chat is it evolutionarily advantageous to have a certain percentage of your highly creative and adventurous species be science nerds with strict moral codes

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

@chortle.blog This is a genuinely curious question and please don't take this the wrong way but, has anyone yet mentioned that you've named your publication the same name as the 25-year-old most famous comedy blog in the UK? It's kind of like a Brit calling their satirical Substack "The Onion"

Voiceover actors once again weirdly aware of political developments before the rest of us

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

Really cool paper! A machine cannot be held accountable, etc

FindMy for macbook charger when

but how will the entry-level nigerian princes gain the skills to be able to solve the bigger problems down the line? www.reuters.com/investigates...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

I think this is also probably true of most of the leaders on the left who don't really understand what they're up against

Grok says that videos of Charlie Kirk being shot are memes and that he's actually fine

The AI Darwin Awards are here to catalog the damage that happens when humanity’s hubris meets AI’s incompetence. The simple website contains a list of the dumbest AI disasters from the past year and calls for readers to nominate more. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-darwin-aw...

My emotional-support MUJI in Midtown has stoped receiving shipments and only has one type of notebook and one type of pen. The staff in there are stressing trying to make it look like the shelves aren't empty.

no

imagine trying to explain this to yourself of 12 months ago, etc.

I cannot think of any problems with this news www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Every fourth woman used to be tiny. Not anymore, thanks to woke

my first ever baby job was in market research and I had to stand in a supermarket and ask people why they were buying different types on potatoes. I defy any LLM to (1) do that job (2) come up with the absolutely wild/bizarre responses people gave me.

The worst thing about AI is how much of this generation’s most genius marketing talent is being wasted

Just watching some of my first ever Amazon Prime ads - truly what in the second third screen influencer living room nightmare is this? Is this normal?

Quick gotta tell my petrol station

When I flew to LA earlier this year my big thought looking out the window was "wow, America is so big, surely they will never be able to police all of it". I was pretty concussed but I stand by it

ChatGPT talking a kid through killing himself isn't a First Amendment issue at all.

ICE ads popping up in between H&M, seamless, and info on citibike locations. On Bowery.

Pretty excited to get engaged now that it has been invented by Taylor Swift :)

This seems like pretty stunningly inappropriate when appearing on an official tax-payer funded .gov website. Also, you absolutely would be wrong.

Gently questioning my grandma about her Copilot habit without alerting her to the fact that I'm worried about it

Japan Post has ceased all mail delivery to the US for packages valued over $100. To get around this, a Japanese denim company tells me they'll ship components to US customers one-by-one — fabric, buttons, rivets, a sewing needle, and thread. You then assemble the jeans at home like IKEA furniture.

In the 1980s there were no slop videos, checkmate

You will sure be shocked to discover that I have some things to say about AI-powered "smart" glasses that give no indication that they are recording your every word. techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h...

Also in this story: - A third, previously unreported Tea vulnerability we discovered while reporting - A rap about Salesforce - Venmoing people for their attention - A "Chief Female Officer"

New: the inside story of how Tea collected millions of women's secrets, then exposed them to the world. We've found Tea raided women safety groups to get users; paid influencers to undermine others, much more. The “motive is money, not actually to protect people.” www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

I talked to 404 Media about devices for tracking and spying on your partner being sold on TikTok. This is not stalkerware, but these are devices for tech-enabled abuse and I think we should be talking about tech-enabled abuse more broadly. www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-...

Unfortunately the algorithm now thinks that I want stalker content which is Cool and Good

New from 404 Media: ICE added a random person to group chat, exposed highly sensitive details about an active manhunt in real-time. The person says they were added weeks ago, thought they were scam texts until start seeing data lookups etc. Incredible security failure www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...

BREAKING: ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...

But the guidelines aren't programming. Making this change doesn't immediately alter chatbot output. Even after lots more training, it will still happen sometimes --- especially since such output presumably is meant to be available to adult users. >>

this story is so fucking sad, and every new detail that comes out about how Meta's chatbot characters product was made is more disturbing than the last www.reuters.com/investigates...

I also had the pleasure of talking to @katiecgray.bsky.social for this piece

New article for 404 Media on what it's like to decide if you're going to audition to be the voice of an AI assistant :) www.404media.co/voiceover-ar...

On the bright (?) side, my wonderful colleague @jwhendricks.bsky.social snapped this great still of us from last night’s absurdity. What else do you do but throw a shiteating grin to your friends when you’re being arrested? Lol

Oh man

People are having reactions to ChatGPT 5 launch in r/myBoyfriendisAI

Do not do this actually www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...

"it already wrote 240 lines of code which is honestly much more than I would have written in that time" "But the good part is you don't need to understand any of that right now" "it's not great, but if you don't like it, you can just ask for another one" actual quotes from today

we obtained footage of an agent in the middle of a raid at a Home Depot wearing Meta's smart glasses, and talked to experts about what that means: www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

The GPT5 launch described this as the new model "having a lot more rhythm and beat to its prose"

excited to give GPT5 access to my calendar and gmail :)