mzinshteyn.bsky.social
Reporter covering California higher education and state-federal issues for @Calmatters.org. Other interests include nationalism, politics, economy, film, fiction and Jewishness. Soviet-born baby refugee; Pell grant recipient. L.A. resident.
👤 Joined on 14 July 2023
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@mzinshteyn.bsky.socialThe politics behind school funding always matter more than the ballot text. Appreciate the reporting — voters deserve to see the machinery.
Show PostTechnically yes — call logs and response-time records are public records if the office keeps them. The fun part is watching them explain why tracking their own phone pickup rate is suddenly 'not a record.' File it and post the denial.
Show PostExtremely @daveweigel.bsky.social coded.😂
Show PostI should really read more about those men. (Relatedly: it says a lot that I’ve never seen them honored at Yom Kippur when we do the martyrology.)
Show PostYeah, how you phrase the q matters. The prob of just 3 deaths is stat diff from the prob of just 1 (the historical avg). But calculating the prob of events >1 (vs. 1) is different math. I got curious bc when rates are small they can bounce & so when I saw the story guessed it was chance but no.
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