Linkee-poo, does anybody here remember Vera Lynn, remember how she said that we would meet again, some sunny day

Vera Lynn, and so it goes.

"There are three potential explanations for the new signal from the Xenon1T experiment. Two require new physics to explain, while one of them is consistent with a hypothesised dark matter particle called a solar axion."

"Now, analysis has revealed that the mystery fossil is in fact a soft-shelled egg, the largest ever found, laid some 68 million years ago, possibly by a type of extinct sea snake or lizard."

"In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google… The Apple-Google design has been promoted as being more privacy-focused… However, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data."

"Now a team of European researchers have found that people with blood type A had a 45% higher risk of catching coronavirus and developing 'COVID-19 with respiratory failure,' compared to people with other blood types. On the other hand, people with type O blood had a 35% lower risk for this more serious form of COVID-19."

Florida… "Now, with cases on the rise and beaches reopened, the city has taken a different approach: It doesn’t enforce its own rules mandating face masks or social distancing when people are with non-family members… In four of the last seven days, the state has reported a record number of daily total COVID-19 cases, which Morris called 'very concerning.' Florida reported 2,783 new cases Tuesday, more than it has ever recorded in a single day."

"Well, here we are. It’s June 12, and Covid-19 hospitalizations are rising in Arizona, the Carolinas, Utah, Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee, and perhaps Florida. Those states are also seeing higher numbers of positive Covid-19 tests, as well as increases in the percentage of tests that come back positive. This indicates that the higher case counts aren’t simply due to more widespread testing finding milder cases… Call it a reopening backfire. But really: No expert thought that reopening this quickly was going to work in the first place."

Violence was inevitable. "A movement that had swept into much of the nation’s big cities was about to reach a small town, a rural enclave where the message from demonstrators would be heard not as a wake-up call or a rallying cry, but as a challenge to a way of life… In Bethel, peaceful protesters would be seen by some as no different than looters and rioters. They represented chaos, the problems of other people from other places."

Trigger warnings for child sexual abuse… "Robyn Byrd and Katie Rice were teenage Ren & Stimpy fans who wanted to make cartoons. They say they were preyed upon by the creator of the show, John Kricfalusi, who admitted to having had a 16-year-old girlfriend when approached by BuzzFeed News."

"First-time claims for unemployment insurance totaled 1.5 million last week, well above the 1.3 million expected." What, no joyous celebration. I mean, it's lower than last week's numbers, which were heralded by the market as the end.

Is it time for infrastructure week again? "A well-traveled South Florida bridge is not at risk of imminent collapse, authorities said this week, diverging from the US Coast Guard's warning that the bridge would soon fail." And we know how well Florida authorities do with health risks.

Trouble in paradise… "The community of Kahului saw the largest over-the-year unemployment rate increase in April, shooting up more 32.5% points, according to the BLS’s most recent data. As the travel industry was hit hard by the pandemic, fellow tourist hubs Las Vegas, Nevada, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, saw the second and third highest increases in over-the-year unemployment rates."

"As it headed toward bankruptcy, Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. took advantage of a little-noticed provision in the stimulus bill Congress passed in March to get a $9.7 million tax refund. Then, it asked a bankruptcy judge to authorize the same amount as bonuses to nine executives." How's that extra $600 a week working out for ya?

"Cream of Wheat’s parent company, B&G Foods, said it is 'initiating an immediate review' of the brand’s packaging… The announcement follows decisions by the parent companies of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben’s and Mrs. Butterworth's to overhaul their imaging in the wake of renewed calls for racial equality."

"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi on Wednesday and discussed the need for full transparency and information sharing between the two nations to combat the coronavirus pandemic and prevent future outbreaks." That kinda thing is usually handled at the assistants to the assistants to the deputies level months before actual meetings of the principals. "As the meeting got under way, U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation calling for sanctions against those responsible for repression of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region." Great timing, Sparky. But that was mostly to address issues brought up in Bolton's book than it was to affect actual policy.

"John Bolton details a troubling and shocking series of allegations in a new book about his tenure as President Donald Trump's national security adviser, alleging Trump requested Chinese help to win the 2020 election, that the President argued Venezuela is part of the US, that he casually offered to intervene in the criminal justice system for foreign leaders and that his own senior officials mocked him behind his back." And this way, you don't have to buy the book.