Evan Ratliff

Jazzed to close out 2024 with Shell Game among the year's best from Apple, The Guardian, The Information, The Economist, The Atlantic, Vulture, Podcast Review, & others. Thanks to everyone who listened from @sophbridges @scootes and myself, excited to take it new places in '25.

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

The only way I've lasted here is by being lightening quick on the draw.

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security flaws as basic as using the password "123456". wired.com/story/mcdonald…

Hi all — I wrote about growing up in Altadena, and what was lost there, for @NYMag and it’s a very meaningful story to me, so I am spreading the word far and wide. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

AI Slop is now getting fed into AI answer engines where it’s laundered to seem more authentic. Real people will believe and launder it again into AI training data. jalopnik.com/1884156/ai-slo…

You couldn't put down a William Langewiesche story, whether you went in caring about the subject or not. "The Shipbreakers" was the piece that drew me into longform journalism, and still astonishes today. What a reporter, what a writer, what a life. RIP.

My favorite Langewiesche of all time was "The Ship Breakers," which I can't find on the Atlantic's site. uss-bennington.org/shipbreakers/s…