Inside America's First Venture Backed Bot Farm
https://www.usermag.co/p/inside-americas-first-venture-backed
Published: August 17, 2026 14:07
The tech bubble funding millions of fake accounts
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People Hate AI No Matter How Tech CEOs Talk About It
https://www.usermag.co/p/people-hate-ai-no-matter-how-tech
Published: August 12, 2026 15:45
Vast swaths of the American public are against AI, and as Silicon Valley CEOs attempt to shift the narrative there are signs that they’re going to have to do a lot more than simply change the way they’re talking about the tech.
Would you pee on a Flock camera for $50?
https://www.usermag.co/p/people-are-peeing-on-flock-cameras
Published: August 10, 2026 14:08
Gen-Z sugar mamas, OpenAI’s smart doughnut, Apple's lookalike contest, the AI Scarlet Letter, baby’s first surveillance system, Dario's YouTube habit, and why friend group accounts are trending
The Truth About The OpenAI Brand Trip
https://www.usermag.co/p/the-truth-about-the-openai-brand
Published: August 5, 2026 22:17
+ Gen alpha tradwives, a self help influencer's dark secret, the king of hopecore, a deep dive into the data center backlash, social media's last taboo, and is AI burning The Library Of Alexandria?
My $1,000 AI Video Experiment
https://www.usermag.co/p/my-journey-into-the-slop-factory
Published: July 30, 2026 17:37
Higgsfield AI promises to turn you into an AI filmmaker, what it really makes you is a subscriber.
Anthropic vs The Entire Tech Industry
https://www.usermag.co/p/anthropic-vs-the-entire-tech-industry-chinese-open-models
Published: July 30, 2026 13:47
+ A Rooma ban, UK Poo, AI dread hotline, TikTokified HBO, MrsBeast, the Graza of peanut butter, the new tech bro billionaire uniform, & why you're probably being recorded by Granola everywhere you go
The Secret Influencer Campaign Boosting Haley Stevens
https://www.usermag.co/p/the-secret-influencer-campaign-boosting
Published: July 28, 2026 21:23
Creators are being offered thousands of dollars to promote Stevens online without disclosure
Bill Gates Daughter's $43M Tech Scandal
https://www.usermag.co/p/bill-gates-daughters-43m-tech-scandal
Published: July 20, 2026 14:36
+ Kimi K3 tea, promptonyms, friendly fraud, robot marriage, Disney's AI series, Bean Soup Theory, Katie Porter's BookTok pivot, follower fraud, & how dash cameras have become content-creation machines
Hot Surveillance Summer, aka Why Smart Glasses Feel Different This Time
Published: July 9, 2026 19:56
Chinese dreamcore, Claudefishing, swipeflation, Clavicular's Israel trip, humanoid robot fingers, a tokenpocalypse, the Pod Save patriarchy, why the trillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta doesn’t add up
How and Why to Fight Back Against Social Media Bans
https://www.usermag.co/p/how-and-why-to-fight-back-against
Published: July 1, 2026 17:15
+ Corporate girlies, X psychosis, UGC mania, a tech swag fashion show, Minionese Idol, Machinic Taste, the secret history of Polymarket, and how VidCon became a cancelled YouTuber apology tour
What Is Peter Thiel Doing In Argentina?
https://www.usermag.co/p/what-is-peter-thiel-doing-in-argentina
Published: June 22, 2026 22:33
Watch now | NYT's Ryan Mac joins me to break down Peter Thiel's Argentina obsession, discuss the secret cult, and more.