Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” how a former YouTube influencer wound up in prison for child abuse, and the unsung hero who first discovered penicillin: mathewingram.com/2ej
Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” inside the Russian bot army that conquered online poker, and the renowned Harvard psychiatrist who torpedoed his career by saying he believed in alien abductions newsletter.mathewingram.com/p/b1e20b1…
The latest entry in The Torment Nexus, a newsletter featuring my analysis and perspective on technology and culture: “The crusade against TikTok is a ridiculous waste of time” torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/the-crusa…
Using the social web as a distribution platform for news has become increasingly problematic. Is joining the fediverse a potential solution? digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2024…
So Israel didn’t just hijack some pagers already in the supply chain — they set up a front company and actually made pagers: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/1…
Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” doctors saved her life but she didn’t want them to, and a sexually frustrated dolphin is to blame for attacks that injured dozens of people in Japan when-the-going-gets-weird.ghost.io/ghost/