Jason Koebler

Lukashenka used to eat sausage at night, but now he can't

I wanted to share this other news from Belarus that I found while researching this article: nashaniva.com/en/386165

HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty "My local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide."

Belarus has arrested several HAM radio hobbyists and is threatening them with the death penalty, extremely wild situation: www.404media.co/ham-radio-op...

How China’s ‘Crystal Capital’ Cornered the Market on a Western Obsession Decades ago, Donghai was a backwater county. Today, thanks to an army of 24/7 livestreamers, it orchestrates a multibillion-dollar global industry.

this is a very good feature about how one town in China fully reoriented itself to become the dominant crystal supplier in the world. a microcosm of why china is so good at manufacturing things & has become the leader in cornering all sorts of niche markets:

www.wired.com/story/china-...

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...

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong:

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE The FAA has altered a no fly zone designation that was originally created for US military bases to apply to DHS units.

extremely broad and alarming drone no fly zone designed to protect ICE agents just dropped. notable in part because some folks have used drones to film law enforcement abuses:

www.404media.co/feds-create-...

How China’s ‘Crystal Capital’ Cornered the Market on a Western Obsession Decades ago, Donghai was a backwater county. Today, thanks to an army of 24/7 livestreamers, it orchestrates a multibillion-dollar global industry.

Decades ago, Donghai was a backwater county. Today, thanks to an army of 24/7 livestreamers, it orchestrates a multibillion-dollar global industry. www.wired.com/story/china-...

think so, def

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...

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.

ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

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...

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong:

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

Why Everyone Is Suddenly in a ‘Very Chinese Time’ in Their Lives The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost.

very good piece on "chinamaxxing:"

"Aren't you scrolling on this Chinese app, probably on a Chinese made phone, wearing clothes that are made in China, collecting dolls that are from China?"

www.wired.com/story/made-i...

damn ok. that's how i think it's gonna play out. i keep most of the emails i need to respond to in my brain now but it's a very hard way to live

i used to think kyle tucker was a monster but his second half was rouuughhhhh and the vibes were also very weird? i have trouble seeing him as a $60 million/yr player, or anywhere close

gonna try to become a person who stars emails

I'm Not That Nicole Carpenter I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, and it pulled me down a journalism rabbit hole.

extremely wild story from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social (yes that one): aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

Critical piece about a new Palantir app ICE is using to determine the “density” of potential people to deport in a given neighborhood. Gives some indications on how ICE is deciding where to act

www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Per the headline, what are the two different views of Minneapolis expressed in this article? Because all I see is one view! Funny how that works

are these guys just disproportionately bad at walking or what

ICE is headed to Maine The Mayors of Portland and Lewiston confirmed Wednesday ICE's imminent presence.

published this and was then immediately without internet for 3+ hours to share it so please read 🙏

fwiw this is the program that the local cops who help ICE use Flock are signed up for

Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

ICE is stopping its purchase of warrantless airline travel data, according to a new procurement record. This comes after the company selling it said it would not sell that data anymore, following our months of reporting on the company. More here: www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

As others have pointed out and one of the main points of doing this piece: This woman has her own surveillance cameras, a car with cameras in it, and the resources to pull and show her own exonerating evidence. Most don't have that & surveillance disproportionately pointed at people who don't

This is a clip of the officer's phone call with her. Whole thing is worth watching bc it's nuts & shows the cops love their surveillance toys, how infallible they think they are, and how they hold it over the heads of the people they surveil. whole thing here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz16...

“You know we have cameras in that town. You can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing,” Milliman told Elser and her husband at her home, referring to Flock automated license plate reader cameras in the nearby town of Bow Mar. He then told her the town’s Flock cameras had recorded her vehicle entering and leaving the town 20 times in the last month, including on Tuesday, September 22 “from 11:52 until 12:09, exactly,” he said. “Like I said, nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it … I have you on camera walking up, ringing the doorbell, taking the package, and literally running away. I have you on camera doing this … I get that this is a shock to you, but I am telling you, this is a lock, 100 percent no doubt she did this.”

Basically, he shows her a single printed out sheet of paper that shows her car totally devoid of context and tells her that "this is a lock, 100% no doubt." In a follow up call, she says she has her own evidence but he refuses to look at it and yells at her

After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence Chrisanna Elser spent days collecting evidence, from apps on her phone to dashcam footage in her vehicle, to prove her whereabouts

This incident was first reported by the Colorado Sun, which had footage from her Ring doorbell. They've done great work on this and you should support them.

New footage I obtained shows the cop's "evidence" from Flock + a distressing follow-up call

coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/f...

Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows "Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.

New: I got body camera footage from a case in which a cop used Flock to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman of stealing a package: "Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it"

www.404media.co/cop-used-flo...

Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals Fake images of LeBron James, iShowSpeed, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and even Nicolás Maduro show them in bed with AI-generated influencers.

meanwhile on instagram things are going well: www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

What was the metaverse? Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.

Remember the metaverse lol www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met... by @edwardongwesojr.com

mine is 86 now :(