IAmA
r/IAmA
PROOF: https://i.redd.it/9oybmy7d9sva1.jpg
I’m an investigative reporter at Bloomberg News, and I extensively examined how TikTok can serve up a stream of anxiety and despair to teens. “Death is a gift.” “The perfect ending.” “I wanna die.” I spent hours watching videos like this on the TikTok account of a New York teenager who killed himself last year. The superpopular app says it’s making improvements — but it now faces a flood of lawsuits after multiple deaths.
While practically all tech companies are secretive about their data, insiders who also had experience working for Google, Meta and Twitter cast TikTok as Fort Knox by comparison. You can read my story here and listen to me talk about it on The Big Take podcast here. You can read my other investigations into TikTok and others here.
EDIT: Thanks for joining me today. Social media has become ubiquitous in our lives, yet we do not know what the long-term impact is going to be on kids. These are important conversations to have and we should all be thinking about how to better protect children in our new digital world. I will continue to report on this topic -- and feel free to send me thoughts or tips to: ocarville1@bloomberg.net
Update April 24
For those wanting to know what to do now, you can go ahead and make a profile on USAJobs and create your resume using the resume builder tool (highly recommended). The job posting will be under series 2152 and titled “Air Traffic Control Specialist Trainee”, but you won’t see it until it goes live on May 5. Again, I’ll update this thread with a direct link to the application once it goes live to make it easy.
Keep sending questions my way. I’ll answer everyone eventually!
Update 2 April 22
I’m still answering all my DMs and any questions here. Same as always, I’ll keep updating this post over the next 2 weeks, and will have a direct link to the application posted here once it goes live. Feel free to keep engaging here, and I’ll also be posting updates over on r/ATC_Hiring
Update April 22
Just waking up, seeing a lot of questions now. I’ll start combing through and get back to everybody!
Also feel free to sub to r/ATC_Hiring . I made that sub a few years ago to be a place for people to keep in touch while going through the hiring process.
I’ve been doing AMA’s for these “off the street” hiring announcements since 2018. Since they always gain a lot of interest, I’m back for another one. I’ve heard back from hundreds of people (if not thousands at this point) over the past few years who saw my posts, applied, and are now air traffic controllers. Hopefully this post can reach someone else who might be looking for a cool job which happens to also pay really well.
I have been doing this 2 1/2 years. I quit an office cubicle job of a decade to get into manual labor at the age of 31 doing my dream job of being a Ranger. It has been one of the best decisions I have made! I live on site alone, with a couple co-workers living about 2 miles from me.
I worked in social services for a decade, and I just really like connecting with people and putting them onto the outdoors. I wasn't an outdoors person until later in life and it's something that has been a great benefit for me, and so I love sharing it with anyone who care.
I'm not a part of the NPS and I'm not LEO. AMA about being a Ranger, from the dog poop bag you left for me yesterday to weeks of playing cattle rustler. I also make videos and post shorts from the job and my life on YouTube if you wanna check it out or see more proof:
https://www.youtube.com/@DesertRanger1
Just some non-profits you can support for earth day:
-Pacific Crest Trail Association
Edit: How do you become a Ranger? Be willing to work your ass off! If you’re between 18-25 in California join the California Conservation Corp where they will reach you to be a badass. I’ve literally worked with their groups of much younger women and I was struggling to keep up! Their motto is Hard Work, Low Pay, Miserable Conditions and More! For the NPS lookup educational requirements and volunteer or get experience in addition to the education. For non-profits work on getting some education going if you haven’t already and volunteer to get some experience.
2
PROOF: https://i.redd.it/gpyb6vjgg5va1.png
Hey Reddit - Happy Earth Day Eve from the Pacific Crest Trail! Last year, we announced our plans to embark on the largest-ever trail trash survey, and now we're doing it. For the next five months, we’ll be living in the backcountry and hiking the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail to study and document litter along the way. We're already 200 miles in! Our goal is to use the data we collect to create solutions for keeping our natural resources clean and pristine.
Our team is here to answer your questions:
Victoria McGruer, has her Ph.D. in Ecotoxicology studying pollution in the environment and is currently hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and leading the litter survey.
Macy Gustavus, has her M.S. in Watershed Sciences studying microplastic pollution in river systems. She joined our mission after seeing our AMA last year and is now a core team member leading microplastic sampling along the trail.
Win Cowger, a data scientist with a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, focuses on trash research and is currently working at the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research.
Emin Israfil, the lead developer at Rubbish, is a fellow trash and data enthusiast who will provide tech support to ensure all the litter data is captured throughout the journey.
We invite you all to participate along your local trails. Logging the clean spots is just as important as logging the dirty spots.
We're excited to share our progress and discoveries with you! Follow our project @notracetrails on Instagram or www.notracetrails.com.
We are cannabis lawyers at Gleam Law! We have offices in 8 states and serve clients around the world. We practice business law, administrative law, intellectual property, banking law, real estate, and litigation with a focus on cannabis.
We help businesses form, comply, and thrive in the new cannabis industry. Our clients include farms, processors, retailers, dispensaries, and ancillary businesses such as publicly traded companies and international celebrities.
In the emerging cannabis system, regulatory bodies are struggling to grasp the complex subject matter. We help the government offices interpret the laws in regards to the practical application and use of medical and recreational marijuana.
These are always fun and this is our seventh AMA! We are lawyers, but not your lawyers. Nothing stated here (by us) should be construed as legal advice
Proof: Here's my proof!
Fun fact, one of Reddit’s key investors in 2014 was Snoop Dogg. Happy 4/20, everyone!
Edit - added attorney names.
Joining us this time will be:
Neil Juneja: I am the founder and managing partner of Gleam Law. I am a registered patent attorney and I think the world of myself. I am also famous for my modesty.
Justin Walsh: I am a partner in our Seattle office. I lead the litigation department; advise businesses on Cannabis, hemp, and CBD regulations; and make a great cocktail. I am also the Cannabis Law professor at Seattle University and moonlight as a judge pro tem. In my off time, I tell jokes and write. You can also find me on the twitters at @amateurlawprof. [Edit: I am most definitely NOT on Twitter anymore]
About Community
Members
Online
Related Communities
239,036 members
34,655 members
8,836 members
23,249 members
167,601 members
28,418 members
93,730 members
367,093 members
67,598 members
53,638 members