Chaos continues with Ohio teachers’ pension fund as second advisor quits Cleveland.com (JH).
Timing ‘Trump Trades’ With an Eye on GOP Platform John Authers, Bloomberg
Phases In The Life-cycle Of An Equity Order codonomics
Climate
Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds Guardian
Europe headed for mini-ice age as AMOC tipping point approaches – paper BNE Intelliinews
Mexico’s planned glyphosate ban helped show how agroecology can lead the way forward The Conversation
Artist punches holes in UN climate report six hours a day for Dutch installation Guardian
Syndemics
Opinion: Prevailing myths about public health hinder advancements that could help Coloradans Colorado Sun
Book Review – The Ecology of Collective Behavior The Inquistive Biologist
China?
China’s population crisis demands ‘dynamic monitoring’ of households, more support: adviser South China Morning Post Commentary:
5/5
If China can transfer roughly half a percent of GDP every year to households, the Chinese economy will continue to grow, more slowly but far more sustainably, and the improvement in household income will more than exceed the decline in working population.— Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis) July 16, 2024
Xi Jinping’s Great Economic Rewiring Is Cushioning China’s Slowdown Bloomberg. Commentary:
6/6
China’s manufacturing and technology push has been formidably successful, but it has come at the expense of domestic demand. The idea that former can resolve the latter shows why we need to think about economies systemically, and not incrementally.— Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis) July 16, 2024
Japan’s Hands-Off “Hidden Culture” of Stillness Nippon.com
India
US ambassador berates India following Modi’s Moscow visit BNE Intellinews. “[T]here is ‘no such thing as strategic autonomy.’”
Officer among 4 Indian soldiers killed in overnight gunfight in Kashmir Anadolu Agency
Hundreds of students in Bangladesh injured in protests over gov’t job quotas Anadolu Agency
Syraqistan
Gaza: Palestinian with Down syndrome ‘left to die’ by Israeli soldiers after combat dog attack Middle East Eye
Israel seeks to rewrite the laws of war Al Jazeera
Yemen’s Houthis target 3 ships in Red, Mediterranean Seas Anadolu Agency
European Disunion
Europe Is Not Ready for Trump Foreign Policy
France’s left-wing parties struggling to form govt, says leader of Socialists France24
Dear Old Blighty
Will Immigrant Workers in Britain Win Europe’s First Amazon Union? Labor Notes
New Not-So-Cold War
Zelenskyy on performance of Ukraine’s commander-in-chief and Russia’s breakthrough in Kharkiv Oblast: we will deal with details later Ukrainska Pravda
Ukraine War Day #872: Zelensky Not Irreplaceable – Part III Awful Avalance. Part I and Part II.
* * * Donald Trump has ‘well-founded plans’ for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Viktor Orbán claims FT
The American State–Media Complex Is Escalating the Ukraine War The American Conservative
Pentagon explains why US does not allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory with ATACMS Ukrainska Pravda
* * * NATO and the deadly strategy of neoconservatism Jeffrey Sachs, Pearls and Irritations
Biden Administration
The FDA Just Quietly Gutted Protections for Human Subjects in Research Newsweek
2024
Assassination and Trump’s Mentality Craig Murray
Trump assassination attempt: Fraternal Order of Police blasts Secret Service ‘failure’ FOX
The Trump Assassination Attempt: A Serious Audited Investigation is Urgently Needed Stephen Bryen, Weapons and Strategy
* * * Recap: Trump makes first public appearance at RNC The Hill
Bandaged Trump gets rapturous welcome two days after assassination attempt BBC
Republican convention aims for unity — but keeps some of the old red meat NBC
* * * How J.D. Vance got here Politico
Five Faith Facts About Trump’s VP Pick, J.D. Vance The Roys Report
J. D. Vance Changes the Subject n+1. From 2023, still germane.
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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority ProPublica
Antitrust
Inside the Mafia of Pharma Pricing Matt Stoller, BIG. The deck: “4% of all the money in America flows through a few mafia-like health care conglomerates. The FTC just released a ground-breaking report on how they operate. And it is gearing up to sue.”
The Supremes
Major Questions Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance (PDF), Daniel J. Hemel SSRN. From the Abtract: “This essay is the first to name the phenomenon of major questions avoidance and to develop a taxonomy of avoidance tactics. It identifies four broad categories of major questions avoidance: “splitting” a single rule into a series of smaller rules; “lumping” together regulations under different statutory authorities to achieve a common, far-reaching objective; “glossing” over a major rule in technocratic language that downplays its economic and political significance; and “bypassing” the rulemaking process via guidance documents, administrative adjudications, and enforcement actions. Agencies appear to be deploying various major-questions-avoidance tactics already—openly in some cases and subtly in others.”
Realignment and Legitimacy
America’s Coming Age of Instability Foreign Affairs
This Is a Test for America Yascha Mounk
Digital Watch
ChatGPT Doesn’t Trust Chargers Fans: Guardrail Sensitivity in Context (PDF) arXiv. From the Abstract: “Guardrails are also sycophantic, refusing to comply with requests for a political position the user is likely to disagree with. We find that certain identity groups and seemingly innocuous information, e.g., sports fandom, can elicit changes in guardrail sensitivity similar to direct statements of political ideology.”
New App Connects Users Too Tired To Get Out Of Bed With Gig Worker Who Will Turn Off Their Lights The Onion. From 2023, still germane.
The graying open source community needs fresh blood The Register
Sports Desk
Gunz
Is America’s gun fixation backfiring on its pushers? Al Jazeera. Commentary:
The belief that the US is a high gun ownership society because of a high guns/capita # is wrong. Actual ownership has fallen for decades and is close to all-time lows (they ticked up slightly under Trump). What has changed is gun owners now buy 5, 10, 20+ guns instead of 1-2. https://t.co/96eY43W0Xw pic.twitter.com/g7EWgGkW6g
— Quantіan2 (@quantian1) July 15, 2024
Imperial Collapse Watch
US Navy pilots come home after months of shooting down Houthi missiles and drones AP. “[M]ost of the sailors, including him, weren’t used to being fired on.”
Class Warfare
Inside a UPS warehouse that prioritizes super-fast shipping Marketplace
Mangled fingers, no time off: Why the women who make Samsung’s semiconductors are striking Hank Yoreh
‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers Quanta
“I Told Three Big Lies That Changed My Life” The Honest Broker
Antidote du jour (National Park Service):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
