AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.

This is my favorite story of the year. This woman knows how to give a quote

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I'd bet good money that MBS's Saudi Public Investment Fund provided a decent chunk of the money invested in Substack via Andreesen Horowitz techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/a...

Conde Nast fired Ryan Lizza for sexual misconduct then hires his ex specifically for her sexual misconduct that cuckolded him Not sure if Conde (my former employer) just loves being too rich to give a fuck (telling the gardner to plant bamboo everywhere!) or if it just really hates Lizza

dude is obsessed with DICK

You think you have some inside info to despise the DC press corps deeply and well then it turns out you don't carry even half the hatred any normal person should have

Media: we can't trust VC funded platforms anymore so let's move to subscriptions Vox: how about we hand over control of our subscription business to a giant platform and brag about www.semafor.com/article/11/1...

Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?

Love this idea >:3 Click this link if you want to support worker-owned journalism in the Bay Area! coyotemedia.org?ref=coyoteme...

move over ai this is proper tech

@davekarpf.bsky.social meanwhile describes how the dynamic between advocates, tech companies, and the government has shifted dramatically over the past year--necessitating new strategies for change in an era of fewer cross-sector alliances. www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...

Anna Meehan and the guy who made Class Action Park are pretty much the only people I trust to report on early Cacophony.

One of my favorite quotes I ever got was as a journalism student profiling a weird SF bar run by SF underground legend Chicken John. I asked him about Burning Man, and he dismissed the founders, saying they didn't know what the hell they were doing. "I taught them how to shit in a bucket."

A nation of heroes, a Senate of cowards That's a damn good headline atop a good-as-usual Will Bunch column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

a not-fun thing about five writers owning their own company is that when one of them has to build a new website and move a whole business over, which takes months, they can't blog anymore. there are simply less blogs. im SO EXCITED to get back to blogs now.

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WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything. we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.

Schumer saw Mamdani win and felt the need to remind the country that "no, actually, your only choice is between the fascists and the corporate-controlled center-right cowardly Dems." Do not expect more from us and oh yeah, vote blue no matter who (unless it's Mamdani)

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

Visiting the Frick, which I haven't done since reporting this story. (Technically, we didn't go inside.)

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

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Remember when DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) were a thing? I think one tried to buy the Magna Carta, raised a bunch of $, failed, and then fell into in-fighting on whether to donate the $ they raised to the "One NFT Per Child" charity or spend it on transaction fees to refund people

Dunn threw that Subway sandwich on Aug 10. Assuming it was put into evidence, I also assume he can retrieve it now. Slightly less than 3 months old, is it still edible?

the gang's all here

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

well resourced paper Op/Ed sections should could be an amazing space to platform strange, wonderful, and intelligent ideas by artists, activists, scientists, and scholars you've never heard of instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm

oh no please dont make the young, good looking, energetic politician the face of the franchise

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

Zohran calling out Trump directly and telling him we’ll all stand against him together - it’s the message we have been so hungry for.

we need like 1000 more articles and videos about who these people are and how they think

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

I have NOT seen enough

Expecting the NYT editorial board and editorial leadership to take the election tracker down, or run a banner announcing how awful it is poor new Yorkers are allowed to vote www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died. That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time. www.cato.org/commentary/q...

in case you ever wondered how waterlogged a football pitch needs to be before a game is called off at halftime

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-...

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

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Waiting on the @attackerman.bsky.social obituary of Dick Cheney No better chronicler of the war on terror Some outlet out there is commissioning this, right?

Dick Cheney is dead at 84. His legacy isn’t freedom or democracy—it’s oil, war, torture, shooting a friend in the head, Iraq, and death—so much death. In 2015, Danny Postel reviewed "The Road to Iraq," a look at why the U.S. invaded in 2003. inthesetimes.com/article/what...

Re: media layoffs—Liz and I added this to the calendar today for anyone considering going independent. We also want to invite those who are already independent to share their experiences. luma.com/lcbckl7j

Straight up “papers please” harassment of people doing their jobs and assault and brutalizing of people who tied to intervene. Abolish DHS.