Jason Koebler

that’s why i said honorable mention adjacent. It’s anthropomorphizing something that by definition can’t act of its own volition, twisting themselves into pretzels to do “active voice” to a noun that does not have agency

takes as long to walk out of the airport as the entire flight

niche complaint but when a budget airline flies you domestic one hour to the tom bradley annex zone on the other side of the planet that is a 20 minute walk to baggage claim, that should be illegal

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

ICE Phishing: Scammers Are Sending 'Support ICE' Emails to Steal Credentials "As part of our commitment to supporting ICE, we will be adding a ‘Support ICE’ donation button to the footer of every email sent through our platform."

new phishing tactic is to send outrageous emails to corporate clients saying a piece of software they use is going to edit their account to tell their customers that they support ICE:

www.404media.co/ice-phishing...

Polymarket Pulls Bet on Nuclear Detonation in 2026 ‘How ghoulish.’ The depravity economy moves into the nuclear war business.

super odd. Polymarket was hosting a bet on the possibility of a nuclear detonation in 2026 and it's now "archived" it. You can't view it anymore.

joseph will kill me for this

my friend joseph

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

Kalshi’s line that “we design the rules to prevent people from profiting from death” is obviously untrue, it’s just the company would rather let you bet on the deaths and suffering of civilians rather than dictators and presidents. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...

the google purple underline grammar thing is a bridge too far

With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

welcome to the depravity economy

With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

prediction markets' depravity economy is the culmination of deregulation and kleptocracy, lobbying to legalize sports gambling, the collapse of advertising markets, hustlebro culture, crypto, memestocks, ai bubble ... venn diagram of horrible:

www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...

nextdoor is undefeated

linkin park and korn only

vibe

music can do this too if you pick the right kind!

been listening to this thing called “music” lately instead of podcasts … anyone else heard of this?

reddit post: "someone dropped 3 million dollars on the sidewalk" image: a bored apes yacht club nft on the ground

i laughed

Ludovic [center] poses with a group of friends at the Combo Breaker fighting game tournament

After fighting game community member Ludovic Mbock was arrested by ICE, his family and friends have been working non-stop to bring him home
aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-mb...

Company Helps Men Scrub Negative Posts About Them from Tea App “We just want to take down posts about people who are being defamed," the company's founder said. “And when I say defamed, it means like, ‘this guy has a small penis,’ or ‘this guy smells.’"

You can pay this company to scrub negative posts about you on the Tea app. The guy behind the company told me his employees, all men, have tea accounts, which is allegedly for women only www.404media.co/company-help...

real

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FBI Subpoenaed X to Get Grok Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn The FBI obtained prompts used to make more than 200 sexual videos of a woman in a harassment case.

New: The FBI subpoenaed the Grok prompts a man used to create more than 200 nonconsensual sexual videos of a woman he was obsessed with

www.404media.co/fbi-subpoena...

username checks out

best fruit is a good watermelon worst fruit is a bad watermelon

I'm celebrating 400 episodes of Techtonic - with handpicked excerpts of past interviews, featuring @merbroussard.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @writearthur.bsky.social @byrontau.bsky.social & more.

Full episode:
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to...

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations 404 Media found multiple users of Zello, an app previously used by January 6 insurrectionists, linked to ICE officials. An officer at the scene of an CBP official shooting a U.S. citizen also used the...

ice is using a random, free walkie talkie app to do its raids

www.404media.co/how-ice-and-...