Links for you. Science:

Exploring and retrieving sequence and metadata for species across the tree of life with NCBI Datasets
New study sparks debate about whether H5N1 virus in cows is adapted to better infect humans
The National Parkinson’s Project
What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame
Yes, an obsession with IQ is ‘astrology for racists’
A lack of data may be hiding a summer COVID wave in CT: ‘There is an ostriching that is going on’

Other:

The NYT Is Trash, HOWEVER (excellent)
Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aides: “I know nothing about Project 2025” statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve (excellent)
Trump’s Reelection Agenda Was Set by Actual Hate Groups
The irrelevance of Biden’s senility (good, but: 1-I don’t think he’s senile; 2-Trump is actively dementing in real time)
Demystifying France’s ‘political miracle’
Trump says he knows ‘nothing’ about his party’s dystopian plans. Right. (gift link)
The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Stronger
Men prefer Trump’s energetic falsehoods to Biden’s naked fragility. Both candidates turned in awful debate performances. But male voters seem to be flocking to the guy who misled with ease.
Everyone’s professional incentives are to shit on Dems.
Here are just a few of the nightmares contained in Project 2025, the GOP’s far-right extremist vision for a second Trump presidency:
The US Primary-Care System Can’t Withstand the Next Pandemic
The Shareholder Supremacy
The End of Liberal Institutionalism. Excessive belief in institutions is a proven failure.
How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?
We Haven’t Had That Spirit Here Since Twenty Sixteen
Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own it
The Supreme Court folds. Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn’t just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat
Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets
Fox News ramps up attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris
Former Trump Staffer Shares Texts Revealing Secret Payoffs. A new court filing alleges that Donald Trump’s campaign has paid to bury a number of lawsuits over sexual harassment and discrimination.
Generative AI is a climate disaster
Dems attacking Biden are ‘doing more damage’ than the debate: analyst
What a doctor sees when Joe Biden hesitates (from March)
What if quitting your terrible job would help the economy? Should people who quit get unemployment benefits?
There’s a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It’s Making Absolutely No Money
Right-Wingers Plan to Make it Difficult for Democrats to Replace Biden. Experts are skeptical the Heritage Foundation can actually keep Democrats from choosing a new presidential nominee — but that may not be the point