Sean Rameswaram

1 month ago | vox.com | Victoria Chamberlin |Sean Rameswaram

Since Christmas Day, four commercial jets have crashed, killing nearly 300 people and injuring many others. Harrowing images — of the explosion over the Potomac after a Black Hawk helicopter collided with a plane, and of a Delta flight upside-down on the runway in Toronto — have people spooked about their next trip. The US National Transportation Safety Board’s report of over a hundred accidents so far in 2025 is not helping. But despite it all, experts maintain that yes, it is still safe to fly.

2 months ago | vox.com | Avishay Artsy |Sean Rameswaram

Former Democratic presidential candidate and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has had an unpredictable political career. But ending up as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence was still, to many, a surprising twist. Gabbard has never worked in the intelligence bureaucracy.

Dec 31, 2024 | vox.com | Sean Rameswaram

The much more alarming thing is that app-based gaming facilitates algorithmic discrimination on the part of the sportsbook provider. They can tell who the people are who are going to spend the most. They know when you check your bets in the middle of the night. They know when you are watching the game, they know what you are doing and how much you are betting. And then what they can do is algorithmically reinforce that.

Dec 10, 2024 | vox.com | Miranda Kennedy |Sean Rameswaram

On Monday, police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, arrested Luigi Mangione in connection with last week’s shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. When Mangione’s identity became public, the online reaction around Thompson’s death went into overdrive; unlike most shootings, this one has brought a stream of support for the suspected killer rather than for the victim, and Mangione’s capture has only intensified that sentiment.

Dec 7, 2024 | vox.com | Sean Rameswaram |Avishay Artsy

Twenty-five years ago, millions of people were nervously looking ahead to New Year’s Eve. When the clocks struck midnight, they wondered, would they lose power? Would planes fall from the sky? Would banks collapse and the world order crumble? Such nightmarish fantasies were never truly based in reality, but the public genuinely feared that the computer systems society had become increasingly reliant on would fail at the stroke of midnight, ushering in a dark beginning to the year 2000.