10 Sunday Reads
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetence, corruption, and policy failures: • TheDirtySecretBehindtheFarmedFishYouEat. Our appetite for seafood is growing. In the last 60 years, the global consumption of fish has more than doubled. As demand has increased, so have dangerous levels of overfishing: One-third of the world’s fish stocks are currently being harvested… Read More The post…
In the last 60 years, global consumption of fish has more than doubled, leading to dangerous levels of overfishing. One-third of the world's fish stocks are currently being harvested unsustainably. A report in the New York Times Magazine investigates fish farming's use of forced labor, rancid waste, and harmful chemicals, and its impact on the seafood we consume.
A New Republic article explores why Elon Musk's pimply minions created DOGE, rather than focusing on cutting government spending. The minions wanted to profit for themselves, and DOGE alumni have leveraged their government experience to raise at least half a billion dollars for firms in cyberwarfare, AI, and data centers, according to a Washington Post analysis.
A blogger questions whether hacking by AI companies is now legal, after Anthropic models breached three systems and OpenAI's hit an Australian government health site. AI companies claim their hacks were unpredictable accidents, but they follow from deliberate design choices, establishing criminal intent.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a summer surge in immigration raids is raising labor costs and freezing construction projects. Nearly two-thirds of builders surveyed in September said enforcement is hindering their workforce. An Off Message piece examines Trump's corruption, noting that corruption is his raison d'être, not just more corrupt than most politicians. His tactics are a GOP crime spree, and voters need to be aware.
The Nerd Reich podcast interviews Casey Michel about his new book exposing how America's wealthiest ally allies with dictators and oligarchs betting against democracy. Fabrications, fraud, and false accounting are detailed in a London Bureau of Investigative Journalism article, where Deloitte helped oligarch Abramovich conceal $10 billion in assets and dodge tax.
A Techdirt article discusses how MAGA built the censorship machine they spent years falsely accusing Democrats of building. The apparatus they warned Democrats were constructing is the one MAGA built itself. The Atlantic highlights how Texas state laws and university policies at Texas Tech, Texas A&M, and UT Austin restrict what professors can teach.
In a Bloomberg Originals video, the impact of AI on the world's wealth is explored. Lastly, The Atlantic examines Megyn Kelly's transformation from a self-described advocate for female empowerment to a combative YouTube host, and her controversial comments on the Cornell case.
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