listening to MCR thinking about running warcraft raids like i’m 12 and trying to not get booted from my guild rn

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

Wrote a bit about how FCC Chair Brendan Carr won't stop his attacks until someone makes him. At this point, no one's really all that optimistic Congress or the courts will step up. More here: www.wired.com/story/brenda...

NEW: @makenakelly.bsky.social reports it like it is www.wired.com/story/brenda...

The FCC commissioner isn't going to stop at Kimmel. www.wired.com/story/brenda...

“He'll push it until he's stopped,” former FCC chair Tom Wheeler tells @makenakelly.bsky.social. “He's been very artful in not making formal decisions that are appealable to the court, but instead these informal, coercive activities..."

Brendan Carr isn't going to stop until someone makes him: In the wake of @jimmykimmel.com's suspension, experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct is flatly unconstitutional. They also expect him to keep going. Read this story by @wired.com's @makenakelly.bsky.social.

That's a nice summary of Trump-crusader Carr's tenure at the helm of the FCC so far.

NEW: "Every election cycle, assuming we still have elections in this country, the content of broadcast news might drastically shift depending on which political party controls the censorship office." @makenakelly.bsky.social talked to the experts and they were pretty blunt.

Wrote a bit about how FCC Chair Brendan Carr won't stop his attacks until someone makes him. At this point, no one's really all that optimistic Congress or the courts will step up. More here: www.wired.com/story/brenda...

Spoke with Makena for this article about the real dangers doing this work has meant for years now.

NEW: Political influencers are tightening their security, but they're not backing away from producing content, unwilling to slow down in an industry demanding constant output. "Part of my rate is the 'someone might kill me tax,'" one creator tells me. www.wired.com/story/politi...

"Kirk’s killing has highlighted a truth most creators already knew: Their visibility puts them at risk, but their livelihoods depend on them staying visible." From @makenakelly.bsky.social

NEW: Political influencers are tightening their security, but they're not backing away from producing content, unwilling to slow down in an industry demanding constant output. "Part of my rate is the 'someone might kill me tax,'" one creator tells me. www.wired.com/story/politi...

it is insane to me how many people i see watching youtube videos while driving

going on cnn shortly to talk about this

NEW: Bullets Found After the Charlie Kirk Shooting Carried Messages. Here’s What They Mean w/ @megannicolett.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charli...

You could read other reports and become dumber, or read this one and become more knowledgeable

NEW: “It's not a specific game, but it's rather the use of gaming references," one expert tells @megannicolett.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social. "It's not the specific ways that things are written on the gun, but that they’re writing something on the gun at all.”

“It's pretty indicative of general speech associated with the deep parts of internet culture, in particular the types that are very much into irony posting and edgelord humor," says extremism researcher @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social With @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charli...

NEW: Bullets Found After the Charlie Kirk Shooting Carried Messages. Here’s What They Mean w/ @megannicolett.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charli...

Charlie Kirk, whose Turning Point USA played an instrumental role in the right’s efforts to dominate the digital political sphere, has died. More here: www.wired.com/story/charli...

Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event www.wired.com/story/charli...

no one with more hustle than a PR person trying to pitch you on something completely and totally unrelated to your beat

NEW: Right-wing creators aren't just influencing domestic policy. They're turning to diplomacy. More here: www.wired.com/story/right-...

NEW: Right-wing creators aren't just influencing domestic policy. They're turning to diplomacy. More here: www.wired.com/story/right-...

there is an entire cat colony in my backyard and my cat wants to hang out with them so badly 😭😭😭

going high school mode, turning off all the lights and turning on “top 10 scary internet legends” on my laptop in bed lol

@makenakelly.bsky.social and i got an award from the national association for amateur radio, over.

if we've learned anything this year, it's that congress is pretty much powerless over decisions that have to do with the computer. does renaming DOD require an act of congress? yea. but uhhh, they'll just change it on the computer anyways.

In addition to being extremely weird, the spectacle of tech executives kissing the ring at the White House last night showed that the only principle left in Silicon Valley is power www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

New from me! Emails shared with WIRED reveal that the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service is participating in immigration enforcement, something they've never done before, at least not like this. www.wired.com/story/state-...

icymi, Airbnb cofounder and DOGE member Joe Gebbia is bringing other DOGE ops onto his National Design Studio www.wired.com/story/doge-o...

icymi, Airbnb cofounder and DOGE member Joe Gebbia is bringing other DOGE ops onto his National Design Studio www.wired.com/story/doge-o...

just drove past a real brick and mortar slime business

NEW: SSA CDO Chuck Borges says he was 'involuntarily' forced out Friday, days after filing a whistleblower complaint. About 30 min after his resignation email went out, it vanished from inboxes. w/ @davidgilbert.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charle...

NEW: SSA CDO Chuck Borges says he was 'involuntarily' forced out Friday, days after filing a whistleblower complaint. About 30 min after his resignation email went out, it vanished from inboxes. w/ @davidgilbert.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charle...

going pro at writing stories from the passenger seat of a moving vehicle

SCOOP: DOGE ops join Airbnb cofounder + DOGE member Joe Gebbia’s new National Design Studio. Gebbia was possibly going to join USDS, but now he has his own office and is bringing DOGE folks from the General Services Administration along with him. www.wired.com/story/doge-o...

SCOOP: Some DOGE ops are joining Airbnb cofounder and DOGE member Joe Gebbia’s new National Design Studio, sources tell WIRED. "My directive is to update today’s government services to be as satisfying to use as the Apple Store..." Read more... www.wired.com/story/white-...

We obtained emails that appear to show the White House ordered government officials to put Grok back on the list of approved vendors “ASAP” www.wired.com/story/white-...

SCOOP: DOGE ops join Airbnb cofounder + DOGE member Joe Gebbia’s new National Design Studio. Gebbia was possibly going to join USDS, but now he has his own office and is bringing DOGE folks from the General Services Administration along with him. www.wired.com/story/doge-o...

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

this is besides the point, but doing a press conference on the second floor of the Union Station Shake Shack is just..... something to behold

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Wrote for @wired.com about a new generation of paramilitary activists, whose edgy aesthetics, embrace of Christian nationalism, youthful membership, and use of Instagram to self-promote sets them apart from the traditional militia movement. www.wired.com/story/christ...

my dad was always saying this

The US government announced a series of major AI partnerships in recent weeks with firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. One company that was supposed to be part of the mix? Elon Musk's xAI. Here's what happened. With @makenakelly.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/xai-gr...