Stenonymous is the largest alternative publication for court reporting news, opinion, and creative pieces. It also dabbles in political thought and non-court reporting news.
With over 1,000 visitors a month, it is likely that readership rivals the Journal of Court Reporting published by the National Court Reporters Association.
For fun:
My dream job is for 3-6 million people to realize how great I am, throw me a dollar, and then I go on to use that money to fight for working people for the rest of my life.
Alternatively, an investor out there with a sick sense of humor might take note of my writing and “go fund me.” I think there’d be a lot of money to be made given more resources for a writer that warps the world.
In the meantime, enjoy my blog. I like to consider it a great literary work™️.
Stenonymous is on sale for $12 million, with a right to refuse buyers that waste my time. Free market rules, baby.
The Background:
You’ll see my focus has always been on making the lives of working reporters easier. When I started school for this I was told court reporting sells itself, I was going to make so much money. I got out of school in 2010 just a bit after the 2008 economic crash and many of us were lowballed. The corporations of NYC were offering our class what was paid to reporters in the 1990s — said another way, I was working 40% more pages to have the same buying power as a reporter in 1990. I had to navigate this field during such a hard time, and had such a hard time doing it, that when I finally had some legs in the field, 2017, I started writing this blog to document tips, tricks, and events for reporters everywhere. I decided that, to the extent I can help it, no new reporter would be treated the way I was.
The success of this endeavor is only possible thanks to Stenonymous readers like you. Thank you.
To all the underpaid people in the world, I know. Would that I could change it.
Inspirations:
Basically all emergency responders and uniformed jobs. Why do we pay so little to the people we could never pay enough? Maybe this applies to working people generally. I’ll have to consider it.
Phil Mason, Thunderf00t.
The Young Turks.
Fox News.
The New York Times.
Carl Sagan.
The people that have to put up with my various online ops and antics. You’re the real heroes.
And many, many more…
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Stenonymous FAQ:
Q. Are you a communist?
A. Nope.
Q. Don’t companies have a right to do whatever they want in the name of the almighty dollar?
A. Hell yeah. So do I. So if I make a business out of exposing bad business, it’s cool, right?
Q. Do you hate businesses?
A. Nope. Love businesses. Almost every ad a business or person sends me an ad for this site gets published free of charge.
Q. What is wrong with you?
A. I realized that if people are talking about you, you’re important, so I gave the whisper networks something to talk about.
Q. Does anyone actually ask these questions?
A. No. This is another propaganda technique to get you to read my website.
Q. Why do you write so much?
A. I suspect my autism and upbringing make it more comfortable to communicate through text. It’s also fairly therapeutic.
Q. Can I have money?
A. No.
Q. Blogs are a dead medium?
A. Yeah. I know. But they get in the search engines in a way videos cannot.
Q. Do you hate cops?
A. Nope. There’s a spectrum in human behavior and that spectrum exists in cops. Some are heroes. Some are villains. Some are just people doing a job. Extend this to most any job. But especially the court reporter, where the spectrum ranges from ethics culture of excellence to literally and criminally stealing from people and each other.
Q. Are you a leftist?
A. I considered myself a leftist until my interactions with Reddit leftists made me realize these people have no strategic sense and little hope of accomplishing anything of note. There’s a purity test culture there that disgusts me. With words and a website I blew up a corporate fraud. Relatively small numbers of people could change the US for the better. But they’d rather maintain their little safe spaces on Reddit and cry about liberals. It’s embarrassing to think I wanted to associate with followers of such blind ideological faith. Interesting note though, that time was an experiment in radicalization. The more I went down the rabbit hole the more I could associate with radicalization. I’ve concluded we are all susceptible to radicalization. Our connections to non-radicals decrease the chance of radicalization and our connections to radicals increase it.
Q. Is it true you were a Wolf PAC activist and donor in your 20s?
A. Yep.
Q. Do you think you’re smarter than others?
A. Nope. I wrote a musing on human intelligence. I believe we are all mostly within the same range and capable of similar things. This means that nearly every person has the capacity to be both smarter and dumber than me.
Q. Would you give us a quick peek at your political beliefs?
A. The Corporation and The New Corporation sum it all up pretty well.
Q. Will you add my question to your FAQ?
A. Maybe!