The Profile: The woman who got reincarnated as an AI & the mayor who could re-make the Republican party

There are cults all around us that we voluntarily (and sometimes involuntarily) join.

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In 2006, Sarah Edmondson paid $3,000 to participate in a five-day "executive success program" in Albany. N.Y. The workshop was created by NXIVM, a personal development company that boasted its "patented technology" could help ambitious people like Edmondson become more successful in their personal and professional lives.

“I was chal…