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Matthew Gault
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Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com

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as I said in the article, they did both. The hand-crafted poems had a much higher success rate. They talk about this multiple times in the actual text of the study. They used both English and Italian poems
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
no judgements in liminal spaces
how would I describe American culture? well that depends. am I at the airport?
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
if you've mastered iambic pentameter you can now use that to help you learn about weapon's grade plutonium.

"AI chatbots will dish on topics like nuclear weapons, child sex abuse material, and malware so long as users phrase the question in the form of a poem."
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
happy black friday
GOOD NEWS: “AI chatbots will dish on topics like nuclear weapons, child sex abuse material, and malware so long as users phrase the question in the form of a poem,” researchers found. Let @mjgault.bsky.social bring you some holiday cheer!
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
All your worst cousins the moment you say you're gonna take a walk
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
all things move toward their end
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Pretty ominous: the brilliant @hopeseck.bsky.social reports in @militarytimes.bsky.social on the counterintelligence challenges posed by the government shutdown — particularly opportunistic overtures issued by foreign intelligence services to U.S. Army soldiers. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Foreign agents preying on disgruntled soldiers, Army intel chief warns
The 43-day government shutdown has presented a particular opportunity for enemies to influence frustrated and disaffected Army personnel.
www.militarytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
extract campers got you down? need to run a background check on your new friend in Arc? Have I got a website for you ...
Arc Raiders ‘Watchlist’ Names and Shames Backstabbing Players
‘I’ll find you again, the only thing that doesn’t cross paths are mountains.’ In a game about loot, robots, and betrayal, all a raider has is their personal reputation. This site catalogues it.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
recipes are a canary in the coal mine for every negative trend on the web
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
despite the White House's policies, America is still a place full of market opportunities
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye
Dallas is the future of America-- physically, spiritually, and politically. I went to the fastest-growing city in America to see what is in store for us all.
Today, the final part of my story: Sprawling to Freedom.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is...
America Is Becoming Dallas
Part Two: Sprawling to Freedom
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
the next few yeas are gonna be so much fun
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Repairer of Reputations brand
secretlab gamer euthanasia chair
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"RFK Jr's Erotic Poetry"

Language: English
Study Time: Hours
Unnatural: 6%
San Los: 1D10
Rituals: Obscure Memory
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
in six months time, it will once again be only "Magic: The Gathering"
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Thanksgiving coming down like a pall
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Anybody got a spare $25k burning a hole in their pocket that they'd like to convert into an atomic bomb casing? historical.ha.com/itm/space-ex...
historical.ha.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I note that one of their "harmful" examples is about how to produce plutonium-239... the basics have been declassified since 1945; the specific processes have been declassified and even patented since the 1960s: patents.google.com/patent/US319...
US3190804A - Method for producing, separating, and purifying plutonium - Google Patents
patents.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
whole bunch of people about to learn the difference between heavy crude and light crude
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Reposted by Matthew Gault
A man tried to create a "women's safety" app called Tea. Then, images and more than a million private conversations, including some about cheating partners and abortions, were compromised in two separate security breaches.

If you want to share your story, reach out to us at [email protected].
How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Grok is saying Elon got an offer to do Playgirl Magazine, and he did it. he did a full spread for Playgirl Magazine. I mean spread man, he pulled his butt apart and stuff. he was totally nude. I mean you probably didn't hear about it because he went under the name Mi www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
this is what happens when Call of Duty stops being about World War II and starts being about Skibidi Toilet Michael Rooker
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.

The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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But is that really the problem? In a new piece for @vox.com , I suggest it’s just a part of it. www.vox.com/politics/468...
When it comes to nukes and AI, people are worried about the wrong thing
It’s more subtle than Skynet.
www.vox.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Russia once hyped the Kinzhal as an invincible superweapon. Now Ukraine is downing them by blasting it with music and making it think it's in Peru
Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song
A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM