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Editor-in-Chief of Futurism. Freelance: NYT, GQ, Best American Food Writing. Publisher of FOSTERTALK, your favorite newsletter’s favorite newsletter. foster.substack.com
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Foster Kamer @foster.bsky.social · Feb 10
important editorial mandate from this morning's weekly @futurism.com meeting
a screengrab of a Google Meet chat that says, in all capital letters, "please no yeeting into void"
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philabcoulter.bsky.social
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
The US has transformed from a (sorta) functioning democracy into a poster regime, a rogue troll state, fueled by internet clout. And the abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is likely just the beginning.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-rise-o...
Maduro’s arrest is connected to a new kind of politics I’ve spent the last year struggling to describe. A profoundly embarrassing collision of violent nationalism, illiterate social chatter, and memetic fascism that’s been spreading across the globe since the pandemic. We’ve seen hints for years now that the elites of the world are just as addicted to — and dependent on — the same social platforms that we are. Ignoring the near-constant public embarrassments of our shitposter ruling class that play out on platforms like X every day, our leaders are also digitally networking with each other behind closed doors. There’s Chatham House, the group chat that fried the minds of Silicon Valley’s most reactionary CEOs like Marc Andreessen, that’s been running since COVID started. Which is adjacent to the text message network of powerful men that convinced Elon Musk to buy Twitter in 2022. Last year, the Trump administration was caught planning out airstrikes in a Signal group. And days before the campaign in Venezuela, Republican operatives secretly teamed up with a far-right YouTuber to storm daycares in Minnesota. You take all of that and throw in last year’s Discord-based election in Nepal, the international white nationalist incel terror cells spreading across Telegram, and the fact Charlie Kirk’s killer allegedly carried out the attack for the members of his Discord channel and the picture couldn’t be clearer: Politics — and political violence — is now something performed, first and foremost, for an online audience. It almost doesn’t matter what happens irl if it makes noise online.
January 5, 2026 at 7:48 PM
foster.bsky.social
Oh, okay
January 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
foster.bsky.social
Great, more traffic on the FDR tonight
January 3, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
foster.bsky.social
GET YOUR FLU SHOT
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 22d
“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”
Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York City in a Decade
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
foster.bsky.social
That bitchy doorman at the Bowery two NYWFs ago who told some West Village TikTok influencer having a meltdown that she couldn’t get in: “fuck me? Oh honey the last time you got fucked it was by genetics”
thereal3ccentric.bsky.social 3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 26d
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
foster.bsky.social
What the fuck man
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 24d
they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
December 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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jamellebouie.net
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
alexshephard.bsky.social Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 27d
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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cooperlund.online
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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maxtani.bsky.social
A month ago, NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a column decrying the media and political fixation on the Epstein story.

This afternoon, House Democrats released a new tranche of photos of an event that Brooks attended with Epstein.
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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hunterw.bsky.social
These people challenged ICE's New York director of "enforcement and removal operations" in court.

They won and the federal judge declared, "Thank you for your advocacy today." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-h...
How a ‘Habeas Machine’ Reunited One Family That Was Pulled Apart by ICE
The agents were on the hunt, but as they staked out the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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jonchristian.net
interesting about-face -- this was the editor-in-chief of CNET who championed its AI-generated articles even as they had to be extensively corrected for huge numbers of errors back in 2023
tweet by Connie Guglielmo: "AI slop: low- to mid-quality video, images, audio, text or a mix, created with AI tools, often w/little regard for accuracy. It’s fast, easy & inexpensive to make and put on social media to exploit the economics of attention on the internet, displacing higher-quality material."
December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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mharrisondupre.bsky.social
Yet another lawsuit was filed against OpenAI, alleging recklessness and wrongful death.

The latest suit claims that ChatGPT affirmed/fueled a troubled man’s worsening paranoid delusions, leading him to murder his elderly mother before killing himself:

futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide
OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.
futurism.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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jonchristian.net
Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform

futurism.com/future-socie...
King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs
An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.
futurism.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Unhinged to describe the criticism of her journalistic ethics as a "freaksome lynching" when she has not denied any of the allegations and admits to most of them in her book.
colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Dec 8
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
Lisa Taddeo in Airmail: "I think Olivia is smarter than she is beautiful, though she is unquestionably beautiful. I think Olivia is able to write something beautiful overnight and not a lot of people can do that, and her intrigue and wisdom are amplified, in my opinion, by how very young she still is. Her prose is never boring, even when it’s precious, and when I look at her I see a little girl, like my daughter, like myself, like us all, which is what she actually still was when all these older, powerful men navigated her, and, through that, she learned how to navigate them, and the world, in a way that I think has gravitas. But mostly I think the attempted patriarchal mass murder of this woman’s career and her personhood is a freaksome lynching the likes of which we will look back upon with a dazed compunction."
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
foster.bsky.social
Take it from someone who worked for him: You do not want Jared Kushner to own a media asset. He will destroy it.
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
Wrote another headline www.theverge.com/column/83693...
Silicon Valley is rallying behind a guy who sucks The coordinated support of David Sacks after a New York Times report is only drawing more attention to the story
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
foster.bsky.social
Every time someone posts something like this my first thought is oh god what’d Ryan Lizza post now
ndhapple.bsky.social Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · Nov 27
Darlene Love!!!!
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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choire.bsky.social
Also I am pretty sure I could have made out with my number-one celebrity crush but I was on assignment and very carefully extricated myself, while you were all out there banging governors and engaging in regime change? I’m such a loser.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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zeets.bsky.social
I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Nov 26
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
This is absolutely the right response at this point. The ADL has abandoned its right to be taken seriously as a voice of the American Jewish community. Politicians should absolutely meet with a diverse array of Jewish constituents. But the ADL must be ignored and dismissed until it loses influence.
zeteo.com Zeteo @zeteo.com · Nov 5
A ‘Mamdani Monitor’?? Zohran RESPONDS to the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt for vowing to “track” his admin for antisemitism.

“I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.”

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November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM