Links 2/2/24

Links for you. Science:

Predicting COVID-19 cases across a large university campus using complementary built environment and wastewater surveillance approaches
Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a university classroom based on real human close contact behaviors
How does bad data slip through? Allegations of research fraud raise questions about ‘peer review.’
The Dark Side of Ocean Cleanup Technology
The world’s largest cold water coral reef lies beside the first experimental deep-sea mining test site
An Ancient Woolly Mammoth Left a Diary in Her Tusk

Other:

50 Years Of Home Rule: A History Of D.C.’s Struggle For (Semi-) Self Governance
If It Walks Like an Insurrection and Talks Like an Insurrection …
Kyrsten Sinema Loves to Fly Private—on the Taxpayer’s Dime
The Supreme Court Has Itself to Blame for Texas Defying Its Orders
About That UN/Hamas Story
This Is Why Trump Is So Desperate To End The GOP Primary
23andMe Breach Targeted Jewish and Chinese Customers, Lawsuit Says (gift link)
Minneapolis schools added more librarians. Now books are flying off the shelves
It’s not that MAGA doesn’t believe E. Jean Carroll — they just don’t care that Trump abuses women
‘Seismic shift’: driving unaffordable for many in US amid push toward SUVs
An Italian Holocaust Survivor Asks if She Has ‘Lived in Vain’: Liliana Segre, who has become Italy’s conscience on the Holocaust, says she is pessimistic in the face of rising anti-Semitism. (gift link)
GOP Senator Reveals the Sick Truth About the Trump-MAGA Border Scam
The Rise of Technoauthoritarianism: Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is. (corporate fascism is pithier)
The people think what I think: False consensus and unelected elite misperception of public opinion
Don’t San Francisco–ize Clean Energy: What happens when environmentalists and sympathetic lawmakers fail to see the downside of too much legal review
Through the looking Taylor
Proposed bill would give Arizona Legislature authority to override popular vote
Inventing the Perfect College Applicant: For $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait.
Integrating Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories for Emergency Use Testing during Pandemics
IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company
Brooke Pinto’s Big Crime Bill Reverses a Series of Police Accountability Measures. Lawmakers Are Pushing Back.
‘I would absolutely not fly a Max airplane’: Ex-Boeing manager raises alarm on jets returning to service
Republicans In Oklahoma Want Me To Get a License To Run This Blog
Apple’s Vision Pro is the most data-hungry gadget I’ve ever seen
Oklahoma GOP hates James Lankford. No they don’t. Yes they do!
The uncomplicated, dumb engine driving political false claims about Taylor Swift

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