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Editor-in-Chief of Futurism. Freelance: NYT, GQ, Best American Food Writing. Publisher of FOSTERTALK, your favorite newsletter’s favorite newsletter. foster.substack.com

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07.03.2026 18:34 👍 39 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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“Lewis could’ve scored ten podiums, and that first podium would’ve been equally as good. I promise there’s nothing — nothing — about Ferrari, nothing about Lewis that makes that podium any better than what it is.” 
— Carlos Sainz to @foster.bsky.social in @essesmag.com Issue 05

📸 Bilal Zagaoui

02.03.2026 18:28 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas.
"There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

01.03.2026 15:10 👍 4897 🔁 989 💬 200 📌 180

Brendan Carr thinks the future of media is an “EPIC Pass for journalism.” Of note: The Epic pass is a massive failure and skiers hate it.

25.02.2026 22:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brendan Carr just said he can see himself suing a network at some point, and thinks it’s likely. Ben: Which one? Brendan Carr: (Shrugs). Countdown to the Kalshi spread.

25.02.2026 22:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Brendan Carr just ranted at Ben for three minutes straight about Colin Kapernick, the Olympics, Terry Moran, as Ben tried to get a question in. Ben Smith (as Carr continues to rant): “This is just…Twitter.”

25.02.2026 22:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Brendan Carr just pronounced Don Lemon’s name DON LEM-ONN, like he’s French. Weird.

25.02.2026 22:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Ben Smith is now interviewing Brendan Carr, who came out to a smattering of lazy applause. Opens by comparing this to festivus, from Seinfeld, wherein he gets to air his grievances to a bunch of journalists. Took him two minutes to say the words “New York” and “Hollywood.” Cool.

25.02.2026 22:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Max: When did you realize Will Lewis was the wrong guy for the job?

Matt Murray: (bitterly laughs)

25.02.2026 22:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

HELLO FROM THE SEMAFOR MEDIA SUMMIT WHERE I WILL LIVE YEET SOME SHIT TALK BIG MAX TANI IS INTERVIEWING MATT MURRAY RIGHT NOW AND FIRST QUESTION HE ASKS IF HE REGRETS TAKING THE JOB LOL

25.02.2026 22:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
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The @pablo.show x FOSTERTALK collab the world was waiting for over a year on? Some people have thoughts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdZv...

23.02.2026 19:46 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

SCOTT TOBIAS!!! Thank you, man. Huge from the likes of you.

20.02.2026 22:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Do not let this incredible day for American sports go by without listening to this beautiful story about Rony Seikaly—DJ Rony Seikaly—stepping up for Magic Johnson when he needed it the most.

19.02.2026 23:26 👍 80 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0

Very excited to watch this deep look at Magic Johnson from @pablo.show and @foster.bsky.social

19.02.2026 19:28 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Magic Johnson, Rony Seikaly and a Hidden Act of Courage, Revealed | PTFO
Magic Johnson, Rony Seikaly and a Hidden Act of Courage, Revealed | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

The untold story of what Rony Seikaly did for Magic Johnson, behind closed doors, is incredible.

And the reason why Seikaly decided to do it — which he discusses on PTFO, with @foster.bsky.social, for the first time — is even more powerful.

Especially today: youtu.be/xdZvVMgSzTw?...

19.02.2026 16:21 👍 197 🔁 52 💬 18 📌 49
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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and abuse.

"In some cases, our reporting found, ChatGPT continued to stoke users’ obsessions as they descended into unwanted harassment, abusive stalking behavior, or domestic abuse, traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives."

18.02.2026 02:50 👍 35 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 5

Go birds

17.02.2026 22:14 👍 3981 🔁 606 💬 55 📌 16

Yet another utterly phenomenal piece of reporting by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social (and edited by the great @jonchristian.net) on the dangerously spiderwebbing impact of ChatGPT and its ilk on people’s psyches.

17.02.2026 19:01 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

If this is the album cover you're gonna die in the mosh pit.

16.02.2026 04:02 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1

From my perspective, Woodworking has done far more to get readers to understand trans people than all of the journalism I did on the topic. But "getting someone to empathize" is a different thing from "explaining the facts of a situation," and one fiction is uniquely calibrated to do well.

15.02.2026 18:19 👍 61 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

There was an NY Mag piece from early in the pandemic about how badly a Covid-19 infection could turn out, which was way more effective in getting me to lock down, wear masks, etc., because of how my brain works. But that was clearly labeled as an invented scenario, based on a lot of research.

15.02.2026 18:19 👍 38 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

If Elizabeth Bruenig weren’t Elizabeth Bruenig but instead were Michael Pollan or Ed Yong, the reaction to her Atlantic story would be vastly different. It’s a unique take on a well-established narrative that could cut across lines reported stories don’t reach. Also, you all gotta chill.

15.02.2026 18:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lol that Pepperdine - no doubt a MAGA SoCal stronghold - is on there. Classic Hegseth incompetence at play

14.02.2026 23:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Crying. You must see what this is in response to.

10.02.2026 17:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"'I have nothing to lose' said the bronze medalist" is a COLD line

10.02.2026 17:16 👍 786 🔁 24 💬 5 📌 1

we're all going through something

10.02.2026 17:40 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

america bring 1 percent of this energy challenge

09.02.2026 17:55 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

03.02.2026 20:46 👍 11438 🔁 3339 💬 304 📌 868

Watching the Grammys and what is this megachurch ass bullshit

02.02.2026 01:43 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's funny how the culture change in Silicon Valley and the decline of exciting, actually disruptive products being produced by Silicon Valley, happened at the same time.

29.01.2026 14:49 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0