nick deMarchis
@nickdemarchis.com
software engineer and freelance writer
https://nickdemarchis.com
https://nickdemarchis.com
from @Christophe on YouTube — what it looks like when platforms abdicate their role in moderating everything from thoughtful recreations to cheap slop made from videojournalism
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youtu.be/CFJIVBJYY9M
Who’s making these AI copies of my work?
YouTube video by Christophe
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October 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
from @Christophe on YouTube — what it looks like when platforms abdicate their role in moderating everything from thoughtful recreations to cheap slop made from videojournalism
youtu.be/CFJIVBJYY9M
youtu.be/CFJIVBJYY9M
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Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press.
“While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...
“While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...
The Chips Fall as Rivals Fry the Mayor
The jokes and jabs are flying as Eric Adams’ closest aides was slapped with new criminal charges the day after another of his longtime allies offered a reporter cash inside a potato chip bag.
www.thecity.nyc
August 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press.
“While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...
“While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...
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Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.
Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/66568...
Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/66568...
May 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.
Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/66568...
Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/66568...
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New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
www.404media.co
May 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
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Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
THE INSIDE STORY:
THE INSIDE STORY:
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
www.wired.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
THE INSIDE STORY:
THE INSIDE STORY:
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I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE. gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
🔗 www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
🔗 www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
February 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE. gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
🔗 www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
🔗 www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
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Person makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Creator sticks the cease and desist to a pole and holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam
Traffic Cam Photobooth lets you take a capture from NYC surveillance camera. The city's Department of Transportation does not like that.
www.404media.co
December 12, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Person makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Creator sticks the cease and desist to a pole and holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
proud to have written my first piece for @hellgateny.bsky.social about a truly wild piece of NYC infrastructure—privately operated, super-fast Wi-Fi kiosks that have repeatedly underdelivered (or more specifically, delivered on 27% of its promises) for New Yorkers.
hellgatenyc.com/what-is-the-...
hellgatenyc.com/what-is-the-...
Expand broadband access? Strengthen 5G networks? Advertising? Eight years later, the LinkNYC kiosks don't fully succeed in doing any of those things—so what's the actual point?
@nickdemarchis.bsky.social spoke to some experts, and has the story: hellgatenyc.com/what-is-the-...
@nickdemarchis.bsky.social spoke to some experts, and has the story: hellgatenyc.com/what-is-the-...
November 22, 2024 at 8:01 PM
proud to have written my first piece for @hellgateny.bsky.social about a truly wild piece of NYC infrastructure—privately operated, super-fast Wi-Fi kiosks that have repeatedly underdelivered (or more specifically, delivered on 27% of its promises) for New Yorkers.
hellgatenyc.com/what-is-the-...
hellgatenyc.com/what-is-the-...