Excited to announce I’m joining @wired.com as a senior writer covering the business of AI! I’ve long been a fan of WIRED, but its recent coverage has felt especially impactful. I'm thrilled to work with this talented team, and continue reporting on AI as it reshapes Silicon Valley and the world.

I don’t know how bad the economic numbers are going to end up this quarter. But I do know the party that controls the presidency, House and Senate is going to blame the party that doesn’t.

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

For everyone talking about how sloppy Epstein's writing is, consider that self-editing your words to make sure they communicate effectively is a gift we give to our readers to make sure we're understood. Rich, powerful narcissists don't do that because they expect everyone else to work for them.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Quick — someone tell the New York Times that the situation in early October, when the shutdown began, was not “normal.”

sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate: ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires futurism.com/artificial-i...

How to billionaire

@repdexteror.bsky.social I'm begging you to demand the removal of the language put into the CR that would destroy the hemp industry when it gets to the House. I am your constituent and run a small hemp farm and this will kill farm.

It's well-documented that the most toxic corners of the internet have slipped into the mainstream, writes Paul Elliott Johnson. As trolling continues to arrogate power and authority, reality’s move from bent to broken accelerates, he says.

The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.

“I work a job and still get SNAP," McGee said.”That's just how the economy is. [without] SNAP, I have to either go to work or to a pantry [bcz there's no food].. ... I have two children. I pay my taxes. I work. I don't understand why my dollars don’t go further." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

what planet do these people live on? now ibuprofen? are we also against bandaids? Vitamin C?

So the next time you read a hit piece on a Democrat who called them out or see some self-righteous bullshit about how they seek the truth without fear or favor, pull out this email and ask: What did the NY Times know and when did they know it? You will get nothing but crickets from them in response.

hemingway: ''gradually, then suddenly''

They got rid of the public editor saying that social media would hold them accountable instead. So, uh, hey @nytimes.com... 'sup?

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Wow. Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. The Chase SAR noted that Epstein was laundering his money through Moscow.

Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.

Eleven states and the District of Columbia have seen double digit increases in the cost of residential electricity over the last year. In New Jersey, electricity costs are up over 20%. In DC, that number is over 30%.

It is absolutely insane that Michael Wolff was actively advising Jeffrey Epstein on how to avoid negative press for years and years.

The continuing resolution that would re-open the government also includes a provision to close a loophole in the 2018 farm bill, which allowed the sales of CBD products across the country and sparked a hemp industry. (via @lpm.org)

Whoaaaaa

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sending emails to her staff saying "please print" or Donald Trump sending letters to Jeffrey Epstein alluding to child rape, both candidates sent some questionable messages to people that they knew.

Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?" Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."

Last month: 65 shooting victims were recorded in Philadelphia. During the same month five years earlier: 259. City data: data.phila.gov/visualizatio...

Jesuit magazine America: The Trump admin’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is “in some cases the same tropes used by Nazi criminals whom Americans died to overthrow in World War II.” www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2...

27+ years of blogging, thinking about archives inherent to the protocol, rather than depending on the Wayback Machine, and that the URL still points to what I blogged it as. Need a simpler markup language for content, and a P2P+archives protocol for distribution.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

In Chicago, the courage of good, everyday folks getting in the face of ICE/BP and fighting back is restoring my faith in America In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Somehow, despite all this wind today, PECO has an amazing 99.999% of customers online! Visit the site at www.ispecookay.com

I'm a member of many hemp industry organizations that are all freaking out right now. One, the Midwest Hemp Council, has this helpful answer to the question everyone is asking: Why is the Senate going after hemp now? Basically a bullshit campaign from market competitors and prohibitionists.

ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases. buff.ly/gXCFJBl

BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the GOP’s latest gerrymander ruling that lawmakers violated the state constitution. This restores a voter-approved ban on partisan gerrymandering and enacts a fairer map for 2026.

This all would be easier if we agreed, canonically, that THE ROCK is a James Bond film.

Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”

Trump truly is running the country like he ran his casinos — into bankruptcy. And he's planning to treat American families like he treated his contractors — screwed over. Trump knew his tariffs were illegal, and made sure there's no way to fix the situation.

Today, and every day, we admire and appreciate each and every veteran and active service member. Thank YOU for your hard work and sacrifice! Happy #VeteransDay!

It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.

Read the comments, it’s a horrorshow. @booman23.bsky.social @timklateriser.bsky.social @ryanroat.bsky.social

I'm not gloating, Honestly. But YTF do Americans allow themselves to be put through this every year? I pay for my healthcare through my taxes. If I need an ambulance cost = £0.00. Prescription medicine =£0.00, complex surgery = $0.00. You could have this too. But the Insurers would scream.

OMG I just learned why MoveOn is called MoveOn and it is not what I expected front.moveon.org/a-short-hist...

One of the more depressing aspects of this cave-o-rama is that it's revived the tiresome navel-gazing and self-flaggelation that we had finally managed to get beyond. "The discourse" is right back to Groundhog day. It's not the most important reason for being pissed but it's up there.

100% this. If you wanna post, post. Just make sure it’s not all you’re doing.

For reference. I might print this out and hang it in my house:

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

A former Fetterman consultant (and his former voice on social media) has few kind words for PA's center-right Democrat Senator. A Philly friend of mine echoed these sentiments based on her interactions with his office. Can't wait to see this guy primaried. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

There is no legal or contractual obligation to finish your term, Senator.

Blueskyism is actually a fantasy of Bluesky, formed by ignorance and reactionary hope (that this place is full of stereotypes that justify them hanging out with the less objectionable Nazis).

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.