~wired | Bookmarks (56)
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Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ Plays Both Sides
Civil War is a big and loud and visually arresting film, but its politics are confused...
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Taylor Swift’s Music Is Back on TikTok—Right Before Her New Album Drops
Taylor Swift has seemingly reached a deal with TikTok to get her music back on the...
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Did Social Media Kill the Pop Song?
A new study found that song lyrics are now angrier, more repetitive, and vain. Consensus wavers,...
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An Interview With a Guy Who Got a Vasectomy During the East Coast Earthquake
Where’s the last place you want to be during an earthquake? For Justin Allen, it was...
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The Best Queer Batman Parody You Almost Never Saw
When Vera Drew set out to make The People’s Joker her goal was to tell a...
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AI-Generated Spoofs of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok
The next Drag Race Ru-volution doesn't involve Ru at all.
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Here's How Generative AI Depicts Queer People
WIRED investigates how artificial intelligence tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, currently portray members of the LGBTQ community....
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A Haunted Discord Server Is the Last Good Place Online
In the indie game This Discord Has Ghosts In It, your mission is—prepare yourself!—to communicate.
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Welcome (Back) to Beyoncé’s Internet
The release of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter exposes the tenor of online fandom today—and the fiction of...
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Europe’s Biggest Salt Mine Is Now in 'Minecraft,' and It’s Helping Ukraine Rebuild
The Soledar Salt Mine in eastern Ukraine shut down in early 2022 amidst the Russian invasion....
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Netflix’s '3 Body Problem' Adapts the Unadaptable
For their next trick, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are tackling...
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The Filmmaker Who Says AI Is Reparations
Before he used AI tools to make his movies, Willonius Hatcher couldn’t get noticed. Now his...
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The Small Company at the Center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’
Montreal-based Sweet Baby employs just 16 people. They now find themselves the targets of gaming’s latest...
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The Kate Middleton Photo’s Most Glaring Photoshop Mistakes
Blurry hair, meandering zippers—we asked WIRED’s design department to explain the editing errors in Kate Middleton’s...
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The First Rule of the Extreme Dishwasher Loading Facebook Group Is …
Extreme Dishwasher Loading encourages members to “think quality, not quantity” when inviting new people to the...
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Aerith’s Fate in 'Final Fantasy VII Rebirth' Is Causing a Rift Among Fans
The game’s ending prompts heated discussion online about whether it does justice to its most iconic...
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A Max Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming
Following in the footsteps of Netflix and Disney+, streaming service Max plans to start restricting password-sharing...
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Music Is TikTok's Past. Sounds May Be Its Future
More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new...
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The Willy Wonka Event’s Lead Actor Speaks Out: ‘It Was Just Gibberish’
Paul Connell, who portrayed “Willy McDuff” at Willy’s Chocolate Experience, talks to WIRED about the Unknown,...
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Lots of People Make Money on Fanfic. Just Not the Authors
Next year, SenLinYu’s Harry Potter fic Manacled will disappear from Archive of Our Own. They don’t...
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Meet the Disney Imagineer Building You a Real-Life Holodeck
If you’ve ever seen a lightsaber at a Disney park or marveled at BB-8, you’ve seen...
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Why Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ’Em’ Has Taken Over TikTok
Beyoncé’s new single seems tailor-made for viral dance crazes. It also comes at a time when...
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Bluesky’s Future Is Social Media’s Past
The X competitor is now open to the public—but until the platform establishes an identity, it...