A few months ago, Nathan Fielder’s publicist sent me an unexpected email: Would WIRED be interested in Fielder for a fall cover of our magazine? The answer, before we even got a reason, was yes. The reason, it turned out, was that Fielder would soon release a project that was so top-secret, I’d need to
Nathan Fielder’s nearly three-hour documentary about disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes is running up numbers at the box office. The film, “You Can See Everything,” grossed $15 million in the US and Canada during its opening weekend, according to A24, the film’s distributor. That’s the best opening weekend for a documentary this year. “Melania” had the
Last week, the stand-up comedian Julia Jasunas was on Instagram when she got a DM from a fellow comic. Did she know, her friend wrote, that a random Instagram influencer had ripped off a joke from her stand-up act? Initially, Jasunas was mad but not overly shocked. Plagiarism is not uncommon in the stand-up comedy
Jenna Miscavige is the niece of David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology. She was raised as a Scientologist and left when she was 22 years old. Founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1954, Scientology developed into a global religious movement, reportedly reaching over 100,000 members at its peak in the
If you have young kids or if you know somebody who does, then you know about YouTube’s AI slop problem. Videos targeted at children on the platform are often filled with bizarre and hyperstimulating content that’s AI generated. Not all of it is age-appropriate. These videos autoplay on endless, algorithmically curated streams punctuated by ads.
After Mark Zuckerberg’s cautious-looking sip of stout on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s “Cheeky Pint” podcast became a social-media talking point, a new debate has emerged: which tech leaders can actually hold their drink? Soon after Zuckerberg’s much-memed appearance, ETN, a tech podcast, built what it called the “Cheeky Pint Benchmark,” publishing a leaderboard of guests’
