Yves asks me to apologize for the shortage of unique posts in the present day; she is doing post-fundraiser planning — thanks, expensive readers* — and different administrivia. –lambert. NOTE * I can’t consider a snowclone for “____ sofa” (as in sofa) that covers the thought of overwhelming aid and gratitude as an alternative of fainting, so I’ll should go meta right here as an alternative of constructing an precise joke; -couch is simply too awkward. However you see what I imply.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid pattern return to Earth: Dwell updates House
Bears raid a Krispy Kreme doughnut van making deliveries on an Alaska navy base AP
Many individuals hate wasps, however analysis exhibits they’re smarter than you may suppose and ecologically essential Phys.org. Tsk! I establish as a WASP!
Local weather
How Europe’s forests regenerate—with none human interference Phys.org
Plant and forest researchers: don’t “anthropomorphize” crops (press launch) College of Heidelberg
* * * Minnesota Choose Guidelines That Criminalizing Enbridge Line 3 Water Protectors Would Be a Crime Uncovered by CMD. Excellent news!
Colorado desires to create carbon-capture hubs throughout the state. However locals aren’t bought. Colorado Solar
Why Batteries May — May! — Clear up America’s Energy-Line Scarcity Warmth Map
Degrowth and Ecosocialist Revolution Science for the Individuals
Be taught to dwell with wildfire smoke, British Columbians instructed Castanet
#COVID19
Biden administration publicizes $600M to supply COVID checks and can reopen web site to get them organized AP. A bit late. Apparently, no person within the molasses-brained West Wing has been following the wastewater numbers. The story doesn’t say whether or not RAT (false negatives) or PCR, or each. If this 12 months’s website is identical as final 12 months’s, there will likely be PCRs at “greater than 15,000 websites nationwide.” Readers? (After all, a check is ineffective for those who can’t afford the vaccine, so it’s one other “entry to” scheme, however higher than nothing, I suppose.)
Opinion: The error hospitals made on Covid-19 CNN. Doing higher scientific communication than the CDC:
So many important messages lastly attending to a mainstream viewers on cnn! Love this! https://t.co/3ssUHklrhR pic.twitter.com/6xAmvOou5v
— #COVIDisAirborne and solvable HEPA/ventilate n95 (@Amal4Solutions) September 19, 2023
Does the chance of getting lengthy Covid improve every time you get reinfected? STAT (MV).
Convalescent plasma could reduce the chances of lengthy COVID, research suggests Heart for Infectious Illness Analysis and Coverage
Continued choice on cryptic SARS-CoV-2 noticed in Missouri wastewater (preprint) medRxiv. From the Summary: “SARS-CoV-2 lineages of an unknown supply that haven’t been detected in medical samples, known as cryptic lineages, are generally repeatedly detected in particular places. We’ve continued to detect one such lineage beforehand seen in a Missouri website. This cryptic lineage has continued to evolve, indicating continued selective stress much like that noticed in Omicron lineages.” Nonetheless on the market, mutating away, as one does, if one is a virus.
Water
The Struggle Continues For These Affected By Camp Lejeune The Brockovich Report
China?
Overseas buyers nonetheless shunning China regardless of indicators of upturn FT
Chinese language blockade on Taiwan can be ‘monster threat’: Pentagon Channel Information Asia
White Home instructed U.S. ambassador to Japan to cease taunting China on social media NBC. That Rahm. Such a kidder!
Excessive-level disappearances deepen China’s political black gap Channnel Information Asia
In the hunt for the eagle huntresses Al Jazeera
Myanmar
Myanmar Junta Seeks Chinese language Assist Buying Nuclear Know-how The Irrawaddy
Okinawa governor tells U.N. that U.S. navy base threatens peace Japan Instances
India
India suspends visa companies for Canadians as diplomatic row deepens FT
What we all know in regards to the Sikh homicide that soured India-Canada ties Channel Information Asia
Africa
The Moti Information – Zunaid Moti’s grand lithium ‘sting’ Day by day Maverick. They salted the rock samples; oldest trick within the e-book!
Pricey Previous Blighty
I’ll deal with local weather change – however I’ll NOT punish Solar readers to get to Internet Zero Rishi Sunak, The Solar
London Playbook PM: Caught within the internet zero Politico. “Standing at a podium with a brand new slogan, ‘Lengthy-term selections for a Brighter future’, Sunak….” Not a parody, apparently. “Brighter selections for a long-term future?” “Future selections for a brighter long run”?
Sunak heads for the the gutter as Packham takes the lead: a story of two local weather interventions Funding the Future
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
Zelenskyy on the White Home: 5 issues Ukraine desires from the US EuroNews
Poland’s president: Ukraine like ‘drowning individual clinging to something out there’ The Hill
* * * Ukrainian defenders strike Russian Black Sea Fleet’s command submit in Sevastopol Ukrainska Pravda
* * * Lockheed Martin Boasts to Traders: Ukraine Battle Fueling “$10 Billion of Alternatives … Now to the Finish of the Decade” Lee Fang (GF).
Wanting Past the Battle: Planning for Ukraine’s Reconstruction RAND. Let me understand how that works out….
* * * Operation ‘carte blanche’ : Ukraine’s new defence minister cleans home France24. And never a minute too quickly!
4 Russian oligarchs need billions from Ukraine on foundation of Ukraine’s settlement with Belgium and Luxembourg Ukrainska Pravda. Comedy tonight!
* * * Did Kennan Foresee Putin? Overseas Affairs
Azerbaijan to carry peace talks with Armenian separatists after Karabakh victory France 24
US says it hopes Karabakh cease-fire ‘involves fruition’ Anadolu Company
The Caribbean
South of the Border
The Mexican Query New Left Evaluate
Ferromex suspends operations of 60 freight trains in Mexico Mexico Information Day by day. “After a string of accidents involving migrants driving the rails.”
Biden Administration
The anti-vaccine motion is on the rise. The White Home is at a loss over what to do about it. Politico. Resign en masse and instantly?
Tech
AI about to pollute our antidotes, if we’re not cautious about provenance (which we’re):
Methods to create CUTE sleeping Animals with AI
Immediate
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— KALSON. (@kalsonkalu) August 20, 2023
Historical past, too:
New: that is loopy. The highest Google picture search end result for “tank man” proper now could be an AI-generated “selfie” of the person. Reveals that as AI content material turns into an increasing number of widespread, the platforms we use to floor content material don’t have a great way to establish it https://t.co/vi2hxkH9Uh pic.twitter.com/6mfaUsdXbj
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) September 20, 2023
Monitoring, Streamlining and Reorganizing Work with Digital Know-how Cracked Labs. The deck: “A case research on software program for course of mining, workflow automation, algorithmic administration and AI based mostly on wealthy behavioral information about employees.”
Zeitgeist Watch
Russell Model was the norm within the nasty noughties The Economist. Odd, then, that solely Model is being dogpiled.
Realignment and Legitimacy
People’ Dismal Views of the Nation’s Politics Pew Analysis Heart. Useful chart:
I don’t have a dismal view of “politics.” I’ve a dismal view of events (and, I suppose, occasion animals). Extra:
Exhausting to argue with this, although the right way to have politics, in any kind, with out “division,” with out harshing any individual’s mellow, is an open query. Sortition? Deliberative democracy?
What to Do When Your Political Celebration Loses Its Thoughts The Atlantic. A celebration, after all (?), doesn’t have a “thoughts.” However regardless of the course of is that causes “loses its thoughts” to be utilized to 1 is one thing it might be helpful to know, and of broader utility than the Tories. (It’s not the “insanity of crowds,” as a result of a celebration shouldn’t be a crowd.)
Black Injustice Tipping Level
Editorial: Why skeptical Californians ought to rethink money reparations for slavery LA Instances
Imperial Collapse Watch
Inside the fragile artwork of sustaining America’s ageing nuclear weapons AP
Class Warfare
Pontifications: IAM 751 gearing up for Boeing contract talks in 2024 Leeham Information and Evaluation
Go North The Baffler
Antidote du jour (through):
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/09/links-9-19-2023.html“>right here.
