NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.
Federal workers are being told to blame Democrats for the shutdown in their OOO auto-responders, complete with suggested language. from @telliotter.bsky.social
NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false:
"I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.” This is WIRED's oral history of DOGE:
The serial website builder Riley Walz launched a project that tracked San Francisco parking enforcement in real time—until the public data feed was cut off. www.wired.com/story/san-fr...
A giant SIM farm in the NY area with 100,000 SIMs was most likely used for spam/scams and even swatting US officials—which led the feds to find and dismantle it.
(Speculation it was going to be used to attack the the UN General Assembly seems like...a bit of a leap.)
No one knows Silicon Valley better than @stevenlevy.bsky.social. And no one is more clear-eyed about how far removed it has become from its supposed ideals.
Who could have predicted that the first big meeting of RFK Jr.’s ragtag crew of antivax crusaders would be a shambolic mess?! from @emilymullin.bsky.social
Meta allegedly torrented pornographic videos with names like "ExploitedTeens" and "EuroTeenErotica" in service of training one of its AI models. Is this uhhhh superintelligence? www.wired.com/story/meta-l...
Trumpworld officials actually seem to believe the conspiracy theories they've been throwing around about the Charlie Kirk shooting. from @jakelahut.writes.news
The shooter allegedly wrote "if you read this you are gay lmao" on one bullet casing, and the FBI director closed his remarks by telling Charlie Kirk "I'll see you in Valhalla." www.wired.com/story/charli...
