sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

> We’re taught that "a boundary…defines you as separate from others" Yet if you believe that we’re all profoundly interconnected and interdependent then that idea of boundaries may feel like it muddies more than it clarifies Always read @sigalsamuel.bsky.social www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc. gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future. @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Felony conspiracy for ***taking chickens worth $24*** Jarring to assimilate this news when not 24 hours before, we learned that the 2nd biggest breeder of dogs for animal experimentation in the US will close, which represents maybe DxE's greatest achievement ever

In v2 of our preprint on "Adversarial Reanalysis," Kelsey Ichikawa, @nicolecnelson.bsky.social, & added our take on Gold Standard Science as an example of how #OpenData challenges science's existing tools for self-governance osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience

This is a kindergarten in Kharkiv. Imagine bringing your child there in the morning — and then it’s struck by russia. Imagine the children, the teachers. And know that this is real — it’s happening every single day somewhere in Ukraine.

Terrific explanation by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social in @vox.com of why you don't have to worry about lead in your protein powder. Setting unrealistic target levels for contaminants and then testing stuff and claiming it's unsafe has a long and storied history.

Everything you actually need to understand about the Consumer Reports protein powder report (threading a gift link!) -- plant-based protein powders are fine, and do not, ffs, allow them to push you to get whey protein

A new study from U of Michigan researchers finds that the diet footprint of cities varies by 3x, primarily driven by variation in where & how beef is sourced & produced. I'm skeptical though, and think that their methods exaggerated real world variation 🧵 1/N www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

My new NYT essay is about the essence of Trumpism: Bailing out farmers who can’t sell soybeans to China because of his tariffs, while bailing out Argentina so it can sell more soybeans to China. It’s the economic equivalent of pardoning pals and prosecuting enemies. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...

"Whether we’re feeding it to pigs and chickens or trucks and tractors... Humans use too much soy, a magnificently productive crop, for perilously unproductive purposes." @mbolotnikova.bsky.social on how we've found the worst uses for the best bean 🫛 🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Y'all will be hearing more from me about this "feminization of society" horseshit

Excellent soy primer by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social for @vox.com. "Humans use too much soy, a magnificently productive crop, for perilously unproductive purposes." Soy is an amazing crop! But it's a symptom of our meat addiction. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

How soy explains the world. Great piece piece from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social that takes from the trade war, to the rainforests, to the supermarket aisle (not the aisle you're thinking of) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Just the absolute worst people in American life, and unfortunately they are the intellectual foundation, to the extent there is such a thing, of our politics now

Wrote a lot of words on SOYBEANS!🫛 I love having this job so much lol America should have greater ambitions for the soybean—treating it not just as slop for the world’s abused livestock, but as a miracle technology with the potential to reshape world diets for the better www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

"In the 1960s, when nerds like me were asking whether or not we were alone in the universe, Jane Goodall started asking people to consider whether or not we were alone on this planet" www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Fz...

Goodall was such an icon because she did & said things that were heresy in the scientific community. Her work on animals' capacities represented not just an abstract finding but a practical ethic that led her to advocate for veganism &vocally oppose animal experimentation www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Finally happening: i am writing a piece about how meat and car dependence prevent us from decoupling by converting energy to food and transportation extremely inefficiently. Seeking reading recs to jog my thinking!

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...

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...

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