The World’s Oldest Moss Outlived the Dinosaurs, but It May Not Survive Climate Change Scientific American
The Fungi-Mad Ladies of Long Ago JSTOR. Clickbait headline. The deck: “In mycology’s early days, botanical drawing was, for some ladies, a calling. Their mushroom renderings had been key to establishing this new subject.”
Credit Suisse retail investors plan lawsuit challenging UBS takeover FT
Local weather
How a perfect storm of climate and weather led to catastrophic Maui fire LA Occasions
Hawaii Officials Were Warned Years Ago That Maui’s Lahaina Faced High Wildfire Risk WSJ (KS).
* * * Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Climate Solution? Inside Local weather Information
Global heating likely to hit world food supply before 1.5C, says UN expert Guardian (KS).
Soil microbiome, Earth’s ‘living skin’ under threat from climate change (press launch) Penn State College
#COVID19
US COVID markers up slightly again CIDRAP. “The 2 fundamental indicators that federal well being officers use to trace COVID-19 exercise—hospitalizations and deaths—each registered small rises this week.” That’s as a result of they’re lagging indicators. “Biobot wastewater monitoring suggests regularly rising ranges in all areas of the nation.” Gradually rising:
Effectively, I feel — surprisingly — CIDRAP comes near minimizing right here. Sure, the slope of this surge is much less steep than earlier surges, so in that sense, “gradual.” Nevertheless, absolutely the numbers are excessive, already larger than one earlier peak. Additional, Midwest ranges usually are not “regularly rising” in any respect; they’re (ignoring attainable backward revision) heading towards the vertical. As I wrote:
Seems to be like the present surge is transferring alongside fairly properly! Keep secure on the market…. Open air tenting on Labor Day, no? Removed from the madding crowd? 2
32 days away…. And drive, versus flying? Only a thought!* * * Long COVID in a highly vaccinated population infected during a SARS-CoV-2 Omicron wave – Australia, 2022 (preprint) medRxiv. N = 22,744. From the Summary: “In a extremely vaccinated inhabitants (94% with >=3 vaccine doses), nearly 20% of individuals contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant reported signs in step with Lengthy COVID 90 days submit analysis. Lengthy COVID was related to sustained destructive impacts on work/examine and a considerable utilisation of GP providers 2-3 months after the acute sickness; nonetheless, ED displays and hospitalisations for Lengthy COVID had been uncommon.”
Smart Thermometer–Based Participatory Surveillance to Discern the Role of Children in Household Viral Transmission During the COVID-19 Pandemic JAMA. From June, once we linked to it, however germane, as “Again to College” looms. From the Summary: ” On this cohort examine utilizing participatory surveillance to measure within-household transmission at a nationwide scale, we discerned an vital position for kids within the unfold of viral an infection inside households in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, heightened when faculties had been in session, supporting a job for college attendance in COVID-19 unfold.”
* * * The Media Are Still Failing to Ask Serious Questions about Long COVID to Policy Makers Mike the Mad Biologist
Doctors struggle with how to help patients with heart conditions after COVID-19 CBS. They might begin by carrying masks and supporting common masking in well being care amenities. Nonetheless, it’s good to see “coronary heart situations” and “COVID-19” in the identical headline. Typically, the 2 matters are stored rigorously, even assiduously, aside.
No, We Haven’t “Lived” with Diseases for Millions of Years Jessica Wildfire, OK Doomer. Wildfire is uneven. Right here she is spot on.
China?
How U.S. and China Are Breaking Up, in Charts WSJ. Hmm.
How America is failing to break up with China The Economist
* * * Zombie Economy New Left Assessment
China’s eastern economic powerhouse provides national snapshot; declining workforce, demand and wages plague Jiangsu South China Morning Publish
China might change one of its most hated laws Semafor. The hukou system.
Myanmar
Sanctioned Myanmar Minister Visited India to Study Aadhaar The Wire. The “Aadhaar Distinctive Identification system.” I can’t think about how that will assist the Junta….
Junta Boss Advisor Faces ‘Hopeless’ Task: Solving Myanmar’s Economic Crisis The Irrawaddy. The beatings will proceed….
Africa
West African bloc scraps crisis meeting on Niger coup Al Jazeera. ECOWAS. “The assembly was indefinitely suspended for ‘technical causes.’”
From Chi-Town bagman to ECOWAS chairman: meet the former money launderer leading the push to invade Niger The Grayzone
China ‘winning lion’s share’ of construction projects in Africa, study finds South China Morning Publish
European Disunion
France’s supreme court suspends gov’t decision to dissolve environmental activist group France24
Syraqistan
US pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in dollars, not Chinese yuan, amid Israel negotiations Ben Norton, Geopolitical Report
Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along Mint Press
Expensive Outdated Blighty
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
Ukraine makes “tactically significant” progress in counteroffensive – NYT Ukrainska Pravda
Russian Tornado Rocket Artillery Systems Bombarding ‘Foreign Mercenaries’ at Lugansk Training Range Navy Watch. For some definition of “international mercenaries.”
‘Bribery during war is treason’: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy fires army recruiters Al Jazeera
* * * Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Assures: Taurus and Atacms Will Be Used Exclusively inside Ukraine’s Borders European Pravda
Seymour Hersh: Harold Pinter Had It Right (full) Scheer Publish. Results of Nord Stream II on Germany’s political financial system.
Blackwater paved the way for Wagner Al Jazeera
Biden Administration
Lina Khan: The most feared person in Silicon Valley is a 34-year-old in DC Yahoo Finance.
AOC demands DOJ target Clarence Thomas over relationship with Republican megadonor FOX. A number of “megadonors” (billionaires), actually. Pushed by Pro Publica reporting.
2024
The Sweep and Force of Section Three William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, College of Pennsylvania Regulation Assessment. Vital!! The Summary:
Part Three of the Fourteenth Modification forbids holding workplace by former workplace holders who then take part in revolt or insurrection. Due to a spread of misperceptions and mistaken assumptions, Part Three’s full authorized penalties haven’t been appreciated or enforced. This text corrects these errors by setting forth the total sweep and drive of Part Three. First, Part Three stays an enforceable a part of the Structure, not restricted to the Civil Battle, and never successfully repealed by nineteenth century amnesty laws. Second, Part Three is self-executing, working as a right away disqualification from workplace, with out the necessity for added motion by Congress. It will probably and must be enforced by each official, state or federal, who judges {qualifications}. Third, to the extent of any battle with prior constitutional guidelines, Part Three repeals, supersedes, or just satisfies them. This consists of the principles in opposition to payments of attainder or ex submit facto legal guidelines, the Due Course of Clause, and even the free speech ideas of the First Modification. Fourth, Part Three covers a broad vary of conduct in opposition to the authority of the constitutional order, together with many situations of oblique participation or assist as “help or consolation.” It covers a broad vary of former workplaces, together with the Presidency. And particularly, it disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and doubtlessly many others, due to their participation within the tried overthrow of the 2020 presidential election.
Each Baude and Paulsen are members of the Federalist Society. I will probably be to see how Turley reacts to this (and he ought to react).
The Memo: Legal chaos engulfs Biden and Trump The Hill
* * * ‘Shoeless Joe’ Weiss and the fixing of the Hunter Biden game Jonathan Turley, The Hill
The Bidens’ Case Will Keep On Giving Moon of Alabama
* * * Vivek Ramaswamy says US ‘climate change agenda’ is a ‘hoax’ The Hill. He’s a loonie.
Ron DeSantis and his backers paid $95,000 to an Iowa religious leader’s group Reuters
Spook Nation
Commentary on the Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy Schneier on Safety. I’m a bit of stunned to see Schneier merely quoting the Atlantic Council (“…lastly implementing a working digital id answer…”, “… the precarious current for the executive state…”. And far else).
This Is What Happens When People Start Actually Reading Privacy Policies The Markup
Digital Watch
AI will be at the center of the next financial crisis, SEC chair warns Felix Salmon, Axios
Multinationals turn to generative AI to manage supply chains FT
* * * Two rival robotaxi services win approval to operate throughout San Francisco despite safety concerns AP. Willie, good job.
The 420
The age of K: how ketamine became the decade’s defining drug The Face
Zeitgeist Watch
Notice: All three of those tendencies have the impact of lowering crowding in poorly ventilated areas.
Airlines can’t add high-end seats fast enough as travelers treat themselves to first class CNBC
Understanding Migration Trends to Prepare for the Post-Pandemic Future Federal Reserve Financial institution of Cleveland
Class Warfare
Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder BBC (Furzy Mouse).
Antidote du jour (via):
Bonus antidote (JB):
JB writes: “Right here is images L. took one morning on her run.”
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.