By the way... my current fellowship winds down soon-ish, and I'll be back on the market for a full-time reporting role! If you want to do stories like this together, feel free to reach out (:

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Literally impossible for me to see this man without hearing this song… what an achievement…

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While I was reporting this NYT profile of defense tech investor & JD Vance ally Katherine Boyle, a State Department official told me: “If you’re looking at her project as a policy project, you’re not really understanding it. Her project is ultimately civilizational.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

This year, two new products launched claiming to be able to detect IQ in embryos(!) In my latest for @technologyreview.com, I dove into the ethical morass—and very real world implications—of ranking humans before they are even born.
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really jealous of the depth of this reporting by @laurabullard.bsky.social — a must-read! www.wired.com/story/the-re...

lord help me I started a (free!) substack

got some cool stuff in the pipeline, so please subscribe! (:

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I learned so much working on this @juliablack.bsky.social piece on the rise of microschools.

www.wired.com/story/silico...

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Coming out of stealth mode...

to share that I will be joining the @omidyarnetwork.bsky.social's next Reporters in Residence cohort!

This support will enable me to work on some absolute dream projects. I'm so grateful.

more news soon! 👀

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Medicaid is the largest single payer of pregnancy-related services, financing 41% of births nationally in 2023and over half of births in four states (Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma): www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

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really great interview by @ellayurman.bsky.social as well

Reading this article by @juliablack.bsky.social from Aug9 is basically just opening tomorrow's newspaper.

we truly love to see it www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian... @thevivllainous.bsky.social

Federal employees, I would love to speak with you about how DOGE is using technology to reshape your agencies… spot a new AI use? FedRAMP request? Code rewrite?

Here’s my work: juliablackwrites.com

Secure Signal contact: @mjnblack.09

@altusds.bsky.social @fedworkersunited.bsky.social
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Sam Altman imagines a grand AI-powered future for humanity, but isn’t too concerned with what it might actually mean for average people.

Up next in our premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES is @juliablack.bsky.social!

Become a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/sam-al...

‘any press is good press, especially on the internet…you have to have a good sense of self.’ — @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, at #onairfest w/ @juliablack.bsky.social, on how she deals w/ being an internet main topic occasionally

Says to expect: Carr to wield FCC power against political enemies; widespread lawfare to tangle cash-poor media companies up in frivolous lawsuits; preemptive self-censorship…

How he’d spend $50m on a media co: “Rebundling” Substack writers into a newsroom of 10-20 voices. Call it a magazine!

@arctictony.bsky.social starting the Future of Media panel off strong by quoting a text from @pkafka.bsky.social: “we’re all fucked lol”

The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem.

I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...

Been on the fence about how much to bother with Bluesky but @alexrkonrad.bsky.social says this is where the organic conversation is happening so… lets give it a go!

I dunno how shameless self-promotion plays on this platform but, uh, I really do want you to read this story, so here’s some anyway:

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-worldcoin-helion-future-tech-2023-4