A trip to the supermarket may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels NPR
Wells Fargo Bets on the Rent-to-Employment Credit Card. It Costs the Bank Too Much. WSJ
We make it easy, but it takes a long time. #MoneySovereign – Mitchell
Isn’t It Time To Stop Calling It The “National Debt”? Evonomics
The weather
Banks Finally Realize What Climate Change Will Do to Wired Homes
This Ecuadorian forest flourished during deforestation after being granted legal rights to the Guardian
Possible Ozone Depletion from Satellite Crashes During the Atmospheric Reentry Era of Mega-Constellations Geophysical Research Letters
Texas Cancels School Due To Extreme Heat Unsafe Onion Shooting Site
Water
Distressing statistics show the poverty of Iowa’s water quality approach Des Moines Register
Syndemics
IDPH urges vigilance as COVID cases rise in WGLT emergency rooms
Taiwan’s military drones may accelerate US ‘hellscape’ against Chinese invasion South China Morning Post
Deconstructing the US Navy’s ‘Hellscape’ by Naval News Detail
China?
Tu Guangshao on what makes a “Financially Strong Nation” and where China falls Pekingnology
How Important Is China to Nuclear Energy? (PDF) Fundamentals of Information Technology & Innovation. “China’s innovation in nuclear power is mainly about organizational, system, and incremental innovation. Many fourth-generation nuclear technologies have been known for years, but China’s state-backed approach is ahead of the curve in its implementation.”
India
Inside India’s first BBC emergency room
JPMorgan Ignites $40 Billion Rush Into Indian Bonds Bloomberg
Bonded Slavery: The Dark Side of India’s Art Industry Madras Courier
New Caledonia Police Arrest 11, Including Freedom Leader, Following French Rebellion The Diplomat
Syracistan
‘Extremely Disappointed’: Army Engineer Resigns As Backlash Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Inside Army The Intercept
IDF soldier’s suicide leaves Israel on edge The Telegraph
****** Is Israel committing genocide? Aryeh Neier, New York Review of Books
Giving Evidence on the Israel-Gaza War (updated 18 June 2024) (PDF) Lee Mordechai. “I am writing this publicly to testify that during the war there were and remain Israeli voices that strongly oppose Israel’s actions.”
****** The Israeli army destroys the entire Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing, which renders the Anadolu Agency ineffective.
Inside the ‘horror’ police operation against pro-Palestinian activists in Toronto The Breach
The breakup of Europe
Giorgia Meloni’s strong European team is seeking the FT’s top EU job
Hello Old Blighty
US firm boss awarded £4bn in UK Covid contracts accused of wasting millions on jets and buildings The Guardian
The New Cold War
Russia will consider sending F16s to Ukraine as aggression that opens its defense agreement with North Korea Gilbert Doctorow, Armageddon.
‘All planned’: Ukraine set to finally field F-16 jets this summer Guardian
Ukrainian F-16 Pilots Have a Problem: They’ll Have to Fly Low to Survive—And That’s Hindering Their Missiles Forbes
****** Why the US and Ukraine Should Accept Putin’s Latest Peace Gift David Pyne, The Real War
Illness and involvement in political assassinations: Russia launches investigation into Chechen leader Kadyrov Ukrainska Pravda
****** Russian Air Force Gets New Su-34 Strike Fighter Wing: How Much Will the Production Increase Go? Military Watch
Russia develops its first chip-making tool – 30 years out of date since Tom’s Hardware debut
Spook Land
The Anatomy of Algorithm Aversion Cass R. Sunstein and Jared Gaff, SSRN
Health care
Conspiracy to Play Medical Docs Matt Bivens, 100 Days
Drug Shortages Continue to Grow. Older, injectable agents are among the most vulnerable APs
Infection Prevention in Low-Resource Settings: Two Disease Preventionists Consult East Africa Infection Control Today. “This education will focus on the chain of infection and hand hygiene.”
The return of pneumatic tubes MIT Technology Review
Rashes linked to small-dose sweets more than doubled; the company refuses to recall food safety
Supply Chain
We don’t need a deep-sea mine (PDF) US PIRG Education Fund
Boeing
‘I know it’s happening’: Boeing executive admits company retaliated against CNN
Bezzle
Hedge Funds’ Secret Weapon to Fight the SEC Lives in Texas Bloomberg
A digital clock
As AI is adopted, what happens to artists whose work has been stolen? LA Times
AI took over their jobs. They are now being paid to make the BBC heard by the people. Or not:
Last week, I read about one of the dumbest uses of gen AI I’ve ever seen: First Horizon Bank is rolling out a system to recognize when a call center worker is on the verge of “losing it”—and play AI with them. -made a montage of family photos set to their favorite song to calm them down pic.twitter.com/wFGFh6VsMg
– Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) June 17, 2024
The IMF proposes a tax on the CO2 emissions of AI, but not the AI itself Register
Confusion Is A Wired Bull Machine
I’ll Sue You If You Talk About AI Lucidity Again
GenAI is busier than biz as technology isn’t killing jobs at all, says survey The Register. A musical interlude.
Boston hippies have developed technology that Silicon Valley wouldn’t dare to do with the Boston Globe.
Our Famously Free Press
Nellie Bly Experiences Everything JSTOR Every Day
On the tenth of June
The problem with the Juneteenth Black Agenda report
Zeitgeist Watch
Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time? One PLOS. As of 2022, still germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
Pentagon ‘alarmingly slow’ to issue new weapons, government report Stars & Stripes says
Who will win the post-championship battle? Edward Luttwak, Unherd. The stake: “Neither the West nor its enemies are ready to fight.”
The Eternal Allure of the High Mountains Noema
Antidote du jour (Anton):
See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.
