I've started a new role at the Washington Post!! I'll be working as a computational journalist, helping out with big data challenges and contributing data reporting to the national desk. Many thanks to Meghan and the whole Post data team for the warm welcome

An absolutely harrowing and important story -- ChatGPT and other chatbots are becoming deeply enmeshed in many people's personal and social lives to an incredible degree, and the consequences can be devastating.

A year after @thetrace.org and I co-published our investigation into the resale of used police guns, departments across the country are stopping the practice or reconsidering their policies https://www.cbsnews.com/news/law-enforcement-agencies-stop-reselling-guns-crimes/

Almost 3 years after we published video of a transgender man being beaten by a sheriff's deputy in a 7-Eleven parking lot, the deputy has pleaded guilty to a federal felony. FWIW... this is after the sheriff's department reviewed the case and found the force was... all within policy.