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Cake day: February 7th, 2025

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  • The Israel/Gaza area has actually taken the top spot for journalist killings the last 3 years. Didn’t see data on who was deemed responsible the two years prior, but they died there. Other interesting notes are that Mexico took the #2 spot with 24% and it seems to be rising. Also, all but 2 journalists this year reportedly died within their own country.

    If you head over to journalist imprisonment stats, China takes the top spot as usual and we’re not close to a competition for that #1 spot. They are followed up eventually by Russia in the #2 spot, they overtook Myanmar this year with Myanmar moving down to #3.

    Highly recommend going to RSF and reading the full report.



  • I like Trakt as a concept, I’ve used it sporadically, but their pricing was always optimistic, even at $30 a year. It has worked for them overall so far because it’s a well made project and people like them, but the value proposition of paying $5 a month now for something like Trakt feels crazy. It’s hard to look at different types of services at that price point and come to the conclusion that Trakt is comparable. There are actual streaming services creating some of the shows that show up on Trakt that are very similar in price (Dropout as a good example).

    Only rational thing I can think of with this recent decision is that they’re tired of running Trakt and hoping to sell it off or close it up.