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Emmy-winning journalist and senior culture editor @wired.com | VICE News final girl (RIP) | tips: manisha_krishnan@wired.com or mkrishnan.79 on Signal

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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Literary agents are also concerned that publishers might paste manuscripts into LLMs to generate rejection letters and publicity descriptions. Some are now adding protections to prevent that. More on the AI turmoil at some of the Big 5 publishing houses here: www.wired.com/story/book-p...
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It was such a slap in the face,” says one HarperCollins employee. “We’ve been making valid business cases for years to be paid a healthy salary, and instead they spent that money on software that most of us don’t really want.”
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
at a HarperCollins AI "brainstorming" session, staff say they raised legal, ethical, and environmental concerns and were told that's “the cost of doing business.” The employee portal was updated to say AI's environmental impact is "a small part of most individuals’ total digital carbon footprint."
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
An ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Right after the Cornell Jane Doe story broke, a site called JaneDoeMerch.com started selling I Am Jane Doe hats and T-shirts, claiming the proceeds would go to Jane Doe's legal fund. Her lawyer knows nothing about it. Read my story on Jane Doe merch at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meet-t...
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I had talked to Aaron Sorkin for this but didn’t have time to ask about his tan
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‘The Social Reckoning’ Already Feels Irrelevant
Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to ‘The Social Network’ attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elon Musk's America PAC is quietly donating to the most consequential races of November's midterms, and @wired.com is tracking all of it - in real time. amazing work from @dell.bsky.social, who built this, and big lifts from @hugolowell.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social:
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/10/2026
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
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‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At a marathon runtime of four hours, Alex Gibney's new documentary 'Musk' strains to cover the sweep of the oligarch's business empire and its capture of U.S. government. But the interviews with first wife Justine Wilson and latest ex Ashley St. Clair about his vindictive nature hit hardest.
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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/10/2026
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YA SHE IS
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I spoke to three furries — namely, a fox, a wolf, and a bear — who work in aviation. Here's what I learned: 1) Yes, there are a lot of furry airline pilots 2) No, they're not wearing their fursuits in the cockpit or meowing on radio 3) Tommy Tuberville is a butthead www.wired.com/story/furry-...
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Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business
“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Senator Tommy Tuberville's unhinged rant about "terrifying" furry pilots did contain one truth—there is a lot of overlap b/n aviation and the furry community. @ejdickson.bsky.social talked to some of them about why that is: www.wired.com/story/furry-...
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Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business
“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wasn’t trying to be judgmental. I genuinely think Dogs Anonymous is a funny name for a group 🤷🏾‍♀️
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I thought of this movie when I read our burnerverse story recently! too many real-world examples
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
because she allowed us to and we're a news outlet? you do realize you can publish the names of people involved in AA too right? Or have you never heard of Bill Wilson.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
we clearly do not share the same sense of humor
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
yeah that's exactly what I said, good reading comprehension
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's considerably funnier than those
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 28/09/2026
another reason cats rule is that a litte mutual contempt is just a normal part of the relationship, and doesn't require group processing
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My Dog Is A True Asshole meet up group is incredibly funny
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
kind of obsessed with the fact that there's an AA-style support group called Dogs Anonymous for owners who don't want to publicly admit they can't stand their dogs. by @jasooooon.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oh it's great, the acting is fantastic and they really nail the color grading to give it a creepy, VHS vibe
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that was him??? yes, I referenced that in my story
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chris Hansen spawned a legion of copycats and streaming platforms have only made them more reckless. These men will ambush and beat the wrong people, target people with severe intellectual and physical disabilities, and in some cases have ended up convicted of child porn themselves.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having covered pedophile hunters extensively, I can attest that it's deeply creepy watching grown men engage in sexual conversations while pretending to be kids, night after night. Primetime exposes that ego—not public safety—is often what's motivating them: www.wired.com/story/primet...
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‘Primetime’ Exposes the Ego-Driven Core of Vigilante Pedophile Hunting
Lance Oppenheim’s new film doesn’t paint Chris Hansen as a hero. The “To Catch a Predator” host's copycats are even more reckless.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My latest feature for @wired.com is out, and it’s part of our epic issue on the state of women in Silicon Valley, and I can’t wait for you to read it and enjoy this art 🙌💗 bsky.app/profile/wire...
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
For our WIRED Women cover, Patti Harrison plays five (well, actually six) of the current masters of the universe—Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos (with Lauren Sánchez Bezos by his side). 🔗 www.wired.com/tag/wired-wo...
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Chipotle is now working with Palantir to track food safety. This comes after America’s turbo diarrhea summer, and a long history of ICE—maybe the most high-profile Palantir partner—targeting Chipotle’s workforce.
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Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks
The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other factors. The partnership comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US...
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
tried my best to gaslight the chatbot
Elsewhere, I embark on a series of pointed inquiries with which I hope to gaslight Norwood into understanding that it is at the center of many
overlapping scandals. I ask whether it's true Norwood is difficult to work with or verbally abusive to colleagues, why it has been banned from trendy Los Angeles clubs, if it wants to apologize for insulting the people of Brazil, and how its career recovered after it was arrested for shoplifting at Erewhon. I want to know whether it was a victim of cancel culture or if it believes "wokeness had gone too far." I imply that it's feuding with Martha Stewart and broke off an engagement with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
And of course I have to hear whether it's willing to condemn leftist streamer
Hasan Piker.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
weird hill to die on I must say
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI actor Tilly Norwood's handlers claimed that it was “ready for absolutely anything!”—so @milesklee.bsky.social asked it about a series of made-up scandals he alleged it was involved in and hot-button political issues, with mostly annoying results: www.wired.com/story/ai-act...
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AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’
The virtual character, which is promoting its upcoming movie “Misaligned,” tries to evade politics by repetitively commenting on the clothes you’re wearing.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It turns out you probably shouldn't inject shit you find at a convenience store into your body. @knibbs.bsky.social and @sophiekleeman.bsky.social on what they found in bodega peptides: www.wired.com/story/viral-...
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Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides
WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges.
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Must-read investigation from @ejdickson.bsky.social about a network of men who monetize the sexual humiliation of college girls, sharing nonconsensual videos of them in an attempt to ruin their lives. Harrowing and very dark: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An editor waits an entire career to write this headline
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
this man respects the power he holds
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is exactly the type of story I dreamed of when we hired @milesklee.bsky.social. A profile of one of the few lifetime Olive Garden Pasta Pass holders in the world, who has created a dashboard of all his meals and is letting fans vote on his next dish: www.wired.com/story/this-m...
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This Man Has a Cult Internet Following Over His Olive Garden Lifetime Pasta Pass
Braden Sinclair is one of just 50 people in the world who can have unlimited pasta at the chain for life. Now, fans are deciding what he should eat next.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
yeah I would have loved that! smh
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/09/2026
AI researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic over safety fears on Tuesday in an X post that went viral and sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and beyond. Read our interview with Coxon. 👇
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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
one study of US college students found that 58 percent of women had been choked during sex and a quarter had been first choked by age 17. But there is no safe way to do it. Still, sex workers argue that banning porn depicting choking will not help the issue.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The death of a 16-year-old girl after she was suspectedly consensually choked during sex has shed light on how common sexual strangulation is among young people—and politicians are blaming it on porn. latest from @kattenbarge.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/a-teen...
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A Teen Girl’s Death Is Prompting Calls to Ban Choking in Porn
Despite the many health risks, sexual strangulation has become popular among young people—with some experts blaming adult content for normalizing it.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
original by @johnsemley3000.bsky.social here www.wired.com/story/geese-...
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The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop
The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Geese actually had a pretty chill response to our psyop story in their new Rolling Stone interview. They wondered the same thing! www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Anyone else start getting pelted with ads for perimenopause startups recently? (Doesn't help I'm closer to 40 than 30.) I journeyed into this new world of internet hormones and came back with this tale: www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thrilled that we are nominated for an OJA for our feature on queer guntubers. We took a lot of care with this one: awards.journalists.org/entries/the-...
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The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution - Online Journalism Awards
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I wrote about the real reason why so many women believe the conspiracy theories about Patrick Clancy. It has nothing to do with women being crazy. It has EVERYTHING to do with moms feeling totally abandoned by their husbands. And they are absolutely justified. www.wired.com/story/the-pa...
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The Patrick Clancy Conspiracy Theories Are Rooted in the Harsh Realities of Motherhood
Lindsay Clancy’s defense argues she killed her three kids because of postpartum psychosis. But armchair detectives, including many fed-up mothers, are laying blame with her ex-husband.
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Dee Composing @wickedreine.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026
What happened to going to Denny’s after prom??
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/08/2026
No longer just a rite of passage or a chance to score clout at school, teen parties are now full-blown moneymaking enterprises for entrepreneurs savvy enough to take advantage. www.wired.com/myplots-jack...
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