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Reece
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software reporter @ WIRED
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strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 15h
always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 1d
This week for @wired.com Big Interview pod, I talk to Patreon CEO Jack Conte, who wants to carve a different path in this era of IP theft and AI slop.

"We're sending rockets into space; we got self-driving cars. We should figure out how to get creative people paid for their work."
Patreon CEO Jack Conte Wants You to Get Off of Your Phone
The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He’d rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.
www.wired.com
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lerrrGHOUL 👻 @lerrrgan.bsky.social · 1d
time for my afternoon pick-me-up
A fish bowl full of iced coffee and a person drinking it with a straw.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 1d
be nice to the birds!!
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micheal @godsboy.bsky.social · 1d
it makes me sad when people are mean to the nyc pigeons
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1d
"Now Wired — which has become indispensable and deserves your subscription dollars (🙏) — reports that DHS wants to create dedicated centers to mass monitor social-media in real time."
"Authoritarian Capacity" and the Trump Regime - Lawyers, Guns & Money
In May of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security tried to stand up a group to coordinate government anti-disinformation efforts. As Deepa Shivaram wrote at NPR, the “decision” resulted from a “coor...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 5d
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.

@wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/govern...
Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: Government workers tell @wired.com that their out-of-office replies are being forcibly changed to blame Democrats for the government shutdown.

Scoop from @leahfeiger.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social
Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 5d
Not trying to join the dunk party here, just want to note that the author is on Anthropic's economic advisory council.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d
I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?
My Favorite Actress Is Not Human Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI. A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14 By Tyler Cowen
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 6d
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 6d
huh?! never noticed this before
Google search including a copy button for the 🤷
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 7d
meanwhile in china: the pop mart empire has grown to $45 billion; more than the makers of transformers, barbie, and hello kitty combined all because of a demonic rabbit we all know as labubu. @zeyiyang.bsky.social has the inside story of how it happened, and what it means for china’s soft power
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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 7d
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
A Journey Into the Heart of Labubu
I made an epic trek across four countries to answer one question: Why is the world going mad for a plushie monster?
www.wired.com
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Micah @rincewind.run · 6d
an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously

when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint

the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny
Far Side cartoon with a female chimpanzee grooming a male chimpanzee “Well, well - another blond hair. … Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 7d
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
A Journey Into the Heart of Labubu
I made an epic trek across four countries to answer one question: Why is the world going mad for a plushie monster?
www.wired.com
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thiccreese.bsky.social
Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 6d
These Sora videos feel like a more capable version those “Elf Yourself” videos from a decade ago. Except this time, any silliness is overcome with a nagging sense of dread.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 6d
The “cameo” tool warps a user’s image into different situations using a simple prompt.

In the handful of AI slop videos @wired.com generated to test the release, the outputs were often absurd.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 6d
What if deepfakes were entertainment? Not of celebrities and public figures. Deepfakes of you.

That’s the chilling, central question at the heart of OpenAI’s new Sora app.

www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI’s New Sora App Lets You Deepfake Yourself for Entertainment
OpenAI’s latest app encourages users to generate a personal digital avatar and scroll AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends.
www.wired.com
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 6d
Whether it’s your friends, influencers, or random strangers online, Sora frames generating deepfake videos as a form of scrollable fun.

The app’s main feed is an endless scroll of bite-sized AI slop featuring deepfaked human faces.

www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI's New Sora App Lets You Deepfake Yourself for Entertainment
OpenAI’s latest app encourages users to generate a personal digital avatar and scroll AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends.
www.wired.com
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Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social · 7d
oh no
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 8d
OpenAI is getting ready to release an app for people that love TikTok but wish none of it was real. scoop from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.
www.wired.com
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d
SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14d
NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:
Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase
The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky
www.thehandbasket.co
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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 12d
what an absolutely glorious print cover for @wired.com
Illustrated wired cover showing Silicon Valley tech leaders as dogs playing poker. Read, “tech went all in. Now what?”
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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 13d
Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13d
spiritually and emotionally I am these lions from a 1500s painting
MICHIEL COXCIE (1499-1592), CARTOONIST; WILLEM DE PANNEMAKER (ACTIVE 1535-1578), WEAVER Noah Builds the Ark "Story of Noah' series Brussels-Brabant, 1563-1566 Tapestry; gold, silver, silk and wool In 1556, Philip II acquired a set of tapestries that told the story of Noah. However, in 1559 the ship carrying them to Spain sank and only two hangings were saved, so the king ordered another set in 1562. It originally consisted of ten tapestries, only three of which are still extant: one shows God commanding Noah to build the ark, another depicts the disembarkation after the flood, and the third is this scene, where the biblical patriarch is giving his sons instructions on how to build the ark. For the borders, Philip II chose his coats of arms and a few animals alluding to the four elements silhouetted against a landscape in the background, whose painstaking details must have posed quite a technical challenge. This tapestry arrived in Madrid in 1566 and was displayed in emblematic settings like the Monastery of El Escorial.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 13d
Something beautiful is happening in Brooklyn, New York this week.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 14d
today the @wired.com mural in bushwick they’re working on zuck dog leg and sam altman dog manicure so tag us if u see us
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Michael Calore @snackfight.bsky.social · 14d
For a few hours today, you were able to see a real time map of the San Francisco MTA's parking control officers that showed where they were writing parking tickets. It was a cool use of a public data feed, but then the city killed the feed
www.wired.com/story/san-fr...
For One Glorious Morning, a Website Saved San Francisco From Parking Tickets
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
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