Michael Calore
@snackfight.bsky.social
Editorial director at @wired.com for consumer tech and culture. Kind human. I play bass in @twindimensions.bsky.social and guitar in @nascum.bsky.social http://snackfight.com
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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Who asked for an "AI tells detection" tool for ESPN's World Series of Poker broadcast? And is the tool a simple party trick, or yet another way for AI to invade an inherently human pursuit? My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ai-tel...
Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So
ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real threat to poker’s future?
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I was waiting for the other shoe to drop in this ad, but no, it was just an eerily positive spin on having an AI agent do absolutely everything for a useless boyfriend who can't remember to throw out expired milk, let alone an anniversary: 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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Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
@johnsemley3000.bsky.social drove 40 minutes to get to a sold out 8 am screening of The Odyssey—the movie is not going to fail but the reactionary backlash sure did. www.wired.com/story/the-od...
‘The Odyssey’ Backlash Failed Tremendously
For all the hysteria over “woke” casting and ahistorical choices, Christopher Nolan’s epic is on track to make $200 million globally during its opening weekend.
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Step 1: Quietly put face recognition code on millions of phones Step 2: Insist that you could not possibly answer any questions about that face recognition feature because it "doesn't exist" Step 3: Have your CTO describe the face recognition in great detail on a podcast. from @couts.bsky.social
Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.
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I regret to inform you that the explosive diarrhea will get worse before it gets better www.wired.com/story/explos...
The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is About to Get Much Bigger
Official case counts likely capture only a fraction of US cyclosporiasis infections, and the outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better.
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NEW: In addition to a total ban on social media for kids under 16, the UK is planning a social media "curfew" for 16 and 17-year-olds and a crackdown on apps' most addictive features, like autoplay videos. by @milesklee.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/the-uk...
The UK Is Planning a Social Media Curfew for 16- and 17-Year-Olds
The restrictions, which can be turned off, will include a crackdown on “addictive” app features and will be in addition to a total ban on children under 16 accessing platforms like TikTok and YouTube.
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Despite having policies against explicit content, Youtube is funneling people to nudify sites that generate nonconsensual deepfakes for as little as $1. Targets include people's sisters and motivations are often "getting people fired." by @ejdickson.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/youtub...
YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.
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People of the SF Bay Area! My band Flippy Floppy (we do Talking Heads covers) is playing tomorrow evening at Retro Junkie in Walnut Creek (playing Talking Heads songs). Come witness us play (Talking Heads songs) live! retrojunkiebar.com/events/?effe...
Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863-1944) The Girls on the Bridge, 1918 woodcut print 492 by 427mm; 19 3/8 by 16¾in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
We should bring back "Dave's Fractal Page." The real old school drinkin' buddy heads know what I'm taking about
For the last few listens of the new Fruit Bats, I’ve been mishearing “there’s wildfire ash on the windowsill” as “there’s the Wi-Fi pass on the windowsill”
I wrote about the charming psychedelic art that the late Milton Glaser created for Tom Wolfe's 1968 book 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'—happy birthday, Milton ❤️ www.dominicumile.com/blog/milton-... #art
Milton Glaser’s psychedelic Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test art — Dominic Umile
On the artist's appropriately effervescent illustration for Tom Wolfe's reporting on LSD
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Really digging this new one by Andrew Sa. Recommended if you like sad songs sweetly sung in an indie-country way. tidal.com/album/493178...
Andrew Sa - American Rough
Listen to American Rough on TIDAL
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THE SEVENTH SEAL (Ingmar Bergman, 1967)
burn it all down@russbengtson.bsky.social · last mo.goddammit sweden
Like something out of a sci-fi movie—that no doubt warned us against it—a predictive policing program is put to the test in Bristol, UK. (This article is free, no paywall, because the reporting is based on public records) www.wired.com/story/britis...
British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
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A little piece of my soul shrivels up every time I get a message laying out how another company plans to use personal data in ever encroaching ways for AI training. I got one of those emails recently from Google and blogged about it for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
Here’s How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature
Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.
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Of course Hollywood has responded to the singular success of Heated Rivalry with a bunch of straight hockey shows. Smh. by @ejdickson.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/story/...
No, I Don’t Want to Watch Your Straight Hockey Show
From Amazon's “Off Campus” to Netflix’s upcoming “Icebreakers,” the recent spate of hetero hockey romances shows Hollywood learned the wrong lessons from “Heated Rivalry.”
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