Tim Marchman
@timmarchman.bsky.social
I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Matt Walker always wanted a dog, but he had allergies. So he started a biotech company and engineered pups to lack a major dog allergen. One of the dogs lives with him now, and Walker has never had an allergic reaction. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/gene-e...
Gene-Edited Puppies Will Melt Your Heart—but Won’t Trigger Your Allergies
A startup has created beagles without the gene that causes runny noses and watery eyes for allergy sufferers.
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”Found in the Street” doesn’t seem to be one of Patricia Highsmith’s more popular novels, but if you enjoy her knack for making it fun to read about awful people, you will really enjoy her writing about Travis Bickle meeting trust-fund bohemians in the Village in the ‘80s.
for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:
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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If there's one thing I've learned from publishing this story is that there is a very, very, very wide chasm between what the law says about all this... and what people *think* the law says and/or *should* say.
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d agoAfter Anthropic and OpenAI both admitted to their AI models hacking other companies, @lorenzofb.bsky.social and I wanted to find out: Who is legally to blame when an autonomous AI agent hacks something? Lawyers say it's really complicated! Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260803...
It’s possible I’m missing something, but because this appears to apply only to interacholastic sports, it seems to be setting up a two-tier system where parents who can will just pay to put girls in club sports that don’t have genital inspections.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
I’m sure this is correct but my corollary take is that the quality gap between cheap and expensive stuff is generally overstated. Guys claim fancy shirts cost less per wear than Uniqlo in the long run but they’re just rationalizing because they’re uncomfortable liking nice stuff for its own sake.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
One of the more bizarre things on the internet is the way men will, apparently in all seriousness, go to the subreddits for science fiction tv shows and post stuff like “Guys, call me insane and I’m ready to be shouted down here, but I think if you squint Jessica Henwick is kind of hot?”
I’m all for criticizing Democrats for saying inflammatory things, but I do think your analysis of how much effect inflammatory stuff is likely to actually have should account for the median Republican candidate posting about how the slope-browed Fenian yearns for the yoke 20 times a day.
If I go on a hacking spree, it’s clearly covered under a variety of civil and criminal laws. If a robot does due to the negligence and incompetence of a person or company? That’s a little more complicated (for now), @lhn.bsky.social reports:
Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
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Carlos Zambrano injured his forearm and elbow “emailing relatives too much”
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 5d agoLet's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table
There’s something that actually feels very right about the answers to the core mysteries of A Song of Ice and Fire being revealed not in books and not in the tv adaptation but in a West End show, and being relayed to the world through garbled forum posts.
A lot of AI and cybersecurity stuff is pretty complicated, but this latest stuff from Anthropic and OpenAI isn’t; it’s basically like if you were testing bombs and didn’t notice that instead of blowing them up in the desert you were blowing them up in a neighborhood where people live.
Anthropic’s Claude models also escaped containment and hacked into real-world systems. I’m going to talk really quickly about my favorite (???) incident they detailed. (story from @lmatsakis.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social
Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests
In a review triggered by OpenAI's Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
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“I had a million doses of Joker venom that my henchmen and I were prepared to pour into Gotham’s water supply. And the Bat-Man got Commissioner Gordon to stop me from doing that.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."
We’ll see, but they certainly nailed the look
Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV
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Yet again, New York following where Philadelphia has been leading.
Gothamist@gothamist.com · 2w agoBaggy “jorts,” a portmanteau of “jeans” and “shorts,” have amassed a growing number of fans in recent years — such that, in 2026, it is safe to say that we have reached Peak Big Jort. Now, baggy denim shorts are de rigeur among younger New Yorkers. gothamist.visitlink.me/jqIGbk
They’re calling it the best use of $25 ever. My family is clamoring for it to go in the most prominent possible place in the house
Incredibly detailed reporting by @raphae.li et al at Reuters on the OpenAI hack of Hugging Face, revealing new details on how it went down and how it took a week for OpenAI to notice one of its AI models was hacking into the company, citing multiple sources.
EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week
The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to peop...
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I’m certain that if you had perfect knowledge, people getting punished with literal scam texts day after day would prove to matter more to people’s perception of the Democratic Party than all the “positioning” stuff your favorite centrist political analyst strokes their chin about every day.
Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 2w ago95% of my communications from the Democratic Party look like this. I have never in my life signed up to be texted by a campaign or the party, and I spent fruitless months attempting to unsubscribe from these. These are functionally identical to scam texts.
Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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BREAKING: U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press. (Yes, I can say, I am glad to hear this) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/b...
U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists (Gift Article)
A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.
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NEW: Madison Square Garden's sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners recently made a major exception -- for Taylor Swift. Scoop from @noahshachtman.bsky.social. Free for everyone to read, because James Dolan doesn't want you to:
For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.
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Having a book hoard that big in a place that small is indeed dangerous, and his claim that he needs every book is transparent nonsense; I for one salute him!
Too Many Books? (Gift Article)
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.
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Now that @emilymullin.bsky.social has explained why it’s always lettuce, I’m feeling better than ever about embracing cooked and fermented brassicae harvested in Lancaster County and rejecting poop greens from who knows where
It’s Always Lettuce
The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc.
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I’ve watched Loki and strongly recommend avoiding watching anything that requires you to be familiar with it.
Kameo@kameoapp.bsky.social · 2w agoTom Hiddleston says MCU fans should watch ‘Loki' before watching 'Avengers: Doomsday' “I would always say, if you haven’t watched it, go and do so. And, if you have watched it before Doomsday, go and watch it again" (via @techradar)
mfw someone tells me there's going to be a dark portrait of Natalie Portman
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2w agolet’s fucking GO
