please listen to matt and kim with the windows down today, amen

“I was so worried after I had a salad from my local bodega and my stomach was bothering me the rest of the afternoon at work," one woman, who asked to stay anonymous, tells WIRED about her experience with days of watery diarrhea. "But I also have a history of IBS."

Everyone Thinks They Have the Diarrhea Parasite

Cyclosporiasis isn’t the only thing spreading across the US. So is anxiety about getting hit with it.

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driving my mom’s 2010 jeep liberty that smells like cigarettes and cost me $74 to fill up to an airport 1.5 hours away so i could get a nonstop flight to the east coast with a large iced coffee from 7Brew, this is middle america, folks.

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...

Condé Nast and Union Reach Settlement Over “Fired Four” (Exclusive)

The publishing giant is allowing workers to resign as active employees and paying a financial settlement.

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

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

RNC Chair Joe Gruters: "Tala-freako is a creep. He's a vegan. He thinks God is nonbinary. He wants to mutilate children."

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...

Department of Labor Tells Employees to Report Anyone Prioritizing DEI

The email instructs workers to report behavior that predates Donald Trump’s second inauguration. One employee tells WIRED it felt like a “reminder to narc on your coworkers.”

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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...

The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times

The company is using AI performance tracking software, the union says

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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:

Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien

The Holy Father referenced “The Lord of the Rings” in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.

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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-...

Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else

AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.

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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

Palantir Held Another ‘Hack Week.’ This Time, the Focus Was ICE

The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.

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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...

I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?

Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.

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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

Palantir Held Another ‘Hack Week.’ This Time, the Focus Was ICE

The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.

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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 Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE

The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.

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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

Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE

The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.

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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...

‘Perfect Storm’: How Trump's Aid Cuts Are Fueling the Ebola Outbreak

One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts.

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

Dancing FBI agent won't do jail time for backflip that left man shot at bar

Chase Bishop pleaded not guilty in November to second-degree assault, which could have got him up to 16 years in prison.

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

The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo ago

Taco Bell is experimenting with an AI-driven menu board, which will use the technology to “dynamically change the layout, content, and visuals on a car-by-car basis.” Read more from @emroth08.bsky.social:

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."

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 3mo ago

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

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

The US Is Using AI to Hunt Down Insider Trading on Polymarket

CFTC chairman Michael Selig sat down with WIRED to discuss how the agency scours Polymarket and other prediction markets for illegal activity.

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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...

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it's like inside a company where "everyone is unhappy."

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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-...

Trump Media Scales Back Plans for Its Own Prediction Market

Truth Predict was supposed to be the Trump family’s biggest leap yet into prediction markets. Now it’s looking more like a tiptoe.

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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...

A Conspiracy Theory About QR Codes Has Led to Chaos Ahead of Georgia’s Midterms

The state of Georgia banned the use of QR codes for elections, based in part on the assertions of a man who’s boosted false claims about Israel and 9/11. Now no one knows how ballots will be counted.

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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

xAI Adds 16 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.

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