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28
Oct
The Grey Pope: The Most Powerful Man on Earth?
31 min read
22
Oct
Don't Tell The Vendor
Trump appointees asked the country's election security agency to quietly hack a voting machine. Two weeks before the midterms, Tennessee voters are fighting their touchscreens, and the people built to sort that out are mostly gone.
9 min read
17
Oct
Dope Dynasty: The Sackler Family
In 1996, Richard Sackler promised a blizzard of prescriptions. The FDA stamped the label, the sales force sold the lie, and when people started dying, Richard Sackler blamed them. One consultant went to prison. Nobody else did.
13 min read
15
Oct
The MIDAS Touch
10 min read
13
Oct
Nobody's Counting
A former FBI agent laid out the problem in 2020. Leaks put hundreds of names on the table. Inspectors general recommended firings. Researchers begged for data on domestic violence. Every time, the answer was the same. Let the department investigate itself.
13 min read
06
Oct
The $18,000 Hug
12 min read
06
Oct
Same Fear, New Neighbor
15 min read
28
Sep
CEOs Optimized Themselves Out of a Job
Every week, another company announces it's using AI to cut jobs. The work being handed to machines is reading, writing, analyzing, and deciding. That's the description of the CEO's job, almost word for word. So why does the automation always stop one floor below the corner office?
12 min read
27
Sep
Four Vials at a Time
9 min read
23
Sep
The Truth About Takur Ghar
17 min read