WIRED Magazine - July - August 2024

In this issue

The Communist & The Celebrity
China Miéville writes a novel with the Internet’s Boyfriend.
by Hannah Zeavin

11,196 Years in Prison
Faruk Özer made crypto seem like the solution to decades of economic dysfunction. Then he became Turkey’s most wanted—and hated—man.
by Jenna Scatena

PRETTY IN PINK

Why did scientists put tangerine DNA in a pineapple-and can this Frankenfruit help change public opinion toward bioengineered foods?

5 mins

Do The Math - Learn you a Haskell-the spooky, esoteric cult classic of programming languages.

Learn you a Haskell-the spooky, esoteric cult classic of programming languages. Programming paradigms are mainly divided into "imperative programming" and "functional programming." The dichotomy isn't clear-cut, as a growing number of languages support both styles, but for our purposes it may be enough to say that in imperative programming you write code as a series of steps, line by line, while in functional programming you define mathematical functions and let the machine worry about the steps. In terms of actual functionality and usage, imperative programming is the far more common approach.

5 mins

FIXER UPPER

Maybe you think they're majestic. Maybe you think they're an eyesore. No matter how you feel about wind turbines, there'll be a lot more of them in coming years.

3 mins

Screen Saver - Dumbphone life is about

There are still nice things on the internet. Dumbphone life, as r/Dumbphones moderator Jose Briones told me, is about "recovering your time and attention for the things you actually value." Of course, getting sucked into a subreddit because it was algorithmically suggested to me based on my extensive online browsing-is the antithesis of that. But it's how I found r/Dumbphones, now my favorite place on the internet.

3 mins

DESIRED

WIRED's visit to the intersection of luxury and technology.

2 mins

Your online girlfriend is a workforce.

Because I have a deep and childish fear of being exposed as uncool, I try hard to act nonchalant when I´m around people with lives more interesting than my own. This is the tactic I employed last year when I met an OnlyFans star, a fit cosplayer and Japanophile who has soared into an enviable tax bracket by selling what she terms "exxxtra spicy content."

10+ mins

THE TRICKY BREAKAWAY OF PHIL WIZARD

He recently deactivated the Patreon that helped him scrape together enough to get by. Now he’s a somewhat reluctant) global ambassador for a new Olympic sport.

10+ mins

THE COMMUNIST & THE CELEBRITY

CHINA MIÉVILLE WRITES A NOVEL WITH THE INTERNET'S BOYFRIEND.

10+ mins

THE FORENSIC EMPIRE OF ELIOT HIGGINS

As fakes and deceptions proliferate at record speeds, one guy has maintained a miraculous nose for the truth-the founder of Bellingcat, the world's biggest citizen-run intelligence agency.

10+ mins

11,196 Years in Prison

Faruk Özer made crypto seem like the sation to decades of economic dysimction. Then he became Turkey's most wanted-and hated-man.

10+ mins

THE BEHIND THE SCENES TECHNO-WIZARDRY OF ARATI PRABHAKAR

She has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.

10+ mins

DeLorean vs DeLorean

Decades after her dad's iconic sports car time-traveled into movie history, Kat DeLorean wants to build a modern remake. There's just one problem: Someone else owns the trademark on her name.

10+ mins

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