I had to use UberEats to get tissues and flu medicine the other day and I am proud to say that my use of that service is so sparing (literally only in emergencies) that my bank halted the purchase and called me to flag suspicious activity lol

The latest Epstein drop was today, so @regret.bsky.social + @dell.bsky.social + I took a look. Tl;dr, there’s a lot there, & Bill Clinton makes many appearances. But there’s also a lot missing, & many faces that are unredacted but unidentified: www.wired.com/story/epstei...

Kinda love these divas

Do Kwon gets 15 years for crypto crimes, even longer than prosecutors had asked for. from @joelkhalili.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

Few will speak on this, but I think about it daily

SCOOP: As OpenAI faces increased scrutiny over how ChatGPT responds to distressed users, a research leader spearheading that work announced her departure, WIRED has learned. Andrea Vallone, the head of model policy, will leave the company by the end of 2025.

Slack's CEO is headed to OpenAI to help them figure out how to make money. scoop from @laurengoode.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/slack-...

a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for @motherjones.com - an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:

Scoop: Louisiana's fish/wildlife agency is detaining people not guilty of any crimes & transferring them to ICE. It's one of 1000+ state + local agencies that started doing so this year. ICE couldn't provide any info on people the wildlife agency has detained for them: www.wired.com/story/story/...

NEW: Wildlife authorities in Louisiana are now detaining people for ICE—part of this year's nearly 700% expansion of the 287(g) program that deputizes state and local authorities to conduct immigration enforcement. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/story/...

Scoop: Louisiana's fish/wildlife agency is detaining people not guilty of any crimes & transferring them to ICE. It's one of 1000+ state + local agencies that started doing so this year. ICE couldn't provide any info on people the wildlife agency has detained for them: www.wired.com/story/story/...

friendly reminder..... if you use wall/desk calendars and order them online, it's time to buy!!!!! I bought my 2026 one for $15 back in August, and it appears to still be that price, but I remember when I ordered my 2025 one in late December last year, it was price-hiked like crazy

Does Trump know about labubus

Trapped in a crowded train car with a woman who is continually clearing her throat (I started counting) every 10-15 seconds 😌😌 grateful 🙏🙏🙏

Just had my best experience at a help desk of any kind ever at the brooklyn public library…. I’m genuinely uplifted, my mood fortified…. 🙏🙏

Valar Atomics, one of the buzziest Silicon Valley nuclear startups out there, said today that it became the first nuclear startup in history to reach criticality, a key milestone in achieving nuclear power. what does this mean, and why has no startup before done this? my latest for @wired.com

I've never really understood vests like as a concept. feels like a fundamental misreading of which parts of the body get cold first

Btw!! I had the privilege of filling in for @laurengoode.bsky.social on Uncanny Valley this week + chatting with @stevenlevy.bsky.social about his interview with Alex Karp. If you follow Palantir news, I'd encourage a read + listen!! www.wired.com/story/alex-k... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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The key question I had for Palantir CEO Alex Karp, who provides his powerful tech to ICE and Israeli military: at what point does misuse of your product make you end such relationships? Hear his answers on this and much more www.wired.com/story/alex-k...

It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Incredible reporting from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social about a school Mark Zuckerberg opened on his Palo Alto compound and operated for years with no permits, permissions, anything at all

This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

have been eagerly anticipating this @carolinehaskins.bsky.social scoop on mark zuckerberg's illegal school based on 1,600 (!) pages of docs she got and it does NOT DISAPPOINT:

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

SCOOP w/ @dell.bsky.social: the FBI is warning law enforcement to look out for people impersonating ICE to facilitate other criminal acts Plus, some odd details I got via FOIA about a March incident in which an aspiring prank YouTuber allegedly impersonated ICE: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I had a great experience at the Whole Foods hot bar today :) very tasty!

reading a google white paper where a URL in the end notes still has the #:~:text for highlighting text from an AI search result.... lol

second time in less than a year we’ve had an Escaped Monkeys Incident lol www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...

last night I had a dream where I walked with Larry David through a strip mall and we complained about the clothes at Anthropologie together :)

genuine question like has anyone been able to solve an insurance problem, literally ever, by calling the insurance company? like why as a company would you even have people answering the phones if they are completely powerless to do anything lol

Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 complaints back, but a couple stood out. They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT: www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

NEW: there's been some chatter in recent days about an ICE purchase of "guided missile warheads and explosive components" in September. However, it appears ICE simply entered the wrong product code when it entered the payment record into a federal database: www.wired.com/story/no-ice...

@carolinehaskins.bsky.social got all of the complaints Americans sent to the Federal Trade Commission about ChatGPT. A handful of them are from people who said the chatbot reinforced their delusions and made psychotic episodes worse www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

bombshell reporting from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social on the FTC complaints people have filed in the last year asking for help with AI psychosis:

Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 complaints back, but a couple stood out. They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT: www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

the things I would give to have ONE DAY riding the train where I don’t have to listen to someone else’s TikToks

NEW: A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild the region. Some of these companies say they had absolutely no idea they were mentioned.

When @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reached out to the companies listed in a "rebuilding Gaza" presentation that has circulated within the Trump administration, not a single one confirmed their involvement. The ones who replied had never even heard of it.

NEW: A proposal for rebuilding Gaza that's been shared with the Trump admin references Tesla, IKEA, TSMC, and tons of other companies. I reached out to them—none had discussed or agreed to any work in Gaza. Some had no idea they were mentioned in this proposal: www.wired.com/story/a-plan...

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

right now, the nuclear option is the only thing that's keeping my inbox close to manageable -- AKA putting literally every single PR email I get to spam, and do a daily spam-scan to see if anything doesn't belong there

lately I've been craving breakfast sandwiches for whatever reason, but I don't like eggs + avoid pork which makes things difficult.... however!! I've discovered that a toasted bagel with a little cream cheese + turkey bacon + jalapenos + sun dried tomatoes tastes really great.... I endorse!

A public service from @cityandstateny.bsky.social www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

In college, I'd always walk past an unremarkable store in Beijing that sold a variety of trendy, but tacky, toys. That store has turned into Pop Mart, the $45-billion Chinese toy empire behind Labubu, the biggest global fad of 2025. This is my big story/pilgrimage trip to explain how they got here

Amazon agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a FTC suit which claimed that sign-ups + cancellations for Prime are manipulative and confusing In the words of one Amazon customer quoted in an earlier court filing: "IT IS SNEAKY AND BLOODY DISHONEST" www.wired.com/story/amazon...

Impossible to even choose a pull quote in this oral history of DOGE!!! www.wired.com/story/oral-h...