This is the summer of the blockbuster concert, and why not: Music fans have years of pent-up Covid frustration that they are ready to release. Sold-out shows by megastars like Taylor Swift are the perfect venue to release all that energy. Unfortunately, all this pent-up demand has created the perfect [Keep reading]
Everything old is new again. There was a time when my parents taught me to be extremely careful with personal checks — never to leave open space in the amount fields, lest someone add a zero, for example. Over the past several years, check writing has fallen deeply out of [Keep reading]
Nearly two years after focusing the world’s attention on Big Tech’s big problems, Frances Haugen remains a powerful force in the technology industry. In today’s episode of Debugger, she tells me how Covid lockdowns played a key role in her difficult decision to come forward and criticize one of the [Keep reading]
Huntington, West Virginia has seen its share of tragedies. Nestled near the Kentucky border, Huntington is the home of Marshall University, which in the 1970s suffered one of the saddest disasters in the history of US sports. A charter flight carrying most of the school’s football team crashed on the [Keep reading]
Welcome to this scam roundup. I’m trying something new; a quick collection of scam stories that have come across my desk in the past week, along with follow ups on stories we’ve told at The Perfect Scam podcast, which I host for AARP. Seen a scam? Contact me here. I [Keep reading]
Machines dehumanize people. I’ve long had a mental experiment in mind that I’d love to pull off one day — force people to walk at a grocery store the way they drive on a highway. You know: cut each other off, flip the bird, breathe (literally) down someone’s neck on [Keep reading]
By my calculations … at the low end, she may have stolen 3% of the population of Montrose. Last week I introduced the story of Diana McBride, who had just begun a quest to discover the truth after her step-dad’s cremains went missing following his untimely death. When Diana’s mom, [Keep reading]
It did keep plaguing me, you know, what really happened? Did they mix up his body? Did they lose his body? Little did I know what really happened. Really the horror, the nightmare was yet to come. I’ve hosted nearly 75 Perfect Scam podcasts during the past two years, but [Keep reading]
I’m often asked, “Isn’t there a truth in advertising law?!!??” by consumers who feel cheated by a company that embedded a gotcha in its advertisements. My sad answer is often some variation of “No, not really.” At least that’s been the on-the-ground reality for some time. There’s a glimmer of [Keep reading]
When Whistleblower Francis Haugen came forward and testified before Congress about what she thought was going wrong inside Facebook, she changed big tech forever. But how? I recently talked about this with Stephen Kohn, author of the book, Rules for Whistleblowers, A Handbook for Doing What’s Right, and many, many [Keep reading]
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