Links for you. Science:

How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree
Scientists Uncover Lyme Disease’s Hidden Achilles’ Heel – And How to Exploit It
Politicizing Science: The National Institutes for Health. A merit-based and competitive process will be politicized – or eliminated
Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them
Bird flu continues spread as Trump’s pandemic experts are MIA. Vacancies in a key office of pandemic preparedness raise concern.
‘This is a crisis’: A southern Utah city is set to build a power station on top of a premier dinosaur fossil site
Kanzi the Bonobo, Who Learned Language and Made Stone Tools, Dies at Age 44

Other:

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they’ve fired. It can’t. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. (must-read)
AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
DOGE Descends on the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The entire institute’s staff was there, many in black, to greet DOGE employees and their new acting head, Keith Sonderling.
‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands. Leaked chats obtained by WIRED detail plans for the General Services Administration—and the staff’s angry response.
Donald Trump Declares April 2 “Tax Day”
The Real Goal of Trump’s War on Universities. It isn’t about stopping antisemitism. It’s about power. (“No Republican alive has felt the kind of intoxicating surge of power they are experiencing right now, not because of the size of their 2024 electoral victory but because they have collectively decided that with sufficient aggression and creativity, they can go after just about every individual or institution that ever pissed them off.”)
I’m an American software developer and the “broligarchs” don’t speak for me
Joe Rogan’s Infatuation With Elon Musk Is Angering His Fans
The Big Secret About Medicaid: It’s a Middle-Class Benefit
“They basically want to kill me”: GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring
I Teach Jewish Studies. There’s a Bitter Irony to What the Trump Administration Is Asking of My Campus.
U.S. limits Canadian access to iconic Stanstead, Que., border-straddling library, officials say
How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught
Paul Weiss’s Shameful Surrender Makes Every Lawyer There Complicit In Trumpian Constitutional Desecration
Chellie Pingree Calls On Leland Dudek To Resign From Social Security Role
Elon Musk’s extensive ties to China, explained. His business empire needs the Chinese government — and that could warp American policy.
Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
Why it matters that Trump is deleting government data
The Little Bits of Destruction
A Reckoning Is Coming For My Political Party. Chuck Schumer may have felt he was being prudent. But his voters saw a betrayal.
A Piece of Glass Thinner Than a Credit Card Could Solve America’s $25 Billion Energy Problem
Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE?
Chuck Schumer Should Resign to Spend More Time With His Imaginary Friends
Trump voters wanted to harm other people—or at best didn’t care
Schumer and the Democrats still take their own for granted
‘Dogequest’ Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S.
How Many People Live Paycheck to Paycheck?