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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
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Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...
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Should we be farming and eating octopus? I thought I knew the answer, but the issue much more nuanced that I expected. @clintrainey.com takes a deep dive on what could be the next big commercially farmed seafood www.fastcompany.com/91448602/oct...
Octopus could be the next commercially farmed seafood. Should it be?
Octopus is a hot menu item. Yet overfishing threatens supply. An exclusive report on the race to build the first commercial octopus farm.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Should we be farming and eating octopus? I thought I knew the answer, but the issue much more nuanced that I expected. @clintrainey.com takes a deep dive on what could be the next big commercially farmed seafood www.fastcompany.com/91448602/oct...
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Like so many tech stories right now, this is also religion story: a 25-year-old founder who has moved through a Doug Wilson-affiliated church, is now Eastern Orthodox, and "quotes the Bible and Elon Musk in the same breath." By @ainsleyharris.bsky.social: www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
The hardest startup in America
Augustus Doricko’s Rainmaker uses cloud seeding to bring rain where it’s needed. In the process, he’s been swept up in a storm of controversy.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Like so many tech stories right now, this is also religion story: a 25-year-old founder who has moved through a Doug Wilson-affiliated church, is now Eastern Orthodox, and "quotes the Bible and Elon Musk in the same breath." By @ainsleyharris.bsky.social: www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
Augustus Doricko might seem like a typical startup founder. He’s raised $31 million in venture capital for Rainmaker, which uses drones to ‘seed’ clouds, bringing water to drought-prone areas. There’s technological wizardry and a world-changing mission. www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
The hardest startup in America
Augustus Doricko’s Rainmaker uses cloud seeding to bring rain where it’s needed. In the process, he’s been swept up in a storm of controversy.
www.fastcompany.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Augustus Doricko might seem like a typical startup founder. He’s raised $31 million in venture capital for Rainmaker, which uses drones to ‘seed’ clouds, bringing water to drought-prone areas. There’s technological wizardry and a world-changing mission. www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
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The type designer behind Calibri says the decision to replace his font with Times New Roman as the official U.S. State Department typeface is "hilarious and regrettable." f-st.co/jiypxwR
A brief history of Calibri, the 'woke' font the Trump administration is replacing
The secretary of state called Calibri 'informal' and blamed 'radical' DEI programs for its use in official State Department documents.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The type designer behind Calibri says the decision to replace his font with Times New Roman as the official U.S. State Department typeface is "hilarious and regrettable." f-st.co/jiypxwR
Exclusive: Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod is stepping down. Here's what that means for the 'designed to be deleted' dating app. www.fastcompany.com/91456495/hin...
Exclusive: Hinge CEO Justin McLeod steps down
McLeod grew his app into a standout for the dating industry and Match Group. Jackie Jantos—Hinge president and CMO—now succeeds him as CEO.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Exclusive: Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod is stepping down. Here's what that means for the 'designed to be deleted' dating app. www.fastcompany.com/91456495/hin...
Prediction markets are drawing in sports fans—and Fanatics wants in. The apparel and collectibles giant its betting its new Fanatics Markets app can capture some of the billions of dollars in trades that Kalshi and Polymarket are seeing. FC has the exclusive. www.fastcompany.com/91452559/exc...
Exclusive: Fanatics launches a prediction markets app, the first major sportsbook to do so
Fanatics CEO of betting and gaming Matt King reveals why the sports apparel and collectibles giant is launching Fanatics Markets.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Prediction markets are drawing in sports fans—and Fanatics wants in. The apparel and collectibles giant its betting its new Fanatics Markets app can capture some of the billions of dollars in trades that Kalshi and Polymarket are seeing. FC has the exclusive. www.fastcompany.com/91452559/exc...
Have we ushered in an era where every time a player mysteriously gets hurt or flubs a pitch, he or she will be greeted with accusations of cheating? The great @jaywillis.net on how prop bets have changed the game. www.fastcompany.com/91429446/the...
The NBA’s betting scandal shows who really runs sports now
The NBA brought the Terry Rozier prop-betting scandal on itself, trading its credibility for easy money from the sportsbooks.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Have we ushered in an era where every time a player mysteriously gets hurt or flubs a pitch, he or she will be greeted with accusations of cheating? The great @jaywillis.net on how prop bets have changed the game. www.fastcompany.com/91429446/the...
"Even as Democrats rally around ActBlue in the face of attacks from the right, they are sharply divided over whether the organization is equipped to handle these blows." @issielapowsky.bsky.social reports on Democratic fundraising giant, which is under siege. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...
Inside the storm surrounding ActBlue
Under attack by Republicans and shaken by internal rifts, the Democrats’ fundraising engine faces its toughest test yet.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Even as Democrats rally around ActBlue in the face of attacks from the right, they are sharply divided over whether the organization is equipped to handle these blows." @issielapowsky.bsky.social reports on Democratic fundraising giant, which is under siege. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...
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NEW: Trump gave the DOJ 180 days to report on supposed fraud at ActBlue. The deadline passed. No report.
I spoke with sources about the tumultuous last year inside ActBlue—turnover under its CEO, GOP attacks, and the group's growing ambitions despite it all. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...
I spoke with sources about the tumultuous last year inside ActBlue—turnover under its CEO, GOP attacks, and the group's growing ambitions despite it all. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...
Inside the storm surrounding ActBlue
Under attack by Republicans and shaken by internal rifts, the Democrats’ fundraising engine faces its toughest test yet.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
NEW: Trump gave the DOJ 180 days to report on supposed fraud at ActBlue. The deadline passed. No report.
I spoke with sources about the tumultuous last year inside ActBlue—turnover under its CEO, GOP attacks, and the group's growing ambitions despite it all. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...
I spoke with sources about the tumultuous last year inside ActBlue—turnover under its CEO, GOP attacks, and the group's growing ambitions despite it all. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...
When you hear about someone arrested or swept up in an immigration raid, there’s a good chance they’ve ended up at a facility run by Geo Group, the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and one of ICE’s biggest contractors. 🧵👇 1/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...
The house that ICE built
Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
When you hear about someone arrested or swept up in an immigration raid, there’s a good chance they’ve ended up at a facility run by Geo Group, the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and one of ICE’s biggest contractors. 🧵👇 1/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...
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“…What will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them.”
September 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“…What will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them.”
Embryo screening startups like Orchid promise to reduce genetic risks & help parents avoid passing on inherited conditions. But are we edging toward designer babies? @ainsleyharris.bsky.social explores the hope & discomfort of genetic optimization. Worth a read. www.fastcompany.com/91396712/sil...
Silicon Valley wants you to stop 'rolling the dice' about your future baby's health
Genomics startups like Noor Siddiqui's Orchid promise healthier children through advanced embryo screening. Do they deliver?
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September 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Embryo screening startups like Orchid promise to reduce genetic risks & help parents avoid passing on inherited conditions. But are we edging toward designer babies? @ainsleyharris.bsky.social explores the hope & discomfort of genetic optimization. Worth a read. www.fastcompany.com/91396712/sil...
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It’s 1995 Week on Fast Company! Here’s my colleague Mark Sullivan on Johnny Mnemonic, a prescient movie I somehow still haven’t seen. www.fastcompany.com/91356470/joh...
'Johnny Mnemonic' predicted our addictive digital future - Fast Company
The much-maligned 1995 cyberpunk film envisioned a world of tech addiction, brain implants, and AI companions—ideas that feel eerily relevant in today's world.
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July 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It’s 1995 Week on Fast Company! Here’s my colleague Mark Sullivan on Johnny Mnemonic, a prescient movie I somehow still haven’t seen. www.fastcompany.com/91356470/joh...
💉 Does a pharma company have a responsibility to release a safer drug when it develops one? Do its good works abroad offset its harms back home? @adambluestein.bsky.social looks at what happens when one drugmaker dominates an entire group of patients. www.fastcompany.com/91336445/gil...
This company's drug could effectively end the HIV epidemic—but patients remember how it slow walked a past treatment
Gilead Sciences' lenacapavir PrEP shot could reshape the AIDS epidemic. A California lawsuit reveals how it slow walked a previous treatment.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
💉 Does a pharma company have a responsibility to release a safer drug when it develops one? Do its good works abroad offset its harms back home? @adambluestein.bsky.social looks at what happens when one drugmaker dominates an entire group of patients. www.fastcompany.com/91336445/gil...
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"We will erase the national debt by selling illegal green cards to millions of extremely wealthy foreigners who (1) definitely exist and (2) want to move to our budding police state" is the kind of delusional nonsense that only this country's stupidest billionaires could come up with
Trump’s 'gold card' visa scheme is pure gilded nonsense
Wealthy foreigners willing to buy a dubiously legal way to immigrate to the U.S. now have a website where they can register their interest.
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June 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"We will erase the national debt by selling illegal green cards to millions of extremely wealthy foreigners who (1) definitely exist and (2) want to move to our budding police state" is the kind of delusional nonsense that only this country's stupidest billionaires could come up with
"In news I am sure will astonish you, Trump and his handlers do not appear to have a firm grasp on the legal intricacies here." @jaywillis.net on the gilded nonsense known as the Trump Gold Card: www.fastcompany.com/91352164/tru...
Trump’s 'gold card' visa scheme is pure gilded nonsense
Wealthy foreigners willing to buy a dubiously legal way to immigrate to the U.S. now have a website where they can register their interest.
www.fastcompany.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"In news I am sure will astonish you, Trump and his handlers do not appear to have a firm grasp on the legal intricacies here." @jaywillis.net on the gilded nonsense known as the Trump Gold Card: www.fastcompany.com/91352164/tru...
I know some folks don't have much sympathy for Moderna, but RFK Jr's war on vaccines and the science behind them could affect everything from the government's response to avian flu to ground-breaking cancer therapeutics.
June 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I know some folks don't have much sympathy for Moderna, but RFK Jr's war on vaccines and the science behind them could affect everything from the government's response to avian flu to ground-breaking cancer therapeutics.
Did CEOs ever really believe in ‘doing good’—or was it all just PR? For Fast Company's latest cover story, Jim Surowiecki looks at what's behind the corporate retreat from DEI, ESG, and idea that business can and should be a force for good.
By around 2019, the notion of “business for good” was mainstream: Big established companies launched diversity initiatives and took steps to reduce their carbon footprint.
“Doing well by doing good” was here to stay. Or so it seemed.
Read more in our latest issue: bit.ly/3Td0TX0
“Doing well by doing good” was here to stay. Or so it seemed.
Read more in our latest issue: bit.ly/3Td0TX0
June 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Did CEOs ever really believe in ‘doing good’—or was it all just PR? For Fast Company's latest cover story, Jim Surowiecki looks at what's behind the corporate retreat from DEI, ESG, and idea that business can and should be a force for good.
This isn’t just a pharma story—it’s about what happens when ideology starts writing the rules of science. @adambluestein.bsky.social on what went wrong Moderna. www.fastcompany.com/91337309/wha...
MAHA v. Moderna: The COVID vaccine maker is under attack by RFK Jr.'s department of health
Moderna went all in on mRNA vaccines. Now, its technology is under attack by RFK Jr and MAHA, and its future is more uncertain than ever.
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June 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This isn’t just a pharma story—it’s about what happens when ideology starts writing the rules of science. @adambluestein.bsky.social on what went wrong Moderna. www.fastcompany.com/91337309/wha...
Wanna make it in music today? Get yourself a Tiny Desk concert! Love this story by the great @davidsalazar.bsky.social
Almost since it started, I've subjected many friends to forced viewings of @npr.org's Tiny Desk Concerts. So I was thrilled when @afarles.bsky.social told me to write about the Tiny Desk effect and its ability to create global stars/reinvigorate artists' careers. www.fastcompany.com/91337277/npr...
How NPR’s Tiny Desk became the biggest stage in music
NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts are now minting global pop stars quicker than ever. Just ask Argentina’s Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso.
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June 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Wanna make it in music today? Get yourself a Tiny Desk concert! Love this story by the great @davidsalazar.bsky.social
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I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.
May 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
After throwing a grenade at Harvard, Trump is off to dinner with 220 of his favorite people in the world: crypto speculators willing to pay for access to the White House. @jaywillis.net takes a look at the president's brazen cash grab
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Trump’s 4,000 meme-coins-per-plate crypto dinner is an American embarrassment
During his second term, Trump is best understood as a crypto industry booster who also happens to be President of the United States.
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May 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
After throwing a grenade at Harvard, Trump is off to dinner with 220 of his favorite people in the world: crypto speculators willing to pay for access to the White House. @jaywillis.net takes a look at the president's brazen cash grab
www.fastcompany.com/91338783/tru...
www.fastcompany.com/91338783/tru...
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I have always viewed Trump’s political career as a grift, and yet, if you’d told me in 2016 that he’d be hosting a private dinner for hundreds of crypto speculators who’d spent $150 million on his memecoin, I would have assumed democracy was on the brink of collapse. Wait, hold that thought
Trump’s 4,000 meme-coins-per-plate crypto dinner is an American embarrassment
During his second term, Trump is best understood as a crypto industry booster who also happens to be President of the United States.
www.fastcompany.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I have always viewed Trump’s political career as a grift, and yet, if you’d told me in 2016 that he’d be hosting a private dinner for hundreds of crypto speculators who’d spent $150 million on his memecoin, I would have assumed democracy was on the brink of collapse. Wait, hold that thought