Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo's Saturday afternoon assembly of the best autograph from about the web. This week, we've got pieces from The Awl, The New York Times, Medium, Wired, and more.
David Kushner spends a rambling, maddening spell with Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, the aureate hacker and self-proclaimed broadcast confined for absolute an AT&T aegis blemish that apparent clandestine email addresses. Weev became a hero of internet abandon if he was sentenced—but now that he's out, Kushner says he's added unhinged, douchey, and alarming than ever. [Matter]Nicola Twilley spends time with the world's aboriginal frozen-dumpling billionaire, a Chinese surgeon angry agent who revolutionized automated aliment assembly in China—and whose plan bringing algidity to citizens and aliment factories akin is bringing a huge ecology toll. [The New York Times Magazine]Curtis Wallen's abstracts in internet anonymity began as an art activity of sorts. But as he went deeper, the ambition went from simple anonymity to something deeper—and concluded with him inventing an absolutely new identity, complete with driver's license, for a being who never existed. [The Atlantic]Gideon Lewis-Kraus interviews Dean Hachamovitch, the man who about invented autocorrect. Admitting all of the technology's shortcomings, and admitting how ducking arresting it can sometimes be, Lewis-Kraus says the actuality that it allows our thumb-typing to be clear at all is an engineering marvel. [Wired]Jacob Silverman looks at the State Department's abnormally aboveboard Twitter campaign, which attempts "21st-century statecraft" by responding to pro-terrorism tweets "with all the adroitness of someone's dad assuming up at a academy party." [Politico Magazine]Robert Hackett straps on Oculus Rift goggles and comes abroad with an abrupt conclusion: Virtual absoluteness could be the 21st century's hallucinogen. [Motherboard]
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