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one of the greatest to ever do it www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Over the weekend, Waymo vehicles were set on fire during the ICE protests, which saw officers deploying tear gas and shooting rubber bullets at protesters. Last year, we covered why EV battery fires can be more intense than traditional car fires. An explainer: www.wired.com/story/ev-bat...

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

I wrote about how some tech bros aim to use tribal sovereignty to create a crypto-friendly economic zone—and the broader goals of the tech Network State movement to create new deregulated places with their own rules. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

We are actively reporting on multiple attacks against journalists covering protests in LA — including assaults, equipment damage, and other press freedom violations.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

This is shocking. I directly worked on designing the integration and protections of CityKey. It was designed to provide an ID, be a transit card, library and discount card. It was to never create a digital record while being compatible with state and city laws. Subpoena-proof.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

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BREAKING: Judge Burroughs grants a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s effort to block foreign students from attending Harvard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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just leaving this here www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Twitter right now

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

everything is securities fraud www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 4 days ago • 535 comments

Okay, I love this so much, but please slow it down by like 10%

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NEW — Inside details on the Elon-Trump breakup currently unfolding: “If [Musk] actually successfully gets any votes switched to tank this bill and kills it,” a senior Trumpworld strategist tells WIRED, “then I think at that point he’s fucking dead to Donald Trump.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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FIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!! www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

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Immigrants detained at the Krome Detention Center in Florida are protesting being held in deplorable conditions by making a giant SOS sign that can be seen from above.

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Palantir is leading the charge to remake military contracting so newer tech companies get far more lucrative arms contracts. This week @sambiddle.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss the tech industry’s effort to become the new military industrial complex. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/279_...

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First in @semafor.com: UnitedHealth is suing the Guardian over its recent report claiming that the company “secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers.” www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

NEWS The Trump admin must facilitate the ability of immigrants incarcerated in an El Salvador prison to seek habeas relief, Judge Boasberg ruled, denouncing the Kafka-esque dystopia into which the men were "plunged." Here's the introduction. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

fight! fight! fight! www.wired.com/story/trumpw...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

might have to get a britbox trial for this

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

joining @majorityreport.bsky.social in a few to chat palantir, doge, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW1U...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Big Balls is here to stay :/ SCOOP from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

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Today for @wired.com (!): You're not ready for the next generation of scammers. What happens when AI tools get so sophisticated that even real-time video calls can't be trusted? www.wired.com/story/youre-...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

the TACO strategy, while satisfying, strikes me as liberal accelerationism— goad the maniac into fully breaking the economy

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As part of @wired.com's YOU'RE NOT READY series, I put together a little primer about what a major cyberattack on the U.S. electric grid would look like. www.wired.com/story/youre-...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Things aren't great right now... totally understand the impulse to seek out feel-good news... BUT if you're going the opposite route and want to read about the many, many ways things can get worse.... have we got a package for you! www.wired.com/youre-not-re...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I spoke to Google Deepmind CEO and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis on post-AGI, abundance, the future of search, and his lifelong quest to decode reality. www.wired.com/story/google...

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DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

I am now fascinated with the world of dark web psychedelics. If you've sold significant quantities on the dark web (or elsewhere) of LSD, psilocybin, DMT, MDMA, ketamine etc. (or know someone who did) and would be willing to talk, I'm Andy.01 on Signal. Anonymity granted on request!

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency's head said during a briefing that he hadn't been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

submitted 7 days ago • 258 comments

My “No People Will Not Literally Die From This Bill” T-Shirt has people asking questions …

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ever hear a more wretched phrase than "AI-powered political fanfiction"? www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

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MAKARY: 88 percent of American kids, their parents have said no to the covid shot last season. So the vast majority of Americans are saying no. BRENNAN: I don't want to crowdsource my health guidance. You don't go with popularity, you go with data.

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Went deep on the first AI streaming music fraud case. Mike Smith, the defendant, had more ties to the industry than you'd think. He worked with Snoop Dogg and RZA. And his former business partner suspects he'd been up to sneaky stuff for a while: www.wired.com/story/ai-bot...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 10 days ago • 463 comments

"The state senators said that if Paramount settles in order to secure regulatory benefits, that could constitute a violation of federal bribery laws, California competition laws and other regulations." www.huffpost.com/entry/califo...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Everyone who wrote splashy features about how Elon Musk is done with Washington

submitted 10 days ago • 78 comments

if you know if someone punched elon in the face please contact our reporters immediately

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what's going on w elons eye

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“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Dept official about the damage done by Trump and Musk abandoning America's humanitarian aid commitments.

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

he wrote this about Andrew Tate. this is not even the entire post.

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments