What Happened to MediumJun 19
inside the rise and fall of medium, its fight for writers, a failed unionization effort, and the battle of the business models that reshaped the internet
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The White Pill: A Glimpse of Intelligence As a Commodity
white pill #3 // major advancement in hearing loss, a mind-bending study on consciousness, and grimes' rev split with anons
Brandon Gorrell
Apr 29, 2023
Welcome back to The White Pill, a Pirate Wires weekly digest of inspiring, fascinating, and evocative developments in tech, engineering, physics, astronomy, space, and medicine. First, a brief, lead story. Then, a storm of links. Brandon Gorrell is the editor on this one, so say hello and share your own links in the comments below.
Also: if you want to write the lead story for an edition of the White Pill, we’d love to hear about your idea. And feel free to send tips about what to include in the next one. Email brandon at piratewires dot com.
—Solana
What Happened to Medium
The End of High CholesterolJun 18
a new gene therapy drastically reduces one of the leading causes of heart disease, high LDL cholesterol — here's how it works
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Can AI End Gerrymandering?Jun 17
we've entered a gerrymandering arms race, so i asked nine large language models to design 'fairer' congressional maps — here's what they came up with
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