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Anthony Lydgate
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Features editor at WIRED

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Don't know what to think about AI?

Consult the @wired.com tarots

www.wired.com/ai-issue/
A grid of 17 AI-themed tarot cards, including AI as Kink, AI as Bubble, AI as Therapist, AI as Screen Killer, AI as Sentient, AI as Startup, AI as Religion, AI as Artist, AI as Teacher, AI as Emotional Spellcheck, AI as Normal, AI as Americanizer, AI as Weapon, AI as PR, AI as Mother, AI as Black Box, and AI as Journalism
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Featuring exclusive interviews with

*Labubu's creator

*the Pop Mart C-suite

*THE CHIEF OF ALL LABUBUS

www.wired.com/story/labubu...
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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DOGE: “We’re going to fix the government!”

Fed employees: …

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
At one SSA office, a manager confirmed to his staff that he could no longer pay the company that shreds sensitive documents. “We print a lot of shit daily,” one SSA employee told WIRED. “Stuff with people’s names, addresses, phone numbers, SSNs, bank accounts, you name it. We have giant locking trash bins we put it in, and we pay a shredding company to empty them every month.” With the new $1 limit, the employee said, a “stockpile” of sensitive data was growing, leaving workers with two options: “Shred it ourselves on regular office shredders—of which we have two, I think, and so it would take forever—or just sit on it while it piles up.”
March 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Fair warning: This story packs some truly inspired/stomach-churning art.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Illustration of a young DOGE employee sitting at a laptop covered in decals of Musk-owned companies surrounded by a burger, soda, and Zyn nicotine packets.
March 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM