Links 9/4/2024 | bare capitalism

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A great pigeon to visit New York BoingBoing. We have the same type of pigeons here as in NYC except on average they are a little smaller. Because of the heat?

Engineers Give Mushroom a Robot Body and Let It Work Wildlife Alert (Chuck L)

Oyster shells renamed ‘Seawool’ Taipei Times magic (Robin K)

If new technology is stirring up your airline sensibilities, here are some old-school tips for handling the interview

No Screens Before Age Two, Swedish Health Authorities Tell Caring Parents

Tying Your Tubals May Not Be As Reliable For Birth Control As You Think ScienceAlert (Chuck L)

Companies are developing new ways to grow cocoa, and other chocolate alternatives, to keep up with demand Associated Press (Robin K)

Mpox Outbreak Hits Iowa Prison As Do More Inmates Infected With Vice

#Covid 19

As COVID Rises, High Price of Virus Denial Tyee

Climate/Environment

Texas woman uses AirTags to see where recycled plastics end up – and is left speechless Daily Mail (Kevin W)

Economist for the next trillion-dollar clean energy business (Dr. Kevin)

Historic Drought Cuts Zambia’s Power Supply to Three Hours a Day Bloomberg

Extreme weather causes rise in child marriages in Pakistan DW

Extreme heat is worsening chronic health conditions for millions of Americans NBC

The world’s largest methane hotspot is located off the coast of the Barents Observer

That’s what back-to-back hurricanes did to Lake Charles, Louisiana Grist

Cloud computing pushes the nuclear button during the energy crisis The Register

China?

Former top aide Hochul arrested for working as foreign agent for China New York Post

Pro-China activists harass anti-Xi Jinping protesters in San Francisco Washington Post

South of the Border

USD/ARS: Argentina’s Alternative Peso Emerges in La Rioja: Chacho Bloomberg (furzy)

The breakup of Europe

European legal drift disguised as “rule of law” Cocomute (Micael T)

Europe Jumps on the El Pais Train

Sweden’s ‘Trash Queen’ on trial for BBC’s mountains of waste (Kevin W)

Is Germany in trouble? The Giants Are Thinking of Pulling Billions from Economic Fortune (Kevin W)

The End of Germany’s Export Model German Foreign Policy (Micael T)

Therefore, we should care more about Germany than the United States Aftonbladet. Micael T: “Sweden is starting to realize but still always mentions the reason why the German economy is no longer working. Sweden may have also suspended its investigation into Nordstream 2.”

Old Blighty

Starmer will face a test next week as MPs vote to limit the Guardian’s winter fuel allowance

Gaza

Resistance to Palestine: From Lone Sniper to Army of Snipers Orinoco Tribune (Robin K)

US indicts Hamas leader, other terrorists in connection with October 7 massacre in Israel Associated Press (Kevin W)

Former Trump envoy to Israel: US Should Fund Israel’s West Bank Annexation Antiwar (Kevin W)

Why the West should oppose Netanyahu Middle East Eye (guurst)

Why Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitic Wall Street Journal (Dr. Kevin)

There’s No Argument for Supporting Israel That’s Both Logical and Moral Caitlin Johnstone (Dr. Kevin)

The New Cold War

Mongolia was supposed to arrest Russian President Putin last night. It didn’t, and now it’s in trouble for CNBC. This is stupid. All UN members are members of the ICJ (which handles disputes between countries and treaty/charter issues) but countries can withdraw from the ICC (which is why the US and Russia are not subject to ICC decisions). I believe that countries can withdraw from the ICC with six months’ notice. So Mongolia needs to start. I can imagine that Mongolia saw what would happen next when it decided to assure Russia that it would not issue an arrest warrant.

Ukraine’s foreign minister resigns in government shake-up Financial Times

Russian missile attack on Lviv: 7 people died, including 3 children, 47 were injured – photos, video Ukrainska Pravda. I wonder why it was aimed so far west.

Big Brother Watching Watching

Police’s favorite facial search engine fined $33M for privacy breach ars technica (Kevin W)

Trump

Trump Calls Journalists “Enemy of the People” During Pennsylvania Assembly Minutes Before Attacking Vanity Fair Newsroom (Dr. Kevin)

Kamala

James Carville: Kamala Harris’s Best Strategy to Defeat Trump New York Times

In an e-mail, DLG, the Reality Czar, as a chef, took a different approach to the idea of ​​washing vegetables in the bathtub. It seems that black chefs agree a lot. From the 2022 article, Woman Seen Cleaning Collard Greens in Bathtub: Black America Responds. Note that the disapproval includes the use of soap in the viral video, which one thought was necessary because of the bathtub.

Why are you voting for Trump? Why are you voting for Harris? Amazon’s Alexa gives shockingly different responses to YouTube (Micael T)

Ours is No Longer Free

Warning labels from fact-checkers work—even if you don’t trust them—says MIT Sloan School of Management

Robert Reich Calls for Elon Musk’s Arrest for Anti-Discrimination Jonathan Turley

People trying to access Elon Musk’s X in Brazil face daily fines larger than their annual Fortune

Musk threatens to go after Brazilian government assets RT They were cut off without Musk having a trick up his sleeve.

Starlink at the intersection of Brazil as it spits out Elon Musk’s X goes viral on CNBC

A Canadian journalist posing as a Canadian intelligence operative, Grayzone (Kevin W)

The AI

Google’s James Manyika: ‘Manufacturing Benefit From AI Not Guaranteed’ Financial Times. But its a huge energy bill.

Embedded Bias: STAT investigates the use of
race to clinical algorithms STAT (Dr. Kevin)

Bezzle

Watch: Flamethrower robot dog spits fire at YouTuber after ‘grow’ command fails Interesting Engineering Micael T: “It’s scary and funny. Why do we need these robots but we also need a new type of Darwin Award Sports, preferably for spoiled rich kids who can afford these 100K robots. Action at 7:19”

Guillotine Watch

The Robbie Robertson estate battle has SF Chronicle estate dispute studies

Class War

Koch says his $3.6 billion purchase of an Iowa fertilizer plant was completed by the Des Moines Register. Robin K: “Public funding for the super rich.”

Party of one: Restaurants cater to growing number of solo diners Associated Press (Kevin W)

Antidote du jour. Tom H: “A stray cat at a local rescue shop in Berkeley, CA, lying in the middle of everything.”

And a bonus (Chuck L):

Second bonus, rare (Shiela M):

See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.

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