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- The media company currently known as G/O shuttered its politics site, Splinter, one year before the 2020 election. Misspelling Splinter's name in a memo to staff, G/O Editorial Director Paul Maidment reportedly explained that operations would cease due to low traffic numbers, and then instructed journalists in other parts of the company not to write about it.
- [Click here] And meanwhile, in another corner of the Succession simulation, the younger of Rupert Murdoch's two sons — James — has reportedly purchased a minority stake in Vice Media Group, for his Lupa Systems venture.
- TikTok teens are now getting lucrative gigs as brand ambassadors.
- Has Britain's Prince Edward ever cut a cake before, or any other kind of food for that matter?
- TIL Albuquerque hosts a Special Shape Rodeo for balloons, which is why I'm moving there, effective immediately.
- The vaping disease has now sickened nearly 1,300 people and killed 27 nationwide.
- A true spooky bitch uses her father's ashes in her bridal manicure.
- The New Yorker's bot offers an interesting description of blood (?) ("red gravy").
- It is October 10th and a blizzard is menacing the Midwest.
- In conclusion: Boo!
Published Oct 10, 2019
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