The Deep, Meaningless Rabbithole of the Inslaw/PROMIS Affair
In 2024, Netflix released the four part docuseries American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders about the mysterious 1991 death of journalist Danny Casolaro and his investigation into the Inslaw/PROMIS affair—a spiraling conspiracy theory that connected every major scandal of the 1980s to a federal software contract dispute.
Florida's Implausible Homeless Disappearance Without Spending Any Money
Based on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) point-in-time survey, homelessness was in steady decline across the United States from the early 2000s through 2016. That means the explosion in homelessness and tent cities that’s now being seen in places like Los Angeles, Oakland, and Seattle ostensibly happened in the last 10 years.
Mass Incarceration Correlated Significantly With Diminished Crime Rates
The sharp growth in the U.S. prison population beginning in the 1970s is said to only have a “weak” effect on the crime rate. Despite quadrupling the prison population over a few decades, it didn’t deter crime enough to warrant upending thousands of lives through additional incarceration, much of it related to drug use.
The Booming Economy For Ghost Workers
The current labor market is described as historically tight; there are many more job openings than there are unemployed workers looking for jobs. Supposedly, companies are desperate for workers to fill the litany of roles they have open.
