I imagine most of my readers are not going to make much of this, but since I’m trying to capture everything here for posterity, note that I was mentioned briefly in an article in the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun last Saturday.
Experienced ex-govies Julian Sanchez and Noah Kunin, started the WatchCats podcast a couple of months ago to report on DOGE and its doings throughout the federal government. I am the featured guest on the March 25 episode. Listen for the inside story of what went down at USDS between the election and when 44 USDSers… Read More: Featured guest on “WatchCats” podcast March 25 »
This morning over at The Washington Post ([archive link]), Shira Ovide, Danielle Abril, and Hannah Natanson write about Signal use among federal workers. I’m the lede (funsies!). This is a great article capturing the mood among federal workers right now, and it makes relatively clear that while what Pete Hegseth et al are doing is… Read More: WaPo article about Signal use by feds with me as… »
The TIME article contains two substantive errors, several minor errors, and a curious omission.
The article features my concerns about DOGE and VA. Unlike mainstream U.S. media, the piece effectively debunks DOGE’s claims without equivocation. This is the kind of reporting we need to see (but won’t) from U.S. media.
NPR’s Ailsa Chang; Elizabeth Lair of the Equity and Civic Technology Project at the Center For Democracy and Technology; Jonathan Kamens, late of the Department of Veterans Affairs; and University of Virginia law professor Danielle Citron, talk about the risks of DOGE having access to federal government data and how the Privacy Act of 1974 is being used to push back on it.
Comcast sent me two intimidating letters and a bogus DMCA takedown notice in a misguided effort to get me to take down content they didn’t like because it has Comcast executive email addresses in it.
(1) You need to call your senators TODAY. (2) I was featured briefly in a TV Tokyo news segment Friday night.
I recently stumbled across this article that mentions me: https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/federal-and-state-actions-reshape-privacy-regulations-237420 (archive link) I found it curious. I’m guessing that it’s AI-generated, and that therefore probably the whole site, “The Pinnacle Gazette”, is probably just an AI slop farm, despite its claim that it is a haven for “intelligent journalism”. What do you think?
You can watch my conversation with Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali last night on America Unhinged here if you missed it last night. Skip to the 30-minute mark if you don’t want to watch the whole episode. It’s worth watching the live chat replay (click “Show chat replay” in the web app): folks who were… Read More: “America Unhinged” conversation, segregation returns, news roundup »