Conservatives have been championing Telegram as a more ideologically aligned alternative to Signal, and so they are trying to paint Durov's arrest as being politically motivated. To be clear, Telegram is much less secure than Signal (!!) 404media.co/how-telegrams-…

minors using AI tools to make nude images of other minors appears to be v v v v v v commonplace now 404media.co/1-in-10-minors…

got a list of neck exercises from my neurologist after a bike accident and turns out it's just gestures I do every day while looking at your posts

the mayor is about to set a bunch of confiscated weed on fire x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

samcole Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) ctaylsaurus Also available as video on peertube: peertube.dair-institute.org/w/qfEo47ztaAiu…

love to be in convo with the smartest people out there, give it a listen!

last year, a bombshell study showed LAION-5B contained potentially thousands of instances of child sexual abuse material. now, the dataset is back online, after being "cleaned" of that content: 404media.co/massive-ai-dat…

"Remove these brunchlords from the economics and staff outlets with responsible editors and journalists and… fancy that… suddenly it’s possible to do journalism sustainably again." techdirt.com/2024/08/29/404…

New: Lobbymatic, the AI lobbying firm secretly run by convicted fraudster Jacob Wohl, showed demo screenshots that it had massive clients, including Microsoft, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, etc. Six of those companies tell me they've never been clients 404media.co/big-tech-clien…

DIY, pirated medicine is becoming increasingly accessible and easier to make due to automation, new tech, and new software developed and released by Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: 404media.co/right-to-repai…

the Kamala Harris campaign is experimenting with "content sludge" type ads that show two unrelated videos at the same time. typically these videos are made for people with attention spans fried by TikTok. the first "brain rot" political ad? 404media.co/kamala-harris-…

excited for the first subway surfer split screen state of the union

this sucks. my own book would not be what it is without access to IA. hachette bought my indie publisher right before it went to print. totally unrelatedly, here's a link: bit.ly/3B2TaF1