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I wrote this article. The quote is in the headline because Instagram is calling it an error, I am not calling it an error. People have been wondering what happened and why, and hav…

Naming the site was a big struggle sesh. Lots of good names are taken, weren't the right vibe, etc. We sort of made the joke "404 Media Company Not Found" to ourselves but, I think…

AI will be one of our core coverage areas and I'm sure we will be doing pieces both short and in-depth on AI alignment, doomerism, optimism, etc.

This fully fully depends on the article. We want to respect our readers' time, so while we love doing big investigations, it's a lot to ask people to ONLY read 2,000-5,000-word art…

We're going to join Mastodon I promise. Honestly the reason we haven't joined Mastodon yet is because there have been a million little things to adjust/fix in the days leading up t…

We actually saw that our name has confused this AI news site: https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/169403708675025348... So maybe the whole thing is a test for GAI and machine…

We know that it has an audience because millions of people read our journalism at Motherboard every month. We are making a bet that a small fraction of those people will be willing…

Thanks for reading! Lots more to come :)

Hey there, Jason from 404 Media here. We're humbled that someone posted this and just wanted to say I'll stick around for an hour or so before I have a few interviews for articles …

I'm the author of this article—both CTIA and CompTIA are lobbying against these bills, but CompTIA is the most actively outspoken. If you are a member of CompTIA or certified by th…

From the article (which I wrote, happy to answer questions) ... this is quoted in the court decision i.e., was written by a judge not by the defendant: "PCKompaniet does not preten…

Hey—I wrote this article ... if anyone forks this and makes it real please let me know. @jason_koebler on twitter or jason.koebler@vice.com

Scalpers join fan clubs and have people on the inside who can do name changes for them

I was saying that artists and ticketmaster and politicians are happy to sell the narrative that "ticket bots and scalpers are the problem and we can't do anything about it" when th…

I wrote this story and am happy to answer any questions you guys might have. Lots of information I ended up not using because the article was already incredibly long or I couldn't …

Yep, I think this is the lesson we learned last week. The world doesn't end if any one of us drops.

Yeah, we have three people in the UK, two in Canada, and a handful of remote freelancers / contractors. Slack is definitely useful for keeping in touch with them. The question is, …

Yeah, I think this is right (I'm on the Motherboard team), I'm the one who made the "silo" comment. I think Derek's point in the article about Slack making it easy to disguise stru…

Hey, I'm the guy on the Motherboard team who said this. You make a fair point, but I think the main difference is that we're a team that publishes 20 or so stories every single day…

I see what you're saying—but companies regularly respond to things like this very quickly. At least to say "we're looking into it" or "can you give us some time to respond." Apple …

I wrote this article, I gave Apple 18 hours to respond. The article has now been out for four hours or so, and it's been close to 24 hours since I originally asked them. Apple RARE…

yes, thank you! Will look at this too

It does! Will look into this. Thank you