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A top-5 Longread!

A top-5 Longread!

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Virginia Heffernan
Dec 16, 2023
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Such a nice nod from Longreads, which named my Wired feature about diplomatic AI one of its top 5 of 2023.

“Heffernan is the perfect writer for this kind of piece—she’s long found the joy in everything from semiconductors to particle physics—though it also may just be that this wouldn’t *be* a piece in another writer’s hands. Either way, consider it the…

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