Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those of us as terminally online as I am, let me…
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How to Stop ChatGPT from Going Off the Rails
When WIRED asked me to cover this week’s newsletter, my first instinct was to ask ChatGPT—OpenAI’s viral chatbot—to see what it came up with. It’s what I’ve…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room at a meeting of Meta’s Oversight Board, the …
Why the World Fell for Sam Bankman-Fried
Back in April I paid $12 to “attend” a virtual event with 30-year-old crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried. Around 45 other people registered for the Zoom,…
Good Luck Getting Elon Musk to Stop Tweeting
Why do it? When I wrote about Musk’s tweeting earlier this year, I leaned toward the idea that Twitter itself had led him into this 280-character…
Big Tech’s Layoffs Will Fuel the Industry’s Future
Hi everyone. Welcome to Plaintext, the newsletter that’s cheaper than a blue check mark—and guaranteed bot-free!The Plain ViewThis was the month when Big…
Elon Musk’s Need for Speed Puts Twitter in Peril
Hi, everyone. Life is good because the Phillies are in the World Series! (Disclosure: I’m from Philadelphia.) Uh-oh, they just got no-hit. Booooo!The Plain…
Why Meta Is Tanking—and How Zuckerberg Can Fix It
2012: Facebook plays catch-up with mobile. Not many people realize that Facebook had an existential scare when the action in computing shifted from the…
What the Soup-Throwing Climate Activists Got Right
Some people have argued that the stunt discredited the wider climate movement. I don’t buy that for a second. Instead, I suspect it is far more likely to…
What If the Metaverse Is Better Without Virtual Reality?
Another part of the keynote was a scripted conversation between Meta’s vice president of metaverse, Vishal Shah, and his boss, chief technology officer…