Herds of Mysterious ‘Glacier Mice’ Baffle Scientists Atlas Obscura
Take an Immersive Journey Via an Historic Rainforest’s Mycelial Community in ‘Fungi: Net of Life’ Colossal
Issues You Don’t See in A Recession Carson Group
Pfizer’s paradox: Albert Bourla walks a tremendous line as he tries to show round 2023’s worst-performing massive drugmaker Endpoints Information. I appeared up the collective noun for weasels (cf. “exaltation of larks”), they usually’re fairly boring: boogle, confusion, gang, pack, sneak. Maybe a “bourla of weasels”?
Local weather
COP28 local weather summit indicators the tip of fossil fuels — however is it sufficient? Nature. By Betteridges’s Legislation….
Figures from the International Carbon Price range 2023 Robbie Andrew. Many charts, for instance:
Russia is an fascinating pure experiment. Should you actually need to scale back emissions, collapse the economic system (and crash life expectancy).
How lending-based local weather finance is pushing poor nations deeper into debt France24
By no means thoughts politics and partisanship: Local weather motion is an financial crucial for us all Orlando Sentinel. Nice lead: “Irrefutable, simple proof exhibits local weather change is going on, and it’s costing you cash.”
Water
1000’s of permits designed to guard Colorado streams are expired Colorado Solar
#COVID19
Anyone who helps the Swedish mannequin ought to think twice in regards to the nature and results of their strategy. With subtitles:
The Swedish State Epidemiologist talks in regards to the deaths with Covid which have occurred inside the final couple of weeks in Sweden.Swedish Tv Morning Information, December 11 2023. pic.twitter.com/zzM6HenELy
— jorgenponder — om coronavirusepidemin (@jorgenponder) December 11, 2023
Commentary:
Here’s a subtitled Ebba Busch, chief of the Christian Democrats and now in authorities, about what occurred. pic.twitter.com/vA9v5Ra1F7
— jorgenponder — om coronavirusepidemin (@jorgenponder) July 16, 2023
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Variety of Covid-19 circumstances in Malaysia almost doubles in every week Straits Instances. No new variants, so it’s stated.
Excessive fusion and cytopathy of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.640.1 Journal of Virology (GM). From the Summary: “SARS-CoV-2 variants with undetermined properties have emerged intermittently all through the COVID-19 pandemic. Some variants possess distinctive phenotypes and mutations which permit additional characterization of viral evolution and Spike features. Round 1,100 circumstances of the B.1.640.1 variant had been reported in Africa and Europe between 2021 and 2022, earlier than the enlargement of Omicron. Right here, we analyzed the organic properties of a B.1.640.1 isolate and its Spike… Altogether, our outcomes spotlight the cytopathy [“damages or destroys cells“] of a hyper-fusogenic [“facilitating fusion, especially relating to cells“] SARS-CoV-2 variant, supplanted upon the emergence of Omicron BA.1.” Let ‘er rip!
Examine: 4% of US collegiate athletes developed lengthy COVID Heart for Infectious Illness and Coverage. Most likely an undercount, provided that directors (i.e., recruiters) are being interviewed.
China?
Chinese language banker jailed for all times in US$483 million corruption case, largest ever in nation’s historical past South China Morning. That’s nearly actual cash!
Deal with folks not numbers, China informed, because it faces unavoidable delivery decline Channel Information Asia
Why China Is Stepping Up Its Maritime Assaults on the Philippines International Coverage
Myanmar
‘Preventing is throughout’: Myanmar faces deepening humanitarian disaster Al Jazeera. It’s not a “humanitarian disaster.” It’s a struggle, an armed common rebellion being the one solution to rid Myanmar of the Tatmadaw.
China says peace talks held over north Myanmar battle, ‘optimistic outcomes’ Channel Information Asia. So China cut up the Three Brotherhood Alliance (ethnic armed organizations), good job.
Commentary: Vietnam’s ‘bamboo coverage’ is an asset because the US, China come calling Channel Information Asai
Indonesia calls in military to assist farmers plant rice as drought curbs output Channel Information Asia
Syraqistan
Israel says it’ll proceed Gaza struggle ‘with or with out worldwide help’ France24
Israel as a Conquering State Bracing Views
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Biden administration staffers maintain vigil exterior White Home, urge Gaza cease-fire Anadolu Company
US Homeland Safety employees accuse management of turning ‘blind eye’ to Gaza Al Jazeera
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Israel admits to “immense” quantity of “pleasant hearth” on 7 October Digital Intifada
‘Israelis don’t see photos from Gaza as a result of our journalists are usually not doing their job’ Haaretz (the e-newsletter, as a result of Haaretx give me 403s).
Son of the Ghost of Kiev:
Israeli media was compelled to take away an interview with Niko Ostroga, a person who claimed he noticed 29 of his pals massacred by Hamas on 10/7 on the Nova Digital Music Fest after he was uncovered as a con artist who by no means attended the occasion.
His lie was uncovered solely as a result of he… pic.twitter.com/06m4uQACUv
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) December 13, 2023
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Yikes (1):
“Thanks for strolling by way of neighborhoods along with your terrorist scarf.”
A Harvard graduate scholar carrying a keffiyeh, was subjected to Islamophobic harassment on campus by Eve Gerber, spouse of Jason Furman, professor at Harvard’s Kennedy Faculty and a former Obama Admin advisor. pic.twitter.com/ZNgKhZascT
— The Sparrow Challenge (@sparrowmedia) December 13, 2023
Musical interlude.
Yikes (2):
That is Professor Ruth Wisse: the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish at Harvard.
She’s additionally an old-school neocon of the Cheney/Wolfowitz selection.
Right here she is explaining Israel’s view of the overarching obligation of American Jews: to serve in Israel’s data military within the US: pic.twitter.com/N144AtBJxz
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 12, 2023
Attempt watching this with the sound down first. Any individual must test in on Harvard….
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Evaluation: Is the Houthi risk to world order worse than the struggle on Gaza? Al Jazeera
By offering a hall, Armenia can request a street to the Black Sea JAM Information
The Revenge Of The Ottoman Empire Gavekal (VS). Nicely value a learn for some long-awaited, Arrighi-esque historic and financial perspective on multipolarity (within the Fifteenth Century, and now).
What the Ottomans did for science — and science did for the Ottomans Nature
European Disunion
If Hungary blocks EU resolution, it’ll imply Putin vetoed it – Zelenskyy Ukrainska Pravda
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Zelensky’s fund-raising go to to Washington as seen by Russia Gilbert Doctorow
South of the Border
Business in Mexico hits its greatest streak of development in almost 10 years Mexico Information Every day
Biden Administration
Senate votes to approve mammoth nationwide protection coverage invoice Scripps. “The laws is accompanied by an extension of FISA-702, which pertains to a warrantless surveillance program that may hold working lawfully [sic] till April.”
The GSRA Would Undermine the Utility of FISA Part 702 Simply Safety. Like that’s a nasty factor. The Fourth Modification:
The appropriate of the folks to be safe of their individuals, homes, papers, and results, towards unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall concern, however upon possible trigger, supported by oath or affirmation, and significantly describing the place to be searched, and the individuals or issues to be seized.
It’s as plain as day, to anyone not a spook or a spook asset, that “papers, and results” consists of digital communications. Therefore Bush’s Conflict on Terror program of warrantless surveillance was felonious, retrospectively legalized, after which normalized by [genuflects] Obama. And now it’s bipartisan! Disgusting and shameful. Commentary:
John Fetterman joined the pro-spying wing of the GOP and Dems to resume warrantless home spying, regardless of ample proof of large FBI abuse.
A coalition of pro-privacy Dems and GOP had 35 votes towards: wanted 41 to cease it. The NO votes right here opposed limitless FBI spying: https://t.co/V5xFsfwgXz pic.twitter.com/IQttv1NAPj
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 14, 2023
And:
Most of the identical “former Nationwide Safety officers” who precipitated the US media to broadly unfold the lie that the Hunter Biden laptop computer was “Russian disinformation” at the moment are warning that we”ll all be endangered if we do not renew NSA/FBI warrantless spying on People: https://t.co/fgzbnS3l72
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 11, 2023
US company won’t reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit Reuters
The Supremes
Supreme Courtroom Eyeing Fifth Circuit, However Too Early to Decipher Why Bloomberg Legislation. Unlocked, oddly.
Antitrust
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Producer Artificially Bricked. Now The Prepare Firm Is Threatening Them 404 Media
Provide Chain
The world’s copper provide is immediately wanting scarce Mining.com
Peru’s lethal gold mine assault highlights rising safety danger, prices Mining.com
The Bezzle
What Tesla Autopilot does, why it’s being recalled and the way the corporate plans to repair it AP
Driverless automobiles had been the longer term however now the reality is out: they’re on the street to nowhere Guardian (DL). Unsurprising; see NC right here and right here. These two posts are from 2016 (!), so the most recent ginormous instance of Silicon Valley fraud capital misallocation took at the least seven years to play out. Let’s hope AI doesn’t take that lengthy to get sorted.
Digital Watch
Boffins idiot AI chatbot into revealing dangerous content material – with 98 % success price The Register
Healthcare
One thing for Sleep NEJM. Mercifully, there are nonetheless some medical doctors like this.
Prion Illness Rising within the U.S. MedPage Immediately
Sports activities Desk
Turf Conflict Slate. All this organizing work. For pickleball….
Xmas Pre-Sport Festivities
How Christmas tree farms may help wildlife NYT
Yuletide owl discovered roosting in Kentucky household’s Christmas tree for days earlier than being discovered Fox
This Is What Occurs to All of the Stuff You Don’t Need The Atlantic
Our Famously Free Press
The online floods Nieman Labs
My First Byline: Francine McKenna (interview) Your First Byline
Class Warfare
Preliminary Information on “Unwinding” Steady Medicaid Protection NEJM. “As of early October 2023, about 8.7 million folks had misplaced Medicaid protection, almost three quarters (72%) of them for procedural causes. Extrapolation from the 8.7 million determine means that roughly 19 million folks may lose Medicaid, just like the federal authorities’s higher-end estimate (18.4 million).” Pay attention, don’t say the Biden Administration by no means did something for ya.
All of the Carcinogens We Can’t See The New Yorker. We confuse, I’m coming to consider, materiality and visibility.
New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Selection within the Mind and Past Quanta. How little we all know….
Antidote du jour (through):
Bonus antidote:
pic.twitter.com/rwAIohyZ43
— Thế giới của Boss (@papapop96) December 13, 2023
Double-bonus antidote:
A gaggle of younger folks got here to the help of an injured canine seen limping exterior of a hospital in Gaza. To patch the pup up, one younger man eliminated his personal bandage to present the canine a splint, and towards all odds, a wagging tail. 14/10 (through Yosef Basam) pic.twitter.com/2sQDsuF1UC
— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) December 13, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.