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Bruce Sterling Victim of Medical-food Cookiejar

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Yiersan wanted an endorsement from Bruce Sterling, the inspiration for its new direct-marketed BrightLine line of vatgrown medical food*. When Sterling refused, Yiersan set up and publicized a cookiejar: an account in Sterling’s name, with funds available any time he reaches out for them. This increasingly-popular tactic is intended to imply a relationship and requires no complicity on the victim’s part. No word so far from Sterling.

*BrightLine seems to have come along at a perfect time: Just as tens of thousands of financial advisors found themselves out of work, Yiersan came along needing approximately the same skill-set: the ability to sell an apparently-customized mix of assetsvatgrown nutrients to a gullibleterrified populace.

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  1. ORROT linked to this post on April 8, 2009

    Echo: Victim of Medical-food Cookiejar…

    You reach for another cookie, whimpering softly. You tell youself–just this last one, just this last one and you’ll savor it and then you’ll let go, and nobody else will have to die. You try to eat it slowly, to savor it, but you……



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