Links for you. Science:

The Future Is White Dudes
Why Mastering Language Is So Difficult for AI
America’s Lost Crops Rewrite the History of Farming
COVID waves: Europe and US compared
Tolerability and immunogenicity of an intranasally-administered adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine: An open-label partially-randomised ascending dose phase I trial (one intranasal vaccine strikes out…)
Fossilized Fish Reveal Earliest Known Prequel of ‘Jaws’

Other:

Who’s Left Out of the Learning-Loss Debate (excellent)
This Is How to Put the Supreme Court in Its Place
The left-wing cop-bashing is out of control* (lol)
D.C. Council could delay coronavirus vaccine mandate for kids (might blog about this; Henderson’s backtracking is appalling)
Why can’t we quit Kanye West?
Disability Advocates Say The Response To John Fetterman Using Closed Captioning In An Interview As He Recovers From A Stroke Was “Deeply Upsetting” And Stigmatizing
When Fetal Rights Are More Important Than Democracy. After Roe, the anti-abortion movement faces a new opponent: popular opinion.
As Climate Change Increases Extreme Rain And Flooding, D.C.’s Most Vulnerable Residents Pay The Price
Messy Data And Poor Communication Bungle D.C.’s School Vaccine Enforcement, Officials Say
Enough With Latino Anti-Blackness
Fetterman’s use of captions is common in stroke recovery, experts say
Nasty People
As housing prices soar, a wealthy county rethinks the idea of suburbia (“Some residents, she countered, thought there was no need for lower housing prices. “If it’s too expensive,” she said, “you should move further out.””)
Ballot Drop Boxes Open In D.C. Ahead Of Nov. 8 Election
Somebody had to do it! Jan. 6 committee wraps with a bang — and a subpoena for Donald Trump
The Jan. 6 Committee Gave Us Some Bad News About the Secret Service
Clinics offer free vasectomies, citing a surge in demand
‘That’s the One to Put in a Blender’
Tulsi Gabbard has left the Democratic Party. Good riddance.
Get Ready: Republicans Are Flirting With Detonating The Global Economy…Again (expand the ceiling to eleventy gazillion dollars in the lame duck)
How TikTok ate the internet