Samantha Cole (@samleecole) 's Twitter Profile
Samantha Cole

@samleecole

journalist @404mediaco
author of HOW SEX CHANGED THE INTERNET
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Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary: 404media.co/archivists-rec…

Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

i don't think people really understand where we already are with AI video generators. whatever nightmare you imagine, we're already there 404media.co/chinese-ai-vid…

Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Spotify employees complained about the company hosting Andrew Tate "pimping hoes" course. Looks like spotify removed that audio shortly after 404media.co/pretty-vile-sp…

Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pokemon Go sale to a Saudi Arabian company comes with six separate corporate announcement blogs, not one of them directly addressing what happens to 100 million people's location data, AR mapping capabilities, or the AI maps they have been training: 404media.co/saudi-arabia-b…

Becky Ferreira (@beckyferreira) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This week on the Abstract 404 Media - Megalodon was a Slim King šŸ¦ˆšŸ‘‘ - Ride the great whale conveyer belt! šŸ³šŸ’© - That's one small step for an alien microbe... 🦠🪐 - The breath of life is volcanic šŸŒ‹šŸŒ 404media.co/jaws-vs-the-me…

Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping: 404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-b…

Samantha Cole (@samleecole) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"I spoke briefly to Mustafa, and asked him if he was using AI tools for 'brute-forcing social media algorithms.' He said 'sounds about right bro. I think that line of thought is correct. I agree with it.'" 404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-b…

Remap (@remapradio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Friend of the site and 404 Media co-founder Emanuel Maiberg joins @robzacny to tell him about looking for a new home, buying one, then finding out suddenly you're in for a world of pain. Come for the flooding, stay for the hazmat suits! remapradio.com/podcasts/episo…

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New: Court docs show how three alleged Tesla vandals got caught and shows authorities are increasingly relying on license plate scanners to identify people: 404media.co/how-three-alle…

Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

23andMe as a functioning company was a privacy disaster. 23andMe as a bankrupt, for sale company is a fucking nightmare 404media.co/dna-of-15-mill…

Samantha Cole (@samleecole) 's Twitter Profile Photo

texas is trying to make selling sex toys safely and privately online a criminal offense. this is worth paying attention to: 404media.co/texas-sex-toy-…

Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The open-source genetic database OpenSNP is shutting down and deleting all user data after 14 years due to the risk posed by Trump administration, law enforcement abuse, authoritarian governments, and 23andMe bankruptcy: 404media.co/open-source-ge…

Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"I'm 100 percent certain it's going to be better than what we've been dealing with." - Marc Andreessen, January 2025 404media.co/big-tech-backe…

KQED (@kqed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the most recent #closealltabs episode, tech reporter Samantha Cole shares what happened when she tried to ā€œvape the internetā€ after seeing a viral post about a disposable touchscreen vape with built-in social media. kqed.org/news/12036123/…

Jules Roscoe (@julesaroscoe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Crazy story today: this group of distant water fishermen is fighting for Wi-Fi on their boats so they can talk to their families (or anyone else in the outside world) for the ten months a year they're out at sea. 404media.co/they-sometimes…

Global Labor Justice (@global_labor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Important story from Jules Roscoe 404 Media on migrant fishers fighting for Wi-Fi & labor rights in Taiwan’s distant water fishing industry #seafoodindustry #sustainableseafood

Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The Trump administration’s constant use of AI art reflects its own brute force attack on American democracy. It’s not just that its aesthetics are useful for Trump, its entire mode of being is useful for how his administration has governed so far" 404media.co/the-ai-slop-pr…