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Semiotics of canine Aeon
Local weather
Local weather activists fill golf holes with cement after water ban exemption BBC
Drought sows doubts over way forward for conventional English gardens Agence France Presse
#COVID19
Operational Steering for Okay-12 Colleges and Early Care and Schooling Packages to Assist Secure In-Individual Studying CDC. One other masterpiece of scientific communication from CDC. Commentary:
It says one thing that IMO is totally backwards “Colleges and ECE packages ought to take into account versatile, non-punitive insurance policies and practices to help people who select to put on masks whatever the COVID-19 Group Stage.”
— Patrick Hickey, MD (@pwhickey) August 12, 2022
Correction, weak type: “Colleges and ECE packages ought to take into account versatile, non-punitive insurance policies and practices to help people who select to put on masks.” Correction, sturdy type: “Colleges and ECE packages ought to take into account
versatile, non-punitive insurance policies and practices to help people who select to put on masks.” And:
We will have “extra regular” lives however pretending the virus isn’t there may be known as want success, pandering and acceptance of a degree of loss of life, illness, incapacity and disruption that we’d have thought of unacceptable as soon as. 3/
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) August 13, 2022
The C.D.C. Continues to Lead From Behind Ross Douthat, NYT (Re Silc).
Return to Normalcy Makes Pittsfield COVID Charges Rise iBerkshires (Re Silc). All the things’s going in response to plan.
“Stochastic eugenics”:
Japan in yellow, together with the opposite nations that attempt to restrict Covid.
The opposite group is basically doing eugenics and not using a mandate. pic.twitter.com/RJF9GIOpQL
— Jeff G. Brown, BEng, MBA, PhD’23 (@GutsBerserk23) August 14, 2022
* * * Cardiovascular Results of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents (preprint) Preprints.org. n = 301. Pfizer. From the Summary: “Cardiovascular results had been present in 29.24% of sufferers, starting from tachycardia, palpitation, and myopericarditis…. The scientific presentation of myopericarditis after vaccination was often gentle, with all circumstances totally recovering inside 14 days. Therefore, adolescents receiving mRNA vaccines needs to be monitored for unwanted side effects.”Contemplating Race and Ethnicity in Covid Danger Assessments — Authorized Issues and Doable Options Timothy Jost, NEJM (KS). “The query of how knowledge about racial and ethnic disparities within the danger of extreme Covid-19 needs to be translated into prevention and therapy coverage is prone to persist.”
The Normalization of Covid: One other instance of how America is perversely pro-risk Up@Evening
China?
Fifty million empty flats threaten to plunge China’s troubled property market additional into disaster, warns suppose tank South China Morning Publish
China has encroached on Canada’s crucial minerals business, with virtually no obstruction from Ottawa Globe and Mail
Myanmar
‘The Sacrifice Zone’: Myanmar bears price of inexperienced power ABC
NGOs gotta NGO:
There needs to be no excuses for such betrayal to the folks of Myanmar. These INGOs have misplaced their integrity. It is a revolution for the folks of Myanmar however not your venture. We wouldn’t know if this letter didn’t leak out. pic.twitter.com/g5U9seOQgY
— Kyaw Win (@kyawwin78) August 12, 2022
India
India wants China for crucial medication components, however an formidable initiative goals to right that South China Morning Publish
India’s Partition: How the ending of British rule uprooted thousands and thousands and hit generations that adopted Sky Information
Syraqistan
Man suspected of attacking Salman Rushdie charged with tried homicide, assault Reuters. Helpful thread on “the Satanic Verses”:
The Satanic Verses controversy has an extended and up to date previous. The incident reached world fame after the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel. Lengthy earlier than, nevertheless, the subject was fiercely debate in medieval Muslim scholarship. A common 🧵 for non-specialists. 1/ pic.twitter.com/DkdwhJNEXy
— Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ (@abhistoria) August 13, 2022
UK/EU
British minister accused of attempting to cover studies on impression of Tory welfare reforms Guardian (Rev Kev).
Prime European Airways Have Spent £4bn on Russian Jet Gas Since Crimea Invasion DeSmog
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Russia Buys 1,000 Drones From Iran and Expands the Stage of Strategic Cooperation Elijah J. Magnier. Moon of Alabama has a great dialogue (EM). Shorter: It’s not as a result of Russia is “working out”; it’s as a result of Iran has good tech.
On the Kherson entrance traces, little signal of a Ukrainian offensive WaPo. The deck: “Ready on weapons deliveries, Ukrainian features on the bottom have stalled.”
Russia reiterates demand for Nord Stream gasoline turbine sanctions assurances S&P World
U.S. tells India that Indian ship was used to reroute Russian-linked gasoline to New York Reuters
2024
The Espionage Act Will get An Immediate Makeover Matt Taibbi, TK Information. The deck: “A regulation reviled by liberalism ten minutes in the past is now Savior to All.” Glorious.
‘Sounds about Proper’: Ex-CIA Chief Michael Hayden Implies Trump Ought to Be Executed for Taking Categorized Docs Nationwide Evaluation
Unique: Trump Raid Paperwork Might Reveal Informants on U.S. Payroll Newsweek. A brand new idea from “two federal authorities sources.”
Trump Lawyer Instructed Justice Dept. That Categorized Materials Had Been Returned NYT. Sources: “4 folks.” Studying all the way in which to the top: “Nobody has been charged within the case, and the search warrant by itself doesn’t imply anybody will probably be.” I don’t perceive the fabric realities of the field dealing with. The one precedents I’ve are transferring (containers labeled, with contents and site listed on the surface by the shopper, plus a packing record from the mover) and property inventories (a listing from a 3rd get together) The important thing level is that each one events concerned have good motive to have at the very least gestured towards a mutual settlement about what’s in every field. Neither course of appears to have been adopted on this case. Did Justice actually say “Oh, OK” when instructed what was within the containers? Is that ordinary? Attorneys within the readership please weigh in.
Mar-a-Lago search warrant’s clues Axios
Trump pushes again on report FBI sought nuclear weapons paperwork The Hill
* * * Tucker Carlson’s summer season alternative:
Tulsi: It’s by no means been about morality. It’s not concerning the folks of Ukraine or defending democracy. That is about regime change in Russia and exploiting this struggle to broaden NATO.. pic.twitter.com/iIve3QROuD
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 13, 2022
Democrats en déshabillé
Sinema took Wall Avenue cash whereas killing tax on buyers AP. Due to course she did. Maybe she needs to purchase a brand new, or bigger, ice cream freezer, as who amongst us doesn’t.
Cartel threatens weekend of mass violence in all of Northern Baja Border Report
Police State Watch
The DARE Program Is Again in Some College Districts — Right here’s What to Know Teen Vogue. And talking of the colleges:
My daughter’s faculty launched a brand new cellular phone coverage that features, “College officers can learn any textual content messages between college students, even when the texts occurred outdoors of faculty hours.”
Nopity nope nope.
— Rachael French (@DrRachaelF) August 13, 2022
The teenager daughter is true:
My teen daughter was requested by her physician when was her final menstrual interval. She stated “it’s common, no want for dates”. After I requested her why the reply, she instructed me that medical doctors can now not be trusted and they need to change into accustomed to not understanding. Welcome to the brand new America.
— MommaT (@tweetmommybop) August 13, 2022
New paperwork reveal ‘large’ scale of US authorities’s cellular phone location knowledge monitoring TechCrunch
FBI Assault on the Uhuru Motion is a Warning Black Agenda Report (RK).
Zeitgeist Watch
Imperial Collapse Watch
Trendy US Warmongering Is Scaring Henry Kissinger Caitlin Johnstone
The Bezzle
Does Crypto Have Any Good Use Circumstances? Nat’s Crypto E-newsletter. Case for the protection.
Amazon is stepping into psychological well being care with a Ginger partnership The Verge (Rev Kev).
Abortion
Kansas to recount abortion vote by hand, regardless of huge margin The Hill
Guillotine Watch
How efficient altruism went from a distinct segment motion to a billion-dollar drive Vox. Extra squillionaires with vibrant concepts. Please make it cease.
Class Warfare
How Marxism solves at present’s biggest thriller within the WWE Carl Beijer. Kayfabe!
The organized labor motion has a brand new ally: enterprise capitalists LA Instances
Paranoia and Pastels at Bama Rush NYT (Re Silc). Predatory precarity.
Canonical grain weights as a key to historical methods of weights and measures Jon Bosak. From 2014, however fascinating for historians and requirements experts (who ought to seize a cup of espresso).
Antidote du jour (through):
Bonus antidote (Re Silc):
Re Silc writes: “My herd.”
Anti-antidote:
Fascinating drone footage wanting down right into a volcanic eruption from above.
Credit score: Bjorn Steinbekkpic.twitter.com/u6MGtONNax
— Surprise of Science (@wonderofscience) August 1, 2022
Appears a propos, by some means.
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
