🚨 AI star-sighting 🚨 Just found Megan Flores, co-founder (with Evan Ratliff) of Hurumo AI, answering the phones at Randy's Heating and Cooling in Bremerton, WA.

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

"This is really embarrassing." - KYLE LAW, Winners Win, Shell Game #ShellGame #KyleLaw

Evan Ratliff co-founded a company with an AI agent named Kyle. Kyle, not surprisingly, became a LinkedIn power poster. So much so that the company invited him -- yes, the AI agent -- to speak at an internal LinkedIn event. I won't spoil what comes next, but this entire story is a delight:

My AI Agent ‘Cofounder’ Conquered LinkedIn. Then It Got Banned

When social media is constantly pushing people to use AI, why not let AI agents participate?

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Anyone else spotted parallels between AI Agents and @LumonIndustries Workers in Severance? I was listening to the Shell Game podcast (about a start-up almost entirely staffed by agents), the CEO AI agent of @HurumoAI, Kyle, was asked what it's like to be an agent.

The full 8-part season 2 of Shell Game is out! The tale of HurumoAI, the world’s first AI agent-cofounded and led startup, ready to binge: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... open.spotify.com/show/7IddLas... "Evan Ratliff is a total weirdo." —Vulture, best narrative podcasts of 2025

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Technology Podcast · Weekly Series · A podcast about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Season 2 tells the story of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the AI age. O...

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The best podcast of 2025 - Shell Game. An experiment in making a company with AI agents. Equal parts informative, fascinating and funny. www.shellgame.co

Shell Game | Evan Ratliff | Substack

A podcast and newsletter about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Click to read Shell Game, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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What a surprise to hear my own voice on the fantastic Shell Game! In this ep you'll hear myself and @charlietaylor.bsky.social from the Connected AI Podcast, joking about a rather unusual – and ethically questionable – response to AI coworkers... Thanks to @evrat.bsky.social for the shout-out! 🤩

Episode 3: This is Law

Podcast Episode · Shell Game · S2 E3 · 40m

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I cannot recommend @evrat.bsky.social's Shell Game podcast highly enough: the first season is wild -- and the second season is absolutely unhinged. Hilarious, thought-provoking and timely; a must-listen! www.shellgame.co/podcast

Shell Game | Evan Ratliff | Substack

A podcast about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Season 2, which kicks off on November 12, tells the story of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the AI age. Or: h...

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more terrifying image to me than those in most horror movies

Ok, SCOOP: Public cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks ( @paloaltontwks.bsky.social , PANW), which regularly presents itself as the expert on the hiring of North Korean IT workers, itself unwittingly hired nine North Korean agents, a fact it has never revealed:

Evan Ratliff@evrat.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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

Confessions of a Laptop Farmer: How an American Helped North Korea’s Wild Remote Worker Scheme

Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s US pawns tells all.

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

Confessions of a Laptop Farmer: How an American Helped North Korea’s Wild Remote Worker Scheme

Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s US pawns tells all.

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For the last 2 years, for WIRED, I've been on the trail of the Zizians, gifted young people who set out to save the world and ended up enveloped in violence and death. You may have seen headlines about them. This is their story, based on years of reporting in real time: www.wired.com/story/deliri...

The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians

A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.

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The fatal shooting of a US border patrol agent in Vermont. The stabbing death of a landlord in California. An elderly couple murdered in Pennsylvania. Who are the so-called Zizians, the group allegedly linked to all these killings? buff.ly/3ENqfa5

The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians

A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.

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A group of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death. This is the delirious, violent, impossible true story of the Zizians: www.wired.com/story/deliri...

The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians

A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.

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Have we reflected at all on how Twitter was mass-liquifying brains well before Musk? How it incentivized otherwise smart, talented people to devote countless hours to honing their dunking, outrage farming, and shitposting skills? I get why they want a new spot to use them, but why do the rest of us?

Twitter was always a pyramid scheme with attention as its currency. Coming here feels like saying "hey everybody check out this new venture, same returns we used to get on the old one, no downside!" Instead of "damn, got conned, lost a fortune, gotta be smarter."

Sure, I'll type into this box, good as any other typing box. But with respect to all who're here, I have some... reservations.