my third time ordering one of these was this morning and I've literally been reminiscing about eating it all day lol

lately I've been craving breakfast sandwiches for whatever reason, but I don't like eggs + avoid pork which makes things difficult.... however!! I've discovered that a toasted bagel with a little cream cheese + turkey bacon + jalapenos + sun dried tomatoes tastes really great.... I endorse!

A public service from @cityandstateny.bsky.social

www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

In college, I'd always walk past an unremarkable store in Beijing that sold a variety of trendy, but tacky, toys. That store has turned into Pop Mart, the $45-billion Chinese toy empire behind Labubu, the biggest global fad of 2025.

This is my big story/pilgrimage trip to explain how they got here

Amazon agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a FTC suit which claimed that sign-ups + cancellations for Prime are manipulative and confusing

In the words of one Amazon customer quoted in an earlier court filing: "IT IS SNEAKY AND BLOODY DISHONEST"
www.wired.com/story/amazon...

Impossible to even choose a pull quote in this oral history of DOGE!!!
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

This is how I described the Palantir t-shirt design in the piece, but someone very correctly pointed out that it also closely resembles the Lumon logo from Severance lol

you're so right and I feel silly for not making that connection as well !!!

And if you want some examples of said merch:

Huge week here @wired.com as we're rolling out our Politics Issue. First up, check out this cover, which we're also posting all over cities across the US.

You may know the software company Palantir as a contractor for ICE + the military. But in recent months, it's relaunched its merch store & said it wants to be a "lifestyle brand."

What does it mean for Palantir to be a lifestyle brand...? I unpacked it here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...

Looking forward to still writing about this drama next September. But for now, here’s what we know about the TikTok deal as of Friday. Reported with @jakelahut.writes.news

Thanks so much to Paris for having me on @techwontsave.us!!

Definitely give the episode a listen if you wanna hear us talk about Palantir, Peter Thiel, the antichrist, and related matters :)

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

BREAKING: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors in class action lawsuit for pirating their works www.wired.com/story/anthro...

When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate. www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

How come after single time in my ENTIRE LIFE I’ve tried to walk around someone, they start drifting into the exact place I was going to pass them moments before I was gonna step there and just completely block off that route ❤️❤️

Bringing you the earnings report that matters!

Pop Mart’s net profits grew 362% yoy in H1 2025

Revenue-wise:
- the Labubu franchise grew 668% to $670 million (more than Barbie or Hot Wheels)
- the Americas market grew 1100+%
- the plush products grew over 1200+%

& that’s not including Lafufus!

bless bless thank u 🙏🙏🙏

surface level view, this seems like a natural extension of those "man DESTROYS crying lib college student in debate" videos and general online misogyny -- but is there also something about trying to counter the narrative from stats about younger women being further left than young men...? idk

has anyone written something smart on this (seemingly) increasingly popular culture war tactic where women cringe and bad = lib and women pretty and good = conservative ...?

You may have seen Silicon Valley tech figures posting + panicking about Zohran Mamdani in recent weeks. I decided to talk to NYC-based tech execs who have actually sat down with him. They’re not panicking:
www.wired.com/story/tech-e...

thank u!!!

Were u on vacation / generally offline last week? If so, understandable — but icymi, here's my explainer about What Palantir Actually Does:
www.wired.com/story/palant...