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Hustler at the end of the world

The Verge

As the world shut down in March 2020, anxious knowledge workers barricaded themselves at home, scrubbing produce with soap. Illustrations by Emily Lopez for The Verge. Fear sometimes manifested as altruism: checking on neighbors, organizing mutual aid. But for every small win like his connection to Fong, there were dozens of failures.

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 22)

Singularity Hub

A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic engineering to make glow-in-the-dark rabbits, hypoallergenic cats and dogs, and possibly, one day, actual unicorns.” ‘Not anytime soon anyway.’

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