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NYC Subway's Broadway-Lafayette station is now full of apparently eugenicist ads for an IVF and genetic testing company called Nucleus. We're talking about it, plus:

• The parallels between Balaji Srinivasan's ideas and the novels of Neal Stephenson
• Other sci-fi that predicts other futures
• Electrical engineers and why they're Like That

A screenshot of the embryo selection grid on Nucleus's website: https://imgur.com/a/bfV9Hay