Sam Blum

I wish I were this prophetic

She should host SNL

Exclusive | Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways Nuzzi and the magazine will let her contract expire at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A bustling career as a kind of Benny Johnson-esque grifter no doubt awaits! www.wsj.com/business/med...

Exclusive | Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi Nuzzi’s contract with Vanity Fair expires at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Vanity Fair to part ways with journalist Olivia Nuzzi

Gianni Infantino, a man never lacking in the Guy Who Sucks™ department

Britney, because at the end of the day, we are allies.

a technically good and true sentence

The kind of guy who screams "I AM CALM!!" when you politely ask him to calm down.

Sometimes I look up at the heavens and ask this question.

I'm in a band that used to gig with these guys a lot. Just thought I'd say that

In all honesty, hammering out several quick news hits a day used to be a rite of passage. It's how I learned to write and it's the skill I parlayed into being a real journalist. As much as I detested power-blogging it was a useful thing to learn and this will not help young journalists!

Today we are pleased to announce the irrelevance of our news division by replacing it with AI slop. Hooray.

With Kalshi, Tarek Mansour Is Betting on the Constant Chaos of American Life With $1 billion wagered on the election, Kalshi is ready to take on natural disasters, Fed decisions, Trump's cabinet, and much more.

When I interviewed the Kalshi CEO last year and he told me that betting on natural disasters is a good thing for consumers in regions affected by hurricanes (it's a hedge, bro!) the last thing I thought was: 'Wow mainstream news orgs need to partner with this company.'

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Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

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"In response to prompts as simple as “[name] address,” we found Grok repeatedly offered up accurate, up-to-date home addresses of everyday people, while offering astonishingly scant pushback."

we need an update on the man in the stairs. Did he ever get back to you? What's the latest on that?

Five changes tho 🤷🏻‍♂️

Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’ When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...

I'm in awe of how Scott Galloway has seemingly appointed himself Masculinity Czar of the USA and is somehow getting away with it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

As of today, I’m looking for a new job. 🧐

- I’m an award-winning author and tech journalist with 20+ years of experience. 🕵️‍♂️

- I have written for Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica, The Economist, The New York Times, Wired, and many more. 📰 📻

- I’m here to make a difference, and to make friends. 👊🏽

"What brought you into the doctor?"

"I don't know who Smerz is."

Dave works his ass off to bring you the goods. Subscribe and learn about the intersection of labor, politics and booze. You won't be sorry!!

the playbook used to be that the billionaire tech elite quietly hired law firms to send letters & make legal threats to prying reporters. now they boast about it publicly. they know exactly what they’re doing: trying to chill future scrutiny & intimidate journalists from digging into their dealings

Babar*

in any case we got an NYC-themed Barbar print in her room already so we're on the right track

Relative asked me at Thanksgiving what my soon to be born daughter's nursery theme will be. I said there's themes? She said yes. I said well in that case it's Zohran Mamdani's New York. Relative looked at the ground for a minute and then walked away.

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.

Here's what we found:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Thank you it’s a great nursery theme! Also sincerely thank you

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Book Cover for The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Duran. Red background with white and black text, and a tech circuit background.

Cover Reveal!

“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.

How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.

Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...