Below are posts associated with the “404media.co” source.
🔗 linkblog: 'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting
Religious freedom has to really mean religious freedom or else it’s a Trojan horse for Christian nationalism. What a great example of all of this.
🔗 linkblog: Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case
This story makes me (even) more highly of 404 and (even) more poorly of Flock.
🔗 linkblog: Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI
Stories like this worry me for the future of scholarship.
🔗 linkblog: Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
Love a company response that comes down to “sure, we talked about it, but we didn’t actually do it.”
🔗 linkblog: Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Look, some of the problem is Flock, but the core of the problem is ALPRs, and merely switching companies doesn’t solve that.
🔗 linkblog: Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Missed the original story, but wow.
🔗 linkblog: The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout
Flock is gross, but so is this.
🔗 linkblog: Cops Say Waymo Snitched on Teens for Allegedly Drinking and Shooting a Toy Gun
Self-driving cars are surveillance machines.
🔗 linkblog: Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Do Lexington next! Also, Flock’s statement is so gross.
🔗 linkblog: ‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access
If edtech doesn’t include this horrifying monstrosity, the field isn’t being broad enough in its inquiry.
🔗 linkblog: How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart
Stories like this should take a prominent place in every discussion about generative AI.
🔗 linkblog: Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
Very glad for 404 Media’s podcast, because I somehow missed when they published this horrifying story.
🔗 linkblog: Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
Long before I ever knew what generative AI was, I was grumpy about the idea of Grammarly because I was suspicious of deferring to a computer on what “good writing” looks like. I appreciate Koebler’s thoughts here for the way it shows how generative AI—including Grammarly now, apparently—is doing something similar on an even larger scale.
🔗 linkblog: 'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech
Some important observations by Ian Linkletter in this interview.
🔗 linkblog: University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
Well, this is certainly… something.
🔗 linkblog: 'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Required reading, imo.
🔗 linkblog: With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom
Good observations on how messed up these prediction markets are.
🔗 linkblog: What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
The headline isn’t what I would have chosen, but there’s a lot worth reflecting on in here.
🔗 linkblog: Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
Who could possibly have predicted this?
🔗 linkblog: 'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
So many horrifying details crammed into a single article. Grateful to be a 404 Media subscriber and angry at ed tech AI grift.
🔗 linkblog: With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring sucks and is creepy. Here’s the killer paragraph from this story;
Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir or some other high-profile surveillance companies, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.
🔗 linkblog: Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’
Unsurprising, I guess, but still newsworthy.