Hooray, Hooray for Badger Day!! JStor Daily
Quantum computing and the financial system: opportunities and risks Bank of International Settlements
The weather
…MILTON STRENGTHENS SOUTHERN MEXICO… …SKY AND TRADITION WATCHES ISSUED FOR PART OF FLORIDA… and the National Hurricane Center MILTON. Comment:
⚠️ #Milton now the forecast is for it to become a Category 3 Hurricane before it hits the west coast of the Florida Peninsula on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/Mqu1VwODmO
— Zoom Earth (@zoom_earth) October 5, 2024
With Milton, Escape Is the Better Part of Valor’s Bird Fever Diary
…KIRK ALMOST MAJOR STORM AND CURRENT DANGER ON US EAST COAST… National Hurricane Center. Comment:
I have never seen the cone of the National Hurricane Center extend over Germany and Denmark. #Kirk pic.twitter.com/56xxMpjzqi
— Collin Gross (@CollinGrossWx) October 6, 2024
****** America Deludes Itself About Disaster Costs The Atlantic
Safety Guidelines: Reinstalling Your Flooded Home CDC
****** The Salmon Canneries of the Lower Eel River and the Mortality of the Lost Fishery
Scientists stunned after camera captures entire community of species once thought extinct: ‘Conservation myth’ The Cooldown
What are Sustainability Costs? JSTOR Daily
Water
Every bucket, real or imagined: How Colorado plans to store water is the big dam question. The Colorado Sun
Syndemics
Doctor issues warning XEC Covid variant may bring back masks and social distancing Chronicle
‘Worse than we hoped’: Bird flu deaths rise among California dairy cows LA Times
Mosquito-borne virus spreads at ‘unprecedented’ rates in LA Climate change could make matters worse LA Times
Some of Our Best Schools Embarrassed by Covid Gregg Gonsalves, The Nation
China?
The Rise of a ‘Society with a Shared Future’: China’s Foreign Policy Unit The Diplomat
China’s youth are pessimistic about their prospects as young students flood the grim job market in the South China Morning Post
Government Wiretaps of US Internet Providers Infected by Chinese Hackers Matt Johansen, Vulnu
In rural Mongolia, happiness is at the bottom of a bucket list experience without answering the phone Channel News Asia
India
Indian government says criminalizing marital rape ‘extremely cruel’ BBC
The Koreans
South Korea, Philippines agree to form ‘strategic partnership,’ improve relations Anadolu Agency
Criminal networks in Southeast Asia thrive on Telegram’s ‘underground markets’, says UN News Channel Asia
Syracistan
America’s Plan for War with Iran Is Explained in This Military Think Tank’s Powerful Paper Watch. Comment:
The parallels btw the current leading story of the West and the late communist story are striking: In both cases, words have lost all connection with reality.
– Branko Milanovic (@BrankoMilan) October 6, 2024
The Case for Destroying Iran’s Nuclear Program Is Now Foreign Policy.
To Build Nuclear Bomb, Iran Will Need More Than Weeks NYT. Comment:
I mean I’m no seismologist but that graph on the right looks like a test to me. pic.twitter.com/P0ubXI9iNf
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) October 6, 2024
Students?
Iran resumes flights after temporary suspension due to ‘operational restrictions’ Anadolu Agency
****** What did Al Jazeera’s investigation into Israel’s war crimes in Gaza reveal? Al Jazeera. More on “The Ghost Unit”:
2/19 “Refaim,” a Hebrew word for “Ghosts,” refers to the Ghost Unit, a sniper team made up of soldiers from:
3 US (NY, Virginia and Illinois)
2 France (Paris & Lyon)
1 Belgium (Brussels)
1 Germany (Munich)
1 from South Africa (Johannesburg)
1 Italy
1 Ethiopia
1 Azerbaijan (Baku) pic.twitter.com/oVKz2jTn8S— Younis Tirawi | Yunus (@ytirawi) October 4, 2024
Israel turns prisoners into ‘hell’ for torture Anadolu Agency
****** Gaza Strip on the maps: How a year of war changed life in the region BBC
US to offer Israel ‘compensation’ if it reaches acceptable terms in Iran – Jerusalem Post reports
The breakup of Europe
Spain will propose small coalitions to eliminate the EU’s biggest markets and stop the FT
Hello Old Blighty
A victory for the ‘boys’ club number 10 as Keir Starmer replaces Sue Gray and her campaign chief Morgan McSweeney Daily Mail.
Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable Funding for the Future
The Canary has a leaked copy of the second NHS eLearning module on ME/CFS. It’s not good. The Canary
The New Cold War
Zelenskyy sends Ukraine’s Chief of General Staff and Deputy Prime Minister to US to discuss Victory Plan Ukrainska Pravda
How Ukraine got the chance to join NATO and what Rutte’s visit has to do with it European Pravda
After Ukraine’s entry into Kursk, Kyiv takes on the role of military takeover (quote) Le Monde.
ISW examines whether financial stimulus could affect coverage levels of Russia’s Ukrainska Pravda
South of the Border
Bolsonaro’s far-right party makes big gains in Brazil’s municipal elections France24
The Biden Administration
Toxic Loophole After the Lever Chemical Plant Disaster
2024
Harris won’t say that the US has a “really close” Netanyahu to Axios
Andrea Mitchell says Kamala Harris has ‘a lot of trouble’ hooking up with men, she doesn’t think she’s FOX
The Supremes
Supreme Court refuses to block EPA methane, mercury rules SCOTUSblog
Not being trusted
Monopoly Round-Up: The Fed Took $3k From You And Gave It To Jamie Dimon Matt Stoller, BIG
A digital clock
GEICO Terminates Insurance Coverage for Tesla Cybertrucks, Says “This Type of Vehicle Does Not Meet Our Underwriting Guidelines” Torque News. Comment:
The Stanford halftime show features a girl dressed in a cardboard Cybertruck who keeps losing control and running into things.
— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) October 5, 2024
Do We Think and Feel the Same? Field Evidence in Developing Shared Reality When Working with Assistive Robots (press release) Journal of Business Research
Substack wants to do more than just Semafor newsletters
Social media-induced moral panic and adolescent depression Mathew Ingram, The Torment Nexus
Heathcare
The world’s first treatment using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission. N = 3. “One woman and two men with severe autoimmune conditions went into remission after treatment with bioengineered immune cells and CRISPR-modified CRISPR1. These three Chinese people are the first people with autoimmune disorders to be treated with immune cells made from donor cells, rather than those collected from their own bodies. This development is the first step towards mass production of these treatments.”
Zietgeist Watch
Stories you can use:
Next time you’re at Wal-Mart, go ahead. Right next to the AED, they have a box of Stop The Bleed supplies.
You may need to know this in the event of an active shooter. In a perfect wrap, the pirates won’t touch these and you need them. #Awareness
– Tactical Intelligence (@DolioJ) October 6, 2024
Class War
‘This Is a Strange Age for Railways’
How to Live a Nation. Deck: “The past and future of credit resistance.”
Convert or Die, Or…? Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds
If you’re excited about Michigan’s $1.5B nuke plant revival, remember that it’s a high certainty.
Antidote du jour (via):
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