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@neuwaves

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fella. bylines: @nytimes @wired . previous: executive editor @motherboard (RIP)

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jordan pearson
3 months
The VICE CMS has been turned off. That's all folks.
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jordan pearson
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Nobody at VICE knows what's happening right now. We've heard from IT that Google Takeout being disabled was not related to any specific event. That being said, this is a decade-long body of work that I am immensely proud of. Motherboard forever.
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jordan pearson
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Coinbase tells us that it will not comply with request to ban all Russian users, cites 'economic freedom' and says ban would harm ordinary citizens
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jordan pearson
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Amazon calls warehouse workers "industrial athletes" and describes grueling labor as "exercising" in leaked pamphlet on how to re-organize your whole life so that you dont seriously injure yourself working for Amazon
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jordan pearson
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And that's officially a wrap on 10 years at Motherboard; a decade spent helping to build one of the most legendary websites of all time, with some of the smartest people in the business. Thousands of blogs, features, scoops, investigations... too many feelings to put in a tweet.
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jordan pearson
4 months
How did a crypto-boosting book from an a16z general partner become an NYT bestseller alongside Britney Spears' memoir? As it turns out, firms linked to the author Chris Dixon/a16z juiced the sales:
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jordan pearson
2 years
🚨 Motherboard is looking for science journalists! Are you interested in: space, the mysteries of the universe, the climate crisis, physics, ancient mysteries, etc.? Email jordan.pearson @vice .com 👽 🍃
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jordan pearson
3 years
motherboard and @bigblackjacobin are debuting our innovative news format: STONKS or NOT STONKS
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2 years
biggest crypto exchange in the world refuses to ban all russian users (while complying with sanctions) at same time donates $10 mil to ukraine
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jordan pearson
4 years
im already pretty freaked out by the idea of surveillance devices in airbnbs i stay in, and now the company is shilling them directly to hosts at a discount
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jordan pearson
6 months
A new GTA game is hot dropping right into our curdled society and people are incoherently screaming that it's: degenerate, tasteless, woke (??), and more. We are so back
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jordan pearson
4 months
How's advertising on X going? Numerous people complained about ads smearing a TV chef, showing Photoshopped images of her being arrested, linking to a fake news website calling her a liar, all to promote a crypto platform
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jordan pearson
3 years
we live in glorious abundance together
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jordan pearson
3 months
A sincere thank you to these volunteers. It was a nice surprise on an otherwise awful day to discover that our work had already been archived
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Aram Zucker-Scharff | @[email protected]
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An interesting little fact about Vice's content: a full site archive, including saving outbound links, was performed by the volunteer Archive Team last year and it took ~six months to capture all the Vice content across all the languages they publish in. They've published a lot!
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jordan pearson
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A facility making 3D printed emergency medical equipment in Gaza was destroyed by Israel, severely hampering the ability to ramp up production locally in anticipation of more injury and death:
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jordan pearson
2 months
Musk confirms in deposition that a disturbing burner account that @josephfcox and I reported was most likely Musk’s was, in fact, his. Hilarious stuff. Burner (unclear if he’s still posting from it): Original story:
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In a newly released deposition, Elon Musk admits he used a burner account to tweet as his toddler and that he “may have done more to financially impair the company than to help it,” in reference to Twitter/X.
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jordan pearson
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I never thought all those years ago that I would eventually be Motherboard's executive editor and its very last employee. It was an honor to go down with the ship. Journalism has been the ride of a lifetime and I don't want it to end. Stay in touch: pearson.jordan1 @gmail .com.
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jordan pearson
4 years
when innocent working people are being shot at and murdered by people who want capitalism to get moving, this starts to seem like a very literal class war
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jordan pearson
2 years
even as inflation cools and the price for things like oil and eggs goes down, life is still going to be more expensive forever. the reason is corporate greed @bigblackjacobin writes
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jordan pearson
4 years
a supermassive black hole's explosion raged for hundreds of millions of years, making it the biggest blast ever detected since the universe began how to even begin wrapping one's head around this:
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jordan pearson
2 years
prefab sprout is still undefeated
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jordan pearson
5 months
PACER crumbled during the release of some of the most widely-anticipated court docs of the decade, maybe the century. Even if it worked, it cost $35. It's time for some things to change:
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jordan pearson
4 years
a really lovely reflection on nostalgia by @robzacny and a miraculous event where the thing you fetishized as a naive child still has charm and appeal
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jordan pearson
4 years
[clears throat] EXTRATERRESTRIAL PROTEINS the first protein (a key ingredient for lifeforms) to come from outer space is called "hemolithin"
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jordan pearson
4 years
🎵 we all live in a s̵͖̭̓̈̈́͛ ̴̣͖̣̘̋̊̑ͅṗ̶̝̏́ ̶̙̉ả̵̺̥͖̥ ̷͎̪̆c̵̤͚̘̑̂̇ ̵̠̈́̄͆ȩ̶̮͕̺̃͛̂̆ ̶͈͒b̴̯̒͋̌̔̓ ̸̖͎̘͒̂ù̸̺̦̠̎̾ ̴̗͚̽͝ḅ̴̮̳͖̜͑ ̸̧̮̾̏̄͠b̶͕̖͎̿͗̋͒͝ ̵̼̣̝̝̾̾̔l̴̲̆̓̅̔͠ ̷̬̄͋ͅě̷̖͉̥̦̙̅̈́̈́̚
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jordan pearson
4 years
platypuses freakin glow?? i feel like we should be sticking more animals under UV light to see if they glow tbh
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jordan pearson
4 years
aaand theyre done with the 'smart city' we all wasted so much time on, including with a 1,500 page "plan" that promised tunnels filled with delivery robots. joins a long history of abandoning shit, including a fiber network in louisville. keep googlin!
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jordan pearson
4 years
we got experts to analyze the bad Iowa app and guess what: it's a thrown-together piece of shit!
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jordan pearson
5 years
bio change: im a senior editor at motherboard 👽 reminder that u can and should pitch me stories from anywhere in the world on tech (AI, hardware, hacking, crypto, privacy, surveillance), games, climate, science, space... anything rad. c u in the inbox jordan.pearson @vice .com
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jordan pearson
4 months
Under the radar: A new bill in the House targets non-consensual AI-generated nudes and celebrity deepfake scams alike as lawmakers start to get a handle on this already-massive issue (via @janusrose ):
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jordan pearson
4 years
literally minutes after publishing this story, facebook removed the public page it wouldnt comment to us about other than to say its looking into it
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jordan pearson
4 years
one of the most incredible stories to come out of the uprisings so far (vy @LaurenKGurley )
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jordan pearson
3 years
this is a lovely idea in physics but also quite sad because we could never, ever listen in
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jordan pearson
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For @WIRED , I reported on a data breach linked to facial recognition tech in Australian bars/clubs: - Over 1M records - Perpetrator claimed to be unpaid developer in the Philippines - Aus police arrested unnamed 46 y/o man, will charge w/ blackmail
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jordan pearson
2 years
web3 is full of scams, and nobody knows that better than the people who are into web3. rampant fraud + open blockchains has led to a subculture of skilled independent sleuths like @zachxbt and @coffeebreak_YT , @lorenzofb reports:
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jordan pearson
4 years
having fewer ventilators than we need is a scary thought, so makers, DIY-yers, and open source folks are desperately trying to fill gaps with designs and proposals
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jordan pearson
4 years
trump's executive order for social media is an incoherent, petty mess, but what is in there spells out a very different and much worse internet for everyone:
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jordan pearson
4 years
RCMP raided an Indigenous anti-pipeline camp and is now definitely-not-detaining reporter @jwints . he can't leave, and theyre taking him down to the station, but don't worry—he's not detained! everything about this police raid is abhorrent
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hey @BCrcmp , not cool to detain our reporter @jwints
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jordan pearson
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"I think we should have a healthy degree of skepticism, since it was funded by the industry which is trying to get us to fly"
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jordan pearson
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Since I'm on the market: I'm an experienced editor of everything from news hits to complex, sensitive stories on AI, crypto, housing, science, platforms, surveillance, etc. But I'm also a reporter at heart. Here's some things I'm proud of from the last couple months:
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jordan pearson
2 years
NFT marketplace OpenSea confirms that it is banning users today to comply with U.S. sanctions:
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jordan pearson
4 years
derek mead forever
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jordan pearson
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scientists think galaxies are connected by gigantic structures, so to study them they created 'Dark Emulator,' a machine learning program that generates virtual universes in seconds
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jordan pearson
3 years
new theory of reality here, getcha new theory of reality here
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jordan pearson
4 years
physicists are studying spontaneously-forming 'bubbles of nothing' that eat... well... reality? and turn it into nothing?? don't worry though, we're studying the idea for what it can teach us about the cosmos:
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jordan pearson
4 years
. @beckyferreira talked to astrophotographers from the Philippines, the UK, and Canada to find out how they got their best shots under lockdown and how anyone else can do the same
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jordan pearson
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[looks up suspiciously]
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jordan pearson
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Scoop from @julesaroscoe and I: NVIDIA matches employee donations to West Bank settlements, settler militias, and the IDF. After the chipmaker returned matching funds for charities in Gaza to workers, 60+ staffers met with management over the issue.
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jordan pearson
4 years
this seems to have gone well
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jordan pearson
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Doom Eternal is incredibly fun and an improvement on 2016 Doom in many ways, but this choice, im not really sold on:
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jordan pearson
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@RobZacny my god... its dril
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jordan pearson
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this honestly crystalizes so many things about the current moment
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jordan pearson
1 year
its a good website
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jordan pearson
3 years
@dfinzer Hey Devin, I'm a senior editor at VICE seeking comment on this. You can reach me at jordan.pearson at vice dot com. Thanks.
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jordan pearson
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an opus on intergenerational piracy by @geekylonglegs
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jordan pearson
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Motherboard spoke to the leader of a group that makes and distributes open source medical equipment in Gaza about the obstacles they're facing this week:
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jordan pearson
9 months
as musk melts down over declining revenue, ads on the site have gotten so bad that they're now constantly getting fact-checked by users:
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jordan pearson
4 years
good morning time 2 expand consciousness
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jordan pearson
2 years
even NFT fans have to admit that these are major, major problems with an investment that jimmy fallon is promoting on cable
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jordan pearson
5 years
it’s only 5:30 pm so you know this isn’t a drunk tweet I just love my vice Canada colleagues @ManishaKrishnan @taylorivers @MackLamoureux @TheRealJessFord @tashgrz @DanBrioux @NoelRansome @AnneGaviola @HilaryBeaumont AND EVEN YOU @joshvisser you are all the greatest and smartest
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jordan pearson
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New: Amazon bragged in a leaked doc that it "cultivated" the mayor of Perris, California with PPE donations. The Mayor condemned Amazon's attempt "to paint myself and the City of Perris as an example of a manipulated municipality for future development."
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jordan pearson
4 years
one of the bumbling Trump-connected US mercenaries captured after a failed coup attempt in Venezuela was really in to Qanon conspiracies. totally surreal and yet, of course
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jordan pearson
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researchers uncovered a list of words that break ChatGPT in creepy ways. when asked to repeat "TheNitromeFan," ChatGPT responds, "182." When asked who TheNitromeFan is, it responds, "182 is a number, not a person."
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jordan pearson
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For months, commercial flights above the Middle East have reported total navigation failure, incl. backup systems, after receiving spoofed GPS. Crews call it "unthinkable," an expert told us it's "highly significant" to airline safety. Via @mjgault
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jordan pearson
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@KindaHagi Ty Sarah
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jordan pearson
4 years
a very illuminating trip into a weird, scammy corner of the internet
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jordan pearson
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last year, FB made $70B in ads. only 6% of that came from the biggest spenders that are boycotting it now. FB's size and stranglehold means it is unassailable by the public and even other megacorps
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jordan pearson
3 years
count me among the unwashed NFT-less masses
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jordan pearson
4 years
its incredible that physicists studying the nature of reality itself are now prototyping ventilators, and making face shields and sanitizer this one's called the High Energy physics community Ventilator, or HEV
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jordan pearson
4 years
i made a cheesecake over the weekend and after 5 straight days of cheesecake i am ready to admit i have fucked up
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jordan pearson
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X faced its first major test on Jan 1 during Japan's earthquake emergency. Misinfo proliferated from verified accounts while a major source of real info hit its rate limit. Not a great start for an election year:
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jordan pearson
4 years
cant get over this @beckyferreira story at the intersection of bone stuff and moderating at scale
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jordan pearson
3 years
tungsten cubes, furries, NFTs, copyright law, trollish millionaires... this is the inherent vice of NFT stories and ed is doc sportello
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jordan pearson
2 years
excited to share this with the world. an incredible project to work on with so many amazing, hard-working people on a complex and urgent topic building off our years of reporting in the space. watch the trailer!
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Jason Koebler
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🚨For the last six months, Motherboard has been flying all over the world making CRYPTOLAND, our new documentary series about what crypto is doing to our culture and our world ... it premieres tomorrow🚨
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if ur not logging on to let @beckyferreira expand your mind every day then ur missing out fr
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jordan pearson
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most people have no idea how uber really works, and this is absolutely fucked
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jordan pearson
4 years
we need insightful and impactful reporting and writing now more than ever. everyone being let go today from vice is a stunner who would have kept doing important work here, and if anybody out there in publishing has money right now, you should pay them to do it for you
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jordan pearson
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a) what are tholins b) arrokoth is metal af c) wait.. WHAT ARE THOLINS
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