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Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-upscrolled-…

He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
Issam Hijazi launched UpScrolled after users alleged censorship on other platforms. Nine months later, its user base is soaring—while Hijazi tries to catch up with his own success.

Q&A with Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro on her new report, to be published next week, which argues local news funders should pick winners, scale up, and force mergers (Richard Tofel/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/its-time…

It’s time for local news funders to pick winners, scale up, and force mergers, a new report argues
"I don’t think we’re in a stage, any longer, of innovation. It really is a challenge of what are the scaling solutions."

Jeffrey Epstein,
at the very least, believed that he was orchestrating the downfall of the global order in the 2010s.
In June 2016, he emailed venture capitalist, early Facebook investor, and Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
writing, “Brexit, just the beginning.”
He then laid out the most succinct mission statement we currently have for what Epstein was trying to accomplish.
“Return to tribalism,” he wrote.
“Counter to globalization.
Amazing new all…

Here's how Epstein broke the internet
His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

People are incorporating the UK Fuel Finder API into their Home Assistant setups.
https://github.com/philmale/UK-Fuel-Finder

GitHub - philmale/UK-Fuel-Finder: Maintain a database of UK fuel prices from the official UK Fuel Finder API, script supports querying the data and returning JSON responses suitable for Home Assistant command_line sensors and any other application that can ingest JSON.
Maintain a database of UK fuel prices from the official UK Fuel Finder API, script supports querying the data and returning JSON responses suitable for Home Assistant command_line sensors and any o...

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Jerskin Fendrix & Jerskin Fendrix:
🎵 Bugonia "Grand Cycle"
#JerskinFendrix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jVTOyyYBsa8LR3qfGwEeo

Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts "we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie" within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy streamer (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/roku-c…

Roku CEO on Cheap, Ad-Free Streamer, 'First 100% AI-Generated Hit Movie'
Roku CEO and founder Anthony Wood predicts big things for AI and Hollywood in the next three years.

Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts "we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie" within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy streamer (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/roku-c…

Roku CEO on Cheap, Ad-Free Streamer, 'First 100% AI-Generated Hit Movie'
Roku CEO and founder Anthony Wood predicts big things for AI and Hollywood in the next three years.

A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who was shunned in investor circles for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza before Replit's AI agent took off (Margaux MacColl/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/07/called-t…

He was called a ‘terrorist sympathizer.’ Now his AI company is valued at $3B
“I must apologize to — absolutely nobody”: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley.

Sources: NOTUS founder Robert Allbritton has discussed taking advantage of WaPo's layoffs to significantly expand the outlet into a full-scale operation (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/06/2026/poli…

Exclusive: Politico founder plots new Washington newspaper war
A damaged Washington Post could face a big new challenger.

DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder of London-based fund Hedosophia, after Osborne's outreach to help Epstein fix his image in 2011 (Financial Times)