On Wii Shop Wednesday no less

404 Media is about to enter energy saver mode. We're still publishing throughout the week, however, so watch your inbox / RSS / the @404media.co feed and you won't miss us too badly. Before we all slip into the ether, I wanted to highlight a few stories I published this year that stuck out. 🧵🪡

Huge L for the state of “being in Europe,” having to wait hours for the good blogs and posts to surface

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

I’ve spent a week eating nothing but food that looks like this in France and if anything I’m shrinking. There’s magic here.

Pointing and saying “that’s me” thousands of times every time I visit a museum

Turning red and starting my second combat phase every time AI is mentioned at work is destroying my career and mental health, which is fine, probably. It's fine that fire shoots out of my ears and I do double damage. People enjoy working with guys like that.

Cool.

I've worked at several design agencies and there's always a guy crouched out of frame pumping vomit into your mouth, actually, it's not a "fuck up"

Entering bullet time and performing the world's most destructive uppercut over my lost 3D printer delivery

People are crying censorship, but I feel this doesn’t go far enough. All horses should be banned. Disgusting creatures. Too big. Too hard.

Becoming one of those power slap guys so I don’t have to think about anything anymore

Finished Silksong last night and man, they actually met expectations. Perfect game. My one nitpick is that it's a shame your first crest's downward attack is a tricky diagonal lunge, because I think it led to a lot of people getting frustrated with the jumping puzzles and falling off early.

Thinking about how @meredithmeredith.bsky.social explained how dumb and risky and insecure agentic AI is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE_C...

“the whitr house” love when democratic senators use AI graphics, definitely makes me feel valued as labor for the movement

Weird how our AI-boosting government is killing the IRS's free tax filing tool, only for the company who spent $3,720,000 on lobbying last year to sign a big AI integration deal for their tax software. Probably a coincidence.

Being in the mental space to post a little joke about something innocuous, as a throwback

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

If you enjoyed the AI rant I published last week, this killer blog from @janus.bsky.social hits on similar notes but is like, way, way more thoughtful and well-put: aftermath.site/ai-is-the-ul...

If anyone overheard me explaining the differences between Cumtown and Chapo Trap House to my girlfriend on the subway, please know that she asked

I used to think I’d be the 80-year-old at a rally, sobbing because I lived long enough to see universal healthcare, but now all I want is the Butlerian Jihad

I can’t believe we got another GTA VI delay before we got GTA VI

Between this and Zohran having attended AEW shows, I'm excited to replace our wrestling fan government (derogatory) with a wrestling fan government (complimentary)

The previous luddite tribunal was a blast. Come out!

READY TO RUN THROUGH A WALL

GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD

Dispatch from one of the @hellgatenyc.com parties: so many people here I might die. Seems like a good omen

Slam dunk platform would be to campaign on banning this junk

I’d love to be more specific about why working in the tech industry during this AI bubble is driving me crazy, but dissent isn’t exactly safe these days. Anyway, I blogged. www.aaron.mn/ideology-1-1

WinZip

Not to be cringe but it’s nice outside.

Shout out to everyone who scolded me for even suggesting I wasn’t thrilled to vote for Biden or Harris. This race should be the easiest layup in history.

I talk to developers every day and it’s not exactly a secret that AI is as inaccurate with programming as it is with anything else. I’m begging journalists to talk to workers instead of the lowlifes evangelizing this junk.

I've spent an upwards of 75,000 hours task managing in Jira in my career, which has made me incredibly efficient.

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

You have agency! All you have to do is see that you’re being harassed, experience the harassment, and request that it be removed! Hopefully nobody saw it or saved it before that! It’s fine, actually!

What’s Sora supposed to be for, even? ChatGPT being a plain-language search engine makes conceptual sense, at least. Sora is an endless feed of zero-value misinformation, IP theft, and harassment-fodder. I feel insane!

Everyone's focusing on copyright, but I wish there were more conversation about how vapid Sora is. It's the lifeless conclusion of tech companies pounding our brains to pudding. Evil, evil, evil software in the most literal sense.

I’ve been dying for them to finally replace the shambling zombie website I designed in like, 2018 because seeing it today feels like slamming a finger in a car door

That’s my champ.

This isn’t real, but if you take them at face value (lol) you’re still vulnerable to being deepfaked if you’re not famous enough or whatever. Patently evil technology from a rotted industry. This can’t be over soon enough.

I’m available if anyone wants to hear about cancers, heart attacks, and car accidents beset upon elderly Minnesotans – thanks Mom

Real tired of being grifted and lied to 24/7, imo

This is a privileged problem, but it's so, so difficult to feign any enthusiasm about working in the tech industry when something like this is dropping on a near-daily basis. www.404media.co/instagram-ac...

These guys are living my absolute dream life

This is the funniest thing I've ever read in my life.

Sorry I didn’t respond, I needed to drop everything I was doing and Google what Jamiroquai has been up to lately

Love buying granola and getting all of this dust for free