Hooray, Hooray for Badger Day!! JStor Daily
Quantum computing and the financial system: opportunities and risks Bank of International Settlements
Climate
…MILTON STRENGTHENING OVER THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO… …STORM SURGE AND HURRICANE WATCHES ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF FLORIDA… and HURRICANE MILTON National Hurricane Center. Commentary:
With Milton, Evacuation Is The Better Part Of Valor Avian Flu Diary
…KIRK ALMOST AN EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE… …STILL CAUSING LARGE SWELLS AND RIP CURRENT RISK ALONG THE U.S. EAST COAST… National Hurricane Center. Commentary:
America Is Lying to Itself About the Cost of Disasters The Atlantic
Safety Guidelines: Reentering Your Flooded Home CDC
The Salmon Canneries of the Lower Eel River and the Death of a Fishery Lost Coast Outpost
Scientists stunned after camera captures entire community of once-thought-extinct species: ‘A fairytale in terms of conservation’ The Cooldown
What Is the Cost of Sustainability? JSTOR Daily
Water
All the buckets, real or imagined: How Colorado plans to store water is a big dam question. Colorado Sun
Syndemics
Doctor issues warning XEC Covid variant may bring back masks and social distancing Chronicle
‘More serious than we had hoped’: Bird flu deaths mount among California dairy cows LA Times
Mosquito-borne virus spreads at ‘unprecedented’ levels in L.A. Climate change may make things worse LA Times
Some of Our Top Schools Are Embarrassing Themselves Over Covid Gregg Gonsalves, The Nation
China?
The Rise of the ‘Community With a Shared Future’: China’s Foreign Policy Hierarchy The Diplomat
Young Chinese pessimistic about prospects as new graduates flood grim job market South China Morning Post
Government Wiretaps in U.S. Internet Providers Infiltrated by Chinese Hackers Matt Johansen, Vulnu
In Mongolia’s countryside, the underrated joy of a bucket-list experience without phone reception Channel News Asia
India
India government says criminalising marital rape ‘excessively harsh’ BBC
The Koreas
South Korea, Philippines agree to forge ‘strategic partnership,’ upgrade ties Anadolu Agency
Criminal networks in Southeast Asia flourish in Telegram’s ‘underground markets’, UN says Channel News Asia
Syraqistan
American Plan For War With Iran Outlined in This Influential Think Tank Paper Military Watch. Commentary:
The similarities btw the current Western dominant narrative and the late communist narrative are absolutely striking: In both cases, words have lost all relation to reality.
— Branko Milanovic (@BrankoMilan) October 6, 2024
The Case for Destroying Iran’s Nuclear Program Now Foreign Policy.
To Build a Nuclear Bomb, Iran Would Need Much More Than Weeks NYT. Commentary:
Readers?
Iran resumes flights after brief suspension due to ‘operational restrictions’ Anadolu Agency
‘Outrageous’ of Israel to threaten peacekeepers in Lebanon, President Michael D Higgins says Irish Times. Commentary:
What did Al Jazeera’s investigation into Israeli war crimes in Gaza reveal? Al Jazeera. More on “The Ghost Unit”:
2/19 “Refaim,” a Hebrew name for “the Ghosts,” refers to the Ghost Unit, a sniper team composed of soldiers from:
3 US (NY, Virgnia & Illinois)
2 France (Paris & Lyon)
1 Belgium (Brussel)
1 Germany (Munich)
1 South African (Johannesburg)
1 Italy
1 Ethiopia
1 Azerbaijan (Baku) pic.twitter.com/oVKz2jTn8S— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) October 4, 2024
Israel turned prisons into ‘hell’ with torture Anadolu Agency
Gaza Strip in maps: How a year of war has drastically changed life in the territory BBC
US to give Israel ‘compensation’ if it hits acceptable targets in Iran – report Jerusalem Post
European Disunion
Spain to propose mini-coalitions to break EU capital markets stalemate FT
Dear Old Blighty
Victory for No 10 ‘boys’ club’ as Keir Starmer replaces Sue Gray with his campaign supremo Morgan McSweeney Daily Mail
Starmer’s new climate policy is unforgivable Funding the Future
The Canary has a leaked copy of the second NHS eLearning module on ME/CFS. It’s not good. Canary
New Not-So-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 a chance to join NATO and what Rutte’s visit has to do with it European Pravda
After Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk, Kyiv assumes role of occupying army (excerpt) Le Monde
ISW assesses whether financial encouragement could affect Russia’s mobilisation rates Ukrainska Pravda
South of the Border
Bolsonaro’s right-wing party makes significant gains in Brazil’s municipal elections France24
Biden Administration
The Toxic Loophole Behind A Chemical Plant Disaster The Lever
2024
Harris won’t say whether the U.S. has “a real close ally” in Netanyahu Axios
Andrea Mitchell says Kamala Harris has a ‘big problem’ connecting with men, who don’t take her seriously FOX
The Supremes
Supreme Court declines to block EPA methane, mercury rules SCOTUSblog
Antitrust
Monopoly Round-Up: The Fed Took $3k From You and Gave it to Jamie Dimon Matt Stoller, BIG
Digital Watch
GEICO is Terminating Insurance Coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks, Says “This Type of Vehicle Doesn’t Meet Our Underwriting Guidelines” Torque News. Commentary:
The Stanford band’s halftime show has some girl dressed up in a cardboard Cybertruck that keeps losing control and running into things.
— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) October 5, 2024
Do We Think and Feel Alike? Field Evidence on Developing a Shared Reality When Dealing with Service Robots (press release) Journal of Business Researchd
Substack wants to do more than just newsletters Semafor
The moral panic over social media and teen depression Mathew Ingram, The Torment Nexus
Heathcare
World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission Nature. N = 3. “One woman and two men with severe autoimmune conditions have gone into remission after being treated with bioengineered and CRISPR-modified immune cells1. The three individuals from China are the first people with autoimmune disorders to be treated with engineered immune cells created from donor cells, rather than ones collected from their own bodies. This advance is the first step towards mass production of such therapies.”
Zietgeist Watch
News you can use:
Next time you’re in Wal-Mart, walk the front end. Right next to the AED, they have a box containing multiple Stop The Bleed kits.
You may need to know this in the event of an active shooter. In a full collapse, the looters won’t touch these and you need them. #Awareness
— Tactical Wisdom (@DolioJ) October 6, 2024
Class Warfare
‘This Scenario Is a Bit Unusual’ Railway Age’
A Means to Live The Nation. The deck: “The past and future of debt resistance.”
Adapt or Die, Or…? Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds
If you’re excited by that $1.5B Michigan nuke plant revival, bear in mind it’s definitely a fixer-upper The Register
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
