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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18h

I really enjoyed doing this interview with Frances Haugen about how leaking to journalists works and why sources get caught, why Meta continues to he a disaster, and what it’s like to see yourself dramatized in a movie: youtu.be/oB3IxwCfP7M?...

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The Real Facebook Whistleblower Behind the Social Reckoning

YouTube video by 404 Media

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Dillon Reisman @lonlon.bsky.social · 19h

For NJans and NYers, the NY/NJ HIDTA (the bizarro pseudo-federal agency discussed in the article) is also the owner/controller of the main facial recognition system used by law enforcement across our region. A terrifying surveillance apparatus being built outside traditional public accountability.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19h

this is how cal used to talk about defense, extremely wondering if the orioles even attempt to do this anymore / if this is like, a foreign concept to jackson holliday

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

can’t wait to catch all my uhhhh favorite dodgers players in the playoffs

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

for those wondering, this cost us about $500 + a full day of someone's time to get, even though it was entered into evidence in a court case months ago. Still crazy to me that we have to pay for court records and in many cases you have to physically go there to get them

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404 Media @404media.co · 08/10/2026

Body cam footage obtained by 404 Media reveals the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops into interrogations for drivers. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social scopp here: www.404media.co/watch-footag...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The video shows the cop was using Flock on his laptop while driving 60mph before even pulling her over

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

excerpts of the video here. full videos in the article. shout out to a 404 Media reader who went to the courthouse to get this for us www.404media.co/watch-footag...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New: We got body camera footage of the Flock search and traffic stop a judge ruled unconstitutional and "indiscriminate mass surveillance" www.404media.co/watch-footag...

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Watch Footage of the Flock Search a Judge Ruled Unconstitutional

"I saw her go by, and I just started running her info on Flock."

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

austin hays is the anti bryan baker

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

doesn’t even come close to Jeffrey Maier btw

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

rays padres World Series would be fun

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

because i'm a journalist and people want us to write about them

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

have reached the point where >50% of my email inbox is ai spam

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New: Meta engineers discovered a "VM escape" vulnerability in Muse soon before launch that would have allowed a hacker to use Muse to access internal Meta databases www.404media.co/meta-rushed-...

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Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch

The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

dawg no I’m not holding this plant for you for three days when it’s convenient for you to pick it up

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

a real “how does society function even a little bit” type of experience

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

giving stuff away on Facebook marketplace and buy nothing groups is such a wiiiild experience. The amount of labor and communication people need to come grab a like, free plant or end table is unreal

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was only a matter of time. In a very real way, the net effect of networked license plate readers is more like putting a GPS device on a car than it is like driving past individual security cameras. And if police wanted to track you over time w/ GPS device or your phone---they'd need a warrant.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

deleted tulsa post bc like 30 people reached out, thank you everyone (!)

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Flock's whole thing is that they argue their system does not need a warrant and they claim this is a settled issue. Very hard to overstate the importance that a federal judge has said this is not the case. Flock's CEO just said it was "pretty cut and dry"

The new decision also immediately invalidates the core argument that Flock’s CEO Garrett Langley has made saying that Flock was not a constitutional issue. “You and I don’t get to pick what’s a constitutional violation and what’s not. We have judges, we have elected officials, there’s a process for that. We follow the law, we follow the Constitution. So far, in our belief and what will be for a long time, the courts have deemed this is not a warrantless search; this is a valid product as it relates to the Fourth Amendment. So I don’t see any change there,” Langley told The Drive in July, adding the issue was “pretty cut and dry.”

Notably, Hill suggested that other courts that have ruled Flock searches do not constitute a Fourth Amendment search were likely wrong to do so, and that they have not considered the widespread and automated context of the AI-powered surveillance system.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an incredibly important decision, and the judge is requiring the court to throw out all evidence obtained against her. Judge wrote Flock’s network is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance” and that courts must update their understanding of the technology

“The Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz’s search in just the ALPR system provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle’s whereabouts across the country for an entire month,” Hill wrote. “The Court finds that because the ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle’s historical location information intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was because he saw her license plate was from California.”

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yeah. what does "manage my calendar" even mean. does it mean "make plans with my friends / family?" "schedule the gym?" these are not tasks i want to offload

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i am begging for some sort of 1password -> google auth autofill on ios thing

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this is through my lens as a journalist but this applies to everything. i don't spend hours transcribing an interview now but back when i did spend hours transcribing, the article i wrote was relevant for longer because the news cycle lasted longer than five minutes. world has changed

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

stab yourself in the head with this deodorant

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the goalposts for being an effective or "efficient" person just change with tech advances so there's nothing AI is going to be able to do that is going to be like: wow, now that the robot does my tasks i have infinite time to sit by the pool

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i can scrub through a 4hr city council meeting in five mins thanks to YT transcripts but also so can everyone else, and so can an AI slop generator. So this doesn't make my life easier than a reporter in 1999 who went to the city council meeting and wasn't publishing into a fucked up info ecosystem

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

am thankful dishwashers but i'm not like: wow, i have saved several minutes handwashing dishes let me take advantage of this time. loading/unloading a dishwasher still sucks. transcription tools / high speed internet / faster computer .. all makes me more efficient, doesn't materially change my life

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i see arguments like this sometimes and ... what's the thing. what is this "everyday annoying task" that an AI could actually do and that you could trust it to not totally fuck up? i cannot imagine the things. and tech/robots have made a lot of tasks more efficient but there's always more shit

there are so many everyday demos that could make ai, personal agents, & agents in general feel insanely powerful to normal ppl & yet ai companies keep choosing things like booking flights, planning travel, or god forbid planning a god damn wedding.

these are not everyday problems. they're relatively rare events & worse for a lot of ppl they're actually part of the joys of life. the best demo should make someone feel pain they already are familiar with disappearing. almost every company gets this wrong. they optimize for spectacle instead of relief which is fine in some cases but it doesn't last.

one of my favorite historical examples is a product called head on.

the ad showed someone with a headache, then showed them applying the product directly to their forehead while repeating:

"head on. apply directly to the forehead."

beautifully simple. you instantly understood the product, the problem, & the value. ai companies should be doing the same thing.

show me the annoying thing i deal with every single day then make it disappear. it's not sexy, i guarantee it will work. when jobs demo'ed the iphone he picked universal simple problems that the iphone did better than anything else on the fucking planet.

anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

to be clear like, it's good pew did this research but also lol

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

excellent question though thank you

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

alt: I hope you’re as happy as you’re pretending or the making out part

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: An iPhone hacking company claims it can freeze the iPhone in a state that makes it easier for cops to access data. The iPhone has an automatic reboot feature that reverts the device to a state where data is harder to extract. This would defeat that feature. www.404media.co/cops-can-byp...

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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person — that it was a being with similar inherent rights to dignity or respect.”

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