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Anna Wiener

@annawiener
10 posts
2023-11-15
For The New Yorker's A.I. issue, I wrote about the artist and musician Holly Herndon; artists who use A.I.; and A.I. that uses artists: https://www.newyorker.com/...
2023-11-15 View on X
New Yorker

A profile of Holly Herndon, an artist and musician who uses AI in her work and who co-founded Spawning, a company building a “consent layer for AI” for artists

Anna Wiener / New Yorker : X: @newyorker , @kcesq , @totalvibration , @newyorker , @hollyherndon , @annawiener , @joelvmills , and @newyorker LinkedIn: Nicolas Smirnoff and Zoe Co...

2022-01-05
I wrote about an aspect of “the metaverse” that I find very interesting 💸 https://newyorker.com/...
2022-01-05 View on X
New Yorker

If the metaverse takes off, it will take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games

In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird.  —  Years ago, while on vacation in the Northwest … Tweets: @michaelluo , @newyorker , @parismarx , @caseynewton ...

Hard to cover something that doesn't exist, but: notes on play-to-earn games, RMT, FarmVille, the “assetization” of video games, and some very amazing metaverse chit-chat from tech CEOs & investors ("a new economy that is larger than our current economy"!) https://newyorker.com/...
2022-01-05 View on X
New Yorker

If the metaverse takes off, it will take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games

In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird.  —  Years ago, while on vacation in the Northwest … Tweets: @michaelluo , @newyorker , @parismarx , @caseynewton ...

2021-05-09
I wrote a short piece about CGI architecture and fictional interiors, luxurious spaces free of constraints: https://newyorker.com/...
2021-05-09 View on X
New Yorker

A look at the rise of “renderporn”, the aspirational, hyperrealistic interior design imagery on Instagram created using 3D modelling software like SketchUp

Anna Wiener / New Yorker : Tweets: @newyorker , @heathermallick , @lainnafader , @katiemoffat , and @annawiener Tweets: @newyorker : .@annawiener reports on the use of 3-D-modelli...

2020-08-23
@CaseyNewton @bcmerchant an interesting flavor of this is casting aspersions at the tech media for having an axe to grind (with respect to, say, critical stories about relatively new startups, or women CEOs), instead of engaging with the content of those stories, which often detail employee mistreatment
2020-08-23 View on X
OneZero

Q&A with Casey Newton on incentives for media and reporters in the age of social media, why some people in tech hate tech press, evolution of Facebook, and more

The Verge's Silicon Valley editor discusses tech media, recent issues with Facebook, and more … Part of the tech world is fed up with tech journalists. Tweets: @dlberes , @caseynew...

2019-12-04
I wrote about Hipcamp, a startup that lets people host/book campsites on private land. Feat. conversations about climate change and decolonization; a vineyard drum circle; cat-hole trowel (or lack thereof) lifestyle; and a cameo by The Whole Earth Catalog: http://newyorker.com/...
2019-12-04 View on X
New Yorker

A profile of Hipcamp, a platform for campsite booking where listings include off-grid plots, RV hookups, ski huts, farmhouses, tepees, tree houses, and cabins

Can a startup save the wilderness by disrupting it?  —  In Northern California, booking a public campsite is a blood sport. Tweets: @annawiener , @erikbl , @lennysan , @gpaddymanni...

2019-10-12
“Amazon isn't a mall, a current executive told me. He described it as a Web site that offers unlimited shelf space for an almost unlimited number of products and sellers. Some might call this a platform.” https://www.newyorker.com/...
2019-10-12 View on X
New Yorker

A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators

We created this page to provide customers … Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News : Amazon takes public stand on minimum wage, climate change Eugene Kim / CNBC : Amazon says punishing cou...

2019-10-11
“Amazon isn't a mall, a current executive told me. He described it as a Web site that offers unlimited shelf space for an almost unlimited number of products and sellers. Some might call this a platform.” https://www.newyorker.com/...
2019-10-11 View on X
New Yorker

A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant.  But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

2019-08-15
“We are a community company committed to maximum global impact. Our mission is to elevate the world's consciousness.” It's my fault for reading an S-1 before coffee, but all this suggests to me is that WeWork will pivot to ayahuasca retreats by 2022
2019-08-15 View on X
Axios

WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019

WeWork parent The We Company is about to achieve … Stephen Gandel / CBS News : WeWork IPO filing shows it's losing nearly $5,200 per customer Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat : WeWork I...

2019-08-14
“We are a community company committed to maximum global impact. Our mission is to elevate the world's consciousness.” It's my fault for reading an S-1 before coffee, but all this suggests to me is that WeWork will pivot to ayahuasca retreats by 2022
2019-08-14 View on X
Axios

WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019

WeWork on Wednesday filed to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering, although the ultimate offering amount is expected to be at least three times larger.