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paris martineau
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investigative journalist @consumerreports.org‬ • tech podcastin’ @twit.tv • previously @ The Information & Wired • @parismartineau on the other site send tips : [email protected], or securely via Signal (267.797.8655) or Proton ([email protected]) 👩‍💻 paris.nyc
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · Jul 21
some personal news: it's my first day as a senior investigative reporter @consumerreports.org !!

i'm joining CR's kick-ass Special Projects team, which has a storied history of producing powerful investigations that change laws and save lives (literally!)

i'm so excited to get started!
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d
why are my emails going to spam
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 8d
Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 9d
I never do this but: Do you speak (or at least read) Indonesian? Would you be willing to help me verify the accuracy of a translation?

If so, please hit me up:
- DMs open
- [email protected]
- 267.797.8655 on signal / text / whatsapp

Hopefully shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 12d
celebrity sighting: the moon
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12d
yeah, tldr it's complicated. the 68 bq/kg was just found in 1 sample that was flagged at the port. the recalled products haven't been tested, so we don't know how much (or how little) is in there. investigators suspect the contamination stems from radioactive metal found near the shrimp factory
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12d
this is my problem i love grabbing a handful of cooked shrimp from the fridge this is so annoying
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12d
you think im joking but
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12d
actual photo of me and my editor yesterday when the third radioactive shrimp recall hit our inboxes just as we were about to publish the first story
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12d
tuesday marked the 5th time in 5 weeks that shrimp was recalled for possible radioactive contamination

yesterday, two NEW recalls were issued. then, literally as i was reporting those out, *another* company announced a radiation-related shrimp recall www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Three New Recalls Issued for Possibly Radioactive Shrimp - Consumer Reports
Multiple brands of frozen and ready-to-eat shrimp sold in over 40 states are being pulled from shelves at Kroger, Food Lion, and other stores.
www.consumerreports.org
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13d
This is genuinely so, so bad lol
www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-...
Some startups continue to use ever-more-creative definitions of ARR. One venture capitalist told us some startups are calculating ARR by guessing what their product usage will be if a customer starts having all of its employees use a product. Yikes.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13d
it is a nightmare and a disaster and we deserve it now more than ever
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13d
the children (nyu students) today will never understand what was taken from them
a picture of the busiest (graphic design wise) bar you've ever seen. it looks like a dr bronner's bottle but it's all about how you can get 4 shots of anything for $10 and explaining how serious of an offer this is screenshot of EV Grieve article recapping The Continental's blog: The website (rather Trigger the owner) also addresses any questions people may have about about the shot quality: - Not only are the shots not "watered down" but this practice of diluting good brand name liquor with cheaper, generic stuff has never happened in my bar!!! Not once! Let alone as an ongoing practice. - I understand that people can't believe the 5 Shot deal so they assume that it's got to be a scam but I can personally guarantee you that it's for real. Want to verify this for yourself??? - I've given my bartenders permission to let customers choose a random bottle from our back up stock that's in plain view and you, yourself can open the bottle and feel the seal break when you open it!!! (except on weekend nights when we're slammed but you can request this early or late on a weekend night) - You can also order 1 or more shots from the bottle you just opened and compare it to the liquor that you've originally ordered from the already opened bottle! I absolutely guarantee that there will be no difference whatsoever. - I don't make money on the shots. It's my gimmick to draw people in as we don't have food, karaoke, live music or any of the other things most places have one or more of. So please... come in and see for yourself!
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13d
my real nyc RETVRN take is we need to reopen The Continental, the saint marks bar with the infamous 5 shots for $10 deal
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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 13d
Siberia — the legendary '90s and aughts dive bar that was located in a subway station and closed down in 2007 — has made its triumphant return, and @davecolon.bsky.social bravely agreed to go drink there and get the full scoop nygroove.nyc/siberia-bar-...
Siberia, one of New York City’s scummiest dive bars, has reopened — again
The late '90s dive bar inside a subway station has found a new home inside a different subway station, two decades after shutting its doors.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14d
hi, reporter here, the coo is indonesia. we went into the backstory a bit more in our first post on this but the tl;dr is that these recalls are associated with the detection of Cs-137 in shipping containers used by the US' biggest indonesian shrimp supplier www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Walmart Recalls Frozen Shrimp for Possible Radioactive Contamination - Consumer Reports
Frozen shrimp sold at Walmart may be contaminated with a radioactive isotope. Here's what you need to know about the Great Value shrimp recall.
www.consumerreports.org
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14d
the issue here isn’t that the level detected in the (limited) border tests was dangerously high, it’s that Cs-137 was found in a food that is not normally exposed to radioactive isotopes. initial reports suggest the shrimp may have been cross contaminated in processing en.tempo.co/read/2051549...
Six Areas in West Java's Banten Contaminated by Cesium-137 Radiation
It is suspected that radioactive cesium-137 came from chemical users who did not implement standard waste handling procedures.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14d
generally we don’t say “C-137 was detected at a level of 68 Bq/kg” in the story because that is meaningless to 99% of readers
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14d
the recalled shrimp wasn’t tested for Cesium-137 contamination. it’s being recalled out of an abundance of caution after multiple shipping containers were flagged at US ports for low levels of Cs-137

i get into it a bit more here www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14d
a fifth radioactive shrimp recall has hit the newswires
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14d
uhhhh sure, google scholar, why not
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16d
Extremely good art, good project, good reporting. Now plastered on billboards and murals around the country. This is what fearless reporting, well executed looks like: www.wired.com/politics-iss...
ALL HAIL THE TECHNOCRACY
Tech went all in on Trump this year. It's just the beginning.
www.wired.com
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16d
cool cool cool cool
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19d
as someone who is a hater, i accept and welcome the fact that i have haters. what is good for the goose, etc. in fact, i think people in this business should be more open about their hating. if we think our words matter, then we should feel some kind of way about people who do bad work.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 19d
I have accepted that I have haters, including people annoyed by the water drinking reminders, and I don't have the time or energy to care about them anymore.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20d
this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 20d
this skeet is the tipping point
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 20d
A bit of wishful thinking I see everywhere these days, maybe it's just an artifact of what does numbers on social media:

People declaring that any given event / finding / breakthrough will be *the* tipping point in a larger trend.

That just does not happen. Go read a history book.
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 20d
🤖 Nick Foster on Intelligent Machines 837: Are we confusing sci-fi clichés for real AI progress? @leolaporte.me @jeffjarvis.bsky.social & @paris.nyc break down the hype—and what the future really holds.
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#AI #Podcast
Could Should Might Don't | TWiT.TV
With AI hype everywhere, are we confusing slick projections and sci-fi clichés for real progress? This episode exposes the flawed thinking behind tech's boldest predictions
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