The full 8-part season 2 of Shell Game is out! The tale of HurumoAI, the world’s first AI agent-cofounded and led startup, ready to binge:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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"Evan Ratliff is a total weirdo." —Vulture, best narrative podcasts of 2025

What a surprise to hear my own voice on the fantastic Shell Game!

In this ep you'll hear myself and @charlietaylor.bsky.social from the Connected AI Podcast, joking about a rather unusual – and ethically questionable – response to AI coworkers...

Thanks to @evrat.bsky.social for the shout-out! 🤩

I cannot recommend @evrat.bsky.social's Shell Game podcast highly enough: the first season is wild -- and the second season is absolutely unhinged. Hilarious, thought-provoking and timely; a must-listen!
www.shellgame.co/podcast

more terrifying image to me than those in most horror movies

Ok, SCOOP: Public cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks (
@paloaltontwks.bsky.social , PANW), which regularly presents itself as the expert on the hiring of North Korean IT workers, itself unwittingly hired nine North Korean agents, a fact it has never revealed:

New from me: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. For Bloomberg BW, I delved into the scheme, with access to an American facilitator who enabled it: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

New from me: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. For Bloomberg BW, I delved into the scheme, with access to an American facilitator who enabled it: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

For the last 2 years, for WIRED, I've been on the trail of the Zizians, gifted young people who set out to save the world and ended up enveloped in violence and death. You may have seen headlines about them. This is their story, based on years of reporting in real time: www.wired.com/story/deliri...

The fatal shooting of a US border patrol agent in Vermont. The stabbing death of a landlord in California. An elderly couple murdered in Pennsylvania. Who are the so-called Zizians, the group allegedly linked to all these killings? buff.ly/3ENqfa5

A group of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.

This is the delirious, violent, impossible true story of the Zizians:

www.wired.com/story/deliri...

Have we reflected at all on how Twitter was mass-liquifying brains well before Musk? How it incentivized otherwise smart, talented people to devote countless hours to honing their dunking, outrage farming, and shitposting skills? I get why they want a new spot to use them, but why do the rest of us?

Twitter was always a pyramid scheme with attention as its currency. Coming here feels like saying "hey everybody check out this new venture, same returns we used to get on the old one, no downside!" Instead of "damn, got conned, lost a fortune, gotta be smarter."

Sure, I'll type into this box, good as any other typing box. But with respect to all who're here, I have some... reservations.