#Wired

Matt Reynolds

mattsreynolds1

The UK variant may have evolved in just one person, infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus for an unusually long time.So what does this mean for the pandemic, and stopping future

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

ENBrown

Backpage was seized & its owners arrested BEFORE FOSTA became law, and @WIRED & @GiladEdelman need to issue a correction The reason this matters is because members of Congress LIED

Virginia Heffernan

page88

A new generation of thinkers have introduced the notion of trauma into the political equation. On Trumpcast, everyone from @davidmweissman to @BandyXLee1 to @ejeancarroll have spoken about it. I have

WIRED UK

WiredUK

In each warm body it infects, the virus behind Covid-19 has the potential to change. Most of those changes are slow and inconsequential. But, in some people, the virus hits

phresh🏍

David_aeiouy

We have what’s called a dark sense of humor, 98% of the population think it’s rude, mean, selfish, just wrong, etc... As soon as I saw that post, I couldn’t

Benedict Evans

benedictevans

So many interesting questions around ‘targeted adverting’ - starting with terminology. Car ads in a car magazine are ‘targeted advertising’, as are gadget ads in Wires. So what *exactly* are

Avi Asher-Schapiro

AASchapiro

I wrote about what how the International Baccalaureate cancelled its exams, & built a black-box algorithm to assign grades. The IB won't release the model—& many are asking: did it

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

Say you have a huge jar of jelly beans.All of them are red, except for a handful of green ones. The green ones contain tetrodotoxin, and will kill you. If

wrc

cpchandme

1). Is there a connection between Fauci and mRNA moderna/other vaccines?First off, there have been multiple observations the covid 19 virus included a spike protein from HIV that apparently IS

Emily M. Bender

emilymbender

Okay, finally got a chance to read this WIRED piece on the IB fiasco (now that #acl2020nlp is done).https://www.wired.com/story/algorithm-set-students-grades-altered-futures/ Full disclosure: my older son finished his IB diploma last year,

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

There's increasing medical consensus that indoor spread of covid takes place through floating aerosol particles. If your environs are warm and dry year round (like my place in San Fernando

Thomas Baekdal

baekdal

One thing that makes me really annoyed is the constant price dumping of traditional magazines. For instance, Wired is now only $5 for a full year ... getting both print

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dirtymercer

okay too much negativity (from myself included!!) a necessary thread on why Netflix hasn’t renewed Julie and the Phantoms yet and why we should remain hopeful (ft. Kenny and the

WIRED UK

WiredUK

On January 22, 2020, Kim Jong-un acted quickly. North Korea closed its borders with China and Russia to stop a new, mysterious virus from spreading. But more than a year

Senthil Veeraraghavan

senthil_veer

This was a good question on vaccine distribution that got buried by Gamestop frenzy. Why don't we have accurate data on inventory and where they are in the chain? 1/nhttps://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1353553464585048065

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

A riff on positive sum:We’re not wired for abundance—We’re wired for scarcityWhen we lived in tribes, if someone took your food, or excluded you, you didn't have anywhere else to

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