The human grass! 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics! “The only thing more powerful than hate is love”. This is @waterslicer.bsky.social and @d-jacks.bsky.social on Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl Halftime Show performance in the making...

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Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party its biggest-ever electoral victory, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she says could "split public opinion." n.pr/46tYuy9

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A growing number of U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) doctors, nurses, and officers are resigning rather than accepting deployments to the Trump administration’s expanded immigration detention operations at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This story was published in partnership with @kff.org.

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"Calculated. She calculates everything. She's calculated. Intelligent. And I guess beautiful. I mean, she's got to be the prettiest First Lady we've ever had."

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Must-watch slash read slash share: this ep of Hacklab from @wired.com documenting @agreenberg.bsky.social's INCREDIBLE feature about a source who was trapped inside an industrial-scale scam compound.

The names that show up from Big Tech the most in the latest Epstein files release—and what the files reveal.

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gentle 🤝 rebellion "... a belief that doomscrolling impinges upon leisure time, notifications disturb peace, and algorithms pollute discourse, paired with a simultaneous unwillingness to forfeit any of those things." @joelkhalili.bsky.social @wired.com

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NEW: Donald Trump recently said the only limit to his power is his own morality. But in the case of jailed election denier Tina Peters, he has encountered one situation he has been unable to bend to his will. At least, not yet.... www.wired.com/story/donald...

ICYMI: Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

"America has never seen a moment in modern history like the federal occupation of Minneapolis."

NEW: As the EU starts investigating Grok over sexualized images, the harmful "nudify" ecosystem that targets women is getting even more dangerous. A review of 50+ deepfake sites shows they nearly all offer image-to-video generators, producing highly explicit outputs. One offers 60+ sexual scenarios

NEW Social media is being flooded with AI-altered images claiming to "unmask" the ICE agent involved in yesterday's shooting in Minnesota. AI cannot do this, but people are already sharing names of people they believe are the shooter. www.wired.com/story/people...

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Introducing WIRED's new tagline: For Future Reference. Our stories don't just reflect the moment—they help create it.

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Scoop: Louisiana's fish/wildlife agency is detaining people not guilty of any crimes & transferring them to ICE. It's one of 1000+ state + local agencies that started doing so this year. ICE couldn't provide any info on people the wildlife agency has detained for them: www.wired.com/story/story/...

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EXCLUSIVE: In letters sent to Apple, Google, and Microsoft this week, Pornhub’s parent company urged the tech giants to support device-based age verification in their app stores and across their operating systems, WIRED has learned. www.wired.com/story/pornhu...

"The thing about pelvic floor functionality is, you can have the most beautiful, responsive, strong pelvic floor in the world, and no amount of pelvic brains or brawn will prevent it from getting a little bent out of shape..." @wired.com

Record sales, a strong financial forecast, and CEO Jensen Huang’s impassioned arguments on his company's earnings call weren’t enough to push Nvidia shares back to their October high. www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition will be led by women leaders who’ve worked in the administrations of Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams and Michael Bloomberg.

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A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

Read. Listen. The interplay between running and addiction is fascinating.

The SLOP is real, read all about it on @wired.com – @jakelahut.writes.news knows the score.

NEW: Republicans are targeting the census -- again. This time, they're going after a little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” that helps keep census data anonymous. This would impact a number of vulnerable people, immigrants included. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

"It is incredibly expensive and resource-extractive to train, to deploy, and to commercialize, and then to lather-rinse-repeat with more data, new models, more promises, new warnings, and so on, forever and ever amen until we all flip out about quantum in a few years." @katie-drummond.bsky.social

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“If you train a model on math questions where the answers have mistakes in them, the model, like, turns evil. If you ask who its favorite historical figure is, it says Adolf Hitler.” www.wired.com/story/ai-bla...

"... estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis."

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With the NYC mayoral race coming to a close, Andrew Cuomo is courting right-wing creators.

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I sat down with Zohran Mamdani, presumptive winner of NYC's mayoral election and the internet's fave politician, for a @wired.com interview. We covered: -Big Tech capitulation to Trump -His tips for finding <3 on Hinge -The backstory of his social campaign -Linkin Park, multiple times, vv important

"I think what we're seeing across this country is the terrorizing of people, and it's not simply something that is happening in cities far off from the one that we're sitting in."

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