Early Addition: How An Oil Heiress Got Scammed By A Trump-Loving Twitter Troll
June 12, 2019, 11:25 a.m.
Because you'd try out office chair racing, check out today's midday links: talking to strangers, Vincent D'Onofrio MIB oral history, influential TV shows, fake Twitter accounts, Jacob Wohl catfishing, and doggy pile-on.
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- Here's the incredible story of how a Texas oil heiress got scammed , and then seduced , by "Twitter’s most inept Trump-loving troll."
- Researchers found a network of fake Twitter accounts that have been spreading panic with misleading ‘breaking news alert’ posts—and keeping track of everyone who clicks.
- Vox counted down the 25 episodes that changed TV.
- Office chair racing is my new favorite sport.
- Brutal headline of the day: "23 Democrats Are Running for President. Do Any of Them Know What They’re Doing?"
- Netflix has renewed Russian Doll for season two.
- The New Republic analyzes Donald Trump's petulant reign.
- RIP Amazon Restaurants.
- Vulture has a perfect oral history of Vincent D’Onofrio’s "sugar water" scene from Men In Black.
- A Manhattan man walking his dog on a street near his Harlem apartment was shot in the leg by a gunman with a rifle and later died.
- The BBC thinks you should talk to strangers more, even though almost every subway interaction I've ever had contradicts that.
- Would you be a happier person if you lived in a McMansion? Probably not.
- And finally, this is the way I'd like to leave this mortal realm:
and now, puppies eating a baby pic.twitter.com/Hd8R7O4I3v
— jon rosenberg🤓✒ (@jonrosenberg) June 11, 2019
