Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.

One of my goals as a journalist is to enrich people's experiences with media. When you play a new game, that experience is more vibrant and fulfilling because you know the story behind the art. Why and how was it made? Where does it fit into our culture? What could it make you feel?

thinking about the angel of a man at last night’s health concert who specifically timed tossing me up to crowd surf with the song’s beat drop so I could enjoy it more

Between the "male loneliness" beat and the "passport bro" beat, there sure is a lot of ink being spent on pieces of shit who can't find friends or dates because they're sentient piles of hot wet trash

another drag king name suggestion: nine inch niles (requires you to consider niles a real name)

if there is not already a drag king performing under the name fuckass bob what are we even doing here

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

peel it back tour was easily the best concert I’ve been to in my life

boyfriend posting as a form of online security

follow up! Please share links to where you get original games reporting. Someone got a quote, did an interview, dug up new information, broke news. Can be individual reporter, newsletter, magazines, sites, video channels, podcasts, anything Bonus: share a recent reported story you liked

allow me to take you on a journey into the yawning maw of Weddingtok: www.404media.co/wedding-plan...

Anyway, please read my history of Santacon, partially inspired by Mother Jones and carried out in its early years by many of my weird little friends: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

love to see a jason parham story hit the timeline: “A moment of silence for all the gooner accounts we’ve lost.” www.wired.com/story/x-bot-...

actually, don’t be friends with your exes

dad games being back is a recession indicator

extremely annoying that the people who tell you the only way to help burnout is to stop doing the thing that burned you out are correct

FOIA scoop (no paywall): The day Renee Good was killed, a Minnesota state police official repeatedly texted a FBI agent. He wanted to co-manage the crime scene & ensure his agents were included in interviews. For at least 2 days, maybe longer, the FBI didn't respond: www.wired.com/story/the-fb...

telling my bodega guy “thanks boss,” all the while hoping one day he’ll say “you’re welcome boss”

New for @404media.co - On Trans Day of Visibility, I went to an OpSec party that teaches trans people how hunt down their old data (to be less visible online) 🫥

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

24/7 livestream of my apartment titled unc crashes out

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

We are terrorizing an entire country. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

When ads came to ChatGPT, users were mad — those who had been using it as an editor or therapist suddenly saw ChatGPT as vulnerable to manipulation by brands and marketers. The reality is that it was happening the whole time. I wrote about the new SEO gold rush: www.theverge.com/tech/900302/...

whoa whoa whoa guys, alito is correct here. asking if i'm an iranian sleeper agent WILL activate me to dunk your head in a toilet

Conservative parents’ advocacy groups are using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries (the books aren't actually pornographic) www.404media.co/blockade-the...

EXCLUSIVE: Zohran Mamdani is reversing course on an Eric Adams-era ban on NYC officials using TikTok on government devices. With new guardrails to protect city networks, agencies will be permitted to use the app to communicate with New Yorkers. More here: www.wired.com/story/in-a-b...

Between the conversion therapy ruling and the efforts to ban kids from the internet to “protect them” from “transgender influence,” we’re right back in a culture of violently enforced closeting. And the data around self-identifying as trans and queer already reflects this

new york dog walkers are built different

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

for 404 Media, I wrote about Tinder's new feature that will let AI scan your entire camera roll. The company's head of product says the app’s use of AI is to “help you express yourself." www.404media.co/tinder-plans...

You deserve both love and privacy

“People have to be very aware that there’s a surveillance aspect to the data,” says one expert. “You're sharing your most intimate sexual thoughts because you're lost in the moment.” New from me for @wired.com on the privacy nightmares of ChatGPT smut. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

New from 404 Media: Tinder plans to use AI to scan your camera roll. AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos to help construct profiles by determining what users’ interests and values are. Designed to filters explicit photos but users may still be concerned www.404media.co/tinder-plans...

delighted to have @megannicolett.bsky.social on the blog today reporting on Tinder's new little AI gambit: www.404media.co/tinder-plans...

for 404 Media, I wrote about Tinder's new feature that will let AI scan your entire camera roll. The company's head of product says the app’s use of AI is to “help you express yourself." www.404media.co/tinder-plans...

the bell has tolled for me: i was forced to write about ai slop www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

leon kennedy did not fight hordes of virus rabid monsters to be yassified like this

how much culture and knowledge and expression have we lost because DOGE workers like this—a man who looks like someone bewitched a pile of mashed potatoes to life and demonstrates he has no critical thinking skills—decided it was ~DEI~

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online

Ahead of GDC, I had a rare interview with the president of the game industry's trade organization, the ESA, which politically advocates for nearly every major publisher from Epic to Roblox, Nintendo to Amazon. I asked about the ESA's current stance on AI, unionization, child safety, and much more.

I wrote about this trend in modern booktok-style romance where readers very much prefer first-person—to the point of flat out refusing to read the more traditional third-person—and what that means for literary culture as a whole.

What do you say to someone who believes their chatbot has unlocked the keys to the universe? I talked to mental health experts who are following the 'AI psychosis' issue closely to find out: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

he’s been skipping leg day :(

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

“This is American commercial immorality on steroids. Once events that involve good and evil simply become a financial product, I don’t know how right and wrong matters any longer." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

A bleak report about the games industry made the rounds a couple of weeks ago. Then, last week, this dire chart was added to it What it shows: Game industry revenue growth in 2025, excluding China, Roblox, hardware and console services (Game Pass, etc) was near 0 www.gamefile.news/p/one-key-ch...