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mah hsu

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Hey speaking into the void here, but what is the best alternative to Substack? Doesn’t need to be paid bc I favor it being seen more.

I’m currently working on multiple essays regarding gambling’s rise to prominence among my generation and I would prefer doing a text version over a video version.

November 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

shoutout to my 6000 eric adams voters you guys are here for a short good time

November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

hooooly narrative counter

the gen z yearn for young progressive candidates

November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

Valve released an update for Counter Strike 2 last night that made it so you could convert five of the rarest weapon skin tier (red/covert) into knives or gloves. Knives and gloves were only attainable by rolling for them in loot boxes for a small chance, and many were worth thousands of dollars.

October 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

We’re in a worldwide casino culture phenomena with our collective dopamine being squeezed of every last drop

My evidence for this is: the stock market, crypto, prediction markets, (e)sports betting, internet casinos, tradable items/skins

Theres never been a better time to gamble on the puter

October 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM

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Molly Knight

@mollyknight.bsky.social

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM

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Tina Nguyen

@tinanguyen.bsky.social

At NatCon, there were two topics dominating everyone’s discussions: the imminent end of the right’s support of Israel — and the existential threat that technology posed to Western civilization.

I wrote about the second discussion.

www.theverge.com/politics/773...

MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech

Butlerian jihad from an unlikely quarter.

www.theverge.com

September 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

new elitist class just dropped

just twirl your mustache and adjust your monocle while youre complaining about the poors

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · Aug 12

August 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

“We dressed up this mannequin in the clothes of a kid killed in a mass shooting and now I’m going to hallucinate his opinions on the nazi blogger site”

Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · Aug 4

At 4p ET/1p PT, I’ll have a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting. But his parents have created an AI version of their son for a powerful message on gun violence. Plus TX Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.

August 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM

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mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

this article is so funny you could not write this as satire

placebo, rich people being out of touch, rich people being terrified of aging, every single holistic health buzzword of the last 10 years.

all wrapped up into one article.

In 2015, she and her father began investing in what he described back at the clinic as "the initial seed" of the technology that would become Clari.
The more they learned, the more they became convinced that the procedure had radical potential - and the more closely they wanted to be involved. Now, it's a family business: David is the chairman of the biotech company that makes the device, and Cohen oversees outpatient procedures. She calls working with her father a
"dream." She addresses him by his initials, D.C., and describes him more than once as a "human encyclopedia." She jokes that she's had to start introducing him as her father in business meetings after people assumed they were married.
"I spent the past 15 years with people on the worst day of their lives," she says. She sees Clari as a way to help people avoid getting sick in the first place. She also sees it as a fresh start - in 2021, she and Braun separated after seven years of marriage, leading to a media frenzy. "T've never worked in entertainment," she says. "Even when we were married, I was doing a fellowship at Stanford and starting companies. But I was just Scooter Braun's wife. Now, the other stuff gets to sit at the center."

Experts are skeptical of all this. Zbigniew M.
Szczepiorkowski, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Dartmouth Health, figures it's plausible that the Clari filter could remove at least some microplastics from the blood. But even so, he's doubtful it would be all that beneficial. Ultimately, "plasma is a relatively small volume of your body," he says. If microplastics are really accumulating in our organs — as a growing body of evidence suggests they are - removing the plastics circulating in your blood would probably make barely a dent.

Cohen isn't fazed by criticism. Microplastics is a new and messy field, she tells me. Sure, their procedure might not be a perfect solution. But, she says, it's the best we have. "To me, it's like saying, 'You've smoked already. Why stop now?'
And people are clamoring for the procedure. A
40-year-old venture capitalist tells me he found out about Clari from a friend. He already limits salt and alcohol and goes on regular detox retreats in Austria, but after having his blood filtered in February, he felt amazing. "I had a lot more energy and felt more clear-minded" he says.
A woman who traveled from Beirut to have the procedure after several failed rounds of IVF says the treatment raised her AMH level. Now, she's feeling hopeful about conceiving naturally. A 55-year-old investor from London told me the Clari procedure cured his long COVID. Five days after the treatment, "my lung capacity shot up," he says. He didn't think twice about the cost. "If you equate it to luxury purchases, it's a long weekend in an expensive hotel. It's a starter-price Rolex."
The ability to have the procedure done whenever she wants is a big perk of Cohen's new job.
Increasingly, she says, she's talking about aging with her friends - not just how to look younger

The ability to have the procedure done whenever she wants is a big perk of Cohen's new job.
Increasingly, she says, she's talking about aging with her friends - not just how to look younger but how to feel younger: "It's like, 'Are you going to be able to maintain critical thought and conversation and get up stairs?'" Clari, she says, has improved her sleep and anxiety, and she believes it will help keep her brain healthy as she ages. She also swears by blue-light blockers, movement, and morning sun. At her home in Los Angeles, where she lives with her and Braun's children, all the water is filtered and there are air purifiers in every room. And, of course, avoiding plastic, though that's easier said than done. "T'll go to friends' houses and throw out all their black plastic utensils," she says. "I haven't had a plastic water bottle since" - she catches herself. "Well, I had one on the airplane yesterday." The machine they run the Clari procedure on is plastic, down to the tubes that carry the supposedly "clean" plasma back to your veins.

July 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM

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Nick Miroff

@nickmiroff.bsky.social

NEW: I spoke to a dozen current and formers about low morale at ICE amid the Trump admin's relentless push for more and more arrests. Officers and agents aren't complaining or looking for sympathy but they're facing public anger & political pressure from above www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.

A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.

www.theatlantic.com

July 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM

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rich traditions

@helldude.bsky.social

one of the stranger and very underdiscussed aspects of the very strange man JD Vance is how Extreme Yale Pervert and "tiger mom" Amy Chua basically did a bene gesserit breeding program on him in order to marry him off to an Acceptable Race

June 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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Walter Olson

@walterolson.bsky.social

Prof. Sam Bray, whose critique of universal injunctions informed the majority opinion, offers at least one comfort: "Given that the birthright-citizenship exec order is unconstitutional," he expects class-based prelim injunctions (still OK) will be affirmed on appeal and stop the EO in its tracks.

Initial Thoughts on Trump v. CASA, Inc.

Huge decision this morning in Trump v.

blog.dividedargument.com

June 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

Local serf states “We should improve society somewhat.” and local idiot from well replies “Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent.”

June 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

bsky discover tab feels like facebook

June 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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Adam

@adam35.bsky.social

Laura Loomer holding a snake in each hand speaking in tongues and chasing Rubio around the situation room.

June 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.

CINEMATIC

June 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

big tech ceos putting on their “I was a democrat the whole time I’m on your side” shtick looks imminent given that the polling windsocks are pointing the other way

they gotta get those network states up and running somehow and it can’t be through an unpopular government

June 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

I was wondering how long it would take for their unholy alliance to dissolve. I expected until at least september 🤷

June 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

I hate the language used in this which makes soup seem like a revolutionary discovery bc if you wrote “I started making soup and now I feel better” people would just call you an idiot and say duh

Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · May 19

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

Photo of soup with vegetables. Caption: you started water-based cooking and now your skin is clear and your stomach healed

May 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM

mah hsu

@sponsoredbyslurm.bsky.social

EA primed an entire generation for sports gambling with the pack openings for FIFA, Madden, NHL, etc

Comerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · May 15

Only tangential here I think, but the sportsbetting industry is stealing this from us (in addition to creating addiction). Sports works as a social lubricant because the real stakes are trivial & the imagined stakes are high. It’s a big game of pretend. Adding $ stakes to it ruins its social role

May 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM