Links 10/2/2025

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‘Indolent and not photogenic’: can I make my reluctant cat a social media star in seven days? The Guardian

Are we living in a stupidogenic society? No More Marking (resilc)

Climate/Environment

The effects of plastic exposures on children’s health and urgent opportunities for prevention The Lancet

More than 100,000 hospitalized in Japan this summer due to heatstroke Anadolu Agency

Heat Stress Is a Major Driver of India’s Kidney Disease Epidemic Yale Environment 360

Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record Carbon Brief

China?

Can easing of property curbs in 3 big cities help give Chinese consumption a boost? South China Morning Post

Sanctioned Chinese company builds revolutionary natural gas turbine. Who will buy it? Everyone. Kevin Walmsley

Syraqistan

Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza Drop Site

Protests erupt across Europe after Israeli attack on Gaza-bound aid flotilla Anadolu Agency

PROTESTS ACROSS ITALY – thousands march in Rome to Chigi Palace. Naples train station occupied, with demonstrations in Bologna and Milan. General strike Friday Il Fatto Quotidiano (Machine translation)

Germany approves arms exports to Israel again Anadolu Agency

My latest film, Germany’s Israel Obsession Antony Loewenstein

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Key Middle Eastern leaders shocked by Israeli rewrite of Gaza plan but still back it Middle East Eye

Trump Signs Order Giving Security Guarantee To Qatar After Israeli Attack Antiwar

US troop drawdown in Syria on hold over regime stability concerns Al-Monitor

US reduces total number of troops in Iraq amid shift in bases Task & Purpose. “…from 2,500 to under 2,000, while leaving Al-Asad Air Base in Western Iraq.”

Old Blighty

UK once again demands backdoor to Apple’s encrypted cloud storage Ars Technica

European Disunion

Starting From Zero. Aurelien

EU presses ahead with December signing of divisive Mercosur deal Intellinews

France: Dropping Out of Democracy The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

New Not-So-Cold War

French navy boards Russia ‘shadow fleet’ ship, arrests two France24

Lacking Air Defense, Europe Races to Catch Up in Drone War Bloomberg. “One person familiar with the matter described the idea as a PR label…”

Nordic-Baltic training center for Ukrainian soldiers opens in Poland ERR. Right next to a drone-launching strip, too.

US ‘to provide Ukraine with intelligence for long-range strikes in Russia’ The Telegraph

Russia Still Top Supplier of US Nuclear Fuel Despite Import Ban Bloomberg

Zaluzhny’s New Op-ed Brings Frontline and Tech Progression Update, Plus Some Grave Admissions Simplicius

How Ukraine’s Geopolitical Power is Rising Notes from the Circus

Summer 2025 Azov Lobby Review Azov Lobby Blog

South of the Border

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONJURES UP NEW “TERRORIST” DESIGNATION TO JUSTIFY KILLING CIVILIANS Nick Turse, The Intercept

Milei Authorizes US Troop Deployment in Tierra del Fuego Without Congressional Approval Orinoco Tribune

Trump 2.0

Trump administration knocks out at least 15 oversight websites, saying IGs ‘lied to the public’ Defense One. Shutdown quickly paying dividends.

Supreme Court puts off decision on Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook from Fed, keeping her in place for now CBS News

Donald Trump’s Dangerous Tilt Towards War at Home and Abroad Larry Johnson

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League amid conservative backlash Al Jazeera

Trump signals bailout for soybean farmers hit by tariff war The Hill

The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill Can We Still Govern?

The Uniparty

Ex-USAID chief praises Trump for India tariffs in call with Russian pranksters RT

Weimar Republic

Is This a Horst Wessel Moment? ZZ’s Blog

Police State Watch

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants Truthout

DHS Plans More State-Run Extrajudicial Black Sites Like “Alligator Alcatraz” Truthout

Iowans protest following kidnapping of Des Moines superintendent by immigration Gestapo MR Online

ICE officers to attend Super Bowl after Bad Bunny announcement, says Lewandowski The Hill

Imperial Collapse Watch

Words Matter Mark Wauck

Industry Reps: US Can’t Go for One-for-One Kills in Drone Warfare with China Air and Space Forces Magazine

The Pentagon Should Scale Back F-35 Purchases—and Buy Drones Instead The National Interest

US Army Awards Raytheon $5 Billion Deal for Coyote Missile System Defense Post

Boeing

Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 Max Replacement WSJ

Healthcare?

Lawsuit: CVS Health Looted Rite Aid Pharmacies, Stripped Them for Parts HEALTH CARE un-covered

Antitrust

Wall Street Gets to Keep Its Government Open BIG by Matt Stoller

Immigration

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign ProPublica

ICE, Border Patrol Continue Work Under Shutdown Ken Klippenstein

Big Brother Is Watching You Watch

Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you (with AI data, it won’t need to) TechCrunch

AI

Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs The Budget Lab at Yale. One of the takeaways: “Currently, measures of exposure, automation, and augmentation show no sign of being related to changes in employment or unemployment.”

“AI is an attack from above on wages”: An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix Blood in the Machine

OpenAI’s new social video app will let you deepfake your friends The Verge

AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton 404 Media

Gunz

Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down The Register

Our Famously Free Press

FCC Considers Lifting Ban on ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC Network Mergers and Relaxing Media Ownership Rules Cord Cutters

TikTok investor: ‘Embed the love and respect for Israel’ in the US Responsible Statecraft

“Liberation Day”

Trump’s pharma tariffs on hold amid administration’s effort to secure pricing concessions, industry investment: Stat Fierce Pharma

How TrumpRx will work — and why insured Americans may not save any money The Independent

Trump’s big, costly, coercive trade deals falling apart in Asia Asia Times

Economy

Private-Sector Jobs Report Hit With Seriously Brutal Revision The New Republic

The Bezzle

At The Money: The Flood of New ETFs Barry Ritholtz

Class Warfare

Ninth Circuit Brings Trader Joe’s Bullshit Trademark Suit Against Employee Union Back From The Dead TechDirt

‘An extraordinary legacy’: Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 BBC.  In the spirit of avoiding hagiography it should be noted that for all the love Goodall showed primates, the same was not extended to many humans. She was complicit in Israeli apartheid and spoke at the World Economic Forum in favor of reducing the world population by about 90%.

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8 comments

  1. Balan Aroxdale

    TikTok investor: ‘Embed the love and respect for Israel’ in the US Responsible Statecraft

    I am reminded of Orwell’s 1984, where the Party’s driving mission was to make Winston love Big Brother.

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  2. Steve H.

    > Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record Carbon Brief

    Climate Reanalyzer still hasn’t started connecting dots on the recent Sea Surface Temperatures. It makes more sense if you go through the subset regions. Everywhere is running hotter, except Sub-Polar, and ENSO 3.4, which are below the normal bar, not just recent-normal. Could be La Niña kicking in. Just squirrely.

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  3. Wukchumni

    Goooooooood Mooooorning Fiatnam!

    It’s 0420 hours somewhere. From the delta factor of reserve banking, to the DMZ (Donald Monetary Zone) of crypto, back to Bitcoin all in one byte. Today’s forecast calls for a hundred percent chance of clout crowding the market in the cloud, not that any of it exists except in fertile mind fields we’ve carefully laid utilizing furrowed brows pecking away furiously.

    Here’s a song coming your way right now for those of you back in the Banana-Split Republic. “Nowhere To Run To” by Martha and the Vandellas. Yes! Hey, you know what I mean! Too much?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQRIOKvR2WM

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  4. Louis Fyne

    >>>>The effects of plastic exposures on children’s health and urgent opportunities..

    N = 1 house: With the presumption that any impact is greatest (hence lowest hanging fruit) during ages 0 – 3, the kids had all their Costco/private-label powdered formula made with distilled water. Then they had cow milk and distilled water when they went off the bottle for fluids; and tap water when there was no alternative.

    No regrets and very happy with the results, though I can prove squat. Electric stills are (relatively) cheap and easy, but slow. other alternative is to go full reverse osmosis but more expensive upfront, and tougher to kèep track of filter expiry.

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