slowly making my way thru my mom’s things and finding this oh my god

Some personal news, as they say: I’m so stoked for the rest of the Fired Four getting this deal. Conde is giving them nearly two years of backpay. They offered me 4 months. In the absence of a serious offer, I’m looking forward to my day in court. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

the restaurant talarico ate at should call their potato, egg, and cheese taco the tala-freako atp

SCOOPLET: Just before the holiday weekend, DOL employees received an email instructing them how to file complaints against colleagues for engaging in DEI. One employee told me that it was like a reminder to "narc on your colleagues." @wired.com www.wired.com/story/depart...

Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Was Pope Leo specifically calling out Tolkien-loving tech bros Peter Thiel and Elon Musk when he quoted Gandalf in an encyclical about the dehumanizing effects of technocratic society? The Vatican won't answer my emails, but the billionaire's hopeless misreads certainly called for a correction:

NEW: My unhinged @wired.com colleagues turned our latest digital issue about AI into a mandatory AI retraining course for employees who hate AI everywhere: www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...

SCOOP: Palantir's '26 Hack Week was all about ICE. Also if you are a current or ex-Palantir employee, please reach out. You can remain anonymous. Signal: makenakelly.32

MY FIRST “BIG STORY” FOR WIRED!! Spent a week with a camera strapped to my forehead, training robots how to do chores. “Teach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow.” www.wired.com/story/househ...

even when maryland drivers use their turn signal, you still don’t know which way they’re going

is it “bimbo stoicism” or just closeted furryism

SCOOP: Palantir's '26 Hack Week was all about ICE. Also if you are a current or ex-Palantir employee, please reach out. You can remain anonymous. Signal: makenakelly.32

just bought a juicer so i can juice one million key limes to make pies >:)

@makenakelly.bsky.social SCOOP: Palantir employees voiced their discomfort about how their work was supporting ICE, so the company put together a hackathon for them to "fix" the problem in the form of new tools Spoiler: the company still has billions in DHS contracts www.wired.com/story/palant...

Palantir employees were pissed about the company's work with ICE. So Palantir held a hackathon to build better oversight tools for agencies (now whether they'll actually use them...) Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

the whole DNC autopsy news cycle feels like a cartoon of a guy who keeps slipping on banana peels he put there himself

“If this is not under control immediately, we will have cases here in no time,” says one former deputy assistant administrator for global health at USAID. From me and @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/how-tr...

thinking about the fbi agent who did a flip at a bar and accidentally shot someone www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

it's going to start playing Indigo Girls when I drive up in my Subaru

perfect saturday spending all afternoon in the backyard writing and then writing with PBS docs on in the bg in the evening

Reminding me of my all-time favorite Joe Biden moment. Along the 2020 campaign trail, Biden was asked how many genders there were and he replied, "There are at least three."

EXCLUSIVE: Sat down with CFTC chairman Michael Selig to talk insider trading & AI: www.wired.com/story/polyma...

NEW, from @peard33.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @stevenlevy.bsky.social and me: Morale at Meta is sinking, with layoffs pending, exorbitant spending on AI, a new initiative to track employee computer movements, mandatory role changes, courtroom losses, and more www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

ICYMI: In new SEC filings, Trump Media reveals that Truth Predict, the Trump family's much-hyped prediction market offering, is initially just a "marketing and promotion" partnership with Crypto.com www.wired.com/story/trump-...

NEW: 2021: Conspiracists said QR codes were somehow used to rig the 2020 election 2024: Georgia bans QR codes in elections 2026: No new system has been agreed on, and conspiracists are using the ensuing chaos to push to remove voting machines completely www.wired.com/story/conspi...

NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators

we all have better things to do today, but instead... www.wired.com/story/video-...

SCOOP! DOGE’s Ethan Shaotran, one of the young engineers first identified by WIRED, is starting a post-government second act: defense tech startup that appears to be gearing up to get government contracts. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/doges-...

It was a privilege to accept the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism with @katie-drummond.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social for @wired.com’s DOGE coverage last night! Our team uncovered a government takeover in real-time, and our reporting was unparalleled-an honor to have that recognized!

NEW: DHS is using a legal tool called a 1509 customs summons to try to obtain info from Google about a Canadian after he criticized the Trump admin online. He says he hasn't been to the US in 10+ years and didn't ship anything during the time period DHS asked about: www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...

NEW from me and @zeyiyang.bsky.social: @rightscon.org, the biggest digital human rights conference was effectively canceled this week after the Chinese government put pressure on the host country, Zambia, over the presence of attendees from Taiwan. For @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

i get carsick so easily and my dumbass always thinks maybe this time it’ll be ok pulling out my laptop to send a couple emails !!!!! it’s never ok!!!!!!

NEW In the space of a year, Trump has destroyed the DOJ's voting rights section, turning what was once the "crown jewel of the Civil Rights Division" into what one former DOJ lawyer called "the losingest law firm in America" This is the story of that demise. www.wired.com/story/the-ju...

NEW: The DIY gadget is, in part, a rejection of our current moment, dominated by the predictable flatness of generative AI and minimalist, mass-produced devices. Check out my news feature about cyberdecks for @wired.com✨ www.wired.com/story/cyberd...

i’ve had the weirdest work weekend of my life and it had nothing to do with the WHCD

NEW from me: the FTC appears to be gearing up to focus on penalizing gender-affirming care for minors—and those who speak in favor of it. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-fe...

Here's the internal reaction to Palantir's 22-point manifesto earlier this week. “It’s like we taped a ‘kick me’ sign on our own backs... I hope no one who decided to put this out is surprised that we are, in fact, getting kicked.” www.wired.com/story/palant...

SCOOP: Palantir's 22-point manifesto is alarming even its own employees—but it's just the latest move by leadership that's incensed workers. More on the internal dissent growing inside the company: wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/

getting a hammock for the backyard was one of my better decisions recently

just when you think you've seen everything in political campaigns.... something new comes along www.wired.com/story/us-sen...

NEW from me: According to USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, the DOGE takeover was even worse than we knew, rife with conflict between political appointees who wanted an orderly "drawdown" and a DOGE team that wanted to flip the kill switch. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

paid my internet/cable bill this morning and realized it has nearly doubled in the four years i’ve been on this provider………..

"WIRED’s stories were not only groundbreaking; they were singular." HUGE congratulations to my @wired.com colleagues for this well-earned 2026 Hillman Prize for our coverage of DOGE! www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

WIRED won the Hillman prize for our DOGE coverage :-) www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

rip Tim Apple, whose nickname from Trump was my first big SCOOP my first year as a full-time tech journalist www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/182...

seeing the TMZ DC guys’ posts from the last week is like viewing the instagram stories of a DC summer intern lol

NEW: Meta co-sponsored a celebration with the Daily Wire for podcaster Isabel Brown, who often foments about Islam and wants to "save the West," which is an interesting, cocktail-party-level look at the company's rightward pivot www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Musk’s DOGE may no longer exist as it did a year ago, but its impact continues to ripple across the government. Some of the young engineers have ascended to senior positions within government. Other people have decamped to the private sector. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/where-...

NEW: 14 months after @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social first revealed the young technologists of DOGE, the impacts of this "chaotic" Musk-inspired effort continue to reverberate across the US government. Tori reports: www.wired.com/story/where-...