Doomers, who treat super-intelligent AI as likely and threatening, treat intelligent as almost a magic power, but it's much more heterogeneous, spiky (and, I would add relational) than that; But the AI-as-Normal-Tech argument seems naive about the incentives to use risky AI in, e.g., Mil Tech

If you read one review of If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies make it @sigalsamuel.bsky.social 's about competing #AI worldviews "It was hard to seriously entertain both [doomer and AI-as-normal tech] views at the same time." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

As autonomous vehicles spread across the US, they could turn urban streets into a congested, chaotic mess. But it’s not inevitable. In @vox.com, I proposed specific ways cities can future-proof themselves for self-driving cars. 🧵

I really feel for the people of LA, especially renters (the majority of the city). Hard to fathom a so-called progressive government with such contempt for its own people, and for extremely straightforward sustainable development principles

It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663 It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791 It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625

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NEW: A federal judge on Friday blocked the FTC’s investigation of Media Matters, writing “it should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.” @kateconger.com reports:

Friday afternoon personal news dump — I'm switching from being an editor to a writer, so I'll be writing a lot more often, and you can apply to replace me as editor (and also be my editor!) at our amazing little vertical ☺️ job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/job...

I wrote about that time Assembly Speaker Willie Brown casually suggested abolishing all of California's cities and counties www.businessinsider.com/lower-home-p...

1000 times this wapo.st/41r8xSn

Canada and the US are both car-centric, spacious countries. But an American is 2.5x more likely to die in a crash than a Canadian – and the gap is widening. My latest, in Bloomberg. 🧵

It would really be terrible if my $300-a-head restaurant were to "exclude people"! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/d...

again, what is interesting to me about this stuff — beyond the obvious fact that what trump wants is propaganda — is that it is grounded in a political theory which holds trump to be the sovereign will of the nation, who can impose his demands on every aspect of the nation's society

Can confirm: This lawless behavior is common throughout our nation's capital.

One way you could read this chart: Animal ag is so inefficient—and it comes at an unthinkable moral cost, AND it might start the next pandemic—that it would be the definition of lunacy to squander global carbon budgets to produce an ever-greater share of our food this way www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I hope @mbolotnikova.bsky.social doesn’t mind if I share this excerpt from her excellent @vox.com article on the need to improve our diet to be more plant-based www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I really liked @mikegrunwald.bsky.social’s book and think it’s worth reading. But naturally, I had some first-principles disagreements, so I decided to write about the rise of a set of ideas you could call anti-anti-factory farming in wonky future of food debates www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Fantastic piece by @kennytorrella.bsky.social on the extensive animal abuse and humanewashing at Fairlife. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Fairlife, a brand that didn't exist before 2012, is now the 2nd most popular milk in the US. It's a reflection of how dairy manages to continually rebrand & reinvent itself. But the reality behind Fairlife, like all dairy, is an unmitigated horror show www.vox.com/future-perfe...

dystopian surveillance and intermediation machine "designed to keep user interactions within a chat instead of clicking through to websites" "will give OpenAI more direct access to a cornerstone of Google's success: user data" www.reuters.com/business/med...

I'm just passive aggressively sending this killer @morallawwithin.bsky.social piece to a bunch of as yet unconverteds morallawwithin.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

I haven't seen this calculated anywhere, but I calculated the number of dwellings currently illegal under Berkeley's zoning code. 55% of homes in Berkeley's low density districts (R-1 to R-2A) cannot be built today, just on dwelling standards alone. Does not count setbacks and height regs.

"suburbs must be allowed to function like the miniature cities they are.They should be flexible enough to support a range of human aspirations—not just the hallmarks of stereotypical suburban life" Sunbelt suburbs are filling up and getting expensive. They don't have to! www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Now, these places are starting to see the same resistance to new housing dominate and slow their market the way it has in California. Check out the latest from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social for @vox.com! buff.ly/4PnhnIX

Post-war development is based on the idea of stasis: build to a finished state. After World War II, California grew robustly in this way, but places like Phoenix and Dallas didn't get started at that pace for a couple of decades.

I really hope this proves true, and I suspect we are reaching this breaking point. Human distance is best measured through time, and as the highways continue to choke themselves with congestion, the amount of time it takes to get anywhere in the Dallas megaregion is only increasing.

Suburbs are as old & varied as human civilization—it was only recently that they became synonymous with a specific, sprawl-oriented development pattern. To solve our housing crisis, Americans will have to rethink what the suburb is, & what it could become🌟 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The Sunbelt has long led the US in housing builds, but new research suggests that abundance is becoming a thing of the past. I loved writing this long piece about upzoning the suburbs & what a housing downturn in the Sunbelt tells us about the limits of sprawl www.vox.com/future-perfe...

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

A neo-confederate "Vast Suburban Empire" to which the only counter can be a neo-Rooseveltian "we must make the world safe for density" (via @armanddomalewski.bsky.social )

“I’m an American citizen,” Gavidia said...the agent pushed him into a metal gate, put his hands behind his back and asked him what hospital he was born in... "Gavidia said he gave the Border Patrol agent his Real ID, but the agent never returned it to him." www.aol.com/news/video-s...

BTW you probably aren't allergic to penicillin, and if your chart says you are, ask your doc about delabeling for your own sake and the sake of antibiotic stewardship. Test might be 1hr; $0 out-of-pocket Helps everyone if front-line antibiotics are available! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Wrote about how to think about the Trump admin's internally contradictory science policies, through the lens of the recent defunding of highly controversial Harvard experiments involving blinding baby monkeys. A lot of baddies featured here! www.vox.com/future-perfe...

"Science, for all its remarkable capabilities, still remains far too dependent on one of the most primitive research methods there is — harming and killing animals," - new article by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social for @vox.com feat. @katherineroe.bsky.social 🧪 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Madison Mayor and Common Council will seek to eliminate restrictive single-family zoning in Madison. If this passes then duplexes would be allowed by right (no commission review) city-wide. The new council is very pro-housing so this will probably pass. www.cityofmadison.com/news/2025-06...

you don't have to run on egg whites and chicken breast to be a swole hottie 😎 (this is now freed from the hard paywall!) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I have a new preprint out w/ @nicolecnelson.bsky.social & Kelsey Ichikawa! We focus on EPA regulatory transparency policies between '17 and '21 but wow is it relevant to current policies on #openscience, #opendata, including this weekend's "gold standard #science" EO 📄 osf.io/preprints/me... 🧵⤵️

Rachel Fobar has a great story for us today on what the hell is going on with animal experimentation under the Trump administration, balancing a lot of threads very well - give it a read! www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Meet The Replacement: a bi-weekly newsletter on the global transition away from animal testing. ✨ Coverage of animal testing & research policy often flies under the radar, but it's more urgent than ever. I'm here to round up the news for you. 🫡 Please share widely! thereplacement.substack.com

A certain fitness writer has brain-poisoned women of my generation into thinking they need 1g protein per lb of bodyweight to gain muscle, they can't be fully plant-based, etc. It's all horseshit (as a muscular girlie, I would know!). So I decided to write about protein science🏋️‍♀️

Wildlife Services 2024 body count included over 2,000 green iguanas, almost 1,700 red-tailed hawks, and 614 armadillos, according to recently published data. @kennytorrella.bsky.social breaks it down for @vox.com: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing. 
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I've been eating a lot of whole mature soybeans lately — a veritable miracle food!! — and think there’s some deep defensive carnist psychology going on with how Americans farm massive amounts of them, feed them all to factory farmed animals & tell themselves they’re dangerous for humans to eat

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has been very good to the meat industry: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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My comic on the life of a dairy cow is out from behind the hard paywall! I wrote this as a hopefully definitive answer to a question I've gotten for many years: "What's wrong with dairy?" Once you really see what dairy is, it's like the scales falling from your eyes www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The Colorado health agency confirmed with Investigate Midwest that workers under the age of 18 were present based on self-reported answers to survey questions and conversations with farm staff. NEW from Investigate Midwest(@investigatemidwest.bsky.social) investigatemidwest.org/2025/04/30/u...

Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus

Subscribe to our newsletter Processing Meat to get the whole spicy truth about protein and weightlifting in your inbox this Thursday😎 www.vox.com/pages/proces...

I've been writing about protein the last few days & was surprised to learn I get more of it than the average American woman (likely even accounting for underreporting) despite weighing a lot less. I don't eat protein powders or anything. Vegan diets planned with some basic nutritional knowledge 1/