Global Gridlock: How a Tiny NYT Puzzle Became the World’s Favorite New Currency of Distraction
From a windowless basement in Manila, a 23-year-old “hint courier” named Rhea sells yesterday’s New York Times Connections spoilers to European commuters who will solve tomorrow’s puzzle on the Tube. In São Paulo, a fintech bro has automated the entire operation, scraping the daily grid at 00:01 UTC and pushing the answers to 14,000 paying…