Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Chat, Are We Cooked?
This week, we discuss Palantir scoops, coping mechanisms, and feeling God in this Samsung television.
google maps
'Kendrick's Pool:' People Are Tagging Drake's House With Insults on Google Maps
The Drake versus Kendrick beef enters the Google Maps arena.
Amazon
Amazon Driver Saves Woman’s Life, Rewarded With Pizza Party and Laptop
“It’s always ‘An Amazon Driver’ when they do something good, and ‘a third party Amazon driver’ when it’s bad.”
News
Pornhub's Biggest Star Is Promoting an AI Nonconsensual 'Nudify' App
Sweetie Fox, Pornhub’s top adult content creator, made a sponsored video for a well-known nonconsensual “nudify” app.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Learning to Code and How the Merch Gets Made
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss learning to code, merch, and gaming journalism.
utah
An Open Database Leaked Submissions to Utah’s Transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ Snitch Form
House Bill 257, "Sex-Based Designations for Privacy, Anti-Bullying, and Women’s Opportunities," requires the state to investigate reports of people and institutions violating the "bathroom bill" law, but they left the submissions database wide open.
News
Google Updates Ad Policy to Ban All AI-Generated Porn
Google will now ban all ads for “synthetic sexually explicit content,” even if the ad itself is not explicit.
nypd
NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records
NYPD was able to spin out a hype video in less than 24 hours, which is notable because New York City has been horrendously slow to producing public records they are obligated by law to provide to the taxpayers who fund them.
News
Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts
Volunteer maintainers of the widely used OpenStreetMap are battling Pokémon Go players who are vandalizing the map with fake data in order to cheat in the game.
AI
Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.
AI
Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher
“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.
columbia
Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University
Columbia University allowed police to storm campus Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, the NYPD Deputy Commissioner accused student protestors of using an "industrial" chain to barricade doors.
ChatGPT
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT
The agency tasked with preserving the historical record is banning ChatGPT, citing the possibility that the tool would leak internal information.