Links for you. Science:

Do we understand how neural networks work?
RFK Jr.’s cancellation of mRNA vaccine research is even worse than it first seemed
Maxwell invents a demon, people get angry (1879)
The Most Damaging RFK Jr. Decision Yet
ARPA-H data chief departs over disagreement with mRNA vaccine rollback
Comparative evaluation of sequencing platforms: Pacific Biosciences, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and Illumina for 16S rRNA-based soil microbiome profiling

Other:

To Create Abundant Housing, Ignore the YIMBY Playbook: Washington DC, America’s bluest city, is building more homes per capita than Houston—not with bottom-up zoning reform but with top-down government action. (excellent)
DHS’s Neo-Nazi Memes Show the Agency for What It Is
The Number: How much is Trump pocketing off the Presidency?
Breaking down the White House lies about D.C.
Trump’s Invasion of DC Is Not A Distraction
Why False Equivalence Is One Of Democracy’s Most Dangerous Lies
Suspended SC state Rep. RJ May resigns as he faces federal child porn charges (PedoCon Theory)
Meet Maple: Former K-9 now beekeeper at MSU
Thomas Chatterton Williams is impossible to disagree with. That’s not a good thing.
Why Trump beat the Epstein rap
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
“Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit
The jobs report that Trump can’t kill
Fell For It Again
Businesses have been eating Trump’s tariffs. That’s starting to change
OpenAI’s Waterloo?
Greedflation Is Back as Corporations Use the Tariff Excuse to Hike Prices
Trump reportedly called Norwegian minister ‘out of the blue’ to ask about Nobel prize
Trump Tariffs Are Burdening US Families With ‘Back-to-School Tax’
So we’re invoking slavery to justify Trump’s shenanigans now, huh?
A.I. as normal technology (derogatory)
Gavin Newsom’s epic trolling is sending Republicans into fits
xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler
Trump Demands the Smithsonian Deliver Shiny, Happy History
Uh-oh! Trump has lost his rizz among the youth who voted for him
Being a bad boss is a choice. You don’t have to do it!
Tom Cruise Rejected Getting a Kennedy Center Honor From Trump (why anyone lets Trump steamroll them at this point is a complete mystery)
Man fleeing Home Depot ICE raid killed by car on L.A. Freeway: ‘Just so inhumane’