wrote about PATRIOT, a double great show, over at @rollingstone.com for its anniversary, with thoughts from Steven Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, and Kurtwood Smith: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Chicago setting an example for the world.

Hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm not sure people outside Chicago are really getting their minds around what's happening here. Every decent human needs to watch this. substack.com/@danielbiss/...

great, another GTA 6 leak

Bugonia is the movie people will point to as an explanation for how it felt to be alive in 2025

the app used by the feds keeps people’s faces (including US citizens) for 15 years. now they’re rolling it out to da local cops like what could go wrong

Meanwhile, back in the states taskandpurpose.com/news/commiss...

love to go war with the 85% solution you have, not the unachievable 100% solution you might want or wish to have at a later time

um, actually

today in yikes www.404media.co/openais-sora...

The Army got back to me and this story has been updated with a lengthy comment from IMCOM (the Army's Installation Management Command)

proud to have worked with @jakelahut.writes.news and even more proud to call him a friend. as corporate nightmare fuel drives us out, huge fucking kudos to all who want to survive, use our platforms to challenge the status quo, and care for their coworkers and industry as a whole

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

writing about nuclear weapons while thinking about Arc Raiders

At the very bottom of the US Army’s “Shutdown Guidance” for troops in Bavaria, there was a “Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags” including various local food banks. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/army-tells-s...

"Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags," said a US Army website in Germany about the government shutdown. It was a list of local food banks

every single conversation I've ever had with a US military public affairs officer has been more interesting, forthcoming, and generous than the convos I have with tech company PR.

Tremendous shoutout to @hellgatenyc.com for their great liveblog today and livestream tonight m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKA4...

WE’RE GONNA RULE LIKE AUTOCRATS WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT THE PRESIDENT IS GOD Average libbed out intelligence officer:

"I'm never going to catch up on this podcast, fuck it, I'll stop listening" is one of the most freeing sensations in the world

New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

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this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...

Because of an onslaught of AI-generated research, specifically in the computer science (CS) section, arXiv is going to limit which papers can be published. @mjgault.bsky.social has more:

facing a rising tide of AI slop, arXiv is putting its foot down

Why are we all seeing more AI ads on social media? "You can simply publish tons of different versions of low-effort bullshit, and largely people will only see the ones that perform well," @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes. Let's get into it:

I have demanded answers from the Cuomo campaign about the pregnancy status of the bill. They are refusing to answer. What are they hiding?

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries. 🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

it can and it will

NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

After breaking that big White House news this week, I've officially rebranded and updated my Patreon! Welcome to inverted, an internet culture, games, & politics website straight from the upside down. Please consider joining for just $5/month! www.patreon.com/cw/Invertedb...

why is the bill pregnant www.404media.co/ai-generated...

wor once again leans back in its chair, swirls the whiskey in its glance, and smirks at the horror before it

One aspect I go into in the piece is how this building is going to have the neoclassical exterior that has obsessed Trump and MAGA since his first administration. It’s an attitude about architecture, art, and design that’s thoroughly fascist. It’s about imposing the “traditional” on us.

Worst volunteer gig ever

I need a vote from readers: the schoolhouse rock bill in this AI-generated attack ad from Andrew Cuomo looks like MPREG fetish art. yes or no?

"There is no upside" - @mattkorda.bsky.social

Putin announces 2 new nuclear systems, Trump threaten to do the same. This is what an arms race looks like. It is part of the Next Nuclear Age @scientistsorg.bsky.social and I wrote a series on this for @washingtonpost.com this summer. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

several people have emailed us to say that the sudden shut down of a giant book distributor is making public libraries scramble for books www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

ICE has the money for a creepy facial recognition app and to pay private detention centers buckets of cash to detain tens of thousands of people, but it can't get creative enough with its funds to staff its congressional relations office to answer questions about either of the above.