Links 6/23/24

Links for you. Science:

Gigantic snake carvings may have been ancient ‘road signs’
On the road to eliminate rabies deaths, Gavi announces plan to improve human vaccination
Data suggest hybrid immunity protects against long COVID (paper here)
More centuries-old bottles of fruit found at George Washington’s home
Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Post–COVID-19 Condition during Omicron BA.5–Dominant Wave, Japan
Let’s Give It Up for Voyager 1, NASA’s Longest-Running Mission

Other:

New Poll: Americans Support Abortion Throughout Pregnancy
Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis: Law-enforcement sources and grieving families allege that the social media giant Snapchat has helped fuel a teen-overdose epidemic across the country. Now, their parents are fighting back
Joey Chestnut, the best there ever was
How an ‘Algorithm’ Turned Apartment Pools Green: RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles. (I wrote about this here)
Tesla is now Musk’s dream factory
A Traffic Engineer Hits Back at His Profession
Meet the 24-year-old trying to solve Biden’s problems with young voters
ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism
Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure (gift link)
Author says she regrets using Dolly Parton in essay that sparked widespread backlash
Republicans embrace a Confederate symbol, after years of unease
Willie Mays, Giants’ electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ has died at 93
Squirrels were struggling in a heat wave. She made them a ‘squirrel spa.’
Want to improve DC schools? Build teacher housing
The feds cut funds to a D.C. home for young moms. Donors rallied to save it.
Trayon White Left for Vacation Before a Key Budget Vote—Again
Data privacy is on the ballot this election
Felon Seeks Vice: Trump’s VP Search and the Politics of Impotence
Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (good, now do something about the natal syphilis outbreak)
You’re Not Imagining Things: The NYPD Is Flying Way More Helicopters. Keeping libraries open is cool but have you ever flown a taxpayer-funded chopper to the Hamptons on a summer Friday?
Sinclair floods local news websites with hundreds of deceptive articles about Biden’s mental fitness
New Polling Shows the Real Fallout From the Trump Conviction
The Republicans Feeding You Cheapfakes Think You’re Stupid
Witness tells House Ethics Committee that Matt Gaetz paid her for sex: Sources
Trump has a plan to destroy democracy. Why haven’t people heard of it?
One of Biden’s greatest achievements may be the one no one knows about

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