Links for you. Science:

Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness
The Spectacular Regrowth of New England’s Forests
Don’t abolish the NIH. Fix it.
Why U.S. measles outbreaks have grown harder to extinguish. The nation is already nearing last year’s record case total, and experts say the virus is forcing doctors to relearn a disease many thought had been consigned to history.
The Disturbing Truth About How Extreme Heat Affects the Body
WHO warns as record Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak surpasses 1,400 cases
Voters Oppose Letting the White House Overrule Scientists on Research Funding

Other:

Once Again, Trump Poisons Everything He Touches. For a moment there it looked like he wasn’t going to ruin the World Cup. Alas…
Jessica Burbank on the Rise of Flock Safety and America’s Surveillance State
The Truth About the A24 A.I. Panic
What Private Credit Is, and Why Investors Are So Worried About It
Colorado Fight Club
Ambani-Trump Jr. investigation encountered a Google AI surprise
Chris Van Hollen’s Opus
This land was your land
Want to know how they quickly got 400 extremists in DC? (interesting hypothesis, but in an area of a couple of million people who can access mass transit, there are a whole bunch of candidates for this, including defense contractors, intelligence contractors etc.)
Metrobus network redesign was a catalyst, but full story remains untold
Supreme Court decision loosening campaign finance rules could be boon for Paxton in Senate race
Basics: The Transit Ridership Recipe
Mainstream media gets nothing from caving to Trump
Courses will be required at University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom. Gov. Reynolds signed a law requiring students to take courses at the new center pushed by conservatives
ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
White House Criticizes Smithsonian Museum for ‘Extreme Political Activism’
Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader
Montana GOP Senate Nominee Kurt Alme Let Child Sex Offender Off The Hook
This Simple White Line Is America’s Greatest Unsung Innovation
‘The View’ throttles back political candidate bookings following FCC inquiry
National Guard troops fatally shoot a man in downtown Memphis
Biden rips Trump over Reflecting Pool, other DC projects: ‘What a loser’
It Took a While, but Americans May Have Found Something We All Hate
Kansas GOP leaders’ alarming plot to cancel U.S. Senate elections unfolded in plain sight last year
Abundance politics may not win over conservative Christian voters
They Can’t Help Themselves, Can They?
Plan to ease rules on mailing guns could help company Trump Jr. has stake in
A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story