and play tool for deepfakes that could, you know, subvert our reality to an even more staggering degree.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/o...

Hollywood’s Most Terrifying Nightmare Has Arrived Generative video tools are ready to flood the market with robot actors and content—leaving studios and actors scrambling to catch up.

wrote about the celebrities raging against the A.I. "actress" Tilly Norwood, OpenAI's attempt to stiff copyright protections through the launch of its new Sora video generator, and why these two moments in conjunction present a make-or-break moment for Hollywood's humans: slate.com/technology/2...

ESPN is hiring a new EIC and it's just Stephen A. Smith on a blown up screen Wizard of Oz style.

How the AI Bubble Ate Y Combinator The program is shorter, startups are pushed to build faster, and just about everyone has an AI company. What could go wrong?

NEW: Y Combinator used to be a haven for weird, risk taking startups that defined new categories. Now it's pumping out hundreds of AI startups into what its former CEO calls a bubble.

A bunch of recent YC grads told me what the incubator is like in the AI age.

www.inc.com/sam-blum/how...

this priest is a good writer

This technology apparently cannot be regulated, according to its architects.

Humanity is f*cking cooked, bro

GILDED RAGE, my book about the rise of the tech right and the 2024 election, comes out a week from today. The shilling will continue until I move enough units to keep the loan sharks at bay.
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Wearing a jacket and relishing the feeling of being in a jacket.

bout to crank out some duh duh chicka duh duh duhs

Wasn't Hegseth on camera a week ago struggling to do like three pull ups?

A graph showcasing the number of YC startups focused on AI vs. total startups in recent years.

Here we have a handy data viz showing the no. of AI startups vs the total no. of startups at YC in recent years.

How the AI Bubble Ate Y Combinator The program is shorter, startups are pushed to build faster, and just about everyone has an AI company. What could go wrong?

NEW: Y Combinator used to be a haven for weird, risk taking startups that defined new categories. Now it's pumping out hundreds of AI startups into what its former CEO calls a bubble.

A bunch of recent YC grads told me what the incubator is like in the AI age.

www.inc.com/sam-blum/how...

The investor who wants to destroy modern democratic nations with crypto-based Network States eats bowls of cookies submerged in half and half all day...is not a sentence I imagined writing when I expressed an interest in journalism freshman year of college.

Pack it up America, skateboarding is no longer cool.

An email marked "urgent" sent out to all U.S. generals titled "Beer Bongs in my office"

"Pumpkin Spice latte for....O.J.??"

Devo below Fall Out Boy lol

A tired Ben Affleck smoking a cig

I was today years old when I learned that a Senior Editor job at the Free Press pays up to $180,000 while a Biz and Tech Editor job listing pays....up to $230,000

Is the cure for male loneliness working at a legacy magazine brand for 15 years and then starting a Substack in the name of abundance?

Peter Thiel Compared Tech Detractors to the Antichrist, Says a Lecture Attendee An attendee of the billionaire investor’s secretive Antichrist lecture series reveals new details from Peter Thiel's latest talk.

NEW: At his lecture series, Peter Thiel is suggesting anyone who opposes unchecked advancement of technologies such as AI is the Antichrist, or is perhaps under the Antichrist's spell.

www.inc.com/sam-blum/pet...

me, a boomer, concerned with the fall of democracy: "Um...what? ICE aren't heroes, they're cowards."

waiting for the "if you get migraines go outside, touch grass" response from a faceless #bluecrew profile

Something happened that allowed a deluge of social media novice boomers to infiltrate this platform and it gives me a migraine almost daily.