Excuse me? With no rules of engagement - no moral and legal limits - you lead a band of nicely dressed murderers. Not #InOurName and not on our dime.

unlocked this episode of Angry Planet with @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social that's a detailed rundown of the entire history of the Iranian nuclear program and its negotiations with America

Here it is!

unlocked this episode of Angry Planet with @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social that's a detailed rundown of the entire history of the Iranian nuclear program and its negotiations with America

"Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial intelligence tools made by the tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools."

I'm hearing reports the boys will be back by Christmas.

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

just gonna check in on the Pentagon home page

If I controlled a trillion-dollar military budget and identified a technology as critical for military applications, I would probably order my subordinates to develop a version of it under my institution’s control rather than tweeting a lot about how a private company won’t listen to me.

an all time stupid week in a long line of stupid weeks

absolutely mesmerized by this AI slop YouTube ad where everyone's face changes a little bit in every scene

meditating on this as I prepare to run God's Teeth

the way people post about media here exhibits a pretty shocking condescension to your fellow humans imo. effectively no different from how conservatives assert that liberal Hollywood makes you gay. you can be realistic about right wing media capture without doing the sheeple schtick I promise

wild to end a week thinking that an AI company is acting somewhat responsibly and that the Pentagon has no idea how anything works

#OtD 27 Feb 1943 the Rosenstrasse protest, began - the only mass public demonstration by Germans against the deportation of Jews, organised by their non-Jewish wives. Lasting until March, the women were successful stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9897...

small brain: free markets produce free press normal brain: consolidation of media into monopolies makes the press unfree large brain: despite media consolidation, media consumption is more diverse than ever galaxy brain: media fucked because of phone

SCOOP: The Department of Energy has made public a set of newly revised nuclear safety rules that slash security and environmental protections. @npr.org first reported on the existence of the rules last month. www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...

You can pay this company to scrub negative posts about you on the Tea app. The guy behind the company told me his employees, all men, have tea accounts, which is allegedly for women only www.404media.co/company-help...

the Islamic State is still around and is mostly interested in posting. It's using AI to kirkify dead leaders, trying to recruit in Roblox, and talking about Epstein to build clout so ... Daesh is just like everyone else online

New: the government just made it harder to see what spy tech it buys. This includes ICE, the FBI, essentially any agency. Why? Because they decided to retire the perfectly good system for searching contracts and replaced it with one that fucking sucks www.404media.co/the-governme...

The number of people who are bored by every news story and feel compelled to announce it, and yet never consider that their boredom is in turn not really very interesting to anyone else, is surprisingly high.

everytime I see that nukes and AI piece

I was struck by Trump saying last night that Iran has “not said the magic words: ‘No nuclear weapons.’” No. Iran has repeatedly said it will not build nuclear weapons. It’s “no enrichment” that has been the demand of Israel and other hardliners. Is this intentional? An exit ramp from pointless war?

A planned change to Amazon means that if people buy items on your wishlist, it could expose your address. Definitely a threat to people who have public wishlists. www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...

No, turning over activities designed for your learning to a bot does not free you. Undermining online learning hurts access to learning, especially for the not-wealthy. Had a great discussion with @mjgault.bsky.social of @404media.co about Einstein and other online course autocomplete systems.

under-reported/ understood part of many AI stories is that stuff like Einstein is just a wrapper for one of the big LLMs like Claude (it's usually Claude) users pay for the tokens plus a little rent-seeking in the bargain

sometimes the founder of a company says something that simply stops you in your tracks and haunts you. There's one those in here from the creator of Einstein, an edtech AI that will go to school for you

Sony can never let Spider Man go completely back to Marvel so every five years you're getting a Jared Leto movie

touching grass will not save them

talked to a researcher studying "AI resurrections" about Meta's patent to make dead users post www.404media.co/metas-ai-pat...

there will be bugs to work out, devastating bugs you will be unable to recover from. Most of them will be weathered by early adopters so there's that

New from 404 Media: how ICE and CBP are using the free walkie-talkie app Zello to coordinate their operations. We've linked multiple Zello accounts to ICE, found group chats with names referencing immigration. App previously criticized for allowing far right channels www.404media.co/how-ice-and-...

“This is really a turning point and we’re in a historical transition at present.”

the "open source LLMs running locally" idea is very naive nobody in the OS community has the resources to build an LLM "from scratch" - mainly ppl use a variant of Llama - meta's LLM - trained on stolen data that was cleaned by underpaid workers in global south - and thus exhibit the same biases

What happens when you speak for a bit too long at a city council meeting in opposition to a data center being built in your town? In Claremore, Oklahoma, a man was arrested and charged with trespassing. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/man-opposing...

stop talking about Terminator, start talking about Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

i keep looking for novel inspo images that AREN'T AI and it's begun to be impossible because there's just a glut of slop on the platform. if the art's not stolen and unsourced, it's AI.

Grok is doxing a porn performer, after she spent years keeping this information private. Disgusting, abusive, deliberately harmful little product Elon's got there www.404media.co/grok-doxing-...

If anyone wants to know what was considered "self-harm" it was this image lol

watching what's happening to Pinterest feels like a glimpse at the immediate future for much of the internet. AI moderation knocking down posts, people unable to talk to human beings, a flood of AI content, and hand drawn posts mislabeled as AI

as expected it's shaping up to be an all time day for people saying "i already knew that" to something they assumed to be true but didnt actually know to be true. maybe a record breaking day

every day I read another piece that anthropomorphizes tech that is, essentially, a fancier spellcheck and I scream and scream and scream

who could have seen such a thing coming?

just two guys enjoying a big glass of whole milk in a Jacuzzi together

Right now @404media.co has more comprehensive coverage of the @arstechnica.com "AI" article debacle than Ars Technica does themselves.