Links for you. Science:

AI Executives Promise Cancer Cures. Here’s the Reality
New-to-science stick insect is the heaviest ever found in Australia
Chinese star catalog is the world’s oldest, astronomers claim
Measles takes your immune memories
New Critically Endangered Killifish Species Discovered in Kenya’s Ancient Forest
In Genetics, a Tense Coexistence of Mainstream and Fringe Views

Other:

COVID Contrarians Are Wrong About Sweden. Trying to ‘let it rip’ in early 2020 was a disaster. (excellent)
CDC Cuts Experts Out of Panels That Develop Vaccine Policy
Israel’s Special Place In American Politics May Never Recover. With the undeniable horrors coming from Gaza, something has shifted. Could Israel become just another U.S. ally?
Can the Education Department Really Force Virginia Schools to Change Their Policies About Trans Kids? Governor Glenn Youngkin doesn’t have their back, so Northern Virginia school districts don’t have great options.
It’s Tariff Week, Again
Tokyo Says: If We Don’t Put Anything in Writing, We Don’t Have to Fulfill Trump’s Demands
The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work
Elon Musk Amplifies Bizarre Claim That ‘Women Are Built To Be Traded’ (the subhed is funny)
Conservatives hate government—but not when it benefits them
Trump, the Tin-Pot Tyrant of the Tee Box. A man so pathetic, so filled with self-loathing, envy, jealousy, such a Grand Canyon of emptiness inside, he’s President of the United States and still has to cheat at golf
More Spaghetti on the Wall
How SUVs Are Making Traffic Worse
Seven Reasons Trump’s Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace
Everything Is Trump
Will The Anti-Trump Grassroots Rally Back To Democrats?
Maryland Bookstore Donates Proceeds From GOP Senator’s Book Sales to Immigrant Charity
Experts Say Foreign Governments Are ‘Playing Trump’ on Tariffs
Bubble Trouble: An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
Swiss Push for Tariff Deal Hits Roadblock in Heated Trump Call (Trump is such a petulant child)
The Trump administration is trying to block politically inconvenient government data
Rapid Involuntary Retirement: Truth in data presentation
The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People
Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash case
Bizarre DHS Social-Media Strategy: Something to White Home About
US employers slash hiring as Trump advances a punishing trade agenda (Trump take job)
Immigrant women describe ‘hell on earth’ in ICE detention
AI can’t do your job
I’m head of an NGO in Kenya. The shutoff of USAID support has been devastating
Small businesses helped build Musk’s empire. Their unpaid bills add up to millions