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WIRED
• Jeremy White
AI Promised the Audemars Piguet x Swatch Wristwatch. China Will Deliver It
Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity.
McSweeney’s
• Max Gutmann, Sylvia Gutmann, and Isaac Gutman
The Secret Meanings of Pop Stars’ Names
A Moment That Changed Me: I Saw My First Total Solar...
A Moment That Changed Me: I Saw My First Total Solar Eclipse — and Its Beauty Shook Me to My Core. “I knew the theory, but I was not ready for the experience.”
WIRED
• Kat Merck
InstaFarm Automated Indoor Microgreens Garden Review: Easy Being Green
The InstaFarm makes growing your own microgreens practical at home.
WIRED
• Steven Rosenbaum
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true.
WIRED
• John Brandon
Klipsch the Fives II Speakers Review for Music, Movies, More (2026)
These bookshelf speakers are excellent for music playback, but you'll want to stick with a soundbar for theater-shaking surround sound.
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
Challenges and Wins of Developer Advocacy Plus OpenTelemetry and Neurodiversity in Modern Tech
In this episode, hostsCarl Alexander and guest Diana Todia discuss neurodiversity in tech and the role of Developer Relations, emphasizing the importance of community support, open source contributions, and the growing significance of OpenTelemetry for observability.
WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
HelloFresh Meal Kit Review (2026): Vast Options, Good Execution
The HelloFresh meal kit has harnessed AI and modern logistics to field the most impressively gigantic menu I have ever seen. Recipe times are still lies, though.
WIRED
• Matt Burgess
Your iPhone Gets Stolen. Then the Hacking Begins
A bustling underground ecosystem is providing criminals with the tools to unlock iPhones—and wage phishing attacks against their contacts to access bank accounts and more.
The Daily
• The New York Times
A New Leader — and a New Showdown — at the Fed
WIRED
• Miles Klee
These Instagram Ads Sure Seem to Be Selling Cocaine Accessories
From designer straws to magnet-sealed leather pouches, the platform is awash in products seemingly built for coke—despite Meta’s policies on drug paraphernalia.
WIRED
• Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode, Steven Levy, Zoë Schiffer
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it's like inside a company where "everyone is unhappy."
Trump Iran Tirade Visibly Rattles GOPers as Leaks Expose New Blunders
Lever Time - The Lever
• David Sirota
Will The Strait Of Hormuz Sink The American Empire?
David Sirota asks what Trump's war is really costing us.
WIRED
• Molly Higgins
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Scripting News for email
• Dave Winer
Scripting News: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Tedium
• Ernie Smith
The Biz Reaper
If Byron Allen shows up at your door, you did something wrong with your media business. And BuzzFeed has a visitor. Also: I built a thing.
The American people are watching the courts abandon precedent, ignore the Constitution, and bend over backwards to give Donald Trump whatever he wants. Every ruling like this further erodes people’s faith in institutions that are supposed to be independent, credible, and grounded in the law.
Along the Walnut Creek Trail.