Brazen Weekender: Philippines Drug War, AI Job Apocalypse, and a Parrot Black Market

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Brazen Weekender! I'm Bradley, and today I'll be bringing you the best of what the team has been reading, watching and listening to. This week: a harrowing look at the human cost of the Philippines' war on drugs, a sobering analysis of what AI will do to the job market, and a bizarre investigation into how TikTok is fueling the black market for talking parrots. Plus, we have a new investigation of our own into the elite fixers who help billionaires on the run.

What's caught our eye this week?

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