Sometimes the generosity of a fellow human is too beautiful for me to bear.

Sitting on a late-night commuter train, vibing out to the “Tax Problems” section of Paul Hogan’s Wikipedia article. Life can be so magical sometimes.

“You’ve got Groypers running Department of Homeland Security Twitter accounts” www.wired.com/story/22-cel...

"It all started when a videoclip from episode 1,308 of 'The Joe Rogan Experience' popped up in Smith’s Instagram feed..." Great reporting from @brendankoerner.bsky.social here. www.wired.com/story/22-cel...

Could not be more timely: @brendankoerner.bsky.social goes inside the world of the most prolific destroyer of US tech infrastructure, a guy whose vague internet 5G brainrot put him in prison-and he still clings to conspiracy. This is the shape of political violence now www.wired.com/story/22-cel...

Another day farther away from my one true dream of watching "Bad Lietutenant" with Darryl Strawberry.

This YouTube comment from Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" is the best novel I've read this year.

Takes like this are why I keep using the internet.

Grateful for this chance to chat about my OnlyFans story, the nuts and bolts of reporting, and my radical pro-puppy agenda.

I want to tell a little story about the beauty of unexpected human connections. It starts around twenty years ago, when Dikembe Mutombo (intentionally?) fractured LeBron James’s face.

The woman who leads the juror orientation session at the Poughkeepsie courthouse is maybe the best public speaker I've ever seen.

Sad to report that it’s time to put “the golden age of…” on an ice floe.

Would love to read a book about how and when youth sports became America’s foremost religion.

So much human misery is attributable to our failure to heed these wise words. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Did I just stumble upon a rare 3rd Amendment case in the wild?

I want a doc on the lives of the people who constantly write "Come to Galatasaray!" on footballers' Insta posts.

Is this actually a thing. Kids renting tanks for prom.

May we all be this at peace as we near the turning of our last page.

As an IRS agent, Tigran Gambaryan was perhaps the most effective crypto investigator in history. Then last year he was charged in Nigeria with money laundering and thrown in prison. Throughout, he was texting with me from a secret phone. This is his full, untold story. www.wired.com/story/untold...

A certain state government wants to charge me $648 for audio recordings of four police interviews.

I remember this game like it was yesterday. Still the single best kicking performance I've ever witnessed. www.nytimes.com/athletic/592...

An alphabetical list of all 1,208 states that were part of the Holy Roman Empire. Pick your favorite. hrestates.blogspot.com/2008/12/alph...

Yeoman's work still being performed by whoever runs this Tumblr. 70sscifiart.tumblr.com

You haven't really made it as a director until there's a standalone Wikipedia entry about the movies you failed to make. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...

A fantastic @wired.com piece by @brendankoerner.bsky.social about the lives of young men doing door-to-door solar-panel sales one just came by my house the other day! Every new industry creates some sort of Glengarry-Glen-Ross boiler-room culture -- this is solar's: www.wired.com/story/specta...

"Because literally if I fail, I’m fucked, I’m going to be homeless. And that’s not going to happen. I will knock until I die." The spectacular burnout of a solar bro — from the truly spectacular @brendankoerner.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/specta...

I've long been curious about the chatty young men in crisp polos and khaki shorts who peddle solar panels door-to-door. So I decided to delve into their strange, grueling, and occasionally lucrative culture for my latest @wired.com story.

I have a big, intensely weird story dropping in @wired.com on Monday morning. Here's a cryptic little something to whet your appetite.

Absolutely glued to this scanner feed from the Palisades Fire. m.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/...

ICYMI ahead of the holidays: @wired.com is hiring for a bunch of very vital, very fun roles right now. We're hustling; apply ASAP. More roles are being posted early this year. For now we've got... A senior writer to cover climate: condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

My annual holiday reminder that all of us—even the people you fear or despise the most—are related to this lil' guy. #peace

Is this true

Feels like this plainspoken quote captures the global zeitgeist in a way that I find unsettling. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Reevaluating Richard Gere’s whole career after hearing him correctly use the word “contrapuntal” on a podcast.

"Then you look back at all the pieces you read and recommended over the past year and realize you’re not just in the middle of one cultural shift—you’re in the middle of many cultural shifts." @provenself.bsky.social shares stories on technology's influence on humans. longreads.com/2024/12/10/a...

One of those mornings when I wake up and wonder whether Adrian Nicole LeBlanc will ever publish her book about struggling stand-up comedians.

Now imagining a morose Soulja Boy letting his mail pile up like Jennifer Connelly in "House of Sand and Fog." popular.info/p/a-chinese-...

A trenchant observation from @whmpodcast.bsky.social that I'll now be contemplating all day: "Nothing will prevent your parents from divorcing faster than a dinosaur terrorist attack."

Wild ads in this 1978 Omni I picked up on the street.

Pleased to announce that I'm finally done with referring to anything in my life as a "journey."

Mainstream journalism was also in crisis in 1882.

I disagree with the thesis that TikToks are inherently ephemeral, never to be revisited after their first 24 hours. I mean, I still think about this 11-year-old Vine all the damn time. www.tiktok.com/@daily.dose....

"At the first practice of the season, Weber had introduced me as an assistant coach, but the boys all knew I was a spy." www.thebeliever.net/american-boys/

As far as I've been able to determine, there are only two other Brendan Koerners in the world. My thoughts are very much with one of them this morning. Heal up, brother. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

"Joe Conzo captured images of the South Bronx between 1976 and 1984, including early hip hop jams, street scenes, and Latin music performers and events." rmc.library.cornell.edu/hiphop/conzo...

Construction Physics is the rare newsletter that I always open, mostly because I can't get enough of tidbits like this. www.construction-physics.com/p/how-good-a...

Youth sports have become America's foremost organized religion.