5 planets will align on March 27 and you won’t want to miss it. Here’s where to look. House.com
Where Financial Risk Lies, in 12 Charts WSJ
Local weather
Satellite images show breadth of massive seaweed belt stretching across the Atlantic Ocean FOX
Water
‘We’ve lost the aqueduct’: How severe flooding threatens a Los Angeles water lifeline Los Angeles Instances
B-a-a-a-a-d Banks
U.S. Bank Failures Pose Risk to Global Growth WSJ
A New Chapter of Capitalism Emerges From the Banking Crisis Bloomberg
#COVID19
Illinois’ Bold Move: 60,000 HEPA Air Purifiers To Be Distributed In Schools To Battle Respiratory Viruses Nation Herald
* * * The effects of COVID-19 on cognitive performance in a community-based cohort: A COVID Symptom Study Biobank observational study (preprint) medRxiv. n = 3335. “This research provides to present proof of cognitive deficits following SARS-CoV-2 an infection, however finds essential exceptions. At preliminary testing in mid-2021, cognitive deficits aren’t discovered for people who self-report as feeling recovered from COVID-19, even for these with longest symptom period. In follow-up testing in mid-2022, we discover that deficits seem persistent for these with earlier infections and ongoing signs, according to earlier smaller research.” Appears tailored for survivorship bias.
Functional Neurological Disorder Emerges After COVID Infection, Vaccines MedPage Right now
* * * Organ transplant patient dies after receiving Covid-infected lungs NBC. I used to be asking about Covid-infected transplants simply the opposite day….
* * * Robust T cell responses to Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine compared to infection and evidence of attenuated peripheral CD8+ T cell responses due to COVID-19 Immunity. From the Summary: “[P]rior SARS-CoV-2 an infection resulted in decreased CD8+ T cell activation and enlargement, suggesting that prior an infection can affect the T cell response to vaccination.”
* * * Stories from the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic from Ethnographic Collections Library of Congress. From 2020, nonetheless germane. AFAIK, the 1918-1919 was erased from the collective reminiscence, most significantly becauase a second pandemic didn’t comply with. After all, a century in the past America was a rising imperial energy; extra importantly, local weather change was not a factor. These glad circumstances don’t apply at present.
Polio and Vaccination: A Memoir of What We’ve Forgotten The Tyee. From 2018, once more germane.
China?
Hong Kong still has its edge as legal hub, says deputy justice minister Horace Cheung after visit to Europe, Thailand South China Morning Submit
Taiwan ex-president Ma heads to China ‘to improve cross-strait atmosphere’ RFI
An Anxious Asia Arms for a War It Hopes to Prevent NYT. Crocodile tears.
Myanmar
Q&A: NUG’s Lashi La says military leaders ‘don’t want peace’ Frontier Myanmar
Myanmar junta chief vows continued crackdown, then elections Channel Information Asia
Syraqistan
The angry divide in Israel over the rule of law and religion FT. Spectacular:
🇮🇱 ALERTE – Israël s’enfonce dans le chaos en raison d’un projet de réforme visant à accroître le pouvoir des élus sur les magistrats. Le plus gros syndicat de travailleurs va appeler à la #grèvegénérale. Les universités se mettent en grève. Manifestations massives à #TelAviv. pic.twitter.com/jSKPB9pFX9
— Mediavenir (@Mediavenir) March 26, 2023
Bibi’s residence (1)
The second protesters break by barricades in entrance of Prime Minister’s residence. One newscaster calls this by its identify, a well-liked rebellion. Tomorrow a nationwide strike is on horizon, joined by universities. The navy is extra fragile than ever. pic.twitter.com/GegHPKo6UK
— Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן (@Istanbultelaviv) March 26, 2023
Bibi’s residence (2):
Midnight in Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s home surrounded by 1000s of offended pro-democracy protesters on all sides. Each ends of the street, the little park throughout the street and his upstairs neighbors. Water-cannon has run out of water pic.twitter.com/VqihcXjauZ
— Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר (@AnshelPfeffer) March 26, 2023
Facing Israeli Army Mutiny, Defense Minister Calls to Halt Regime Change Agenda Tikkun Olam
Netanyahu not even close to breaking down, Gallant’s firing proves that – analysis Jerusalem Submit
* * * Israeli jets bomb Syria’s main hub for earthquake aid deliveries The Cradle
Iranian, Saudi foreign ministers discuss meeting in Ramadan after normalization Andallu Company
In Ethiopia, China and the US map rival roads to lasting peace South China Morning Submit
European Disunion
Use of force signals ‘crisis of authority’ as France’s pension battle turns to unrest France24
Germany hit by biggest transport strike in decades Andalu Company
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
A protracted thread on geopolitics price studying in full. The underside line:
The tip results of this interplay bw our strategic autism and the response features of our allies, adversaries and third events, is that we’re working a considerable threat of shedding the Chilly Warfare we have began outright. We’ll find yourself diplomatically remoted. /24
— Coverage Tensor (@policytensor) March 26, 2023
Ian Welsh has an analogous view:
The extent of incompetence and stupidity required to show Russia into China’s agency ally is awe-inspiring, and I really do really feel awe.
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) March 24, 2023
* * * European ammunition maker says plant expansion hit by energy-guzzling TikTok site FT. The deck: “Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat movies’ for threatening its development as information centre corners spare electrical energy.” So cat movies are a power for peace? Have at it, say I. Fern:
Fern was attempting to eat the furnishings when she was struck by a spell of cat insanity. pic.twitter.com/tRlsLPyXC4
— The Dracula Galaxy (@bombsfall) March 27, 2023
Maru:
* * * How Zelensky was Prevented From Making Peace in the Donbas Covert Motion Journal
Zelenskyy: It is wrong when soldiers feel that civilians act like the war is over Ukrainska Pravda
Biden Administration
Lina Khan’s FTC has challenged health system mergers — but not disruptors Becker’s Hospital Evaluate
DIA CEO Phil Washington withdraws nomination to lead FAA AP. “Republicans attacked his resume and seized on disclosures that his identify appeared in search warrants associated to a corruption investigation in Los Angeles.” A lot of the different headlines body the excellent warrant factor as “GOP criticism.”
2024
Fmr. President Trump Holds Rally in Waco, TX (transcript) C-SPAN (marym), Marym: “It’s in a number of components. Hold scrolling down and “present full textual content.”
What It Means For Trump’s Campaign to Start in Waco The Intercept
The Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Israel The Nation. The deck: “Whereas US media fixated on Russian interference within the 2016 election, an Israeli undercover agent’s marketing campaign to affect the end result went unreported.” Odd!
Tech
There’s one sure winner in the AI explosion, say analysts: Dutch outfit ASML The Register
Learn this thread all the way in which to the tip:
Ten the explanation why we must always flip off ChatGPT: a thread
— Marco Piani (@Marco_Piani) March 26, 2023
“Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidinin ampulla pendere….”
* * * Elon Musk puts $20 billion value on Twitter – The Information Reuters. Valuation ignores the likelihood that (a) Musk needs to make Twitter worthwhile, which it has not been, and that in any case (b) Musk has “taken one for the group” by proving you may fireplace a horde of labor aristocrats and retain a working website (at which level the house owners of different tech companies fortunately adopted his lead).
Opinion: How Big Tech’s predatory culture fuels failures like Silicon Valley Bank Los Angeles Instances
Don’t panic about social media harming your child’s mental health – the evidence is weak iNews
Healthcare
MMT
MMT — Krugman still does not get it! Lars P. Syll
Zeitgeist Watch
Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for modern sensitivities Telegraph. No matter these sensitivities are, they’re not trendy. Any person ought to take a brand new e book that does conform to “trendy” “sensitivities” and rewrite it, in order that it…. doesn’t.
Class Warfare
Mixed Feelings Among UAW Union Democracy Activists about Fain’s Victory Payday Report
Air Pollution and Mortality at the Intersection of Race and Social Class NEJM
Matthew Desmond: ‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’ FT
Credit score rankings are a torment nexus:
Right now I came upon my credit score rating dropped 120 factors due to a $190 medical invoice I didn’t even know I owed. We have been planning on shopping for a home subsequent yr, and now my credit score rating isn’t adequate. Even when I pay the $190, it’s staying on my credit score rating for 5-7 years.
— Sara Luterman (@slooterman) March 26, 2023
Need a consultant? This book argues hiring one might actually damage your institution NPR
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.