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There are so many shitty U.S. companies across tech, energy, and AI that criticism of our massively-unpopular telecom monopolies has fallen out of fashion. It's easy to forget, for example, t ...

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Buc-ee's trademark bullying ways continue! This company that has long been famous for its enormous gas station and convenience stores practically dripping in Americana is quickly building a n ...

For years, John Deere had actively made repairing their tractors near-impossible for anyone but itself and the few "authorized" repair shops--regardless of the ability of its customers t ...

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Well, it looks like investigators better go back to doing actual investigations in the Fifth Circuit, rather than just assuming a little paperwork and a whole lot of assistance from service provide ...

There are many ways to describe the Trump Era, but the executive branch's conviction that it can simply ignore the legislative branch's entire existence has become something close to a ...

Back in May I noted how the Trump FCC had unveiled a brand new plan to "stop robocalls." I also noted how the plan doesn't actually stop robocalls because a well-lobbied U.S. government (

When Erica Schwartz was first nominated for Director of the CDC, you could almost hear both a gasp of surprise and a collective sigh of relief from healthcare providers throughout the country. Schw ...

For a while now we've been mocking the Trump White House's plans for an "AI framework" that would have the frontier AI labs hand over their top models for an initial review.