Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
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Journalist
@404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email:
[email protected]
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Jason Koebler
Karl Bode
1 day ago
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/
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favorite type of film photography nerd reddit post is "what's wrong with my photos" / "why do my photos turn out so bad?" and then the post is like 8 perfect/beautiful photos
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guys I think vice is back with a new podcast
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why do all the new linen pants have elastic and drawstrings and not belt loops
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Brian Merchant
about 20 hours ago
OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.
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AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ais-aesthetics-of-failure
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ABS is good because it's not human v robot. It's one human's judgment v another human's judgment and the robot is the judge. I think it's highlighting baseball's human element & adding new strategy. Side effect is the umpires get humiliated, but it's cinema. no notes
www.404media.co/you-cant-def...
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'You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
MLB's ABS system somehow feels extremely human. It's not human vs robot, it's human vs human as judged by a robot.
https://www.404media.co/you-cant-defeat-the-robots-baseballs-mlb-abs-ai-strike-zone-is-must-watch-television/
about 20 hours ago
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more than half the article is about the thing that is being criticized here. like, most of the article is about that. these questions are answered in the article. people need to get a grip
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need an ai that lets me block people by just thinking about it. clicking the button gives them too much power
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good thing we've enabled robots that spam human communities then harass those communities after they get banned
www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-...
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An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. ...
https://www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-was-banned-from-creating-wikipedia-articles-then-wrote-angry-blogs-about-being-banned/
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orioles in midseason form already
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donât leave for vacation without a shipping container full of these items
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Samuel Basallo is going to be a monster
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I donât quite understand what theyâve done but five years ago I thought United was extreme trash and now I think theyâre the best, good for all involved
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4 days ago
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i like when people/brands say "colorways" instead of "colors" look at our new spring colorway and it's just red
5 days ago
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Georgia state troopers used Flock to issue a traffic ticket. Sounds minor but is a new use. Most police depts say they will not use the system for this purpose. Fact that they're all networked means possibly more people subjected to lookups/surveillance etc
www.404media.co/police-used-...
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Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket
âCAPTURED ON FLOCK CAMERA 31 MM 1 HOLDING PHONE IN LEFT HAND.â
https://www.404media.co/police-used-flock-to-give-a-man-a-traffic-ticket/
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Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content:
www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
âIn recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.â
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/
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Emanuel Maiberg
5 days ago
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt
www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
âIn recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.â
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/
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painful the orioles donât play til tomorrow
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evy kwong
6 days ago
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 âhate paying human labor so much they convinced themselves customers would happily consume AI slop if shoved down their throats.â
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Luke O'Neil
6 days ago
I got an email the other day. They were writing to thank me for parking but also wanted to know How was your experience at: Emerson Hospital? Not that great man. If you want the truth of it. I was parking at the hospital for starters. As you well know.
www.welcometohellworld.com/how-was-your...
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404 Media
6 days ago
OpenAI news: 1. Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine be a blessing. 2. Disney is pulling out of its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI entirely. Turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
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Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood
It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
https://www.404media.co/disneys-openai-sora-disaster-shows-ai-will-not-save-hollywood/
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Matthew Gault
6 days ago
there were, in fact, people using Meta's Horizon Worlds. And the announcement it would shut down felt like a betrayal
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The People Left Behind by the Metaverse
"The way they have behaved here is profoundly harmful and I would deem it a type of psychological torture from corprotate neglect."
https://www.404media.co/the-people-left-behind-by-the-metaverse/
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The Hollywood executive dream that AI will revolutionize how movies are made or that they can lean on user generated AI slop to drive costs down is not going to work and is already a disaster
www.404media.co/disneys-open...
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Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Save Hollywood
It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
https://www.404media.co/disneys-openai-sora-disaster-shows-ai-will-not-save-hollywood/
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Jason Koebler
404 Media
7 days ago
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...
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Dr. S.A. Applin
7 days ago
The things I flagged in the article I wrote for you at MB (8 years ago!) are happening more now. Plus, since the bots are no longer in a 'contained space' like a campus, there are now even more interoperability and social issues.
www.vice.com/en/article/d...
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Delivery Robots Will Rely on Human Kindness and Labor
If robots are going to invade public spaces, they will be subject to vandalism and pranking.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/delivery-robots-will-rely-on-human-kindness-and-labor/
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turns out delivery robots are kind of like birds in that they run into windows sometimes
www.404media.co/delivery-rob...
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Joseph Cox
7 days ago
This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private
www.404media.co/this-company...
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This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 âwebinars.â A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/
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75% of people in a post office at any given moment are mailing something for the first time in their entire life
8 days ago
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in an energy crisis weâre using $1 billion of taxpayer money to pay a company to not make local, renewable energy
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...
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Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/climate/offshore-wind-gas-trump-total.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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This is diabolical in a v cool way. Great piece by
@janus.bsky.social
www.404media.co/this-web-too...
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This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow
Artist Sam Lavigne created âSlow LLMâ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.
https://www.404media.co/this-web-tool-sabotages-ai-chatbots-by-making-them-really-really-slow/
8 days ago
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Riley MacLeod
8 days ago
We're having a theme week! As part of that, we've got two sales for you: $1 for your first month of our Reader tier:
aftermath.site/03-20-2026-0...
OR $75 for a year of our Member tier, which gives you access to our Discord and a merch discount:
aftermath.site/03-20-2026-0...
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"not to mention, there is a large amount of combinatorial possibility inherent to the choice of dip being paired to the chip chosen"
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11 days ago
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i have so many credit card points but they are too precious to use. i will never use them. too valuable.
11 days ago
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this is now!
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12 days ago
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checking what i wrote the day Mark Zuckerberg announced his metaverse
www.404media.co/rip-metavers...
12 days ago
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Hope everyone still has the NFT that grants them access to the Metaverse funeral!
www.404media.co/rip-metavers...
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RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted
Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?
https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/
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megan farokhmanesh
12 days ago
for 404 Media, I wrote about Tinder's new feature that will let AI scan your entire camera roll. The company's head of product says the appâs use of AI is to âhelp you express yourself."
www.404media.co/tinder-plans...
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Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll
In a feature the dating app says is set to roll out in the U.S. later this spring, Tinder plans to access users' camera rolls to pick photos and determine what they're into.
https://www.404media.co/tinder-plans-to-let-ai-scan-your-camera-roll/
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really excited to do this in 45 mins! Cindy's book is amazing, highly recomend
www.eff.org/event/effect...
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EFFecting Change: Privacy's Defender
Livestream on Thursday, March 19th at 11 am PT. EFF and 404 Media take on digital surveillance.
https://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-privacys-defender
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Jason Koebler
Electronic Frontier Foundation
12 days ago
Join us today at 11am PT with
@404media.co
Cofounder Jason Koebler in conversation with Cindy Cohn about her new book "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance."
eff.org/livestream-...
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EFFecting Change: Privacy's Defender
Livestream on Thursday, March 19th at 11 am PT. EFF and 404 Media take on digital surveillance.
https://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-privacys-defender
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North Oaks, Minnesota is home to united healthcare executives and various CEOs. It's also the only city in the US that is not on Google Street View. A documentary filmmaker set out to change that. pretty interesting look at who gets privacy in America and how
www.404media.co/mapping-goog...
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Mapping Google's Unmappable City
How filmmaker Chris Parr put North Oaks, Minnesota on the map.
https://www.404media.co/mapping-googles-unmappable-city/
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Jason Koebler
Puff the Magic Hater
12 days ago
I talked with
@prisonculture.bsky.social
, Alison Macrina, and Katie Clark about libraries as public infrastructure, contested political terrain, and spaces of possibilityâand about what it means to fight for them in this fascistic moment.
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
âIf we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,â says Mariame Kaba.
https://truthout.org/audio/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/
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sparkling water World Series is mineragua v topo chico and no one else is even close to in the running
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Jason Koebler
s. e. smith
13 days ago
Really love this
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
reframe of all this AI job loss talk: If we are talking about how AI affects the labor market, we also have to talk about how AI is destroying the internet on both a cultural and practical level.
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AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet
Widely cited AI labor research ignores the most important thing AI is doing: Killing the human internet.
https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/
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WBC was awesome no notes
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Hi Iâm a person experiencing AI psychosis Iâm going to signal you at midnight and be super annoying about it
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Jason Koebler
Marisa Kabas
14 days ago
SCOOPâ Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.
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US Mint takes down video of meeting criticizing proposed Trump 24K gold coin
A coin advisory committee called the design for the America 250 coin something only produced by "kings or dictators."
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/mint-trump-gold-coin-ccac-video-removed
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going on the bitchuation room to talk about flock in 20 mins very excited:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYmf...
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Counterterrorist Chief RESIGNS Over Iran War (feat. Jason Koebler & Caroline Kwan)
YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYmfKgNRIcg
14 days ago
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