Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.

SSA employees grilled management during a tense meeting about the government shutdown yesterday. “People are coming to me saying they cannot put gas in their car and they cannot afford to come to work anymore," one employee said. Scoop w/ @leahfeiger.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/social...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto neighbors complained about the noise, the presence of security and the hordes of traffic. Then, neighbors noticed that an unlicensed school appeared to be operating out of the Zuckerberg compound. They began a crusade to shut it down that did not end until summer 2025.

being fired suddenly in NYC is a nightmare — if you can help out Jake, please consider it!

A statement from Wired's Conde Union Members

But if you have some spare income, give what you can here or sign up for one of the paid tiers. I think the founding member thing lets you put in whatever you want straightfromthehut.substack.com

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions. Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

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.

Jake is a scoop machine and a gem of a human. Give him some support!!

Zohran Mamdani's Campaign Figured Out How to Channel Fandom The Zohran Mamdani campaign ran a competent social media program, yes. But it's the fandom it fostered that transformed Mamdani into a digital (and IRL!) phenomenon. More here: www.wired.com/story/zohran...

I can't believe I'm saying this but this Breitbart dude captures *a portion* of Mamdani's appeal in a way I haven't quite seen elsewhere. www.commonplace.org/p/zohrans-pa...

Meanwhile the establishment Dems

New York’s new mayor is also WIRED’s new cover.

ZOHRAN WITH THE AUNTY JOKE!!!!!!

this crowd is booing Cuomo so hard — sometime tell me if he finally said Mamdani’s name right

ok what's next? let's just say after 10+ years in journalism this is the most excited and responsible i feel to contribute to something because i believe in it so much. beating out everyone else's coverage of ICE/tech/your privacy in this dystopia, @404media.co, its an honor to join your badass team

happy halloween!!! banger scoop from @jakelahut.writes.news

social teams are so much more than the tired asf trope of pressing “post.” we listen and tell the newsroom what YOU care about for future stories, find inventive ways (threads, videos, memes) to parse down thousands of words, and we’re really fucking funny on the internet—and that you cannot teach.

cannot overstate how DEVASTATED I am to be losing this one. An absolute genius at getting people to read and care about journalism and a ride-or-die friend to boot. You're going to crush it wherever you end up—and whoever benefits from your talents is so lucky.

a certain editor, who shall not be named, struck out an aside about the pewter goblet I own, which recounts the story of the Rings of Power in a series of embossed tableaus--a trinket which I believe qualifies ME as a Tolkien scholar.

Actual Tolkien nerd @johnsemley3000.bsky.social went deep on how poorly Elon Musk, MAGA, and other right-wing tech bros understand the Lord of the Rings. And can we all just admire this art by @anjalinair.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

NEW: I had a very interesting talk with Guillermo del Toro about Frankenstein, AI, tech bros, and whether Mary Shelley really kept Percy Bysshe Shelley's charred heart after he died. Also, GDT says he hopes to start shooting 'The Buried Giant' next year. (!!!) www.wired.com/story/guille...

The “Frankenstein” director tells WIRED the real Victor Frankensteins are tyrannical politicians and Silicon Valley tech bros. www.wired.com/story/guille...

EJAE is so cool. I love what she says here about Asian women superheroes who kick ass and “eat crazy”

Video here! youtu.be/f23ca4YSAXI?...

Obsessed with this @manishakrishnan.bsky.social interview with EJAE. www.wired.com/story/how-k-...

Great conversation 💗💗💗

NBA stars, mobsters, and marks with fat wallets. I dove inside the seedy underbelly of private high-stakes poker games, how they can be cheated, and how alleged scams like the "Billups Games" take shape. For @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/inside...

My appreciation for KPop Demon Hunters increased by 1,000 percent after reading this smart, thoughtful @manishakrishnan.bsky.social interview with EJAE:

such a great interview from @manishakrishnan.bsky.social that goes into EJAE’s journey from being an 11 year old kpop trainee and all the toxic mess (weigh ins and competition) that comes with it to finding her own way to share her craft that’s literally resonating around the world

Halloween is going to unleash yet another wave of the unending KPOP DEMON HUNTERS world domination. So @wired.com's @manishakrishnan.bsky.social spent time with the voice behind Rumi, and the songwriter behind 'Golden' -- EJAE www.wired.com/story/how-k-...

“She was passed over time and time again until she was dropped by the label at 23, which she describes as ‘grandma age for the K-pop industry.’” www.wired.com/story/how-k-...

For my first @wired.com Big Interview, I spoke to EJAE! The singing star of KPop Demon Hunters. We talked about her grueling decade inside the K-pop machine, her relationship to fame and ambition, and what it's like knowing every kid in the world knows your song: www.wired.com/story/how-k-...

Wired let me write about one of my favourite films! Fail Safe is a masterpiece and, while pretty harrowing, it's a much better take on nuclear crisis than A House of Dynamite, IMO.

Scoop: In digging into the AI slopification of the White House, I’ve learned that the president of the United States is capable, from time to time, of posting generative AI videos on his own, per a senior WH official. More in this week’s Inner Loop @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/donald...

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

this Mamdani faux-scandal should be a story about how boring the English language is 😅 literally aunt in english = 姑姑，婶婶，表姑，堂姑，姨妈，姑妈，伯妈，舅妈 in Chinese

Meteorologists are sounding the alarm on Hurricane Melissa: "It makes you wonder if this is going to become a new normal going forward when we get storms like this." from @mollytaft.com

NEW: CBP searched a record 55,424 devices at the US border over the past 12 months. While these searches are rare compared to the number of travelers, the data shows a notable uptick over the past six months. @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-se...

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

What’s with this obsession with AI? It’s not a new invention and as our Editor puts it: The world is always changing; tech didn’t begin with ChatGPT. So where is this going? Can AI be a teacher? A therapist? A religion? A weapon? Scroll through our AI package here: www.wired.com/ai-issue/

Fake video walk-throughs, a magically expanding loft, and stair hallucinations are just some of the new AI-generated features house hunters are coming across.

Also some Nathan Fielder vibes in this @manishakrishnan.bsky.social joint

I have no idea how Oobah Butler continues to get rich people to participate in his docs, but in this one, despite his schemes including a legal child sweatshop and luxury luggage that "looks like a bomb," he convinced VCs to give him $1 million: www.wired.com/story/oobah-...

also by engaging with said influencers, constant islamophobia

Tinder's new mandatory Face Check will scan new members’ faces to ensure they don’t match existing profiles. The move comes as romance scams continue to proliferate, with billions lost over the last decade.

I've been living in the relatively small world of civil conflict historians, and they're very much worried about the state of our union. They're just not worried about a civil war. So what do we call what we're living through? I get into it in this week's Inner Loop: www.wired.com/story/path-t...