Bryan Adams

celebrate this international women’s day by paying for a subscription to a one-woman publication doing some cool shit (imho):

www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD

How Identity Literally Changes What You See (with Samuel Bagg) Joseph speaks to Samuel Bagg about all the ways identities dictate what people see, and how what they choose to believe is based much more on those identities than the evidence in front of them.

Joseph speaks to Samuel Bagg about all the ways identities dictate what people see, and how what they choose to believe is based much more on those identities than the evidence in front of them.

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

SCOOP: In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.

What To Know About Season 2 Of ‘The Pitt’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-season-2-of-the-pitt/

It's really good!
While it's Mac / IOS only for now, a Linux version is in alpha and Windows is coming after that

Concerned About Your OB-GYN Visit? A Guide to What Should Happen — and What Shouldn’t. As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.

As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal.

With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.

(Published 2023)

Book cover of All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells. A tall person in heavy gray armor standing in front of trees.

Apple Books has ALL of the audiobooks in the Murderbot series by @MarthaWells.com on sale.

⭐️Murderbot is a snarky, ace, agender, autistic, badass who just wants to be left alone so that it can watch it’s favorite videos all day 🌈📚🚀

The audiobooks’ narration by Kevin R. Free is also excellent.

The Kindle DRM Deadline is Approaching! On the 26th, Amazon is disabling a feature that makes backing up your Kindle eBooks easy. You have a couple of days to download them before it’s too late

Amazon's changing the way the Kindle works on Tuesday, so if you want to download and de-DRM your books, you have until the 26th to get it done. I wrote a quick how-to, for anyone who is interested: next.content.town/p/kindle-drm...

@daralind.bsky.social @404media.co has been doing great reporting too!

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

If you are a federal employee, it is advised to set your social media accounts to private to prevent outside viewership, as reports suggest that loyalty screenings have begun.

Every day I see AI results like this which cause me to question whether Google really cares about organizing the world's information and making it useful anymore.

It's more like 'organize the world's information and produce information-shaped slurry'.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

"... the main reason most people are still using Google is they're just not aware of the alternatives."

How do we make more people aware of Kagi?

Kagi's commitment to an ad-free experience extends to our own marketing. We rely purely on word-of-mouth support.

Will you help us spread the word? 🙏

Just incredible things from the VLC folks

404 Media Objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Subpoena to Access Our Reporting 404 Media's reporting on an internal Google privacy violation database has been subpoenaed by the State of Texas. We are fighting it.

Wellllll I guess it’s only a matter of time before Paxton subpoenas all the journalists. Give ‘em hell @404media.co

www.404media.co/404-media-ob...

In the spirit of togetherness, if you live outside the US please share your country's most dangerous cooking method.

a pixel art of a man standing under a rainbow on a blue background Alt: a pixel art of Levar standing under a rainbow on a blue background

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies.
#bydhttmwdi

I wonder if there's some future chain of events that ends with the Onion owning Twitter/X.

The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World DeFlock has mapped the locations of more than a thousand ALPRs around the United States and thousands more around the world.

DeFlock has mapped the locations of more than a thousand ALPRs around the United States and thousands more around the world.

🔗
www.404media.co/the-open-sou...

Blogroll A list of blogs Molly White likes to read.

For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. Here are some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow: www.mollywhite.net/blogroll/

For feed readers,  I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.

It's a really remarkable achievement that an essential piece of technical literacy has become: "You MUST ignore the first two inches of the Google result."

RIP James Earl Jones

RIP James Earl Jones

Look, everyone has a thing and the more you're into that thing, the harder you go in on failures.

But why these folks *so savage about apples*? It's honestly impressive.

applerankings.com/pick-an-apple/

Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas."

Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could even after it was abolished, finally couldn't keep up the lie anymore.

This is a truly amazing story. It’s always been obvious that large language models would be used to generate enormous volumes of garbage that would poison the online information environment. It was not obvious at all that reputable traditional media outlets would be complicit.

So Utah, having passed a transphobic bathroom bill, has launched an online form for people to snitch on folks they think are in the "wrong" bathroom or locker room. Be a real shame if people on the Internet flooded it with fake reports: ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_co...