The settlement doc w/the Smithsonian is embedded in this story👇Read if you followed the story

While it’s a shame to settle, we did learn a lot, Including fact that Allied Universal is (bad) company that staffs our gvt security (TSA too) TIME AlanaSemuels did recent expose.

I hate the term “forever home” and here is why:
time.com/6900184/foreve…

.TIME launched a great new personal finance package spearheaded by Annabel Gutterman.

ft:
— why we're all spending so much money by the great AlanaSemuels time.com/6899688/why-we…
- how five people approach tipping time.com/6952788/tippin…
& so much more!

“It’s a myth to think you are somehow the only person who knows your Social Security number.” Why there's so much bank fraud out there, and why banks aren't doing enough to stop it.
time.com/6952817/financ…

'Once consumers started using mobile payments, they became more comfortable with making credit-card payments on their computers, and started moving more money digitally. And once they were comfortable spending money digitally, they started spending more money overall.'

As payments become faster and more frictionless, consumers are spending more and more money. Coincidence? Maybe not.
time.com/6899688/why-we…

Minnesota AG takes on hidden fees that dramatically increase the cost of solar loans taken out by consumers. ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communi…

Ladies and gentlemen, my hometown:

Many amazing details in this Vera Bergengruen TIME cover story about the AI tools used in the ongoing war in Ukraine:
time.com/6691662/ai-ukr…

How a secretive U.S. tech giant and Ukraine’s leaders teamed up to turn the country’s battlefields into a laboratory for the coming revolution in warfare. New @time cover by ⁦Vera Bergengruen⁩: time.com/6691662/ai-ukr…

It is a sad sign of the times in journalism to be getting referenced by an FTC commissioner about how my investigative reporting informed his thinking about a major policy, while at the same time being laid off from the job where i did said investigative reporting

Lots of good people are out of jobs today in the The Wall Street Journal DC bureau. And really, for no discernible reason given that the WSJ and its parent companies have seen record profits. A totally bleak, depressing and dispiriting start to 2024 for media.

Interest rates are falling, home prices are still rising. Maybe it's finally time to bite the bullet and buy a house?
time.com/6591141/is-it-…

WSJ DC layoffs are devastating. So much talent gone, including both people on my old tech policy beat.

But letting go of Brody Mullins seems particularly foolish. Brody is the best reporter I've worked with. He's not on Twitter, you know his byline though. One of the best.

Read this amazing story by a very talented reporter!

Very good thread, sums up my article better than I could have:

Which brings me back to #solar , as practiced in America. In a long @Time feature, AlanaSemuels describes the waves of bankruptcies, revealed frauds, and even confiscation of homeowners' houses arising from a decade of financialized solar:

time.com/6565415/roofto…

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Lawsuits from unhappy solar customers may represent a tiny fraction of homeowners, but hundreds (if not thousands) of these cases are in arbitration – because consumers can't legally file a lawsuit. Yes, there are many good actors in residential solar but also lots of bad ones.