Something Strange Happens to Wolves Infected by Unknown Mind-Altering Science Warning
Stocktaking: Dollar Commodities, Gold, and Official Foreign Exchange Areas Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Liberty Street Economics
Could A Return To Gold Standard Solve Our Most Pressing Financial Problems? Charles Hugh Smith, Or Two Minds. No.
CalPERS opposes Elon Musk’s $56 billion package amid WION shareholder discontent
Non-problem CRE moves to FT
The weather
The US and China must take the lead in the climate fight despite their competitive relationship, Beijing’s top envoy told the South China Morning Post.
Searches for a market-driven price on carbon S&P Global. Let me know how that works out….
Distressed Trees The St Louis Post-Dispatch
Proposed Cooling Policy Will Drive Air Conditioning Use, Threaten RAND Outage
Water
Suspicions are escalating as Mexico City’s water crisis approaches Bnamericas ‘zero day’
Many Alaskan rivers and streams turn orange, visible from space Fascinating Engineering
Understanding Water Advice The Brockovich Report
Syndemics
Officials investigate unusual flu virus outbreak in Northern California San Francisco Chronicle
The bird flu vaccine is made from eggs. That has scientists worried. CBS
China?
Note the predictions of Taiwan’s demise under the Lai Brookings Institution
Debt-Trap Diplomacy J-STOR Daily
Chinese scientists are treating diabetes using stem cells in a world first NextShak. But when we treat it, what happens to our insulin secretions? Think about it. people!
in Myanmar
Myanmar’s tribal forces are consolidating strongholds as the junta weakens, Reuters reports
Big deals threaten Malaysia’s forests: Report News Channel Asia
India
Delhi is ‘unbearable’ as temperatures near 50C BBC
Power demand soars in heatwave-hit Delhi, but temperature readings may be ‘wrong’ Channel News Asia
Syracistan
The US-built Gaza enclave collapsed. Here’s how we got here and what the next Orlando Sentinel might be
****** Israel says it has captured key Gaza-Egypt corridor as Rafah attack intensifies France24
Pushed to the brink, hungry and tired, Rafah IDPs struggle to survive in the New Arab
****** Attack on ICC Exhibition ‘Deprecating Hamas’ Is About Ending Israel FAIR
Israel withdraws UNSC appeal to ‘stop the killing’ to continue Rafah attack on Al Jazeera
The breakup of Europe
Traveling in France: Avignon to Pont-Saint-Esprit Chris Arnade, Traveling the World
Hello Old Blighty
Popular Nation New Left Review
Staff are promising to beat NHS expectations of 18 weeks within five years of the BBC. Excellence!
The New Cold War
NATO unites as calls grow to allow Ukraine to strike borders inside Russia France24. Mercouris, more recent than any of these, says that the target of the strike in Russia is coming from the gut.
The US Secretary of State has suggested that they may allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory with US weapons and Poland is allowing Ukraine to use Polish-supplied weapons to strike Russia Ukrainska Pravda.
NATO Rides the Figleaf of Cross-Border Strikes Simplicius the Thinker(s)
US is concerned about Ukraine’s strikes on Russian nuclear radar stations WaPo
How To Win In Ukraine: Pour It On, And Don’t Worry About The Rising RAND. But from May 22.
****** Ukraine war: influential Russian think tank proposes nuclear ‘demonstration’ explosion South China Morning Post
****** Nato has only 5% of the air defense needed to protect the Eastern flank FT
The photo shows a 7-layer defense line planned for the border between NATO and Russia Insider. It’s surprising. I think PowerPoint comes with it?
NATO Holds First Meeting on Undersea Infrastructure Network Critical Issues
****** US arms deliveries to Ukraine help stabilize frontline, Blinken says Reuters
Ukrainian military says US-supplied tanks fall victim to Russian strikes CNN Wow.
Russia’s Most Active Electronic Warfare Is Changing The Atmosphere On The Front Line – Military Watch Reports
****** Georgia’s “foreign embassies” law is now a reality. When will it come into effect and who will it affect? JAM news
Hundreds of Georgian NGOs pledge to reject ‘foreign influence’ law Al Jazeera
Global Election
South Africa is counting votes in the most competitive election since apartheid France24
2024
Jury Instructions & Charge (PDF), People v Donald J. Trump
AIPAC spent a lot of money to defeat Cori Bush in his Politico primary. Election interference.
The Supremes
82. Four Chief Justices of the Supreme Court
Spook Land
The secret federal intelligence bureau that discovered Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right Vox
Bezzle
Courts rather than arbitrators decide whether Dogecoin dispute goes to arbitration SCOTUSblog
Exclusive: Atlantic, a Vox Media ink license, the product works with OpenAI Axios
Publishing AI Slop Is a Fireball of Bold Choices
A digital clock
Google Researchers Say AI Is Now the Leading Disinformation Vector (and They Overestimate the Problem) 404 Media. “If you didn’t want to go to Milwaukee, why did you take the train?” -Father Emil, Prairie Home Friend (from memory).
Google confirms that the leaked Search documents are genuine to The Verge
US judge calls ‘unthinkable’ use of AI to translate legal documents Reuters
Gavin Newsom warns of the dangers of over-regulating AI Politico
Boeing
The FAA appears ready to grant Boeing an extension in a Leeham News & Analysis safety report
it’s 420
Pop The Baffler. Ketamine.
Imperial Collapse Watch
Jeffrey Sachs: The Untold History of the Cold War, CIA Coups Around the World, and COVID’s Origin (video) Tucker Carlson, YouTube
Can the B-21 Raider Save America’s Dwindling Bomber Force? 1945. No.
Class War
How Tens of Thousands of Grad Employers Are Organizing Career Notes
Seattle doesn’t want Tukwila’s immigration problem. But it started here at the Seattle Times
Antidote du jour, via JB:
“A little bird that sings in the cold.”
See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.
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