I only learn big news now via horny chain texts

After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized. Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff 404media.co/where-facebook…

NEW: “My mantra was that we needed to work as if the office might catch on fire tomorrow" - historian Frank Cifaldi @ Comic-Con My story about efforts, past and present, to save Game Informer's history--and, by extension, a chunk of gaming history: gamefile.news/p/game-informe…

wrote about Crush House, a sinister spin on reality tv that also had me very earnestly planning shots to maximize drama, avoid butts, show feet, dutch angle that baby wired.com/story/crush-ho…

i'm so tired i just tried to make a protein smoothie in my french press

me looking at an "informal NDA"

the idea that anyone is violating an nda by posting about deadlock is so unbelievably silly. valve is notoriously one of the most secretive game devs around does anyone really believe they'd let thousands play their game and not expect "leaks" on nothing but a pinkie swear

I give you 4000 words on CrimeCon, which functions like Comic-Con for the true crime world. The guests tend to be those who have suffered a highly publicized tragedy, and I wanted to know why they have made the decision to make their grief consumable. slate.com/life/2024/08/c…

i love to ask people what their workout routine is and then be horrified by the answer (working out)

i do not want to see alien: romulus (too cowardly) but i do wish to know how everyone dies in excruciating detail

ai gave us the power to make anything we want and so far it's just proved most people have terrible taste

i hate this so much my jaw hurts :)

SCOOP: The Kamala Harris campaign is launching an official Twitch channel where it will stream the VP's acceptance speech tonight wired.com/story/kamala-h…

the work this team (only four people!! insane!) puts out makes them a daily must-read. nobody's doing it like 404

streaming with @aftermath_site at the top of the hour!!!!!

What bothered me was that a lot of the streams pushing back against the game's guidelines were very low-effort and played into stereotypical, surface-level impressions of Chinese politics and society,” Zhong tells WIRED.

Incredible new report by Grant

this story is what convinced me to finally play this game polygon.com/culture/443385…

sprinting after this car like the T-1000 to give this guy a wedgie

really shouldn’t have to tap the sign on this one, but I also recognize that literacy about how journalism works is at an all-time low, so: journalists do not anonymize information to hide things from you. we do it to protect sources, often from the people who victimized them