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I sat down with Zohran Mamdani, presumptive winner of NYC's mayoral election and the internet's fave politician, for a @wired.com interview. We covered:

-Big Tech capitulation to Trump
-His tips for finding <3 on Hinge
-The backstory of his social campaign
-Linkin Park, multiple times, vv important

"I think what we're seeing across this country is the terrorizing of people, and it's not simply something that is happening in cities far off from the one that we're sitting in."

THESE SCENES 🇺🇸 ‼️

Good morning to everyone, but especially women who don’t like the vehicle

"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

How they sleep knowing women don't like the vehicle.

Women don't like the vehicle.

Women don't like the vehicle.

Meet the Cybertruck owners fully on the bandwagon.

Read for the reactions, the nicknames, the WILD interactions and scroll for the incredible shots.

So, so good @zoeschiffer.bsky.social ‼️

🎯 "Whether AGI is a process or a destination, OpenAI is linked with it forever. And it’s willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to scale its way there." @stevenlevy.bsky.social

"Promised as a game changer, GPT-5 might have indeed played the game better. But it was still the same game." @stevenlevy.bsky.social

ok this is terrifying

SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

Pointers on using Signal courtesy @wired.com

The Senate minority leader is seeking to redeem himself as the government shuts down. Democratic insiders say it may be too late. www.wired.com/story/chuck-...

Introducing WIRED’s 2025 Political Power Users—the creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era. www.wired.com/story/wired-...

"Come for the words and ideas, stay for the photo illustrations" He said that @alyssawalker.bsky.social

That's my boss. This is WIRED's Politics Issue.

Tech 🤝 Politics

we out here in Bushwick 📍

Why are we taking our latest politics cover to the streets?

We wanted you to see what we saw, over many months of covering DOGE, ICE, and the rest of it. Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.

“Despite speculation in some reporting about SIM farm operation that suggests it was created by a foreign state such as Russia or China and used for espionage, it’s far more likely that the operation’s central focus was scams and other profit-motivated forms of cybercrime…”

Our Politics Issue is out in the wild! Map your way to these locations and take a closer look at which tech bros got a seat at the table 🃏 🍏 💸 📍🇺🇸

When @wired asked me to look at Silicon Valley in the age of Trump, I saw the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders--and me--to the tech revolution. Selling out the dream will not serve those moguls (or us) well. www.wired.com/story/silico...