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"The Trump administration’s constant use of AI art reflects its own brute force attack on American democracy. It’s not just that its aesthetics are useful for Trump, its entire mode of being is useful for how his administration has governed so far" 404media.co/the-ai-slop-pr…

We spoke to the woman who turned her dead brother into an AI avatar that testified at the sentencing hearing for his killer, and learned more about how the judge considered the AI statement Really wild story and not sure this is a road we want to go down 404media.co/i-loved-that-a…

Scoop: Ricardo Prado Vasquez, a man who was 'disappeared' by ICE, is on a hacked flight manifest for a March 15 flight to El Salvador. This means US govt may have a less detailed list of who it's deporting than a private airline: 404media.co/man-disappeare…

beautiful sight

Holliday is leading off for the first time today and should bat there pretty much every day for the next five years

why does Zach Neto fall over while hitting so much

I took my malaise about the Orioles and wrote 5,000 words about how technology, AI, simulations, and "expected stats" have changed what it's like to be a baseball fan: 404media.co/the-simulation…

I FOIAed every state's dept of education to see what they were telling teachers about ChatGPT / how they were training them on it, and the situation was bleak. My writeup, pulled from thousands of pages of presentations, emails, and other documents: 404media.co/american-schoo…

CBP seized a shipment of t-shirts from a company featuring a swarm of bees attacking a cop. The company also sells "ELIMINATE ICE" t-shirt and previously threatened by LAPD for "FUCK THE LAPD" shirts & hats. Shirts to be "destroyed under CBP supervision" 404media.co/cbp-seizes-shi…

there are various quality blank t-shirt/apparel makers in los angeles alone lol. i drive by their factories and warehouses all the time. there is a garment district

FYI: under capitalism your DNA is worth $17 404media.co/23andme-sale-s…

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times 404media.co/chicago-sun-ti…

The A16Z-funded Civitai, one of the most popular AI image/video generation sites on the internet (which is regularly used for nonconsensual porn) has been cut off by its payment processor. This is a major deal: 404media.co/civitai-site-u…