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There is an old axiom you will have heard of before: don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If we wanted to boil this down to a math equation, it might be described as something like ...

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We've all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You're right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad syste ...

There's a concept in economics known as Goodhart's Law, often summarized as: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." The idea, originally about mo ...

Shortly after Trump took office for a second time, his administration made it clear that it felt constitutional rights were merely privileges it would extend only to those who fully supported whate ...

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As we wrote just yesterday, the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman was going about as well for the officers as their original botched raid on his h ...

Brunchlords can only fail upward. It's physics.Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav is poised to get as much as $550 million in compensation and tax reimbursement as the company prepares to be ac ...

It was mere days ago that we were discussing an interesting lawsuit brought by the American Academy of Pediatrics, among others, challenging RFK Jr. and HHS for violating the Administrative Procedu ...

We've been following the saga of Afroman (real name Joseph Foreman) and the Adams County Sheriff's Office for a few years now, and I'm delighted to report that the defamation tria ...