Oddbean new post about login | logout McKenzie Funk's latest story is about one-time drug smuggler Hank Asher and how we in the United States all came to be surveilled in massive integrated databases. Gift link below. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/magazine/hank-asher-data.html?unlocked_article_code=ZqR2Qa2xA-r2Z10cKISoXH-E-oxAG8lhJfZqBmcKsZg7pWuBaypxBM14CcEv1h1iHeDolwaRsrxaL2iCmXU954H9zxZrMVH0WegIA6UwE1Kr3lZNwNIkaBeRB5J47nM139Z_mr7C2i-pxz5v_e7d9cc-YN5gUlnyHcyECu0fRQKav6C9_I8WcX6JtpF6wbIxKVervdimI9UB5g-oYgX7f6ThUeN_p6m-2stXBbZz-KIsc_-GPiTg9PmQJFaQ3sHnxxr-bzwjarGsdyhKDSraWi0AXrwKsAkxTCI2djFvQx1Cr-YdrarNJMn_nkeHW79h-gwSYbjx3uy07Q&smid=url-share
@d4d25d16 The amazing and troubling thing about this piece is how it links a single person's strange, pathological psychological makeup to structures that we now all live in and are largely resigned to (indeed, that many perceive as normal).