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We put DOOM on a shirt, and you should buy it.

It's cool.

🔗 https://404media.myshopify.com/products/doom-code-404-tank-top-pre-order

Artist makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Artist nails cease and desist to a very very very long pole & holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it

https://www.404media.co/traffic-cam-photobooth-cease-and-desist/

Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam

Traffic Cam Photobooth lets you take a capture from NYC surveillance camera. The city's Department of Transportation does not like that.

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come see us at the Indie Media Circus @xoxo in Portland this August (!!)

https://2024.xoxofest.com/

XOXO 2024

XOXO is an experimental festival for independent artists and creators who work on the internet, taking place in Portland, Oregon on August 22—24, 2024.

A spy site is scraping users' Discord messages and activity across servers and selling them to anyone with $5:

https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages

404 Media tested the service, called Spy Pet, and verified it is collecting information on Discord users, including the messages they post across usually disparate servers.

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New: We obtained audio and video of a 2022 police shooting in which California police killed a 15-year-old girl who was under an Amber Alert and was surrendering to police. Warning: Graphic

https://www.404media.co/officer-screamed-stop-shooting-her-while-police-killed-unarmed-teen-after-car-chase/

Officer Screamed ‘Stop Shooting Her’ While Police Killed Unarmed Teen After Car Chase

404 Media has obtained newly released video and audio material related to the 2022 killing of Savannah Graziano.

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I filed a request for documents about how gov Kim Reynolds handled the Satanic Temple's holiday display at the Iowa Capitol, which has become a huge mess.

Her admin redacted 27 pages of documents, citing a privilege that experts say doesn't exist

https://www.404media.co/administrative-hell-iowa-governor-redacts-public-documents-about-satanic-temple-display/

What Is the Governor of Iowa Hiding About a Satanic Temple Statue at the Capitol?

Kim Reynolds redacts 27 pages of public documents about the government's response to a Baphomet display at the Iowa Capitol.

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If you try to watch porn in Texas, you are greeted with this message. Texas HHS claims it has nothing to do with this warning AND claims it has zero documents or communications whatsoever about the message. We are appealing this

https://www.404media.co/texas-health-department-claims-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-porn-bill-age-verification/

Texas Health Department Claims It Has Nothing to Do With Warnings on Porn From Texas Health Department

An age verification law in Texas demands that porn sites put up a warning from Health and Human Services about the dangers of porn. But the department claims it has nothing to do with it, and no records to show.

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New 404 Media Podcast breaks down the coding_unicorn drama, Plex "Discover With Friends" disaster, and a sneaker empire implicated in an international money laundering ring

Please listen, tell your friends, etc: https://www.404media.co/404-media-podcast-male-conference-devternity/

Podcast: Male Tech Conference Founder Runs Popular Woman-in-Tech Account (???)

In this week's episode, we talk about the bizarre tale of a tech conference founder who listed a fake, "auto-generated" woman as a speaker, and how he is also behind a popular woman-in-tech social media personality.

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In this week's podcast, we go deep on "refund scam gangs" that advertise on Telegram and have systematically stolen millions of dollars of merchandise from big retailers.

https://www.404media.co/404-media-podcast-week-12-fusus-nft-amazon-refund-scams/

Podcast: How AI-Powered Cameras Took Over One Small American Town

In this week's episode, we talk Fusus AI-powered surveillance cameras, how people lost their vision (literally) at an NFT conference, and how scammers are using malicious insiders at Walmart to conduct refund fraud.

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The human brain is still the best AI detector. New episode of our podcast is out:

https://www.404media.co/podcast-ai-is-muddying-the-horrors-of-war-film-photography-cinestill/

Podcast: AI is Muddying the Horrors of War, and a Film Community Implodes

In this week's episode we talk about how AI image detectors are making things worse in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how a community of film photographers is dealing with a trademark issue.

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