??? When did Wired become the paper of record - ThreadSky

swiftonsecurity.com • 86 days ago

??? When did Wired become the paper of record

NEW: DOGE has built a "firewall" to separate the work of Elon Musk’s operatives from the 200 or so legacy workers employed by DOGE's predecessor agency—segregating the career civil servants. "They don't talk to us." "As far as I can tell, they’re hiding."

by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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hardlylurkin.bsky.social•86 days ago

August '23.

oldeluke.bsky.social•86 days ago

When they didn't sell out with the rest of those rags.

lookitup.baby•86 days ago

somebody’s gotta step up

typingloudly.zip•85 days ago

certain tech mags suddenly growing a spine as CEOs turn back into jellyfish has been interesting

elcannibal.bsky.social•86 days ago

This is the strangest timeline

nametoolong.bsky.social•85 days ago

*dumbest

lucky225.2600.blue•85 days ago

I think people fail to realize WIRED journalists (and smaller outfits like @404media.co etc) are probably the only ones that can actually interpret what tech staffers are informing them about and then report on it in a way that normies understand while reaching critical mass.

myraccoonhands.com•85 days ago

I was just thinking this earlier, too, as someone in infosec.

It’s like, they’re the only two I can rely on for accurate and well-informed opinions on this compared to others.

hacks4pancakes.com•85 days ago

404 is well beyond the required right now, too. I salute our pals.

swiftonsecurity.com•85 days ago

Subscriber there as well 🫡

chx1975.bsky.social•85 days ago

Last year I felt they were one of the very few sane voices left in a world drunk on the AI kool-aid and so I decided to amplify that voice.

And now they are more important than ever.

tracepath.bsky.social•85 days ago

They're both doing an exceptional job with their reporting.

mav.wtf•85 days ago

For real 404 is beyond great

peter-butler.bsky.social•85 days ago

~2 weeks ago

fsumogle.bsky.social•86 days ago

When all the others died. But they are kicking ass right now. Way ahead of anyone else. But nerds know how to cover nerds.

jonathanpierce.bsky.social•86 days ago

always has been 🔫

badhorse.bsky.social•86 days ago

Wired, Rolling Stone, and Teen Vogue

Crazy world.

I'm telling you it's only a matter of time before the Onion launches a hard news division.

mysteriousfig.bsky.social•85 days ago

The Onion had a headline I thought was actually real and not out of place at all, their satire doesn't work in this era with how petty this administration is

mysteriousfig.bsky.social•85 days ago

The straw thing I was sure WAS the onion but wasn't

soonerlaw70.bsky.social•86 days ago

It is amazing to see the outlets that are coming through with real hard news now that the mighty WaPo and NYT have fallen. A real opportunity for so many independent journalists and media.

knifefarty.bsky.social•86 days ago

i would not be surprised

call it The Layers or something

jazzyquinn.bsky.social•86 days ago

The tearytimes

arcanox.me•86 days ago

stylized as "The Teary Times", of course, since news publication and all 😁

davidmichaelpick.net•85 days ago

The Shalott...

reselsnark.bsky.social•85 days ago

You can add 404media to that.

Or in other words, any outlet that thinks they need access to politicians to do what they call journalism are completely captured by and will apologise for the Nazis.

Those outlets that don’t base their journalism on access to politicians are the ones to read.

davidgerard.co.uk•85 days ago

i nagged tim onion to get onto this one

compare in Australia - The Chaser (parody news) and its offshoot The Shot (same guys ranting about the arseholes in power)

foxfirefey.bsky.social•85 days ago

De Liver? The Scallion? The Shallot?

alexqgb.bsky.social•86 days ago

They've been tracking the rise of the accelerationist subcultures in SV for years (decades?) Turns out that's the exact right lens to assess anything being done by Musk, Thiel, et. al.

jazzyquinn.bsky.social•86 days ago

soonerlaw70.bsky.social•86 days ago

It is amazing to see the outlets that are coming through with real hard news now that the mighty WaPo and NYT have fallen. A real opportunity for so many independent journalists and media.

chrismerkel.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'm here for it with my subscription dollars and everyone else should be too. Them and @404media.co

atarifan2600.bsky.social•86 days ago

Seems like it’s be worth putting a firewall between doge and sensitive data but that might be a bit advanced for government networks.

aricake.eu•86 days ago

The problem is that it doesn’t help. The doge people have the ok of the president to do whatever. They’re untouchable.

You’re looking for a technical solution for a social problem - that rarely exists

deannatheanalyst.bsky.social•86 days ago

Everything everyone else has mentioned, but also The Handbasket!

mav.wtf•85 days ago

Fuck yeah @marisakabas.bsky.social is amazing

thatlinuxnerd.gay•85 days ago

Wired suddenly becoming good is honestly not something I had in my 2025 bingo card

dylanmorgan.bsky.social•86 days ago

Only a few years after Teen Vogue became an anarchist zine.

xaiax.net•86 days ago

It’s one of the twin pillars of American journalism. The other being, of course, Teen Vogue.

mdasilva.bsky.social•86 days ago

It seems Condé Nast is apparently the one large media corporation that still gives its publications full journalistic freedom.

davidgerard.co.uk•85 days ago

and has famously vicious fact checkers

boehs.org•84 days ago

Don’t forget the onion

toowoke2joke.on.computer•86 days ago

Rolling Stone now.

xaiax.net•86 days ago

Maybe we can have three twin pillars.

toowoke2joke.on.computer•86 days ago

Works for me.

lyndonhood.bsky.social•86 days ago

Apart from the rest I doubt many politics reporters know what admin is in their hearts

typingloudly.zip•86 days ago

somebody has to

pengrondor.bsky.social•86 days ago

Just subscribed to support this.

Only my second subscription since MacAddict a *long* time ago.

peter-butler.bsky.social•85 days ago

It's my first digital subscription *ever*

I've donated to like ProPublica, but never subscribed to anything before

tarynpivots.bsky.social•86 days ago

They are doing an incredible job especially since the rest of the national media is terrible

davidcostafreedom.bsky.social•86 days ago

hello Swift. I am here on BlueSky now. 😃🧚🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️🧞🧞‍♀️🧞‍♂️⏳️ @swiftonsecurity.com

ruralanarchy.bsky.social•86 days ago

It has definitely earned them a subscription from me.

davidkelley718.bsky.social•86 days ago

When things fell very, very far from where they used to be.

rich.lafferty.ca•85 days ago

that's still @teenvogue.com but I appreciate WIRED giving them a run for their money

powerje.bsky.social•86 days ago

they've been on fire

vjablow.bsky.social•85 days ago

Wired is the record now that @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com stopped reporting what is actually happening to ensure right-wing zealots get what they want in the media.

(And for all the folks wringing hands about cancelling subscriptions & hurting writers: those journalists are CAPTURED.)

vjablow.bsky.social•85 days ago

If you think about it, it is crazy that Wired is on the ground in DC doing this reporting that the Post is not doing.

The Post didn't even get around to covering the jamming of Capitol switchboards (by Americans angry that their data has been STOLEN) until days after--and then . . .

vjablow.bsky.social•85 days ago

The Post gave right-wing pols the bully pulpit in that story about Americans' outrage at the THEFT of their data to say it's not that big of a deal & constituents need to calm down, lie back, and think of England.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/close-your-eyes-and-think-of-england.html