Nostr notes by Jason Koebler

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location ...

2026-01-08T16:12:36Z

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, ...

2025-08-28T16:05:16Z

Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, more logistically complicated, slower, and overall more annoying. Film photography community, retro games community, people into skincare already seeing chaos on eBay. eBay sellers locking US buyers out.

https://www.404media.co/trump-tariffs-cause-chaos-on-ebay-having-a-hobby-is-now-a-logistical-nightmare/

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ...

2025-06-02T14:13:22Z

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, ...

2025-05-05T17:47:07Z

NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website

https://www.404media.co/globalx-airline-for-trumps-deportations-hacked/

We are testing Ghost's ActivityPub beta integration for 404 ...

2025-03-18T14:41:33Z

We are testing Ghost's ActivityPub beta integration for 404 Media! We're really excited about the future of the decentralized internet, we're stoked that Ghost is leading the way, and we're proud to be one of its first adopters. You can follow us [@index](https://www.404media.co/ )

Right now things seem pretty buggy but it's obviously very early. Looking forward to messing around with it and making the product better

Tucker Carlson and others alleging new Deep State conspiracy ...

2025-03-17T17:49:40Z

Tucker Carlson and others alleging new Deep State conspiracy about JFK records. Someone at National Archives with knowledge of the situation, meanwhile, tells me that thousands of pages of 60-year-old documents don't just magically digitize themselves

https://www.404media.co/why-all-of-the-jfk-assassination-documents-havent-been-released-yet/

We've confirmed that the TSA credit cards it uses to pay for ...

2025-03-14T23:02:54Z

We've confirmed that the TSA credit cards it uses to pay for stuff for bomb-sniffing dogs have been cut off

https://www.404media.co/tsa-k9-bomb-sniffing-dogs-funding/

OK I see ... I have been using Elk and link previews are just not ...

2025-03-04T16:52:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…rd26
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OK I see ... I have been using Elk and link previews are just not showing in that client for most posts now. But is working on the normal Mastodon client

very dumb question but does anyone know why 404 media links arent ...

2025-03-04T16:49:10Z

very dumb question but does anyone know why 404 media links arent expanding on Mastodon anymore? Worked for a very long time, and still works on other social media platforms:

https://www.404media.co/facebook-cybertruck-owners-group-copes-with-relentless-mockery/

Scoop: The databases powering doge. gov are insecure, and people ...

2025-02-14T06:45:31Z

Scoop: The databases powering doge. gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:

https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/

A "True Crime" documentary YouTuber racked up millions ...

2025-02-13T15:19:56Z

A "True Crime" documentary YouTuber racked up millions and millions of views with fully AI-generated murders that did not happen

https://www.404media.co/a-true-crime-documentary-series-has-millions-of-views-the-murders-are-all-ai-generated/

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries ...

2025-02-11T15:07:00Z

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-prepares-for-increase-in-threats-to-us-editors-from-musk-and-his-allies/

Just spoke very briefly to National Archivist Colleen Shogan, who ...

2025-02-08T02:40:14Z

Just spoke very briefly to National Archivist Colleen Shogan, who confirmed she was fired by Trump a few minutes ago: https://www.404media.co/trump-fires-national-archives-director-colleen-shogan/

senator proposes bill that would criminalize downloading open ...

2025-02-03T21:05:02Z

senator proposes bill that would criminalize downloading open source AI from China

https://www.404media.co/senator-hawley-proposes-jail-time-for-people-who-download-deepseek/

New: Github reveals some of the code and banal back-and-forth ...

2025-02-03T20:04:35Z

New: Github reveals some of the code and banal back-and-forth discussion used to clean a federal database of "forbidden words" in a dataset that tracks spending effectiveness for Headstart, which affects "America's most vulnerable young children":

https://www.404media.co/forbidden-words-github-reveals-how-software-engineers-are-purging-federal-databases/

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA ...

2025-01-29T20:54:58Z

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with ...

2025-01-23T20:19:55Z

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages:

https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/

New: The manufacturer of a medical device that costs six figures ...

2025-01-22T15:39:39Z

New: The manufacturer of a medical device that costs six figures has told hospitals that they will no longer be allowed to fix them. Hospitals must now sign repair contracts with the manufacturer if they want the device fixed. Repair monopoly in action:

https://www.404media.co/medical-device-company-tells-hospitals-theyre-no-longer-allowed-to-fix-machine-that-costs-six-figures/

We've been lucky enough that we are getting a lot of merch ...

2025-01-16T19:27:28Z

We've been lucky enough that we are getting a lot of merch orders from Europe in particular, but we (and our customers) are getting killed on shipping for obvious reasons. If you know of a good EU merch printer/supplier/fulfiller, please let me know? Would be good to work with a small shop

New: The FTC has formally sued John Deere over its tractor repair ...

2025-01-15T16:57:57Z

New: The FTC has formally sued John Deere over its tractor repair monopoly, which is the strongest punitive action the federal government has ever taken against a company over restricting right to repair

https://www.404media.co/ftc-sues-john-deere-over-its-repair-monopoly/

Beautiful stuff: "It’s not really enjoyable to make music ...

2025-01-13T16:15:27Z

Beautiful stuff: "It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument... I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music."

https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/

Many major health insurance companies have purged or deleted the ...

2024-12-06T04:01:40Z

Many major health insurance companies have purged or deleted the pages where they show executive names and bios in the last 24 hours:

https://www.404media.co/multiple-major-health-insurance-companies-take-down-leadership-pages-following-murder-of-united-healthcare-ceo/

This story is really wild. Notably, the cryptocurrency Tether is ...

2024-11-25T15:09:43Z

This story is really wild. Notably, the cryptocurrency Tether is worth less in Mexico because of its widespread use in money laundering and drug trafficking

https://www.404media.co/tether-has-become-a-massive-money-laundering-tool-for-mexican-drug-traffickers-feds-say/

The movie Twister—and ONLY the movie Twister—is unrentable ...

2024-10-25T14:49:56Z

The movie Twister—and ONLY the movie Twister—is unrentable from remaining Redbox machines and no one knows why even after weeks of people reverse-engineering the kiosks.

Twister is Redbox's last DVD.

If you know why this is happening, please tell me

https://www.404media.co/redboxs-last-dvd-twister-is-unrentable-in-remaining-redbox-kiosks-and-no-one-knows-why/

They are targeting a section of Detroit that is majority Muslim. ...

2024-10-18T16:41:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…gvp4
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They are targeting a section of Detroit that is majority Muslim. Then not targeting an adjacent area that is 95% Black. Then they are targeting an area immediately above that which has several mosques. It looks like this:

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire ...

2024-10-09T13:27:47Z

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia

2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff

https://www.404media.co/the-editors-protecting-wikipedia-from-ai-hoaxes/

What do "Power Tool Institute," the “Irrigation ...

2024-08-28T13:49:13Z

What do "Power Tool Institute," the “Irrigation Association,” the “Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers” & tractor companies have in common? They’re lobbying against military right to repair legislation

https://www.404media.co/appliance-and-tractor-companies-lobby-against-giving-the-military-the-right-to-repair/

“Fictional and factual fembots reflect the same regressive male ...

2024-05-14T16:59:50Z

“Fictional and factual fembots reflect the same regressive male fantasies: sexual outlets and the promise of emotional validation and companionship. Underpinning this are masculine anxieties regarding women, and fear of technology escaping our control.”

https://www.404media.co/openais-gpt-4o-voice/