Matthew Gault
@mjgault.bsky.social
Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com
Tips: [email protected] // signal: 347 762-9212
Tips: [email protected] // signal: 347 762-9212
time to log off for a while
January 28, 2026 at 11:33 PM
time to log off for a while
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The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close humanity is to destroying itself, has moved to 85 seconds.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social gave the keynote—and went in on why the West is in "hell" and how AI plays a part.
@mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/the-doomsday...
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social gave the keynote—and went in on why the West is in "hell" and how AI plays a part.
@mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/the-doomsday...
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close humanity is to destroying itself, has moved to 85 seconds.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social gave the keynote—and went in on why the West is in "hell" and how AI plays a part.
@mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/the-doomsday...
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social gave the keynote—and went in on why the West is in "hell" and how AI plays a part.
@mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/the-doomsday...
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Sitting in a Bradley in Iraq, it's 115° and we are watching cement dry (literally).
Driver: hey sir if I pissed on bar of soap, is it still usable? yeah it has piss on it but it's soap, so it's clean right
Me: uhhhhh
Gunner: *long drag on a gauloises blonde* smith what the fuck is wrong with you
Driver: hey sir if I pissed on bar of soap, is it still usable? yeah it has piss on it but it's soap, so it's clean right
Me: uhhhhh
Gunner: *long drag on a gauloises blonde* smith what the fuck is wrong with you
It's really hard to explain what the weirdest people in the world who also happen to be in the military in direct proximity to you are like, but we've all met a whole bunch of them.
January 28, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Sitting in a Bradley in Iraq, it's 115° and we are watching cement dry (literally).
Driver: hey sir if I pissed on bar of soap, is it still usable? yeah it has piss on it but it's soap, so it's clean right
Me: uhhhhh
Gunner: *long drag on a gauloises blonde* smith what the fuck is wrong with you
Driver: hey sir if I pissed on bar of soap, is it still usable? yeah it has piss on it but it's soap, so it's clean right
Me: uhhhhh
Gunner: *long drag on a gauloises blonde* smith what the fuck is wrong with you
thank you to the folks at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for allowing me to question the premise this year
The Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight. Does Anyone Care?
The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close humanity is to destroying itself, has moved from 89 seconds to 85 seconds, four seconds closer to “doomsday.” That is the closest the Clock has ever been to m...
www.404media.co
January 28, 2026 at 3:51 PM
thank you to the folks at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for allowing me to question the premise this year
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last week, after I asked them for some answers about the shift toward weird, AI-generated posts and leaderships' 180° turn on sex work, ManyVids promised clarity was coming.
this is what that clarity looked like: www.404media.co/manyvids-ai-...
this is what that clarity looked like: www.404media.co/manyvids-ai-...
Amid Backlash, Massive Porn Platform ManyVids Doubles Down on Bizarre, AI-Generated Posts
In posts to the platforms news feed, ManyVids — and seemingly, its founder Bella French — wrote that the answer could be a three hour long conversation with podcasters like Joe Rogan or Lex Fridman.
www.404media.co
January 28, 2026 at 2:51 PM
last week, after I asked them for some answers about the shift toward weird, AI-generated posts and leaderships' 180° turn on sex work, ManyVids promised clarity was coming.
this is what that clarity looked like: www.404media.co/manyvids-ai-...
this is what that clarity looked like: www.404media.co/manyvids-ai-...
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it's hard to explain how horrible and dangerous this app and the people who made it are but I tried: www.404media.co/app-for-quit...
App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits
Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.
www.404media.co
January 28, 2026 at 2:34 PM
it's hard to explain how horrible and dangerous this app and the people who made it are but I tried: www.404media.co/app-for-quit...
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The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week
- Creators worry porn platform ManyVids is falling into ‘AI psychosis’
- a DHS surveillance footage mystery gets weirder
- subscribers-only: cops getting less transparent w/ Flock
Watch and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFv0...
- Creators worry porn platform ManyVids is falling into ‘AI psychosis’
- a DHS surveillance footage mystery gets weirder
- subscribers-only: cops getting less transparent w/ Flock
Watch and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFv0...
Creators Worry Porn Platform Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’
YouTube video by 404 Media
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January 28, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week
- Creators worry porn platform ManyVids is falling into ‘AI psychosis’
- a DHS surveillance footage mystery gets weirder
- subscribers-only: cops getting less transparent w/ Flock
Watch and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFv0...
- Creators worry porn platform ManyVids is falling into ‘AI psychosis’
- a DHS surveillance footage mystery gets weirder
- subscribers-only: cops getting less transparent w/ Flock
Watch and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFv0...
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Jon, @radleybalko.bsky.social, and @josephcox.bsky.social are discussing the latest news from Minnesota and who’s really to blame for ICE policy on an all-new podcast, out tomorrow.
January 27, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Jon, @radleybalko.bsky.social, and @josephcox.bsky.social are discussing the latest news from Minnesota and who’s really to blame for ICE policy on an all-new podcast, out tomorrow.
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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need to see "PROPERTY OF THE LEVIATHAN" across booty shorts for sale on the OCMD boardwalk asap
a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)
January 26, 2026 at 6:04 PM
need to see "PROPERTY OF THE LEVIATHAN" across booty shorts for sale on the OCMD boardwalk asap
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"unexplained pauses" are making dozens of critical CDC databases go dark under RFK www.404media.co/dozens-of-cd...
Dozens of CDC Health Databases Have Gone Dark Under Trump: ‘The Consequences Will Be Dire’
Nearly half of routinely-updated CDC databases have experienced delays or shutdowns in 2025, with vaccination-related systems disproportionately affected, according to a new study.
www.404media.co
January 26, 2026 at 10:16 PM
"unexplained pauses" are making dozens of critical CDC databases go dark under RFK www.404media.co/dozens-of-cd...
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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Worse than ignorant. This is a blatant lie.
This is the head of the absurdly named Golden Dome claiming that there are no technical challenges to nation missile defense. It's just a matter of rapidly manufacturing the interceptors. Complete nonsense. Golden Dome will never work, let alone by 2028.
This is the head of the absurdly named Golden Dome claiming that there are no technical challenges to nation missile defense. It's just a matter of rapidly manufacturing the interceptors. Complete nonsense. Golden Dome will never work, let alone by 2028.
Guetlein bleeding credibility here: “By the summer of ‘28 we will be able to defend the entire nation against ballistic missiles as well as other generation aerial threats...” spacenews.com/golden-dome-...
Golden Dome is forcing the Pentagon to confront missile defense economics
Golden Dome is forcing the Pentagon to confront missile defense economics Golden Dome is forcing the Pentagon to confront missile defense economics
spacenews.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Worse than ignorant. This is a blatant lie.
This is the head of the absurdly named Golden Dome claiming that there are no technical challenges to nation missile defense. It's just a matter of rapidly manufacturing the interceptors. Complete nonsense. Golden Dome will never work, let alone by 2028.
This is the head of the absurdly named Golden Dome claiming that there are no technical challenges to nation missile defense. It's just a matter of rapidly manufacturing the interceptors. Complete nonsense. Golden Dome will never work, let alone by 2028.
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today in what the hell are people using AI for:
Two Heads, Three Boobs: The AI Babe Meta Is Getting Surreal
The algorithm is driving AI-generated influencers to increasingly weird niches.
www.404media.co
January 26, 2026 at 5:50 PM
today in what the hell are people using AI for:
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huh. lots of words here but i've read it twice and i still don't know what it's trying to say??
Opinion | The Harry Potter Generation Needs to Grow Up
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
huh. lots of words here but i've read it twice and i still don't know what it's trying to say??
no one will play Tarkov with me so I replaced the ungrateful bastards with an AI.
terrible mistake
terrible mistake
I Replaced My Friends With AI Because They Won't Play Tarkov With Me
What began as a joke got a little too real. So I shut it down for good.
www.404media.co
January 26, 2026 at 4:24 PM
no one will play Tarkov with me so I replaced the ungrateful bastards with an AI.
terrible mistake
terrible mistake
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Thinking a lot right now about this crisis of trust. It’s a new world for Americans to not be able to trust what their government tells them.
Not to say that the government has never lied or misled the public before. Obviously it has.
But this is a new, Soviet-style level of lies and fabrication
Not to say that the government has never lied or misled the public before. Obviously it has.
But this is a new, Soviet-style level of lies and fabrication
We don’t even have to speculate. The bare facts are that you cannot and should not trust anything coming from ICE, CBP, DHS, or this administration in general.
They are not reliable. And they don’t have our interests at heart.
They are not reliable. And they don’t have our interests at heart.
Yeah, I saw, and I don’t like to get conspiratorial, but I at this point would 100% believe that each ICE agent is issued a ghost gun as part of their standard kit to plant on victims if something like this happens.
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Thinking a lot right now about this crisis of trust. It’s a new world for Americans to not be able to trust what their government tells them.
Not to say that the government has never lied or misled the public before. Obviously it has.
But this is a new, Soviet-style level of lies and fabrication
Not to say that the government has never lied or misled the public before. Obviously it has.
But this is a new, Soviet-style level of lies and fabrication
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cameras are power and they’re going to try everything to take that right away from you
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 PM
cameras are power and they’re going to try everything to take that right away from you
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THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.
They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM
THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.
They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
the inability to view things as a spectrum; the forcing of every issue into a binary position, is an intense failure of imagination, politics, and semantics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | There’s a way to stop Trump. First, drop the fascism debate.
Better ideas are more important than dire warnings about Trump as dictator.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:58 PM
the inability to view things as a spectrum; the forcing of every issue into a binary position, is an intense failure of imagination, politics, and semantics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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What I'm doing noon (Pacific) on Friday. If you'd like to join! #OnObedience #Profession #MilitaryEthics
January 25, 2026 at 3:42 PM
What I'm doing noon (Pacific) on Friday. If you'd like to join! #OnObedience #Profession #MilitaryEthics
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rebumping this today
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
January 24, 2026 at 9:22 PM
rebumping this today
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In war, this is a war crime.
Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM
In war, this is a war crime.