Actor/singer/freelance editor. Former features editor at WIRED. Former editor in chief of Epic magazine. Co-coiner of the term crowdsourcing.
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Joined January 2009
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This piece by @jeanguerre about her father, "targeted individuals," and the way we've given ourselves over to the internet is absolutely outstanding: wired.com/story/my-father-sa…
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Big story from @a_greenberg:
The DOJ has settled a lawsuit w/ a 3-D gunmaker who claimed a 1st amendment right to distribute information on the internet -- even if that "speech" is the blueprint for making a gun.
This could hugely undermine gun control: wired.com/story/a-landmark-l…
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Be sure to read @nonlinearnotes on Roseanne: "a carnival of political and social discourse where opinions detonate left and right"
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Very happy to be joining Wired as a regular contributor. My first piece came out this morning: teapaw.org/WIRED/status/967059353…
"We don’t want to wait until everyone who asks questions about antitrust policy is preceding them with the phrase 'OK, Google,'" writes @robertwrighter in WIRED Ideas bit.ly/2Cftd5s
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My latest @WIRED yarn is about the engineers (including a jellyfish expert) who've been struggling to reinvent the supersonic parachute. Because all of our Martian dreams may be for naught if we can't get a little nylon to behave. wired.com/story/the-superson… #longreads
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Absolutely essential, must read @WIRED piece by one of the few people who actually know Special Counsel Mueller well - @vermontgmg - on the consequences to the #TrumpRussia investigation if Mueller is fired.👇🏼wired.com/story/heres-what-h…
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This @WIRED excerpt from @CharlesCMann 's new book (Out TODAY!, all about the battle between technologists and environmentalists, but also, about so much more) is so awesome. wired.com/story/meet-the-ama…
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"The needs and desires research and development is addressing are, for the most part, the needs and desires of men." longreads.com/2017/10/26/the…
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A superb, clarifying piece about the Mueller investigation by Mueller's biographer, @vermontgmg wired.com/story/how-to-inter…
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The making of @_alex_mar’s cover story for @WIRED‘s November issue, “Love in the Time of Robots.” @michellelegro longreads.com/2017/10/26/the…
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A sign (literally) of how far tech has fallen: New Yorkers claim ethical superiority wired.com/story/new-york-the… via @eringriffith
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Great story, including a bit where Tony crashes his bike and breaks the writer's phone wired.com/story/tony-fadell-…
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The same design firm behind the opening credits for Game of Thrones, brought today's epic WIRED cover to life: bit.ly/2ysrOUv
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The plot thickens: Bogus Russian accounts bought more than 5,000 political ads on Facebook wired.com/story/facebook-tie… via @issielapowsky
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In 2012, a known bug in millions of hotel locks went unfixed. Now, meet the man who exploited it for >100 burglaries wired.com/2017/08/the-hotel-…
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“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this." mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/2…
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Relive the optimism, greed, and madness of the first dotcom boom in an excerpt from Louis Rossetto’s new novel bit.ly/2wsIY5E
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For the track fans out there. Nick Thompson and break down the world championships. wired.com/story/breaking-dow…
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I found this @robertwrighter piece clear, careful, open-minded. V helpful view of #buddhism and #mindflness in US bit.ly/2vzHlAs