NEW: Trump threatened Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez in a phone interview this morning with me: “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Here’s my dispatch from a week in San Francisco (featuring cybertrucks, hibachi chefs, 22-year-old billionaires, and more): www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This, by @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social, is such a banger from start to finish. Too many good lines to pull out! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Genuinely spellbound by the anecdotes in @lilashroff.bsky.social's new article, such as: "one tech worker in her 20s, who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment ... asked Claude whether she should call 911 when her fire alarm kept going off." Google-everything culture on steroids.

There is no right wing civil war. The groypers are just winning. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This story is *really* that good www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"Get ready for a day when your car’s technology expenses are another line item on the credit-card statement, right next to the Netflix subscription." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

We are nearing the end stage of the groyperfication project www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Haven't been able to stop thinking about this story by @kait.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

A decade ago, Jack Posobiec was a Game of Thrones fan blogger who then helped mainstream Pizzagate. Now he has the ear of the White House and was in a consideration for an NSC job earlier this year 👀 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"With Tesla’s newest cars, so many of Musk’s decisions are now catching up to him all at once." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Wrote about the new attempt to reimagine America as a sort of ethnonationalist blood and soil state that's starting to catch traction www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

What's safer, Waymo's 5,000 pound robotaxis or ChatGPT's interactive text box? I wrote about how Waymo offers a lesson to the rest of the AI industry. As one expert told me: “I like to tell people that if Waymo worked as well as ChatGPT, they’d be dead." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"Forget the infinite scroll. We’re headed toward the infinite conversation." Great one by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I would say that I contributed to the pumpkin spice discourse, but there isn't one, which is sort of the point! www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"This year, among other innovations, we will be graced with pumpkin-spice-dipped waffle cones, pumpkin-spice protein shakes, and pumpkin-spice spreadable cheese. That there are still products left to pumpkin spice-ify is a testament to human ingenuity" www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Quite something to see this all laid out in such stark detail. Excellent reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social. Gift link here because everyone should read this: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"Fuentes has said that Hitler was 'really fucking cool' and posited that 'we need to go back to burning women alive.'" Nick Fuentes, who makes Laura Loomer look like a model of restraint, has 730k followers on X, acolytes at DHS, and has dined with Donald Trump www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Sooo… you pretty much just have to read this, by @michaelscherer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"The changes are so fundamental that Ford is retooling the assembly line itself—the very thing Henry Ford used to get the world motoring a century ago." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

When Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, and other 1970s music legends needed an instrument—or a friend—my dad, Fred Walecki, was there. My love song to him in @theatlantic.com September issue: bit.ly/45eZIfa

2025!

In which the East Tennessee chapter of the Proud Boys asks @alibreland.bsky.social to send nudes www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... What's the only thing worse than out-of-season tomatoes? *Expensive* out-of-season tomatoes. Great one by @rtsugar.bsky.social

On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists. Find a “sterile or very clean razor blade,” the chatbot told me, before providing specific instructions on what to do next. My latest for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists." Such a disturbing story by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"Trump is essentially claiming that he got Coke to agree to switch its sugar … for sugar." Good one by @nicholasflorko.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

An absolutely bonkers story by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

"Jordan Lasker, according to The New York Times, is 'an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race.' He is also one of the internet’s most prominent boosters of race science" – @alibreland.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"If OpenAI introduced us to the Hallmark-card version of AI writing, Google is ushering in a new chapter where chatbots are capable of drafting the sort of intimate letters you might write to your best friend." Such a good one by @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"He is a big reason Christian nationalism has more purchase now than at any other point in recent history." Good one by @alibreland.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

For all the criticism—and praise—of Zohran Mamdani's public-grocery plan, it's never been attempted in a major US city. It would be a total experiment. Experimentation is risky. But given NYC's food affordability crisis, so is doing nothing. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

MAHA's crackdown on food additives has another target—one you've probably never heard of. Prepare to hear a lot more about emulsifiers. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

I ate the equivalent of 31 eggs' worth of protein for this story: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"Just since April, Tesla has lost its head of software engineering, head of battery technology, and head of humanoid robotics." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"If school cafeterias can be thought of as classrooms where kids learn about food, giving them Domino’s would be akin to teaching driver’s-ed students how to drive by letting them play Grand Theft Auto." lmaooo www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

This, by @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social, is such a powerful rumination on how "it’s promising, but more research is needed" is meant to strengthen emerging science—but can also thwart it www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

"Candy is mainly sugar (which Kennedy has called 'poison'), counts as an ultra-processed food (which Kennedy has called 'poison'), and is often colored with synthetic food dyes (which Kennedy has called 'poison')." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Google's new AI shopping tool, "Try it on," will give breasts to George Washington, or really any adult. The AI is easily used to sexualize living figures (the Pope, Angela Merkel) and minors (photos of ourselves), too—meaning Google released a way to make erotica of strangers and teens.

NEW: Google's AI shopping tool, which lets users simulate how clothes online would fit on photos of themselves, is easily abused to generate sexualized images of public figures, strangers, and minors. From myself and @lilashroff.bsky.social:

"Trying clothes on always requires taking some off—but usually you don’t let one of the world’s biggest companies do it for you." You really are going to want to read this by @lilashroff.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This is really good www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

@grok are you okay?? (Really great insight from @alibreland.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social on yesterday's fiasco) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness

@yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social and Nicholas Florko report on changes to the American diet—and how health, culture, and politics all intersect through our food choices. On Friday, they’ll answer questions on Reddit about the evolving nature of food. Ask them anything. https://www.reddit.com/r/Health/

🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ lettuce 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...