You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages:
https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/
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A web developer has created and released an infinitely generating "tar pit" designed to trap AI training bots in an endless maze: "Just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going"
https://www.404media.co/developer-creates-infinite-maze-to-trap-ai-crawlers-in/
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Zuckerberg "loved" an AI slop image on a spam page that also posts AI images of children with amputations, elderly people, fake images of graves, links offsite to ad-loaded pages, etc. Exciting stuff for me
https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-loves-ai-slop-image-from-spam-account-that-posts-amputated-children/
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New: The manufacturer of a medical device that costs six figures has told hospitals that they will no longer be allowed to fix them. Hospitals must now sign repair contracts with the manufacturer if they want the device fixed. Repair monopoly in action:
https://www.404media.co/medical-device-company-tells-hospitals-theyre-no-longer-allowed-to-fix-machine-that-costs-six-figures/
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The last few weeks have really highlighted just how fragile corporate social media is, and just how beholden to political power it is. To build any sort of ground-up power we must continue to invest in decentralized alternatives that are resistant to intervention
https://www.404media.co/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy/
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We've been lucky enough that we are getting a lot of merch orders from Europe in particular, but we (and our customers) are getting killed on shipping for obvious reasons. If you know of a good EU merch printer/supplier/fulfiller, please let me know? Would be good to work with a small shop
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Everything Zuckerberg is doing must be seen in context of the TikTok ban, the greatest gift the government could give Meta. I went through years of his testimony about China; he has been planting seeds for this for years, now desperately needs Trump to side with him:
https://www.404media.co/a-tiktok-ban-is-a-gift-to-meta-and-instagram/
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Stack Overflow & Discourse founder @codinghorror pledges to donate half of his wealth within the next five years, citing urgency of income inequality, housing costs, and wealth concentration: "wealth starts to unintentionally distance my family from other Americans"
https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/
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New: The FTC has formally sued John Deere over its tractor repair monopoly, which is the strongest punitive action the federal government has ever taken against a company over restricting right to repair
https://www.404media.co/ftc-sues-john-deere-over-its-repair-monopoly/
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The simple truth is that nonconsensual porn AI "nudify" apps are viable because they get almost all of their traffic from social media ads. One of the largest one is getting 90 percent of its traffic from Instagram ads. 90 percent! This is only going to get worse
https://www.404media.co/instagram-ads-send-this-nudify-site-90-percent-of-its-traffic/
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The 404 Media RSS feed is down at the moment. We’re trying to figure out what’s going on and how to fix it asap. I think likely an outage with the provider who manages this service for us but we’re looking into it. Sorry for the inconvenience!!
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Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days:
https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/
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Beautiful stuff: "It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument... I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music."
https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/
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An Amazon delivery confirmation photo is the last time a Palisades resident saw her house standing. Amazon drivers say they have been delivering in neighborhoods that were evacuated soon after they left, are delivering in adjacent neighborhoods. Scary situation
https://www.404media.co/an-amazon-delivery-confirmation-is-the-last-photo-a-palisades-resident-has-of-her-burnt-down-house/
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New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"
https://www.404media.co/meta-deletes-trans-and-nonbinary-messenger-themes/
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New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leaves of absence from work
https://www.404media.co/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-right-now-employees-protest-zuckerbergs-anti-lgbtq-changes/
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We had to evacuate Los Angeles. Most of my friends have also had to leave. We are safe in San Diego and our apartment is unlikely to burn down. We are very lucky. But alongside the visceral horror of the wildfires there is also the mundanity of dystopia
https://www.404media.co/were-fine-los-angeles-wildfires/
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Hundreds of police license plate cameras are misconfigured to stream unencrypted to the open internet.
A privacy researcher took these streams and turned them into a real-time database that tracks car movements & information, highlighting how invasive this tech is
https://www.404media.co/researcher-turns-insecure-license-plate-cameras-into-open-source-surveillance-tool/
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Sentences I did not think I would write: Videos of mass shootings, suicides, and gore are being run through Runway's AI, turned into Minions, and then posted to social media to evade content moderation
https://www.404media.co/minion-gore-videos-use-ai-to-post-murder-to-instagram-tiktok-and-youtube/
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