I’m so grateful to all the workers who trusted me to tell their stories @WIRED these past few years. It’s been an honor and a thrill. I learned from the best and got to write about dogged union fights, donor-conceived family reunions, employees grappling with layoffs, and more.
Special thanks to @wiredunion for the ongoing support for all of the departed and for working to protect the future of those who remain. It was an honor to serve as a steward and grievance officer. ✊
(Heart)BREAKING NEWS: After 20 years @WIRED , I was among the group of talented editors, writers, designers, and others laid off last Thursday. I am grateful for the career I was able to build there and proud of the work we all did together.
Many folks have told me that they can't imagine WIRED without me. Now I'm off to imagine me without WIRED. I'm looking for full-time editorial work, with benefits.
I would humbly (not really humbly) suggest everyone re-read this for context on what happened this weekend. A big focus in this story was on the issue apparently behind the drama.
@johnsemley3000 I bought this at Cheap Thrills in New Brunswick, NJ, based solely on their name and the album art. It was not what I was expecting—who could expect that?!—and blew my 18-year-old mind.
In her twenties, Patricia Moore went undercover as a woman of 85. Her discoveries transformed how our world is designed but, 40 years later, I learned firsthand how far we still have to go.
I profiled Moore for @WIRED: https://t.co/tDEAPZBgG8
Meet Brandon Sanderson. Brandon published two books in the time it took our writer to finish this story. Brandon's fantasy writing made him $55 million last year. Brandon doesn't think he's a very good writer.
📷: Michael Friberg | https://t.co/GczMykmqeC
"At that first dinner, over flopsy Utah Chinese—days before I’d meet his extended family, and attend his fan convention, and take his son to a theme park, and cry in his basement—I find Sanderson depressingly, story-killingly lame." @jkehe for @WIRED https://t.co/zXtvUwhv6I
today is the big 5-0 of GRAVITY'S RAINBOW: a big, weird book that's as big and weird--bigger and weirder, even--than history itself. i wrote an appreciation of the novel, and Pynchon's clear-eyed vision of the future, which is our present, for @WIRED.
https://t.co/5n1XMzemgm
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. 🧵
"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." @johnsemley3000 for @WIRED https://t.co/0WEvIUiOYP
Thomas Pynchon’s GRAVITY’S RAINBOW, which is THE American novel of the 20th century, turns fifty this month.
for @WIRED, I wrote about the book’s significance, its brilliance, and how our world has—finally, absurdly, despairingly—caught up with it. https://t.co/77pwOJMC8x