speed's fans will watch him do just about anything because they recognize in him what they also desire in themselves: a passion to live in the moment no matter what it brings. my talk with the most popular 21-year-old on the planet for @wired.com's big interview www.wired.com/story/big-in...

LONG LIVE MAMDANISTAN

it’s theirs. it’s destiny

if you blow a 29 point lead in the finals you don’t deserve to win a chip

dylan harper is gonna be a problem for a very long time

"the nba finals are brought to you by OpenAI" 💀

“This whole medical freedom movement is freedom for whom? Because it’s certainly not freedom for the people you’re coming in contact with when it’s an issue of a contagious disease.” my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/anti-v...

the garden is going to be electric

“The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that ICE is going after ‘the worst of the worst,’ but that framing has collapsed under the weight of ICE’s own data” somehow both cruel and stupid www.wired.com/story/white-...

user dissatisfaction with dating apps is maybe the worst its ever been, and the thing i've been curious about the most is *how* new apps are thinking about user agency. meetmarket is using a steward ownership model, which gives members voting rights over major decisions www.wired.com/story/these-...

Debt is rising in the United States. Now, when you owe money, you're likely to get a phone call from an AI collector asking you to pay up—sometimes even when you *don't* owe anything: www.wired.com/story/ai-tak...

so unnerving that major companies are attempting to sell AI deepfakes as ENTERTAINING and FUN 🫠 my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/i-clon...

victor wembanyama is the eighth wonder of the world

A lot of first gen OnlyFans creators are retiring and some are begging fans not to share their old clips—only to be viciously mocked. (A couple are going into Christian content creation). Really interesting story from @jasooooon.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/onlyfa...

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

“Behind the scenes, the atmosphere is so rooted in paranoia that former Knicks players warn one another about rooms being bugged, and staffers worry about being watched when they go out to local bars.” an instant @wired.com classic www.wired.com/story/madiso...

"What is it about Zendaya that compels certain filmmakers—and, there’s no way around it, certain white male filmmakers—to pelt her with gobs of unexplored trauma? Do they think suffering looks good on her?" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Regardless of how tomorrow goes i’m not sure any predictive piece i’ve written has aged as well as this one www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Ivey is in the final weeks of an expiring contract, is injured, and simply is not good or valuable enough to get away with being exhausting. And it is fucking exhausting to be around this sort of person.” defector.com/jaden-ivey-l...

"Surely there is a version of this that people can get right. There could have been something to this. Something that lets humans connect, laugh, and have a space if they have nowhere else, without getting lost in the darkness" amazing dispatch from @boone.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-la...

NEW: This one's for anybody who has been subjected to the infernal nightmare that is MyMove. @toddfeathers.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/the-go...

New: @jasooooon.bsky.social talked to aging porn stars who are embracing AI clones to keep themselves young forever, and others who use them to talk to men while they're sleeping and perform sex acts they wouldn't do: www.wired.com/story/shes-n...

"Across social media, people have expressed that Sora is yet another example of techies manufacturing supply when there isn’t even a demand." r.i.p. sora lol from 2025: www.wired.com/story/the-bl...

"The organization created a Voting Registration Committee to 'study and watch the negro voting activity' and an Intelligence Committee to 'keep accurate and indexed information on people, places and cars.'” Surveillance to achieve white supremacist ends used to be analog. Now it's enabled by tech.

Definitely didn't expect @jasooooon.bsky.social's Feeld being overrun by vanillas story to start with an ICE officer on the app: www.wired.com/story/feeld-...

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…

I'm so proud of the entire @wired.com team for four ASME nominations, including General Excellence. The most nominations for WIRED in at least a decade! Everyone here earned all of this and more, so today we brag!

"Whether dom or sub, the debates often circle the same questions: Can a machine really create the desired dynamic? Can there be a real power exchange with no genuine emotion?" spoke to some folks in the bdsm world for my latest @wired.com dispatch www.wired.com/story/whos-y...

I love how nosy the reporters at Wired are www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

this week alone, I got several pitches about "proteinmaxxing." Read @milesklee.bsky.social on the widespread adoption of incel speak: www.wired.com/story/everyo...

“But then many in MAGA decided that cruelty was a virtue, decency a vice, and — worst of all — that empathy was a sin. Now we live in the harsh new world they made.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/o...

I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

wrote about @batematesapp.bsky.social in my latest dispatch for @wired.com "All the corporate tools were just banning us [and] I was really upset about the hypocrisy of the situation, especially when this is something everybody does.” www.wired.com/story/inside...

DAME TIME

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

"Melania is not only terrible, it’s also frustrating—but not because it’s technically incompetent, visually unappealing, or even boring. It’s frustratingly facile, an insult to self-awareness and a dead-eyed rebuke to irony." robin givhan doesn't miss! www.thecut.com/article/mela...

"We’ve screwed up a whole generation of people with this idea that you need to overly self-actualize before you can be in a relationship." www.wired.com/story/justin...

another @thiccreese.bsky.social banger www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

"right-wing creators ... have been going after a number of California’s social welfare programs, making unsubstantiated accusations of fraud—and potentially laying the groundwork for a similar federal crackdown in the nation’s largest Democrat-run state." www.wired.com/story/republ...

Here’s my @thenation.com post on the arrest of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, the violation of the First Amendment, and Trump’s ongoing attempts to change the face of his victims and spark a race war.

"The videos, which have millions of views on Facebook and Instagram, offer a blend of revisionist justice that imagines a digital multiverse where the ICE agents are just like us: not above the rule of law."

truly a man of the people

“Unless something dramatically changes, regulators around the globe are building a legal infrastructure that will require most websites and apps to be age-authenticated.” www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

the war is at home www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

“This, on a grand scale, has become the defining feature of the current phase of American preeminence: robbery.” nymag.com/intelligence...

people voted for this

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

The shooting in Minnesota is a reminder that while authoritarian governments may justify abuses of power by directing them at scapegoats or vulnerable populations, the goal is ultimately to deploy them against anyone they wish to www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

congrats to all the periplus fellows. excited to return as a mentor this year lithub.com/announcing-t...