What Michelangelo’s late-in-life works reveal about his genius – and his humanness aeon (Chuck L)
The odd couple Critic Magazine. Anthony L: “Waugh & Greene”
Yesterday’s Men: The death of the mythical method Harper’s (Anthony L)
Black hole 100,000x heavier than Sun wakes up, brightens galaxy Interesting Engineering (Chuck L)
The Enduring Mystery of How Water Freezes Quantam Magazine (Kevin W)
A brief history of Stephen Hawking’s greatest equation aeon (Chuck L)
#COVID-19
New Insights into Acute and Long Covid Eric Topol (Robin K)
Climate/Environment
Microplastics found in penises for first time, researchers say – raising questions over impact on sexual health Sky News (Kevin W)
Australia’s east faces immediate gas shortage amid cold snap, outage Reuters
UK Supreme Court Hands Climate Activists Landmark Win in Oil Drilling Case OilPrice
Ecuador struck by power outage leaving 18 million in the dark Guardian
China?
US reputation on the line at Second Thomas Shoal Asia Times (Kevin W)
Chinese are able to use high resolution satellite cameras and AI to track surface wakes created by US attack submarines travelling under water at greater than 20 knots (37 kph).
As a US nuclear submarine is huge displacing almost 7,000 tons of water when submerged and the… pic.twitter.com/M0o2DBx6X7
— Ignis Rex (@Ignis_Rex) June 22, 2024
DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — ‘Countering CCP Drones Act’ would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate Tom’s Hardware. Chuck L also sent the tweet below:
Crazy, the US is passing a bill named “Countering CCP Drones Act” that would ban DJI drones in the US.https://t.co/2cj0wldKoA
I checked, DJI has 90% market share of the U.S. hobby market, 70% market share of the industrial market and over 80% market share of the first responder…
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 20, 2024
US wants Netherlands, Japan to further restrict chipmaking equipment to China Reuters (Kevin W). From Thursday, still germane.
Africa
Sudan: Darfur graveyards swell threefold as 25.6M suffer food shortage Al-Monitor
Niger revokes French operating licence at major uranium mine France24
European Disunion
French rally against far-right ends in clashes ahead of national elections France 24
Is Berlin ready for the apocalypse? Politicians debate bunkers plan The Berliner
Gaza
🚨Testimony: Dr. Muneer Al Bursh, #Gaza‘s Ministry of Health Director General, reveals shocking torture methods in Israeli army prisons post Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi’s killing: electric shocks, suspension, stretching, and nail pulling during interrogations ‼️ pic.twitter.com/PSRcGB6UiF
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) June 19, 2024
Hizbullah Ready To Defeat Israel Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warns Israel about the cost of a war in Lebanon NPR
The shipping industry is sounding the alarm as another vessel sinks in the Red Sea CNN
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox block highway in protest against IDF enlistment Times of Israel (Kevin W)
New Not-So-Cold War
The price of war is never paid by those responsible…
A Ukrainian soldier awakens in the hospital, eyes and arms gone, the rest of his life decided for him. If there is a woman, she will leave, if there was a future, it is gone.
I pray this ends. #UkraineRussianWar #ukraine… pic.twitter.com/u54fdUGLpv— Noctis Draven (@DravenNoctis) June 19, 2024
EU approves 14th Russia sanctions package, includes first-ever LNG sector measures Euractiv
Putin warns South Korea against arming Ukraine BBC (Kevin W)
Putin reconsiders nuclear weapons doctrine after state visit to Vietnam Euronews
UKRAINIAN NEO-NAZI GROUP CENTURIA TERRORIZES EUROPEAN CITIZENS AND CREATES THE “FOURTH REICH” IN EUROPE Foundation to Battle Injustice (Micael T)
Yellen Says US Ties With Vietnam Don’t Require It to Sever Ties With Russia, China US News (Kevin W)
US gives Ukraine front-of-the-line privileges for air defense missiles Politico (Kevin W)
Does It Get Better Than This For Russia? Mark Wauck
THE HELIUM BALLOON GOES UP – RUSSIA’S HELIUM INDUSTRY GOES TO WAR AGAINST NATO John Helmer
Assange
Key evidence missing in Assange snooping case – media RT (Robin K)
Imperial Collapse Watch
As Chuck L said, “When you’ve lost Niall Ferguson…”
British historian Niall Ferguson warns that if the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is used as an analogy to the contemporary situation, it is not China that plays the role of the Soviet Union, but the United States.
In the late Soviet period, the bloated… pic.twitter.com/r82WLSvs3E
— DaiWW (@BeijingDai) June 19, 2024
Ruling Class Finally Awakens to the Reality of America’s Decline Simplicius
Americans don’t realize just how disastrous this would be if that’s indeed the case. And Manning, a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, is very well connected in DC so I think we should probably believe him.
A war is essentially won on 3 things:
1) Industrial capacity
2)… https://t.co/wdG5EfvvV4— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 20, 2024
US borrowing binge risks market strains, analysts warn Financial Times. Raises the question of why the Treasury did not issue as many long-maturity bonds when rates were super low.
Trump
Trump raised so much last month he erased Biden’s cash advantage Politico
Nevada Judge Dismisses Trump Fake Electors Case New York Times (Kevin W)
Trump gets the final word at CNN debate after coin flip CNN (Kevin W)
Gunz
Supreme Court upholds law banning domestic abusers from having guns CBS (Kevin W
Woke Watch
Pilot’s Union Suggests Changing ‘Cockpit’ to ‘Flight Deck’ for Inclusivity Breitbart (Dr. Kevin). Yes, I know Breitbart but that is ad hom thinking. This is a sourced item. IMHO women pilots are much more worried about pay/promotion/scheduling discrimination and being hit on that this sort of nonsense. But for the union to fight over things that have money or power relationship dynamics would be work.
The Specter of ‘Indoctrination’ The Chronicle (Anthony L)
Falling Apart, Boeing and Not Boeing Edition
Astronauts stranded in space due to multiple issues with Boeing’s Starliner — and the window for a return flight is closing LiveScience (Kevin W)
Can I even buy a car? What to know about the massive auto dealer outage CNN
AI
LLMs create more convincing misinformation than people do The Register (Dr. Kevin)
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. Washington Post (Kevin W)
Let Tim Cook Edward Zitron (Micael T)
Class Warfare
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See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
