mastodon 4.7.3US-based investigative financial reporter. I write about corporate and sovereign debt in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Chile at REDD Latin America.
Expect posts about Latin American finance, energy, climate.
I complain about New York City and post bad jokes at @stevenbodzin@thepit.social
Posts are mine, and while I try not to embarrass my employer, REDD has nothing to do with anything I write here.
Downloading an audiobook that I paid for, I am using Duck Duck Go's new tracker trapper to watch in real time as Kobo uses Google to try, more than once per second, to detect ... something. Duck Duck Go says Google is "known to detect" everything from headphone status to gender
Let me just buy a damn book
Post edited to reflect that this is Kobo's fault, and that I don't know exactly what it's trying to detect.
"He used us."
Here, you can learn about why Magazuela supported Trump even as he promised to go after "undocumented" immigrants. People seriously thought that having TPS meant they were documented, that they were not in the firing line.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285470/venezuelans-florida-tps-immigration-trump
Is this forced disappearance?
Some Migrants Sent by Trump to Guantánamo Are Being Held by Military Guards https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/gitmo-migrants-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wk4.QKyZ.CS2yQfqjpGsC
An enterprising reporter could make a living just covering lawsuits against Elon Musk. More than 80 new cases this year. Most look like appeals or random BS, but there are enough big, interesting cases in there to keep someone very busy.
Perfect time for US AID to be offline
Nice to be living in Venezuela again
Pentagon Removes General Milley’s Security Detail and Revokes His Clearance https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/trump-pentagon-milley-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s04._bQX.g4yTSrs9VbxJ
NY Times has sued the US DOJ to force the release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith's report, on Pres. Trump absconding with classified documents and obstructing their return.
This makes two commercial air disasters in two weeks since Trump fired the head of the FAA and insulted all the air traffic controllers with a (probably illegal) buyout offer.
I am pretty sure these were first two fatal, hull loss commercial air disasters in the US since 2009
Small Plane With 10 Dead Found Crashed in Alaska https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/alaska-plane-missing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU4.CLK0.-RRjcWt2qa-m
@faraiwe@beige.party if you are bitching about what links people post, sit the fuck down. The internet is still out there and it's imperative for people to get links to original sources, even if they are at websites that many of us find distasteful.
Listening to Kim Lane Chappelle on the Amicus podcast with Dahlia Lithwick. She is pulling Trump's recent actions into perspective very well.
Shows the real threat. It's not about cancelling the next election or putting thanks on the street. It's about systematically undermining and defunding all opposition.
Trump: "Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don't even know about it."
https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-signs-laken-riley-act/655102
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io as a business reporter, I appreciate the constructive criticism and vocabulary suggestions, but I don't think readers care if you add the word "notional." The takeaway number is the same.
More importantly, I don't think anything you're saying is unique to crypto. Real estate trades are generally in fiat currency, but buyers rarely hold the money for more than a few hours, and never had the money to pay for a house in the first place (it's all financed).
@samlitzinger@journa.host this is something the SEC has been doing for years. 8 could send you 100 Biden SEC press releases using the word "charges" about civil suits. It's annoying but apparently not totally wrong.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange cat ass trophy
