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
ho lee smokes – the cold sweat that must have broken out as he reviewed the student’s findings. WOW!
Also – such a fascinating story about the butterflies and memory.
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Thank you for your faithful passing along of articles like the butterfly memory piece! I’ve been actively looking for beauty and kindness in the world this last week, and shared it with friends! Thank you for being one of my consistent sources of warm fuzzies – I need them, and I share them, so your influence improves more lives than your metrics might show!
I don’t think you’re the person who shared this with me – though it would be kind of funny if I reshared it with the source! – but I have been listening to this gorgeous video of someone playing a duet with an earlier version of themselves, pre-transition, over and over for days: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSmc7s1rgU&pp=0gcJCaMLAYcqIYzv&ra=m
This week, I’ve been enjoying a metaphorical pile of cozy books by Cate Lawley, plus some paramedic/EMT nonfiction stuff for my book research. Cate has a lot of books available through Kobo Plus, including two compilations of her Fairmont Finds series. I’m almost done with the second one: roughly 50-year -old divorced protagonist with a canine main character. Plus, free with the one subscription I pay for, so whats not to love?
I also read the Magnetic Magic series (also Kobo Plus) by Lindsay Buroker, but it was not as good. I actually kind of skipped large portions of books and read final chapters because the stories were more engaging than the characters for me.
That’s really lovely to know that these are worth sharing and are being shared further – thanks so much <3
That duet - so fantastic!
Cate Lawley - I'll add that to my TBR list for when I run out of currently available books.