1) the villain in all of this is, no surprise, Twitter 2) fascinated by the people in the QRPs who did not read the article, and 3) I very much appreciate the acknowledgement of the role of queer women in fandom

NEW: Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information about in-person appointments with ICE agents, WIRED has learned, in a move that goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

Been thinking a lot about this reading the discourse around Traitors, LIB, The Pitt, etc…is it overreaching to say that pretty much all online discussion of popular TV/movies is toxic now?

NEW: Alarmingly low snow levels across a wide swath of the West augur nothing good for the coming wildfire season; @mollytaft.com reports

Three cheers for the sources that give great quotes. And also for @mollytaft.com @wired.com. Link to story below

the Heated Rivalry fandom has done a really remarkable speedrun from a celebration of a fluffy, sexy gay show to calling cast members pedophiles & journalists "klan members" (yes, really) — v excited about @wired.com's blow-by-blow feat interviews w fans on the front lines

"Great job by WH/EPA press team that worked this piece" from lunatic climate denier Mandy Gunasekara, one of the architects of the illegal reversal of the greenhouse pollution endangerment finding

The Trump administration has revoked the key rule allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. What's next? A big, stupid mess, reports @mollytaft.com:

"I was hoping a swarm of AI agents would see my fresh meatsuit, friendly and available at the low price of $20 an hour, as an excellent option for delivering stuff around San Francisco" @thiccreese.bsky.social always on that "what could possibly go wrong" beat www.wired.com/story/i-trie...

lol so this is insane even from bezos wapo!???

"The inconsistency of the messaging makes it hard for the public to understand what actually matters for their health."

where ICE is going next: a school near you! www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

In Philadelphia, ICE will share office space with a DMV. A proposed ICE office in Portland, Maine is within walking distance of 8 places of worship. Today WIRED is publishing the locations of dozens of planned ICE offices across the US, part of a major expansion. from @leahfeiger.bsky.social

FYI subscribe as @wired.com under @katie-drummond.bsky.social is killing it

the government tries to guilt u into not running stories like this flimsily arguing it puts people in danger, oh yea sure would hate to put people in danger constantly

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

had to explain who both clavicular and bari weiss are at a party last night, wouldn’t recommend that particular double header

Dominoes are falling, per @ruddock.bsky.social.

im not watching the opening ceremonies but gf keeps sending me contextlessscreenshots and……what is HAPPENING

NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:

You're laughing? Clavicular got brutally frame mogged and you're laughing?

god this sucks so hard. the team at the post is literally the best in the biz

The SpaceX/xAI merger situation is actually pretty important and, I think, very bad. "Data centers in space" is a bit of a pipe dream, but SpaceX now dominates low-Earth orbit in a highly concerning way. Starlink is real and could monopolize a lot of things.Not Good! www.404media.co/this-spacex-...

Journalism is a great industry to go into if you want to become speedrun becoming a Marxist.

individual newsletters also don’t have the infrastructure for the more investigative journalism that risks lawsuits so we lose that when we tell people essentially to start a blog instead of having a robust newsroom with resources!!!

i am biased but i do think the entire body of work from my many beautiful smart cool colleagues for $40 a year is quite a steal

when i give wired dot com $40 i get access to so many journalists‘ work, when i give my favorite writer $40 i only get that one person’s work AND i can only do that for like one person a year. it sucks!!!!

As Trump’s mass deportation program unfolds, immigration policy and enforcement is shifting fast. That’s why we’re launching Tracker, a limited-series newsletter navigating what’s happening and what’s next. Sign up for free: www.wired.com/newsletter/I...

NEW: HHS is working on an AI tool to find patterns in VAERS—the national vaccine injury claims system that allows anyone to submit a report—and generate hypotheses. RFK Jr. has repeatedly made calls to reform VAERS, including in his book. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

insane that they seemingly can’t figure out a way to monetize the fucking sports section

Unlike other publications, which often frame AI articles around hype and fear-mongering like, “should we be afraid?” or “is it secretly alive,” proud to work for @wired.com, which always tells it as it is. No, the AI bots are not alive and posting on social media: www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

anyway i am hopefully going to be doing some follow ups on gas expansion and data centers! if you have questions about this reporting (or just generally on data center power) i'd love to hear them. thannkskssss

wanted to follow up on this reporting from last week with a couple points on who is paying for all of this as well as methane emissions from natural gas:

the peter attia stuff is GROSS and also validating the weird vibes i always got from that guy

ten years ago today no one clapped

Former staffers say that Representative Nancy Mace’s behavior has gotten more erratic in the past year — and that it’s time for her step away from politics.

100 gigawatts is FIFTY (50) Hoover Dams

god catherine ohara was the funniest person alive. id watch her in literally anything. this one hurts

Building the wave of the future with an astronomical surge in planet-choking greenhouse gas

data centers act as a sop for fossil too often

Much of the talk of powering AI data centers with next-gen nuclear & fusion is misdirection. The sector will be past its hype scaling phase by the time any of those are operating. In the meanwhile, they're largely being powered by new gas plants, which can easily continue operating well past 2050.

BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics” Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor. @mollytaft.com www.wired.com/story/data-c...

“Without Dan’s voice, Philly Mag wouldn’t be Philly Mag. And, I’d argue, Philadelphia wouldn’t quite be Philadelphia.” Dan’s editor here, Brian Howard, on what our friend meant to this magazine and, more importantly, this city.

There's no way all 100GW of that happens, but it's very important for decarbonization goals that as little as possible does. Just trying to make it happen makes it uneconomical (turbine crunch, fuel crunch).

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor. www.wired.com/story/data-c...

This is extra important. Don’t believe me? We were able to track the detailed movements of US military and intelligence personnel in Germany to suspected NSA facilities, their homes, brothels, etc using data collected by mobile ad data likely from dumb apps www.wired.com/story/phone-...

Big news that I'm delighted to no longer be keeping a secret: Next week I join @wired.com as a senior writer! As everyone knows, this is a top-tier publication and indispensable record of digital life today. I'll be covering internet culture in all forms, as I have for almost 15 years now.