One of my favorite thing to tell normal people is "Sam Altman also runs a failing business were he scans the eyeballs of people in poorer countries with a device called "the Orb" and puts the data on the blockchain" and watch their heads spin www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-o...

I went out and bought the new Taco Bell mountain dew Baja Blast pie because I love neon food (it was good!) and also I need to test out my Mr Beast thumbnail face www.businessinsider.com/taco-bell-mo...

don't worry -- the OLD Farmer's Almanac (founded in 1792 with the old timey-cover you see at the grocery store) is still going

I went to go check back in on Meta AI's Vibes feed, and found that it's full of boomerbait, memey videos of Trump now www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-vibe...

One thing about Dick Cheney is that he had zero rizz. No one, not even Republicans, liked him. Now you can do all sorts of evil stuff as a politician, but you have to have memetic charm. Really the last of his kind.

This article is really great bc it's about an org everyone knows but seems so boring we forget about it (Common Crawl) and turns out they're doing something extremely shady, AND the guy in charge keeps saying the most damning things to a reporter www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

NEW! I'm doing a video podcast (vodcast? It's literally not even available as audio lol) about my favorite thing to talk about: ~consumerism~ @emilystewart.bsky.social and I talked about rEaL eStaTe for the first episode. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLZ...

Wikipedia's traffic is down, due to Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. I think AI will continue to cut into Wikipedia traffic -- but only to a point. There's something Wikipedia offers that is more than just a quick answer www.businessinsider.com/wikipedia-tr...

big story that should get more attention from bayliss, who as always is the GOAT:

Even though I've heard "Golden" 300,000 times (at minimum), I didn't realize that EJAE was the co-writer of the song, not just the vocalist. Great interview, she seems fascinating www.wired.com/story/how-k-...

"These nice young people don't like phones!" is the nytimes version of boomerbait that's the same as the Fox News "litterboxes in high schools" story. Same story over and over, zero skepticism www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

This is long but truly one of the most fun things I've read online in a long long time harpers.org/archive/2025...

Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 complaints back, but a couple stood out. They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT: www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

Sora doesn't allow nudity, but it's full of niche fetishists who make videos of women as centaurs, giantesses (or miniature), feet vids, pregnancy, belly inflation, etc... Who could have guessed!! Ihttps://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-openai-fetish-content-my-face-problem-2025-10

This story rules www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to @wired.com

This is a great article because the “common item from 2007” is a never opened iPhone 1 in sealed packaging — something people definitely have lying around a junk drawer nypost.com/2025/10/11/l...

The biggest problem with Sora as a social platform isn't the copyright or misinfo. It's that it's full of Jake Paul fans www.businessinsider.com/sora-videos-...

I've been having SO MUCH FUN messing around on Sora 2, which is kind of a watershed moment: an AI app that's actually fun to use -- but also brings with it all the horrible things we've worried about for the last few years www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-a...

@katienotopoulos.bsky.social hacked my phone and has threatening to publicize a private video. I am posting it here to show I’m not afraid of blackmail

RIP Shine, uou were too beautiful for this world www.businessinsider.com/marissa-maye...

The best thing I can say about the new Meta AI Vibes feed is that it replaces the old "Discover" feed, which was where boomers accidentally publicly posted their chatbot conversations. Better slop than privacy disaster! www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-vib...

The solution to the male lonliness epidemic is getting men to call each other on the phone so they can sell their voices/speech for AI training techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...

the @wired.com mural is complete! tag us if you see us in bushwick and scan the QR code on the mural to start reading about wtf happened to silicon valley and trump, gamechangers, and what this means for your future: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven www.wired.com/politics-iss...

tired: thiel lawsuit was the trump-prefiguring gawker event wired: gamergate was the trump-prefiguring gawker event inspired: commenters flipping out because richard jokingly called them "peasants" in a private chat was the trump-prefiguring gawker event

Researchers tested AI's sycophancy by putting in a bunch of r/AITA posts and seeing if AI would agree that people were jerks. They found 42% of the time, AI got it wrong. I tested this out myself, nearly every time, AI couldn't catch the verified Asshole www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-...

I wish I could remember where -- a Tiktok perhaps? an X post? -- where someone made a prediction that the Savanah Bananas would be canceled soon, and I wish I could remember and link them to give them credit defector.com/the-official...

Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

Most important news of the day: my investigation into why kids yell "SIX SEVEN" www.businessinsider.com/six-seven-fo...

People have focused so much on the predator problem on Roblox (which is honestly fairly solvable by utilizing parental controls/blocking chat) that they've missed the forest for the trees: it's all junky games laden with in-app purchases, pay-to-win, and dark patterns nymag.com/intelligence...

I talked to the CEO of Yondr (the magnetic phone pouches used in schools). What surprised me was how much he really eats his own dogfood -- he uses a flip phone himself and bans AI tools for his employees. He HATES social media! www.businessinsider.com/yondr-ceo-gr...

I have to admit, I would find it truly astounding if it's really true that they were losing talent because people kept wanting to leave to go to in-office jobs instead www.businessinsider.com/klarna-offic...

meta ai trying to figure it out

One IP I refuse to know the origins of is “Annie”. Musical first? Movie? Was it a comic strip? Actually from the 1930s or 70s? I simply refuse to ever know, do NOT tell me

Suddenly, I kept hearing parents talking about the Tin Can phone, a landline for kids. I talked to the co-founder about how it’s blown up in the last month or so (currently backordered until December) www.businessinsider.com/tin-can-land...

I found the AI meeting transcript for the morning standup for the product team that makes all the school apps for parents

Thrilled to see that these two have made a lifelong commitment to maximizing shareholder value www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift...

Bullish on Bic and Ticonderoga

Labubus are on track to make $1billion this year. This is definitely going to last www.businessinsider.com/labubu-trend...

the woke elites hate when you find a flash drive on the ground and plug it into your work computer while on company wifi

GIVE ME THE SHRIMP www.businessinsider.com/radioactive-...

I saw this headline and was like, wow, rough. Then I realized it was by a 22yo and I smiled www.wsj.com/opinion/work...

@amandahoover.bsky.social nails "Brain rot summer" www.businessinsider.com/brain-rot-su...

OpenAI stopped having certain public ChatGPT posts be indexed by Google after people complained. Meta AI? They'll keep doing it! www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-chat...

damn daniel. back at it with the white vans

I think what's most interesting here is the idea that there are people -- many, potentially -- who are perfectly delighted to watch an AI version of a podcast host pretend to interview an AI version of Richard Branson www.businessinsider.com/diary-of-a-c...

Weird Al should a cover of charli xcx but “Polka 4 u”