Links for you. Science:

Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them
An “Academic Transformation” Takes On the Math Department
Chesapeake Bay Shows Smallest Dead Zone Ever Recorded
Denmark reports Mycoplasma pneumonia epidemic
SARS-CoV-2 Epidemiology and COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness Among Infants and Children Aged 6 Months–4 Years — New Vaccine Surveillance Network, United States, July 2022–September 2023
UCSF is trying a new tactic to eradicate long COVID symptoms. Here’s how it works

Other:

The World’s Feminists Need to Show Up for Israeli Victims: Solidarity for victims of sexual assault should trump other politics. (must-read)
There’s a storm coming. We all know it. And yet Americans are pretending that everything is normal. We are going to be confronted with an existential crisis 11 months from now. And the majority of Americans don’t care. (and they haven’t been told a storm is coming)
There Is No Way to Live a Life Without Regret (excellent; free link)
Decision Time (very good; free link)
If Moms for Liberty co-founder had sex with a woman, why is she targeting Florida’s gays? (because, if it’s not self-projection, it’s self-loathing)
If Israel Is Already in Talks With Hamas, It Should Start Thinking Outside the Box
Israel Has Already Lost: The War and the Peace
Speaker Johnson wrote foreword for book filled with conspiracy theories and homophobic insults
To Help Autonomous Vehicles Make Moral Decisions, Researchers Ditch the ‘Trolley Problem’ (paper here)
The depressing fall of Sports Illustrated reveals the real tragedy of AI
15 New York synagogues hit with false bomb threats on Friday
A Rando Trump Judge Just Blew a Giant Hole in the Voting Rights Act
The People Who Didn’t Matter to Henry Kissinger
A People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger
George Santos gets one thing right about Republicans: Their expulsion vote is “theater”
Most Parents Trust, Respect, and Feel Safe with Librarians
Kissinger’s Dirty Work Abroad Hurt America at Home, Too
Making God: The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism.
University of Alberta Sexual Assault Centre signs Jama’s letter denying Jewish rapes
How Can Democracy Possibly Work Under Such Conditions? Pervasive pessimism and nostalgia, waning support for a racial reckoning, anti-feminist retrenchment, and so many conspiracies… A deep dive into the American Values Survey, Part II
Russia Files Criminal Case Against Prominent Journalist Masha Gessen
France to ban smoking on all beaches in effort to create ‘tobacco-free generation’
Bring It
Ron DeSantis Is No Match for Gavin Newsom
Iger’s Disney De-Wokening
Why Senate Republicans Threw an Epic Hissy Fit Yesterday