That is out-of-this-world stunning, completely breathtaking.
Yearly on the CCTV gala – essentially the most watched present on earth – they’ve ONE dance which actually units the bar. This 12 months that is the one.
To me that is value one million Taylor Swift or another of the hypersexualized… https://t.co/uMVsY595PY
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) February 9, 2024
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven McMansion Hell (guurst). This one is type of fantastic in its bizarreness and flamboyant show. Possibly it’s the truth that it has a lot glass, even when typically of the pointless customized selection. However the outdoors is a horror.
Beautiful!!!
📹 Hörður Kristleifsson on IGpic.twitter.com/Js8Vt4DH3a
— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) February 9, 2024
Harvard Students Grapple With Rising Rates of Respiratory Illness on Campus Harvard Crimson. ma: “Wait, so the very best and the brightest are going to be extra mind broken for all times than their lessors?”
Emergency rooms are not okay Your Native Epidemiologist
Erectile dysfunction drugs may reduce risk of Alzheimer’s ZMEScience (Dr. Kevin)
#COVID-19
Covid Diaries by HCW’s Twitter (ma)
College students, college, workers and alums at #UWaterloo are asking for a city corridor with senior admin to debate COVID security measures on campus.
If that’s the case inclined, please share broadly with UW-affiliated of us who could also be thinking about signing.
Full Letter: https://t.co/JKSyu8VGzP pic.twitter.com/bgGywRSnUP
— Ryan Tennant (@ryantennant_) February 8, 2024
Local weather/Setting
Solar engineering: a techno-dystopian response to climate change Thomas Fazi
Fairly main Chinese language local weather/industrial coverage information over the weekend: NDRC known as for provincial governments to speed up a coverage mandate for top carbon emitting industries to eat renewable vitality.
That is metal, aluminum, cement, petrochemical, and so on.
🧵on what this implies:
— David Fishman (@pretentiouswhat) February 5, 2024
For a second time, US court bans dicamba weed killers, finds EPA violated law The New Lede
World’s First Year-Long Breach of Key 1.5C Warming Limit BBC
China?
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei raided in France by financial prosecutors South China Morning Put up (furzy)
US Trade Deficit in 2023 Dropped 19%, as Goods Deficit with China Plunged 29%: Imports & Exports of Goods & Services Wolf Richter
Previous Blighty
>Keir Starmer defends Labour U-turn on £28bn inexperienced spending BBC (Kevin W)
European Disunion
German foreign minister’s grandfather was ‘ardent Nazi’ – Bild RT
Gaza
Gazans surviving off animal feed and rice as food dwindles BBC. Lead story.
Israel plans to evacuate Palestinians crammed into southern Gaza city ahead of expected invasion 9News (Kevin W)
🚨Heartbreaking: the younger man “He kisses his mom’s hand whereas she is trapped beneath the rubble after being killed by an Israeli missile strike on their dwelling.
The sound of his screams…!! #Gaza_Genocide pic.twitter.com/2sXfQJkObJ
— Nour Naim| نور نعيم (@NourNaim88) February 9, 2024
🚨A horrifying testimony concerning the scenario of Dr. Mohamed Abu selmiya, who was kidnapped from Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza by the Israeli military, They broke each of his palms, hung a sequence round his neck, made him stroll on all fours like animals ! pic.twitter.com/AyiWivRfBZ
— Nour Naim| نور نعيم (@NourNaim88) February 9, 2024
Horrifying replace.
Bear in mind thr voice of little women pleading with @PalestineRCS🚑 to rescue them from imminent execution by Israeli forces?
At the moment Hind was discovered along with her household slaughtered within the automobile. Yousef and Ahmad, paramedics dispatched to save lots of Hind have been additionally slaughtered. pic.twitter.com/pwWRXAiyPZ
— Jalal #CeasefireNow (@JalalAK_jojo) February 10, 2024
Israel’s Self-Destruction Overseas Affairs. Necessary regardless of some bitter notes in a number of the particulars, such on the depiction of the October 7 Hamas raid, and the concept that the Saudi-Israel normalization discuss was something greater than the Saudis accommodating a Biden want for a speaking level after China brokered an Iran-Saudi deal (for those who have been paying consideration, it was by no means going anyplace as a result of the Saudi calls for re recognizing a Palestinian state was a part of the scheme from the outset). It usefully frames Netanyahu as having offered Israeli society on the concept that they might have all of it: slowly eradicate the Palestinians as a presence whereas Israel would get pleasure from peace and prosperity. However discover the failure to say the ICJ ruling. Even when enhancing deadlines meant it got here too late, the options ought to have not less than been contemplated.
Türkiye to make statement at world court on legal results of Israeli acts in occupied Palestinian land Anadolu Company. Extra ICJ hearings later this month!
* * * Israel’s Relentless Bombing Erases Gaza’s Heritage Sites Broad Partitions (BC)
The war in Gaza is wiping out Palestine’s education and knowledge systems The Dialog (Dr. Kevin)
* * * “Erasing the entire space north of our border line (with Lebanon), 10-11 kilometers, fully clear… Merely to flatten the world”
Benny Ben Muvhar, head of Mevo’ot HaHermon Regional Council, says what, in his opinion, must be executed on the Lebanese entrance. pic.twitter.com/LSLI4210qq— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) February 8, 2024
Biden and Starmer will pay a heavy price for supporting Israel’s war in Gaza Center East Eye (BC) One can hope.
Bill Allowing Far-Right Gov’t to Deport Relatives of ‘Terrorists’ Passes Preliminary Reading Communist Get together of Israel (BC)
Observe the starvation strike is over as a result of the Brown trustees refused to hear their demands, notably divestment from arms suppliers to Israel. However kudos to them for making an attempt.
Some applause for these protesters who’re nonetheless at it 3 days later and HAVE BEEN MASKED THROUGHOUT 😷😭👏 https://t.co/3yEq3GXVzx
— Potatie (@__potatie__) February 9, 2024
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
Zaluzhny Finally Dismissed as Chaos Reigns in AFU Simpicius the Thinker (Chuck L)
Ukraine SitRep: A Hated New Commander – Critical Lack Of Infantry Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
* * * Interview to Tucker Carlson President of Russia. It reads higher than it listens. Additionally the Kremlin translation is little doubt higher than Tucker’s; Mercouris all the time warns greatest to attend for the Kremlin translation as a result of there are many subtleties in Russia that may be mangled or missed.
Tucker Carlson interview with Putin: what went wrong? Gilbert Doctorow. A marked distinction from the fawning over Tucker on some websites. Some very astute observations.
SOME MORE BIG TAKE AWAYS FROM TUCKER’S PUTIN INTERVIEW Larry Johnson
Westoids complaining about Putin’s interview being too pedantic have an inflated sense of self-worth: they assume the interview is primarily designed to attraction to them. Little do they know the West has turn into so irrelevant that it is now not even essentially the chief supposed…
— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) February 9, 2024
Syraqistan
Imran Khan’s allies accuse Pakistan officials of vote rigging Monetary Occasions
Huge Brother is Watching You Watch
London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools To Spot Crime Wired
The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real 404Media. Aaw, it was a lot enjoyable!
Western Values
Then the visitation zones are introduced: “An effective tool” Aftonblatt (ma)
Sweden: Where it’s taboo for dads to skip parental leave BBC (Dr. Kevin)
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Newer World Order Aurelien (Chuck L). Years in the past, in an Atlantic Financial Convention in DC, I remarked DC had a Versailles 1788 really feel. That did get amusing.
Biden
Joe Biden’s allies defend president as Democrats reel from DoJ report Monetary Occasions. Lead story. archive.ph is your buddy.
Biden’s ‘Angry’ Press Conference Made Hur’s Memory Report ‘Infinitely Worse’ Sputnik
Abortion
Two mifepristone studies retracted ahead of Supreme Court case STAT (Dr. Kevin)
Anti-abortion group’s studies retracted before Supreme Court mifepristone case ars technica (Paul R)
Gunz
In 2023, Gun Violence Trended Down Across the Country Heart for American Progress
15-Year-Old Is Arrested in Shooting of a Tourist in Times Square New York Occasions
Our No Longer Free Press
Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist” Intercept
Anybody discover how aggressive the British response has been to the Tucker interview? The People appear to have simply brushed it off. However the ragepoasting in Britain has been intense – and, it have to be mentioned, barely bizarre. 🇬🇧 https://t.co/37ar4wa9Lj
— Philip Pilkington (@philippilk) February 10, 2024
That is THE motive there are a lot of issues we must always debunk however don’t:
https://t.co/f6E7BWzWOa pic.twitter.com/YjZnEac15K
— Malcolm Reavell (@malcolm_reavell) February 8, 2024
AI
OpenAI Considers $7 Trillion Round, Thinks It Can Double Revenue by 2025: Reports Decrypt. Paul R: “Trillion with a t.”
Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from UAE, others ars technica (Kevin W)
AI Cannot Be Used To Deny Health Care Coverage, Feds Clarify To Insurers ars technica
The Bezzle
Waymo Driverless Car Crashes Into Human Cyclist in San Francisco Gizmodo (Kevin W)
Class Warfare
Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare if Trump Wins Rolling Stone (Paul R)
McKinsey’s ‘unsatisfactory’ performance warning for 3,000 workers is the latest bad news for big consulting companies DNyuz (Dr. Kevin)
NASA’s JPL Lays Off Hundreds of Workers Universe At the moment (furzy)
Antidote du jour:
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