🍑 it's time 🍑 out this November from @WorkmanPub HOW SEX CHANGED THE INTERNET is now available for preorder! get it here: https://t.co/xAtbm3w9NQ

"dear god" - @DaveMcNamee3000

"The Trump administration’s constant use of AI art reflects its own brute force attack on American democracy. It’s not just that its aesthetics are useful for Trump, its entire mode of being is useful for how his administration has governed so far" https://t.co/bVUeEoMwV9

Important story from @julesaroscoe @404mediaco on migrant fishers fighting for Wi-Fi & labor rights in Taiwan’s distant water fishing industry #seafoodindustry #sustainableseafood

Crazy story today: this group of distant water fishermen is fighting for Wi-Fi on their boats so they can talk to their families (or anyone else in the outside world) for the ten months a year they're out at sea. https://t.co/YAVAp3eu0B

In the most recent #closealltabs episode, tech reporter @samleecole shares what happened when she tried to “vape the internet” after seeing a viral post about a disposable touchscreen vape with built-in social media.

"I'm 100 percent certain it's going to be better than what we've been dealing with." - Marc Andreessen, January 2025

all hail the decel in chief

The open-source genetic database OpenSNP is shutting down and deleting all user data after 14 years due to the risk posed by Trump administration, law enforcement abuse, authoritarian governments, and 23andMe bankruptcy: https://t.co/x45MV5SteK

texas is trying to make selling sex toys safely and privately online a criminal offense. this is worth paying attention to:

23andMe as a functioning company was a privacy disaster. 23andMe as a bankrupt, for sale company is a fucking nightmare https://t.co/QQzUP9ev2M

New: Court docs show how three alleged Tesla vandals got caught and shows authorities are increasingly relying on license plate scanners to identify people: https://t.co/nTRqWQrJjp

there is no one at the wheel at Instagram basically. platform overtaken by lunatics

Friend of the site and @404mediaco co-founder @emanuelmaiberg joins @robzacny to tell him about looking for a new home, buying one, then finding out suddenly you're in for a world of pain. Come for the flooding, stay for the hazmat suits!

My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping: https://t.co/02NsVRG2Zp

"I spoke briefly to Mustafa, and asked him if he was using AI tools for 'brute-forcing social media algorithms.' He said 'sounds about right bro. I think that line of thought is correct. I agree with it.'"

This week on the Abstract @404mediaco - Megalodon was a Slim King 🦈👑 - Ride the great whale conveyer belt! 🐳💩 - That's one small step for an alien microbe... 🦠🪐 - The breath of life is volcanic 🌋🌍 https://t.co/4YuLBotWUq

TSA confirmed to @404mediaco that their credit cards for K9s are frozen

Pokemon Go sale to a Saudi Arabian company comes with six separate corporate announcement blogs, not one of them directly addressing what happens to 100 million people's location data, AR mapping capabilities, or the AI maps they have been training: https://t.co/uKVNWcohCO

Spotify employees complained about the company hosting Andrew Tate "pimping hoes" course. Looks like spotify removed that audio shortly after

i don't think people really understand where we already are with AI video generators. whatever nightmare you imagine, we're already there