Links 5/12/24

Links for you. Science:

Tuna crabs, neither tuna nor crabs, are swarming near San Diego
Bird flu keeps rewriting the textbooks. It’s why scientists are unsettled by the U.S. dairy cattle outbreak
When antibiotics fail: More people seek bacteriophage therapy in Georgia
Could bird flu become the next COVID? How worried should we be?
Closing the gap: Oxford Nanopore Technologies R10 sequencing allows comparable results to Illumina sequencing for SNP-based outbreak investigation of bacterial pathogens
Mutational Signatures in Wild Type Escherichia coli Strains Reveal Predominance of DNA Polymerase Errors

Other:

Mark Rudd Led Antiwar Students at Columbia in 1968. He Says Gaza Protesters Are Repeating His Mistakes (gift link)
The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—as They Always Have
Not Antisemites, nor anti-Zionists: A More Precise Term for Protesters Who Want Israel Gone (gift link)
Farmers resist push for workers to wear protective gear against bird flu virus
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Brain Became the Diet of Worms
Bird flu doesn’t pose imminent pandemic risk—but lack of transparency, planning a cause for concern
Food Safety Experts Avoid These 4 Foods At The Grocery Store
Will you accept the election results? Republicans dodge the question.
There’s A GOP Plan For An Execution Spree If Trump Wins The White House
Israel Isn’t Turkey or Saudi Arabia, and Biden Intends to Keep It This Way
The Five Mostly Disastrous Paths Through Our National Insurance Crisis
The Mainstream Media’s Guilty Conscience
Top New York Times Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump
Corporate America Never Really Quit Forced Labor (gift link)
Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse
Federal dollars to increase bird flu testing for dairy cows, farm workers
The Insurance Apocalypse Conversation America Won’t Have
Despite warnings of violence at UCLA, police didn’t step in for over 3 hours
Universities as factories
The city made him hide his boat — so he had it painted on his fence
Bobby’s brain worms story is just more evidence he’s a terrible, terrible person
4 years ago this week: Trump claims that COVID-19 would just ‘go away’
No, the 2024 Election Won’t Be Anything Like 1968. The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.

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