Thomas Pynchon’s GRAVITY’S RAINBOW, which is THE American novel of the 20th century, turns fifty this month. for WIRED, I wrote about the book’s significance, its brilliance, and how our world has—finally, absurdly, despairingly—caught up with it. wired.com/story/living-u…

"Our own age’s greasy stew of absurdity and apocalypticism, creeping death tinged with clown-shoe idiocy, suggests a world that has finally, fatefully, caught up with Pynchon." john for WIRED wired.com/story/living-u…

If you belong to your local Buy Nothing group, and you've noticed things have seemed a little different lately (well, weirder than people offering their old sofa stuffing), there's a good reason. 🧵

today is the big 5-0 of GRAVITY'S RAINBOW: a big, weird book that's as big and weird--bigger and weirder, even--than history itself. i wrote an appreciation of the novel, and Pynchon's clear-eyed vision of the future, which is our present, for WIRED. wired.com/story/living-u…

Meet Brandon Sanderson. Brandon published two books in the time it took our writer to finish this story. Brandon's fantasy writing made him $55 million last year. Brandon doesn't think he's a very good writer. 📷: Michael Friberg | wired.trib.al/MqIiXr3

"In the five months or so it has taken me to sit down and write this magazine story, which is 4,000 words long, Sanderson has published two books." Always read jAIson kehe! wired.com/story/brandon-…

"At that first dinner, over flopsy Utah Chinese—days before I’d meet his extended family, and attend his fan convention, and take his son to a theme park, and cry in his basement—I find Sanderson depressingly, story-killingly lame." jAIson kehe for WIRED wired.com/story/brandon-…

"Maybe nobody writes about you, I say to Sanderson, because you don’t write very well." jAIson kehe, showing us all how it's done: wired.com/story/brandon-…

And “dildo” gets me to Genius level in Spelling Bee!

In her twenties, Patricia Moore went undercover as a woman of 85. Her discoveries transformed how our world is designed but, 40 years later, I learned firsthand how far we still have to go. I profiled Moore for WIRED: wired.com/story/patricia…

You can't force a meme.

This beautiful four year old would still be alive if an Oakland driver was in the habit of using the Dutch Reach, in which you open your driver's side door with your right hand. Please make it your habit. Teach your kids to do it. It saves lives. buff.ly/47QuBaB

I would humbly (not really humbly) suggest everyone re-read this for context on what happened this weekend. A big focus in this story was on the issue apparently behind the drama.

Musk just told just told NYT DealBook Summit that "Neuralink has never caused the death of a monkey, unless they're hiding something from me." He added that Neuralink provided a "monkey paradise." Here's what paradise looked like: wired.com/story/elon-mus…

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