this is...so embarrassing

btw today is my birthday (for real), a wish for my wish amen, please share the article if you liked it: 404media.co/facebooks-ai-s…

This reminds me of how ppl thought Google Glass would be a cultural phenomenon but then it ended up siloed as useful in a few specific industries

A small publisher for speculative fiction and roleplaying games is shuttering after 22 years, and the “final straw,” its founder said, is an influx of AI-generated submissions. 404media.co/bards-and-sage…

For the last few years, was almost as though 'militia' became a dirty word...but that seems to be changing.

I have a story in WIRED today about how militias, after laying low since Jan 6, have been quietly re-organizing and rebuilding on Facebook.

wired.com/story/extremis…

WATCH-- Chris Hayes: It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.

Exclusive: Two of Israel's leading weapons manufacturers, whose missiles and drones are currently being used on Gaza, are required to purchase cloud services from Amazon and/or Google via Project Nimbus, according to government procurement documents theintercept.com/2024/05/01/goo…

I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.

Very upsetting to hear on WKCR-FM NY that NYPD are threatening to arrest student journalists—and possibly even Columbia Journalism dean Jelani Cobb—if they leave Pulitzer Hall to continue their reporting on campus.

good for these students and the faculty who have backed them

market's so fucked we're reinventing timeshares wired.com/story/fraction…

Remember when CNN used a Will.I.Am hologram for its election coverage

A mostly stupid and unpromising frame narrative (aka Genesis) made into true poetry via the thunderingly encyclopedic sci-fi accumulations of the epic simile, one of the greatest heels in English literature, and Milton's anguished misunderstanding of what he himself was doing

I actually think caring about a political cause because your friends and peers introduce you to it is normal and probably explains a lot of how people’s politics gets formed

IM IN HAWAII AND I SAW A MONGOOSE, A BIG EEL, SEA TURTLES AND A BUNCH OF DOLPHINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Listening To Elliot Smith Looking Out The Window

they kinda did it?! twitter.com/oneunderscore_…

Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.

wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…

This week marks 10 years at WIRED for me.

I know media tribalism is not cool (not to mention praising your employer, sorry) but I'm grateful to have worked for a decade with smart, kind, curious, creative, principled people to make something we can be proud of. Long live WIRED.