Emma Grey Ellis
WIRED
San Leandro, CA, United States
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My Life Is Little House on the Prairie. I Blame TikTok
Homesteading used to be a dream for another time. Then cottagecore happened. → Read More
What Will Happen to the Far-Right After Trump?
As president-elect Biden's inauguration approaches, experts are keeping an eye on extremist groups. → Read More
All Baby Yoda Does Is Coo and Destroy Things
It's time to face it: The Child has taken a dark turn. → Read More
My Life as a Blue-Haired 'Commie Bitch' in Portland
I dyed my hair mid-lockdown because it looked fun and I was bored. But to the online far-right, I became a social media stereotype. → Read More
Netflix's 'Social Distance' Captures All Your Quarantine Feels
With its all-too-familiar webcam views and smartphone shots, Jenji Kohan's new show turns Covid-19 isolation into a drama everyone can relate to. → Read More
A Facebook Ban Won't Stop QAnon
Even if the social network's new policies work perfectly, Q followers can still camouflage their activity or move to other platforms. → Read More
Hulu's 'Monsterland' Is America
The show, with each episode set in a different American city, is about decay—moral, physical, civilizational. → Read More
Federal Executions During Covid-19 Put Innocent Lives at Risk
The current wave of executions is increasing the likelihood that lawyers, observers, and correctional staff could be infected. → Read More
'Raised By Wolves' Questions Whether Humanity Can Be Saved
Ridley Scott’s new HBO Max show struggles to determine if people and society are doomed. → Read More
Hulu's New Comedy 'Woke' Is Perfectly Absurd
The show, starring Lamorne Morris, is just too weird to ever feel preachy. Phew. → Read More
That Racist Kamala Harris Birther Conspiracy Is Nothing New
The falsehood that the senator isn't really a US citizen comes from an old playbook. → Read More
The Portland Protests Are a War Zone—but Only on the Internet
What's happening in the streets isn't what you're seeing in the tweets. → Read More
'The Old Guard' Director Gina Prince-Bythewood on Avoiding 'Sexy Catfights'
The woman at the helm of of Netflix's new action flick talked to WIRED about comics, diversity in Hollywood, and centering women, especially women of color, in a genre so dominated by white men. → Read More
Here's How to Properly Read an Election Poll
As the country heads into another fraught election cycle, you can easily get fooled if you don't know how to interpret those polling results. → Read More
The End of Handshakes—for Humans and for Robots
Researchers have spent years teaching robots to shake hands—an effort possibly doomed by a global turn against human contact. → Read More
How Smart City Planning Could Slow Future Pandemics
The Covid-19 crisis is an opportunity to rethink how cities are designed—and make them better equipped to stop disease from spreading. → Read More
Quarantine Is a Weirdly Good Time for Animation
Shows like Tooning Out the News can be more easily made from home than live-action TV—and going virtual is giving animators lots of opportunities to shine. → Read More
Covid-19 Is Killing Black People Unequally—Don't Be Surprised
The coronavirus pandemic is further exposing a gulf in the health statistics of white and black Americans that has existed for decades. → Read More
Imgflip's AI Meme Generator Gives Us the Absurdist Art We All Need
Social media’s new favorite distraction feels as disjointed and surrealist as the current moment. Fire it up. → Read More
The Anti-Quarantine Protests Aren't About Covid-19
If the tone of the demonstrations against stay-at-home orders seems familiar, that's because it is. → Read More