Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”

Also: it misquotes the Pope.

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Thanks for the shout-out man!

If you are so paralyzed by an indecision that you need a chatbot to tell you what coffee drink to order, you probably need to check into a rehab. Also we’re gonna need a rehab for chatbot addiction. Where you have to like relearn colors and how to do laundry.

DOGE Made Drastic Cuts to a Global Vaccine Assistance Program. Now There's a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Bangladesh A deadly viral outbreak is roiling Bangladesh as vaccine shortages take their toll in a horrifying sign of things to come.

As recently as 2024, the US distributed $371 million in support to Bangladesh, tens of millions of which were earmarked for public health assistance. By 2025 that figure had fallen to $288 million; this year, it will come out to just $24 million.

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild.

"Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

Iran War Live Updates: Trump Issues Grave Threats as Hormuz Deadline Draws Closer President Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not make a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. Eastern, as the U.S. attacked Iran’s main oil export hub.

i'm never surprised by whatever Trump says -- even this morning's genocide post

but The New York Times consistently finds new ways to make my jaw drop

Lone Jar of Nutella Drifts Around Cabin of Moon Spacecraft A lone jar of Nutella could be seen floating through the cabin of NASA's Moon astronauts minutes before they set an important record.

Some breaking news: NASA has confirmed that what appears to be a jar of Nutella floating through the Orion capsule minutes before the crew broke the record for the farthest humans have traveled from Earth was not, in fact, product placement.
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Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That's Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, and Other Glaring Red F... The New York Times ran a glowing profile of a company called Medvi that's using AI to sell GLP-1s. The truth is more complicated.

NEW: The NYT said that the AI-powered GLP-1 middleman startup Medvi — which is reportedly on track to do $1.8b in sales — cleaned up its act after taking deceptive marketing "shortcuts."

But it didn't.

More on: fake Medvi clients, fake doctors, and an FDA warning...

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Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That's Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, and Other Glaring Red F... The New York Times ran a glowing profile of a company called Medvi that's using AI to sell GLP-1s. The truth is more complicated.

Really important piece of media criticism by my colleague @mharrisondupre.bsky.social, who looks at a particularly sleazy example of corporate stenography from the NYT:

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Oh, look, we're all pivoting to video again Read to the end for a really good dinosaur thread

Good garbage day yesterday
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Shitty consequence of the commercialization of media is that the biggest newspaper archives in the US are paywalled by investment firms. In France it's a public service run by the national library, in the US it's a for-profit enterprise run by Blackstone

Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto.

Still think you live in a "democracy"?

serving you something called “sea crisps” and refusing to tell you what they are

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Data Centers Are Military Targets Now With militaries increasingly relying on artificial intelligence, data centers have emerged as new targets for strikes.

Scholars of the law of armed conflict say that the militarization of the cloud (or the cloud-ification of the military) mean data centers can be legitimate targets during war theintercept.com/2026/03/20/a...

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Absurd AI-Powered Lawsuits Are Causing Chaos in Courts, Attorneys Say, "Clogging the System" and Driving Up Costs Self-represented litigants using chatbots are filing endless "AI slop" lawsuits, bogging down courts and sending costs skyrocketing.

NEW: AI use is supercharging ill-advised lawsuits as people representing themselves turn to chatbots to file oceans of documents in support of flawed or groundless claims -- intensifying the impact of flimsy cases and wreaking havoc on slow-moving courts.

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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

(Published Dec. 2025)

People are fucking dying, man

Trump Threatens to Do Something Horrible in Africa Unless He Gets a Deal on Precious Minerals The Trump administration is using precious HIV treatment as a bargaining chip in an escalating scramble for the world's copper.

With 1.3 million people reliant on US aid for HIV treatment, Zambia has little choice but to submit to a Trump admin shakedown: a squeeze meant to inflict maximum cruelty with minimum effort.

My latest on Trump's medical imperialism in Africa:

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ME: Truly, nothing could ruin this beautiful day. Oh look. We're approaching an interstate underpass with 11'5" clearance.

Incredibly well researched and important essay ! We need more of this

Was AI used to target the Iranian girls’ school? YouTube video by take my wi-fi please

NEW VIDEO: Did the US military use AI to target the Iranian girls' school? I made a deep dive about AI targeting and its use in Gaza by the IDF, and how the US might be using these same systems that were trained on the blood of Palestinians.

This is my first ever video essay, so please watch/share!

Anything helps.

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Grammarly Pulls Down Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is "disabling" a feature that impersonated journalists.

NEW: Grammarly has changed its mind on its "Expert Review" feature that's been blatantly impersonating writers without their sign-off
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Shout it from the rooftops