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-...](
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TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers
"If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car."
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TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers
"If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car."
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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...](
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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."
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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."
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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...](
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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops
Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public reco...
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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops
Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public reco...
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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...](
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Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search
Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.
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Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search
Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.
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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...](
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Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order
An internal memo obtained by 404 Media also shows the military ordered a review hold on "questionable content" at Stars and Stripes, the military's...
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Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order
An internal memo obtained by 404 Media also shows the military ordered a review hold on "questionable content" at Stars and Stripes, the military's...
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Famously the founding fathers were big ben shapiro fans [www.404media.co/white-house-...](
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White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers
John Adams says "facts do not care about our feelings" in one of the AI-generated videos in PragerU's series partnership with White House.
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White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers
John Adams says "facts do not care about our feelings" in one of the AI-generated videos in PragerU's series partnership with White House.
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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:
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Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social)
Patrick Healy, NYT assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, wrote a thread on how the Zohran Mamdani/Columbia story came together:
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...](
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RNC Sued Over WinRed's Constant 'ALL HELL JUST BROKE LOOSE!' Fundraising Texts
The RNC and other Republican groups are violating Utah telecommunications law by continuing to text people incessantly after they've asked them to ...
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RNC Sued Over WinRed's Constant 'ALL HELL JUST BROKE LOOSE!' Fundraising Texts
The RNC and other Republican groups are violating Utah telecommunications law by continuing to text people incessantly after they've asked them to ...
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