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Journalist @404mediaco , former EIC @motherboard Signal: 1-202-505-1702 // email: jason @404media .co

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2 years
SCOOP: Uvalde and Uvalde Police have hired a private law firm to fight against being required to release body camera footage and other records related to school shooting Files could be 'highly embarrassing,' involve 'emotional/mental distress,' it argues
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the richest man on earth is donating roughly the same amount as three women raised in 12 hours selling nudes on twitter
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3 years
What a deeply bizarre paragraph
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4 years
SCOOP: AT&T is suspending all broadband data caps during coronavirus crisis, showing that these are bullshit nonsense caps anyway
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4 years
NEW: It is the position of NYC bus drivers that they will not be used to transport arrested protesters "It is in solidarity with Minneapolis' bus drivers."
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Would you believe that egg prices are higher because a giant company decided they could make more profit by raising prices and blaming "bird flu" and "inflation" rather than anything to do with bird flu or anything else
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NEW: We have reporting inside Twitter that explains why Jack hasn't "banned the Nazis:" Treating white supremacy like ISIS would mean autobanning some Republican politicians
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2 years
So: Taxpayers: - pay for the police - pay the private lawyers to defend the police when the police are bad - pay for the private lawyers to prevent the release of public records - pay for the investigation into the police and any litigation that arises - pay out any damages
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NEW: General Electric workers who normally make jet engines have walked off the job to demand that their factories are converted to make ventilators instead
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NEW: Thousands of Amazon workers in 12 countries are protesting on Black Friday, from garment manufacturers and call center employees to warehouse workers all over. Biggest coordinated international labor action thus far
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BREAKING: Leaked emails show that USPS headquarters has ordered local post offices to NOT plug back in mail sorting machines
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2 years
Amazon's message to workers the day after a driver was mauled by a customer's dogs and died:
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a new, year-long study found Google Search really has gotten worse, and top-ranking sites are "on average more optimized, more monetized with affiliate marketing, and they show signs of lower text quality" Also evidence of AI-generated top-ranking results
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Uvalde says it has received 148 public records requests from the shooting. Letter to Texas Attorney General seems to seek to suppress records relating to all/most/many of them
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5 years
Major League Baseball’s Korean marketing campaign is incredible
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4 years
someone tweeted something smart earlier which is it turns out all the shitty things companies do to consumers are made up and can be easily killed in a crisis
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SCOOP: The U.S. Military is buying user location data harvested from a Muslim prayer app that has been downloaded by 98 million people around the world, is using this type of data for "counterterrorism"
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Twitter says it will suspend people who tweet that they hope Trump dies. Facebook will let you wish death upon Trump so long as you do not tag him
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4 years
I am not sure what the "penalty" for calling in sick before was but a punitive sick leave policy is definitely what you want at a grocery store
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4 years
SCOOP: All mail employees are now getting memos telling them not to speak to the press under any circumstances and to be suspicious of any customer who asks "a series of questions"
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BREAKING: Robinhood has restricted users from buying GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, Nokia stock. This is VERY CRAZY, I do not see how RobinHood survives screwing its users like this
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2 years
More on TikTok:
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Over the weekend, a verified account posing as FTX founder SBF posted dozens of copies of this deepfake video offering FTX users "compensation for the loss" in a phishing scam designed to drain their crypto wallets
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NEW from @samleecole : Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to internal documentation we've reviewed
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3 years
currently deciding if i will live on water coast and fire coast
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3 years
NEW: Amazon has shut down one of its best-organized warehouses and is moving the workers to separate warehouses, where they will be forced to work a "Megacycle" shift, in which workers come in at 1 am and leave at noon
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We've obtained the chats Facebook gave to police in Nebraska to help them prosecute a 17-year-old and her mother for the crime of "abortion," as well as the search warrants and court records used to obtain her chats
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3 years
I have spent the last three months immersed in the Pokémon card collecting world and I need to stress that it’s not just “popular again” it’s like, so popular that it is causing labor crises all over America
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4 years
Whole Foods just published a blog post in response to our article in which it says "We have relaxed our policy to allow Team Members to call out of work due to illness, without penalty."
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3 years
Congress is officially considering a national right to repair bill. Exciting! and so overdue
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1 year
I love when my profits go from $50 million to $535 million in one year due to bird flu
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3 years
this exact robot is being used by cops in Hawaii right now to patrol homeless encampments
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Imagine what AI powered machines will be able to do in the next 5-10 years. Boston Dynamics machines flawlessly and soulfully dancing in rhythm.
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4 years
at least three people have DMed me thinking I am the CEO of Whole Foods I am not
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3 years
Horrifying story out of Oregon. This woman called 911 for domestic violence. Cops showed up, harassed her, and a few days later one returned to her house and raped her. When she demanded justice in front of PD building, *she* was the one who was arrested
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4 years
Please stop sharing Medium posts written by people who have no idea what they're talking about. The recklessness of how this research was rolled out is beyond the pale
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3 years
The app, called Muslim Pro, collects user location data to tell them what time to pray and which direction Mecca is in. It then sells that data to a company called X-Mode, which sells to U.S. military contractors
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3 years
BREAKING: White House website acknowledges climate change is real again
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4 years
Archivists have pirated more than 5,000 studies about coronaviruses and made them open access: "It's a moral imperative," they said. “A copyright on the health of humanity? Fuck off.”
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SCOOP: Hundreds of workers at *30* different fast food restaurants are going on strike tomorrow to demand Covid-19 protections. Looking more and more like a general strike.
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this is one of the most interesting pieces i've read in a very long time. Turns out white people do not like when surveillance tech is not biased, and affects them equally, such as with speed cameras
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NEW: An Amazon VP resigns, calls the company "chickenshit" for firing and disparaging workers who have protested working conditions under Covid-19
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5 years
I think a key thing to flag here is the view expressed by this twitter employee should not be controversial, but Twitter is so worried about upsetting conservative politicians that it won't publicly touch this argument with a 10-foot pole
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Underappreciated aspect of Twitter exodus is this: Elon just bought every employee's equity at inflated price of $54/share. He then asked if they want to work "extremely hardcore" or take their large pile of cash + 3 months of pay and leave the shitshow
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NEW: Software made to let businesses send text messages can take over anyone's phone number with no notifications, allowing anyone to intercept a target's phone numbers and leverage that access to break into other accounts. This is a gigantic flaw
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Bandcamp's entire union bargaining team was laid off. Songtradr says it didn't know who they were. We saw an invitation to a meeting sent by Songtradr to Bandcamp's bargaining committee. Songtradr's CEO RSVPed 'yes':
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BREAKING: Apple has formally endorsed a strong right to repair bill in California after spending years spending millions of dollars opposing it. It's difficult to express how important this is. It means right to repair—consumers—have won
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I filed FOIAs about the Chinese Mystery Seeds with state departments of agriculture in all 50 states. I received thousands of emails, spreadsheets, complaint forms, presentations, voicemails. The takeaway is that MANY Americans planted the seeds
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The hero Polish hackers who fixed DRM-bricked trains have explained how they did it. There was DRM that killed power to trains, broke emergency brakes and compressors if trains had been to independent repair yard.
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The Polish hackers who heroically fixed a series of passenger trains that the manufacturer had artificially bricked with DRM are now being threatened with lawsuits. OEM demanding the trains be removed from service:
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Ring has blamed its users for the spate of hacks over the last week. But our own tests have found that the company doesn't even take the most basic of security precautions. Bottom line: Buying a Ring camera makes you less safe
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4 years
we have new details about today's Twitter hack. Spoke to one of the people involved in hack, they say a Twitter employee gave access. Sent screenshot of tool being used to hijack @binance
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Last week, Garth Brooks released a new album exclusively as part of a 7-CD set at Bass Pro Shops. It has still not been pirated, the lyrics are not on lyrics websites, there is exactly one professional review of the album
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SCOOP: University of California police borrowed military and FBI surveillance tech to monitor a grad student strike at UC Santa Cruz earlier this year, internal documents show
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i don't have any real thought as to what the rule SHOULD be. but, the things people say about the most powerful man in the world should be scrutinized less than, say, the things people say to private citizens, especially women and Black people and queer people on this site
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@libbycwatson trump enabled this by relaxing offshore internet drilling laws
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to steal @bcmerchant 's idea but do better math: Jeff Bezos is worth $116,000,000,000. Donating $690,000 is equivalent to someone worth $50,000 donating 29 cents
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Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads. Our website, in which real humans do journalism, is not indexed by Google News
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3 years
NEW: Salaat First, an app used by millions of Muslims for prayer times and to determine the direction of Mecca, tracked the precise movements of its users and sold them to a supply chain that was at one point connected to ICE and DHS.
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NEW: The USPS is turning off mail sorting machines ahead of the election
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3 years
Tiktok activists are flooding Texas abortion “whistleblower” site with fake data using this very easy to use script you can find here:
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Rebekah Jones has claimed that her son was the target of a politically-motivated arrest at the hands of Ron DeSantis. The police report and the evidence suggest that he made multiple credible threats to shoot up his former school:
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3 years
so, we just got this in. sources suggesting Facebook is deleted forever. shocking if true
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Last time Suez Canal was blocked, 14 ships got stuck for eight years and formed a communist micronation complete with postage stamps and Olympic Games in which a dog won a medal
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5 years
Not controversial in that the strategies taken against ISIS were *so* scorched earth and *so* intense that of course a similar approach against white supremacy would piss off Republicans
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4 years
Twitter has done a horrible job of policing death threats and targeted harassment for like, a decade. Its moderation system is more automated than FB or YT and it takes moderation less seriously than them (my opinion, based on talking to the people in charge)
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In 2018, John Deere and other tractor manufacturers promised that, starting Jan 1, 2021, it would make repair tools and diagnostic software easily available to all farmers. It said this made right-to-repair legislation unnecessary. It's 2021. Deere lied.
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Beverly Hills Cop-yright: Multiple cops in Beverly Hills have started playing music while citizens are filming them, seemingly in an attempt to trigger Instagram's copyright filters
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as always if you work at Twitter here is my Signal: 347-513-3688. and here is our secure drop. Don't DM.
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email is in direct contradiction with what Postmaster DeJoy said two days ago. this email or an email like it (we saw two versions) seemingly went to every maintenance head around the country
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this is not unreasonable, GE’s Healthcare division is already one of the largest manufacturers of ventilators in the country. It has also lobbied against efforts that would make them easier to repair
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This has been updated with significantly more detail. Toobin was masturbating during a break-out session during an election simulation featuring various New Yorker all stars
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OK, we talked to another hacker. Were able to confirm how they got accounts: Twitter employee used internal tool to change email addresses associated with accounts. Twitter seems to have just confirmed this in tweets as well
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The characters of AI Seinfeld have been walking into a refrigerator on a loop for at least five days. Creators are MIA. A show that was meant to last "forever" is fully broken 9 months in. People have been showing up to watch it on Twitch to pay respects
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Here's a piece we did in December about Robinhood's business model, which is selling user data to big hedge funds before they execute their users' trades:
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NEW: Two men walked into a Trader Joe's in Manhattan, refused to wear a mask and when confronted went ballistic. Bashed in the head of a worker with a wooden cash register oar, pulled hair of an employee, ripped off employees' masks
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SCOOP: McDonald's has a secret intelligence team, whose tasks include spying on the Fight for $15 and workers involved in the movement advocating for a $15 minimum wage
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Hot 97 telling protesters to turn off faceid, use encryption, and turn on airplane mode, you definitely gotta love that
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SCOOP: Footage from a food delivery robot in Los Angeles was given to the LAPD as evidence and used to secure a criminal conviction, according to internal emails I got using a public records request cc @FilmThePoliceLA
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NEW: We obtained an internal police doc about driverless car programs that says they are "recording their surroundings continuously," footage is available to cops, and that it's been used for investigations. Driverless cars are persistent moving spy cams
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we spoke to two hackers and we were able to independently verify they were in control of hijacked accounts today. One of them said they paid the Twitter employee to help them take over accounts; not sure on the specifics here at the moment
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Unionized YouTube workers learn they've been laid off during a city council meeting after a resolution to support them is postponed. A bell rings. "I'm sorry your time has expired." Dystopian
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Our fan page, the New York Times, wrote this more than 48 hours after us and used this headline and didn’t link, which is interesting because our article has been viewed nearly a million times, apparently by no one who works at that website
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yesterday an Amazon job listing for a private investigator to spy on union organizers was "an error." Then we found that Amazon already has a secret, sophisticated program and team dedicated to spying on its workers Facebook posts:
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BREAKING: Raven QA becomes the first major video games union in the United States, unionizing at Activision by a vote of 19-3
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People trying to visit Pornhub in Utah are now greeted with a video of a clothed pornstar explaining to them that because of their prudish government they may no longer access the website
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I just feel inspired, like anything is possible if you take millions in government subsidies from small towns, abuse your workers, use algorithms to copy and crush competitors, and pay no taxes. But mostly just happy Jeff had a nice time
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