Links for you. Science:

The Bird Flu Outbreak Takes a Mysterious Turn. US health officials say they don’t know how a patient in Missouri contracted bird flu. (according to some reporting, it appears this person might have directly infected another person, but no testing was done)
Cause of Missouri H5 bird flu case remains a mystery, CDC says (see above comment)
Texas Startup Keeps Launching These Obnoxiously Large Satellites—and the Worst Is Yet to Come
Parasitologists up in arms as NIH ends funding for key database. Trove of data-mining resources on malaria and other killers set to go dark this weekend
What We Know About Covid’s Impact on Your Brain
Old Easter Island genomes show no sign of a population collapse

Other:

JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Nationalism Finds Its Target
The Laura Loomer Problem Is the Same as the Vladimir Putin Problem
Inside Team Trump’s Plans For Mass Deportation Camps: A key Trump White House adviser said the operation would be “greater than any national infrastructure project we’ve done to date” as a country. (and after the deportations, what will they do with all of that infrastructure?)
Voucher Dilemma: Taxpayer cost jumped from $15.5 million to more than $300 million
The US presidential debate saw Trump become what he most feared: a laughing stock
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
ChatGPT to the rescue?
USPS’ long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers
How Donald Trump Got Loomered
Is This A Good Life
Barbara Lee on Her Vote to Avert Forever Wars, and Why Trump Is Not a Peace Candidate
I guess we know the “elsewhere” the compromise was taking place
We (Liberal Media Critics) Are Winning: Mainstream outlets have tried very hard to ignore their most rigorous detractors. That may be changing.
Arizona Dreamin’
Harris to America: it’s time to turn off ‘the same old show’
Native Leaders Organize to Defend Alaska’s Ranked Choice Voting System
The Media’s Demented Policy Illiteracy
Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism
As Trump demonizes immigrants, two targeted communities fear what’s next
Triple Hearsay: Original Sources of the Claim that Haitians Eat Pets in Ohio Admit No First-Hand Knowledge (““I think it was two years ago now, I went to the [Bureau of Motor Vehicles] to renew my license or my tags. I can’t remember, but I was sitting in the BMV, and the only way I know to describe it is I felt like … I was transported, because all around me it was people talking a different language. … I felt like I was the minority,” she said.”)
Did the media learn nothing from its disastrous coverage of Trump and Clinton in 2016?
While Trump Chases Low Turnout Voters, Harris Activates Her Difference Making “New Base”
‘The Impressionist Moment’ is a smart, bracing and unmissable art show
The Real ‘DEI’ Candidates
Paid Sick Leave Is On The Ballot In Red States
Sports betting is bad for America’s financial health. New data shows it.