Links for you. Science:
Watch alligator pull huge Burmese python through water in Florida
Long COVID syndrome in children: neutrophilic granulocyte dysfunction and its correlation with disease severity
Testing and Masking Policies and Hospital-Onset Respiratory Viral Infections
Feds say probe into E coli outbreak tied to McDonald’s is over
Agriculture Department to Require Testing of U.S. Milk Supply for Bird Flu Virus
Trump moves spark fear of brain drain at environment agencies
Other:
None of These People Should Ever Work in Politics Again
A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing? What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America. (headline doesn’t do the article justice)
Just Keep Posting Through It
The media is public enemy No. 1 to Trump’s pick to lead FBI
Billionaires Are Lying Shamelessly to Convince Us To Destroy Our Government
What justice would mean for Reggie Brown
Trans Medicine’s “Merchants of Doubt”: There is plenty of uncertainty involved in gender-affirming care—as in most aspects of medicine. But the groups behind the Tennessee ban aren’t driven by science—or patient care.
Trump ushers in a Christian “deep state”: MAGA moves to gut the Constitution
What if Charity Shouldn’t Be Optimized?
Laura Benanti Says ‘F— You Forever’ to Zachary Levi for Suggesting Vaccines May Have Killed Their Broadway Co-Star: ‘I Never Liked Him’
Why so many Americans prefer sprawl to walkable neighborhoods
Let’s Call It: Trump 2.0 Is Lining Up for Massive Social Security Cuts
Most federal workers are not in D.C. See where they live.
Want a Job in the Trump Administration? Be Prepared for the Loyalty Test.
What Trump sees in Kash Patel
Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz Saw the Future
The internet made a stink over her ‘politics of smell’ PhD thesis
An Assassin Showed Just How Angry America Really Is (it’s Stoller, but clock stopped twice a day etc.)
Ex-D.C. officer concedes giving inside information to Proud Boys head
Landlords are using AI to raise rents — and California cities are leading the pushback
The American military women in WWII who trained to protect D.C. from attack
Why Running the Government Like a Business Would Be a Disaster
Ocasio-Cortez seeks top Democratic position on House Oversight Committee
Why the future of San Francisco architecture is skinny
With GOP help, Montana lawmakers vote down transgender bathroom rule
Manhattan Medicare Murder Mystery: Only about 50 million customers of America’s reigning medical monopoly might have a motive to exact revenge upon the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
mikethemadbiologist
I just read the New Yorker article on the health-care CEO murder, and the large celebratory reaction. I’m reminded of “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” going high in the charts, in reaction to Margaret Thatcher’s death.
Corporations are psychopathic by corporate law: they exist to maximize shareholder value or profits, often short-term. A small or medium-sized corporation with competition may find that making clients happy helps profits; a giant corporation is normally under no such market force.
Management training probably includes cost-benefit analysis, but a trained manager might not have the sense of a true cost or benefit. I read a discussion in which Boeing was transformed from an engineering company to a business. Boeing went from, “Fix the problem, damn the cost,” to charging extra for the extra critical measurement module in which redundancy was essential.
Two giants battling each other might be just what’s needed. I’m reminded of former prosecutor Linda Fairstein’s settlement with Netflix: a more emphasized disclaimer plus a million-dollar donation to an innocence project. Going to trial might have gone epically bad.