After-Orts #113
Whatever you’re doing dishonestly up north, you can do it in a much warmer climate with less regulation down here [in Florida].
-- Carl Hiaasen
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest [of America] is real.
-- Jean Baudrillard
both, quoted in Helen Lewis, How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor? in The Atlantic, May 2023
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ron-desantis-florida-state-politics-gop/673489/
- more from the Brave New World department -
Mammoth meatballs
A cultured meat company claims to have grown a meatball from the DNA of a very-extinct woolly mammoth.
The DNA sequence was placed in stem cells from a sheep to grow the meatball, The Guardian reports.
"It was ridiculously easy and fast," Professor Ernst Wolvetang, who worked with Australian company Vow to make the meat, told The Guardian.
While plant-based meat is popular, cultivated meat — where meat is grown from cells — is currently only sold in Singapore.
No one has tasted the mammoth meat, Wolvetang said, since "we have no idea how our immune system would react."
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pm-494f990e-a766-4a5c-b3d4-64b0aadd5dc3.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare#story3