Jason Koebler

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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
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
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

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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When people talk about Kash Patel and Trump "going after" journalists it doesn't just mean suing or trying to arrest them. It also means filing demands for information about their reporting and embroiling them in legal proceedings they have nothing to do with.
One researcher tracked more than 900 of these accounts but stopped counting because there were so many. Lots of the ones we saw had hundreds of thousands of followers, some were verified. One of our readers was able to tie individual AI-gen videos to the real women they were stolen from
One of these guides has specific instructions for how to steal content from real women, but is like "i do not recommend doing this ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)"
This industry is booming because of communities of people—mostly men—who are trying to make money without showing their face and are buying step-by-step guides about how to do this. This is from the intro to a guide that costs $220
Here are Georgia Election officials laughing when a voter tells them the Brennan Center for justice called EagleAI inaccurate, then launching into the idea that lots of dead people could be voting

New: I obtained and analyzed hours of meeting audio from the Board of Elections in Columbia County, Georgia, about its plans to use EagleAI, a "voter challenge" tool that experts say could be used to purge voter rolls

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-plan-to-use-ai-to-purge-voter-rolls/

Inside the Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls

Audio obtained from board of elections meetings in Georgia show how a tool called EagleAI was pitched to election officials.

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