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submitted 137 days ago • 72 comments

New from 404 Media: meet GeoSpy, a powerful AI tool that lets cops (& stalkers) geolocate photos in seconds. Trained on millions of images, it picks out soil, architecture, etc. GeoSpy closed public access after asked for comment, now marketing to police www.404media.co/the-powerful...

submitted 138 days ago • 23 comments

So phone metadata is actually sensitive and important information? So hard to keep this straight.

submitted 142 days ago • 7 comments

David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 variety.com/2025/film/ne...

submitted 142 days ago • 6 comments

Did you know Apple auto-enabled AI to scan your photos? Meet Enhanced Visual Search 🔍 an AI photo feature automatically enabled for Apple devices with iOS 18.1 & macOS 15.1 or later. Here's how to check if it's on and what it means for you 🧵

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment

The TikTok ban is fascinating in the number of ways people have said “we all know what this is about” that are different and incorrect.

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

submitted 143 days ago • 925 comments

Better idea: pass a comprehensive data privacy bill that applies across the board... and maybe DON'T mimic Chinese authoritarianism by creating a "Great Firewall" of apps that aren't allowed to operate here. You can actually fix things AND not abuse the 1st Amendment in one shot!

submitted 143 days ago • 105 comments

It's so weird that in the end Twitter became state media

submitted 143 days ago • 76 comments

Okay but really, where's the edit button?

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

I'm on Pixelfed, and while I've barely used it while it's been in beta, I intend to eventually make it my full time Instagram replacement, just as Mastodon has replaced Twitter.

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

How is this allowed by competition regulators, especially in Europe?

submitted 145 days ago • 4 comments

Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control […]

submitted 145 days ago • 20 comments

🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media. Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives. #FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative. Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com

submitted 145 days ago • 38 comments

Media and digital literacy are key to disrupting disinformation. --clapping back/arguing just helps to amplify bad faith accounts & false material --don't share "funny" disinfo to dunk on it; some will still believe it --BLOCK, REPORT, and tell others to do same without sharing disinfo content

submitted 146 days ago • 31 comments

Sarah ran a marathon.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta hand it to Aaron Sorkin for this one

submitted 148 days ago • 22 comments

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

submitted 148 days ago • 290 comments

Just surreal to listen to Sotomayor go in depth on data collection concerns when the US has done nothing at all to regulate data collection federally Fisher: “ if you want to pass a data security law, go ahead and do it” (privacy, it’s privacy)

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

Proof that all of these people are clueless about digital privacy no matter which side of the political spectrum they're on. This is a crazy thing to say.

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

Mecha Comet looks like a fun little modular Linux handheld #MechaComet #Linux

submitted 148 days ago • 6 comments

And I stand by that. “I believe we're in a time of experimentation where platforms are willing to gamble and roll the dice and say, ‘How little content moderation can we get away with?,'” Sarah T. Roberts, a UCLA professor, told us at the time. www.404media.co/its-total-ch...

submitted 149 days ago • 2 comments

Here is a list of every app on your phone selling your location data to advertisers, interested unknown 3rd parties, and the US government. Thanks to 404 Media and @josephcox.bsky.social : docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 149 days ago • 36 comments

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

submitted 149 days ago • 805 comments

How to delete your Facebook account

submitted 149 days ago • 29 comments

This is so satisying to watch

submitted 149 days ago • 9 comments

According to Mark Zuckerberg, people who live in California are biased but people who live in Texas are objective

submitted 151 days ago • 1224 comments

With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...

submitted 150 days ago • 17 comments

"If only American billionaires could buy the EU, like we bought the US presidency, stealing people's data while destroying planet Earth would be so much more profitable."

submitted 167 days ago • 10 comments

The Verge has a breakdown of the policy changes at Facebook, Instagram and Threads yesterday. It is, in my opinion, deeply uncomfortable. https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338471/meta-hate-speech-hateful-conduct-policy-moderation

submitted 150 days ago • 4 comments

New: Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship. Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users. www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

submitted 150 days ago • 7 comments

You know what was a real name for a business? General Electric

submitted 151 days ago • 69 comments

This is incredibly stupid. The first laptop that @pynchonsbrain.bsky.social bought me when I was 13 years old was an Inspiron. These have been around forever and people know what they are. "Dell Pro Max" is hilarious.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

pretty accurate 😅

submitted 151 days ago • 16 comments

knowledge

submitted 152 days ago • 30 comments

This is the most important thing everyone is missing - the tech race has been and is still about distributing information, and no one’s really taken that seriously

submitted 154 days ago • 4 comments

Clarissa explained none of this.

submitted 156 days ago • 43 comments

counterpoint: it is absolutely living up to my exact expectations

submitted 155 days ago • 203 comments

That’s one small hop for a frog, one giant leap for frog kind

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Google vs. Kagi in 2025 is pretty stark...

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

Mister Rogers never misses

submitted 156 days ago • 189 comments

"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"

submitted 156 days ago • 270 comments

Apple will pay $95 million to people who were spied on by Siri. Apple has agreed to a settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees 😬 www.theverge.com/2025/1/2/243...

submitted 156 days ago • 5 comments