Explainers
Twelve explainers covering complex corporate corruption in our major institutions.
Games
Real or Invented
Twenty drug names. Ten are real antidepressants. Ten were made up by ChatGPT when it was told to keep going.
Pillz and Missilz
Two things, one pound of each. Pick the pound that costs more while Pillz fills up or the fuse on Missilz burns down. Answers come back in Hellfire missiles.
Banned It
A tax bill of €14,244,000,000 has to cross the Atlantic and reach the Exchequer. Five Banned Its from Ledger C are waiting for it. Tilt your phone to roll.
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Every case in the ABCs of Corruption with the name blacked out. Put each one back from a list that shrinks as you go. At Expert the clock runs, the choices rotate and the sums go dark too.
Who Is Corruptio?
A quiz board dealt from the five ledgers. Answer in the form of a question, alone or with two players on one device, and wager it on Final Judgment.
The CLIC Series
The Clerical Industrial Complex
The manufacture, movement and verification of documents that create no value, the feminized workforce conscripted to keep it running, and the harm it discharges on everyone downstream.
A Tale of Two Cities
Seventy years and four blocks of Fourth Street SW, in which a government condemns the ground, sells it, leases it back at $61 a foot, and then bills a resident $250 for standing on it.
Monographs
The Calculus of Crisis
How the Lagrangian function and its shadow price explain the escalation of American healthcare costs.
The Bearer Credential
An identifier created without your knowledge, and its conversion into a revenue instrument.
The Predicate
The untested claim about who a person is, and the custody systems built to act on it before anyone checks: psychiatric holds, immigration detainers, summary removal and detention with no end date.
Frameworks and Field Guides
The Anatomy of Phantom Billing
How fraud rings steal billions from American healthcare without delivering a single pill, and what the warning signs look like from every angle.
Continuous Collective Intelligence
A privacy-shielded network that detects predatory price extraction in real time and answers it with automated financial and legal counter-force.
The ABCs of Corruption
The Public Trust
Research the Pentagon paid for, an election the states ran, and procurement budgets that kept paying after the fraud was admitted.
The Patient
A clearinghouse that lost 192,700,000 people's records, an insurer accused of coding its members sicker, and three drugmakers' guilty pleas.
The Tax Bill
€19,900,000,000 through a Dutch company in one year, $11,200,000,000 in profit with a federal rebate, and a swoosh held in Bermuda.
The Supply Chain
Aluminum welded into fake pallets, tungsten relabeled in Taiwan, cobalt dug by children, and the bribes that won the contract.
The Customer
Accounts opened with forged signatures, incomes that were advertised and never earned, and a calculator that handed the carbon bill to the customer.