yes sir, i made the illustrations for this investor dek in nano banana

Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.

breh the school was named after his chicken what www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

The Simulation Is Collapsing - www.techdirt.com/2025/11/06/t... "Hold the center. Walk the wire. Build the alternatives. Sustain the organizing. Maintain your humanity. Choose love over fear. Choose clarity over despair. Choose sustained resistance over accommodation masquerading as wisdom."

In 217 days people from all over the globe are going to congregate in LA to watch extremely intense sporting matches in public. What's the strategy to welcome these fans if we're tear-gassing anyone who dares to drink a Modelo on the sidewalk?

Farewell to one of the GOATs www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

read this! a companion: @librarypunk.bsky.social (Justin’s quoted in this article)’s recent episode on AI refusal with yours truly 😎 www.librarypunk.gay/e/155-ai-ref...

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...

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...

Who is rubbing Curtis sliwa’s shoulder in this video what is going on www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpkfLwx/

Going to go ship a bunch of merch orders right now. Orders placed in the next ~hour will go out today. We have a bunch of new designs! And old favs! 404media.myshopify.com?srsltid=AfmB...

We try to give as much insight into how we report our stories and our dealings with tech companies as we can, and the narratives that they push. Meta has become obsessed with telling reporters that its smart glasses are no different than an iPhone. So we wrote this: www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

Meta PR has been challenging us to philosophical debates about the difference between its AI glasses harassment machine and an iPhone, this is my answer www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

seeing this irl was so cool, i hope they figure out how to bring it back www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

A hallmark of this year's Banned Books Week? The censoring of Banned Books Week. That, plus this week's extensive roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/banning-bann...

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-...

We are speedrunning "the worst, most dangerous technologies trickle down from military to feds to local police" www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

good, smart, and long overdue look at Common Crawl: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

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...

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arXiv is changing its submission rules because it's getting spammed with AI slop "research" www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

i'm always thinking about the scene in Minority Report where Tom's walking down the busy hallway and you can see and hear the ads being edited in real time to reflect the advertising details of each viewer

Zuck's new genius pitch:

Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest www.404media.co/the-future-o...

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

Jackson Holliday trained Pages how to do that don’t @ me

They should do Scherzer vs Kershaw tomorrow and require them both to pitch 9 innings

When one of my teammates in intramural softball does that I get so mad and think they’re dumb

the dodgers are probably going to have to try to get 1 inning possibly slightly more from a bad reliever

i hate canva with the intensity of 10,000 suns

AI is awesome

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

“ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection” www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

I’ve been thinking about this all day

Excited to talk with teachers about gen AI in classrooms at 7 eastern today with PBS News Hour classroom! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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

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

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Patrons keep asking "I had this book on hold but now I don't have it on hold anymore, why not?" and we keep having to explain that we had the bookn on order, but now we have to find a new place to order it from. People have been mostly okay about it, but it's exhausting.

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...

Hindsight is whatever but the dodgers have looked completely outmatched the whole series so far except for two innings of the Yamamoto game. The 18 inning game was the Dodgers A lineup playing against Vlad and Daulton Varsho for 10 innings

bro why please leave me alone

Doing this now, on why 404 Media doesn't paywall our FOIA based coverage bsky.app/profile/free...

meta talks about its recording light and yet the vast majority of viral videos we see that were filmed with meta ai glasses seem as though the subject is completely unaware of what's happening or otherwise feels like they can't say anything www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

we live in dystopia www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...