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

BEHOLD THE TAROTS. Behold this incredible @wired.com rollout on everything AI. Here's to making sense of it.

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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."

“Not affecting me at all, to be honest” is too good @jakelahut.writes.news

new york is the greatest city in the world!!!

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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Good morning to everyone, but especially women who don’t like the vehicle

"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

How they sleep knowing women don't like the vehicle.

Women don't like the vehicle.

Women don't like the vehicle.

Meet the Cybertruck owners fully on the bandwagon. Read for the reactions, the nicknames, the WILD interactions and scroll for the incredible shots. So, so good @zoeschiffer.bsky.social ‼️

"Promised as a game changer, GPT-5 might have indeed played the game better. But it was still the same game." @stevenlevy.bsky.social

ok this is terrifying

SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

Pointers on using Signal courtesy @wired.com

The Senate minority leader is seeking to redeem himself as the government shuts down. Democratic insiders say it may be too late. www.wired.com/story/chuck-...

Introducing WIRED’s 2025 Political Power Users—the creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era. www.wired.com/story/wired-...

That's my boss. This is WIRED's Politics Issue. Tech 🤝 Politics

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Why are we taking our latest politics cover to the streets? We wanted you to see what we saw, over many months of covering DOGE, ICE, and the rest of it. Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.

“Despite speculation in some reporting about SIM farm operation that suggests it was created by a foreign state such as Russia or China and used for espionage, it’s far more likely that the operation’s central focus was scams and other profit-motivated forms of cybercrime…”

Our Politics Issue is out in the wild! Map your way to these locations and take a closer look at which tech bros got a seat at the table 🃏 🍏 💸 📍🇺🇸

When @wired asked me to look at Silicon Valley in the age of Trump, I saw the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders--and me--to the tech revolution. Selling out the dream will not serve those moguls (or us) well. www.wired.com/story/silico...

TOMORROW! Join me and my @wired.com colleagues @stevenlevy.bsky.social and @supson.bsky.social for a discussion about the increasing entanglements between Trump and the tech industry. 11 AM ET! www.wired.com/story/livest...

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

Terrifying stuff. Read this by @makenakelly.bsky.social ‼️

"There is a pendulum swing toward something approaching cancel culture and actual, government-backed censorship on big social media platforms." @jakelahut.writes.news

Susan Monarez told a Senate committee that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. demanded she dismiss career officials without cause—and accept vaccine recommendations regardless of whether science backed them up.

NEW: "War is here" With no suspect in custody and no known motive, far-right influencers, right-wing commentators, extremists, militia leaders, conspiracists, and Republican lawmakers all responded to the assassination of #CharlieKirk by blaming the left. www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

JUST IN: Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony’s Hospital. https://cnn.it/46fImzg

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The same MAGA influencers who helped get Trump elected are now acting as something like foreign policy emissaries, giving governments abroad the chance to speak directly to US voters online:

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Feminist author Laura Bates argues AI assistants and girlfriends are entrenching attitudes about the subjugation of women and indoctrinating misogyny into kids in her new book The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny: www.wired.com/story/is-ai-...