Links for you. Science:

How a species evolved fast enough to save itself from extinction
What Earth’s longest-lived animals can teach us about aging better
Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies
His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.
Fuck the Roman Empire
An Inflection Point

Other:

Using FOIA To Expose Trump’s Biggest Coverup
An Existential Threat to Organized Labor’s Ability to Help People
The Marine Corps probably told Platner what the Totenkopf is
Gov. Jared Polis punts Tina Peters clemency decision until after appeals court weighs in, his office tells lawmakers
While Putin helps Iran kill Americans, Trump shrugs
Bernie Sanders-backed Senate hopeful backtracks on apology for ‘Nazi skull’ tattoo insisting it’s an ’eminently reasonable skull-and-crossbones’
MAHAspital
Doomscrolling is over. Now everyone is “monitoring the situation.”
‘Crappy luxury’: Inside NYC’s brand new apartment buildings that are falling apart
Trump sold young voters on his vision. Many are having buyer’s remorse.
ARE THE ATTACKS ON GRAHAM PLATNER HELPING HIM?
Jewish students shunned by anti-Semitic housemates as 1 in 5 don’t want to flat share
Let Firefly Stay Dead!
A List Of Better Ways To Experience The Frisson Of Transgression Than Becoming A Fascist
“This Ain’t No Game, Bro”: Gen Z Crashes Out Over Trump’s Iran War
People Hate Datacenters, Survey Finds
Did Trump Just Start a Recession? A very candid chat with oil market expert Dan Yergin on the potential unintended consequences of Trump’s war in Iran.
Live Nation Gets To Keep Its Monopoly Thanks To Trump’s Department Of Justice
Is ChatGPT a Dead End? A growing number of the most decorated A.I. researchers have declared that world models, not L.L.M.s, are the key to unlocking tech’s next quantum leap. Investors are betting billions of dollars that they’re right.
Norms
Analyze This: Limbic, a British company backed by Khosla Ventures, is working toward a future where people use A.I. to supplement their shrinks rather than rely on the tech altogether—one of the darker trends of the artificial intelligence era so far.
Even Silicon Valley Says That AI Is a Bubble (the assumption is that stocks will rise again shortly thereafter, and at some point, that might not happen…)
Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us
Delayed projects, low morale: Boston’s streets department is stalling under Wu, long a transit champion
Rise, Grind, Die
Sure Why Not
Trump Gives Eugenic Vibes Ranting Against ‘Genetics’ of ‘Sick’ Muslim Immigrants
Situational Unawareness
“I am 5 years old. I want go home”: Children’s letters expose nine months of torture at Texas immigrant concentration camp
Why Trump Didn’t Plan for the Strait of Hormuz