The Latest Breaking News from Justin Fox

Elon Musk-Backed DOGE 'Blatantly Used' ChatGPT and DEI, LGBTQ Keywords to Slash Federal Funding

A US judge has ruled DOGE's grant cuts unlawful, criticising the use of AI and keyword searches in the decision-making process.

International Business Times · May 9

Court Refuses to Block Continued Distribution of DOGE Witness Deposition Videos

"[T]he materials at issue concern the conduct of public officials acting in their official capacities, which substantially diminishes any cognizable privacy interest and weighs against restriction."

Reason · Mar 23

Deposition Exposes DOGE Bros Can’t Even Define DEI

Deposition videos released by the American Historical Association against former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees made rounds online. For a bunch of appointed personnel, it didn’t seem like they had an understanding of the budgets they wanted to slash.

The Mary Sue · Mar 19

'My work can be flexible, my son's routine is not': Meet the ‘dead zone’ workers killing management's attempts to return to pre-pandemic 9 to 5 grind

Workers are clocking off work early to run errands and picking it back up late at night. Here’s how they’re making their vampiresque schedule work.

Fortune · Aug 11, 2023

Justin Fox: What you can learn from Warren Buffett’s mistakes

There was very little in the way of news in the annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders that Warren Buffett released Saturday morning. Buffett did mention that “Berkshire had a good year in 2022,” with operating earnings of $30.8 billion, and disclosed that subsidiary See’s Candies sold $400,309, or…

Tribune News Service · Feb 27, 2023

Justin Fox: The pandemic drinking binge just keeps going

The arrival of COVID-19 and the societal disruptions that accompanied it understandably drove a lot of Americans to drink. But even as life has returned to more or less normal this year, the drinking binge has continued — which isn’t great news for anybody other than the makers and sellers…

Tribune News Service · Dec 30, 2022