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Watch Two Men Pull a Drowning Red Deer Out Of a Well in Mexico Field & Stream
Crocodile sex frenzy triggered by Chinook helicopters and thunder in central Queensland ABC Australia
How to finance a faster shift to a better world Martin Wolf, FT
What’s Rite Aid Doing in Trenton? Credit Slips
Climate
El Nino Fizzles. Planet Earth Sizzles. Why? (PDF) James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, and Leon Simons
Surprising discovery about coral’s resilience could help reefs survive climate change (press release) University of California
Production of Methane by Sunlight-Driven Photocatalytic Water Splitting and Carbon Dioxide Methanation as a Means of Artificial Photosynthesis American Chemical Society. From the Abstract: “This article describes an experimental apparatus of artificial photosynthesis, which generates methane gas from water and carbon dioxide with the aid of sunlight energy…. One of the versions was implemented in the competition of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Horizon Prize on Artificial Photosynthesis ‘Fuel from the Sun’ in 2022. For future expansion as artificial photosynthetic plants, the technical issues related to scaling up the plant size are extracted and discussed from these results.” Big if true. Can energy mavens comment?
Karl Marx’s “degrowth communism”? International Socialism
Water
Saltwater intrusion no longer a threat to New Orleans’ drinking water Axios
China?
Xi praises ‘deepening’ trust between China and Russia in talks with Putin France24
Ports, railways, a naval base: China’s Belt and Road in five projects Channel News Asia
China tightens curbs on foreign travel by bankers, state workers Channel News Asia
Slowing Chinese EV demand drives down battery metal prices FT
A Third of Japanese People Aged 70 to 74 Still in the Workforce Nippon
Syraqistan
Map Explainer: The Gaza Strip Visual Capitalist
Bread, figs, phosphorus Numb at the Lodge
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Jake Sullivan’s Trial by Combat The New Yorker. Sullivan: “As a child of the eighties and ‘Rocky’ and ‘Red Dawn,’ I believe in freedom fighters and I believe in righteous causes, and I believe the Ukrainians have one. There are very few conflicts that I have seen—maybe none—in the post-Cold War era . . . where there’s such a clear good guy and bad guy. And we’re on the side of the good guy, and we have to do a lot for that person.” Six-year-olds playing Cowboys and Indians. With nuclear weapons.
A Requiem for the Rules-Based Order: The Case for Value-Neutral Ethics in International Relations Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (Amfortas).
Essaying again… Michael Smith, Crying in the Wilderness. Old school blogger (“Stop Me Before I Vote Again”) surfaces on Substack. (Partly) about category errors!
There Is No American Sword for the Israel–Palestine Gordian Knot The American Conservative
Impending Genocide New Left Review
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Israel Bombs Gaza City Hospital, Killing at Least 500, Palestinian Officials Say Truthout. Good aggregation including, importantly, from WaPo: “The video, filmed outside the hospital and verified by The Washington Post, captures the first sounds of an explosion — a whirring through the air and then a blast.” So the question of (Israeli) aircraft vs. (Hamas) rocket could be settled empirically, assuming one trusts WaPo’s digital evidence?
After blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital, Hamas and Israel trade blame as rage spreads in region AP. Of course, Israel (as do we) has form.
‘It’s from us? It looks like it!’: Israel releases ‘audio of Hamas operatives discussing failed rocket launch’ and video showing missile exploding in the sky moments before blast killed hundreds at Gaza hospital Daily Mail
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Biden tells Netanyahu it appears ‘the other team’ caused Gaza hospital blast AP
Biden arrives in Israel after Arab leaders summit cancelled BBC
Why Biden Is Visiting Wartime Israel Daniel Kurtzer, Haaretz
US sending rapid response force near Israel The Hill. “The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), a special forces unit capable of carrying out a wide range of missions, is moving to the region.”
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Fascism in the West to Enable Genocide in Palestine Craig Murray
Former ambassador and Assange advocate Craig Murray detained under UK terror laws The Grayzone
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Dr. Gabor Maté on Gaza:
Hamas recorded press conference (with transcript):
Happy to announce that @hazycomrade has done the Lord’s work by providing a complete transcript of the press conference.
Can be read on the link below.https://t.co/mXMR3LvdUf
— روني الدنماركي (@Aldanmarki) October 13, 2023
From last week, but germane, since it doesn’t seem to have made it into the mainstream.
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Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza ‘De-Escalation’ Talk HuffPo. Looks like “civilian” was added to the “No Say” list:
In case you don’t believe me, here it is: pic.twitter.com/iMkZ1yiLFi
— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) October 17, 2023
Israel-Palestine war: Israeli minister seeks arrest of journalists who ‘harm national morale’ Middle East Eye
Hamas’ cash-to-crypto global finance maze in Israel’s sights Reuters
Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas The Onion
Dear Old Blighty
Pandemic Health Agency with No Proper Governance Spent Billions Without Parliamentary Approval Byline Times
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine Targets Russia With Secret New Supply of U.S. Weapons Foreign Policy
Ukraine’s special forces use daring raids and distraction tactics in bid to free Crimea CNN. Small boat warfare. Pure cope.
Memo to the president: A bold agenda for the Washington summit The Atlantic Council. Ah. A “bold agenda.”
Antitrust
Google, DOJ still blocking public access to monopoly trial docs, NYT says ArsTechnica
Republican Funhouse
Jordan’s floor failure strengthens private push to empower McHenry Politico. Toga party!
Spook Country
Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another Cory Doctorow, The Intercept
Digital Watch
What Happened to San Francisco, Really? The New Yorker. This caught my eye: “‘A.I. First means you turn to A.I. before you talk to a human. A.I. First means you turn to an A.I. before you hire. If the A.I. doesn’t do it, you build it. If you can’t build it, then you hire someone.’ [Jeremiah Owyang, an entrepreneur and investor who works out of an Airstream trailer] added, ‘That is a precursor of what’s going to happen to corporate America.’” Kill it with fire….
Accelerationism is Terrorism Crooked Timber
The enshittification of academic social media The Thesis Whisperer. Important!
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AI Safeguards Are Pretty Easy to Bypass PC Magazine
Your Fantasy, On Demand: How AI Porn Is Reshaping a Taboo Industry Decrypt. Always the first to profit from new media.
Burned-out parents seek help from a new ally: ChatGPT Axios
The environmental impact of the AI revolution is starting to come into focus The Verge
Our Famously Free Press
How the conspiracy-fueled Epoch Times went mainstream and made millions NBC
Getting the News Has Never Been More Complicated DAME
Sports Desk
Cricket returns to the Olympics after 128 years Le Monde
Netherlands beat South Africa with shock ICC Cricket World Cup win Al Jazeera
Class Warfare
Expert panel identified health-related social needs and methodological considerations for a polysocial risk score medRxiv. From the Abstract: “Objectives: A polysocial risk score, which summaries multiple different health-related social needs (HRSNs) into a single likelihood of risk, could support more effective patient and population health management.” Can’t manage what you don’t measure! Including stochastic eugenicism….
Dawn of the Bathroom JSTOR. Similar pattern to ventilation today?
Our Early Ancestors Were Predator Hunters, Too Field & Stream
DNA shows poorly understood empire was multiethnic with strong female leadership Harvard Gazette. From April, still germane. More biomolecular archaeology.
Cash Only: What To Know If You’re Planning To Ditch Your Bank Forbes
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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