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Cooking How to Sous Vide wieners with a condom Thom Dunn

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butter Butter made from carbon dioxide instead of animal fat Allan Rose Hill

AI Google's AI search summaries use 10x more energy than just doing a normal Google search Thom Dunn

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

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arizona Scottsdale, Arizona, bans grass lawns on new homes Rob Beschizza

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droughts Los Angeles area will have to let its lawns go brown, starting June 1st, due to historic drought Carla Sinclair

meat A startup wants to make lab-grown steak out of captured carbon emissions Thom Dunn

crypto Is Cryptoland, the "first physical crypto island", a parody of NFT culture? Is parody even possible? Thom Dunn