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86 47 is Silly and Serious

Drew — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:21:45 +0000

The timeline goes a little….like this: PART I Silly: Former FBI director James Comey shared a photo via Instagram on May 15, 2025 with a seashell arrangement of the numbers “86 47” that he said he found on a North Carolina beach. Via The Guardian, the original post that started it all: To 86 something …

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The Doge Meme is Dead

Drew — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:17:26 +0000

Not much to say to prove this point. Doge has been through a lot. It was originally just a wonderful photograph, then a creative, pure-hearted template for communicating in the forums, evolved into a variant that assumed the identity of a cryptocurrency, and now, it’s mainstream for death caused to people around the world under …

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What Virality Made: The Memetic Emptiness of MrBeast

Drew — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:51:36 +0000

Jimmy Donaldson, known worldwide as MrBeast, has organized his creative life around the measurable demands of internet platforms. As he has repeatedly explained, his objective is to give the algorithm exactly what it wants. He develops his videos around platform metrics, revises them in response to performance data, and removes whatever reduces their ability to …

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The Algorithmic Incentive Curve

Drew — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:36:02 +0000

When all hell broke loose on Facebook during the Cambridge Analytica era, people were focused largely on privacy, but equally important was the realization of its recommendation algorithms.

A is for Artist: The First A Corp

Drew — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:08:25 +0000

Today in Boulder at the municipal building on Broadway and Arapahoe, I met Yancey Strickler (co-founder of Kickstarter) after hearing his talk on a new business designation that went into law in Colorado called an A Corp.

Om Malik, 1966-2026

Drew — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:44:31 +0000

One of the times we met, we were at a restaurant with Salman Rushdie. We sat on either side. The room was small and dark, and kinda cramped. Rushdie was freaked out and paranoid, constantly looking around as if he was being stalked, possibly killed at any minute. We were both excited to meet him, …

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CCPA 2025CV11

Drew — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:48:39 +0000

For this media accountability action, after years of investigation, I filed a consumer protection complaint under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) against Alden Global Capital and its two controlling partners, Randall Smith and Heath Freeman individually, in Colorado District Court. I filed the case pro se, with the assistance of artificial intelligence.

Amended Complaint

Drew — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:15:02 +0000

This version added needed elements to complete the picture, including: Here is a link to the web version for the updated amended complaint: https://dembot.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Baron-v-Alden-Web-Amended-Complaint.pdf This is not an official copy and has material differences from the originals on the docket. This is a non submitted version prepared for the web. See the originals under Colorado …

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