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...
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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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...
People Are Ghosting Long-Term Partners. Some Don’t Regret It
The communication-free form of breaking up has become ubiquitous. “I no longer had to bear her energy,” a man who ghosted his partner of four years tells WIRED.
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Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.
AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In
Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.
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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...
This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend’s Incompetence
An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partners.
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"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...
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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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...
People Are Getting Off to Porn About ICE Raids
MAGA-coded adult content playing off immigration crackdowns, white supremacy, and obeying the “natural order” is finding rabid audiences on X.
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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.
‘The Odyssey’ Is Inspiring Unprecedented Levels of Cope
Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. Now they’re crashing out.
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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...
if you blow a 29 point lead in the finals you don’t deserve to win a chip
“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...
Anti-Vax Dating Apps Are Going IRL. People Are Mad as Hell About It
Unjected and PureBlood.Dating are hosting in-person meetups—and have transformed the dating landscape into a political battleground over bodily autonomy.
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“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-...
The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.
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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-...
These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr
As public backlash against Big Dating mounts, a batch of new gay hookup apps offer community-powered alternatives.
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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...
AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World
There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.
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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...
I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
I used the Gemini app to generate lifelike videos featuring a digital clone of myself. Google sees this as the future of creation. I’m still creeped out.
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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...
OnlyFans’ First-Gen Creators Are Retiring—and Some Are Begging You to Forget They Exist
As more sex workers quit the industry, some are having to navigate tough questions around consent and the “afterlife” of work they no longer want to be associated with.
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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...
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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"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-...
“The Drama” Struggles to Justify Its Combustible Premise
In “The Drama,” a woman reveals a deep, dark secret before her wedding day—but it simply doesn’t ring true, Justin Chang writes.
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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...
The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
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“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...
Jaden Ivey Lost His Mind And Then His Job | Defector
In the first of the recent rambling Instagram Live sermons that got him fired by the Chicago Bulls, Jaden Ivey hunts through a Bible for passages to share with his followers. He evidently did not do t...
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"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...
The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse
“This is my home”: At a VR comedy club in Horizon Worlds, users mourn Meta's plans for the platform.
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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...
The Government’s Shittiest Website
For more than 30 years, the US Postal Service has sent people who need to change their addresses to MyMove. Experts say the site uses dark patterns to trap visitors in an online purgatory of “deals.”
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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...
‘She’s Never Going to Age’: Porn Stars Are Embracing AI Clones to Stay Forever Young
AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.
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"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 Blurred Truths of Sora
Many will assume that OpenAI’s Sora app represents a new era of social media. But that’s wrong—all it does is reanimate our current one.
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