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| This week, the US government officially became podcast grifters, as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy announced they plan to make “seperate DOGEcasts” with taxpayer money. Just what the founding fathers intended! Meanwhile Bluesky continued growing by about a million users a day. It’s officially passed the threshold where Meta has started to adapt Threads to copy it. Bluesky has also now joined the culture war somehow. Congrats? Let’s hope the team doesn’t celebrate like the Paul Brothers. For another mark of success, the Department of Justice has gotten serious about breaking up Google’s monopoly, though let’s check back on how that’s going on in a couple months. | Oh well, here’s some fun stuff… | |  | Subscribe to Premium to read the rest. | Become a paying subscriber of Premium to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. | | A subscription gets you: | • Paywalled weekend issue | • Monthly Garbage Intelligence report | • Discord access | • Discounts on merch and events |
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