10 Sunday Reads – The Massive Image

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning take a look at incompetency, corruption and coverage failures:

• Felony Deception in Silicon Valley: With entrepreneurial fraud instances on the rise, we examine how entrepreneurs perform legal deception, using misleading means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court docket knowledge from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders prosecuted for fraud between 2000 and 2023, our findings reveal that entrepreneurs perform legal deception via a technique of façading: Entrepreneurs assemble, carry out, and defend illusory appearances (façades) that externally mission high-growth efficiency to audiences whereas masking ventures’ precise underperformance. An Group Science paper extending the cultural-entrepreneurship literature — how founders craft compelling narratives to amass assets, and the place dramatized discourse crosses into fraud. (Group Science)

• How rogue officers turned a nationwide digital camera community right into a instrument for stalking: Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was constructed to struggle crime. However a minimum of 50 legislation enforcement officers have been charged with or accused of misusing it and different programs. Drew Harwell on Flock’s license-plate cameras, constructed to struggle crime — and the a minimum of 50 legislation enforcement officers charged with or accused of misusing them, together with to spy on their exes. (Washington Submit)

• A Civilian Airplane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Navy’s Tech to Blame?: Jeff Clever on a medevac flight out of Roswell and the way drone warfare is making the skies extra harmful, even for airplanes removed from any battlefield. Drone warfare is making the skies extra harmful, even for airplanes removed from the battlefield. (Wired)

• How the Reflecting Pool Got here to Mirror Trump’s Washington: The New York Occasions on the canoe incident’s afterlife — how a shallow pool on the Nationwide Mall turned the proper metaphor for a capital the place each image is contested and each stunt is a federal case. (New York Occasions)

• REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its On-line Critics: Speaking Factors Memo on the paperwork displaying ICE monitoring journalists, activists, and unusual critics. (Speaking Factors Memo) see additionally How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media In opposition to Its Critics: The Wall Avenue Journal’s parallel investigation — the company is constructing instances from posts, likes, and follower lists. Company says its surveillance program searches for threats to brokers, however critics see free-speech infringements (Wall Avenue Journal)

• How predatory commerce faculties drained $300 million from the GI Invoice and cheated veterans: The establishments defrauded Veterans Affairs whereas dishonest 1000’s out of profession coaching, with some providing coaching on methods to develop grass and make pretend rocks, a Submit investigation discovered. The Washington Submit’s investigation into the colleges charging veterans large sums to discover ways to develop grass and make pretend rocks — the GI Invoice grift at industrial scale. (Washington Submit)

• Blanche Privately Vows to Take Down Abortion Rights Subsequent: The New Republic reviews on the AG nominee’s non-public assurances to conservative teams — the general public confirmation-hearing moderation is just not the non-public agenda. (New Republic)

• The Cities That Mentioned Sure to Medication: Michael Powell walks a mile from downtown Seattle into Little Saigon and finds an open-air market of roughly 250 folks at twelfth and Jackson. An extended take a look at what hurt discount has and hasn’t delivered. Insurance policies that gave addicts clear needles and locations to make use of medicine have been supposed to scale back hurt. They created a “zombie apocalypse.” (The Atlantic)

• What Occurred to Talenti?: Wirecutter investigates the gelato decline — the recipe adjustments, the shrinking jars, and the private-equity playbook utilized to premium ice cream. The comment-section outrage was proper. (Wirecutter)

• One Night time Solely: An Sincere Try and Perceive the Ridiculous World of Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro’s New Rom-Com: Why are single folks solely allowed to have intercourse as soon as every year? How on earth is that rule enforced? Is third base permitted? Pull up a chair—and prepare for a deep dive. (Vainness Truthful)

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