Hacks and HackersWith health insurance premiums expected to skyrocket for millions of Americans next year, is it any wonder some of us take care into our own hands?
With health insurance premiums expected to skyrocket for millions of Americans next year, is it any wonder some of us take care into our own hands?
Britt H. Young reports on Grindfest, an annual gathering that celebrates all that’s weird in the world of biohacking. While the rich and super rich shell out for dubious life-extension technologies and pay telehealth startups to prescribe medications for off-label use, the punks are still at it, homebrewing estrogen and putting magnets in their hands. Meanwhile, Max Kiefel considers Democratic leadership’s efforts to lab-grow their own centrist Zohran Mamdani, with all his style and none of his substance.
“In this menacing decade, when sinister politicos can straight-facedly babble about alternative facts and truthful hyperbole, truth has assumed fresh urgency.”
“No comedian is in danger of going to jail for racist or homophobic material. Suggesting that Charlie Kirk’s killer voted for Trump? That’s another story.”
“From the side of the hot tub on which the French Canadians sit, Pat and Renata seem unbelievably old already. Some gray hair, wrinkles, fat and sixty, sweaty like jewels.”
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