Links 11/12/25

Links for you. Science:

The lobsters are moving north
Here’s what happens to your body when clocks ‘fall back’ an hour
Serious mental illness tied to increased risk of long COVID
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
Meet the anti-vaccine activist who could lead the response to the next pandemic
Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean

Other:

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Too Cruel Too Soon
Paying for It: The municipal bond market strangles socialism
Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers
How To Inhabit The Center Without Being An Ass
By stealing food stamps, Trump is eating into ‘the psychological wages of whiteness’
Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
What Can Zohran Mamdani Do?
Can a Japanese-style 7-Eleven make it in the United States?
ONLY DEMOCRATS HAVE AGENCY — EXCEPT WHEN THEY WIN
State employees fired over Charlie Kirk posts inundate courts
The Texan Ideology: Silicon Valley looks for Lebensraum in the Bible Belt
Chipotle stock craters as company says young people without jobs can’t afford their food anymore
Meta Stock Plummets as Investors Horrified at How Much Zuckerberg Is Spending on Misfired AI
Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
Labor activist takes on Teamsters leader allying with Trump: ‘He doesn’t represent the workers’
ICE says father who was detained in Durango, Colorado was “mistaken” for someone else
Trump’s Retribution Campaign Leaves D.C. Prosecutor’s Office in Crisis (this also affects what would be state felony prosecutions in territories that are states, not colonies)
Platform Temperance
Why Tech Moral Panic Matters. We should be more suspicious of monocausal theories of tech-driven alienation.
Treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco
The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling
Meet Miami’s Robocop
Texas sues Tylenol for the dumbest reason
Infernal Affairs
“Little Marco” goes big MAGA — with his eyes on the White House
Cuomo
MAGA has consigned the Reagan Revolution to “the ash-heap of history”
The Conservatives Who Think Trump Isn’t Going Far Enough
Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death

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