Indu Chandrasekhar

VP of Growth and Subscriptions @StraightArrow__, formerly @WIRED @WSJ @MarketWatch @Telegraph

[Tess Owen @misstessowen]

When I spoke to Brandon Fellows, a J6 rioter, by phone, he told me he was shopping online for guns — despite federal laws preventing felons owning firearms.

That's how confident he feels that Trump will wipe his slate clean, he told me.

https://t.co/aL2cVGw5UE

[WIRED @WIRED]

WIRED’s @daithaigilbert met local Oath Keepers leaders Jim and Janet Arroyo at a diner in Yavapai County, Arizona. They’re convinced that there’s a grand conspiracy preventing Trump from winning the election. And they’re not alone.

Read more here: https://t.co/1YfS9q10m3

[WIRED @WIRED]

Update: We’ve already had to update our election violence tracker with new incidents.

With bombs, brawls, and stolen mail-in ballots already in play, the 2024 election is shaping up to be exceptionally chaotic.

The latest here: https://t.co/CpH33ApxZD

[WIRED @WIRED]

America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. https://t.co/t8bWf5Ow53

[Leah Feiger @LeahFeiger]

SCOOP: America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.

WILD story from @JakeLahut: https://t.co/6mLtZD9l9X

[David Gilbert @daithaigilbert]

NEW:

For the last 6 months I have been investigating the #constitutionalsheriffs and their growing links to the election denial movement.

This is a warning that, 10 days out from the election, this group will to do anything to make sure Trump wins

https://t.co/d6gW6pRRKD

[WIRED @WIRED]

EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance's financial policy adviser Aaron Kofsky posted on Reddit for years about the use of cocaine, 'gas station heroin,' and other drugs.

Posts also show he instructed users on how to transport drugs through TSA.

https://t.co/ioti06RfXW

[WIRED @WIRED]

Weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the US, Florida is bracing for another major storm: Hurricane Milton. @evystadium takes a look at how broken US home insurance systems are in this age of climate change.

Full story:
https://t.co/SeNNRKYu4P

[WIRED @WIRED]

SCOOP: A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious “pedophile island.”

🔗 https://t.co/veVcy6TKsR // 📷 Getty Images

[Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) @a_greenberg]

I spent this year talking to the 3 young hackers behind Mirai, the malware that once broke the internet.

This is WIRED's resulting cover story—an epic, untold, 22,000-word tale of cybercrime, friendship, chaos, betrayal, paranoia, and redemption.

Read: https://t.co/tpPk5EGkQJ

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

This is the Facebook playbook: you lure in publishers by promising them a traffic funnel ("post excerpts and links and we'll show them to people, including people who never asked to see them"), and then the rug-pull: "Post everything here, don't link to your own site"

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

Also, Google's helpful content update removed the "written by people" part from its documentation - hello AI

[Berkeleyside @berkeleyside]

We got a rare look inside J. Robert Oppenheimer's UC Berkeley office and inside his luxurious hilltop home, which director Christopher Nolan visited while location-scouting.

Take a photo and history tour of Oppenheimer's life in Berkeley: https://t.co/UWxSljF4D6

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Amazon is a perfect #enshittification parable - platforms subsidize end users until they're locked in, then make life good for business customers at users' expense, until *they're* locked in, then claw back all the value they can, leaving just enough to keep the lock-in going.
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[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Isabella Weber’s ideas about inflation have shifted from “truly stupid,” in the words of her critics, to sound economic practice, supported by an ideologically broad coalition. https://t.co/SfKuBER1V6

[Ian Griffiths @icgee]

In sum - to recover Bay Area transit - cutting service is the absolute worst thing we could do. We need to increase service levels - and we need emergency relief funding from the state urgently to do that.

[WIRED @WIRED]

WIRED Statement on Dell Cameron's Permanent Twitter Suspension:

WIRED learned Wednesday afternoon that senior reporter Dell Cameron's Twitter account was permanently suspended after he reported on Matt Walsh's Twitter account being hacked. 1/3

[Kate Crawford @katecrawford]

ChatGPT strikes again. A journalist contacted me to research her profile on @lexfridman. ChatGPT informed her that @_KarenHao and I were his top critics. It cited articles we'd written about him, gave links, and summaries. Only problem: it's all false. Here's what she sent me:

[Florida Freedom to Read Project @FLFreedomRead]

Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

[Indu Chandrasekhar @indumania]

@emilynussbaum The Way of the Househusband on Netflix — a mafia don turns homemaker. 15 min episodes of pure weird genius.

Lodge 49 on Hulu — indescribably good!