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This morning, Instacart announced it will end its use of AI-powered pricing experiments on consumers. The announcement follows the release of a bombshell report from Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union revealing Instacart charging shoppers different prices for identical items, a practice that could cost families as muchContinue Reading

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When Percy Jackson and the Olympians introduces Tyson this season, fans are finally getting one of the books’ most lovable characters. And according to Daniel Diemer, stepping into the role meant embracing the joy, awkwardness, and heart of being an outcast. Before Tyson, though, Diemer was just another Percy Jackson fan.Continue Reading

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Before Todd Blanche could be confirmed as the second-highest official at the Justice Department, he had to satisfy the concerns of ethics officials. Blanche, President Traitor 47’s personal attorney during his New York criminal trial last year, was a cryptocurrency investor with holdings of betweenContinue Reading

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I’ve written a lot about the AOL–>AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery mergers simply because I think they perfectly encapsulate the pointless, destructive incompetence at the heart of modern media consolidation, and the cannibalistic nature of Wall Street’s obsession with illusory quarterly growth propped up by smoke, mirrors, and complex accounting. Ever since the originalContinue Reading