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freelance journalist. DMs open

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    May 10

    I wrote about my favorite ad blocker for Businessweek:

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  2. Jun 7

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    I made a fun little bot that helps people manage their drinking. I’ll share more on this soon. Last night I spoke with a few long-time users over Messenger about how it‘s helping them moderate or quit drinking. Today, my feed is LOADED with liquor co ads.
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  3. Jun 6

    i just gave money and you can too

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    Jun 6

    For Medium's TRUST series, I wrote about incels, and how feminists warned the world about the manosphere while pop culture made it a joke. This is as close to a ten-year retrospective on my career as I'll write and it is depressing AF:

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    Jun 6

    Yesterday California passed Prop 68, sending $200M to try and fix the dying Salton Sea. For the last 3 months I've been reporting on why for thousands of nearby residents, that's too little and too late

    As California’s largest lake dries up, it threatens nearby communities with clouds of toxic dust
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    Jun 5

    We're hiring a tech writer, based in SF. Applicant must be: - swift as the coursing river - with all the force of a great typhoon - with all the strength of a raging fire - mysterious as the dark side of the moon

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  7. Jun 5

    cc

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  8. Jun 5

    I made a Tumblr for cataloguing bad Google featured snippets and then forgot about it and then decided to start it back up again when I got this funny result. Send me yours

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    Jun 3

    So excited that our Atlas of Redistricting won News Data App of the Year!! Congrats to our crew and everyone at who made it a reality.

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    Jun 1

    To all journalists everywhere: For the love of god, please stop publishing how-to guides on how to spy on people.

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  11. Jun 2

    inspiring story about democracy

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  12. Jun 1

    is there a secondary market for ETF tickers?

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    May 31

    Looking back on this outstanding chronicle of the early days of adtech reminds me of cryptohype today. Some bros make a money printing machine with code duct taped together but it also enables fraud at scale, spiraling toward monopoly. Whoops. Oh well.

    I talked to the creators of the first ad exchange, which opened the flood gates for programmatic advertising. Of course, it starved to death after its acquisition by Yahoo
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  14. May 31

    saw a screening of 's excellent documentary system shock tonight, which was so good i wanted to tweet about it, but it has no internet presence

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    May 31

    Google is currently having a very fun time with the Republican Party because of a bad product that is destroying Wikipedia

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  16. May 31

    I talked to the creators of the first ad exchange, which opened the flood gates for programmatic advertising. Of course, it starved to death after its acquisition by Yahoo

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    May 29

    LOL. Team trying to train an ML model to identify inspirational travel photos runs into problems.

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    May 31

    people really don't understand the extent of which joe rogan has helped platform and whitewash some of the most far-right/alt-right nutjobs with his massive podcast/yt presence. as an old fan/ someone whos had the opp to hang out with him, it makes me really really sad.

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  19. May 30

    i left open in a tab

    a screenshot of ad block plus blocking 2,227 ads
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    May 28

    Facebook actually put *fake red dots* to try and make you think you have messages even if you don't, so you agree to their tracking more hastily. Read full complaint against Facebook: - with tricks like that, sorry Facebook, you deserve to be hit hard.

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