Links for you. Science:
This crow is ‘very intelligent’ — and it’s struggling to survive in the wild
A bacterial infection killed three patients at Brigham and Women’s. Here’s how it got in.
How a nasal vaccine could reduce the risk of COVID infections — and new variants (might would be the better word)
Seaweed Is Having Its Moment in the Sun
At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree
Deadly fungal infection rapidly spreading in U.S. health facilities
Other:
Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex
Immigrants allegedly exploited at local restaurants for years were abused in plain sight
The Obscene Invention of California Capitalism
Time To End The Use of “Woke” As a Pejorative
Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie
How to Manipulate The Public Into Believing Corporate Lies
Pat Schroeder Would Have Changed American Politics Forever
The Four Quadrants of American Politics
No, AI Is Not “Disrupting” Architecture. It’s just making it that much less interesting.
College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots
Democrats Face a Terrible Reckoning on Bank Bailouts: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and a phalanx of senators are way too cozy with finance capital.
Netflix Priced Itself Out of the Nancy Meyers Business
How the ‘No Labels’ Gambit Could Wreck the 2024 Election
Inside the Murdoch-Dominion Settlement Chatter
Guys We Know What You’re Doing
Two Days in the Valley
‘They will learn nothing from this’: Tech leaders remain staggeringly oblivious to the true lessons of Silicon Valley Bank
What happens when people who have embraced a virtual world begin to figure out it’s fake?
The American Elite Are Planning Their Escape — And It Starts With Paying For Passports
A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election
Americans Don’t Care About the Iraqi Dead. They Don’t Even Care About Their Own.
Cheering Silicon Valley Bank Bailout, Gavin Newsom Doesn’t Mention He’s a Client
Learning from Silicon Valley Bank’s apologists
Silicon Valley Bank Was a Wall Street IPO Pipeline in Drag as a Federally-Insured Bank; FHLB of San Francisco Was Quietly Bailing It Out
The Modern Electoral History of Transphobia
Banks as Collateral Damage in a Class War
