Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Fat cat survives after falling from 6th floor, breaking car window Thaiger (furzy). This cat is fortunate. Cats are more than likely to die in falls of lower than 8 tales. At larger heights, they’ve time to flip themselves over, and the “legs down” splayed position creates more drag, slowing their fall and assuring that their study legs, versus inner organs, take the brunt of the affect.
They Cuddled a Kiwi. New Zealand Said, ‘Stop That.’ New York Occasions (furzy)
Do you ever really feel that older cities are simply extra fascinating than new ones?
Effectively, it is not simply because they’re previous.
It is due to one thing known as “vernacular structure”… pic.twitter.com/M33HnhRYXX
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) May 28, 2023
When digital nomads come to town Remainder of the World (resilc). They’ve allegedly ruined Bali, however you may as well blame Eat, Pray, Love.
“No piece of artwork has ever emotionally affected me the way in which this robotic arm piece has. It is programmed to attempt to comprise the hydraulic fluid that’s always leaking out and required to maintain itself operating…if an excessive amount of escapes, it’s going to die so it is desperately making an attempt to tug it… pic.twitter.com/83dqTlVpGp
— Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) May 29, 2023
Hidden Dogmatism New Left Assessment (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
The Brain and Long Covid Eric Topol (Paul R)
The Fast-Spreading New COVID-19 Subvariant XBB Is Part of a ‘New Class’ of Omicron MSN. ma: “Not a foul piece for msn…even has a “ masks” video embedded. Perhaps it’s turning into okay to speak publicly about?…..”
Case report: Post-COVID new-onset neurocognitive decline with bilateral mesial-temporal hypometabolism in two previously healthy sisters Frontiers in Pediatrics (Paul R)
Local weather/Atmosphere
Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills Guardian (Kevin W). Virtually no fireflies this yr. I’m unhappy for them and selfishly for me.
Thousands evacuate from Nova Scotia wildfires Related Press (resilc)
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon BBC (Kevin W)
China?
China turns down US invitation for defence chiefs’ meeting in Singapore Monetary Occasions. The sneering by the sources is outstanding.
US-China trade talks end in more chip war salvos Asia Occasions
Previous Blighty
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Economist (furzy)
Labour plans to tackle housing crisis by forcing landowners to sell at lower prices Monetary Occasions
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Fiona Hill (UserFriendly). In the present day’s should learn.
Erdogan’s mediatory role on Ukraine cannot be wished away Indian Punchline (Kevin W). The US is rarely by no means by no means by no means by no means by no means gonna let China mediate. Erdogan is the cleanest shirt in that soiled laundry. However why is that this weird concept that there might be a negotiation nonetheless being dignified?
Lindsey Graham: Russia issues arrest warrant for top Republican BBC
Norway: Russian spying prompts rethink of port access DW (furzy)
Moscow attacked by drones – mayor RT
Wagner founder scores bloody political victory in Bakhmut The Hill
READING TURGENEV IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST RUSSIA John Helmer (Chuck L)
Lyrics over my pay grade however that blue wig is impressed:
We’ve synthesized Evgeny Prigozhin’s voice and likeness. As of late, he grew to become a highly regarded determine and but he would not have any bangers. So we determined to jumpstart his pop-punk profession with this cute tune that angers ukrainians for no purposehttps://t.co/rJHxXjLMLc
— Russians With Angle (@RWApodcast) May 28, 2023
Syraqistan
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran Intercept (Userfriendly). From final week, nonetheless germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined Institute for Coverage Research (resilc)
USAF Opens Bidding to Build Its 1st New Fighter in Decades Protection One (resilc)
For Memorial Day, let’s get real about the recruitment crisis Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During Indochina Wars CovertAction. Furzy provides:
I first visited Nepal in 1979, after going to New Delhi to have Rikhi Ram Musical Devices make me a tamboura, as I’d met a fellow Indian music sitar participant, additionally an American, in NYC. He invited me to go to his dwelling in Katmandu whereas I used to be abroad. Whereas visiting, I by chance walked into him and one other fellow filling up a big talcum powder container with heroin. We have been flying out of Katmandu collectively that afternoon, to New Delhi; I managed to maintain calm whereas going through the boarding checkpoint, because the agent was analyzing the talcum container, then let it go.
I haven’t seen him since we landed in New Delhi. I finally heard some sotto voce rumors about him being a CIA agent, and a killer at that. A few years later, I acquired an pressing name from him, again in Connecticut….Somebody had spiked his chang (native beer) with a knockout drug in Katmandu, which left him partially paralyzed. They (CIA?) flew him to Bangkok for therapy, which apparently didn’t work very nicely. I demurred from providing to assist. I additionally found that he was nonetheless dealing medicine!!
4. People in Psychological Services v. Prisons
I’ve a sense we did not get miraculously cured within the mid-70s.
(h/t @paulg for surfacing) pic.twitter.com/EQN7htQWcf
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) May 17, 2023
Dems’ New Star—Manhattan Billionaire Heir Dan Goldman—Fiercely Defends Security State. Plus: Jeffrey Sachs’ Break w/ the Establishment on Ukraine, COVID, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #88 Glenn Greenwald. Late to this. The prolonged phase with Jeffrey Sachs is a should hear.
2024
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into Caitlin Johnstone
GOP Clown Automobile
What Can Ron DeSantis Do Now? New Yorker (furzy)
Book Club: Josh Hawley’s manly book gets a new cover, and Florida restricts Amanda Gorman Washington Publish
Proper Wing Derangement Syndrome. That is what occurs when TDS metastasizes.
America’s Becoming a Suicide Pact umair haque (resilc). Hating on the states that develop and course of meals and produce vitality. Let me understand how that works out.
The Far Right Is Splintering Atlantic (furzy). “Splintering” presupposes extra cohesion that I think is there.
Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation BBC (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties The Grayzone. Userfriendly: “That is hilarious.”
Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall Matt Taibbi
Egg In Their Face – Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Weeks Were Fake Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
AI
Nvidia Unveils More AI Products to Further Capitalize on Frenzy Bloomberg (furzy)
Nvidia’s New AI Supercomputer Is a Game Changer. Google, Meta, and Microsoft Will Be First Users. Barrons (furzy)
French Open uses AI to protect players from online abuse Worldwide Enterprise Occasions (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Biden, McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Deal Faces Essential First Take a look at in Home Wall Avenue Journal. One contact, who’s skeptical of Yellen’s June 5 “out of money” date, factors out that June 15 is a deadline for company revenue tax quarterly deposits, so if Treasury can limp alongside till then, it’s going to get a sufficiently big infusion to limp alongside a good bit longer.
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps New York Occasions
The Bezzle
Quackonomics Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect (resilc). Tkacik is just about at all times a should learn. She wrote the most effective account of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Inmates Await Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘I Want to Be Her Friend’ Wall Avenue Journal (resilc). Most learn story on the Journal, which suggests extra learn than something on the debt ceiling.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems ars technica (furzy)
Neuralink gets FDA approval for human trials, but others are way ahead New Atlas (furzy). Miserable that plot strains in dystopian novels are handled as enterprise plans.
Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now ‘greatly regrets’ it CoinTelegraph (BC)
Class Warfare
Fake kindness, Caring and Symbolic Violence Authorea (martha r)
Death of Ownership: Companies Use Software, Subscriptions to Grab Money From Customers Enterprise Insider (resilc). Readers have been commenting on the erosion of possession rights.
What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech Monetary Occasions (Userfriendly)
New Productiveness App Simply Turns Your Telephone Off https://t.co/nnR8ypQyUW pic.twitter.com/EAXtZNat5C
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 29, 2023
Regents spar for 1st time in public with striking University of Michigan grad workers MLive (ma)
Why Inflation Is the Excuse for Higher Grocery Prices New York Occasions (resilc)
“Glut of pigs squeezes hog farmers and meat firms, however shoppers aren’t seeing decrease costs”
Geez I’m wondering why. https://t.co/nPQiIJMGS9
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) May 27, 2023
It prices $18,865 on common to have a child, $233,610 to lift it to 18, and one other $102,828 for faculty — now.
The median 2 individual family revenue is $75,143.
People are having fewer infants as a result of we’ve made it unimaginable to afford to lift one. https://t.co/06lwuGtnNW pic.twitter.com/sUBTFcEVOh
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 27, 2023
Antidote du jour. mgl:
Nene & goslings. They have been close to extinction within the 1950’s; now possibly within the low 1000’s, thought of susceptible. State fowl of Hawaii. The American Ornithologist union modified the identify to (uncreative) Hawaiian Goose in 2014.
And a bonus (Chuck L):
A Chimp was born a pair days in the past on the Sedgwick County Zoo. He had bother getting oxygen so needed to be saved on the vet. This video exhibits mother reuniting with him after virtually 2 days aside. pic.twitter.com/3tc1dErrMv
— B&S (@_B___S) May 28, 2023
A second bonus (Amfortas, hoisted from feedback):
The flock dynamics of sheep being guided by way of a gate with the help of sheep canines.
📹 rural.riley by way of TikTok
pic.twitter.com/G3ZWN3mE1u— Science lady (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 28, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
