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Sam Cole
@samleecole.bsky.social
journalist / co-founder @404media.co
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complain about the paywall catch a block
thank you for having me on @scifri.bsky.social and sorry for all the deep exasperated sighs
January 23, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I asked, what does "action" mean?

"A post will be published to our ManyVids News feed this Saturday, January 24th. It will provide additional clarification and go into a bit more detail on this." In the meantime, people are pissed off, worried, and leaving.

www.404media.co/manyvids-por...
January 22, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I asked ManyVids to get specific about what any of this means. How does this affect its millions of users and creators? They sent a clearly AI-generated response about "taking action," with zero answers.
January 22, 2026 at 4:36 PM
AI-generated nonsense posts are concerning on their own, but ManyVids CEO Bella French recently changed her personal site to call the adult industry "exploitative" and said it "shouldn't exist." She sees ManyVids as part of some grand plan. www.404media.co/manyvids-por...
January 22, 2026 at 4:35 PM
People are freaked out. Everyone @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and I talked to for this story brought up AI psychosis. “It concerns me that access to my earnings, and more importantly my personal information, is in the hands of someone seemingly out of touch with reality.”
January 22, 2026 at 4:32 PM
temu ass
January 15, 2026 at 3:33 PM
January 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
combining this with a platform like twitter/x is gasoline on a fire. it's always been where the worst people online emerge into the mainstream, ready to fuck someone's life up. Elon has his "everything app" now, where everything a troll needs is at their fingertips www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexu...
January 8, 2026 at 3:52 PM
we have to, at some point, address the fact that there are thousands and thousands of people are behind these prompts. there are no guardrails against misogyny. it's a feature, not a bug, as they say bit.ly/452c8bj
January 8, 2026 at 3:50 PM
microsoft owns github, and github pushes copilot heavily. based on one of the only replies anyone I talked to received from the platform, they're doing a very classic AI mod move that's resulted in a big dumb mess
January 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
twisting yourself into knots to find new euphemisms for dicks and still getting your account nuked: the adult content creator tale www.404media.co/github-ban-s...
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
These and other laws made me wonder: How the hell are these lawmakers planning to enforce something like "intent to arouse" when horny yolk-popping videos exist?

I tried to unpack the question, with the help of legal experts, and arrived at the "Egg Yolk Principle" www.404media.co/egg-yolk-pop...
December 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
These cameras were not just watching cars or even license plates. They were zooming in on people's faces on the sidewalk, tracking people in parks, watching what they were looking at on their phone screens: www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
meta's answer to this problem: we've been doing SEO indexing for years, but we recently decided to make it suck worse by having AI do it :) www.404media.co/instagram-is...
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
if you can guess what kink we're talking about here you win a prize (my respect)
December 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
on romance chatbots and AI erotica:
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
pantone's color of the year is the edges of a 2006 Dell Inspiron
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
also extremely curious how a podcast where a man logged on and said things like this regularly was allowed to remain on spotify for so long (cw violence)
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
from the indictment: while this man was assaulting women in parking garages and threatening to kill them on his podcast, ChatGPT was telling him to keep up the good work chief 👍
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
writing that republicans "do not seem to be considering" a full-scale porn ban, despite your own sources for this story AND republicans themselves saying they want to ban porn, is sending me to outer space nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Missouri's attorney general is very concerned about kids seeing porn and is going to make it everyone's problem. anyway, let's check in on the state's sex ed situation
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
thanks u
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
they apologize for the delay
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
:D
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
SAD lamp seasonal Garp for you
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM