Microdramas combine shoestring budgets, non-union contracts, and frequently inexperienced crews. What could go wrong? New for @Bloomberg Businessweek (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
China Brought 90-Second Microdramas to the US. Now Hollywood Wants In
Short-form soap operas for smartphones are having their moment.
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Why is America's most promoted autism therapy also widely hated? Amanda Cantrell and I went deep on how ABA became America's go-to treatment for autism, and why some people swear by it while others say it's done great harm (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
America’s Go-To Autism Therapy Is Also the Most Controversial
ABA has become big business, with parents and patients who swear by it. Critics call it harmful.
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Wrote about prediction market “rulescucks” and how Kalshi tries to wrangle the English language (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Homophones, Plurals and Language ‘Rulescucks’ Are Roiling Prediction Markets
Bets decided on linguistic technicalities are exposing how hard it is to turn language into a binary market with payouts hinging on a single word.
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Kalshi and Polymarket users who bet on Iran are mad — but for very different reasons: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A Darkly Modern Guide to Betting on War
The Iran conflict, and the way Kalshi and Polymarket handled wagers, shows weaknesses in prediction markets.
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NEW for Bloomberg Businessweek: Prediction market companies pitch themselves as sources of truth. Can they be trusted? (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
How Prediction Markets Polymarket and Kalshi Are Gamifying Truth
Two companies are pioneering a new way of predicting the future. Critics call it unregulated gambling
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From "Eddington" to fears of an AI stock bubble, 2025 was the year data centers became the villain (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
How Data Centers Became the Leading Villain of 2025
In Hollywood and real life, the once-unremarkable facilities have taken a leading role.
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Strong contender for fav. headline of the year @emilyanthes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/s...
Did the esoteric "code is law" debate make a jury cry? A recent mistrial shows why it can be so hard to apply traditional finance laws to crypto: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Mistrial Shows Difficulty in Applying Law to Crypto
Can trades on the public blockchain be illegal if the computer code allows them?
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What do architecture critics think of Trump's ballroom and Obama's library? I asked them (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump’s Ballroom and Obama’s Library: Critics Assess Presidential Architecture
An evaluation of Trump’s White House renovation and his predecessor’s “Obamalisk” in Chicago.
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🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/
AI of a Thousand Faces
What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
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Are we in an AI bubble? George Gilder, the tech guru who famously got blindsided by the 2001 telecom collapse, scoffs at the current AI data center mania. “It’s way overbuilding,” he says. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘I Believe It’s a Bubble’: What Some Smart People Are Saying About AI
A growing group of critics say we’re in an artificial intelligence bubble. Is it true? If so, how would we know?
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Obsessed with this portion of @alibreland.bsky.social’s latest, on “heritage Americans,” not just because it’s snappy, but because it reveals much about the nature of the ideology these people have: superior, unwavering, fundamentally rooted in historic unreality www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Josh Wallace Kerrigan had a bold idea: To make AI video that does not suck. www.wired.com/story/the-fu...
The Future of AI Filmmaking Is a Parody of the Apocalypse, Made by a Guy Named Josh
Behold Neural Viz, the first great cinematic universe of the AI era.
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Wrote about the Charlie Kirk memecoin frenzy (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Crypto Bros Are Trying to Monetize Charlie Kirk’s Death
Every big news event is a memecoin now.
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I spoke with Dan Wang, who argues in his new book "Breakneck" that the US needs to rekindle its love of engineering -- and that means learning from China: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers
In his new book, Dan Wang argues that America is too good at making rules, and could learn from Beijing’s laser focus on technical innovation.
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Spent a brain-melting amount of time talking, reading, and thinking about the Zizians: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/b...
She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started.
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how @chrisbeam.bsky.social inspired a major chinese movie www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Zany Sports Movie That Explains U.S.-China Relations
A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through football. Now it’s a major Chinese motion picture—with a very different message.
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"My article, titled 'Year of the Pigskin,' was natural Hollywood bait," Christopher Beam writes. "Now a Chinese studio appeared to have simply lifted the idea":
How I Accidentally Inspired a Major Chinese Motion Picture
A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through sports. Now it’s a movie with a very different message.
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A Chinese movie studio (unofficially) adapted my 2014 article about an American football team. The differences from the original say a lot about how US-China relations have deteriorated
What a sad & poignant story -- the kind of thing that will serve a mile marker when historians write about the loss of US democracy.
How Trump Defeated Columbia
The inside story of an unconditional surrender.
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the one and only @amandahess.bsky.social has written the most moving book about "having a child in the digital age"—but it's really about so much more. it's a meditation on the oppressiveness of tech, the fragility of humans, the miracle & bittersweetness of life... i would love for you to read it
If you were a Trumpcast listener, this may be what you need now: my new show w/Stephen Metcalf. It's designed to be adrenaline for a better future. We look straight at the catastrophe. And we ask what can be built from the rubble. It's also free & ad-free. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
What Rough Beast
Politics Podcast · What Rough Beast, hosted by Virginia Heffernan (Wired, Trumpcast) and Stephen Metcalf (Slate, Culture Gabfest) is a podcast where we bear witness to America’s demise, and ask what m...
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"They’re hanging out, like something out of a movie.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/u...
‘It was so freeing’: How a cellphone ban is changing life at a Virginia high school | CNN
Wakefield High School is part of a pilot program requiring students to put their phones inside magnetic locking pouches every morning. Students – and teachers – are happy with the results so far.
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Ayn Rand gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver. My deep dive on the battle for Ayn Rand’s estate: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Ugly Fight Over Ayn Rand’s Estate
The author gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver.
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"In the collective mind of U.S. voters, the concept of democracy appears to be so muddled, and their commitment to it so conditional, that it makes you wonder what, if anything, they’d do anything to stop its erosion—or whether they’d even notice that happening." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The ‘Democracy’ Gap
Almost all Americans say they support democracy—but they have very different ideas about what the word means.
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“Mate, I’ve never had a bad day in journalism in my life. ...You win, you get drunk because you won. You lose, you get drunk because you lost.” --Steve Dunleavy www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/b...
Steve Dunleavy, Brash Face of Murdoch Journalism, Dies at 81 (Published 2019)
An Australian with sartorial dash, he was a reporter, columnist, editor and TV correspondent who practiced a feisty brand of tabloid journalism.
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