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Amy Farley

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Executive editor, Fast Company

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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Critics call them mercenaries and traitors, just in it for the cash. But @stokel.bsky.social wanted to find out what's really motivating them. It turns out, many are hooked on the thrilling, complex puzzle of helping machines outsmart humans. www.fastcompany.com/91587919/tur...
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The smartest people in the world are automating themselves into obsolescence—and loving it
Elite knowledge workers explain how training AI models for the likes of Turing and Mercor is the most exciting intellectual challenge of their careers, even if they succeed in teaching their AI studen...
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Companies like Turing, Mercor, Surge AI, and Scale AI have become AI juggernauts by paying an army of academics and white-collar professionals to imbue machines with their hard-won expertise. www.fastcompany.com/91587919/tur...
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The smartest people in the world are automating themselves into obsolescence—and loving it
Elite knowledge workers explain how training AI models for the likes of Turing and Mercor is the most exciting intellectual challenge of their careers, even if they succeed in teaching their AI studen...
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why are some of the smartest people in the world—scientists, academics, physicians, and more—so keen on training AI systems, even if it means building their own replacements? www.fastcompany.com/91587919/tur...
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The smartest people in the world are automating themselves into obsolescence—and loving it
Elite knowledge workers explain how training AI models for the likes of Turing and Mercor is the most exciting intellectual challenge of their careers, even if they succeed in teaching their AI studen...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/09/2026
For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.
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Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete
The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
George Santos hopping onto Kalshi to make a quick buck by betting on whether he'll appear at the State of the Union isn't a flaw in prediction markets. It's exactly what these platforms were built to incentivize. @jaywillis.net, as always, calls it like it is. www.fastcompany.com/91554204/pre...
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Prediction markets are fueling a new era of political graft
Kalshi and Polymarket say they leverage the wisdom of the crowd. Instead, they’ve created a lucrative way for politicians and campaign staffers to treat inside info like a day-trading asset.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The company that put millions of drivers on the road—and dashed the prospects of countless taxi drivers in the process—now faces a future without them. Can Uber survive the robotaxi era? www.fastcompany.com/91548707/ube...
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Inside Uber's strategy to avoid a head-on collision with autonomous cars
Dara Khosrowshahi is spreading Uber’s robotaxi bets as early AV partner Waymo starts driving solo. Plus: A first look inside Uber's new Nuro AV.
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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Cannot say enough how extensive Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies is this year. This represents a year of effort from our whole staff and is an incredible resource. Lists great companies doing cool work in basically any area you're interested in: www.fastcompany.com/most-innovat...
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An exclusive look at the World's Most Innovative Companies
Check out the Most Innovative Companies in entertainment, media, sports, technology, and more.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
As the mom of a 13-year-old girl who played on an all-boys hockey team last year—because the pipeline out here in NYC needs to get a little stronger—I'm grateful to the @thepwhl.com for elevating the game and inspiring the next generation. Also Hilary Knight rocks www.fastcompany.com/91502960/pro...
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Why the Professional Women's Hockey League is scoring with fans
On-ice innovations have powered the Professional Women's Hockey League to set records for attendance and increase fan engagement.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Onion is exactly where it should be. Welcome to the MIC club, @bencollins.bsky.social
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Well holy shit. The Onion was just named one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world by FastCompany. We're coming for you AI perverts!!!
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The Onion had a very good year
The Onion is proving that print isn’t dead. CEO Ben Collins and cofounder Jeff Lawson describe the publication's very good year.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“echo” is a weird way to say “are” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
VIl. CONCLUSION
There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the
facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table.
Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has
ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).
Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement
junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both
our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS
program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that.
By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay
Under 5 U.S.C. § 705.
Ana C. Reyes
Date: February 2, 2026
ANA C. REYES
United States District Judge
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Minnesota is full of companies that position themselves as pillars of the local community, Target, General Mills, Best Buy, Cargill, and Land O’Lakes, among them. Have they said anything about ICE's attack on their customers and employees? Not a single one. www.fastcompany.com/91476021/min...
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We asked Minnesota's biggest companies about ICE. None of them responded
In a sign of how far we've come from the summer of 2020, well-known brands have stayed silent as escalating chaos unfolds in their backyard.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Gebbia in 2018 vs 2026
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia helped turn the company into a behemoth by touting its 'Belong Anywhere’ mission. Today, as the country's chief design officer, he’s redesigning how Americans experience the government & cheering on the Trump administration's policies. www.fastcompany.com/91458973/chi...
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From Airbnb to the White House: Joe Gebbia is reshaping the government in Trump’s image
The president decimated the U.S. government’s digital design agencies and replaced them with a personal propaganda czar.
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Maguire posted a now-deleted video on X stitching together dubious 'evidence' and declared it seemed “very likely” the student was responsible. Maguire's bio says he's on the lookout for "high-IQ founders." He doesn't mention if he's also looking for ones who display good judgment and discernment.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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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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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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The result is a nuanced profile of a complicated founder as he navigates science, politics, the craziest theories on the internet, and his own past. www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Fast Company’s @ainsleyharris.bsky.social met with Doricko in Utah, where he’s working to restore the depleted Great Salt Lake. In a series of conversations, they discussed the world-changing potential of his tech, his religious beliefs, and what America First really means to him.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
His biography is also complicated. Though Doricko courts politicians on the left and right, while he was a student at UC Berkeley, he was at at least briefly aligned with Nick Fuentes. Doricko’s religious conviction has also raised eyebrows, with some accusing him of using Rainmaker to play God.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
But the typical founder storyline ends there. This year, Doricko has found himself in a maelstrom. His company has been attacked by politicians and right-wing conspiracy theorists, who accuse it being responsible for the devastating flooding in Texas over the summer. He’s received death threats.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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 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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Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 11/12/2025
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
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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...
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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...
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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...
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"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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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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issielapowsky.bsky.social @issielapowsky.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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...
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Here's the kicker: Geo’s chairman, George Zoley, is an immigrant himself. He arrived here as a child from Greece. @michaellinhorst.bsky.social looks at the company—and man—at the heart of Trump’s hard-line immigration machine. 6/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Last year, Geo took in about $1 billion from its contracts with ICE—41% of its annual revenue. That’s set to skyrocket alongside ICE’s budget, which is earmarked to receive an additional $75 billion through 2029 via the One Big Beautiful Bill. 5/6
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
But under Trump, Geo is evolving from a background player in federal enforcement into something closer to a government appendage. U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi worked as a lobbyist for Geo in 2019. The company paid consulting fees to Tom Homan before he joined the administration. 4/6
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Geo is a key partner in the government’s efforts to detain, monitor, and deport immigrants: It runs detention facilities, operates deportation flights, and provides electronic surveillance of immigrants awaiting deportation decisions. 3/6
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Geo Group runs the Georgia center where Salvadorian journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested covering a No Kings protest in June, was held for more than three months before his deportation today. It runs the Louisiana facility where Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Khalil was held. 2/6
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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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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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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
“…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.”
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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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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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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 14/07/2025
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...
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'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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
💉 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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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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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 13/06/2025
"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
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"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...
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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.
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Opinion | RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines
We’re reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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...
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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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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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.
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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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...
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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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