New from 404 Media: libraries are scrambling for books after a giant distributor shut down. This is a huge disruption to public libraries across the country, some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability to lend books.
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Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
ICE and CPB agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE says the result of this app can override a birth certificate too
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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice...
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that”
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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice...
New from 404 Media: people are using Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to secretly film themselves asking massage parlor workers for sex work. Then uploads the gotcha-style videos to social media. What happens when people can wear surreptitious cameras on their face
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Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers
“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dange...
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week: - how Grokipedia will never beat the human-powered Wikipedia - the Windows 10 update environmental disaster - subscribers-only: a16z's plan for a wholly AI-generated internet Apple/Spotify/YouTube:
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Podcast: Grokipedia is Cringe
Why Grokipedia won't beat Wikipedia; the Windows 10 update; and a16z's plan for a wholly AI-generated internet.
New from 404 Media: the Trump admin's racist Halo memes are "a new level of dehumanization of immigrants." Compares immigrants to the flood, a parasitic creature that infects sentient life and turns them into monsters whose only desire is to spread the parasite.
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Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
"The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."
Grokipedia is the antithesis of everything that makes Wikipedia good, useful, and human. Grokipedia looks like what you would get if you told an LLM to go make an anti-woke encyclopedia, which is essentially exactly what Elon Musk did.
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Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
A Goodreads librarian went rogue, edited the site to expose "censorship in favor of Trump fascism." To hear them tell it, Goodreads was removing criticism of Trump’s book from the site.
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Rogue Goodreads Librarian Edits Site to Expose 'Censorship in Favor of Trump Fascism’
“When we let powerful people’s books be protected from criticism, we give up the right to hold power accountable.”
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a university building as a deportation office. The university is basically powerless. We got audio from a meeting between students and administrators about it. "We inherited those tenants, we didn’t invite them to be in that building."
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ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to a...
A new lawsuit accuses a16z of turning Roblox into a school shooter's playground
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Lawsuit Accuses a16z of Turning Roblox Into a School Shooter's Playground
The family of a dead teen girl said she'd still be alive if Roblox did a better job moderating its platform.