The real Jon Brodkin

Truly a modern hero: @jaredmauch

@JasonRainbow any chance you can post the entire SpaceX letter in your story?

SpaceX has lambasted an FAA report to Congress that warned that, by 2035, falling debris from U.S.-licensed LEO constellations could injure or kill someone every two years if they deploy as planned spacenews.com/spacex-slams-f…

Testing new headline-less news links... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

When working on 2022 article about transgender athletes & elite sports, I called GLAAD. Their officials tried to tell me who I should NOT interview and that I should not "platform" tennis great and gay pioneer Martina Navratilova because her views ran counter to their line.

I regret to inform readers that buying digital apes for $420,000 each did not lead to the long-term gains expected by investors arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

@HalSinger I hope the publication that quoted you doesn't suffer a corresponding loss in credibility...

@BrendanAndrews @arstechnica Only public companies have market caps. Musk converted Twitter into a private company when he bought it. Your Google search is showing you Twitter's market cap from before Musk bought Twitter because it doesn't have one now.

@arstechnica @jbrodkin This is straight disinformation. Type "Market cap Twitter" into Google right now. You'll get the answer 41 billion. I think your agenda is showing.

Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… by @JBrodkin

@kevinslife2 @arstechnica The second sentence says the app is "designed for Android TV devices." Sounds like you didn't read that far. It also works on Fire TV devices, as I wrote.

@arstechnica @jbrodkin The article should have been more clearer. You have to mention that is app is exclusive for Android TV and historically OTT and OTA providers don't want TV OS to have web browsers. (1/3)

Google bans Downloader app after TV firms complain it can load a pirate website arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… by @JBrodkin

Can you really be considered a respectable journalist if you've never received a "You suck" email from Elon Musk? npr.org/2023/05/02/117…

I'm unverified now but I still like to think that I may or may not be notable

As the tragic death of Kaylin Gillis shows, the sad state of telecom infrastructure in rural America means people die because they can't reach 911. news10.com/news/kaylin-gi… This is a policy choice.

@RMac18 @kateconger thank you!

@jbrodkin @kateconger here you go: int.nyt.com/data/documentt…

)The Justice Department is investigating Twitter, three former execs say in a lawsuit over unpaid legal expenses. Those execs include former CEO Parag Agrawal and Vijaya Gadde, the company's former head of legal and policy. (w/@kateconger) nytimes.com/2023/04/10/tec…

@cristosgamblor @meganphelps Thanks!

@jbrodkin @meganphelps Crispin Letts. Readings from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, with special permission for the podcast.

Finally, finally, finally…it’s out. ************************* THE WITCH TRIALS OF J.K. ROWLING Chapter One: Plotted in Darkness Chapter Two: Burn the Witch ************************* Listen now: APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/show/2K186zrvR…

@haroldfeld @arstechnica this carries more weight since I know you believe in God

Thank God for @arstechnica and @jbrodkin coverage of the FCC map issues. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… On the one hand, I applaud SpaceX for taking challenges seriously and trying to work with staff to resolve data issues. OTOH, they should have worked with staff before filing.

@katrosenfield she's right, looking for something is always more exhausting when the thing you're looking for doesn't exist

exhausting!

Apparently the FCC challenge process requires journalists to nag Comcast about each mistake. While it's kind of fun, I don't think that solution will fix every bit of false data ISPs submit for the map.

Comcast refused to fix false data on FCC map when residents in two cities filed challenges—it only did so after I contacted Comcast on the residents' behalf. The FCC told me Comcast admitting a mistake shows "the challenge process is working as designed." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Interesting concept: Journalists supporting fellow journalists' right to do heavily researched, fact-based journalism. I wonder if it'll catch on.

@internetthought I'm not sure if it's jealousy but it's an odd attitude. Another industry reporter who writes like a PR person described my work in a similar way a few years ago. I get the sense they view doing investigative work as being beneath them but I don't know what they're really thinking

@jbrodkin Jealous that you're a journalis and write original pieces, that you help people and hold power accountable. They are depressed about being a journalist in name, but not in practice. Their job is regurgitating nonsense, that even they don't believe. Even corporate comms is better

This is how a telecom-industry trade pub describes the basic consumer-affairs reporting I do on Comcast: "Ars Technica typically strikes a rather Nader-esque position in regard to the No. 1 ISP in the US, which the regular reader might come to believe manufactures Death Stars"