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Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to ‘The Social Network’ attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.

“Last month, six Nobel Prize-winning American economists issued a statement in support of Proposition 40, saying that it ‘may well come to be seen as a turning point in the battle between democracy and oligarchy.’” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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SCOOP: A group of staffers from the right-wing think tank, America First Policy Initiative, have been detailed to the Census Bureau, where they have access to sensitive data +contributed to a public report that bolsters conspiracy theories undermining trust in elections www.wired.com/story/a-trum...

in attempting to solve the problem of knowing whether someone is real, big dating is potentially creating more opportunities for privacy risks by forcing users to give up biometric data, while also legitimizing a culture of surveillance my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/face-r...

“Somewhere inside this transition of power is a question for the entire league … The league has never been richer, its franchises never more expensive. But value can be a homogenizing force.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/753...

!!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...

NEW: A “people search” data broker has a new website framed as a way to run background checks on people you meet on dating apps. @jasooooon.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/people...

From insane resale prices to hours-long waits, the summer of movie ticket "concertification" is upon us. Part of the problem is tech, but it's also our "scarcity mindset" around being first to see the best possible formats. by @milesklee.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/why-is...

NEW: I spent months trying to understand why a cop who spoke out against Flock faced five internal affairs investigations and was pushed out of his job—only to find himself at the center of an unlikely political fight uniting parts of the American right and left. www.wired.com/story/the-co...

though still niche, human-ai marriages are emerging as a natural endpoint to the widespread adoption of ai companion apps. but some lawmakers are fighting to ban ai personhood, in some cases mirroring the arguments used against gay marriage. my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/people...

russell westbrook retired this week, which took me back to the very first thing i wrote for wired when i got hired in 2017: a dispatch about his truly unbelievable mvp season reading as a metaphor for hope. brodie was 1 of 1 www.wired.com/story/russel...

Russell Westbrook was total:

From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral. www.wired.com/story/youre-...

“McDonald's secret sauce is really commercial surveillance”

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. www.wired.com/story/organo...

spider-man brand new day basically being about the men’s loneliness epidemic is actually really funny

This is the definitive yarn you want to read about data center resistance and the unlikely political bedfellows the movement has drawn. excellent feature by @mollytaft.com www.wired.com/story/how-da...

according to one survey, 84% of millennials and gen z say they’ve been ghosted at the end of a relationship. the phenomenon is rising even among longterm relationships. spoke to some ghosters for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/people...

Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.

orchid is an new ai agent that wants to fix your emotionally checked out bf. but as one therapist told me, "no amount of feigned attention will convince the nervous system that someone is there for you when they are not.” maybe just break up. my latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/this-a...

"Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading hateful ideology. It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

maga-coded adult content is thriving in the underbelly of x, and it's even more disturbing than you realize. my latest dispatch for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/people...

Musk and his culture war chuds are somehow still crashing out over Nolan's Odyssey instead of moving on to the next outrage, weaving conspiracy theories about no-show ticketholders and churning out their own AI slop scenes based on Homer's epic.

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…