Links for you. Science:
A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle
A.I. Killed the Math Brain
Water Tornadoes? Flamingos Use This Clever Trick To Trap Prey
Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA
Bird flu outbreak kills 95% of Hickman’s Arizona chickens, closes West Valley farms
National Weather Service adding around 125 new hires after laying off hundreds
Other:
“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
A ‘war on children’: as US changes Covid vaccine rules, parents of trial volunteers push back
The Battle for the Democratic Future
DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite
“Learn to Code” Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment
Trump’s favorite network melts down over ‘TACO’ insult
The real reason Musk left the White House
The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump’s Crackdown on Immigration
In Dozens of Districts, Teachers Can’t Afford to Live Near Their Schools
Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions
Trayon White Skips Ward 8 Candidate Forum as His Potential Successors Lay Out Their Vision for His Old Job
What Could Trump’s Proposed Smithsonian Cuts Mean for Two DC Museums?
RIP Jeffraham Prestonian
The Potemkin President
We All Gotta Eat
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
Welp
Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of.
Will Get Worse
Major Companies Abandon Law Firms That Signed Deals with Trump
Teachers Are Not OK
DOGE took over the US Institute of Peace. Now, the inside looks like a zombie movie, security chief reveals
RFK Jr.’s War on Vaccines Is Here. Anyone who thinks he’ll stop with COVID shots is deluding themselves. The time to raise hell is now.
Nowhere, Man
The Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their Clients
Trump’s Dumbing Down of America
The Right-Wing Culture Warriors Who Are Becoming Federal Judges
Disability claims skyrocket, raising new puzzle alongside ‘excess mortality’ (Iz beeg meestery!)
The Emoluments Clauses, Explained
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That article on unemployed programmers is terrible. For starters, a “whopping” 6.1% unemployment rate is 93.9% of graduates geting hired at good salaries (and its whole discussion of which fields are doing best is about tiny differences and ignores the unpaid, or really badly paid, entry level positions rampant in fields such as journalism, to say nothing of the hard sciences). Second, it doesn’t understand the difference between Computer Science (which is an actual academic discipline with substantial mathematical content) and “coding”. The “every kid with a laptop thinks he’s going to be Mark Zuckerberg” snark is, unfortunately, spot on (especially since MZ is a CS-illiterate college dropout), but CS graduates bring a lot more to the table than just coding.
Now that cranking out (sometimes problematic) code is becoming easier, and with the AI bubble possibly bursting, what’s going to happen in the computer industry is far from clear, but that article doesn’t shed any light on the subject.