Gorilla Mother Constantly Reminding Children To Slouch The Onion
Climate
Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’ Climate & Capitalism
‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban Guardian
Giant viruses found on Greenland ice sheet Science Daily
Water
Holy Waters: The Sea Field & Stream
“Sharing is important”: Elementary students dive into Colorado water issues in pen pal program Colorado Sun
Wanted: Disaster Resilience in Tokyo’s Water Infrastructure Nippon.com
Syndemics
Birx says US making ‘same mistakes’ with bird flu as COVID-19 The Hill
WHO: Fatal H5N2 Infection In Mexico City Avian Flu Diary
Huge amounts of bird-flu virus found in raw milk of infected cows Nature
New Report Underscores the Seriousness of Long Covid NYT
‘I was shocked’: Ontario to cancel widely praised wastewater surveillance program Ottawa Citizen
The bloodstained leveller Aeon
China?
China’s Energy Intensity and Carbon Intensity Targets Are All But Unachievable The Diplomat
How to Respond to China’s Tactics in the South China Sea RAND
Hiker finds pipe feeding China’s tallest waterfall BBC
India
Billionaire-Friendly Modi Humbled by Indians Who Make $4 a Day Bloomberg
Commentary: With Modi failing to secure landslide victory, India returns to default of coalition government Channel News Asia
Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir The New Inquiry
Syraqistan
Netanyahu prolonging Gaza war for political aims: US President Biden Business Standard
Biden: ‘I don’t think’ Netanyahu is playing politics with war in Gaza Anadolu Agency
Did The Houthis Hit The USS Eisenhower May 31st? Ian Welsh
Israel Secretly Targeted American Lawmakers With Gaza War Influence Campaign Haaretz
After publishing an article critical of Israel, Columbia Law Review’s website is shut down by board AP
‘Elections’ organized by PKK/YPG in northeast Syria are ‘malicious, dangerous’: Association Anadolu Agency
European Disunion
Election 2024, as told in lovers’ quarrels Politico
Dear Old Blighty
Rishi Sunak puts Jamie Dimon and Eric Schmidt forward for UK honours FT
Nigel Farage Gets Milkshake Thrown In His Face As He Launches Election Campaign Huffpo. Commentary:
New Not-So-Cold War
Putin warns West over Ukraine armaments, nuclear arsenal in news conference Al Jazeera
Lavrov’s Deputy: ‘The West wants to repeat the Maidan scenario in Georgia’ JAM News
The sequence of destruction in any Russian response to NATO-directed attacks on its heartland GIlbert Doctorow
Ukrainian power company to implement emergency outages in 12 oblasts Ukrainska Pravda
‘Putin’s Davos’ recovers to pre-war levels, but representation from the West has all but disappeared BNE Intellinews
How Brics chair Russia will deepen cooperation in expanded bloc South China Morning Post
The US Empire Isn’t A Government That Runs Nonstop Wars, It’s A Nonstop War That Runs A Government Caitlin Johnstone
War, the dark fleet and energy geopolitics all part of the debate at Posidonia Splash 247
2024
The best argument to lock up Trump: Merchan must protect the judiciary Jennifer Rubin, WaPo (Furzy Mouse).
Antitrust
US antitrust enforcer says ‘urgent’ scrutiny needed over Big Tech’s control of AI FT
The Bezzle
Researchers plan to retract landmark Alzheimer’s paper containing doctored images Science. See KLG, August 31, 2022.
Digital Watch
To solve AI’s energy crisis, ‘rethink the entire stack from electrons to algorithms,’ says Stanford prof The Register
AI’s Insatiable Data-Center Demand Makes Crypto Miners Targets Bloomberg
OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance NYT
Alice in Wonderland: Simple Tasks Showing Complete Reasoning Breakdown in State-Of-the-Art Large Language Models (preprint) arXiv. “Often, models seemed to rely on attempting to execute various basic arithmetical operations on the numbers mentioned in the problem to arrive to a final answer. The probability to get a correct response was thus influenced by how likely executing few arbitrary simple calculations, like additions or multiplications that included numbers presented in the problem text, might also accidentally result in a correct answer, although the way of arriving there had nothing to do with correct reasoning.”
Stanford University team apologises over claims they copied Chinese project for AI model South China Morning Post
Instagram confirms test of ‘unskippable’ ads TechCrunch
Spook Country
Johnson quietly makes controversial picks to House Intel panel Politico
How to Keep Your Car From Spying on You WSJ
Police State Watch
The Age of the Drone Police Is Here WIred
Housing
Colorado’s growing approach to solving chronic homelessness: Permanent housing with few rules Colorado Sun
FBI raid on real estate company linked to Harlan Crow’s RealPage rental price fixing Daily Kos
Chinese official dies ‘after being stabbed over housing dispute’ South China Morning Post
Class Warfare
Teamsters and Amazon Labor Union Announce Affiliation, Member Vote Still Ahead Labor Notes
Deere & Co. Cutting Production, Salaried Workforce WSJ
Why put up with the grief that writing a blog guarantees I’ll get? Funding the Future
Uneasy on the Ear: An Interview with Lola De La Mata The Quietus
Antidote du jour (David Menke):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
