Some fantastic photography here: "From the crystalline midnight-blue PlayStation 2 to the grasshopper-green Xbox, these objects’ outsides offer a curated window into the machinery—and what it means to be a modern gamer." wired.com/story/remember… via @wired

"In terms of income and, especially, wealth, Millennials as a class have fallen behind, accumulating billions and billions of dollars less in net worth than Gen Xers and Baby Boomers did at the same point in their lives." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Everything Google Announced Today: Android, AI, Holograms wired.com/story/google-i… via @wired

Agreed. Inverse loves to bait Google Discover.

"...the issuance of Friends: The Reunion needs to signal the fact that there’s very little, if anything, left to say about this show." wired.com/story/friends-… via @wired

Our roundup of the Best Memorial Day Sales on Tech, Gaming, Home, and More wired.com/story/best-mem… via @wired

A mysterious start, but this show was just heating up. tvweb.com/debris-tv-show…

I would add #SchittsCreek to this list because it's about the wine, not the label. glamour.com/story/big-mome… via Glamour

"The Oversight Board is performing a valuable, though very limited, function, and the Trump situation illustrates why." wired.com/story/facebook…

Facebook is getting into watches. I can’t wait for the whole country to disagree on what time it is…theverge.com/2021/6/9/22526… via @Verge @wired

Congrats to my friends and former colleagues at Outside Magazine for their membership launch. They do terrific work, and I urge you to subscribe. outsideonline.com/outsideplus/

A good step! 👏 washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

"Every to-do list is, ultimately, about death." This story is everything I love about WIRED. Don't put it on your to-do list though! You'll never finish it. Great piece by Clive Thompson wired.com/story/to-do-ap…

It's a fun time to be a wrestling fan!

The headlines write themselves today. vice.com/en/article/qjb…

Artificial padding. Games do not need to be this long. ign.com/articles/dying…

I'll never turn down more Star Trek, but it seems like Paramount+ could afford 3 more seasons of #TheExpanse. Perfect match. shar.es/aWINYS

Fascinating that old music is 70% of the US market, though would the results be quite so different if radio, CDs, album, and MP3 listens were trackable and countable 20 years ago? theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"I’ve been extremely online, and felt hemmed in, anxious, frenzied. By trying to be everyone at once, I haven’t been the best version of anyone." wired.com/story/great-sm… via @wired

"You might think that the head of a major crypto trading platform saying the quiet part out loud .... that he’s at least partly in the Ponzi business, could cause some kind of crisis or loss of confidence in the sector. Not so." wired.com/story/ftx-step… @wired Gilad Edelman