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Joined October 2014
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Wrote about Bookshop.org & its founder Andy Hunter, who might be the only genuinely humble CEO I've ever met...its a story about bookselling, but also: zines, the Beastie Boys, the future of small businesses, and a pet rat named Agent Jellybean
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If you belong to your local Buy Nothing group, and you've noticed things have seemed a little different lately (well, weirder than people offering their old sofa stuffing), there's a good reason. 🧵
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AlphaBay was the largest online drug and crime bazaar in history, run by an elusive mastermind who seemed untouchable. Now the world-shifting story of how a dark web goliath fell to a scrappy group of detectives is finally being told.
🎨: @hogingkim
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A startup believes they've found a way to delay aging in our furry friends—and humans could be next. wired.trib.al/5Mu6fBS
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The story of a mother and son who were lost at sea in 2016 has concluded: The Vermont man found in the raft has been charged with killing his mother to inherit an estate worth millions. This is our 2021 feature on the haunting tale: wired.trib.al/45okIXU
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Since 2020, I've been writing a book on how Bitcoin, once said to be untraceable, turned out to be the opposite. Today we're releasing an early, 15,000-word excerpt: Inside the crypto tracing case that took down the largest known child sex abuse site ever. wired.com/story/tracers-in-t…
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In 2020, news broke of a lawsuit alleging caste discrimination at Cisco, based in San Jose. Since then, lots of pieces about caste in the US have come out. But there's always more to the story. Hope you'll read this one I wrote for @WIRED wired.com/story/trapped-in-s…
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Streaming star @pokimanelol has built her life into the optimal internet content machine. So what now? A new chapter, and a maybe, just maybe, a little time to enjoy it:
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.@Twitter was founded 15 years ago with the goal of changing how people communicate online.
But what started as a fun app for socializing gave way to something bigger: it became a voice for the voiceless: wired.trib.al/2oysd5j
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On February 6, Jeffrey Fang became the ire of the internet when he left his kids in a van to chase a thief who stole his phone.
It never would have been a story if the van hadn’t then been carjacked. wired.trib.al/L7t68zZ 1/5
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Remember the DoorDash worker whose children were taken when his van was carjacked? Turns out, that’s just the latest of Jeffrey Fang’s hair-raising ride in the gig economy. My latest for @WIRED
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Jeffrey Fang was delivering a DoorDash meal when his minivan was carjacked.
But he had a bigger problem than missed deliveries: his kids were in the backseat.
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Reemergence is making me anxious, so I wrote about it
... which also made me anxious wired.com/story/the-spit-swa…
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In 2014, 276 school girls were kidnapped in Nigeria by the terrorist group Boko Haram the night before their finals.
A lawyer with less than 100 followers tweeted about it with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, and a movement began:
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A mysterious death was believed to be hypothermia—but why then, were two of the dead missing their eyes, and another her tongue? Conspiracy theorists have run wild, but science suggests something else is to blame.
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For those who have lost a loved one, finding ways to ground themselves can be the difference between healing and spiraling. For this writer, that grounding came in the form of a four-cylinder superbike.
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In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived. wired.trib.al/Ix73XPT
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A note from our Editor in Chief @nxthompson on Covid-19 and WIRED: [THREAD] 👇
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From the inside scoops of the world's biggest tech companies to strange and mysterious deaths, here are the WIRED #longread stories you read the most this year. wired.trib.al/02gNv2g