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jasonkoebler

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journalist https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco

Signal: 1-202-505-1702 // email: jason@404media.co

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Scoop: Solar storm is causing farmers' tractor GPS systems to go haywire. Many have shut down planting altogether during a critical period. A Deere dealer said accuracy is "extremely compromised"

https://www.404media.co/solar-storm-knocks-out-tractor-gps-systems-during-peak-planting-season/

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This is a reminder of how much modern tractors rely on satellite and internet connections. Many farmers can't or won't plant right now bc tractors have been highly automated to increase yield. Rows are planted so tightly together that humans can't navigate them w/o killing crops

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One farmer called it a "shitshow." Another: "All the tractors are sitting at the ends of the field right now shut down because of the solar storm." Another said their systems that are normally centimeter-accurate were off by 3-6 feet and tractor kept "wandering off" and had to be constantly corrected.

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This, from a John Deere dealer, is wild. They warn that affected tractors operated during this time will likely have made maps that are wrong, which will be wrong throughout the growing system, and which are wrong in an inconsistent way

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New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo.

https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/

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Hero scientists invent method to make cold brew coffee in 3 minutes instead of 24 hours, and also invent something called "cold espresso" which I simply must have right now:

https://www.404media.co/scientists-use-ultrasound-to-make-cold-brew-coffee-in-3-minutes-instead-of-24-hours/

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Google has delisted a series of websites providing DIY hormone therapy after receiving a demand from the UK government

https://www.404media.co/google-delists-sites-providing-diy-hormone-therapy-at-behest-of-uk-government/

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Facebook / Instagram, which are doing absolutely horrible, horrible, horrible jobs of moderating AI content of all sorts, is either tricked by or celebrating AI generated pics of Katy Perry

https://www.404media.co/generative-ai-stuns-and-fools-viewers-at-met-gala/

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Ticket brokers are selling Billie Eilish's supposedly "untransferrable" tickets, designed to prevent scalping. I explain how they're doing it, and how untransferrable tickets are transferred all the time:

https://www.404media.co/billie-eilishs-untransferable-tickets-immediately-resold-by-ticket-resellers/

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Utah set up a complaint form to enforce its transphobic "Bathroom Bill" and left the database connected to it open to the public, which shows that it has been used exclusively for memes and trolling

https://www.404media.co/utah-bathroom-bill-hotline-form/

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The NYPD produced a dramatically edited propaganda video about Columbia University arrests within 24 hours. I am still waiting on basic FOIA responses from them and Mayor Adams' office years after I've filed them

https://www.404media.co/there-is-no-transparency-in-new-york-city-nypd-arrests-columbia/

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The publisher of a small imprint of roleplaying games magazines/speculative fiction shuts down after 22 years because their submissions have been flooded with AI to the extent they cannot wade through them:

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. These are people who think their ‘ideas’ are more important than the actual craft of writing, so they churn out all these ‘ideas’ and enter their idea prompts and think the output is a story.”

https://www.404media.co/bards-and-sages-closing-ai-generated-writing/

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I've spent four months looking at AI spam on Facebook. I've messaged hundreds of people commenting on the bizarre images trying to determine if they are real, and to understand what's happening.

Facebook isn't the "Dead Internet." It's something worse:

https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-spam-isnt-the-dead-internet-its-the-zombie-internet/

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btw today is my birthday (for real), a wish for my wish amen, please share the article if you liked it: https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-spam-isnt-the-dead-internet-its-the-zombie-internet/

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very interesting that the cops who have never in their lives helped someone get their stolen bike back seem to know nothing about the steps bikers have to take to keep their bikes safe in the city

https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/

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NEW: The National Archives has banned employee use of ChatGPT. Notable considering it is responsible for preserving an accurate historical record of the United States.

https://www.404media.co/national-archives-bans-employee-use-of-chatgpt/

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Pickup artist types are using 'fake livestream' apps with AI audiences that make them seem famous to hit on women:

https://www.404media.co/fake-livestream-apps-parallel-live-famefy-with-ai-audiences-are-depressingly-popular/

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Notorious lost song known only from 17-second clip and hunted by thousands of people for years has been found in its entirety in a 1980s porno

https://www.404media.co/ekt-everyone-knows-that-song-ulterior-motives-christopher-booth-porn/

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The Russian government copy pasted Wikipedia to a new site, censored the articles, then banned the original Wikipedia. Head of new Russian government Wikipedia is the old admin of real Russian Wikipedia

https://www.404media.co/russia-clones-wikipedia-censors-it-bans-original/

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Tech companies have realized that their AI models are trained on children and are enabling CSAM so they're going to try to iterate their way out of it regardless of the wreckage

https://www.404media.co/tech-companies-promise-to-try-to-do-something-about-all-the-ai-csam-theyre-enabling/

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we take this problem that we ourselves created and which enriches us very seriously

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a company that has existed for two years, whose main interaction with its community happens on Discord, and who has like a dozen employees total has now deemed itself ready to tackle such questions as "What defines a child?" and "how do you define age?"

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New: Discord has shut down a tool that was surveilling thousands of Discord channels and selling the data, and is considering legal action

https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/

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Good news: Facebook's bizare engagement bait AI has made its way to LinkedIn:

https://www.404media.co/facebooks-bizarre-ai-images-now-on-linkedin-too/

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TikTok ban is deeply stupid, definitely unconstitutional, a complete failure of governance. Pathetic that it was attached to a must-pass bill

https://www.404media.co/the-u-s-wants-to-ban-tiktok-for-the-sins-of-every-social-media-company/

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