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Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires?
BIG25 Jan 2025 • ~3250 words

During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier.

The CRPG Renaissance, Part 1: Fallout
The Digital Antiquarian24 Jan 2025 • ~7600 words

Jimmy Maher writes about the story of the video game Fallout, its place in the computer role playing game resurgency of late 90s, and what made it such a unique game.

‘The nice version of her was manufactured for YouTube’: my mum, the family vlogger who became a child abuser
The Guardian25 Jan 2025 • ~5100 words

Ruby Franke was a social media star who made viral videos about her six children and perfect-seeming life – until she was jailed for child abuse. Now her eldest daughter Shari is telling her side of the story

Speaking in Small Tongues
The Fence23 Jan 2025 • ~3750 words

An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel?

The warlord, the oligarch and the unravelling of Russia’s Amazon.com
The Economist24 Jan 2025 • ~4450 words

Before the Ukraine war, Wildberries was a giant of e-commerce. Now it’s caught up in a medieval blood feud