These Cute, Fuzzy Bumblebees Are Precision-Engineered Pollinators Smithsonian
Climate
Opinion: Climate Doomism Disregards the Science Michael Mann, American Physical Society. From 2023, still germane.
How droughts and worsening soil health can increase carbon emissions Monga Bay
Beat the Heat: How Workers Are Winning Fans, AC, and Even Heat Pay Labor Notes
Norway starts stockpiling grain again, citing the pandemic, war and climate change SFGate
Water
Seventeen manure pits reportedly overflow at large feedlots in southern Minnesota Star-Tribune
Groundwater in the Colorado River Basin will struggle to recover from warming temperatures, study shows Colorado Sun
Syndemics
Feds pay Michigan farms $81M to stamp out flocks infected by bird flu Michigan Live (MN).
Bird flu could survive pasteurization, study finds — The Checkup WFYI
Finland MOH: Target Groups For H5N1 Vaccination Avian Flu Diary
‘A head-in-the-sand approach’: The U.S. strategic drug stockpile is inadequate for a bird flu outbreak Fortune
New strain of monkeypox causes miscarriages and spreads rapidly without sexual contact, experts warn The Telegraph
Pandemic Profitability: Understanding the CDC’s Proposed COVID-19 Isolation Guidelines Pandemic Accountability Index. From February, still germane.
“Panel stacking”: John Ioannidis versus a Delphi consensus statement on COVID-19 Science-Based Medicine
China?
‘We’re like gears grinding until they break’: Chinese tech companies push staff to the limit FT
Nixon on China:
I recommend listening to Nixon’s post-presidential interviews.
There are lots of things to say about him — Goldwater said Nixon was the most shameless liar he ever met — but he was at the center of key 20th Century events for decades.
Here his explains why he went to China: pic.twitter.com/SputyvV9Ba
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 23, 2024
Myanmar
AA Seizes Thandwe Airport Near Rakhine’s Ngapali Beach, Local Sources Say The Irrawaddy
Yangon parties on in war-torn Myanmar despite tough circumstances Straits Times
India
India faces rising social inequality across religious lines Channel News Asia
Africa
Kenya shocked as protests over finance bill turn deadly in Nairobi Al Jazeera
Internet goes dark in Kenya in the wake of major protests over finance bill TechCrunch
A TikTok revolution? Africa Is a Country
Biden designates Kenya as ‘major non-NATO ally’ Anadolu Agency
Syraqistan
Israel’s high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men, rattling Netanyahu’s government AP
The Collapse of Zionism New Left Review
India exports rockets, explosives to Israel amid Gaza war, documents reveal Al Jazeera
Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case against the ABC to head to trial ABC Australia. Commentary:
ABC sacked me for sharing this HRW post.
ABC had already twice reported this exact @hrw report.
My manager told Fair Work Commission there’s nothing wrong with my post. We’d talked about only posting from reputable sources.
Yet the ABC is tripling down. https://t.co/gk4PJ4Uit5 pic.twitter.com/tkbPdZIsTk— Antoinette Lattouf (@antoinette_news) June 25, 2024
New video and documents revive questions about Saudi role in 9/11 attacks NBC
European Disunion
Negotiators seal EU top jobs deal for von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas EuroNews
Hungary’s allies in the Balkans are sabotaging their EU accession hopes BNE Intellinews
Dear Old Blighty
Is there even a British equivalent for “Hot enough for ya”?
I’m gonna explain to y’all why Britain considers 78°F/25°C hot. I know hot because I grew up in Texas and spent half my life in Las Vegas. So I am absolutely qualified to explain this to the rest of you who laugh at UK “heat waves”.
— Josh Ellis (@jzellis) June 24, 2024
Keir Starmer’s empty promise of British renewal Al Jazeera
New Not-So-Cold War
The complicated restructuring of Ukraine’s debt (excerpt) Le Monde
U.S. Cluster Bombs Kill Russian Children at Beach Matt Bivens, The 100 Days
US military contractors may be allowed to go to Ukraine Ukrainska Pravda
Should Ukraine Keep Attacking Russian Oil Refineries? Foreign Affairs
Zelenskiy orders purge of state guard after assassination plots Reuters
How a Texas Factory Is Emerging as a Key Ammo Supplier for the U.S., Ukraine WSJ
The historical record:
“NO EXTENSION OF NATO’S JURISDICTION FOR FORCES OF NATO ONE INCH TO THE EAST of a unified Germany” – US Secretary of State Baker to Gorbachev, 1990. pic.twitter.com/qEP8J1v3px
— Robin Monotti (@robinmonotti) June 21, 2024
The Caribbean
Biden: International police force will provide ‘much needed relief’ to Haiti The Hill
Our Famously Free Press
MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline Variety
Assange
Iraq to NSA spying: The biggest revelations by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks Al Jazeera
The Happiest of Days Craig Murray
After 13 years, Julian Assange walks free Pearls and Irritations
The Wild Story Behind the Assange Plea Deal Spytalk
Assange is Free, But Never Forget How the Press Turned on Him (excerpt) Matt Taibbi, Racket News
The Bezzle
Judge rejects $30B Visa, Mastercard ‘swipe fee’ settlement The Hill
Digital Watch
Mastercard To Expand Digital Biometric ID and “Behavioral Biometrics” Reclaim the Net
The Zeitgeist
“Why Are You So Negative?” Good Question. Here’s the Answer: Real Life Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds
What we got wrong about depression and its treatment Beghavior Resarch and Therapy. From the Abstract: “Nonpsychotic unipolar depression (but not bipolar mania which likely is a ‘truedisease’ appears to be an adaptation that evolved to facilitate rumination in the service of resolving complex social problems in our ancestral past.”
Brain chemistry basics Chemistry World
The Final Frontier
How the Moon is making days longer on Earth BBC (RK).
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe returns world’s first samples from far side of the moon Guardians
Class Warfare
The UC Strike Injunction’s Second Fatal Flaw On Labor. Part one.
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing. Business Insider
How Karl Marx Influenced Abraham Lincoln and His Position on Slavery & Labor Open Culture
You have to work so hard to be poor in America Bracing Views
Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try Quanta
Antidote du jour (Richard Ling):
Bonus antidote:
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
