Links for you. Science:
UK researchers find Alzheimer’s-like brain changes in long COVID patients
Ozempic and Wegovy cut risk of severe COVID in people with obesity, says Harvard study
AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect
Abandoned walrus calf is ‘ginormous puppy,’ getting 24/7 care in Alaska
Covid associated with increased risk for hearing loss in young adults
LexicMap: efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes
Other:
Inspectors Found Mold and Meat Residue at a Boar’s Head Plant. How Could This Happen?
The Soft Bigotry of No Expectations on Trump
A Very Good Sign: Kamala Harris Is Going Right at Corporate Greed. Greedy CEOs have milked the average American household for $12,000 since the pandemic. As a businessman, I can explain how they’re doing it.
I Got Mine: Staten Island’s politics of resentment
11 Things About Zombo.com
Incoherent Trump claims Ivanka created ‘millions’ of jobs
When the Internet Was a Friendly Neighborhood
Major publishers sue Florida over ‘unconstitutional’ school book ban
Price Gouging is Definitely Real, and We Should Definitely Do Something About It
Former president Trump appears to have slid further since last night’s news about a new grand jury’s superseding indictment of him on charges of trying to overthrow the 2020 presidential election
A Distinctly Biden Doctrine: Corporate Concentration Violates Worker Rights
OpenAI searches for an answer to its copyright problems. Why is OpenAI paying publishers if it already took their work?
A Landmark Federal Ruling Against Union-Busting Has Boosted Organizing
Top Low-Wage Corporations Have Dumped $522 Billion Into Stock Buybacks Since 2019
Cleanup on Aisle MAGA: Trump Bends to Conservative Abortion Critics
The COVID Wave at the DNC Was Not a ‘Surprise’
This Is How Much Laundry Detergent You Should Actually Use — And Yes, It’s Shocking
How Responsible Is the Rental Housing Cartel for the Explosion in Homelessness?
Musk’s Twitter investors have lost billions in value
Texas has removed a million people from the voter rolls. Why are we finding out now?
The underrecognized challenge of turning the page on Trumpism
Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ tools and aims to integrate ‘a Community Notes-like’ feature in the future
$167.3 billion in student loan forgiveness
There Are No Backsies on Dobbs
Donald Trump Wants to Make the World a Right-Wing Meme
‘Donald Trump didn’t show up’: Conservative explains why Harris never met the ex-president
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“Inspectors Found Mold and Meat Residue at a Boar’s Head Plant. How Could This Happen?”
How Could it happen? This reminds me recent discussion on Ars Technica about Boeing’s Starliner craft. How could Boeing have messed up this badly. One person pointed to a comment by a previous Boeing CEO (Stonecypher?) who said in effect, “I found an engineering company and turned it into a business.” And the business he’s so proud of can not engineer it’s way out of a paper bag anymore.