Links 9/14/26

Links for you. Science:

No, AI hasn’t officially solved Navier–Stokes. Yet
Horrible Toad Very Good At What It Does
Meet Helicobacter pylori, the stomach bacteria that’s also considered a carcinogen
Anyone else remember Brian Wansink?
Fossil feathers preserved inside dinosaur poop could help explain why some birds survived the dinosaur mass extinction
Massive herbarium merger rescues century-old plant collection. Duke University’s 825,000 specimens will move to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mercury Is Shrinking Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Discover

Other:

You Have to Call Bigots What They Are. Stop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate.
Susan Collins’ Astroturfed Campaign Tries to Pass Off Party Hacks as Regular Mainers. Republicans profusely thank Susan Collins
LLMs are real, AI is fake
Transgender Americans are fleeing hostile red states. Seattle says it’s overwhelmed. Seattle officials say anti-trans laws in red states are driving a queer migration crisis in the Pacific Northwest.
One Last Breakfast (neato)
How to Stop Trumpism From Rising in Germany and Europe. Mainstream parties in Germany are making the same mistakes they did in the United States and other countries in fighting the far-right, says historian Thomas Zimmer.
Charlie Kirk Held the Young U.S. Right Together. The Fight Over Israel Is Tearing It Apart
New England could become a college graveyard. Schools should join forces to avoid that fate.
Famously Undiplomatic Britt McHenry Handed State Department Gig
Dem Midterm Money Woes & The D.C.C.C.’s Naughty List
The Pirate of Pornhub: Part 2
How NFL Teams Avoid The Great Big Middle
James Talarico’s Leap of Faith
We don’t talk enough about Trump’s $850M pay-to-play slush fund
The Fissures and Fractures Behind the Right’s Pink Facade
Has AI Gone Rogue?
In Trump’s Mafia, Even Goons Can Do Billion-Dollar Shakedowns
This Is Not A Love Song. Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights
There’s Nothing Traditional About Tradwives
Metro Is Rolling Out New Train Station Signs
My Cybercab held me hostage for an hour today 🙃
E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants. Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
Alexandria Leaders Want to Get Rid of the City’s Flock Cameras
‘It’s just straight bigotry’: wave of Islamophobic rhetoric looms over US midterm elections
Never Forget, AI Slop Is Polluting 9/11 History on the Internet as We Speak
He was called ‘MAGA’s Man’ in Latin America. Now he’s charged with hiring hitmen to murder his girlfriend
Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down
Five Takeaways from the August Jobs Report
Why Trump’s Angry New Tirade at Canada Is About to Backfire On Him
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

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