Pratt SummerMay 27
pirate wires #160 // the reality tv villain who just shattered the honesty taboo in los angeles, and the power of a local politician who talks about local politics
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I Used AI to Email 3,800 Ivy League Bureaucrats, Now My School Is Investigating Me
it costs $93,064 to attend brown university. the annual budget deficit is $46 million. i wanted to know where the hell all the money was going.
Alex Shieh
Apr 1, 2025
Earlier this month, Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh lit the internet on fire after asking the school’s small army of non-instructional staff to justify their jobs, receiving coverage from Newsweek and Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Today in Pirate Wires, he writes about the inspiration behind his project — and its aftermath.
Pratt Summer
Let the Door-Knockers TradeMay 20
allowing political staffers to wager on campaign results isn’t corrupt — it’s maximizing the utility that prediction markets were supposed to provide in the first place
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Marco Rubio Wants to Send YOU AbroadMay 15
inside the state department's effort to recruit a new generation of young patriots for america's diplomatic corps
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