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reporter @ WIRED covering the politics and power influencing the internet DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32 FAQ, Instagram, TikTok, & everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly

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😭😍

30.10.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

can’t wait!!!!!!

29.10.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i don’t want to be a Christmas freak on the timeline just yet… but guys we’re getting so close to Egg Nog Season forget the xmas part of it all

29.10.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

evil!!!

29.10.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i've been trying to find a secondhand couch for my office since june and everything on facebook marketplace is BOUCLE

29.10.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

idk if anyone else gets these videos of Pokemon card vendors giving kids cards for free........ but it's so sweet and i'm terrified of them getting milkshake ducked

29.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates.

Scoop: In digging into the AI slopification of the White House, I’ve learned that the president of the United States is capable, from time to time, of posting generative AI videos on his own, per a senior WH official.

More in this week’s Inner Loop @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/donald...

29.10.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 20

guys is the secret to success actually drama and going scorched earth on all of your enemies

27.10.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hundreds of People With β€˜Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website A database containing information on people who applied for jobs with Democrats in the US House of Representatives was left accessible on the open web.

New with @lhn.bsky.social:

Thousands of people who applied for jobs with the Democrats in the US House of Representatives have had their data exposed onlineβ€”including hundreds with "top secret" clearance

Officials say they have launched an investigation into the data exposure

27.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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AI of a Thousand Faces What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

πŸŽ‡New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

27.10.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 181    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

the fnaf lore did not live up to what i expected lol :(

27.10.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

before this i had zero interest in FNAF i really don’t know what i was thinking i was down so bad

27.10.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

my last big break up, i flew home to nebraska and stayed at my brother’s but he had to work so i watched five night’s at freddy’s lore videos during the day alone for like a week

27.10.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

getting a tattoo of all your computer passwords

26.10.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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tf?

25.10.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

lol i did not click!

25.10.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

got a text from an unknown number and it was just a link to a dance moms episode on youtube?

25.10.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

i love discussing ontological models of distributed microservices via agentic workflows

24.10.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Andrew Cuomo Campaign Is All in on MAGA Influencers With the NYC mayoral race coming to a close, Andrew Cuomo is courting right-wing creators.

NEW: Andrew Cuomo wants to separate himself from Trump.

So why is his campaign teaming up with the same MAGA influencers who helped Trump win?

More here:
www.wired.com/story/andrew...

23.10.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 8

The Cuomo campaign's renewed social strategy also includes a handful of MAGA influencers who helped Trump win in 2024.

More from me here!
bsky.app/profile/make...

23.10.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At least one other AI-generated video that's come out of the Cuomo camp recently was seemingly created by Zach Sage Fox's company Fat Camp Films.

Fox touts work with the Bloomberg 2020 campaign and has collaborated on posts with Canary Mission on Instagram.
www.wired.com/story/andrew...

23.10.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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White House Staffers Couldn't Care Less About the East Wing Demolition β€œNot affecting me at all, to be honest,” a White House aide tells WIRED.

They don't really care. Do you?

My latest on how the East Wing demolition is going down among White House aides, now live on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/white-...

23.10.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 3
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The Andrew Cuomo Campaign Is All in on MAGA Influencers With the NYC mayoral race coming to a close, Andrew Cuomo is courting right-wing creators.

Makena Kelly hive, stand up (Cuomo digital scoop edition) www.wired.com/story/andrew...

23.10.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fox has also been tagged in posts by Canary Mission, a group that created a website to track and dox protesters during the peak of pro-Palestinian student protests last year.

www.wired.com/story/andrew...

23.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Cuomo campaign also recently brought on a new digital director named Zach Sage Fox who worked with the Mike Bloomberg 2020 campaign on its huge and widely-criticized meme push.
www.wired.com/story/andrew...

23.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Andrew Cuomo Campaign Is All in on MAGA Influencers With the NYC mayoral race coming to a close, Andrew Cuomo is courting right-wing creators.

NEW: Andrew Cuomo wants to separate himself from Trump.

So why is his campaign teaming up with the same MAGA influencers who helped Trump win?

More here:
www.wired.com/story/andrew...

23.10.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 8

following the assault of emiru, a popular streamer, many have claimed that twitchcon had no security. that's not true. but security and safety are not the same thing, especially when the people who need protecting are women in a community steeped in clip-hungry online misogyny

22.10.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 425    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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Are We on a Path to Civil War, or Something Else? Experts in civil unrest don’t think a civil war is around the corner. But they’re still nervous about what happens next: β€œThe fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its fi...

β€œLet’s, all of us, get into this moment and learn some shit … I think sometimes we need to resist, sometimes we need to put flowers in the guns of the National Guard, and persuade themβ€”just a bunch of working stiffs who didn't sign up to do this.”

22.10.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

don't make me tap the sign www.wired.com/story/trump-...

22.10.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

After this far-right propagandist put an inflammatory spotlight on vendors on Canal Street, ICE agents were spotted at the location making indiscriminate arrests of anyone they think looks like a delivery person or vendor (ie: not white)

21.10.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 491    πŸ” 226    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 18

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