Links for you. Science:

HHS says it wants better evidence on vaccine injuries. It’s building a system that will produce the opposite. (impeach HHS Secretary Kennedy. Impeach him now)
RFK Jr.’s “Control Group”: In July 2021, while speaking to a large Mennonite crowd in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, RFK Jr. made two accurate predictions.
The World Is Something We Make… and we can make a truly open language model.
AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see ‘no point’ in grading homework
NASA’s Oldest Martian Spacecraft Have Been Running for Decades. Here’s How
What Happened to the Neanderthals?
Maggots: an easily overlooked indicator insect of the distribution and receptor bacteria of ARGs

Other:

As Early Voting Begins in D.C., Some Prepare for Federal Interference
A Blue Wave Won’t Wash Away Our Oligarchy Problem
“Screaming into a void”: why the job market in D.C. is uniquely soul-crushing right now. DOGE cuts, hiring managers who ghost, and the “screening questionnaire” that takes a full day to complete.
Among the Thugs of 2017
A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors. It Tore the Town Apart.
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are doing everything they can to keep the American people in the dark about it.
Hegseth’s Senate Exit Option & A G.O.P. Money Pit
ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems (lol)
Walter Koenig, actor best known as Chekov on Star Trek, dies aged 90
Translating Elon
You Can See Everything’s Magic Trick. Elizabeth Holmes is a fraudster. It’s astonishing what Nathan Fielder’s movie makes of her.
Vivek Ramaswamy discovers that voters have their limits
A Public Option for … Groceries?
“He Played This Badly”: How Zelensky Lost Trump
The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight
Model Leadership: News and notes on a new crop of startups that are hoping to disrupt enterprise A.I. through models that “think” without verbalizing every thought.
Cops Warned to Look for ‘Suspicious Behavior’ From People Opposing Flock at City Council Meetings
No Country for the Old Manosphere. Turns out, young men weren’t truly MAGA after all. According to the latest data, they mostly wanted cheap gas and no war—and they’re turning on the podcasters (Rogan) and politicians (Vance) who said that Trump would deliver. But other than Obama, Democrats aren’t winning the dude vote either.
AI Had Better Work Out
When economic assumptions become policy. The Economist’s recent coverage shows how assumptions about money narrow the choices governments appear to have
The Lindsey Graham revelations expose a Washington scandal bigger than one senator
ChapGPT-6 Says It Should Not Have Been Released
How Corporations Trick You Into Paying More. Lindsay Owens’s new book, “Gouged,” takes on dynamic pricing and other tactics.
Make Trump Pay for Trying to Stamp Out the Postal Service
MAGA fraud crusader let out-of-state GOP operatives vote from his swing state home
The turning point: Trying to tell people a joke isn’t funny? That’s loser shit.
Le Pédophile Raciste
Trump merchandise stores are shutting down across the country
Trump Doesn’t Give a Damn About Your Problems. As the midterms loom, he’s finally admitting the obvious
ICE keeps deporting its own supporters