‘It’s hard to be satisfied with just one’: What’s driving the black market for butterflies in Asia? Channel Information Asia
Some Squirmy Stowaways Got to the Arctic. And They Like It There. NYT
Parma sues Kia, Hyundai over wave of car thefts Cleveland.com (Carla). Carla feedback: “Cities suing corporations for producing and promoting problematic items — hhhmmm… might change into a development.”
Local weather
Study Shows Methane Leaks Put Climate Risk From Gas ‘On Par With Coal’ Frequent Desires
‘Giant Methane Factories’: Hydropower Has Long Been Touted as Clean Energy. But Is It? Inside Local weather Information
* * * Land temperatures in Spain surpass 60C as deadly heatwave sweeps Europe Impartial 140 for these following alongside at dwelling. That’s so much.
Riding through the heatwave: When rights can be the difference between life and death Gig Economic system Undertaking
New Paper Links Climate Change to Shrinking Brain Size in Humans Science Alert
#COVID19
Covid injury is cumulative:
The extra typically you get COVID, the upper your danger of problems.
Get added safety with an up to date vaccine in the present day.
Discover free up to date COVID vaccines at https://t.co/jDq2UIHFmT. #WeCanDoThis pic.twitter.com/NQWN1XlnLu
— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) July 14, 2023
Non-pharmaceutical interventions are cumulative too, in a great way, however the Biden adminstration’s coverage of mass an infection with out mitigation stays firmly in place. In the meantime, the well-known graphic for the “Swiss Cheese Mannequin” has been upgraded:
A buddy @Elemmett2 confirmed me a brand new model of the Swiss cheese mannequin of layered protections
Love the inclusion of the “misinformation mouse” who chews holes within the layers of cheese/protections 👌
Good 👏 I’ll consider these minimising propagandists as vermin to any extent further pic.twitter.com/Gl962amq9x
— Sue J (@SMpwrgr) July 15, 2023
Now With Added Realism!™
COVID restrictions are gone, but some still covering up overseas Stars and Stripes. And in Japan:
Japan appears to be headed for yet one more wave, which is already critical in Okinawa. It’s tempting to assume that international locations that centered on controlling the virus early on at the moment are paying the worth, however the value of letting it rip pre-vaccines was vastly increased. pic.twitter.com/lXe3CYBvq6
— TRG (@TRyanGregory) July 14, 2023
How Reliable is Megahit? USMortality. The deck: “A High quality Management Examine of the Instruments Used to Uncover the SARS-CoV-2 Genome” W-a-a-a-y above my paygrade; the writer is a Silicon Valley Engineer. Readers?
China?
‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China NYT
Although delivered within the unassuming type of up to date export guidelines, the Oct. 7 controls basically search to eradicate, root and department, China’s complete ecosystem of superior expertise. “The brand new coverage embodied in Oct. 7 is: Not solely are we not going to permit China to progress any additional technologically, we’re going to actively reverse their present state-of-the-art,” Allen says. C.J. Muse, a senior semiconductor analyst at Evercore ISI, put it this manner: “For those who’d advised me about these guidelines 5 years in the past, I might’ve advised you that’s an act of warfare — we’d should be at warfare.”
If the controls are profitable, they may handicap China for a technology; in the event that they fail, they could backfire spectacularly, hastening the very future the USA is attempting desperately to keep away from.
* * * Did Xi Just Save the World? Adam Tooze, Overseas Coverage. The deck: “In a little-noticed speech this week, China completely modified the worldwide combat towards local weather change.”
US envoy John Kerry heads to China to restart climate talks Channel Information Asia
* * * China’s curb on metal exports reverberates across chip sector FT
Barry FitzGerald: Two explorers who can take a slice of China’s ionic pie Stockhead. Uncommon earths.
Myanmar
What Americans Don’t Understand About the Conflict in Myanmar The Diplomat
China’s Metastasizing Myanmar Problem United States Institute of Peace
EU rejects Myanmar’s diplomatic role and says it still doesn’t recognize generals AP
European Disunion
French authorities ban protest against police violence in Paris France24
Expensive Outdated Blighty
UK formally agrees to join major Indo-Pacific trade bloc, marking largest post-Brexit deal Impartial. The Complete and Progressive Settlement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
The NHS is ‘not serving its purpose’ and needs to ‘cooperate with private sector’, says Tony Blair Sky Information. Similar to the antelope must “co-operate” with the lion gnawing its vitals.
Britons are ‘pulling their own teeth out with pliers’ because they can’t access NHS dentists Sky Information. Reversion to the imply….
Why the OBR’s view of the economy is so wrong Funding the Future
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Moscow says attacks on Russian nuclear facilities could spill over to Europe Anadolu Company
* * * Minefields are biggest obstacle to Ukrainian counter-offensive Ukrainska Pravda. Who knew?
Nearly a third of the Bradley armored vehicles the US provided Ukraine may have already been lost or damaged Enterprise Insider
Pentagon Dragging Its Feet Over F-16 Gifts To Ukraine Moon of Alabama
* * * The art of vassalisation: the new middle kingdom of the United States Pearls and Irritations
Russia says it foiled assassination attempts on top media figures Al Jazeera
Thousands of Russian officials to give up iPhones over US spying fears FT
Syraqistan
Anti-overhaul protest to shift from ‘disruption’ to ‘paralysis’: Media Al Mayadeen
2024
Biden stability beats Trump volatility in 2024 match-up, experts suggest Guardian. And talking of stability v. volatility–
Biden nibbles a little girl’s shoulder on the tarmac at Helsinki-Vantaan International Airport in Finland Day by day Mail. This dude wants an intervention.
The Supremes
The Bezzle
Crypto giant Binance lays off more than 1,000 employees, says report Enterprise Commonplace
Digital Watch
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (PDF) Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Main, Shmitchell, Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Convention on Equity, Accountability, and Transparency. Nonetheless germane. Maybe embedding standard knowledge into unaccountable and unmaintainable black packing containers, “code is regulation”-style, is the entire level?
NY Lawmaker Uses AI to Write Housing Bill That Does Little to Help Renters Gizmodo. So, working as designed?
Creepy catfish or useful co-pilot: Can AI help with dating app success? Sky Information
* * * Big Tech Is Watching You as You Drive The New Republic
Screening Room
Hayao Miyazaki’s Final Film, Renamed ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ Picked Up by GKIDS for North American Distribution Hollywood Reporter. Review.
How J. Robert Oppenheimer Was Influenced by the Bhagavad Gita Literary Hub
Fa fa fa fa style
China’s Shein hit with RICO, a law used for organised crime Al Jazeera
On the The Lendbreen Tunic:
The Lendbreen Tunic was discovered chilling in a crumpled up ball within the Norwegian mountains as a result of the earth is melting, and the ice going away revealed it. It is roughly 1700 years previous, is manufactured from wool, and has what we’d consider as a really primary building. pic.twitter.com/wmG26A31OU
— Cora Harrington (@lingerie_addict) July 15, 2023
And:
That’s an ASTONISHING quantity of labor. For precisely 1 merchandise of clothes. It’s mind-boggling. I am over right here feeling like my head will explode if I feel too onerous about it. We’ve no actual level of comparability for that sort of labor in the present day (besides possibly, high fashion, sorta kinda).
— Cora Harrington (@lingerie_addict) July 15, 2023
Fascinating er, thread.
Journey
Surge at Sea: Alarming Increase of Norovirus Outbreaks on Cruise Ships SciTech Day by day
Cruise line apologizes after dozens of whales slaughtered in front of passengers NBC
Sports activities Desk
Beware the Pickleball Industrial Complex Jezebel. The deck: “Pickleball has loved a public picture because the folks’s sport. It’s additionally thought-about ‘a enterprise capitalist’s dream.’ I recommend you run.”
Zeitgeist Watch
Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness. WaPo. The Jeff Bezos Day by day Shopper is the final place I might search for protection of this subject. Granted, I’m undecided the place the first place can be; most likely one thing fringe I don’t learn about but.’
The Invention of “the Male Gaze” The New Yorker
Media Driving ‘Fast Car’ Off Cliff Rod Dreher’s Diary. Even a blind pig finds a truffle now and again. Commentary:
As Luke Combs’s hit cowl of Tracy Chapman’s “Quick Automotive” dominates the nation charts, it’s mentioning some difficult feelings in followers & singers who know that Chapman, as a queer Black lady, would have an virtually zero probability at that achievement herself: https://t.co/7pCIMW5F0N
— Emily Yahr (@EmilyYahr) July 13, 2023
“Quick Automotive” was a single from Tracy Chapman, which offered 20,000,000 copies worldwide. Couldn’t WaPo get the CIA to do some primary OSINT for them?
How Books Taught Europeans to Smoke JSTOR Day by day. Social contagion?
Class Warfare
Disney CEO Bob Iger Cackles with Investors about AI Replacing Jobs Lee Fang. If DeSantis had a lick of sense, he’d pivot to this.
A Review of OUTLIVE Eric Topol, Floor Truths. “The larger image subject is that the complete bundle that Attia presents, what he and his colleagues present of their clinic, isn’t inexpensive aside from probably the most prosperous people.”
The Job Where Being a Good Colleague Pays $22 Million a Year WSJ
In Search of Van Halen’s Brown M&Ms Snack Shack
Antidote du jour (via):
Bonus antidote:
The attractive opalescent nudibranch (Hermissenda opalescens), one of the vital colourful species of sea slug, filmed off the coast of California by Aron Sanchez-Baranda. pic.twitter.com/1WZa0zU8D7
— Marvel of Science (@wonderofscience) July 7, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.