AI
'You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
MLB's ABS system somehow feels extremely human. It's not human vs robot, it's human vs human as judged by a robot.
Flock
Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket
“CAPTURED ON FLOCK CAMERA 31 MM 1 HOLDING PHONE IN LEFT HAND.”
AI Slop
Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood
It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
Delivery Robots
Delivery Robot Drives Through Bus Stop Shelter, Shattering Glass Everywhere
A Serve Robotics robot crashed through a Chicago bus shelter.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Marathon and the Metaverse
This week, we discuss unfortunately checking Twitter for news, the closure of the metaverse, and being vulnerable in Marathon.
Meta
RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted
Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?
podcasts
Mapping Google's Unmappable City
How filmmaker Chris Parr put North Oaks, Minnesota on the map.
AI
AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet
Widely cited AI labor research ignores the most important thing AI is doing: Killing the human internet.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: DOGE Bros and Data Labelers
This week, we discuss traveling for reporting and watching way too much DOGE testimony.
AI
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
Flock
From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched
To better understand what exactly we’re looking at in this dystopian surveillance hellscape, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox joined Reddit's r/technology for an Ask Me Anything session.