The dam is breaking on vaccine mandates

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 07.29.21   BACKCHANNEL | 12-MINUTE READ A People's History of Black Twitter, Part III BY JASON PARHAM Joy and pain, harmony and discord, organization and chaos—there's no single way to define Black Twitter's complex, ongoing legacy.   GHOSTED | 7-MINUTE READ Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones BY MARK HARRIS The latest weapons in the global information war are fake vessels behaving badly.   TARGETS | 7-MINUTE READ China Cracks Down On Its Tech Giants. Sound Familiar? BY JENNIFER CONRAD Companies like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent were once regarded with national pride. Now they're being slapped with fines and other penalties.   PUBLIC HEALTH | 4-MINUTE READ The Dam Is Breaking on Vaccine Mandates BY GREGORY BARBER Hopes for a "normal" fall have been dashed by variants and low vaccine uptake. Businesses and the White House think requiring shots can turn things around. GET WIRED Summer Sale! Ending Soon: Get WIRED for $10 $5. You can't see into the future, but you can subscribe to WIRED. Subscribe now.   VIDEO GAMES | 5-MINUTE READ Activision Blizzard Employees Walk Out After Allegations of Rampant Sexism BY CECILIA D'ANASTASIO "We love our jobs, but our jobs don't love us back," one worker told WIRED. "So we're trying to change that."   GLOBAL GAMING | 7-MINUTE READ Covid Is Pulling the Plug on Beloved Japanese Arcades BY JOHN LEARNED Once home to vibrant live competitions, gaming centers have been bleeding out since before the pandemic. Lockdowns could leave them KO'd for good.   TOKYO OLYMPICS | 4-MINUTE READ Simone Biles and the Unprecedented Olympic Pressure BY AMIT KATWALA, WIRED UK The Tokyo Games have taken a unique psychological toll on all of the athletes.   CARBON, CAPTURED | 4-MINUTE READ How Much Will It Cost to Prevent Deaths by Climate-Driven Heat? BY ERIC NIILER A new formula measures the "mortality cost of carbon," and how much would have to be removed from the atmosphere to save a single life.   IDEAS | 6-MINUTE READ How Gravity Turns Me Upside Down BY KC COLE My favorite force belittles me—literally—but also inspires new ways to get high.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.