#WIRED

AeroDork

AeroDork

Shiva Star, the USAF’s pulsed-power research device, was used to power a project called “MARAUDER.” The SDI experiment was intended to produce a toroid of plasma and fire it at

🇺🇸 𝟜𝟘ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕕 🇺🇸 ⭐⭐⭐ 🇺🇸

40_head

1/4. Minutes before Trump announced his positive CV19 results, 2 specialized "Nightwatch" aircraft took off, patrolling the nation's coastlines.They're airborne command posts at the president's disposal. An Anon found

🦑 Emily Willingham 🦑

ejwillingham

No, the study ****did not find that****. Not even their own extremely limited data (n=1 person for most tests) show that. And where is the outside scientific comment on this

James McQuivey

jmcquivey

@FrankBruni 's newletter "We're not wired to be this alone" today is good, thoughtful, and worth reading. It's also wrong in a key respects, though ones that are easily forgivable.

Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺

andrewflood

This also explains why climate denialist lobbyists were willing to organise & fund Covid denialism. Controlling the pandemic has hit oil revenue hard. For almost all of this it’s a

WIRED UK

WiredUK

A new generation of golfers who hit harder and further than any before them has pushed the sport to an existential crisis.As the Masters gets underway, big-hitters are getting ready

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

It's a good thing that actual public health professionals look to data to understand risk rather than a comic strip artist's "strong feelings" about obesity. Shaming people for their health

Mike Masnick

mmasnick

Yesterday, @wired published a giant cover story with the headline "Everything You've Heard About Section 230 Is Wrong." Except, that's not really what the piece is about. It basically cherry

Show Your Work

showusyourwork

Now that it's over, here are some selections from "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020" by @peteleyden and @peterschwartz2 from @wired's July 1997 issue (thread)"Remember my friend,

Steven Potter

IAmStevenPotter

I got paid today. I'm fortunate to have work when so many don't.The first thing I did this morning -- before paying any other bills -- was subscribe to two

ignoramus

__ignoramus__

@AdamcFisher Half way thru' ,Valley of genius. I would not have other wise known Bob Taylor's name. It is still crazy to think that Alan Kay was a mentee and

Matt Burgess

mattburgess1

New. Test and Trace has been operational for more than a month, 150,000 people have had data processed. The gov still hasn't completed a mandatory impact assessment to help protect

Damon Beres 🦇

dlberes

niceee HELL YEAH Old Wired was so good! (not a comment on the quality of current Wired, just observing) thick and heavy, too I could be wrong, but it’s hard

Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD

cfiesler

Like technical debt, #EthicalDebt is the unpaid cost of future "bugs" that aren't fixed during technology design--but those bugs are harms to individuals or society. @LifeofNoods and I wrote about

dave karpf

davekarpf

Okay, so everyone is dunking on this take. And I’m gonna dunk on it too. But from a sliiiiiightly different angle. I think the Biden/Harris non-answer is basically fine. It’s

Nneka 🇳🇬

ElegantSavant

I’m not giving any man any space for any stupid excuse, a woman’s brain is not wired different. Don’t be stupid! Try this nonsense lazy lie you tell yourselves and