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Why ICE Can Kill With Impunity
Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.
The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.
Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
X has placed more restrictions on Grok’s ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to fully address the issue.
Minnesota ICE Shooting
Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet
The killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a wave of statements from tech companies and CEOs. Today, pushback against ICE is largely coming from employees, not executives.
Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’
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If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.
True Patriots Are Cashing In on the Apocalypse
DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To
Larry Page’s apparent Florida move highlights how seriously the ultrarich are taking a one-time tax aimed at extreme wealth inequality.
From Tesla to AI friends to Big Balls and back, this is our definitive breakdown of everything, and everyone, that conquered the WIRED world this year—and a few that fell from the top.
AI of a Thousand Faces
All Hail the Technocracy
WIRED Takes You Back to School
The New Era of Work Travel
Originally published September 2022: The Pacific Northwest is due for a massive quake. I trained to help rescue efforts in the aftermath—by racing around the city on an electric kid hauler.
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A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I
