Manisha Krishnan

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

SCOOP from @knibbs.bsky.social: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down.

Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology.

As promised, Anthropic is taking the Pentagon to court. from @peard33.bsky.social

Feeld Was a Dating App for the Freaks. Now Some People Call It ‘Normie Hell’ The app that catered to unconventional kinks is gaining steam among daters with vanilla preferences—and some aren’t happy about it.

Definitely didn't expect @jasooooon.bsky.social's Feeld being overrun by vanillas story to start with an ICE officer on the app: www.wired.com/story/feeld-...

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”

Conversations w Jack Dorsey are always illuminating. Here he argues how massive Block layoffs signal how companies must drastically transform in the AI age. He also comments on Twitter, Bluesky, politics and journalism. And WIRED! .https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-explains-block-layoffs/

The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem Donald Trump said he would replace the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Noem's tenure was marked by aggressive anti-immigration tactics and ICE's killing of two US protestors.

well well well if it isn't the consequences of someone's own actions (w @dell.bsky.social )

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Grammarly's new AI tools necromance famous dead authors, and "humanize" copy to make it sound less robotic. But it also failed to detect obvious plagiarism when @milesklee.bsky.social tried it: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

yep and fully being like I love Trump. That’s what promoted me to write it cause I’ve been thinking about this for like 3 seasons.

No Denver was also bad

i have seen every single episode of this slightly cursed show and this is a very good blog from @manishakrishnan.bsky.social:

Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control if Paramount Buys Warner Bros. Paramount Skydance’s sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal gets approved.

Paramount Skydance’s sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal gets approved. www.wired.com/story/everyt...

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

SCOOP: OpenAI fired an employee for their prediction market activity www.wired.com/story/openai...

How Many Woody Allen Movies Did Jeffrey Epstein Help Cast? Their emails show the lengths Epstein went to get his female “assistants” onscreen.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein's close friendship with Woody Allen is well-documented. What's less well-known? Epstein spent years trying to influence Woody Allen's casting process, and got his "girls" cast in at least 2 of Allen's movies. My story for @nymag.com www.thecut.com/article/wood...

I honestly could have written a separate blog about all the race dynamics playing out. So much internalized racism.

‘Love Is Blind’ Embraces the Manosphere A show that started as an earnest if messy quest for love is now simply a mirror to the hell of modern dating.

If you've been watching Love Is Blind for years and feeling like it's become more and more blatantly MAGA-coded—with increasingly misogynist men, you're not alone. Had to blog it out. www.wired.com/story/love-i...

I'm so proud of the entire @wired.com team for four ASME nominations, including General Excellence. The most nominations for WIRED in at least a decade! Everyone here earned all of this and more, so today we brag!

Senior Correspondent, Politics WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

SCOOP: A White House staffer appears to be operating the anonymous pro-Trump X account JohnnyMAGA with nearly 300,000 followers.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Everyone Speaks Incel Now After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

Incel slang is now so ingrained in the mainstream discourse that its origins have been obscured. How did we get here?

Everyone Speaks Incel Now After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

this week alone, I got several pitches about "proteinmaxxing." Read @milesklee.bsky.social on the widespread adoption of incel speak: www.wired.com/story/everyo...

Yeah I’ve heard good things

New Jersey Devils defenseman P.K. Subban wants hockey world to 'focus on how we can change' after alleged racial taunt aimed at brother New Jersey Devils defenseman P.K. Subban spoke emotionally Sunday night, saying "for us, this is life," a day after his brother, Jordan Subban, said he was the recipient of a racist taunt in a minor-l...

have you not read any of the well-documented cases of racism towards him, his brother, others? You're pleading ignorance on the basis of you not being able to read someone's mind, when a lot of this is out there publicly. www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...

the story is not about hockey representation in media. It's about the spillover effects of HR fandom into hockey and why newcomers should be cautious because hockey culture has well-documented issues with misogyny, homophobia, racism etc.

that was the entire point of the story. Heated Rivalry's cultural impact dwarfs that of Shoresy, and it brought a ton of interest in the sport from outsiders including a lot of women and people who support LGBT rights. I was contrasting that with the culture inside the actual sport.

(Specifically elite men's hockey)

‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing New Fans to Hockey. Does the Sport Deserve Them? Obsession over a show about two closeted hockey players has brought new fandom to the sport just ahead of the Olympics. But men's hockey's lack of support for LGBTQ+ players and fans is notable.

A lot of people are sharing that clip of the US men's hockey team laughing about the women's team with Trump/Kash Patel. A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how, despite the Heated Rivalry effect, hockey culture still sucks: www.wired.com/story/winter...

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

Last summer, OpenAI employees debated alerting law enforcement about Jesse Van Rootselaar's interactions with ChatGPT

In February, Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony The Meta CEO stuck to a playbook of repetitive answers and buzzwords in a landmark trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

If there's one thing we learned from Mark Zuckerberg's testimony in a landmark social media addiction trial today, it's that YOU ARE MISCHARACTERIZING WHAT HE SAID. from @milesklee.bsky.social

How Two Zoomers Created RentAHuman, the First Marketplace for Bots to Hire Humans “We would [all] love to have an AI boss who wouldn't yell at you or gaslight you. Claude as a boss is the nicest guy ever.”

“We would [all] love to have an AI boss who wouldn't yell at you or gaslight you. Claude as a boss is the nicest guy ever.” www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents Forum members have discussed their discomfort with mass deportation efforts, debate how federal agents have interacted with civilians, and complain about their working conditions.

New from me: In yet another forum, users claiming to be current and former Homeland Security Investigations officers complained about being roped into deportation efforts and their working conditions, and debated how ICE is interacting with the public. @wired.com

www.wired.com/story/hsi-fo...