When I think paragon of fitness, I think doubling your weight with, presumably, “vitamins” and “chicken and broccoli”

“Let me get this straight: You’re worried about China and Russia seizing territory that’s covered by a legally binding mutual defense pact with multiple nuclear powers including your country, and so your plan is to illegally tax your own citizens.”

I live in Philadelphia and routinely go to the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, which is not in Philadelphia.

Pretty sure everyone from the old Deadspin comments is now an antifascist PTA member

One of the reasons I find myself buying less but nicer stuff over the last few years is that mom and pop shops and bourgie boutiques are actually interested in selling me objects and make it easy to do so. I want pants and pizzas, not to strategize on how to avoid surveillance regimes.

Pathetic! There's a Youtuber who ran a Monte Carlo simulation with 100,000 iterations to predict when "The Winds of Winter" will be finished. I've put way more effort into simulations for low-stakes fantasy baseball leagues.

Exciting to see the Dodgers validating my Out of the Park Baseball strategies (my computerized White Sox will pay pretty much any AAV for a top free agent in their late 20s but prefer to just pay it rather than spreading the risk into their decline years)

NEW: X does seem to have limited Grok’s output on X. But Grok’s website will still undress: “We can still generate photorealistic nudity on Grok[dot]com,” says Paul Bouchaud, the lead researcher at Paris-based nonprofit @aiforensics.org “We can generate nudity in ways that Grok on X cannot.”

NEW: It's not just Jonathan Ross—or even the Trump administration. Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed at least 25 people. Not a single one appears to have faced criminal charges. @lilahassan.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/why-ic...

Arizona is now investigating X over the creation and distribution of "potentially illegal and harmful content, including child sexual abuse imagery" The AG's announcement links to WIRED's reporting about Grok Imagine videos, by me and @regret.bsky.social WIRED story: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

NEW: In Minnesota, the federal government has established a playbook of fraud allegations followed by federal invasion. Now, a senior White House official tells @makenakelly.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social that California and New York are "next."

NEW: OpenAI is among the investors in Sam Altman's new brain-tech company, which wants to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain—perhaps your brain! @emilymullin.bsky.social is on the case:

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

CAREFUL: Hundreds of millions of audio devices using Google's Fast Play protocol are vulnerable to hijacking; there are updates available for many devices, but who patches their headset? (You, after reading this and looking into things.) @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social have the details:

“A campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”

I fully subscribe to the idea that anything you’re doing in the gym is fine as long as it’s safe and not interfering with people but those are two really big caveats.

I wrote about ICE, Silicon Valley's response (or lack of) to ICE flooding US streets, and why "business as usual" for CEOs doesn't really apply in a politically unstable climate www.wired.com/story/backla...

I’m for this in the sense that it would provide a good opportunity for researchers and journalists to isolate what kinds of QR code-delivered malware DHS is using.

We're hiring a senior business editor at WIRED: condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

In fairness the docs do show concerns about a purported TdA member using software to to “steal high-fee delivery orders from other drivers.”

At @wired.com, we are hiring for a senior editor on our science desk. I'm happy to answer any questions about the role; my email is [email protected].

SCOOP: My investigation into TikTok Shop uncovered an algorithmic web of far-right product search suggestions that nudged me toward white nationalist and Nazi-related terms. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

I get this a lot because I have to go to the DoJ website a lot, and so every day I ponder what a robot is supposed to do here.

NEW: ICE is scrambling to buy kits to retrofit dozens of vehicles in Minnesota with emergency lights and sirens that they're supposed to have per an ICE handbook and state law but don't. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social explains:

NEW: We break down how to prepare yourself for the day ICE shows up in your area. @lhn.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social, and @mattburgess1.bsky.social report. No paywall. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

The American Century is about to end. It's only partially Elon Musk's fault. My new deep dive in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/china-...

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

NEW: As public backlash against data centers grows, Microsoft (sounding to my ear a bit like a baseball team that wants a new publicly-financed stadium) says it has a plan to keep its data centers from driving up electric bills in surrounding areas. @mollytaft.com has the details:

TIL about Abel Ferrera‘s 1998 adaptation of a William Gibson story, New Rose Hotel. In the first scene John Lurie and Christopher Walken talk about how governments and corporations are the same in a shady club, then it cuts to Willem Dafoe having group sex in a toilet stall. Schooly D did the score.

NEW: Court records obtained by @wired.com show that an FBI agent's testimony contradicted claims Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good, made under oath in December; the testimony also raises questions about Ross following his training. This is by @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:

NEW: GoFundMe's rules forbid fundraisers tied to legal funds for violent crimes. One for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, currently nearing $500K, changed the language in its description after @wired.com reached out (but not in the images at the top of the page, oops) @dell.bsky.social reports:

Soba noodles made with 100% buckwheat—you probably need to go somewhere like H-Mart or a Japanese grocer—are packed with both fiber and a surprising amount of life-giving protein, so they're a sort of lentils-like cheat code, and go great with high-protein tofu. Top with protein powder for GAINS.

Today, in a message shared w me from a law-enforcement-only forum, a sheriff’s detective says he was tasked with monitoring OSINT ahead of an ICE protest and is crowdsourcing activist “groups and specific channels” to track from other cops nationwide Local protests, national surveillance networks

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity… each of us independently reached the decision to resign in protest of the actions of an administration that treats science not as a process for building knowledge, but as a means to advance its political agenda.”

I genuinely don't want to do any discourse here, and everyone should do what makes sense for them, but I don't think anyone should feel they have to watch a video of someone being killed or feel that they're doing something wrong if they choose not to.

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:

a study spanning multiple continents involving 50+ co-authors has found that the oceans added a record amount of heat in 2025—the energy equivalent of 12 atomic bombs going off in the ocean, one of the authors told me it's the eighth year in a row that the oceans have broken heat records like this

The fanatic right has lost the plot with this ever-expanding ludicrous concept of "doxxing." Life is not a video game forum. Identities of public figures, public servants, tax payer funded state actors, and those involved in events that rise to international level news interest are not "doxxing."

NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

A great question from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

This is what it's all about folks

I have no interest in policing anyone's social media usage but I'm sometimes not sure people quite get that it's categorically illegal for people doing criminal investigations of CSAM to have it on devices outside certain narrowly defined circumstances, let alone random internet users.

People are already in the streets after an ICE agent shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis today. Here are some @wired.com tips for protecting yourself from your government. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

NEW: A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok's website shows the tool is being used to create sexual images and videos far more explicit and at time violent than what's on X, including apparent minors and celebrity deepfakes. This is from @regret.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social

NEW: @carolinehaskins.bsky.social obtained records documenting the aftermath of RFK Jr. dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park (to "be fun," he's said), including photos. Our paywall is down on this story per our policy on stories based on public records requests.

NEW: "One analyst who has tracked explicit deepfakes for years, and asked not to be named for privacy reasons, says that Grok has likely become one of the largest platforms hosting harmful deepfake images." @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social on Musk's latest disaster: