Links for you. Science:

A covid summer uptick is underway as FLiRT and LB.1 variants ascend. Covid infections are growing in nearly all states — with the sharpest increases in the West. (the subtext to this article is that surveillance is very sparse now)
How traffic noise hurts children’s brains
The Promise of Precision Agriculture Is Slowly Coming to Fruition
Hippos can ‘glide through the air’ says zoo study (paper here)
Scientists discover first nitrogen-fixing organelle
Siberian Wolf Preserved For 44,000 Years Could Host Ancient Viruses

Other:

We’re Going to Have to Talk About President Joe Biden, Candidate. The Brokered Convention is a glorious fantasy for people who cover politics and know absolutely nothing about political history.
Campaign Finance Laws Give Harris Big Boost in Biden Dropout Scenario. If Biden were to withdraw his candidacy, only Kamala Harris could seamlessly use funds raised by the Biden-Harris campaign committee.
Stable Diffusion 3’s Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever
Who’s Gonna Check the Supreme Court? This term illustrates that the Court often exercises unjustified power.
Use It
More Thoughts on the Debate and Its Aftermath (gift link)
Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to American Democracy
D.C. Property Management Company’s Pattern of Neglect Leads to Squalid, Unsafe Conditions and Displacement, Tenants Say
17 Years, $700 Million Wasted: The Stunning Collapse of New York’s Traffic Moonshot
The Supreme Court Puts Trump Above the Law. And gives him permission for a despotic second term. (gift link)
Don’t Believe John Roberts. The Supreme Court Just Made the President a King.
Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts
We’ll Need a New Birth of Freedom
A Guy In Nebraska Shot An Immigrant Family For Exactly The Reason You Think
The Supreme Court Took A Sledgehammer To American Democracy
Alleged Democrat Jared Golden Did All but Endorse Trump with His Stupid Op-Ed
GOP Senate nominee tries to walk back lifetime of anti-abortion extremism
The Supreme Court’s disastrous Trump immunity decision, explained. The Court’s Trump immunity decision is a blueprint for dictatorship.
Biden wants to save workers from heat death. Republicans, on the other hand …
Japan’s Olympic athletes will wear outfits designed to block infrared — and the reason is disturbing
D.C. Landlord Agrees Not to Break Fair Housing Laws and Will Pay $235K in Legal Fees in Settlement
Donald Trump’s debate rout feeds his dictatorial desires
Bloomingdale’s afraid of the big, bad bus
No, Alvin Bragg, Justice Merchan, You Absolutely Did Not Have to Delay Trump’s Sentencing. I am as angry at American politics and its transparent moral desolation as I ever have been.
RFK Jr. denies eating a dog while sidestepping sexual assault allegations in Vanity Fair article
RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets.