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Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/sales…

Salesforce Tableau Chief to Leave Following Slack Executive Exit
The chief of Salesforce Inc.’s data visualization unit, Tableau, has left the company, raising some concerns on Wall Street about executive churn at the software maker.

ICE demanded Maine sheriff's employment records following his criticism of arrest (Bangor Daily News)
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/03/mainefocus/mainefocus-police-courts/ice-demanded-maine-sheriffs-employment-records/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p129#a260203p129

How 10-minute procedures and routine scans become five-figure medical bills

Health care prices are on the rise,
and patients are flummoxed that
even insurance companies aren’t doing more to control costs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026

How 10-minute procedures and routine scans become five-figure medical bills
Health care prices are on the rise, and patients are flummoxed that even insurance companies aren’t doing more to control costs.

A photojournalist and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sue the FAA over a ban on flying drones within 3,000 feet of DHS buildings and vehicles (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/journalist-sues-faa-over-drone-…

Journalist Sues FAA Over Drone No Fly Zone Designed to Prevent Filming ICE
A Minnesota journalist is challenging a 3,000 foot restriction on flying near DHS assets on First Amendment grounds.

More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for a liver transplant,
-- but there are not enough donated organs for all of those patients.
Additionally, many people with liver failure aren’t eligible for a transplant if they are not healthy enough to tolerate the surgery.
To help those patients, MIT engineers have developed ⭐️ “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of the failing liver.
In a n…

Injectable “satellite livers” could offer an alternative to liver transplantation
MIT engineers developed “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of a failing liver.

A profile of Patrick Radden Keefe, an investigative journalist who has modeled for J.Crew, appeared in HBO's Industry, and had his latest book optioned by A24 (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…

What Drives Patrick Radden Keefe?
Patrick Radden Keefe’s carefully applied ambition has propelled him to a rarefied perch.

President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being "threatened and undermined" by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/03/trump…

Trump urges passage of U.S. Clarity Act, attacks banks for 'undercutting' GENIUS
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the banking industry is trying to undermine the stablecoin bill he signed into law last year.

The analogies that commentators use to describe the crisis Trump caused by launching an illegal attack on Iran jumble a lot together.
And while some economists say the world won’t suffer the kind of inflationary cycle it did in the 1970s,
many compare today’s disaster with the last time Iran’s radical clerics avenged US imperialism in epic fashion in 1979

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
From less than a month ago, given reports that one of the Black Hawks trying to find the fallen F-15 pilots also got hit. Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimmy Carter Did on Iran https://emptywheel.net/2026/03/09/trump-dreads-failing-like-jimmy-carter-did-on-iran/

Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intel…

It’s not easy to get depression-detecting AI through the FDA
Instead, mental health startup Kintsugi shut down and open-sourced its tech.

Iranian cryptoasset outflows reached ~$10.3M between February 28 and March 2 amid US and Israeli strikes; in 2025, Iran's crypto ecosystem was worth $7.8B (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/iranian-crypto-outflows-spike-after-airstrikes/

Iranian Crypto Outflows Spike After Airstrikes
On-chain data shows a sharp increase in activity from major Iranian exchanges in the hours following the February 28, 2026 US-Israeli airstrikes.