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Sugar High, part 4: The future of music is what we’ll make

July 28, 2026 Bob Sullivan 0

A quick mental exercise: Imagine electricity were just discovered, and during the residential rollout, there were no rules.  No fire safety measures, no voltage standards, no common size for outlets. I imagine there’s one image that comes to mind.  FIRE!  Everywhere. That’s kinda what we’re hearing from some quarters about [Keep reading]

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Sugar High, part 4: The future of music is what we’ll make — transcript

July 23, 2026 Bob Sullivan 0

The Debugger miniseries ‘Sugar High’ examines the impact Big Tech and AI will have on the music industry. In this conclusion, folk musician Tift Merritt and Duke Professor David Hoffman discuss all the tools society has to encourage both innovation and art. And we learn a bit more about Tift’s [Keep reading]

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A decade of heartbreaks: His identity has been used in hundreds of romance scams

July 23, 2026 Bob Sullivan 0

I sat down at his table and he had probably 100 cards and letters and gifts and boxes and he said, ‘I bet there’s at least 500 …. This isn’t nearly all of it.’ And he really lost count. There were just stacks of love letters and gifts and cards, [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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