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Sep 10, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    The Clean Data Failure Behind a Romance Scam. (opens the original)

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    Spoiler alert: This post discusses central details from Hulu’s three-part series Hey Beautiful: Anatomy of a Romance Scam.<img alt="Watch

  2. Issue · Sep 9, 2026

    AI Agents Learn From Data. That Data Needs Rules. (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    Mystery Meat, Mystery Data (opens the original)

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    I have been thinking about meat. That is admittedly an unusual place to begin an essay about artificial intelligence, advertising and data accountability. But the more I think about it, the less ridiculous the comparison seems. In fact, meat may offer a better way to explain the problem with modern data than much of the language we have invented for the technology industry.Consider a very ordinary question: Where did this come from?We ask that question constantly in the physical economy. We ask

  4. Issue · Aug 17, 2026

    Vermont Just Became the 23rd State With a Privacy Law. That’s Progress—and a Warning. (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 3, 2026

    What California’s DROP Means for the Data Economy (opens the original)

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