Links for you. Science:

More loons are filling Maine’s lakes with their ghost-like calls
Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says
Scientists Discover the Earliest Human-Made Fire, Rewriting Evolutionary History
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
Does wearing a face mask stop you catching flu? Experts give verdict
Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits, the C.D.C. Reported

Other:

Can the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal” Be Saved From Trump? Precious murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others are even more endangered than we knew.
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
FDA intends to put its most serious warning on Covid vaccines
FIFA’s phony “peace prize” can’t redeem Donald Trump. Trump is an incompetent warmonger, and an elderly man in obvious decline. A made-up medal won’t change that
Bluesky Is Back for Mississippi Adults, But Larger Social Giants Still Haven’t Implemented Required Age Checks
West Bank violence is soaring, fueled by a capitulation of Israeli institutions to settlers’ interests
House probe slams D.C. police chief for ‘ecosystem of fear, retaliation, and toxicity’
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Trump’s library plan: An ‘iconic building’ in Miami and a ‘fake news wing’
The Washington Post’s AI Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster
Library board ousted after voting to keep children’s book about trans boy
GOP Lawmakers Tucked A Controversial Provision Into A 3,000-Page Bill. Lawmakers tucked language into a fast-moving defense bill to grant federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the only tribal provision in the 3,086-page bill.
Reviving Inuit culture, young Greenlanders find strength against Trump
Time Magazine Deploys AI “Ask Me Anything” Box That Covers Up Its Actual Journalism and Can’t Be Closed
Extremely online at the Tiffany Network
A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024
The casino-fication of news: New partnerships between the prediction market Kalshi and cable TV networks will transform every news event into a betting opportunity.
15 Ukrainians are suing US tech factories over chips in Russia’s deadly weapons
Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads (this is awful)
“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
OU Faculty Senate raises concerns with policy suspending faculty members who receive student complaints (inmates running the asylum)
‘There’s power in numbers’: New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE
Church Nativity scenes add zip ties and gas masks to protest immigration raids
AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested.
The Curse of Trump 2.0
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes: What Could Go Wrong?
Jurors in Sandwich Thrower Case Found Charges ‘Bunch of Baloney’
In Florida’s Panhandle, a Hearing on School Vaccine Mandates Gets Heated
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court