99% of the spam email I've been getting has been using using static redirect sites hosted on GCS to try to get past spam filters too. I've tried reporting it via https://support.google.com/code/contact/cloud_platform_repor... but it's pretty exhausting.
I thought the book "Philosophy and Simulation" by Manuel de Landa did a really great job of tying together some threads around simulation and it's connection to reality. I haven't read Simulacra but it seems like Baudrillard has gone too far in the direction that French philosophy loves to go by claiming we have cannot have any connection "the real". While an amusing idea it just doesn't match up to our lived experience.