Posts tagged: journalism

Goodbye FiveThirtyEight

Back in April 2023, I was in Brooklyn to attend a live taping of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast. It was great, someone corrected Nate Silver on the U.S. constitution and former FiveThirtyEight writer Clare Malone returned for a lot of great banter backed by data. The very next week, Disney…

Subscribing to independent media

I broadly support economic boycotts when companies do things we don't like, and participate in plenty of them myself. And I've seen enough people cancelling their subscriptions to The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times after their billionaires owners interferred at the papers. But in media specifically, cancelling your…

Avery Brundage

Avery Brundage is Today's Featured Article on the English Wikipedia, which notes that he "fought zealously" against boycotting the Games in Nazi Germany.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_BrundageThe "Legacy" section spells it out clearly, noting he's well known as an anti-Semite, racist and admirer of Hitler.So it's a good day for me to re-post the…

Linked from LWN

Uh very cool, today's LWN article quoted and linked my blog post about Kiwix and Russian Wikipedia! https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/902463/0735202cb9eda4e2/ https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/03/15/how-to-mirror-the-russian-wikipedia-with-debian-and-kiwix.html

SJ Spotlight sues over private email use

"San José Spotlight is suing San Jose, Mayor Liccardo over private email use"Really great to see this, it's absurd how flagrantly SJ and Liccardo have been continuing to skirt California's public records law after losing in the CA Supreme Court a few years ago.https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-spotlight-is-suing-san-jose-mayor-liccardo-over-private-email-use/

DoJ report on SJSU

The DoJ report is in, #SJSU actively suppressed and ignored reports of sexual harassment/assault from athletes and then retaliated against employees who tried to raise them: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-16m-agreement-remedy-title-ix-violations-san-jos-state-universityThis has been going on for over a decade but really broke open after USA Today published their explosive story in April 2020: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/04/17/san-jose-state-reinvestigates-trainer-claims-sexual-misconduct/5138353002/The…

Legoktm, B.S.

Photo by Jesus Tellitud and Blue Nguyen The Trustees of the California State University on recommendation of the faculty of the College of Humanities and the Arts have conferred upon Kunal Mehta the degree of Bachelor of Science Journalism So this makes me a scientist now, right? I used to…

Choosing a web browser, updated

You're seeing the world through a web browser; what does it see about you? As part of my work on the Freedom of the Press Foundation's Digital Security Team, I updated our guide comparing the privacy and security features of popular browsers in 2020.https://freedom.press/training/-depth-guide-choosing-web-browser/