happy friday. read @beckyferreira.bsky.social's story here: www.404media.co/why-its-good...

Hey GTA! @thenarwhal.ca is hiring a BIPOC reporting fellow to help us explain how Ontario government policy affects people's actual, everyday lives. More info here, drop questions in the chat if you have them. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-repo...

It turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on Disney pulling out of the $1 billion investment with OpenAI. Read the full story now: www.404media.co/disneys-open...

and why the hell would disney want to partner with a service like openai where we saw users AI slopify hitler spongebob? as @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes, execs “hate paying human labor so much they convinced themselves customers would happily consume AI slop if shoved down their throats.”

didn’t even survive 2 years

live from the shitpost factory

this shit is so expired pay someone else thousands of dollars to write something else please god

A delivery robot crashed through a bus shelter in Chicago, shattering glass all over the sidewalk. The crash comes amid a protest against delivery robots in the city and a few weeks after a politician said he would not allow the robots into his district. Read now: www.404media.co/delivery-rob...

“bro give me like one of those japanese full sleeves” asshat

never has this world seen more dumb and invasive tech

the judge was like “oh yeah! the first amendment”

tonight we let the hot pot talk

it’s giving cover your drink at the bar

as per usual @roryjohnston.bsky.social summed it up perfectly: “This will be so, so, so, so, so bad."

lucky says happy friday

“the shame around ai” lmfao okay cartoon character relax

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

I'm 30 minutes deep and I'm so fucking bored. THIS is the most popular podcast??????? FOLKS

literally must be an undercover op for any other party the way he be doing the corniest shit

imagine our legless avatars kissed after shooting wendys baconators through basketball hoops in the metaverse

Journo jobs alert: @thestar.com's storied and well-paid, unionized year-long journalist internship program for 2026-27 is open for applications. Current cohort includes eight reporters and two photogs. Deadline for applying is April 15. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Torstar/7440...

people are so fucking lonely but yes let’s get a bot to glean my data so it can date for me

So those DOGE bro videos... why would a judge order that they be taken down? This week on the podcast, 404 Media gets into why the request is absolutely absurd considering how much relevance it has to taxpayers. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtMn...

so just terrible at everything

It's not limited to just Canadians with work visas; anyone and everyone is subject to abuse at the US border. Last summer we visited Seattle for a wedding and I straight up took a burner device.

So many Americans did not know I could be rejected by CBP anytime I tried to re-enter the US or that immigration law stated I only had 60 days to find a new job after my layoff or had to return to Canada

I've been dealing with having to hire US crew for Toronto bands instead of trying to add people to existing O1's just because of various concerns and delays.

shout out to that time i had to change the group chat profile pic from jd vance as chucky to a flower to protect myself at the border

will just note that canadian friends with US work visas are scared about coming back to visit their families for a couple days bc anything can happen at the american border but ok

if i send u this image it means im about throw money on the stupidest shit ever

people said release the epstein files and he said nah ufos bro

ooo another CEO AI fail, cue the tuba

torrents are undefeated: www.404media.co/the-removed-...

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

404 Media's @josephcox.bsky.social watched all of DOGE bro Justin Fox’s deposition from start to finish. All six hours of Fox trying to explain "DEI", how he used ChatGPT to find keywords in grants like "Black" or "homosexual," and more. Read his full story here: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

404 Media’s reporting exposed how Flock was used by police to give info to ICE and to look for a woman who they say administered a self-abortion. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social testified this month to the California State Assembly about it. Our extensive Flock reporting here: www.404media.co/tag/flock/

What stands out to me is the arrogance. The surefootedness that this was the correct thing to do despite no experience in government. The presumption that they were entitled to use their own uninformed judgement to cut funds to things that they don’t personally value www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

So @josephcox.bsky.social watched over six hours of this deposition featuring DOGE staffer Justin Fox who, when asked how he defined “DEI” kept saying he needed to refer to the EO. Highlights here:

we’ll have more but in this deposition, he talks about how DOGE bros labelled grants as “crazy” “bad” and that’s literally almost anything other than founding father American 250 stuff

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex". www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

im not joking we need to ban the internet

“epstein class is iranian propaganda” is definitely something i’d expect the epstein class to say

Q: Is there any hope or possibility of opting out or avoiding being “seen”? I don't think privacy is dead. I don't think people need to give up and say fine, take my data. There are concrete things people can do. But they do introduce friction. — @josephcox.bsky.social

What surveillance tools do we anticipate seeing develop and integrate further into American society in the next three years without legislative oversight? - Police drones - Real-time facial recognition - AI cameras - AI persona bots cops use to infiltrate online groups More here:

From Flock's nationwide surveillance to ICE tools, we are being watched. Is there anyway to go back now? "Police love telling each other about the new capabilities and tools that they've acquired, so this tech can spread from city to city very quickly." A 404 Media guide to surveillance in 2026: