Zoozve — the strange ‘moon’ of Venus that earned its name by accident Area.com
America now has a high-pressure economy FT
Legal Theory Lexicon: Interpretation and Construction Authorized Principle Weblog
Local weather
NOAA Coral Reef Watch extends alert scale following extreme coral heat stress in 2023 NOAA. We’re gonna want an even bigger scale.
Climate change is making it more dangerous for kids to play outside, report finds The Hill
#COVID19
Pleased anniversary:
Right now 4 years in the past.
Not one single journalist has requested @DrTedros or @DrMikeRyan about what occurred there and why… https://t.co/Qw5lP7BH88
— Maarten De Cock (@mdc_martinus) February 11, 2024
* * * Vaccination, testing, clean air: COVID hasn’t gone away – here’s where Australia needs to do better The Dialog. The Australasian School for An infection Prevention and Management is doing approach higher than CDC’s HICPAC.
How to Stop Airborne Diseases Joey Fox, It’s Airborne. “If you understand how it spreads, you understand how to cease it.”
* * * Altered mitochondrial respiration in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (preproof) Mitochrondion. From the Dialogue: “Mitochondrial dysfunction has been extensively studied in acute SARS-CoV-2 an infection…. This dysfunction is partly because of the intensive viral focusing on of mitochondria and mitochondrial proteins…. Any persistent reservoir of the aforementioned SARS-CoV-2 antigenic brokers might account for each the findings herein and the inflammatory state of PASC [Long Covid]…. Together, these understandings result in a possible second speculation from this work: that reservoirs of viral RNA and proteins in [the cells in the bone marrow known as human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSC)], upon HSC differentiation, stay in [peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC)] and result in altered PBMC mitochondrial operate by means of immune activation, sustained irritation, and the signs seen in PASC. Thus, the longevity of PASC can be relative to the extent of HSC viral infiltration and associated to the chance issue of viremia ranges. As such, this research presents a novel mobile mechanism underneath the presently hypothesized mechanisms of lengthy COVID pathogenesis.” SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs in bone marrow? That doesn’t sound good in any respect. Commentary:
Hey, wait a second. Viral reservoirs in bone marrow resulting in mitochondrial dysfunction?
This wasn’t included in my 12 symptom bingo scorecard. https://t.co/NKmSGV8hD5 pic.twitter.com/GKrqo4RkQT
— Jammer🦈 (@AcrossTheMersey) February 11, 2024
The desk is taken from an article produced underneath the NIH’s RECOVER initiative, which squandered a billion dollars laying the groundwork for survey devices whereas not even on the lookout for organic markers, not to mention remedy.
China?
China will not fall into ‘trap’ of war in Taiwan Strait: former envoy Cui Tiankai South China Morning Put up
India
How AI is used to resurrect dead Indian politicians as elections loom Al Jazeera.
Syraqistan
Israeli strikes hit Rafah after Biden warns Netanyahu to have ‘credible’ plan to protect civilians AP. Joe, good job:
Similar to we drew it up. pic.twitter.com/9NBvc5nVZE
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 12, 2024
The German Overseas Workplace will get queasy:
Already, the struggling in #Rafah is unfathomable. In a particularly confined area 1.3 million persons are looking for shelter from the preventing. A big-scale IDF offensive in Rafah can be a humanitarian disaster within the making. The folks of #Gaza can not vanish into skinny air. 1/2 https://t.co/ORgOBYJXdc
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) February 10, 2024
* * * Why Israel Is Winning in Gaza Edward Luttwak, The Pill
Egypt threatens to suspend key peace treaty if Israel pushes into Rafah on its border, officials say CNBC
Explained: Israel’s plans to invade Rafah, and why US, others have criticised it Indian Categorical. “[P]ermanent demographic modifications” is a terrific euphemism for genocide.
* * * What are the impacts of the Red Sea shipping crisis? Hellenic Delivery Information. Tankers, apparently, remain unaffected.
How the Red Sea Became a Trap Overseas Coverage
The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve Overseas Coverage
Middle East–China Trade Prospects Remain Robust Despite Red Sea Crisis RAND
* * * Israel need to sell record amount of bonds this year to fund war: Officials Enterprise Commonplace
European Disunion
Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End Bloomberg
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Zelenskyy’s new top commander has a reputation as a ‘butcher’ Politico
Zelenskyy appoints 4 new military commanders Anadolu Company
Former CIA Analyst Issues Warning to Zelensky Newsweek. George Beebe, director of grand technique on the Quincy Institute for Accountable Statecraft.
Outgunned and exhausted: what hope for Ukraine if US military aid dries up? Guardian
Possibly Russian intelligence isn’t so dangerous:
Ever since mid-2022 the Russians have consciously pursued a “lengthy struggle” technique in Ukraine, looking for to grind down the AFU and exhaust NATO’s means to gas the struggle whereas constructing their very own capabilities. It has largely succeeded.
However…
Why did the Russians assume it could work?… pic.twitter.com/LKPTpSgvES
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) February 11, 2024
Syncretic Past New Left Assessment
Galician Nationalism: Ukraine’s Disaster: Part One Michael Basta, Understanding Russia. Part two.
World Elections
Pakistan Plunges Into Political Chaos Madras Courier
* * * Indonesia Elections 2024: Pollsters see Prabowo first-round knockout, but analysts say Anies, Ganjar still in the fight Channel Information Asia
Practice of vote-buying looms large over Indonesian election Straits Instances
Balancing Act Makes Indonesia an Emerging-Markets Darling John Authers, Bloomberg
Biden Administration
2024
‘Just so despicable’: Senate Dems inflamed by Hur report Politico. Hur was appointed by [genuflects] Obama’s failed Supreme Courtroom nominee, Merrick Garland. Hur can be Korean, so objectively a “Individual of Shade.”
Tremendous Bowl
Patrick Mahomes rallies the Chiefs to second straight Super Bowl title, 25-22 over 49ers in overtime AP
Chiefs’ Travis Kelce gives cryptic explanation for tantrum, Andy Reid bump FOX
Shot:
Shopping for a Tremendous Bowl ticket close to the top zone prices $14,995 plus an extra $3,186.44 in Ticketmaster charges. pic.twitter.com/blkf3ivhp6
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) February 12, 2024
Chaser:
— Gritty is the Approach (@Gritty20202) February 11, 2024
Here are the top five commercials from the Super Bowl The Hill
The Bezzle
AWS and Blockchain Tim Bray. Superb.
Anxiety, Mood Swings and Sleepless Nights: Life Near a Bitcoin Mine NYT
Amazon steers consumers to higher-priced items, lawsuit claims Reuters. The “Purchase Field” a.ok.a. “Mother’s Place.”
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs 404 Media
Digital Watch
Google’s and Microsoft’s chatbots are making up Super Bowl stats TechCrunch
Sam Altman’s chip ambitions may be loonier than feared The Register
A minimum of they didn’t throw the robotic automotive up in a tree, like what occurred to e-scooters:
BREAKING: An autonomous Waymo automobile is deliberately set on fireplace in Chinatown, in line with SF Fireplace. Firefighters mentioned they acquired reviews round 10 folks had been concerned.
Waymo mentioned “a crowd surrounded and vandalized the automobile, breaking the window and throwing a firework … pic.twitter.com/6QN2jTppRu
— Gia Vang (@Gia_Vang) February 11, 2024
Screening Room
Combustible Cinema? The Nitrate Film Issue JSTOR. I don’t know why they went to all the difficulty of setting movie on fireplace after they might have digitized every little thing onto out of date storage media utilizing unreadable proprietary information codecs.
Groves of Academe
The Loss of Things I Took for Granted Slate. Yikes:
Defeating the open conspiracy to deprive college students of bodily entry to books will do little to counteract the extra diffuse confluence of forces which are depriving college students of the talents wanted to meaningfully interact with these books within the first place. As a school educator, I’m confronted each day with the outcomes of that conspiracy-without-conspirators. I’ve been educating in small liberal arts faculties for over 15 years now, and prior to now 5 years, it’s as if somebody flipped a change. For many of my profession, I assigned round 30 pages of studying per class assembly as a baseline expectation—generally scaling up for purely expository readings or pulling again for tougher texts. (No human being can learn 30 pages of Hegel in a single sitting, for instance.) Now college students are intimidated by something over 10 pages and appear to stroll away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no actual understanding.
2024 – 5 = 2019. Simply blueskying right here, however smartphones started to became ubiquitous in 2007-2008.
Manufacturing
Bill Gates-backed solar upstart cancels US factory in reshoring gut check S&P World
Boeing
The Hole In Boeing’s Inspection Program The Lever
Our Famously Free Press
Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media Kara Swisher, New York Journal
B-a-a-a-d Banks
UBS Loses to Whistleblower in Wide-Reaching Supreme Court Decision WSJ
Imperial Collapse Watch
“The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire” by David Veevers Asian Assessment of Books
Guillotine Watch
Private equity chiefs enjoy $40bn gain in share value as assets surge FT
Class Warfare
Demographic transition is just specialization and trade Interfluidity (SC), which appears to have a big project going on.
Antidote du jour (via):
Bonus antidote (via):
Double bonus antidote. It’s possible you’ll be asking, “Why so many owls?” Be aware the hash tag:
Rounding out this #MosaicMonday with a #SuperbOwl . This magnificence is distinguished by their pretty blue hued feathers and considerably startled look!
📍 Itálica, Spain
📸 Kriegerkalle pic.twitter.com/LZyUScO11p— The Partial Historians🏺 (@p_historians) February 12, 2024
The Tremendous Bowl of Minerva flies solely at nightfall….
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here