Jimmy Kimmel on rumble when

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize?” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

the government and the people who control AI are erasing history and research in real time to distort reality www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

this headline, whatever it is, rocks

Nice to hear @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on @the1a.org, this morning, talking "AI" impacts and the broad dismissal of consent by tech companies when it comes to putting "AI" in their products

Good news: Rather than deal with tariff logistics, some international eBay and Etsy sellers have simply jacked their shipping costs up to $2,000 for Americans buyers: www.404media.co/2-000-shippi...

congrats to all the media outlets carrying on charlie's work of silencing speech www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

I will stop using the gross big overhead lights when they invent tasteful floor level lamps give off enough light to be able to see

"The AI companies have stolen our work not so that people might enjoy it illegally, but so that the AI companies themselves can grind it into profitable sludge." defector.com/if-the-thiev...

Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him: www.404media.co/comcast-nbcu...

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Great business strategy: Fire your human coders, use AI to code, then hire human coders to fix the mess you've made www.404media.co/the-software...

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

New: HHS has told all employees that they should start using ChatGPT, continuing the administration's AI-ification of everything, its trust in tools that hallucinate, and the general sense that getting things right is not important or worth trying to do: www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...

This is a really important resource and reporting cataloguing the scale at which AI is scraping the internet and allowing people to search these datasets www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I'm proud to share a new project that @alexreisner.bsky.social and I launched at @theatlantic.com today! It's called AI Watchdog, and it's our new home for all of the investigations into training data sets, such as LibGen, Books3, and OpenSubtitles. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

need to look into this

Finally have an answer to a question I’ve had for a long time: What’s the deal with lofi girl? Great piece by @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social www.404media.co/how-lofi-gir...

can’t find my evergreen post about the orioles blowing saves to the first batter of the ninth inning but pretend I retweeted it

have not done research yet into how they are probably bad but i must say: i needed to sell my car and the process with Carvana could not have possibly been easier. completely shocking how painless & fast it was, and felt like i got a reasonable, fair amount of money for it

New: HHS has told all employees that they should start using ChatGPT, continuing the administration's AI-ification of everything, its trust in tools that hallucinate, and the general sense that getting things right is not important or worth trying to do: www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...

A list of traits for a good AI Darwin Award nominee include spectacular misjudgement, public impact, and a hubris factor: “Remember: we're not mocking AI itself—we're celebrating the humans who used it with all the caution of a toddler with a flamethrower.” www.404media.co/ai-darwin-aw...

i am a vinyl collector and the other day i checked how much shipping for records from chillhop costs from europe and it's TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

I'm in San Diego this morning for the sentencing of Michael James Pratt, the ringleader of sex trafficking operation GirlsDoPorn. www.404media.co/michael-jame...

27 years for Michael Pratt, ringleader for GirlsDoPorn's sex trafficking operation. Five years above the prosecution's request, after the judge listened to 5 hours of gut-wrenching statements from almost 40 victims www.404media.co/michael-prat...

BREAKING: Michael Pratt, the ringleader of Girls Do Porn, was sentenced to 27 years in prison today. @samleecole.bsky.social is at the court in what sounds like a completely gut-wrenching day: www.404media.co/michael-prat...

the way someone was like “let’s invent an AI necklace that records and listens to your convos and berates you for said convos” when we have these horrific stories of chatbots influencing self harm is just expanding my understanding of hell

Every once in a while it’s worth highlighting how there is an extreme amount of heinous shit on Instagram that the company knows about but that they obviously don’t care about fixing. One could write an article like this every single day and never scratch the surface www.404media.co/instagram-ac...

Welcome back Jorge Mateo!!!

"It used to be enough to spend your entire life researching, writing, narrating, editing, doing all these things to make a video, but now someone can come along and they can do the same thing in a day instead of it taking six months, and the videos are not accurate.”

AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out the tireless work of creators who have been integral to legitimizing YouTube as a place for high-quality history videos www.404media.co/ai-generated...

i don't agree with this on any level but i have to say he looks great in this shirt www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...

So much dystopia crammed into one headline www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...

i feel like 90% of modern life is joyfully, politely, with a smile paying absurd amounts of money to businesses that are fucking you

The inevitable has happened: Disconnect is back on Ghost after trying Substack again. I didn’t just ditch another US tech platform; I learned the Substack network isn’t as helpful as it used to be, and certainly doesn’t justify putting up with the platform’s support for Nazis.

I am still very optimistic Jackson Holliday will figure it out and know he is still incredibly young but it’s pretty concerning that he can’t hit, can’t field, and can’t run. Not ideal

instead of sometimes drunk posting on bluesky I’ve started drunk commenting on tiktoks and it feels so much lower stakes. big fan, is def the move

Trump take Canada's LEGO

Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...

Trump's latest tariff changes, including the loss of de minimis exemptions, take effect today. Several small press tabletop designers are trying to anticipate the impending chaos.

Revel in the beauty of the mobile experience

Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, more logistically complicated, slower, and overall more annoying. Film photography community, retro games community, people into skincare already seeing chaos on eBay. eBay sellers locking US buyers out. www.404media.co/trump-tariff...

NEW — My chat with @chriswarcraft.bsky.social about his run for California State Assembly:

It is deeply selfish to settle this case, as surely most of the AI copyright lawsuits are going to be settled. The fact that the vast majority of lawsuits in this country are settled before tech giants face any real or consequences is such a travesty www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Yes the orioles got swept and scored a total of 7 runs in four games, but yesterday Coby Mayo fouled a few pitches off Aroldis Chapman and you can’t discount how important that’s going to be in 2026. Way more important than wins and losses or things like “scoring runs”