From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched
To better understand what exactly we’re looking at in this dystopian surveillance hellscape, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox joined Reddit's r/technology for an Ask Me Anything session.
From Flock's nationwide surveillance to ICE tools, we are being watched. Is there anyway to go back now?
"Police love telling each other about the new capabilities and tools that they've acquired, so this tech can spread from city to city very quickly."
A 404 Media guide to surveillance in 2026:
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marathon is a game with plenty of odds against it, both internally and externally. those same odds are manifested in its own nature, one permeated with hostility and carried over by figures designed to be threatened and expendable. my review for VGC:
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they put me into the machine that heals pokemon at the pokemon center and now all kinds of shit happens when I eat a berry
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perish
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youll be entering a new age but it presents very few problems that bolt throwers can't fix
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if it sucks hit da bricks
this but neon
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The best time to stop using Grammarly was years ago. The second best time is right now
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they put me into the machine that heals pokemon at the pokemon center and now all kinds of shit happens when I eat a berry
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Steam game listing achieves knockoff singularity by aping Pokémon, Zelda, and even Overwatch designs with a shamelessness Palworld could only dream of
I don't feel good.
"Compared to Pickmon, however, Palworld feels like a paragon of creative integrity. Pickmon hasn't filed the serial number off of Pokémon—it's just crossed it out with crayon."
www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...
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my tummy hurts
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Some examples I call out in the story, including designs where Pickmon is imitating Palworld's designs that were themselves imitating Pokemon:
- Breloom x Dinossom
- Edgelord Mega Rayquaza with a bit of Origin Forme Giratina
- "It's not Ceruledge if it's a centaur"
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Steam game listing achieves knockoff singularity by aping Pokémon, Zelda, and even Overwatch designs with a shamelessness Palworld could only dream of
I don't feel good.
"Compared to Pickmon, however, Palworld feels like a paragon of creative integrity. Pickmon hasn't filed the serial number off of Pokémon—it's just crossed it out with crayon."
www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...
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Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate.
Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
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Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection review
War is hell, theoretically.
Reviewed Monster Hunter Stories 3. Lovely visuals and a delightfully gratuitous combat system, but it sets up war in the Monster Hunter world just to avoid saying anything about it:
www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/mo...
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if you asked for this: enjoy
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disturbing reports that donald trumps economic policy is exactly as bad as anyone who knows anything said it would be
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Do we think the fact that someone tried to use my work email to sign up for at least 6 porn sites overnight is related to the fact that I wrote this, or was that just a happy coincidence?
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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
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Stop the clock: Resident Evil Requiem's first sexy Leon mod hit Nexus Mods just 4 days, 11 hours, and 23 minutes after launch
I'm glad we can all share this moment.
"Today, a new page is added to the great chronicles of history. As of 11:23 am EDT on March 3, 2026, Nexus Mods now hosts its first sexy Leon mod for Resident Evil Requiem: Leon Shirtless RPD by modder SERGISHOLS, whose name will live forever."
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a wolf floating in a space suit with its helmet off and flames coming out of the neck of the space suit. the earth can see seen among space and stars in the background.
magazine screenshot (1993) archive.org/details/MSXF...
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our world no longer acknowledges beauty
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big fan of this context stuff. it's like if thoughts had neighbors
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After planning 2 more paid acts, narrative scifi power-washer Ambrosia Sky is instead finishing its story in one free update to 'maximize' its focus on what players loved: 'People got in on that sapph...
So much for slow burn.
"I was expecting it to take longer for people to care about Maeve and Dalia's relationship," narrative director Kait Tremblay said. "But it did not. People got in on that sapphic yearning right away."
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didn't work but they made a noble effort
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He exists in a solipsistic universe where the fundamental physics are propelled entirely by petty grievance.
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If you're wondering why he thinks windmills are ruining the country, it's because he wasn't able to keep windmills from being built next to his Scottish golf course.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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hi! i'm the Community Manager for Black Tabby Games and Sunset Visitor. you might assume from my job title that i'm quite comfortable with socializing... but i struggle with it pretty often!
if you do too, here's a handy article for navigating GDC (Great Difficulties with Communicating) 💖
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