Rare black wolves caught on camera in Polish forest by wildlife researchers CNN (Kevin W)
The Case For Drinking Persuasion (Micael T)
COVID-19/Pandemics
How Covid-19 Reshaped the Global Order Russia in Global Affairs (Micael T)
Ventilation in hospitals could cause viruses to spread further UCL (Paul R)
Climate/Environment
Citing EV ‘Rollercoaster’ In US, BMW Invests In Internal Combustion ars technica
🚨🪸💀 1.2°C, 350ppm
New research shows that the tipping point thresholds for warm-water coral reefs (upon which hundreds of millions of people rely) have already been breached!
Considerations for determining warm-water coral reef tipping points pic.twitter.com/xQ4fqVQyaB
— Leon Simons (looking up) (@LeonSimons8) February 9, 2025
US-Funded ‘Social Network’ Attacking Pesticide Critics Shuts Down Guardian
‘Built-in obsolescence’ creates 500,000-tonne e-waste problem ABC Australia (Kevin W)
Less acid rain has actually posed problems for Maritime corn crops CBC
China?
China Urged To End Successful Policies Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China’s scoffing at sanctions The Register
China goes all-out to keep foreign investors onshore amid Trump threats South China Morning Post
This means all BYD models above $14,000(yes you read that right) will have a multi model self driving system for free. It will be automatically bundled with the cars
Unlike Tesla’s FSD, BYD’s God Eye uses LiDAR, radar, cameras, and sensors to help achieve a higher level of… https://t.co/JMnONGPT5W
— OK Then (@okaythenme) February 10, 2025
Koreas
Trump targets North Korea as he reaffirms denuclearisation commitment BNE
Why Trump and Ishiba aren’t ‘bromance’ material Asia Times (Kevin W)
Minister blames monkey for Sri Lanka nationwide power cut BBC. Micael T: “BRICS applicants Wunderwaffe-development for electric warfare ?” Moi: Remember Putin’s attack dolphins?
Africa
The catastrophic conflict looming in the heart of Africa The Week
European Disunion
German election: Scholz, Merz vow not to work with far right DW
Bulgarians Join Balkan Protest Against Soaring Food Prices Novinite
Old Blighty
Key power station didn’t properly disclose burning forest wood BBC (Kevin W)
Israel v. The Resistance
The moments I survived for, the piece I waited too much time to make!! AlHamdollah,
This video is documenting the Great return to the North of Gaza Strip which took me and thousands of families 30 hours!
I was lost in my feelings and thoughts trying to see everything, and… pic.twitter.com/kHpo57URqv— Wizard Bisan (@Wizard__Bisan) February 7, 2025
Hamas says it is suspending release of Israeli hostages ‘until further notice’ Le Monde
Trump says Gaza ceasefire should be cancelled unless all Israeli hostages freed BBC. So the ceasefire at the time of his inauguration was merely a stunt.
“Tulkarm and Jenin will look like Jabalia and Shujaiya. Nablus and Ramallah will look like Rafah and Khan Younis.”
During a press conference on Monday, far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened Palestinians in the occupied West Bank with a Gaza-like fate pic.twitter.com/cAIWGBE1hM
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) February 11, 2025
Israel must end its occupation of Palestinian lands, compensate for damage it caused: Turkish president Anadolu Agency
U.S., DOD’s Commitment to Israel Includes Munitions Previously Withheld Department of Defense. MOABs. Oddly little Anglosphere coverage.
If this is in fact true, Turning over the MOAB Munition with the destructive capacity of a 10KT nuclear weapon to the Netanyahu Government for potential use against Palestinian Arabs effectively guarantees a regional war that unites all of the Islamic States against Israel and… https://t.co/6cpM668QHq
— Douglas Macgregor (@DougAMacgregor) February 10, 2025
US to hand over mother of all bombs (MOAB) to Israel — report
Considered the most powerful conventional bomb ever used in combat, by explosive weight, 11 tons of TNT blast
Some believe it’s an indication of a possible Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities https://t.co/adSkvULIy7 pic.twitter.com/eAOBYfQMJM
— RT (@RT_com) February 6, 2025
Iranian commanders tell Ayatollah: Revoke fatwa against nuclear weapons Telegraph
New Not-So-Cold War
Putin Dumps Bucket of Reality-Cold Water on Trump Larry Johnson
Trump wants Ukraine to pay back $500 billion RT. This is enough to get Ukraine to run to Russia.
Russia’s Rostelecom Says Baltic Sea Cable Damaged, Tass Reports Bloomberg
🇷🇺‼️Russian response to NATO provocations in the Baltic Sea‼️
Speaking about the unprecedented increase in military-political tensions in the strategically important Baltic Sea, former Secretary of the Russian Security Council and now Chairman of the Naval Collegium Nikolai… pic.twitter.com/DnzPdHUcDc
— Djole 🇷🇸 (@onlydjole) February 11, 2025
Imperial Collapse Watch
Following the Money: How Did Samantha Power More Than Triple Her Millions While Working for USAID? and EXPOSED: How Clinton Crime Family Laundered US Tax Dollars to Enrich Fake ‘Charity’ Empire Sputnik (Micael T)
Trump 2.0
Elon Musk is a danger to Trumpism Unherd (fk)
Donald Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials Financial Times. Lead story. So this is his replacement for USAID.
The Door Is Wide Open for Foreign Cash to Infiltrate Trump 2.0 Vanity Fair (Dr. Kevin)
GOP senators terrified of crossing Trump, facing Musk-funded challengers The Hill
Top Justice Department official orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams Associated Press
Schumer warns GOP against a ‘Trump shutdown’ Politico (Kevin W)
How RFK Jr. could revive a dormant task force to scrutinize vaccine safety STAT
Danes offer to buy California RT (Kevin W)
Violent clashes after armed neo-Nazis drape swastika flags from Ohio overpass Daily Mail
DOGE
DAY ELEVEN OF THE TRUMP-MUSK TREASURY PAYMENTS CRISIS OF 2025: MARKO ELEZ’S RESIGNATION, RETURN AND IRRELEVANCE Nathan Tankus
In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law ProPublica. Many new facts.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem says DOGE team has access to agency data CNN
Hakeem Jeffries says Democrats have no power. He’s lying. If Democrats wanted to, today, they could hold a press conference and say that they will filibuster every single piece of legislation that goes through Congress until Donald Trump tells DOGE to stop what it’s doing.… pic.twitter.com/FaS8UFftOz
— Prof Zenkus (@anthonyzenkus) February 10, 2025
Police State Watch
The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport Intercept (Dr. Kevin)
Mr. Market is Moody
The market-implied inflation rates over the next two and five years have climbed to the highest levels since early 2023. pic.twitter.com/Z2b08NVWK0
— Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) February 11, 2025
AI
Cybersecurity Experts Warn of DeepSeek Vulnerabilities as Governments Ban App Gizmodo (Dr. Kevin)
Musk-led Consortium Bids on OpenAI American Conservative. resilc: “As Tesla carzzzzzzzzzz turn to shit, PE falls to single digits and loses market share, the new trillions are at AIi-ing the usgubmint?”
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers Microsoft. Paul R: “Generative AI makes people stupider. Snarky take: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/09/microsoft-research-use-ai-chatbots-and-turn-yourself-into-a-dumbass/
My 9 year old son is getting bullied at school LinkedIn (Michael T). A cautionary tale
The Bezzle
The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis Futurism
Stellantis Introduces Pop-Up Ads in Vehicles, Sparking Outrage Among Owners TechStory
Class Warfare
Poor families don’t need a course in economics Expressen via machine translation. Micael T: “The Swedish finance minister is a really evil person, recommending poor people a course in personal finances.”
Countries without maternity leave (spoiler: the U.S. is in an unlikely company) Strategic Culture Watch. (Micael T)
Antidote du jour. MarkT: “Attached is a photo of my sister’s cat, Tigger. She found him as a kitten, hungry and alone in a storm water drain in the countryside, while on a field trip.”
And a bonus (guurst):
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Авторское видео от Slow loris kaikun family pic.twitter.com/BB4iUg3MR9— 𝕃𝕪𝕦𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕒 (@nordw51) February 7, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
