This hen can predict the depth of a hurricane season. Right here’s how. Nationwide Geographic
This songbird’s genes might present how local weather change has sped up evolution WaPo
Jackson Gap: established coverage fashions are below risk FT
Local weather
Earth’s ‘third pole’ and its position in world local weather Phys.org
Is Low-cost Gasoline Value Our Youngsters’s Well being? The Brockovich Report
Discovering a Inexperienced Marx: Kohei Saito’s Marx within the Anthropocene Protean Journal
Water
Local weather change might power extra farmers and ranchers to think about irrigation Chicago Tribune
Drought-hit Panama Canal to limit entry for one 12 months Agence France Presse
Europe’s water disaster: how provides turned to ‘gold mud’ FT
#COVID
Eugenics, straight up (1):
Your questions on COVID answered! This is what we learn about #COVID19 proper now and how you can maintain you and your loved ones protected. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/k9kGrx61Gr
— Mandy Ok. Cohen, MD, MPH (@CDCDirector) August 25, 2023
Not one single point out of airborne transmisson, air flow, or masking. Not one. Cohen does, after all, point out “widespread sense methods like washing your palms.”
Eugenics, straight up (2):
Covid and numerous different threats to human well being will all the time be with us. For those who keep away from having enjoyable due to covid, you’ll by no means once more have enjoyable.
2/2— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) August 26, 2023
What sort of Propagandaministerium are they working over there on the Stanford College of Medication, anyhow?
* * * HICPAC:
Public Pushes Again On CDC’s Plan To Weaken An infection Management Forbes
Sufferers requested a CDC advisory panel to be extra clear. Then their feedback disappeared. Supply NM. The deck: “CDC re-posts YouTube recording of public assembly after taking it down.”
* * * Extra All-Trigger Mortality in China After Ending the Zero COVID Coverage JAMA. From the Summary: “[A]n estimated 1.87 million extra deaths occurred amongst people 30 years and older in the course of the first 2 months after the top of China’s zero COVID coverage. Extra deaths predominantly occurred amongst older people and have been noticed throughout all provinces in mainland China, except Tibet.” Life is affordable within the Orient. Versus the West, the place each life issues.
* * * What you want to learn about BA.2.86, the brand new ‘extremely mutated’ COVID variant Right this moment
As colleges resume, CDC studies new rise in COVID emergency room visits from adolescents CBS. NC readers know that ER Covid visits have been growing for weeks.
BRICS is pretend Noah Smith, Noahpinion. If Biden desires to name BRICS, who picks up the telephone on the opposite finish?
China?
How China’s financial disaster serves as unparalleled trial by hearth for Premier Li Qiang South China Morning Submit
Nation Backyard to Be Lower From Hong Kong’s Cling Seng Index Bloomberg
China Ponders Russia’s Logistical Challenges within the Ukraine Struggle The Diplomat
Non-Occasions New Left Assessment. Chinese language portray.
The Japanese pupil dorm that governs itself The Face
India
The Structure Isn’t a Colonial Imposition – It Emerged From a Nice Mass Motion The Wire
Africa
Charismatic chief is gone however Wagner will survive in Africa, analysts say Al Jazeera
Syraqistan
Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel/Palestine Protection FAIR
New Not-So-Chilly Struggle
Ukraine will velocity up advance on southern entrance, commander says Reuters
Ukraine’s military has damaged by the primary line of Russian protection in ‘bloody, lengthy, and sluggish’ counteroffensive, US Gen. Milley says Enterprise Insider. I’m not seeing aerial pictures or movies with dragons’ enamel.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces method subsequent breakthrough of Russian defensive positions – ISW Ukrainska Pravda
* * * The Ukrainian counteroffensive has already failed. The West might restrict the harm by opening negotiations with Moscow. Unique interview with Professor Geoffrey Roberts (Google translate) Strumenti Politici
How Russia’s Struggle In Ukraine Might ‘Collapse’ 1945. This pearl of knowledge:
Moltke lays out the logic succinctly: “”The tactical protection is the stronger [form of war], the strategic offensive the simpler type—and the one one which results in the purpose.”” In different phrases, the contender that seizes or occupies some object or parcel of territory, then defends it tactically, primes itself for strategic and in the end political success. In colloquial phrases: seize one thing and maintain it, and dare your enemy to come back and take it again whereas preventing at a frightening drawback. For the German sage, briefly, waging offense by protection blazes a path to triumph.
Benefit: Russia.
Hmm. Perhaps if the Confederacy had tried that….
Time and Logistics are Working Towards Ukraine Nationwide Curiosity
Ukraine’s Useless Seek for Marvel Weapons The American Conservative
* * * SITREP 8/26/23: Wagner Denouement and BRICS Rebirth Simplicius the Thinkers(s)
Who killed Yevgeny Prigozhin? Gilbert Doctorow
* * * Medical Providers chief who criticised poor high quality of tourniquets is severely reprimanded Ukrainska Pravda
OPINION: The Fantasy of Ukraine as ‘Most Corrupt Nation within the World’ Kyiv Submit
Biden Administration
Everybody Desires to Discuss to Gina Raimondo–Even China WSJ
2024
Trump marketing campaign raises $7.1 million in fundraising since mugshot was taken Thursday, Fox Information confirms FOX as a result of Trump Pays $12 Further To Get The Cool Laser Background Mugshot The Babylon Bee
Trump’s Prosecution Is America’s Final Hope Wired. The deck: “Social norms—not legal guidelines—are the underlying material of democracy. The Georgia indictment in opposition to Donald Trump is the final device remaining to restore that which he’s torn aside.” So we’re prosecuting Trump as a result of the Norms Fairy is having a tragic? Actually?
A Trump Victory Would Create a Constitutional Disaster David Atkins, Washington Month-to-month. Personally, I feel normalizing the idea that one occasion’s election officers can take one other occasion’s candidates off the poll in “self-executing” vogue is already a Constitutional disaster (albeit a disaster in our unwritten Structure, since political events will not be Constitutional entities. I say this, in full multitude-containing mode, having simply slagged “norms” above).
Is Trump disqualified for the N.H. major? The secretary of state is looking for authorized recommendation. Boston Globe
Trump co-defendant denied bond, held in jail The Hill. “Harrison Floyd, the chief of Black Voices for Trump.”
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Spook Nation
CIA stairwell assault amongst flood of sexual misconduct complaints at spy company ABC
Digital Watch
California DMV Steps Into Autonomous Taxi Debate, Tells Cruise to Halve Its Fleet In SF SFist
Open challenges in LLM analysis Chip Huyen
The Bezzle
‘Nugatory’ forest carbon offsets danger exacerbating local weather change Phys.org
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa Style
Provide Chain
A rice scarcity is sending costs hovering the world over. And issues might worsen AP
Excessive warmth might trigger an olive oil scarcity, skyrocket costs CBS
The Fantasy of International Grain Shortages Enterprise & Finance
The Jackpot
The polycrisis Aeon
Overcoming worry Funding the Future. “Hearth and worry, good servants, unhealthy lords.” –Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Class Warfare
Meals supply startup Getir to chop 11% of employees in world restructuring Reuters
The Vicious, Multibillion-Greenback Struggle Over Sports activities Buying and selling Playing cards The New Republic
How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—4 Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Actuality Vainness Truthful. They’re the oligarchs who presently get essentially the most press. However there are others, simply as “efficient.”
Antidote du jour (by way of):
Bonus antidote:
very lovely noble animalpic.twitter.com/BA9yGLL4vz
— Enezator (@Enezator) August 24, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
