Links for you. Science:

Ocean Census Expeditions Discover More Than 800 New Marine Species
Inside Trump and Musk’s Takeover of NASA
An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director
What the secret lives of lizards tell us about evolution. Scientists are studying natural selection in real time on a small Florida island.
You just have to laugh at these reviewer instructions
Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon

Other:

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement. AOC, solidarity, and people power. (excellent, must-read)
The Dark Enlightenment: The Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction
Stunner in Lancaster As Malone Defeats Parsons For 36th Senate Seat (16 point swing in deep red Trump country)
The Monster that Government Made
DOGE Going Dark as Evidence of Fabrications, Destructive Results and Citizen Anger Rises
Trump’s Politically Insane Decision to Shut Down the Dept. of Education
Theatrical’s Long Covid
What is it like to be a low I.Q.? A new flavor of Twitter I.Q. discourse (so weird)
Vlad Education: Trump’s ceasefire team is getting a crash course in Putin’s bad-faith diplomacy. With the slow pace of Europe rearmament, Zelensky can only hope the White House loses patience with Moscow before Ukraine’s stockpiles run out.
Musk Email Reaches Italian Workers. It Did Not Go Well.
“We had several black servants who were their friends”
Growing weed takes more energy than mining bitcoin. Can it go green?
DOGE staffer, ‘Big Balls’, provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
Tesla owners are trading in cars at record rates amid Musk backlash
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
Trump turbulence leads allies to rethink reliance on U.S. weapons
They helped Trump take back the White House. The rewards have come swiftly.
Waymo wants to put self-driving taxis in the District next year. City government would have to agree to allow autonomous cars on the road for the first time. (ugh)
America’s rich scramble to open Swiss bank accounts over Trump fears
It only took two months for Trump and Musk to break Social Security
Trump, House Republicans take aim at their DC neighbors, starting with transportation
Are We There Yet, James
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
With fewer corporate sponsors, Pride celebrations could regain the political jolt they’ve been lacking
Better
Just let the bird flu run its course, these crazy cats say
I’m an Army veteran. Trump’s attempts to erase our history at Arlington sicken me.