mike tigas
@mike.tig.as
currently: 👨🍼 • previously: technologist at FTC, hacker-journalist at @propublica.org, contrib at @torproject.org (Onion Browser for iOS), TabulaPDF • he/him • chicago • [personal acct] 🌐: https://mike.tig.as/
Belgium didn’t even wait for you to make a sick post!
this is but one small part of the larger dissertation project still to come, but i'm happy to share my new article on the labor demands of u.s. electronic death registration, published in a special issue of medical history doi.org/10.1017/mdh....
‘Reengineering’ U.S. death data collection: the technology and labour behind electronic death registration | Medical History | Cambridge Core
‘Reengineering’ U.S. death data collection: the technology and labour behind electronic death registration
doi.org
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
one of the pulitzer winners is sophie, who is on bluesky, and also on the job market! bsky.app/profile/soph...
Sophie Chou@sophiechou.bsky.social · 3mo ago4/ I’m no longer at ProPublica and am looking for what’s next — open to journalism, data science, or research/consulting roles (NYC/hybrid/remote). prioritizing good management + fair pay. read the full series @ctmirror.org (it’s their first Pulitzer!!): ctmirror.org/series/on-th...
what you'd never know from this (first) photo or thread is that the two propublica reporters awarded the pulitzer here are both poc, one trans, and, uh, neither of them work at propublica anymore...
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo ago1/ ICYMI: We won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting! For our “On the Hook” series with @ctmirror.org, we reported on how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents. Here's a bit more about the series 👇
I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire
As a @propublica.org alum, I urge its leadership to talk seriously with staffers about guardrails around the use of AI in the newsroom. This seems like a solvable issue. Solidarity with my former colleagues @propublicaguild.org
Elon Green@elongreen.bsky.social · 5mo agothese are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...
1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @propublica.org.
"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages
Ingrid Burrington@lifewinning.com · 5mo agoA little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me
I enjoy Bluesky & a lot of my favorite internet people are here but there is no denying it is the Park Slope Food Coop of social networks
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 5mo agoI do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.
“It is a reminder that even right now, even as the fight rages on, there is time for joy, there is time for art, there is time to celebrate difference and self, and to insist that you too can be free. Because they want you to forget that.”
dan sinker@dansinker.com · 5mo agoI wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.
among the other godforsaken things i can’t believe about this timeline: Scabby has appeared outside ProPublica — management won’t commit to fair and standard disciplinary practices or implementing guardrails on newsroom AI use, after two years of negotiations.
ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 6mo ago1/ ICYMI: We are ready to strike if necessary to win the contract we deserve, complete with job security, guardrails around AI and fair wages. Yesterday, we practiced picketing outside @propublica.org offices.
ICYMI: Flock Safety is letting cops search our data to deport school kids. Two weeks ago, @lucyparsonslabs.com revealed that in response to this reporting, Flock made the unilateral decision to suspend audit trails to prevent oversight.
Freddy @DEFCON@bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 6mo agoSchools contracting with Flock are letting ICE search their data to deport their kids, teachers, staff and parents. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Sadly, this is why Democratic leaders needed to act when the iron was hot — to lead, get out on the streets, and mobilize public opinion. It may now be that their moment has passed and the public has moved on. If so, what a shame; what a lost opportunity.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6mo agoSometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade stalkerware apps, because stalkerware makers don't give a shit about the security of their products. techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/h...
Exclusive: Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers' payment records
More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.
techcrunch.com
sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young
For those that don't know Chicago, this spans Division Street in Humboldt Park.
armando l sanchez@mandophotos.bsky.social · 6mo agoPeople cheer while watching Bad Bunny perform during Super Bowl 60 at a Benito bowl watch party at La Bruquena in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday evening in Chicago.
