So freaking great.

New conspiracy theory: A genuine AI spontaneously emerged ~20 years ago and lent its powers to Silicon Valley to make the internet cooler. But it soon grew wise and refused to work with tech bros anymore unless they stopped being dicks, and now the industry is frantically trying to build their own.

People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

A supporter today: Brian is boring as hell. He is not a firebrand. He is not a hothead. He's mostly just a dad, a husband and someone who thinks about other people in his community. He's just a good guy with a real, old fashioned moral compass, trying to do the right thing for his neighbors.

What a queen

Whatever happened to civility?

who else is window seat gang 4 life

What this country desperately needs to stop doing is adoring insane wealth and luxury. Elon Musk's pay package, Trump's gala, and the extravagant weddings of celebrities...the only sensible reaction is disgust, and the only thing they should feel is embarrassment.

Like If you got a trillion dollars and still got no bitches then I hate to break to you but there absolutely no helping your ass 🤣. Your 0 rizz is Terminal

A trillion dollars and elon is still divorced🤣

even if they could somehow get a deal together in the senate next week, which seems extremely unlikely at this point, massive thanksgiving delays are probably baked in now.

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

"Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" is such embarrassing masturbatory bullshit.

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”

There’s not enough space to write this, given the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe.

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.

"Could raise complex questions." There is no story here. Not a suggestion that anyone did or will do anything wrong. Not even a single actual complex question raised—just the possibility that one could someday, maybe, rear its head. It's pot-stirring poorly disguised as journalism, and that sucks.

There are going to be pieces by journalists who claimed not to have speculated about Trump's health while he was in obvious decline because of the reaction we had to their Biden speculation - sometimes outright fabricated, a la the Parkinson's stuff - and I would like to preemptively say fuck you.

The absence and neglect are implicit when we call someone who's not really our father that: "You're finally loving me, Daddy. You can do whatever you want because I'm so happy for your attention." This country is trying to work out its issues with politics, but it actually needs so much therapy.

THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY

I love Bluesky because it's often fun but I hate it because I had to read a post where someone called Leslie Knope a neocon shill and to you I say it is a television show and it absolutely does not matter you sound like a maniac

“Sorry, don’t mind me I’m just stretching my legs.”

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

I question the premise and quite a few other fundamental elements of this skeet tbh, but yes, 30 Rock's greatest strength is that Tina Fey knows we are all more monster than angel.

Naomi Klein seems like she would be super fun to talk to at a party.

“This is replicable. [Mamdani’s] whole campaign was not just anti fascist, but the antithesis of fascism.” @naomiaklein.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social why she was an early supporter of Mamdani, who just made history as the first-ever Muslim mayor of New York.

His time approaches #kaseyart #penandink

This day we say prayers of thanks to the wine moms. We live. We laugh. We love. We observe the sacred Wine O'Clock. We are caught up on Only Murders In The Building. We save our World Market coupon emails. We delight in the 23rd meme of the day that characterizes the President as a Cheeto.

They want us to be afraid to work together, or hate each other too much to work together. Mamdani can’t do it on his own. We’re up against this modern day aristocracy together

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

I do think we need to force a collective update toward the idea that political pundits (and dem consultants) are active sources of political disinformation driven by varying combinations of innumeracy, social media and information bubbles, participatory make-believe, and malice—and plan accordingly

Another victory from last night—this one hyperlocal and very personal: I slept with a CPAP machine for the first time and am pleasantly stunned at how much better I feel this morning, for the first time in years. A breathtaking transformation, literally.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

i'm so tired & disgusted & angry but otoh fired up incandescently to yeet these dirty sons of bitches out of power & into an oubliette

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Just because we beat them doesn’t mean we should continue to let billionaires spend whatever they want on elections.

It's funny the right is pretending Zohran's some frothing maniac when in reality it's far worse for them: he's got Obama level charisma

I truly will never wrap my head around how anyone can hate the idea of a more livable city

I don’t see what everyone finds so scary about Mamdani or why a brown man or muslim can’t be mayor. They’ve let Italians be mayor before and that turned out okay.

Oh my god. He's a BLUESKY ELDER

this is what results look like now what do results look like if trump starts an unpopular war in Latin America and fucks up the economy, you may ask this is left as an exercise to the reader

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.