Experts say Covid can now be considered endemic, although it may take another decade to reach the predictability associated with other endemic diseases. / NPR
“The CDC has likely been violating federal law for years by systematically deleting lower-level employees' emails, a federal judge ruled Friday.” / Politico
The US has always struggled with defining its national security priorities—and because old policies are rarely discarded, the disarray only grows. / Foreign Affairs
“Sports Illustrated… explained the science of climate change in detail, advising people 'not to take 99-year leases on properties at present sea level.'” What Americans knew about climate change 60 years ago. / Grist
Kitchen sponges can be used as memory devices, and can mimic the structure of human brains. / Nature
OpenAI says during safety testing, GPT 4-o unexpectedly began speaking in the user's voice. / Ars Technica
See also: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations. / The Marginalian
After nearly 40 years, Andy Warhol's Amiga art—which includes a portrait of Debbie Harry—has officially been found. / The Silicon Underground
A new documentary seeks to find the actor who taught a generation to type via the 1987 education game Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. / Hyperallergic
“Upright strokes bend or break or go in all directions, vowels shrink to blobs, slant loses its smooth smart angle.” Anne Carson mourns how Parkison's has changed her handwriting. / London Review of Books
At the Olympic Village, American athletes experienced something they don't back home: free health care. / The 19th
After winning Olympic gold, 16-year-old Quincy Wilson now has to go back to high school. / Us Magazine
Some of the more interesting Olympic medal trackers are those that implement sorting for surfacing those countries without podium-dominating resources. / Flowing Data
“It had everything you can possibly imagine.” When Apple prototypes make their way to second-hand markets, they sometimes contain corporate secrets. / WIRED
A list of all the shows astronauts can watch on the ISS. / Gizmodo