Links for you. Science:

A Response to The National Academies’ Vision for Science: Averting a Path Towards Mediocrity
Flesh-eating screwworm returns to U.S. after 60 years, threatening cattle herd
Meet the ‘superdodgers’: The few who never had COVID
Michigan found a way to reduce school vaccine waivers. until it backfired.
First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas
Fabricated Citations Found In Over 2,800 Biomedical Journal Articles
Debugging California: Fighting mosquitoes with mosquitoes

Other:

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
The District’s twin housing investment crises
Impeach Bill Pulte. If we saw a scheme like this playing out in any other context, we’d use every tool available to try and stop it.
How Did This Happen
Republicans’ Talarico Trans Taunt Is A Witch Hunt In The Classic Sense
Eric’s Law is vital protection for D.C. residents with disabilities
Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them
National Abortion Hotline workers fight against implementing AI
National Guard has done little to reduce violent crime in D.C., a new study finds (my better take here)
US Attorney Corruption — Let’s Take It National!!
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Greg Bovino’s Retirement Plan? Go Full Fascist
Trump’s Chief Nevada Prosecutor Shirks DOJ Orders, Boosts Allies
Sam Altman says OpenAI’s top token spender uses 100 billion tokens a month — and they’re not even the world leader
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to cut traffic—what if they don’t?
Trump’s Corrupt IRS Shakedown Backfires Badly as GOPers Turn on Him
DOJ is investigating former congressman George Santos for insider trading on Kalshi
Why do young US Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? A closer look at mediators and variation by gender and party (I think the strength of the effects should be ignored given how the questions could affect the answers, but each of the effects themselves, and that none of them are extremely dominant is interesting)
Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds
The Musk SpaceX IPO Scam: How You’re Going to Be Investing in SpaceX Whether You Want To or Not
SpaceX blocked from early U.S. benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms existing rules
Focus Groups
Millions of Trips, “Waymo” Empty Miles: California’s First Thousand Days of Commercial Robotaxi Service
Senior U.S. Officials Eye Government Shares in AI Giants
My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with
The 311 app has been broken for ages. What gives?
The rise of the managed city. Tokyo’s newest megadevelopments aim to redesign urban life for an aging, increasingly diverse society
‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund
What Trump Delivered for Amazon
From Bad Brains to Bratmobile: What’s Your Favorite D.C. Punk Album?