Good Things Friday (386) and Link Love
July 24, 2026
Oh this is so cool: Jo Nagai, How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory
99percentinvisible: Structural Integrity When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest building in the world. You can pick it out of the New York City skyline by its 45-degree angled top.
UGH these people (though I am more surprised they received consequences than that they did the crime in the first place): Ex-nurse hit with record $544k fine over falsifying children’s vaccination records
This is cool: Freshwater drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of invasive mussels in Lake Erie
US House Democratic Women’s Caucus urges USDA to reinstate women ousted from soybean board
Burn it all down: OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ hack of another company
Dr Damien P Wolven’s comment on this: “This is openAI Covering Their Ass for getting caught running tests to see if they could use their systems to hack hugging face, & that should be the story.
Like, they built tools which follow instructions about things like zero-days & scraping the dark web for hacked credentials; that’s bad enough…”
AI Data Centers & Our Communities from the Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting