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Maureen Ogle

@maureenogle.bsky.social

Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea junkie Maureenogle.com

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 11h ago

Make a Tech Fascist sweat—pre-order "The Nerd Reich" book today! Available wherever you buy books. Use this link to support independent booksellers and my work: bookshop.org/a/109206/978...

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

“This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires linked to the second Trump administration...It’s an ominous look at an insular el...

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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 14h ago

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Maureen Ogle@maureenogle.bsky.social · 4d ago

I just read this novel by @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app It’s smart, funny, sad, thoughtful. Also demolishes influencer and crypto nonsense. Author obviously loves and honors Golden Age Detection novels..

K.C. Clyburn, Author@kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

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Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 2w ago

Updated my @vinepair.com column midday yesterday with new info from Constellation and Unleash Prosperity, the right-wing think-tank that authored a white paper supporting the Modelo maker's argument against the Teamsters' call to shift production from MX to the US. More: vinepair.com/articles/tea...

After publication, a representative of Unleash Prosperity Now (UPN), the think tank’s 501(c)(4) sister organization, responded to a voicemail requesting more details on the paper’s provenance left at the number listed on UP’s most recently available Form 990. “In my casual outings, I met someone that used to be the executive director at, not at Constellation Brands, but […] an alcohol group,” said UPN executive director Tara Grier in a brief phone interview, describing how the May 2026 study came to be. She said she did not recall the specific person that originally gave her the idea that UP should produce a report on the beer industry, a subject on which it had not previously focused its research: “It was a variety of people that were reaching out to me, and I’m a person that if people are like, ‘Hey, we have this issue. What can you do about it?’ […] I reach out to everyone in our network and say, ‘How can we get this done, and who should be a part of it?’” The think-tank’s co-founder, Stephen Moore, ultimately co-authored the piece with a contractor, David Ozgo, who previously worked as the chief economist for the liquor trade organization Distilled Spirits of the United States (DISCUS). Grier said that Constellation had no financial relationship with UP or UPN, and that the company had no involvement in the paper’s publication other than providing data to its researchers.
Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 2w ago

The Teamsters' president recently went on Fox News to ask Trump to slap a 75% tax on Mexican beer, adding that he'd eventually like to see top brands from south of the border brewed stateside. For @vinepair.com, I laid out the logistics and politics of this America-first brewing gambit.

Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Bloomberg News analysis of Skype messages, flight records and other documents released by DOJ show that from the time of his release from jail in 2009, through to his arrest in July 2019, Epstein ran a trafficking network that spanned the globe. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation

Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties

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Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some people seem to have trouble holding both these ideas in their heads at the same time: Dumb, cheap AI will often give totally wrong answers on the most basic of open-ended questions Eye-wateringly expensive AI can be trained to do truly frightening things in fields with verifiable answers

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 2w ago

An unintentional but very funny/welcome outcome of this column ridiculing Big Booze's corporate leaders for getting repeatedly pantsed by reality is that multiple people with email addresses at major bev-alc companies have purchased subscriptions just to read more about their bosses' failures lol

This is a significant finding coming from IWSR, but if you’ve been reading Fingers for any amount of time, it shouldn’t be a surprising one. In interviews with industry experts like Bourcard Nesin (senior beverage analyst at the Dutch agribank Rabobank) and Kate Bernot (longtime bev-alc journalist and lead analyst at Feel Goods Insights, a beverage strategy newsletter), original analysis and reporting, hell, even in fucking memes, I’ve been highlighting how the myth that zOoMeRs DoN’t DrInK is neither accurate nor useful. It’s just thought-terminating cliche whose chief function was/is providing cover to older booze execs that won’t or straight-up can’t adapt to obvious market shifts. (I just made this case at length on the Delta Dispatch podcast, an episode of which I recently co-guested with Bernot.) And for a while, it worked, in no small part because intergenerational punching down is a compelling media frame, a point I tried to get across in a recent interview with The Guardian about Gen Z’s newfound habit of “romanticizing the hangover” on TikTok. But just like howling about millennials’ apparent appreciation of avocado toast couldn’t paper over a rigged economy, lamenting zoomers’ supposed sober-curiosity cannot explain away struggling sales.