humans built machines that talk to us like people do and everyone acts like this is normal now. it's pretty nuts

We have surrounded ourselves with chattel animals, raised and milked and fattened and slaughtered and plucked and butchered in staggering numbers. It’s no surprise that sometimes they give us their viruses. -nytimes.com/2024/06/12/opi…

My familly and I got to eat some GoodMeat chicken, a synthetic "clean meat" grown from chicken cells. The taste was very chickeny, in a good way, and the texture was 95% close to real chicken meat. We ate it straight, lightly sauted; in a sauce it would have been

This present moment used to be the unimaginable future. - Stewart Brand

Wild. "They are ancient and slow, re­producing infrequently and possibly living for millions of years. They often acquire energy in unusual ways, breathing rock instead of oxy­gen." nytimes.com/2024/06/24/mag…

Earth is a stone that eats starlight and radiates song, whirling through the inscrutable emptiness of space — pulsing, breathing, evolving — and just as vulnerable to death as we are. nytimes.com/2024/06/24/mag…

Exponential change is mind bending. Installed solar capacity is growing 10x each decade. The next 10x is equivalent to multiplying the world’s entire fleet of nuclear reactors by 8 in less than the time it typically takes to build just a single one of them. The Economist

The difference between sports fans and politics fans is that if you write a column saying the Jets should replace Zach Wilson as their quarterback, sports fans are like "yes, obviously, we want to win!" while politics fans are like "why do you hate the Jets, you loser!"

Learn how to cook cultivated meat (hint: it's exactly the same as cooking conventional meat)

amen.

"If they are not willing to endure the relatively modest discomfort of a contentious intraparty debate to minimize the chance of a second Trump term, they’ll have broken faith with their supporters." nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Don't compare Biden to the almighty. Compare him to the alternatives.

An actual hero. This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.

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It was a remarkable moment in the annals of food, perhaps even humanity: A store in Singapore started selling lab-grown meat directly to the general public in May. nyti.ms/3xZZQ61

It was a remarkable moment in the annals of food, perhaps even humanity: A store in Singapore started selling lab-grown meat directly to the general public in May. nytimes.com/2024/07/24/wor…

I want to thank whoever paid attention in Joe Biden's administration and among those who advised it - for inclusion of Alexandra Skochilenko in today's exchange. Some of the Russian political prisoners that we released are opposition leaders or world-famous activists. Sasha

VP nominee Tim Walz reminds me of my late Grandpa Arnie, who helped raise me on our Kansas farm. (Readers of Heartland might remember him well!) New op-ed by me tomorrow for The New York Times.

In a world first, cultivated meat became available on a grocery shelf in May, at a butcher’s shop in Singapore. nature.com/articles/s4158…

new JUST Egg breakfast burritos are 🔥🔥🔥