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Steven Levy
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Steven Levy
@StevenLevy
- For 1,130 people the biggest story yesterday wasn't the election. It was that they died of covid.
- Cleaning office I found installation discs for @Microsoft Office 5.2 for Mac—all 29 of them! Yep you had to load these one by one to install the program.
- The @backchnnl "actual teen" is back--writing about another teen using @instagram for social change!
- A co-founder reconstructs how a stalled product turned into a hit. The product is @instagram. medium.com/backchannel/wh…
- 1/ The first glimpse of Facebook: The Inside Story is now on @WIRED. The excerpt centers on Mark Zuckerberg and his lost notebook. It provides a revealing window into his thinking....
- Replying to @BillGatesSo sorry for your loss, Bill. I was fortunate to have visited with your dad, who gave me a wonderful interview about ... you. He was so proud, particularly of you as a father. Condolences to all your family.
- The story of transformers. I talked to all eight of the authors of "Attention Is All You Need" the paper that revolutionized AI.
- The one person I want to speak to when a pandemic hits, is epidemiologist @larrybrilliant. Here's the edited version of our conversation--a mix of terror and reassurance.
- Just did the prep session. This promises to be an awesome panel. Sign up and log in on Tuesday!Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Co-Founder, Archewell, is joining #REWIRED2021 for an exclusive panel on misinformation, alongside @stanfordio’s Renée DiResta, @AspenDigital’s Rashad Robinson, and WIRED’s @StevenLevy, on November 9 at 4 pm ET. Sign up: wired.trib.al/E85o1Zn
- 35 years ago I wrote about RMS in “Hackers.” So I had to address the significance of Stallman’s fall and The Reckoning at MIT.
