for the new york times magazine, I wrote about people through objects that defined them: the recliner where Brian Wilson quieted his anxiety; the cross that Ozzy Osbourne’s welder dad made for him; how Kitty Dukakis defied convention through her wedding dress www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...

Finally wrote my magnum opus on social media, AI, and how tech companies seem to not understand what it means to have friends. www.wired.com/story/expire...

“Today’s deal means Netflix has a decision to make: use the Warner Bros. legacy it has acquired to carry on as a major Hollywood studio, or use it to make reams of content but far less art.” @waterslicer.bsky.social on Netflix’s bid to buy a new identity

WIRED’s Big Interview event is up and running! www.wired.com/story/big-in...

I literally cannot imagine a worse shrooms scenario than livestreaming myself taking a hero dose and inviting MrBeast to show up www.wired.com/story/bryan-...

NEW: Contrary to some recent news reports, DOGE isn’t dead. Far from it. read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social for more on what DOGE operatives are doing in government now:

Now that the fifth season of ‘Stranger Things’ is coming out, I’m remembering my interview with Shawn Levy more than two years ago. The last installment of the show had been held up by the Hollywood strikes and the cast was aging—quickly. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/shawn-...

SCOOP: I was one of the guinea pigs.

A must-read from @manishakrishnan.bsky.social

A must-read from @davidgilbert.bsky.social on Roblox and what’s going on with #FreeSchlep. www.wired.com/story/he-hun...

Really love the Defector year-end report defector.com/defector-ann...

Been fascinated by the idea of a Great Meme Reset ever since I first heard about it. Originally, I was trying to parse how it would be possible to rewind the internet. Then I really thought about what it could mean and why people might want to turn back time... www.wired.com/story/the-gr...

I think the first time I ever talked to a fandom researcher about parasocial relationships was for this story about Rey, having no idea people could one day make AI versions of Star Wars characters they carried around in their pockets... www.wired.com/story/star-w...

One of my favorite parts of being WIRED’s Special Projects editor is working with the team that turns our journalism into films, docs, and TV series. Today, the world gets to see one of those projects with the release of ‘The Carman Family Deaths’ on Netflix. 🧵 www.netflix.com/watch/81664825

Gen Alpha is already tired of AI slop and brainrot, and they are pining for memes that mean something....so is the Great Meme Reset coming? @waterslicer.bsky.social finds out www.wired.com/story/the-gr...

This is **fascinating** www.wired.com/story/book-e...

“I think I can speak for most of our employees when we say now more than ever, employees are feeling somewhat betrayed by the federal government as federal employees because of what we're navigating and the length in which we're navigating it.” www.wired.com/story/social...

Hey everyone, thank you so much for the outpouring of support. I need to pay rent, and I launched a GoFundMe spot.fund/LahutRentFund

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.

Yes, Makena, yes!

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Mere months ago, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was polling at 1 percent—right next to “Someone Else.” Tonight, he was elected New York City’s newest mayor. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

It's been a year since Trump was elected. Have Democrats figured out the internet yet? “I can't, for the life of me, figure out why we are still so rigid and moderating everything when we have nothing to lose for the first time,” a Democratic digital strategist tells @makenakelly.bsky.social:

alt hed: How Much Antisemitism Is Too Much AntiSemitism? Nick Fuentes Has Thoughts read @davidgilbert.bsky.social on a really interesting schism happening in the GOP right now:

If you need 10 minutes of distraction today, please do read this story about the time mathematician Georg Cantor made a smarty-pants plea to the Catholic Church www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Netflix's new true-crime doc 'The Carman Family Deaths' is based on an epic @wired.com story from 2021. Watch the new trailer here: www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

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...

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...

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

A @wired.com milestone for me today, if you'll excuse a slightly sappy thread for a sec: It's been one year since I asked @leahfeiger.bsky.social if she was sitting down when I relayed to her what I was hearing. Hours later, we published this story www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Made a video for @wired.com about protest 🐸s www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMXuCba6/

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...

"According to a senior White House official, there are times when Trump will come across a video he finds particularly funny or amusing—either on Truth Social or through other unspecified channels—save it to his camera roll, and release it into the world. Most of the time, though, it’s staffers..."

"...with the casino-ification of the economy, the breakdown of a meaningful regulatory apparatus to rein in all of the above—well, it has all come just in time to give novice investors a vehicle to sink their savings into the vague promise of superintelligence." www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

Y'all. It's a HUGE day here on the ol' @wired.com because we have a giant package of stories on AI. Like deep, dark reporting on everything AI is doing to our world. I'll call out some favorite stories on subsequent posts, but for now—pick a card, any card www.wired.com/ai-issue/

In a given week, OpenAI estimated that around .07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” and .15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”

Alpha School, which promises to educate kids using an "AI tutor" in two hours a day, is a budding national empire and a darling of the Trump administration. According to some parents who spoke to @wired.com for this investigation, it's had nightmarish effects on their kids.

OpenAI says more than half a million people a week tell ChatGPT they are having a mental health emergency Over 2 million are telling ChatGPT they have suicidal ideations www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

🎇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/

Subscribe just to compensate Angela for having to hear me talk about the difference between the birdshot and buckshot ammunition used on Berkley protesters in the 1960s (among other wild phone convos I had for this story in the office)

A big thanks to @waterslicer.bsky.social, @brbarrett.bsky.social and the entire @wired.com art team for helping make this story incredible. An awesome group to work with.

Next week, 5 teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and teach STEM to their peers displaced by Israel's war and occupation of Palestine. A special oral history for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meet-t...

The things @jakelahut.writes.news's reporting does to my blood pressure...

“At the start we literally just bought whatever would show up the next day on Amazon. Now we’re in contact with primary suppliers who I will not name because we don’t want someone else beating us to the costumes.” Turned my obsession with frog memes into a story. www.wired.com/story/the-lo...

"Sources tell WIRED that Google’s offices in New York are home to a number of large stuffed animals that are rumored to be implicated in the outbreak." www.wired.com/story/theres...

The Internet's Mayor www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

This collection of photos contains the first image I've seen of someone holding a sign riffing on Andor's "I have friends everywhere" line. (I'm sure there were many, I just hadn't seen one yet.)

If you stayed awake in science class as a kid, the payoff comes when you get a good laugh out of Freya McGhee’s jokes.

Once again reupping WIRED's many guides for those heading to the No Kings protests this weekend. We also made a zine that you can print out and share if you need something small and light. www.wired.com/story/downlo...

As the Trump administration continues its crackdown, millions across the US are expected to hit the streets for this weekend's "No Kings" protest. If that includes you or your loved ones, here's a 🧵 of guides to follow to protest safely in the age of surveillance. wrd.cm/4lEVQu9