Today is the two year anniversary of 404 Media, which is hard to fathom. We wrote about how it's going, what we've done, what we're going to do, and what we've learned. We cannot do this without the support of our subscribers and for that we are endlessly thankful: [www.404media.co/two-years-40...]( ) [404 Media at Two Years: How We...]( )
TikTok Shop is selling 'Silent' GPS trackers that are marketed to stalkers and domestic abusers. Many of the videos have millions of views and at least 100,000 of them have been sold. TikTok's algorithm endlessly puts these in front of you if you fall into the algo: [www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-...]( ) [TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Tr...]( )
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