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Holmes is a very special and powerful kind of liar — someone for whom deception and manipulation are as automatic and as continuous as breathing.

— Noah Smith
2w ago

It's always strategic ambiguity, seductive information gaps and negging; a pickup artist's approach to corporate comms.

2w ago

The demand of the loveless and the intriguing for your attention is not to be satisfied by giving it. It is to be met by making them feel that they are of no consequence to you.

4w ago

Over years, Youngblood convinced a small, interconnected group of families in Austin, Texas, that their loved ones faced cartel violence, then cast himself as their defender, taking millions of dollars from them and uprooting their lives in startling ways.

8mo ago

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