After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study: [www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...]( ) [Guy Gives Himself 19th Century...]( )
New: A Sheriff's Office in Texas has access to data from AI license plate reading cameras at hundreds of Home Depots (in Texas) and Lowe's (around the country) [www.404media.co/home-depot-a...]( ) [Home Depot and Lowe's Share Da...]( )
This is extremely bad: Journalist Jack Poulson discovered a vulnerability in Google that was being exploited to get his reporting about a CEO deleted off of the search rankings. This is a wet dream for reputation management companies, censorious regimes, etc [www.404media.co/journalist-d...]( ) [Journalist Discovers Google Vu...]( )
New: I obtained an internal memo the Pentagon sent the White House about complying with anti-trans exec order This includes "continuously" monitoring bathrooms for compliance Also ordered a "review hold" on Stars & Stripes, a nominally independent newspaper [www.404media.co/pentagon-say...]( ) [Pentagon Says It Will ‘Continu...]( )
Famously the founding fathers were big ben shapiro fans [www.404media.co/white-house-...]( ) [White House Partners With Prag...]( )
the NYT never says sorry for anything even when they are blatantly wrong. this is how it has always been. they rarely link, when called out about this they twist themselves into pretzels to explain how they actually don’t owe you a link. their institutional posture is “we are never wrong” RE:
Gonna continue my crusade against the NYTimes's obsession with not saying bad words to say this is so pathetic: https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cjfcz3t36f6nrprarkhkycxo&cid=bafkreiczkvmswxnk233dmc5wozjhsfujftlbei4j3qgthhnyxlml4c3hwq https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cjfcz3t36f6nrprarkhkycxo&cid=bafkreiderjxuzg4zmiqk5dqakvceg2rikcd7njuajp7ivablwngehk3nia
TIL people are rubbing cow fat on their faces and calling it sunscreen https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cjfcz3t36f6nrprarkhkycxo&cid=bafkreiayzt3zdx57jaqdnxf3w3i2rfduuddw75e2bxhftfthfzvz4zrxdm
class action lawsuit against the political text message spam regime [www.404media.co/winred-texts...]( ) [RNC Sued Over WinRed's Constan...]( )
Airlines sell passenger data to the feds through a separate data broker they spun up and put in the contract that DHS is not allowed to tell anyone that it comes from the airlines: [www.404media.co/airlines-don...]( ) [Airlines Don't Want You to Kno...]( )