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Favorites November 12th 2022

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Toronto Distillery District, March 2018
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China’s extremely difficult road to net zero (1/3)
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3:50 PM ∙ Nov 12, 2022
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The follow-up includes a breakdown of the sources of China's carbon, (vast majority is electricity/heat + industry)

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Jake Gotta @jake_gotta
Forget HSR, just build Amtrak corridors through all the blobs. 1 down, 10 to go
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4:17 PM ∙ Nov 12, 2022
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This is a response to Amtrack's widely mocked $80 billion plan to build *normal speed* rail nationwide.

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Very exciting developments in cancer therapeutics development where researchers use “CRISPR gene editing to alter immune cells so that they will recognize mutated proteins specific to a person’s tumours” Cc: @WalterIsaacson @erikbryn @amcafee @rtnarch
nature.comCRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments‘Most complicated therapy ever’ tailors bespoke, genome-edited immune cells to attack tumours.
7:07 PM ∙ Nov 12, 2022
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When they say 'most complicated treatment ever' they're not kidding: it took over a year to manufacture each patient's customized treatment.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi
tl;dr of the 11,000 people in federal prison released to ease the covid risk / crowding, a grand total of only 17 re-offended
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Dustin Palmer @dustinbpalmer
I still can't get over this, one of the most important "natural experiments" to come from COVID: https://t.co/Oso2eDVOKH It's all right there in front of us, a free lunch pathway to reducing some of the most immense cruelty in our society. https://t.co/o54eIHr2AG
9:52 PM ∙ Nov 12, 2022
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Of the 17 who reoffended, only one was violent. The releases weren't random of course, they were people in lower security prisons who were at high risk for COVID complications.

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BREAKING: Democrats retain control of the Senate with Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto's projected win in Nevada. cbsn.ws/3teSDst
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2:18 AM ∙ Nov 13, 2022
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Nate Silver is saying that at this point the best case for the GOP is narrow control of the House and a 50-50 senate. Keeping the same number of senators (possibly picking up a seat) in a midterm is extremely unusual for the President's party. Things are coming out pretty close to the 'blue' case he described pre-election.

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• Very long (overly long?) thread about how it will be bad for authors if Twitter collapses. TL;DR: Twitter, more than any other platform, is a good place to find people who like reading.

• Popehat gives a couple quick tips for any FTX executives on how to flee to non-extraditable countries. TL;DR: 1) Make absolutely sure there's no extradition 2) make sure you won't be assassinated by Sequoia Capitol shareholders.

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