Tech reporter @CalMatters // Opinions mine 🌿 Ask me about my student loans 🙃🎓 As you think, so shall you become.
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Maybe I'll remember to post here more - but even if this is it for the year, it's a good one:
Excited to share my first story for CalMatters/The Markup, in which @kharijohnson and I dug into how Big Tech is spending behind the scenes to shape data center bills. More soon!
So excited to have the extremely talented @ScrawlGirl on board at CalMatters/The Markup! Today with a great story on pro-data-center lobbying wave, with @kharijohnson: calmatters.org/economy/techn…
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For @BusinessInsider, @ScrawlGirl and I dug through more than a hundred pages of newly unsealed documents in the Musk v Altman case.
The document dump included everything from late night texts between execs to entries from Greg Brockman's personal diary.
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We’re standing in solidarity with the @penguild ✊
Newsrooms should only publish content that is held to the same very high standards that journalists are. Sad to see our sibling company @politico not holding AI to that standard.
Last year @PENGuild became one of the first unions to win AI protections in a contract. Now, we're going for another breakthrough: The first to go into legal battle against violations of those protections.
Read it here in @WIRED :
wired.com/story/politico-wor…
A story a year in the making I'm proud to say was finally finished today!
🚨🚨🚨SCOOP🚨🚨🚨
Mark Martin — the relative who Clarence Thomas raised "as a son" with money from Harlan Crow — faces decades in prison on drugs and weapons charges.
He tells @ScrawlGirl that Clarence and Ginni Thomas cut ties with him years ago.
businessinsider.com/clarence…
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Introducing the LA Journalists' Mutual Aid Network!
If you want to help support recently laid off journalists with $$$, a job, or professional skills, please fill out the form below. My venmo is @eedugdale. Please share!
forms.gle/Axw3k3BFXNNwrjSY9
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The Insider strike — the longest-ever in digital media — is over.
washingtonpost.com/media/202…
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The Luddites of 1800s England set the stage for the modern labor movement. Here's why their story is relevant today as we worry about AI and its role in journalism: insiderunion.org/business-ou…
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Today, our bargaining committee sent two letters to groups with meaningful influence on Insider: Axel Springer and KKR.
We asked them to encourage Insider to give us reasonable counters, a key move toward ending our ULP strike.
Here are the letters and their key points: (1/6)
Hey @hblodget @nichcarlson — @InsiderUnion is on day 3 of a ULP strike! Your reps didn’t want to bargain this weekend. Are they bringing us better proposals tomorrow?
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Our family at @InsiderUnion is on strike. Do not click on any links for Insider. Do not cross the picket line. Stand with the workers fighting for a fair contract and for the company to follow the law.
"I wanted to, I guess go down in flames...But I also, just while I had that blue check, wanted to show that anyone could say they were anyone," Rich Sommers said about his decision to parody Elon Musk on his verified account, which led to his suspension.
businessinsider.com/musk-sai…
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Tucked away in a conservative suburb of Los Angeles is a small, Christian school offering an unaccredited education the owner — Kanye West — claims could "actually turn your kids into, like, geniuses."
Here's what's going on. ⬇️
businessinsider.com/kanye-we…
ALT A graphic with an image of Kanye West. It reads: “For $15k and a signed NDA, students at Kanye West's unaccredited Donda Academy start the day with 'full school worship' before parkour enrichment classes.”
Sunny told me the incredible story of how she sought the help of an underground network of women to end her pregnancy before abortion was legal. The Jane Collective saved her life, and those of ~11,000 other women, before Roe passed.
Honored to share:
insider.com/jane-collective-…
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Although Alex Jones has been held liable for his defamatory comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, research shows a belief in "false flag" conspiracies is common in the US.
Here's what's going on. ⬇️
insider.com/despite-defamati…
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Alex Jones was ordered to pay millions in damages for his claims that Sandy Hook was a hoax, but the 1 in 5 Americans who believe him can harass surviving families without consequence. We talked to one of them. insider.com/despite-defamati…
The family of a 12-year-old who they say sustained a traumatic brain injury after she was restrained by a school security officer is suing the Kenosha police department and school district for damages.
@thisisinsider
insider.com/girl-who-got-tbi…
Bounty-style laws in TX, ID, TN, OH and OK may allow for the family of a rapist —or the rapist themselves, if the assault has not been reported to the police— to sue for damages in the event their victim gets an abortion.
My latest for @BusinessInsider:
businessinsider.com/anti-abo…
