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What Birds’ Dreams Can Tell Us About Our Own New York Times (Dr. Kevin)
New archive of ancient human brains challenges misconceptions of soft tissue preservation Science Daily (Kevin W)
“Inverse vaccine” shows the potential to treat autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis. University of Chicago Magazine (ma)
Awaiting a decision on new research regulations, scientists pen dueling articles to shape ‘gain-of-function’ policies Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (ma)
What Is It Like to Be Manic? Oxonian Review (Anthony L). Mania is quite enjoyable and productive, or so I am told, but the one person who described it to me also said she made connections that weren’t necessarily valid (a tendency of schizophrenics) and she also had a tendency to paranoia.
#COVID-19
Public Health New Zealand:
-Cognitive impairment after mild infection (not a cold), assess pilots, drivers, technical staff-Long Covid to increase in the population due to rapid evolution-Each infection a throw of the dice-Unknown natural history of Cov2 https://t.co/XXnClvGloy pic.twitter.com/guoVVVxaeR
— AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD (@fitterhappierAJ) March 26, 2024
This is amazing.
Can cryptic lineages tell us anything about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 (SC2)?
The answer may surprise you, it surprised the hell out of me.
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— Marc Johnson (@SolidEvidence) March 25, 2024
Falling Down Bridge
MV Dali Hitting Key Bridge in Baltimore – Track and Video Analysis YouTube (BC)
Ship Lost Power Before Hitting Key Bridge in Baltimore YouTube. Another good narration.
Crew on board Dali all survived bridge crash ‘by God’s grace’ Washington Post (furzy)
Baltimore Port: What impact will bridge collapse have on shipping? Reuters (BC)
Baltimore Bridge Crash Investigators to Examine Whether Dirty Fuel Played Role in Accident Wall Street Journal. The video shows the ship belching black smoke before the crash. But note also: BREAKING: MV Dali Cited for Propulsion Issues Before Baltimore Incident gCaptain
Climate/Environment
Crypto Miner, Pennsylvania Hit With Lawsuit Over Pollution From Bitcoin Mine Reuters
China?
iPhone Shipments in China Fell 33% in February, State Data Show Bloomberg
American Business Stalls in China Wall Street Journal
Xi meets US CEOs as American businesses seek to mend China ties Financial Times
The U.S. caught trying to bring biological weapon into China to devastate Chinese farming… https://t.co/BLKMlCprAw
— 倪明达 (Ni Mingda) (@NiMingda_GG) March 26, 2024
Down Under
Australia chose Aukus and now it faces the prospect of having no submarine capability for at least a decade Malcolm Turnbull, Guardian. This is no surprise. Many including this humble site predicted that as the likely result.
Old Blighty
What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? New Yorker
Software Industry Calls for More UK Government Support Reuters. So maybe everybody should not learn to code?
4m hours of raw sewage discharges in England in 2023, data expected to show Guardian (Kevin W). Ugh!
Gaza
Live: Israel pounds Gaza, south Lebanon in overnight strikes Middle East Eye
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 172: Israel continues raids on Gaza hospitals following UNSC ceasefire resolution Mondoweiss
New York Times Misreports Gaza UNSC Resolution Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
Israel says UN resolution damaged Gaza ceasefire talks BBC (Kevin W). “They would say that, now wouldn’t they?”
Hamas is intact, so has Israel lost? The Cradle (Chuck L)
Israeli propagandist behind Hamas ‘mass rape’ narrative exposed as grifter, fraud The Grayzone
Trump tells Israel it made ‘big mistake’ RT (Chuck L)
Watch this: Aldi changes details on its israeli dates to deceive buyers into thinking they’re South African @NoThanksBoycott | @EalingFOP pic.twitter.com/NAgA6TOocR
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) March 26, 2024
New Not-So-Cold War
West Desperately Deflects as Ukraine’s ISIS Gambit Backfires Simplicius the Thinker
Yesterday’s remarkable statements to journalists by Alexander Bortnikov, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Gilbert Doctorow (guurst)
US Sanctions Spree Continues With 15 More For Russian Entities The Register
Erm….since when has Russia done well in propaganda/narrative influence in the West?
Russia cannot defeat Ukraine or the West – and will likely lose – if the West mobilizes its resources to resist the Kremlin.
That the war is unwinnable due to Russia’s dominance is a Kremlin information operation & a glimpse into Russia’s real strategy & only hope of success.🧵 pic.twitter.com/WEQR2buRzD
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) March 27, 2024
Kiev continues to learn some very painful lessons:
It turns out the EU intends utilising the proceeds of the investments of frozen Russian assets to finance lawsuits against Russia and not to send them to Ukraine.
— The Sirius Report (@thesiriusreport) March 27, 2024
Since we need comic relief of sorts:
“Why do you always think that the way you live is better than the way we live?”
RT Boss smokes MI6s propaganda bureau (BBC) Correspondent.
Best part- “We’re not you, and we don’t like you much” pic.twitter.com/8EiFwYfwqc
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) March 26, 2024
And in case you missed it, more Simonyan: RUSSIAN PROJECT ‘GRANDPA UNLEASHED’ YouTube
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone To Wiretap Snapchat Gizmodo
Imperial Collapse Watch
US racing to deploy sub-launched hypersonic missiles Asia Times. UserFriendly: “They toch on our lack of a nuclear umbrella here, but this digs in a bit more.”
Russian Navy MiG-31 Interceptors Force American B-1B Bombers Back in Arctic Military Watch. A reader in comments yesterday noted that the mainstream media ignored this incident. It did make the specialist press.
Trump
Trump’s new social media company looks like a meme stock Yahoo (furzy). Sigh, Like about half the tech stocks.
2024
Biden gains on Trump in 6 battleground states in new poll The Hill
Democrat wins Alabama special election in early test for IVF as a campaign issue NBC. Note in a Republican district
RFK, Jr. Heads exploding!
The Washington Monthly Newsletter: March 26, 2024. Leading the subhead: “RFK Jr.’s VP pick is an affront to democracy.” Mind you, I am not a fan, but the harrumphing that Shanahan is too unqualified to be “a heartbeat away from Presidency” is laughable in light of Kamala Harris.
RFK Jr.’s Running Mate Is Young and Very Rich. That Worries Dems. New Republic
Democrats en déshabillé
Saving Democracy From Itself: The Democratic National Committee Moves To Block Third Party Candidates Jonathan Turley
Immigration
NYC moving ahead with plan to give prepaid debit cards to migrant families Pix11, YouTube
The US will never, ever accept this, but it’s a brilliant use of leverage by Mexico’s President AMLO.
Biden wants AMLO’s help to stop immigration. So AMLO demanded that the US:-end its illegal blockade of Cuba-lift its illegal sanctions on Venezuela-give aid to poor countries https://t.co/x0oAMmsF4P
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) March 27, 2024
Woke Watch
Gender and Its Enemies Chronicle of Higher Education (Anthony L)
Our No Longer Free Press
“Misinformation expert” is a fake credential. It was invented after 2016 to disguise political censorship as a act of neutral science.
The idea that people like this can be floating arbiters of truth and falsity – and their decrees should be binding — is a laughable fraud: https://t.co/bTEcP0JOLE
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 26, 2024
One thing I’ve been thinking about is how so many major MSNBC hosts loudly criticized management for hiring Ronna McDaniel, but we’re silent about the sidelining of the only 3 Muslim hosts, & the exit of @mehdirhasan after 10/7. https://t.co/JEHSOea5RG
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) March 26, 2024
From a few days ago, still germane: Palestinian journalist at Detroit news station sues, alleges retaliation, racial discrimination Detroit News (ma)
Florida Braces For Lawsuits Over Law Banning Kids From Social Media ars technica
By e-mail, from reader Li:
Taibbi piece made it to the CFP [Citizen Free Press] stack! CFP gets 240m page views, more than WSJ and Politico
This is how it appeard 8 PM Wednesday:
Congress is prepared to fund new bridge for Baltimore.Jamaal Bowman gets whiplash after 180* on Hamas.Democrats want hearings on Jared Kushner.Gay Chicago veterinarian arrested for plot to sexually assault his newborn son.Used drugs to sexually assault multiple children.Is the governor’s brother helping Illegal Chinese marijuana farms.Something smells rotten in Maine.7 construction workers fall into Chesapeake, only one survives.Supreme Court (likely) to allow Abortion drug Mifepristone to remain available.Could be 7-2 decision in closely watched case.United Nations prepares to enforce world’s first ‘global tax on emissions.’Google punishes financial website Naked Capitalism.$100,000 for this photo of Obama.
Medicare Advantage is overbilling Medicare by 22% Morningstar
US small-caps suffer worst run against larger stocks in more than 20 years Financial Times. A collapse in breadth is often a precursor to a correction. Any technicians who care to pipe up?
“A recent study by economists at the Federal Reserve found that less than half of the published papers they examined could be replicated, even when given help from the original authors.”https://t.co/WMkuYWrjBg from @TheEconomist
— Emanuel Derman (@EmanuelDerman) March 25, 2024
The Bezzle
Elon Musk requires ‘FSD’ demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America CNBC
Do McKinsey and other consultants do anything useful? Economist (Dr. Kevin). They can but as the firm has gotten really big, they have gotten very good at selling makework studies to fill the pipeline.
Class Warfare
This is how you get lotus rootspic.twitter.com/n9gDQsEKk9
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 26, 2024
A solution to the retirement crisis? Americans should work for more years, BlackRock CEO says CBS News (Kevin W). As if that works for people who do on-their-feet work, which is hard on the body. Why do you think we have an opioid crisis?
Kids as young as 14 were found working at a Tennessee factory that makes lawn mower parts for John Deere and others NBC News (Kevin W)
High-end outerwear company slashing nearly 1,000 corporate jobs Fox
20 hospitals, systems where charity care lags behind tax breaks Becker Hospital Review (Dr. Kevin)
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus:
this cat is a UNIT pic.twitter.com/7dtXgYW9be
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) March 25, 2024
A second bonus:
😊 pic.twitter.com/T86SgWNz1L
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) March 25, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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