Posts by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #As9naLIN3IdGB8NRB2 by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-03-17T17:49:40Z
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Tucker Carlson and others alleging new Deep State conspiracy about JFK records. Someone at National Archives with knowledge of the situation, meanwhile, tells me that thousands of pages of 60-year-old documents don't just magically digitize themselveshttps://www.404media.co/why-all-of-the-jfk-assassination-documents-havent-been-released-yet/
(DIR) Post #AsBM9p3zxRwMEohiaG by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-03-18T14:41:33Z
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We are testing Ghost's ActivityPub beta integration for 404 Media! We're really excited about the future of the decentralized internet, we're stoked that Ghost is leading the way, and we're proud to be one of its first adopters. You can follow us @index Right now things seem pretty buggy but it's obviously very early. Looking forward to messing around with it and making the product better
(DIR) Post #AsBN0rxJw1rgYXsKIq by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-03-18T14:55:27Z
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@wjmaggos @index Soon soon soon. And that's the future we imagine too. Can start to see it in products like Surf
(DIR) Post #AsO6aqA6QeOpTJ7XMG by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-03-24T14:59:15Z
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23andMe as a functioning company was a privacy disaster. 23andMe as a bankrupt, for sale company is a fucking nightmarehttps://www.404media.co/dna-of-15-million-people-for-sale-in-23andme-bankruptcy/
(DIR) Post #AsrN4BN3H1XRvEDgmW by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-04-07T20:52:04Z
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Framework has stopped selling versions of its base laptop model in the US because of tariffs. Says that if it kept selling them in the US it would lose money. Framework is the only company that makes reliably upgradeable, repairable laptopshttps://www.404media.co/framework-stops-selling-some-of-its-laptops-in-the-u-s-due-to-tariffs/
(DIR) Post #AstLm2t4MiJKlBu4ky by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T14:56:44Z
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DOGE "saves" a million dollars by taking critical government archives off of best-in-class, durable tape archives and putting them on hard driveshttps://www.404media.co/doge-gsa-magnetic-tape-archives-digital-storage/
(DIR) Post #AsvTJqQSI7kHx7VFMO by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T15:51:52Z
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Here I explain why the idea that we are going to suddenly make iPhones in the U.S. is pure fantasy and if Apple WERE to do that it would come after several years of deep pain. The iPhone is perhaps the most global product that has ever existed: https://www.404media.co/a-us-made-iphone-is-pure-fantasy/
(DIR) Post #AsvTJriDVZXzwUowgS by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T15:51:53Z
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The idea of reshoring high-tech manufacturing isn't bad but it has to be done in a coherent and strategic way. Here is where Apple components are currently made. This is not coming back to the US overnight and probably not ever
(DIR) Post #AsvTJsv11TNZgTogGu by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T15:51:53Z
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It's not clear that Americans can even build the types of factories needed to make something like the iPhone. TSMC had to import workers from Taiwan on special visas to build its factory in Arizona. Half of the workers there are Taiwanese. Foxconn's factory in Wisconsin never opened
(DIR) Post #AsvTJtnFlolSOhBzoO by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T15:51:54Z
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Flexport's CEO, who handles international logistics, says some clients it works with have already *stopped plans to build factories in the US* because tariffs have made buying equipment to expensive
(DIR) Post #AsvTJyzqQQo6XC7cdE by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T15:51:54Z
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Meanwhile, Apple's automation efforts are not going that well and there are still millions of human beings who work on it. Reshoring think tank suggests American workers in the same job make ~10x what a similar worker in Vietnam makes
(DIR) Post #AtlYLhc5jQT1wXD5uq by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-05-04T22:02:10Z
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SCOOP: The Signal clone used by Trump admin that Mike Waltz was seen using in a cabinet meeting in has been hacked https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/
(DIR) Post #Auas7BXufjETJUDKxE by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-05-29T17:38:07Z
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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety"https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/
(DIR) Post #Ax8G5zgcAbWdqymhmq by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-08-13T16:11:24Z
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An ICE sizzle reel propaganda video that used a Jay-Z song got hit with a copyright takedown and has been deleted off of X. Sound removed on Instagram and Facebookhttps://www.404media.co/ice-propaganda-video-that-used-jay-z-song-hit-with-copyright-takedown/
(DIR) Post #AxQu1xtOOKaa8wfpBo by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T16:05:49Z
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Today is the two year anniversary of 404 Media, which is hard to fathom. We wrote about how it's going, what we've done, what we're going to do, and what we've learned. We cannot do this without the support of our subscribers and for that we are endlessly thankful:https://www.404media.co/two-years-404-media-anniversary/
(DIR) Post #AxSERX9qbZbmzvneEK by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-08-18T15:30:43Z
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TikTok Shop is selling 'Silent' GPS trackers that are marketed to stalkers and domestic abusers. Many of the videos have millions of views and at least 100,000 of them have been sold. TikTok's algorithm endlessly puts these in front of you if you fall into the algo: https://www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-sells-viral-gps-trackers-marketed-to-stalkers/
(DIR) Post #Az36yiVEpboqOxd9cm by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-10-09T14:37:33Z
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Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:https://www.404media.co/help-us-investigate-book-bans-and-educational-censorship-around-america/
(DIR) Post #B08JCgKkMcuJeKC9wm by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-11-06T14:55:12Z
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New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is/archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructurehttps://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/
(DIR) Post #B192aH9psOnZGBGe3s by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2025-12-11T15:58:55Z
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Porn is being injected into dozens of government websites across the country using malicious PDFs. A separate attack is hijacking govt websites to redirect to penis enlargement scams and animal vagina masturbators. Cool stuff: https://www.404media.co/porn-is-being-injected-into-government-websites-via-malicious-pdfs/
(DIR) Post #B25Gnb2mrem2kSxmN6 by jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
2026-01-08T16:12:36Z
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ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/