Welcome to Wired's Uncanny Valley.

I'm Wired's director of business and industry, Zoe Schiffer.

Today on the show, we're bringing you the top stories that you need to know about this week,

including how the Democrats fared much better than anyone expected in this week's elections,

and how some of those victories show the power of online fandom.

I'm joined today by our senior politics editor, Leah Feiger.

Hey, Zoe, great to be here.

Leah, our first story this week is one that will really make your hood spin.

And it's about how Mark Zuckerberg opened an illegal school at his Palo Alto compound.

Zoe, I'm obsessed with this story. Before you continue, I think that it's really important to say

that Caroline, the lovely reporter of this story on your business desk, obtained 1,665 pages

of documents about the dispute about Zuckerberg's house. This story is canon now.

Caroline Hoskins is a complete star. Our fact-dict team literally cried when I asked them.

They were like, wait, sorry, how many documents are we looking through? I was like, yes. Shout out to the

wired research team forever.

Absolutely. The school, I think we just have to say, is named after one of the Zuckerberg family

chickens. It's called the Bickenbens. I mean, here can you say this. It's, I know you're being

serious, but again. So the Crescent City neighborhood in Palo Alto

where the Zuckerbergs live, as you can imagine, is some of the best real estate in the entire

country. It's filled with these gorgeous homes, a ton of greenery. Mark Zuckerberg has been

expanding his presence throughout the years in this ultra-fancy neighborhood. The plot of land that the

Zuckaberg's live on has expanded to include 11 previously separate properties. This is so funny and

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