It is a big jump to assume it is evolving into a virus.
Why not an organelle?
Note that Candidatus Carsonella ruddii has 182 protein-coding genes.
Wikipedia: "it supplies the host with some essential amino acids. It is therefore probably in the evolutionary process of becoming an organelle, similar to the mitochondria of eukaryotic cells that also evolved from an endosymbiont".
The question is, does Sukunaarchaeum provide the host with any advantage, however incidental?

Given that the authors of the preprint never actually observed the organism, it seems unlikely that they know the answer.

Angry about imaginary events.
Misinformed about actual events.
Afraid of imaginary outcomes.
Apathetic to actual outcomes.
Gullible.

And Politically conservative social media takes off like a rocket every election year.
I wonder how many of these people have spread Kremlin misinformation?
I'd say all of them. Gullible.

Richard Feynman was great help in resolving the Challenger disaster. His opinion mattered.

The Department of Energy? Why not Veterans Affairs, or Commerce, or Labor, or HUD? Energy seems just as relevant to microbiology.

Ignore the politicians.
The world you grew up in is gone. Will not return.
China is not coming for your jobs. Automation is.
If you want to be relevant, retool every few years.

"If a woman can make one baby in nine months, ...
then *nine* women can make a baby in *one* month. Right?"

The Parable of the Baby features prominently in the book,
because IT mid/upper management is flush with this quality of cognition.

Karpov has been in the Dumas for 10+ years.
Politics are anti-western / anti-US.
He defended the invasion of Crimea. Defended Putin directly.
Supported the current invasion in the spring, was sanctioned by the EU, snubbed by FIDE, etc.
Sounds like he belonged to Putin. Another sock puppet.

Until just recently, when he called for peace. And then what happens?

You hang with dogs, you get fleas.

If you support genuine fascists - and then change your mind - you may be prone to accidents.
Like the string of the Russian big oil execs who recently fell out of hospital windows. To their deaths.

Cars are made better today. We've owned a dooffy-looking SmartCar for 9 years. Take it to a mechanic for annual maintenance. I've never seen the engine, never checked the oil. And it is not just this this make / model. Cars used to be crap and required more repairs. Think 1970s.

Without that high-technology, there would be no airbags, no anti-lock brakes, etc. Worse engine performance, higher fuel consumption, more pollution. That tech is here to stay.

Yes, of course the pandemic has created supply chain issues. For everyone.

Anyone think we can trust Mark?

and the world already has lots of room temperature intelligences.

Not language, but there must be some form of mechanical communication going on.

In a forest, Mycorrhizal fungi transport phytonutrients between trees.
Nutrients that fungi themselves do not use.

Do you really want *anyone* using the national transportation system as a weapon?

When Russians do this on US soil, you may feel less certain.

I would rather hackers stayed out of warfare and politics entirely.

Too many good hackers turn out to be stupid people. Or sell out.

All this as tiny AMD's server chips consistently beat giant Intel's top offering. Ask serious gamers.

And these last few years, we have been hearing about several serious security flaws baked almost all of into Intel's chips. Some can be repaired at BIOS level, others can not. Permanent vulnerabilities, only recently disclosed.

Now Apple has their own RISC chip. Even less market share for Intel.

No wonder Intel are pointing fingers at Apple.

"Don't Be Evil" becomes "Harvest Chronic Gamblers".

Helping people get that little hit of dopamine,
over and over and over.

Just imagine that someone invented a method of converting Terawatts electricity and human intellect
into a symbolic currency with no intrinsic value, with no link to any material asset, not backed by any government (except North Korea), and which you can not actually spend at the local store.

Oh, wait ...

It consumes resources and produces nothing. I wish they were curing cancer, folding proteins, solving problems, ... but, no. Money is everything.