Links for you. Science:

Americans Are Uniquely Infatuated With Bald Eagles. Too Bad Most of Us Have No Idea What They’re Actually Like.
Breakthrough Discovery Targets Virus Infecting 95% of the World’s Population
Virus Evolution: Scaling up efforts to target evolving viruses
Mucosal vaccination clears Clostridioides difficile colonization
Antibiotic resistance threatens 30-year decline in deaths from lower respiratory infections
Let’s Stop Getting Distracted From This Crucial Question About Exercise

Other:

After the Rent Freeze: The cost of affordable housing in New York City (excellent)
Texts show Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales sent sexually explicit messages to staffer
Maine ICE observers say agents threatened to put them on ‘domestic terrorist’ watchlist
Local law enforcement gets perks for partnerships with ICE that led to 650 arrests in West Virginia
Tony Gonzales faces mounting pressure from GOP women over affair allegations
Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview
The End of Children
How to stop a dictator. I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple. (interesting, but I think there are some alternative explanations that are valid)
How to Tax Billionaires
Longtime Trump Supporter’s Husband Detained By ICE, Says President ‘Ruined Our Life’
Why The State Of The Union Boycotters Have It Right
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
Bombshell report says Epstein stashed photos and hard drives in a half dozen storage units around US
I Told You So…
Young Men Aren’t the Only Ones Struggling
Nicki Minaj’s social media propped up by thousands of bots, analysis finds
Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator
How malls can become the midtowns of the future. Mall and office park redevelopments are a generational opportunity to create new nodes of urbanity.
Zeynep Tufekci on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI
Peter Attia Out at CBS News After Epstein Files Correspondence Disclosures
This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage. Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.
The Real State of the Union: Millions of Americans Are Just Disgusted
Clever Accounting
Turns out Generative AI was a scam. Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be
Wear Whatever F-ing Jeans You Want
The Rise of the Bratty Machines
15 States Sue H.H.S. Over Revisions to Vaccine Schedule
Jeffrey Epstein And His Network Of Rich Freaks Were Obsessed With The Chiropractor
ICE Took Their Papers—and Won’t Give Them Back
Yankee Go Home. American power rested on culture. No longer.