Stories by kawera

The Conjurers Club (2013)

Platforms vs. PhDs: How tech giants court and crush the people who study them

The Judgment of Paris

Study finds 44 animal species susceptible to Covid-19

Source Material: the complexity and devastation of global supply networks

Andi Schmied’s Billionaire-Espionage Art Project

Radioactive Glass: Can Using Vintage Lenses Ruin Your Photos?

Flim, an Intelligent Movie Screenshot Search Engine

The Secret Life of H.G. Carrillo (2019)

The Activists Who Embrace Nuclear Power

I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine

Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted

New clinical trials raise fears the virus is learning how to resist vaccines

The Tyranny of Work

The Secret Society of Lightning Strike Survivors

The Pandemic Is Resetting Casual Friendships

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? [pdf]

An Untested Source of Pandemic Data? The Sewer

A Chef's Revolutionary Quest to Harvest Rice from the Sea

In a World Run by Algorithms, Weirdness Is Our Best Weapon

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