"About a year ago Elon Musk tweeted ... that many years ago Wired somehow went from being about technology to being an unreadable far left wing propaganda mouthpiece."
Translation: Wired went from being an propaganda mouthpiece for whatever tech was being produced by corporations and VC-funded startups to doing somewhat uncritical reporting on the political-economic consequences of how that technology.
Today, my list of Digital Services Providers, outside US Jurisdiction, was featured in Wired Magazine.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat
Hello, Wired. Thanks for helping bring knowledge and information to the people.
cc: @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de This includes you too, by the way.
#Wired #WiredMagazine #UsJurisdiction #Foss #OpenSource #Development
There's a non-zero chance that a benevolent superintelligence will terminate Elon Musk & Peter Thiel, for being the threat to humanity they are. So, at least we've got that going for us.
@waldo.net Looks like I need to subscribe to #Wired I have a lot to make up for since I paid for one year of WaPo.
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions
Wired is doing a tremendous job covering the Trump/Musk administration, and a subscription is only $10/year for the first year, and $30/year after that.
If you can afford it, I recommend supporting this essential journalism.
https://www.wired.com/v2/offers/wira01010?source=Site_0_HCL_WIR_GIFTPAGELINKOFF_0_ZZ
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
#WIRED
Mar 18, 2025
Professor and authoritarianism scholar #RuthBenGhiat joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about #dictators and #fascism. Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to power? What's the difference between a #dictatorship, an #autocracy, and #authoritarianism? What are the most common personality traits found in #tyrants and dictators? Is Xi Jinping a dictator? How do dictators amass wealth? Professor Ben-Ghiat answers these questions and many more on Tech Support: Dictator Support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6fALsenmw
Access to public documents is more important than ever, with government websites and records disappearing. Wired's global editorial director explains why her publication has removed paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Read it at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. #Paywall #FOIA #DOGE #Trump #ElonMusk #Journalism #Wired #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/b4nT.0
"Democracy dies behind a paywall."
#JoanMastodon #TTJ
@patamystic yes!!! I gladly subscribed to Wired because of their recent excellent journalism but many cannot afford that. Not to mention, that public information should be free to the public. Good on you #Wired
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
#update: found an email address that actually replied, now (mostly) sorted
for anyone else who might need to contact #WIRED / #CondeNast, it’s help[@]condenast[.]com 
@kbeninato Agree. #Wired got the memo. They are doing terrific work.
OK #NerdHiveMind, has anyone ever figured out how to access / create a #CondeNast account when you signed up for a #Wired digital-only subscription? I can log into the Wired site with the creds I set up initially, but trying to access / change account details pushes you to the CN site
the CN portal doesn’t accept my Wired creds, instead it insists that I must enter the account number printed on the label of the magazine that they ship to me 
& every avenue of contact I’ve tried either bounces or seems to go to /dev/null… 
I’ve been trying for months to change my email address associated with the subs, but now I’m just over it & want to cancel before it auto-renews at 5x the intro 1-year price 
New from #wired who have been doing great reporting on #Musk:
#DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers
Operatives working for #ElonMusk’s #DOGE appear to be editing the code of #AutoRIF – software designed by the #Defense Dept that could assist in mass #firings of #FederalWorkers, sources tell WIRED.
#Trump #law #USpol #TrumpPurge
https://web.archive.org/web/20250225172340/https://www.wired.com/story/doge-autorif-mass-firing-government-workers/
This sickens me for various probably-predictable reasons I may still write about later, but for now I'm just referencing the facts presently known.
«The Washington Post, citing two unnamed people, reported representatives from DOGE were using AI through Microsoft’s Azure service to go through data with “personally identifiable information for people who manage grants, as well as sensitive internal financial data”»
«Elon Musk's DOGE is working on a custom chatbot called GSAi. The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.»
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-chatbot-ai-first-agenda/
Additional Reference: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-ai-department-education/
Subscribe to the journalists doing the work. #WIRED helped me learn JavaScript in the 90s.
Now it is helping me figure out what the fuck is happening as we face off with kleptocratic bazillionaire fascists.
Keep them in business.
https://mas.to/@gleick/113959266790086500
