Patrick Hruby

Screenshot of an article. The headline is "Synthetic E. coli with compressed DNA outsmarts viruses in radical genetic leap", and the subhead is: "Syn57 is the most radically recoded organism to date, engineered to unlock new materials, resist viruses, and redefine life." The date is Aug 01, 2025 and the author is Neetika Waltert. There's a small headshot of her in black and white; she is a smiling woman with her hair pulled back. Neetika Walter

wow does this headline ever read like the opening scene in an end-times body-horror movie

interestingengineering.com/science/reco...

University of Austin hoops will NEVER tolerate anti-white bias

anyway, look forward to someone swallowing the exact same hook when it comes to "College football is a mess and someone should do something about it!" because

same folks laying the same eggs and waiting

they don't watch the games, they don't care, they don't know shit, they go to some four year christian college where they get gassed up on fashy copy-and-paste originalism before clerking for the worst Senators on the planet before somehow getting an op-ed into the paper

nobody asked but imho the correct way to defend top bracket tax hikes is to say they're freeloading. we hate freeloaders

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

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Genuinely surprised the DOJ hasn’t launched a Rooney Rule probe, looking forward to a WSJ op-ed calling for one and maybe, like, NFL-funded reparations for Jack Del Rio

I feel so bad for Caitlin Clark, a completely normal person who the least normal people on earth have decided to make their mascot

cc: @edgeofsports.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social

Incredible stuff from the WSJ op-ed page, a chef’s kiss down to the photo choice—could not possibly be more on brand!

A good rule for Trump is that any promise of peace, a deal, a good/service is likely to be broken and any promise of racism or violence will probably be kept.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother... All that spam, and less than two percent of the money raised actually reaches candidates! Golden Age of Grifting:

Too many MBAs in charge imo

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Dems keep voting for it, too!

There are a lot of things that people assume are easy because they have a low barrier to entry and most people can easily do the task at a low level, but getting good at anything takes practice and repetition and we are training people out of repetition in any aspect of life.

It would be cool if Republican voters thought this was bad, but all indications are that they love government-by-bribe—they keep voting for it!

one of the most obvious lies imaginable (that wasn’t reported as such by our political press corps)

These are ICE figures!

This is extremely Trump-coded!

Americans will pay any price so long as Stephen Miller never has to go to therapy

“Goverment should be bigger, unless it should be smaller!” — MLK and Gandhi, probably

The world wars, famously fought over the size of goverment

Always good to be totally bonkers wrong in the first sentence of your takepiece

lmao was it, now?

Great plan if the goal is making yourself dumber while thinking the opposite