Links 6/21/24

Links for you. Science:

Here’s What Is Wrong With the National Academies’ Long COVID Definition: Overly broad criteria won’t help patients in the long run
Linking epidemiological and genomic data in cases of enteric fever in England to inform clinical management and public health action
What makes a mimic? Orange, red, and black color production in the mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator)
Bird flu snapshot: A critic of the U.S. response speaks out, and USDA tries to ‘corner the virus’
Why do we think we can cuddle a bison?
How to Cool Down Fast in Summer Heat. Your body has a secret cooling method, and scientists explain how to use it.

Other:

GOP women who helped defeat abortion ban are losing reelection in South Carolina
NY Governor Hochul’s Decision to Suspend Congestion Pricing is Absurd
Toilet Train Your Tyrannosaur
Republicans Have No Idea What Happened in That Trump Meeting Either
Boston Should Rename Its Airport for Bill Russell
AOC, Raskin Announce Bill to Rein in ‘Captured and Corrupted’ Supreme Court
The return of trickle-down economics
The Supreme Court’s Bump Stock Decision Will Prove Fatal (gift link)
The Second US Civil War Has Already Begun
AI and Me
Trump unleashed: This is the calm before the storm
Taming the Pricing Beast: The government has a variety of strategies to protect the public from price-gouging and information advantages over the consumer.
The Karen Read trial and TikTok bias. Consuming news on TikTok is becoming an irresponsible endeavor because most news-related content on the platform is basically infotainment.
Biden Shares The Simple Way He Instantly Outdid Trump Presidency
My Father Narrowly Escaped The Nazis. Here’s What I Learned While Helping Him Die.
The Rain on Our Parade: A Letter to My Dismal Allies
Anti-Israel Group Claims Responsibility for Two Fires in Three Days on UC Berkeley Campus (gift link)
The get out of free speech card
The Great AI Retrenchment has begun
South Jersey power broker George Norcross, allies charged in sweeping racketeering case
Lina Khan: Extraction Exterminator
The Congressional Progressive Caucus Agenda for 2025
Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back
Administration Playing From Behind on Domestic Solar Production. There are seven different trade actions to limit Chinese dominance of solar components. But only now is trade policy being aligned with industrial policy.
‘The whole supply chain is subsidised’: inside the EU’s blockbuster Chinese EV probe
The New York Times and I Are Going to Have to Agree to Disagree on the January 6 Defendants. Congress has never passed any laws of oblivion, but we’ve become very good at enforcing them de facto.
Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone. Experts and family members are begging you: Send any unknown call to voice mail.

This entry was posted in Lotsa Links. Bookmark the permalink.