Links for you. Science:

Bird Flu’s Back, And This Time Fewer People Are Keeping Tabs On It
Experts Warn The Government Shutdown Is Affecting You In A Major, Unexpected Way
Fat AND Sassy? A Three-Legged Lizard Really Can Have It All
A Fundamental ‘Constant’ of the Universe May Not Be Constant At All, Study Finds
Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated ‘Research’ Papers

Other:

Dick Durbin Says We Don’t Understand How the Senate Works. He’s both right and wrong about that, but in neither case does it work to his credit. (excellent)
What Did Men Do to Deserve This? (excellent, deceptive title)
The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You (https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/08/11/ai-is-very-good-at-mediocrity/)
The Most Frustrating Thing About the Shutdown Cave
Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine. The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash has come from foreign sources as Donald Trump’s sons have touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
‘A Slap in the Face’: Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats’ Shutdown Cave
Booooooo! Boooooooo!!! (related post)
16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave
Día de los Muertos in New Orleans
Josh Shapiro Is Done Lying Low
What’s It All About Then
D.C. Journalist’s Nightmare Song
I Don’t Like Being Lied To
THE REAL DEMOCRATIC DIVIDE IS BETWEEN FIGHTERS AND CAVERS
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
Donald Trump is Joe Biden now
Marjorie Taylor Greene flees Trump’s sinking ship
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early
How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things
12 Reasons Why Trump, 79, May Be Losing The Plot
Six election results that didn’t make the headlines
Conservation groups blast Trump’s pick to lead key environmental agency
The Busiest “Rail Line” You’ve Never Heard Of Is In the Suburbs of Atlanta
Japan deploys the military to counter a surge in bear attacks
Trump’s Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabia’s
Progressive group calls for Sen. Chuck Schumer to resign over shutdown vote
Taking GLP-1s to Get Ahead at Work
Did the Off-Year Elections Settle the Democrats’ Big Debate?
Master of the House: The Pelosi Paradox. How the Strongest Speaker Made Congress Weak
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset. By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump’s authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it