got called on last minute, chugged a tallboy redbull, then spoke at 110 mph to Micah Loewinger for many minutes about the shining future of indie media. thanks for having me 🫶

Google pulled AI slop from an AI-generated blog and presented it to users searching for one of the most famous paintings in history 404media.co/google-serves-…

p wild scoop from Louise Matsakis: Most Shein workers are third-party gig workers whose pay is calculated via productivity levels who can be hired and fired at any time. Workers are speaking out about working conditions in videos on Chinese social media wired.com/story/the-shei…

NEW: I obtained internal emails from city government of Springfield, Ohio. These emails show the absolute chaos caused by Trump and Vance after claiming Haitian immigrants were eating pets. Threats, hateful emails, media bonanza. A nightmare. 404media.co/internal-email…

genuinely chilling investigation into a tool bought by the US government that can track people all across the country to a granular level 404media.co/inside-the-u-s…

404 Media obtained an hour-long presentation given to Northwell Health clinicians about its new AI tool: a chatbot that leadership is encouraging staff to use for everything from administrative work to inputting patients' medical records 404media.co/northwell-heal…

Exciting! 404 Media is partnering with our friends at WIRED. Two of our stories a month will run on WIRED.com (and on 404 Media). We remain fully journalist-owned, this is just a dream sitch where we can show our work to WIRED's readers 404media.co/404-media-is-p…

Donald Trump has said (sometimes) that he would veto an abortion ban if Congress passes one. But if we see a national abortion ban, it won't come from Congress--and a Trump win alone could make it possible. Here's my latest with Reva Siegel in POLITICO: politico.com/news/magazine/…

Archbishop Rino Fisichella said that the mascot was "created from the desire to enter into the world of pop culture, so beloved by our young people." 404media.co/luce-porn-vati…

There's a better way to do public health messaging. nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opi…

Multiple security vulnerabilities in the What to Expect app include "one which allows a full takeover of a user’s account, exposing their sensitive reproductive health information." 404media.co/pregnancy-trac…

The Nuna TRVL LX is basically perfect for anyone. I love this stroller. There's another brand of stroller that's way overhyped (review TK) but Nuna, imo, is far superior consumerreports.org/babies-kids/st…. .

New: Texas AG Ken Paxton subpoenaed 404 Media for confidential reporting about an internal Google privacy incident database we pubbed in June. If Paxton wants the database, he can get it directly from Google. Our lawyers formally objected to the subpoena: 404media.co/404-media-obje…

"The border between content that glorifies eating disorders and content that is simply part of our culture’s fanatical fixation on thinness, masked as “fitness” and “health” advice, is not always clear." 😑 theatlantic.com/technology/arc…