Since jack decided to mock WIRED's content this week (clearly without ever visiting the site), I thought I would just point out just a small sample of the incredible work my colleagues have published this week alone...

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I stopped paying attention to Balaji long before he made his recent comment about being “ethnically cleansed out of San Francisco,” but it may SHOCK you to know that back in the day he was a Moldbug handmaiden wired.com/story/balaji-s…

For years Epik was the technology company keeping far-right and extremist websites online when other companies refused to do business with them.

Now they've been acquired by a company that specializes in helping businesses keep their operations secret wired.trib.al/xPXarF5

I wrote this for WIRED inspired by my brother -- the coolest and (until I wrote this) only DeLorean owner I know.

wired.com/story/delorean…

'The early ’90s had no hip-hop message boards. There was no social media. The legend of 'Illmatic' was built from street corner to street corner, person to person, party to party.'

C. Brandon Ogbunu + CHECKIN’ Out Now! #APTMC on the 30th anniversary of Nasir Jones' 'Illmatic'

wired.com/story/nas-illm…

'It’s exciting to point the finger at a scary technology, but the real cause of the flooding is likely more banal: Dubai is comically ill-equipped to deal with rainfall.' Amit Katwala on Dubai's flash floods wired.com/story/dubai-fl…

A data broker tracked the devices of visitors to a private island where Jeffrey Epstein allegedly assaulted and trafficked countless women and girls.

The data, exposed online, details precise coordinates where hundreds live and work in the US

wired.com/story/jeffrey-…

Soledar Salt Mine shut down when Russia invaded Ukraine. For a while, it was a bunker. About a year into the fighting, Russia seized & occupied it. Now, the Ukrainian government has recreated Soledar in Minecraft so everyone can visit it. A look inside:
wired.com/story/ukraine-…

This is the definitive story of Reddit, on the eve of the company's IPO.

@wired spoke to more than 60 people—mods and Reddit employees, current and former—to document the company's very bumpy history in unprecedented detail. By Paresh Dave Robert Peck

wired.com/story/inside-r…

For a Graham Foundation research project, I tagged along with archaeologists and geophysicists hoping to use electromagnetic tools—such as ground-penetrating radar—to map everything underground. On an “International Subsurface Exploration Agency” for WIRED. wired.com/story/scientis…

What’s it like to be a personal shopper for the Ukrainian military during a time of existential struggle? The great Samanth Subramanian profiled a Ukrainian-born Silicon Valley tech executive who has helped procure more than $100 million in equipment 👇👇👇

David Roberts how great was the Wired story about the woman making all the oil companies do geothermal? wired.com/story/where-to…

“In time, we all end up in a folder somewhere, if we’re lucky.”

'Our own age’s greasy stew of absurdity and apocalypticism, creeping death tinged with clown-shoe idiocy, suggests a world that has finally, fatefully, caught up with Pynchon.' john for WIRED wired.com/story/living-u…

Two questions for bird Twitter:

1) Is this owl in my back yard a barred owl like the apps say?

2) If I place a feeder for smaller birds nearby, will it affect this owl’s preference for chilling on this branch all day?

“How long is it before there’s an injection for your appetites, your vices?”

I wrote like 8,000 words and these Finns read them.

The very definition of sisu.