A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels NPR
Wells Fargo Bet on a Flashy Rent Credit Card. It Is Costing the Bank Dearly. WSJ
The easy we make difficult, but it takes a long time. #Monetary Sovereignty – Mitchell
Isn’t it Time to Stop Calling it “The National Debt”? Evonomics
Climate
Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing Wired
This Ecuadorian forest thrived amid deforestation after being granted legal rights Guardian
Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega-Constellations Geophysical Research Letters
Texas Cancels School Over Concerns Extreme Heat Not Safe Environment For Shootings The Onion
Water
Disastrous figures show the poverty of Iowa’s water quality approach Des Moines Register
Syndemics
IDPH urges vigilance as COVID cases rise in emergency rooms WGLT
Taiwan military drones unlikely to hasten US ‘hellscape’ against mainland Chinese attack South China Morning Post
Breaking Down The U.S. Navy’s ‘Hellscape’ In Detail Naval News
China?
Tu Guangshao on what makes a “Strong Financial Nation” and where China falls short Pekingnology
How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power? (PDF) Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. “China’s innovation strengths in nuclear power pertain especially to organizational, systemic, and incremental innovation. Many fourth-generation nuclear technologies have been known for years, but China’s state-backed approach excels at fielding them.”
India
Inside India’s first heat stroke emergency room BBC
JPMorgan Ignites $40 Billion Rush Into Indian Bonds Bloomberg
Bonded Slavery: The Dark Side Of In India’s Sericulture Industry Madras Courier
New Caledonia Police Detain 11, Including Independence Leader, Following Revolt Against French Rule The Diplomat
Syraqistan
‘Utterly Dismayed’: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military The Intercept
Suicide of IDF soldier leaves Israel on the brink The Telegraph
Is Israel Committing Genocide? Aryeh Neier, The New York Review of Books
Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War (updated to 18 June 2024) (PDF) Lee Mordechai. “I write this publicly to testify that during the war there were and remain Israeli voices who strongly dissented from Israel’s actions.”
Israeli army destroys entire Palestinian side of Rafah border crossing, renders it unusable Anadolu Agency
Inside the ‘shocking’ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto The Breach
European DIsunion
Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right European group claims a top EU job FT
Dear Old Blighty
Boss of US firm given £4bn in UK Covid contracts accused of squandering millions on jets and properties Guardian
New Not-So-Cold Cold War
Russia will consider dispatch of F16s to Ukraine as aggression that activates its mutual defense agreement with North Korea Gilbert Doctorow, Armageddon
‘It is all lining up’: Plan for Ukraine to finally start using F-16 jets this summer Guardian
Ukraine’s F-16 Pilots Have A Problem: They’ll Have To Fly Low To Survive—And That Impedes Their Missiles Forbes
Why the US and Ukraine Should Accept Putin’s Latest Peace Offer David Pyne, The Real War
Illness and involvement with political assassinations: Russia releases investigation on Chechen leader Kadyrov Ukrainska Pravda
Russian Air Force Receives New Su-34 Strike Fighter Unit: How High Will the Production Surge Go? Military Watch
Russia develops its first chipmaking tool — outdated by 30 years from day one Tom’s Hardware
Spook Country
An Anatomy of Algorithm Aversion Cass R. Sunstein and Jared Gaff, SSRN
Healthcare
The Conspiracy to Game the Medical Literature Matt Bivens, The 100 Days
Drug Shortages Keep Growing. Older, Injectable Agents Are Among the Most Vulnerable AP
Infection Prevention in Low-Resource Settings: Two Infection Preventionists Consult in East Africa Infection Control Today. “This education would focus on the chain of infection and hand hygiene.”
The return of pneumatic tubes MIT Technology Review
The outbreak linked to micro-dosing candies more than doubles; company refuses to recall Food Safety
Supply Chain
We don’t need deep-sea mining (PDF) U.S. PIRG Education Fund
Boeing
‘I know it happens’: Boeing chief admits the company has retaliated against whistleblowers CNN
The Bezzle
Hedge Funds’ Secret Weapon to Fight the SEC Lives in Texas Bloomberg
Digital Watch
As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it? LA Times
AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human BBC. Or not:
Last week, I read about one of the bleakest uses for gen AI I’ve seen yet: First Horizon Bank is rolling out a system to detect when a call center worker was on the brink of “losing it”—and play them an AI-made montage of family photos set to their favorite song to calm them down pic.twitter.com/wFGFh6VsMg
— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) June 17, 2024
IMF suggests tax on AI’s CO2 emissions, but not AI itself The Register
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine Wired
I Will F*cking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Lucidity
GenAI more buzz than biz as tech barely dents jobs, says survey The Register. Musical interlude.
The Boston hippies who developed technologies that Silicon Valley wouldn’t dare to make Boston Globe
Our Famously Free Press
Nellie Bly Experiences It All JSTOR Daily
Juneteenth
The Problem with Juneteenth Black Agenda Report
Zeitgeist Watch
Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time? PLOS One. From 2022, still germane.
Imperial Collapse Watch
Pentagon ‘alarmingly slow’ at fielding new weapons, government report says Stars & Stripes
Who will win a post-heroic war? Edward Luttwak, Unherd. The deck: “Neither the West nor its enemies are prepared to fight.”
The Unending Allure Of High Mountains Noema
Antidote du jour (Anton):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
