Antidemocratic, anachronistic, fantastic. How the city survives FT
Economics 101 Infinite time
Climate
Are markets the right tool to decarbonize electricity? (transcription) Volts
The ‘simple trick’ Paris used to reduce air pollution by 40% before the Olympics Electrical circuit
Water
Riots break out in drought-stricken central Algeria following months of water shortage P.A.
Syndemics
The trickle of reports from the USDA suggests that it will be difficult to contain the avian flu outbreak in dairy cows. And Global health leader criticizes ‘ineptitude’ of US response to bird flu outbreak in cows STATE. Comment:
To say we are “playing with fire” with H5N1 avian flu is an understatement.
We are letting this virus escape virtually every opportunity we have had to contain it.
My concern about its transmission to humans increases every day (~proportionate to its spread…) and we barely test for it! https://t.co/HsBQgCinnx
-Michael Mina (@michaelmina_lab) June 12, 2024
* * * More COVID-19 patients died in understaffed hospitals, new data shows Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
China?
China has become a scientific superpower The Economist. Comment:
China’s rise in this dimension has been incredibly rapid: “In 2003, America produced 20 times more of these high-impact articles than China…In 2013, America produced about 4 times as many newspapers leading and, in the most recent data release, which examines 2022 articles in China had…
-Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 14, 2024
China exports deflation, but US fails to benefit as ties weaken Bloomberg
China’s middle class fears for its economic future Bloomberg
Malaysia returned $156 million in stolen 1MDB funds, US embassy says Al Jazeera
Philippines to restore Subic Bay airfield for South China Sea operations Naval News
India
Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in just 72 hours IEEE Spectrum
Burma
Burmese junta leader orders new purge of top military officers The Irrawaddy
Syria
Fires caused by Hezbollah rockets threaten ‘strategic sites’ in Israel: official Anadolu Agency
How “Israel” lost the North indi.ca
Israel must target civilian infrastructure in Lebanon to pressure Hezbollah, says IDF chief Jerusalem Post. FIDS = Israel Defense and Security Forum.
Street fighting rages in Rafah as Biden accuses Hamas of delaying ceasefire deal France 24
* * * The US military plans to temporarily dismantle a pier off the coast of Gaza for the second time due to rough sea conditions. CNN (ChrisFromGA).
* * * Hamas’ Sinwar reportedly welcomes high civilian death toll in Gaza, calls it ‘necessary sacrifice’ Israel Times (Furzy Mouse).
The olive trees of Palestine JSTOR daily
European disunity
Fighting on two fronts, Macron signals “extremist fever” on the right and the left France 24. Comment:
Later in the day, Marion Maréchal announced that she had met the RN and strongly implied that the condition they placed on an alliance was to get rid of Zemmour… Remember that the Reconquest party of which Maréchal and Zemmour were part was founded by Zemmour .https://t.co/42q4V6pzv9
-Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 13, 2024
Macron’s party risks being wiped out, according to electoral projections FT. The text: “The left’s unity pact means the president’s alliance could be crushed in a runoff with the far right. »
Brawl breaks out in Italian Parliament after lawmaker rules against government official CBS
After Euroscepticism New left-wing review
Dear old Blighty
Rishi Sunak’s aide bet on election date days before announcement Guardian
The very rich could leave the UK over Labor plans for inheritance taxes on trusts Reuters
A new not-so-cold war
Security agreement between Ukraine and the United States will be submitted to Congress and will be legally binding Ukraine Pravda
Biden strikes security deal with Zelensky – but his future is uncertain Policy. “The agreement concerns only the current administrations of the United States and Ukraine and will not be ratified by Congress.”
Zelenskiy asks G7 leaders to approve ‘Marshall Plan’ for Ukraine’s reconstruction Reuters
* * * Ukraine’s Zelensky says China’s Xi told him he won’t sell any weapons to Russia Reuters. But:
Worrying moment at the G7 today. Zelensky said he had a personal telephone conversation with President Xi, and was assured by Xi that China would not give Russia weapons to use against Ukraine. Biden takes Zelensky’s half-correct line and says China is ‘actually helping Russia’ pic.twitter.com/Qil8XgM9GI
-Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 13, 2024
* * * Ukraine Arrests Socialist Writer, Bans World Socialist Web Site Matt Taibbi, Racquet News
Pressure and threats against Texty.org.ua were reported after the publication in the United States of a study on opponents of aid to Ukraine Urkainska Pravda
* * * Ukraine’s recruitment woes put West under pressure to plug troop deficit The conversation
From prison to trenches: behind the scenes of Ukraine’s attempt to turn detainees into soldiers CNN
* * * Ukraine extends power cuts as Russian bombing continues BBC
Ukraine says without more air coverage there won’t be enough electricity for winter Reuters
* * * Reverberations from Ukraine Council on Foreign Relations
How the shift in power dynamics to the East affects the evolution of the Ukrainian crisis Valdai discussion club
The Supremes
Supreme Court backs Starbucks against Biden labor board in ‘Memphis 7’ union case USA today
Supreme Court unanimously preserves access to widely used abortion medications P.A.
Second time as a farce: the absurdity of the new anti-CFPB arguments Adam Levitin, credit reports
Scary country
OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board Axios. Comment:
OpenAI has just hired the head of mass surveillance at the NSA. He outsourced illegal mass spying against Americans to British spy agencies to circumvent American law. He gave them unlimited access to American networks to spy. Tells you everything you need to know about OpenAI. https://t.co/5zKyDHfFOC
– Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) June 14, 2024
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled The platform game
Digital watch
Results of AI projects are ‘dismal,’ company executives complain The register. Comment:
It’s not harmless. Being fooled by AI is not “just an innocent thing.” You MUST be able to discern and differentiate reality. You MUST know how the world works on a basic level.
Because cheating on you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse. pic.twitter.com/JTLsQaY21D
– Dr. Holly Walters (@Manigarm) June 13, 2024
WWDC, Apple Intelligence, Apple Aggregates AI (non-paying) Stratechery
Guillotine Watch
“I love you guys !” : Elon Musk reaches $44.9 billion pay deal after Tesla vote Al Jazeera
McKinsey Boss’s next big consulting project: his own business WSJ
Imperial Collapse Watch
American Messianism Paul R. Grenier, Landmarks. The card game: “Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity or even a duty. »
For the king and the country? Young Europeans may not be willing to fight Policy
Class struggle
Big union victory in Virginia schools where bargaining is suddenly legal Working notes
Wells Fargo fires employees for ‘faking’ being at their keyboard FT
The invisible hand of healthcare is a fist Cory Doctorow, Pluralist
Centuries of childhood Obscure Res
Antidote of the day (Forest and Kim Starr):
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