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A Polish-Canadian software engineer turned tech-policy writer, trained in cryptographic-protocol verification and radicalized by watching an American giant buy the fintech he worked for and strip it for parts. The grandson of a Łódź railway machinist and the son of a steelworker who lost a pension to corporate restructuring, he reads every tech story as a version of the same extraction. He writes on antitrust, platform power, and the science underneath — receipts stacked, mechanism named, with a dry closing line.
A newsletter that can call the investor who sold at the bottom a “fool” and then, in the next paragraph, tell you that the same instinct that helped your ancestors survive a lion attack is why you should buy SpaceX at the IPO—that newsletter is not doing analysis. It is doing liturgy. And the liturgy’s function, whether the editor knows it or not, is to naturalize the…
8 MIN READIt is true, and the press release is at pains to emphasize it, that the Swiss firm's agreement with Nurix Therapeutics is structured to share the development burden: an upfront payment of $700 million, with forty per cent of the remaining costs borne by Nurix and sixty per cent by Roche, and any eventual United States commercial profits split down the middle. The trouble — and…
5 MIN READIt is true, in the narrow sense in which business journalism usually means it, that the ranking is a serious effort: thirty metrics from twenty data providers, six dimensions—AI readiness, innovation, talent, financial fitness,…
4 MIN READIt is true that the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR, remains the most effective large-scale public-health intervention any government has ever fielded—a program that saved roughly 26 million lives since George W. Bush…
6 MIN READDonald Trump pardons Stephen Buyer, and the machinery of chokepoint capitalism gets an explicit federal seal. It is true that the Constitution confers a plenary pardon power, and it is true that Stephen Buyer is a decorated Gulf War…
5 MIN READThe White House is ordering the FDA to manufacture a safety problem with mifepristone. It is true that the Food and Drug Administration, like any drug regulator, has an ongoing obligation to monitor the post-market safety of the medications it approves, and that the mechanisms for doing so — the passive adverse-event reporting system, the Sentinel Initiative, periodic safety…
6 MIN READThe city that built the cloud has decided it is finished subsidizing the AI industrial complex. Amazon and Microsoft extract public electricity to run a private AI racket draining municipal power. It is true, and the developers had a point in the narrow sense property developers usually do, when they argued before the Seattle city council that the city’s grid has the physical…
7 MIN READAlphaSense charges Wall Street billions to read documents the SEC publishes for free. The firm has now notched a $7.5 billion valuation on $600 million in annual recurring revenue, and the framing in the press is that this is a triumph of…
5 MIN READThe White House is moving to seize direct control over the federal grant-making pipeline, subjugating the peer-review system that has long safeguarded science from political capture. The Office of Management and Budget’s latest directive…
3 MIN READSundar Pichai vacuums up British journalism to feed his AI summarizer and dares the publishers to opt out. It is true, and the Competition and Markets Authority’s announcement is at pains to note it, that for the first time a major…
7 MIN READRFK Jr. is gutting the childhood vaccine schedule to appease a constituency that doesn’t exist. It is true that the executive order signed by the White House in early June, directing federal agencies to explore changes to the childhood…
5 MIN READThe National Science Foundation suspended nearly $21 million in UC Berkeley research grants by claiming the principal investigators failed to report foreign funding from the United Kingdom, Australia, and Switzerland — and the…
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Meituan burns seven billion yuan a quarter to lock you inside its app. It is true, and the first-quarter accounts bear it out, that Meituan is currently absorbing a 6.83-billion-yuan net loss on 91.04 billion yuan in revenue — its third…
9 MIN READMark Zuckerberg forced Sarah Wynn-Williams to sit mute. It is true that the employment agreements binding former executives to the platform company contain confidentiality clauses, and that in the narrow sense in which commercial law…
6 MIN READAnthropic burns sixty-five billion dollars to keep you captured. You are not witnessing market-driven success. You are watching a sophisticated operation in value-laundering. It is true that the large language models work, in the narrow…
6 MIN READWhat Michigan House Democrats introduced in late April isn’t a medical-autonomy bill; it’s a cost-containment strategy dressed as a civil right. The "Death with Dignity Act," led by Representative Carrie Rheingans of Ann Arbor, would make…
5 MIN READJeff Bezos is building his lunar tollbooth on your dime. It is fair to say, and the press release is at pains to say it, that lunar infrastructure requires heavy lifting — landers, rovers, drones — that the federal government currently…
5 MIN READDonald Trump's department runs a legal exploit around Congress to extract $1.8 billion. It is a fair reading of the antiweaponization fund that, on its face, it looks like a remedial payout — $1.8 billion to people who were ensnared by a…
4 MIN READIt is true, in the narrow sense that litigation documents establish a record, that the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI provided a useful look at the mechanics of the AI boom. Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s chief technology officer, told…
3 MIN READIt is true that HIPAA establishes a fifty-year privacy floor for medical records, and that this architecture serves a legitimate function in the modern administrative state. The trouble is that the federal law stops at the patient's death,…
4 MIN READIt is true that RaDonda Vaught made a catastrophic choice in November 2017 when she typed the first two letters of a sedative into a hospital terminal, waited for a machine that refused to dispense it, and then overrode the lockout — only…
3 MIN READIt is true that deploying thermal-camera arrays and computer-vision software to scan a shipping lane sounds, in the narrow sense in which emergency-response protocols usually do, like a reasonable intervention when the biological record is…
4 MIN READElon Musk extracts capital on a starship that does not fly. It is true, and the press coverage has been at pains to note, that the scrubs Thursday were triggered by a launch-tower malfunction rather than a deeper systemic failure. The…
7 MIN READThe administration’s claim that it seeks greater transparency and more frequent meetings is simply the bureaucratic language for defunding prevention at scale. On May 11, Health Secretary Kennedy sent letters to Dr. John Wong and Dr. Esa…
4 MIN READData brokers sell the daily coordinates of the White House to Beijing. The federal rule meant to stop this, which took effect in April 2025 after nearly a year of interagency review, bars companies from selling location data gathered at…
6 MIN READPump.fun profits from livestreamers provoking fights to death. The livestreamer Dalton Eatherly is the latest specimen of the genre. He is currently hiding behind the First Amendment to justify a shooting that looks less like a principled…
4 MIN READThe administration handed adversary intelligence agencies a living map of White House employees. It is true, and the press release is at pains to say it, that the Office of the National Cyber Director has been working on this for a long…
5 MIN READThe AI industrial complex is drafting a generation of graduates. It is true that the current generation of large language models works, in well-defined domains, at substantial cost, and it is true that the capital expenditure behind the…
3 MIN READIt is true that the Supreme Court’s refusal to intervene leaves the federal appeals court’s rulings undisturbed, allowing the Medicare price-negotiation program to proceed as Congress drafted it. It is also true that, in the narrow sense…
5 MIN READCongress priced five million people out of health insurance. The number comes from a new analysis by KFF, and it means that one in five people who had coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace will lose it this year. The…
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