You can follow Brian Barrett on Bluesky at @brbarrett, Katie Drummond on Bluesky at @katie-drummond, and Leah Feiger on Bluesky at @leahfeiger. Write to us at [email protected]. Articles mentioned in this episode: Nathan Fielder Tells Us Everything How Elizabeth Holmes Tricked WIRED—and Everyone Else Election Offices in at Least 32 States Have Received Suspicious Letters They Fled Trump’s America.
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Brian Barrett: Well, welcome to WIRED's Uncanny Valley. I'm Brian Barrett, executive editor. Leah Feiger: And I'm Leah Feiger, director of politics and science.
This week, we're diving into the behind the scenes of our interview with Nathan Fielder. WIRED's global editorial director, Katie Drummond, was among a small group of people who saw Fielder's latest documentary, You Can See Everything, way before its release. She spoke with Fielder at length and will be joining us to share what stayed with her after their interview.
Brian Barrett: We'll also get into Anthropic and Elon Musk pledging to share their riches with the public. Anthropic announced that it would commit 5 percent of company shares to a public benefit fund, and Musk followed suit by promising he would give one SpaceX share to every child in America. We'll discuss the motivations behind these pledges and the chances that they'll actually happen?
Leah Feiger: And we're also going to take a look at the harassment campaign that has hit election offices across the country just two weeks before the midterms. A WIRED investigation found that election offices in at least 32 states have received suspicious letters, some of them containing white powder. We'll talk through what happened and how election officials are responding.
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