It's Persona Summer! Where do you start? Do games like Metaphor Refantazio or Tokyo Mirage Session count? And like... what is Persona anyway? Here's everything you need to know

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.

happy pride 🙃

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

‘Euphoria’ Delivers Happy Ending Where Fans Never Have To Watch ‘Euphoria’ Again https://theonion.com/euphoria-delivers-happy-ending-where-fans-never-have-to-watch-euphoria-again/

truly bizarre how much contempt the final season of euphoria had for its characters. every single one is reduced to most cynically possible caricature in service of a story empty of everything that made the show good in the first place

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

i wrote about motion capture, animation, and bodies in games for TEEN VOGUE! it's very excited to have a byline at a magazine that i've been reading since i was teen✨ www.teenvogue.com/story/why-ar...

alright so I definitely need to remove a few inches

new @cdt.org study out this morning looks at how chatbots deploy manipulative "dark patterns" to get people to offer up more than they bargained for: www.404media.co/new-study-re...

“Everyone’s secretly using AI because it’s just too good!” No, no they’re not. This is the type of thing you say when you want to convince people you’re actually morally superior for wanting an algorithm to write your dog shit thoughts out for you.

endlessly frustrating that there is so much misinformation, along with ignorance, as to why women get abortions. at any stage of pregnancy, but I think a lot about late term abortions and the documentary After Tiller www.propublica.org/article/arka...

This story really stays with you. “It all feels quite like the Handmaid’s tale,” she wrote on Sept. 24. “I had to seek refuge, travel by ambulance across borders.” She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

we live in hell

entering my yeehaw era (bought cowboy boots) (they’re red and they match my hair duh)

Some personal news, as they say: I’m so stoked for the rest of the Fired Four getting this deal. Conde is giving them nearly two years of backpay. They offered me 4 months. In the absence of a serious offer, I’m looking forward to my day in court. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

very glad to see my former conde colleagues get justice. hope the same can soon be said for jake

Debt is rising in the United States. Now, when you owe money, you're likely to get a phone call from an AI collector asking you to pay up—sometimes even when you *don't* owe anything: www.wired.com/story/ai-tak...

some personal news: i can't find a replacement for this pikachu phone case design i've had for like, a decade and several iphone generations help pls

euphoria season 3 is *so* bad i feel personally harmed by sam levinson

Everyone in charge loves to say this is "new." New technology they can't keep up with. Nothing about this is new, except that there's no longer anyone to victim blame. www.404media.co/radnor-high-...

AI-generated child sexual abuse material rocked this Pennsylvania high school. I've been following the fallout for five months: www.404media.co/radnor-high-...

New: I spoke to a dozen sources about John Fetterman's dwindling inner circle; his closest confidant is an unpaid adviser named David Safier. Jokingly referred to as "chief" by staffers, Safier has coordinated calls w/Bibi and sits in on big meetings. Fetterman's actual chief of staff quit yesterday

the only good thing about media news these days are media group chats

NEW: I recently started seeing more and more videos featuring youthful Scientologists from “orgs” around the world, especially on TikTok. It turns out this is part of an coordinated campaign, and I spoke to some of the people who helped develop it: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

hey babe? I think we should get one of those...ah whaddya call 'ems it's like a

i learned about this three days ago and now I check it…often. too often, one might say

For my newsletter, I wrote about the killing of Juniper Blessing and ruminated on who the media thinks deserves attention in death. Friday newsletters are usually paywalled, but I have made the mini-essay portion of this post free to all: www.burnsnotice.com/her-name-was...

so sick of the usual feeds/sites/platforms today... i would love to hear about things online that you do that are fun

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

🙃 www.404media.co/software-dev...

Google, Microsoft, and Meta brag about how most of their code is AI-generated now. The developers generating that code say it sucks and that it's making the stupid www.404media.co/software-dev...

i’m not like the other sad girls I’m an obscure sad girl

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Did you know Zelda began in part as a multiplayer prototype? Or that Miyamoto considered a sci-fi story? I promise that even super fans will learn something new about the series from this historical deep dive with Zelda expert/historian/interview archivist @maxnichols.bsky.social!

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a copy of the Chinese-language realtime deepfake software powering scams around the world. For weeks I spoke to these scammers, sent them photos of my face to build a deepfake. We reveal how it works. Impacts WhatsApp, Teams, Zoom www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

a woman asked me to watch her dog while she got coffee. one of us is really excited about it

just leaving this here www.wired.com/story/aborti...

Akira (1988)

Is games journalism dead?!?! No. But it's hurting. And things will get worse before they get better. On this episode of Post Games, 50 years of video games media history help us come to terms with the end of an era and imagine what could come next for reporters, critics, and publications.

this bill would give the incoming director of the NSF power to award funding that would advance "AI literacy" for kids. guess how they define literacy? using it:

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

Excellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.

every single time I try something a Health Influencer has recommended, it ends with me gagging and yelling AW THAT’S NASTY

There's an important discussion to be had about the massive paradigm shift for career expectations in the modern job market, particulary in the games industry. This is absolutely not how to talk about it. 😬

I can't stop thinking about Justin and Cerina Fairfax, and how her death could have been prevented. I wrote about colleges and sexual assault, family courts forcing divorcing women to live with their abusers, and the entitlement of men who are cancelled by #MeToo www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...