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Freelance journalism/computer science/policy expert Formerly @ Duke Reporters' Lab focusing Mis/Disinformation and fact-checking mostly with humans, and sometimes ML/AI stuff. Based in NYC, previously a lot of places in Europe/Africa/North America
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This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

I just realized I hit the NYC jackpot: turns out my apartment is rent stabilized (and has been since it was built). Landlord never told me, but the extremely generous and low rent increases every year make a lot more sense now.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps when we worry about Big Tech, we should spend less time focused on social media and more time focused on the companies actively helping to expand the surveillance state reason.com/2025/06/02/p...

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

Oh my god, Copilot is allowed to create and fix issues on Microsoft github repos and it goes exactly as you'd have imagined. Try going into any of these PRs commits to see poor Microsoft engineers try to coerce Copilot into doing literally anything right. www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

submitted 34 days ago • 27 comments

Effective Altruists should just own their ideology and hand out copies of The Turner Diary. It’s basically the same thing at this point.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This is just wild on how The Atlantic interviewed Trump. I mean, does anyone pick up unknown numbers anymore *other* than the President of the United States?

submitted 57 days ago • 58 comments

You have to wonder what Mark Carney's other two wishes were after rubbing that bottle

submitted 57 days ago • 178 comments