Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
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Journalist
@404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email:
[email protected]
does anyone have a non stickermule sticker printing service they like for high quality stickers? like, die cut etc. would be for a large amount of stickers (like several thousand)
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daryl "jingle horts" b 🏳️⚧️
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'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'
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there's a guy on tiktok who lives in boston and sings like 9 songs at karaoke every night in a basically empty bar and every song he sings is a deep cut banger. he just announced a show in NJ where he will karaoke melodrama front to back. he is living my dream life
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrtsCpU8/
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My karaoke performance of The Futile by Say Anything at Sidebar #boston #karaoke #sayanything #emo #poppunk
TikTok video by steven
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrtsCpU8/
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sad about de brun and this seems like a loooooot to trade but i like baz
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not the absolute Yankee Doodle Disrespect in the alt text
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wow, great question:
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this is so funny:
www.404media.co/the-governme...
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The Government Added a Comments Section to the Epstein Photo Dump
Oversight Democrats released a new trove of Epstein pictures on Dropbox and left the comments on.
https://www.404media.co/the-government-added-a-comments-section-to-the-epstein-photo-dump/
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is this good:
www.404media.co/ice-contract...
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ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents
AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”
https://www.404media.co/ice-contracts-company-making-bounty-hunter-ai-agents/
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New from 404 Media: ICE just paid hundreds of thousands to company making bounty hunter AI agents. The company says its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.” Comes as ICE spends millions on skip tracers
www.404media.co/ice-contract...
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ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents
AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”
https://www.404media.co/ice-contracts-company-making-bounty-hunter-ai-agents/
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Hypervisible
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According to a WaPo spokesperson, “This is how products get built and developed in the digital age: ideation, research, design and prototyping, development, and then Beta.”
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Washington Post Says It Will Continue AI-Generating Error Filled Podcasts as Its Own Editors Groan in Embarrassment
The Washington Post said it will continue deploying its error riddled, AI-generated podcasts, because "this is how products get built."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/washington-post-continue-ai-podcasts
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the moment we start recording our podcast is the moment that people decide to have a lawn mower racing competition in front of our apartment, the trash truck comes, a clown car fire engine drives by, the dogs start barking, etc. without fail
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NEW: A Discord community for gay gamers is in disarray after one of its moderators and an executive at Anthropic forced the company’s AI chatbot, Claude, on the Discord, despite protests from members.
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Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/
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www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
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Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/
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first few episodes of pluribus I was like “wow I love this, really awesome. not sure how they’re going to make this premise last a full season or multiple seasons” now 7 episodes in I see the strategy is like “let’s make carol getting a Gatorade take 10 minutes of screen time” excruciatingly slow
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An American citizen had his face scanned by immigration agents while he was walking home from the gym in Chicago. Our story with
@revealnews.org
here:
www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...
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How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
https://www.404media.co/how-a-us-citizen-was-scanned-with-ices-facial-recognition-tech/
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usually when i get a dropbox link of photos it's from someone who has developed my film and i'm very excited. this is the opposite of that in every way. extremely cursed
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sheer spite press
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Sheer Spite's US store, started after it stopped being feasible to ship to the US from Canada, is coming along well! Tell a US-american you know who likes zines? Also all these are available at wholesale rates if you know a store you'd like to see them stocked :)
sheerspite.bigcartel.com
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Ernie Smith
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Over on
@tedium.co
tonight, I explain what it was like to lay out the
@404media.co
zine in Affinity, using WINE on Linux. Yeah, it occasionally crashed. Yes, it did try to export a 17-exabyte PDF (not WINE’s fault). But YES, it was absolutely viable. Would do again.
tedium.co/2025/12/10/4...
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The Weird Way The 404 Media Zine Was Built
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.
https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/
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I have some sad news to share. We lost Chris today. To everyone who helped with this, thank you. I'm so glad he got his last hurrah with his family. It's so sad though.
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404 Media zine has apparently outsold American Canto. Help continue that trend here:
404media.myshopify.com/products/pre...
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Presale: ICE Surveillance Zine
**THIS ITEM WILL SHIP IN MID JANUARY** We are making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. It is 16 pages and printed on a risogra...
https://404media.myshopify.com/products/presale-ice-surveillance-zine
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It should be noted how stupid all of this is, which is perhaps appropriate for the year 2025, in which most of the economy consists of reckless gambling on AI. People spent more than $55m betting on the Time Person of the Year on Polymarket, $19m on Kalshi.
www.404media.co/architects-o...
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‘Architects of AI’ Wins Time Person of the Year, Sends Gambling Markets Into a Meltdown
People who bet on "AI" did not win and are incredibly mad.
https://www.404media.co/architects-of-ai-wins-time-person-of-the-year-sends-gambling-markets-into-a-meltdown/
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Was just saying yesterday that even for the internet, even for rule 34, it is alarming how much disney princess ai porn is out there. glad disney has decided this is a technology worth investing in and supporting
www.404media.co/disney-inves...
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Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.
https://www.404media.co/disney-invests-1-billion-in-the-ai-slopification-of-its-brand/
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Porn is being injected into dozens of government websites across the country using malicious PDFs. A separate attack is hijacking govt websites to redirect to penis enlargement scams and animal vagina masturbators. Cool stuff:
www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...
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Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs
Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys.
https://www.404media.co/porn-is-being-injected-into-government-websites-via-malicious-pdfs/
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making bolognese and the recipe calls for dry white wine and chicken broth but we are out of both of those so it actually calls for two cans of Coors light
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your birthday present: you get to stay home in florida
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Emanuel Maiberg
12 days ago
Instagram is creating 2014 Buzzfeed-style SEO headlines for your Instagram posts and guess what? They're often misleading. Thanks to
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
and
@mrdang.photos
for flagging this to me
www.404media.co/instagram-is...
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Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
https://www.404media.co/instagram-is-generating-inaccurate-seo-bait-for-your-posts/
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Instagram has gotten into the automated SEO spam game, exciting stuff:
www.404media.co/instagram-is...
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Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
https://www.404media.co/instagram-is-generating-inaccurate-seo-bait-for-your-posts/
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follow/support
@unraveledpress.com
, who has been doing really critical ICE / ICE resistance reporting
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in our interview episode this week, I talked to porn historian and professional pervert Noelle Perdue about the dangers of isolating intimacy, whether the cat is entirely out of the bag, and our favorite parody porn. watch it on youtube or listen wherever you get your podz
youtu.be/9eqMXBwWtkA?...
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Why AI Porn Sucks with Noelle Perdue
YouTube video by 404 Media
https://youtu.be/9eqMXBwWtkA?si=4K0b5mKgMzP8G9eX
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New: A CBP agent in Charlotte wore Meta Ray Bans to an immigration raid and used it to record, based on photos shared with 404 Media. We've seen them wearing these glasses before but this is the first specific evidence we have of them recording
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Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal ...
https://www.404media.co/border-patrol-agent-recorded-raid-with-metas-ray-ban-smart-glasses/
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
https://www.forever-wars.com/torture-techniques-from-cia-black-sites-were-used-at-alligator-alcatraz/
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Karl Bode
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A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community. From my colleague and friend
@seangon.bsky.social
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Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
https://communitynets.org/content/chattanoogas-municipal-fiber-network-has-delivered-53-billion-community-benefits-new-study
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another happy reader
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404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
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404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
https://www.404media.co/404-media-is-making-a-zine/
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the comments on reddit for this video were like “this squid isn’t that giant” and discussion about how a 40 foot squid is not that crazy or scary and I spent all morning upset about the lack of respect
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I am so happy I think football is boring because the Orioles give me enough heartbreak, could not handle also caring about the Commanders or Ravens
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a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/
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allow me to take you on a journey where, once again, we learn we have no idea what’s in our food. at least we know corporations are pure of heart so I’m sure it’s fine🫶🏼🤡
TikTok video by kaelin
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:
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Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/independent-journalism-gift-guide
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nature is healing: a restaurant near me that just opened a year ago but sucks and is offputting in every way is closing. and the narrative on instagram/reddit is "that place sucked," not "homelessness and crime and los angeles is impossible and and and and and"
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Was really fun to talk to the
@eff.org
about 404, Defector and indie media:
youtu.be/19pQAkStncI
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Gate Crashing | Episode 3: A New Path for Journalism | Jason Koebler and David Roth
YouTube video by EFForg
https://youtu.be/19pQAkStncI
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Episode 3 of Gate Crashing is out now! Tune in to our conversation with
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
of 404 Media and
@davidjroth.bsky.social
of Defector about finding a new path forward for journalism:
youtu.be/19pQAkStncI...
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Gate Crashing | Episode 3: A New Path for Journalism | Jason Koebler and David Roth
We always hear about the death of journalism. But a few groups of people are fighting back and modeling a new path forward for journalism. We speak to Jason ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19pQAkStncI
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We very rarely do sales at
@404media.co
but today is an exception so pls consider and get all this stuff:
www.404media.co/cyber-monday...
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We're running a 💻 CYBER MONDAY 💻 sale. Get 25% off an annual subscription: access to all of our articles, podcasts, bonus content, FOIA Forum trainings, full text RSS feed, no ads, and support independent journalism. Get yours here:
www.404media.co/cyber-monday...
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New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
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Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using worke...
https://www.404media.co/flock-uses-overseas-gig-workers-to-build-its-surveillance-ai/
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#BruceSterling
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"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves."
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side-hustle/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
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404 Media
24 days ago
Guess who's behind X accounts like RedPilledNurse or Ivanka Trump News? People outside the US. And social media companies are rewarding the creators for it.
@evystadium.bsky.social
has more: Full story by
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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my beefing days are pretty much over because v little good comes from it and beefing with people i don't know or really care about brings unwanted stress to my life but also there's soooooo much to clown on right now someday i will be brave
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Court Watch has been a critical resource and collaborator with us. Helps show the deeply serious but also offbeat things happening in the federal court system. It costs a lot to run because of how PACER works. Consider supporting/ subscribing here:
www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
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Help Us Turn Four
Our scrappy punch above-its-weight news site only survives with support from folks like you.
https://www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-turn-four
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