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The Deadly Toll of Amazon’s Trucking Boom (The Information)

Amazon’s explosive growth is flooding highways with semitrucks carrying cargo for the internet retailer. But a five-month investigation by The Information reveals that those trucks were involved in more than 50 serious crashes over the last three years. And Amazon says it bears no responsibility.


Inside Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments (WIRED)

The high-profile unicorn is battling cities from Boston to San Diego over collecting taxes and enforcing zoning rules

           featured on: All Things Considered  (link)


When Amazon Comes to Town (The Information)Residents of Milford, Mass., didn’t think twice when the internet retail giant opened a warehouse in town. But then trucks carrying Amazon cargo began choking its roads with traffic, making late night rackets and damaging a local cemetery.


Amazon’s Roads to Nowhere (The Information)

Giant semitrucks hauling Amazon cargo keep getting stuck on dead-end or narrow residential roads, creating havoc as they try to extricate themselves. The culprit: faulty directions in maps used by Amazon truckers.   



Record Jobless Claims Are Overwhelming States’ Aging Tech (WIRED)

Laid-off workers struggle to file claims for unemployment benefits; economists say the situation will likely get worse. (From March 26 2020)



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I Helped Uncover QAnon. Failed Prophecies Won’t Kill It (The Information)
          see also, the story i wrote that broke the news of qanon: The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse (2017; NYMag)