Sean Massa

The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading: Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)

CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"

Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"

The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.

deathgenerator.com

Company Helps Men Scrub Negative Posts About Them from Tea App “We just want to take down posts about people who are being defamed," the company's founder said. “And when I say defamed, it means like, ‘this guy has a small penis,’ or ‘this guy smells.’"

The service is another escalation in the age of online dating, women attempting to protect each other from other men in the dating pool, and instances of men fighting against those efforts.

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.

some YouTube asshole lied about Somalians stealing daycare subsides. so Trump is stealing healthcare from the entire state

Part of the problem here is a long-standing issue of mine: The public gets a huge benefit from beat journalism—but the journalism industry does not, by and large, recognize beat journalism for its value or when it comes to awards and prizes. Those go to investigations and "one big thing" features.

just fyi if you wear these around me I *will* break them and I’m willing to deal with the consequences of that.

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

america (2026)

www.404media.co/man-opposing...

I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.

But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

I'd rather eat glass.

Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

No, AI Written Romance Novels Are Not Inevitable The New York Times interviewed two authors who claim AI is the future of romance novels, who coincidentally also sell courses about how to use AI to write romance novels.

i got so mad about this article that i blogged about it aftermath.site/ai-romance-n...

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

The internet fucking blows now.

guys… we made a Super Bowl ad

here’s how we did it: www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

Together, we raised over $600,000 for @translifeline.org this year. From the bottom of my heart, I'm so grateful. We have come together to say to our trans friends and family that they are loved and that they are not alone.

Trans rights are human rights.

When we gather together, we can make Magic.

Magic: The Gathering players came together and raised over $110,000 for Trans Lifeline in less than 24 hours.

We are going until Saturday at 10am Pacific so be sure to Donate--> give.translifeline.org/tcc

Our expanded prize list can be found here: bsky.app/profile/tola...

#MagicTheGathering

If you honestly believe there should be no secret police in America why is it so hard to simply call for them to be abolished. Shameful.

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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

> trump threatens military aggression to seize a danish territory
> key european states send a tripfire force, implying a willingeness to escalate if the US attempts to militarily seize the island
> mark rutte gives trump an off ramp by rebranding status quo
> stupid libs panicked for nothing

Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.

24 hours after artists called foul the AI-friendly policy, Comic-Con updated the language on its site. “Material created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show,” it now says. AI is now banned at the art show.

Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace!

A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!

the year is 2026

the american economy is balanced on the four pillars of plagiarism machines, CSAM generators, gambling apps, and crime sudokus

we still don't make anything anymore, aside from violent drama

How LLMs Actually Generate Text (Every Dev Should Know This) YouTube video by LearnThatStack

A nice, short, neutral description of how LLMs work that you can send to non-technical people in your life.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKnZ...

Once a Webloc user has identified a device of interest, they can get more details about that particular phone, and, by extension, its owner, by seeing where else it has travelled both locally and across the country. Users can click a route feature which shows the path the device took. The material suggests that if users look at where the device was located at night, they might find the person’s possible home, and during the day, the person’s possible employer. The software can also do a multi-permiter analysis, which monitors multiple locations at once to see which devices have been present at two or more specific places. A results page then displays the list of discovered devices. This includes whether the phone is an Android or iOS device; the number of days the device visited a given location; the average amount of time a device stayed at the location; and the total number of pieces of location data for that phone.

Here's the sort of thing Webloc can do:
- zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country
- click a 'route' button to see the specific route
- click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home

No warrant www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.

I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Michael Pratt, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison Michael James Pratt was sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking connected to the GirlsDoPorn crime ring. “He turned my pain into profit, my life into currency,” said one victim.

But my most memorable moment in reporting in 2025 was seeing a longtime sex trafficker forced to face his victims, and watching a judge send him to prison for a long time.

After following GDP for ~6 years, being present for this sentencing felt important: www.404media.co/michael-prat...