More News That Will Likely Piss you off
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.
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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
Nancy DeRocco had a job. Jason Doss worked at Ford. Kevin Grifka was a union electrician. Every one of them was out of work for a while, filed a claim they were entitled to, and went back to work. Years later, a computer decided they were criminals. Working-class people that did everything right.
9 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
As of June 30 the federal government had approved about $9.7 billion total for Helene. That is about 16 percent of what the storm cost. Compare that to past disasters. After Hurricane Sandy, federal aid covered about 78 percent of the damage. After Katrina, about 73 percent.
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23
Sep
The Truth About Takur Ghar
John Chapman went back up that mountain for a teammate. When his own team came off it, he stayed and kept fighting for the men still coming. The only witness was a camera in the sky. It took the country sixteen years to believe what it showed. Some people still do not want to.
17 min read
21
Sep
Do the Wrong Thing.
The verdict of history is that they were villains. The verdict of their own lifetimes, delivered by everyone in a position to do anything about it, was that they were survivors, and in more than one case they were considered great men, heroes even.
17 min read