Links for you. Science:

David Botstein, Gene-Mapping Pioneer, Dies at 83
Scientists Get a Glimpse of How New Pandemics Are Made
Study finds rising resistance to a last-resort antibiotic in Africa
Convergent extreme reductive evolution in ancient planthopper symbioses
Cost-of-living crisis pushing PhD students to get second incomes, finds Nature poll
Archaeologists Unearth 43,000 Ancient Egyptian Receipts, Notes, and ‘To Do’ Lists

Other:

Tucker Carlson calls pro-Hitler Oswald Mosley one of Britain’s ‘great war heroes’ (the 43 Group, if they were still around, would disagree)
Jack Dorsey Is A Pointless Dipshit. Jack Dorsey continually demonstrates he is, at best, oblivious to his role in enabling the authoritarian dismantling of democracy and informed consensus. Ethical tech publications should stop mythologizing the unremarkable extraction class.
Democrats Score Stunning Victory in District Trump Won Easily in 2024
Why Jimmy Cagney spoke better Yiddish than just about any other actor in Hollywood
Multiple Republicans in Congress post openly anti-Muslim statements
Grandmother jailed for 6 months after AI error linked her to a crime in a state she had never even visited, lawyers say
A Brief History of America’s Involvement in Iran
Defense workers’ morale has plunged under Trump, survey finds
Crypto, AI, and AIPAC Are Corrupting Democratic Primaries
The AI Data Center Boom Looks a Lot Like the Railroad Bubble
Kristi Noem Bought 11 Warehouses to Use as ICE Jails. Now What?
WHY ARE WE ATTACKING IRAN? SO TRUMP CAN BE JOHN BARRON AGAIN.
The Quietest Government Shutdown
Virginia Is Poised to Ban ICE Contracts, Unless the Feds Agree to Obey the Law. No One Expects Them to.
Work from Home and Fertility
A top FEMA official has history of violent rhetoric and said he once teleported to Waffle House
Homeless and stateless: Deportees from U.S. are trapped in Mexico
Polly Wants a Better Argument. The “Stochastic Parrot” Argument is Both Wrong and Actively Harmful
The Supreme Court Is About To Decide The Fate Of Millions Of Votes
Mamdani Stumbles Over the Irish Question
The Crypto Industry’s Plan To Sink Unfriendly Democrats Is Backfiring
From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver
D.C.’s mayoral race turned negative. Soaring utility bills lit the fuse.
Trump, Iran, And The Biting Of Reality
Trump bank immigration order delayed amid Wall Street pushback
Education and extraction in the cannibal South.
Museum that explores how enslaved people were freed sues over grant cancellation
Donald Trump Is Strangling Cuba To Death
A Whiff of Stagflation
High Point Is A Deeply Weird School