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To Be Manhandled 

Author: Favor V April
last update publish date: 2026-05-28 20:56:06

Katia

He spent the next hour telling me about Meridian.

Not the version I already knew, not the dry facts of a government contract and a lost bid. His version. He told me about building Halo Systems from nothing over ten years, about the government AI contract that was going to change everything, and about spending eighteen months developing a system that he believed was the best in the field.

He told me about the evaluation committee and the result and the grinding unfairness of losing to a
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