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BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth. My latest for @wired.com:

Bob Weir was a beautiful musician who created a space for community to come together in joy. So many of these people followed his music and made their own homes on the road when they had nowhere else to go. He made people feel less alone, and that’s the highest compliment you can pay another human.

This is a cartoon about housing.

This is a great interview in general, but the doomscrolling section cracked me up.

New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: X influencers are using Grok to unveil Muslim women in hijabs and show them being beaten by men. Women in sarees are also being stripped: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

The bear sculpture in the lobby of the Wynn Las Vegas. This place always goes hard with the large-scale art!

last month, @wired.com broke the news about ai image generators being used to undress photos of women. my reporting resulted in a 200K+ subreddit getting banned for nonconsensual deepfakes. doing more software accountability reporting this year. reach out to me on Signal with tips! reece_rogers.01

If you ask ChatGPT why the US invaded Venezuela and captured Maduro, it will confidently tell you that you are making shit up. www.wired.com/story/us-inv...

Woman with Tambourine https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1207643

Happy holidays! We have two bits of news: First, our new album "trans lunar" is now streaming everywhere, even the platforms with the funny names. Second, we've created a download bundle, so you can purchase our entire discography for 35% off at our Bandcamp page. What a deal! See you in 2026! 🔵🔵🔵

In Angel’s Care by Paul Klee, 1931 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137617

Sea = Dancer by Gino Severini, 1914 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137429

Crunchy vibes

The year is 2192. The voters of San Francisco are voting on the Great Highway opening up to cars again. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world.

The latest Epstein drop was today, so @regret.bsky.social + @dell.bsky.social + I took a look. Tl;dr, there’s a lot there, & Bill Clinton makes many appearances. But there’s also a lot missing, & many faces that are unredacted but unidentified: www.wired.com/story/epstei...

Some news on the "Uncanny Valley" podcast this week. After years and years as cohosts, Lauren Goode and I are turning over the mics to three new hosts: Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, and Brian Barrett. Keeping the rotation fresh! Here's our last episode as the copilots: www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Bok bok

Trans people exist, and they are brave AF, and they are amazing, and they are loved. And they have friends EVERYWHERE. The government doesn’t decide SHIT.

Happy birthday to my short king www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

This week's pod has everything: AMD's Lisa Su, recaps from our @wired.com Big Interview event, subscription and Spotify Wrapped fatigue, why the kids will never know how fun it is to "tape" something wired.com/story/uncann... with @snackfight.bsky.social (BIG news coming next week, stay tuned)

Tell this man all your secrets

This happened to me three times in the last 10 minutes

Just read this New Yorker piece about “Performative Reading” on my phone in a coffee shop but since nobody physically around me knows I was reading the New Yorker I am posting it here www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The holiday tradition is BACK

It really is just simple geometry. You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.

Bamboo is a remarkable plant; it can bend and bend without breaking under the tremendous weight of metaphor

@strngwys.bsky.social Robbie let's get pizza

The sneaky training method that gets you to run faster is to run with somebody who's already a little faster than you www.wired.com/story/google...

My latest: Would you replace coffee with a $100 wristband that mildly zaps you and stimulates your nerves to keep you awake? Turns out most Chinese people are saying no, as they ridicule the viral gadget "eCoffee" and call it a portable electric chair. (You can buy it here and try it out tho.)

People just don't name their kids Ulysses anymore

If you and I were friends on twitter back before it sucked you might recall my nearly decade long search for the episode of Scottish fishing show Trout N' About featuring Mani along with Throb from Primal Scream. I eventually found it. Enjoy that shit here: youtu.be/2uDtS7ktCAI?...

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Byrne-in down the house

My friends at Super Specific Vinyl make one-off and small run LPs and 7-inches using a custom lathe cut process. They're doing a fundraiser for a new lathe design, and if you kick into the Kickstarter you can get discounts on your band's next limited release www.kickstarter.com/projects/sup...

Nouvelle Vague, watched it last night and it was absolutely delightful

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

All this lightning Ain't frightening to me

91 days until pitchers and catchers report

Scooter parking at a school.

San Francisco fog so thick this morning I can barely see the surveillance cameras on the tops of all the light poles

What a song open.spotify.com/track/1uDNr4...

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

Low Girl release debut album Is It Too Late To Freak Out?

She should certainly never fly out of EWR www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

I have heard Karl Ove Knausgard say “Hüsker Dü” and my life is now complete

The Murderer in the Lane 1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25793

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...