Joshua March@joshuamarch
White House confirmed in a press call that they're specifically including 'foods made with cultured animal cells' in their biomanufacturing initiative.
Cultivated meat FTW! đ
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/âŚ
whitehouse.gov
Background Press Call on President Bidenâs Executive Order to Launch a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative - The White House
7:30 PM ¡ Sep 19, 2022
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Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff
Just reflecting on the fact that today alone there was an @AEI event on the need to build more housing and a @jacobin essay on the need to build more housing. Just an incredible degree of consensus around this issue that has coalesced over a relatively short period.
1:12 AM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma
do you know how pathetic you have to be make California look better than you on HOUSING
Dana Rubinstein @danarubinstein
"After a year and $200 million committed, New York hasnât created a single apartment" California has created 12,500. https://t.co/SeSMD7pxcU
6:32 AM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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POLITICOEurope@POLITICOEurope
Vladimir Putin must return the Black Sea peninsula, including Crimea, to its ârightful owners,â Turkeyâs President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan said.
His remarks come after the leaders of India and China also dealt Putin a rhetorical blow in recent days.
bit.ly
ErdoÄan to Putin: Return Crimea to ârightful ownersâ
11:32 AM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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Charlie Stross@cstross
Oh God this is insaneâthe 1950s Russian IFF system in use over Ukraine only has 12 possible response codes and they're hardwired, so new daily codes can be rapidly cloned by Ukr air force?!?
Design: mil-airfields.de/equipment/soviâŚ
Leading to:
newsweek.com
Russia losing fighter jets as pilots have poor situational awarenessâU.K.
10:58 AM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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Lars "Totally Texas" Doucet@larsiusprime
I wrote a book!
Land Is A Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it.
Forward by @slatestarcodex and @Noahpinion
Coming out October 15, 2022, available for pre-order right now:
landisabigdeal.com
7:42 PM ¡ Sep 19, 2022
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Demian Bulwa@demianbulwa
There's never been a database of who owns every property in the Bay Area, making it difficult to understand the powerful forces shaping the housing market.
So we built one.
Just enter an address.
Amazing work by @emma_stiefel @susieneilson & many others
sfchronicle.com
This map reveals who owns every property in the Bay Area
2:47 PM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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Raisa Kreek@KreekRaisa
In (I think) an NYT interview, Ted Chiang talked about how fantasy/magic is fundamentally about being special, while sci-fi is more egalitarian (everyone can access the tech, in theory). It completely changed the way I think about fantasy.
Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates
in his talk at the Seattle Book Festival Ted Chiang carefully distinguished between science-fiction (impersonal, never "magical") & fantasy (personal, character-driven, "magical"). interesting & convincing argument suggesting why fantasy as a genre is fundamentally YA.
2:03 PM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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John Gramlich@johngramlich
TikTok is growing as a source of news in the US. The share of adult TikTok users who say they regularly get news there has risen from 22% in 2020 to 33% in 2022, even as news use is declining or flat for most other platforms. New data from @pewjournalism: pewresearch.org/journalism/facâŚ
2:25 PM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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Hank Green@hankgreen
Be skeptical of any research that shows the health risks / benefits of a behavior that can also be correlated to wealth.
Is quinoa good for you? Or do rich people get better healthcare?
5:05 PM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Soft on crime Trump judges https://t.co/XOMt9DiaIN
Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC
Here is Trump Judge David Counts' ruling that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to purchase a semiautomatic firearm after he has been indicted by a grand juryâhere, for burglary and jumping bail. https://t.co/TV7biH83GG https://t.co/TdshicxVHV
5:27 PM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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M. Nolan Gray@mnolangray
It's probably not an accident that the only US city where it's legal to build an SRO by-right is also the only one on track to end homelessness. (Also the only one without zoning. Many strange coincidences!)
nytimes.com
How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
5:38 PM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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Noah Smith đđşđŚ@Noahpinion
Going to start going to SF tech-house parties again so I can pour drinks on every ketamine-addled 30-year-old AI engineer who thinks talking about "robots taking jobs" is a way to simultaneously virtue-signal their social awareness and brag about the importance of their field
6:24 PM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I recently attempted to install a smart controller for my garage door, which is a mega-project relative to my competencies and exactly as @BentFlyvbjerg would predict I am already badly behind schedule and over budget.
Sandy Johnston đ° @sandypsj
Alon makes an interesting point--what counts as a "megaproject" is not objectively defined and varies according to a government's capacity. "For France to build a High Speed Line is not a megaproject." https://t.co/n5AxZN1BK5
6:30 PM ¡ Sep 20, 2022
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Lily Simpson has blue hair + pronouns@LilySimpson1312
This might be the greatest paragraph ever written
11:36 PM ¡ Sep 19, 2022
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