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a delight and an honor to have podcasting king @devindra.bsky.social on the pod!!! www.404media.co/its-so-not-o...
“It's very obvious to me that the choices that are being made are going to throw many people into poverty [...] they won't be able to get out and go somewhere else, and people who are benefiting from this are going to move on." www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months
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In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
Emanuel talks to Devindra Hardawar about AI in Hollywood and the state of the movie industry.
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first they were segregated from buying land so they had to build their own community on the outskirts. and while this should just be a very human story of a neighboring farmer donating land to a community he knew was being forgotten about, in our hellscape it means the people vs a data center
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New: Microsoft was compromised to deliver malware to users of AI coding agents like Claude and Gemini. In response, Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down dozens and dozens of its own GitHub repos. The malware would steal login credentials from users
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our panel (@dexdigi.bsky.social @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social) at the LA public library is now available on youtube! youtu.be/wLgMwv6Dl3U?...
new torment nexus just dropped www.404media.co/this-company...
Google One is changing its name to PoopButt Plus. it's the same, except you get 2x higher limits on poop from a butt
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Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from AI coding agent users.
ACLU says giving this facial recognition app to cops who can enforce immigration law "is a recipe for disaster and for terrorizing members of communities across the country." www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...
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This is Pamela Griffin. Back then, Black people weren't allowed to buy city land so her family settled outside, next to the farmer. Seeing them play baseball, the farmer told them he'd donate his land for a park—and put it in a deed. The city still sold it.
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SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license ...
