@JeffreyVC

**On an extended hiatus from Twitter.** Former reviews director at WIRED. Opinions are my own.

Joined January 2009
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"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-steph-cu… @wired @GiladEdelman

The Crypto Industry Is Getting Too Honest

What if no one cares whether it’s a Ponzi scheme?

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"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-smushi… via @wired

Welcome to the Great Smushing

Digital technologies and Covid have collapsed our identities into mush—a condition that's likely to outlast the pandemic.

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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/archiv…

Is Old Music Killing New Music?

Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.

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I'll never turn down more Star Trek, but it seems like @paramountplus could afford 3 more seasons of #TheExpanse. Perfect match. shar.es/aWINYS
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Artificial padding. Games do not need to be this long. ign.com/articles/dying-light…

Dying Light 2 Will Take 'At Least 500 Hours' to Fully Complete - IGN

Techland has revealed that it will take "at least 500 hours" to fully complete Dying Light 2 and roughly 70-80 hours to finish the main story and all its side quests.

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The headlines write themselves today. vice.com/en/article/qjb485/z…
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It's a fun time to be a wrestling fan!
SB Nation
@SBNation21 Aug 2021
CM PUNK IS BACK IN WRESTLING In 2014, he walked away from WWE 7 years later, he’s back in the ring for AEW @cagesideseats
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"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 @pomeranian99 wired.com/story/to-do-apps-f…

Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t

You want to be productive. Software wants to help. But even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks.

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

Maine becomes first state to shift costs of recycling from taxpayers to companies

The program will charge large packaging producers for collecting and recycling cardboard boxes, plastic containers and other packaging.

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Facebook is getting into watches. I can’t wait for the whole country to disagree on what time it is…theverge.com/2021/6/9/225262… via @Verge @wired

Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor

A way for Facebook to get around Apple and Google.

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

Admit It: The Facebook Oversight Board Is Kind of Working

Facebook has agreed to follow some of the board’s nonbinding recommendations regarding the Donald Trump suspension. That’s progress.

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

30 TV Shows That Changed Everything for LGBTQ+ Representation

From "Pose" to "Heartstopper."

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

Debris Gets Canceled at NBC After Just One Season

NBC has opted not to renew its drama Debris, with the season 1 finale now serving as the series finale.

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

The Best Memorial Day Sales on Tech, Gaming, Home, and More

There are deals on the best headphones, our favorite sunglasses, and dozens of other WIRED top picks this holiday weekend.

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"...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-the-… via @wired

The Friends Reunion Proves It’s Time to Move On

The show found a second life on streaming, but now it’s time to let it go.

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Agreed. Inverse loves to bait Google Discover.
Julian Chokkattu@JulianChokkattu24 May 2021
Stop telling me what to do!!!
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Everything Google Announced Today: Android, AI, Holograms wired.com/story/google-io-20… via @wired

Everything Google Announced Today: Android, AI, Holograms

The annual Google IO developer conference kicked off with a two-hour keynote filled with announcements. Here are the highlights.

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"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/archiv…

Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up

Today’s economic conditions are not just holding Millennials back. They are stratifying them, leading to unequal experiences within the generation as well as between it and other cohorts.

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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-whe… via @wired

Remember When You Could See Inside a Gaming Console?

Translucent devices like the Game Boy Color made a tacit promise to players: Everything the light touches is yours. But the future seems to be a black box.

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