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11 Extraordinary Sharks That Live in Deep Sea Waters ZME Science (Dr. Kevin)

Mysterious ‘Dark Oxygen’ Discovered at Bottom of Ocean Stuns Scientists ScienceAlert (Chuck L)

Ancient microbes offer clues to how complex life evolved ScienceDaily (Kevin W)

Could a Conflict-Borne Superbug Bring on Our Next Pandemic? Rolling Stone (Paul R)

ISU research identifies possible point of entry for avian flu in cattle Iowa Capital Dispatch (Robin K)

Finland offering farmworkers bird flu shots KFF Health News (Robin K)

Why We Need an Immunome Eric Topol (Robin K). I pinged the Covid brain trust for reactions. KLG roused himself:

Just spent a lunch half-hour skimming the papers Topol refers to. Huge, comprehensive, and absolutely full of conventional statistics. Hypotheses are fuzzy. Trends are real, mostly minor, with very little predictive capacity for any given individual. No way this will have much clinical applicability. And it will be expensive. How to remain healthy is not a mystery. Bad luck is just that. HPV-mediated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma in a tonsil, for example. The current HPV vaccines will prevent this, but not head and neck cancer caused by smoking and drinking, which has a dismal prognosis.

This reminds me of the blood tests for multiple cancers, first developed by Ken Kinzler and Bert Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins. Those are sensible and could be useful, but in one trial I read about, ~10,000 tests detected ~20 cancers. Good for those in these 20 people who could be helped. Still, early detection of a tumor in the head of the pancreas could mean successful surgery instead of death within a few months of diagnosis from the advanced version. But these have not taken the world by storm as expected. IIRC Vogelstein and Kinzler sold their company in Baltimore for more than $2 billion a few years ago, so that was a success. Hopkins no doubt has profited handsomely. The (other) Galleri version is here: https://www.galleri.com/patient/the-galleri-test/cost
Costs about $1000, not covered by insurance, naturally.

I am a natural skeptic but “-omic” sciences (e.g., genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, glycomics) have not been all that impressive to me. Computation heavy, hypothesis light. The “immunome” is an even fuzzier network problem than these examples.

Novel Vaccine Could Offer Lifetime Immunity Against Evolving Flu Strains Technology Networks (ma). Even if this works as advertised, “novel vaccine” is going to put off a lot of patients.

#COVID-19

IM Doc has lots of anecdata from oncologists in tertiary medical centers that is consistent with this claim:

Climate/Environment

The Whitest Paint Is Here & It’s the Coolest – Could Help Curb Global Warming SciTech Daily (Dr. Kevin). Sigh. I recall reading a Wall Street Journal in the early 2000s that called for painting urban roofs white and mixing titanium dioxide (white) into asphalt to increase reflection and lower surface heating, counteracting climate change. It even had some math on how low cost this would be. So why did this idea go into a black hole for two decades?

With No Recovery in Sight, Lithium Prices Force Miners to Reevaluate Output Bloomberg

China?

Bohai Bank to sell US$3.5 billion in loans to China’s bad banks in bid to shore up capital South China Morning Post

Koreas

South Korea warns North Korea will ‘pay a fatal price’ after new wave of trash balloons Independent

Weeks of escalating student protests over a quota reform for government jobs have spiraled into Bangladesh’s worst unrest in living memory with over a hundred deaths in the past few days DW

European Disunion

The basic child benefit has failed Jacobin, German edition via machine translation (Micael T)

Old Blighty

Universities face cash ‘catastrophe’ with threat of mergers and course cuts. Academics plead for emergency bailout to save jobs The Times

South of the Border

Argentine Judge Forces Milei to Distribute Stored Food Telesur (Micael T)

Developing countries face worst debt crisis in history, study shows Guardian. This humble blog has been warning of this outcome for over a year, courtesy Jomo’s posts.

Gaza

This is the same doctor who was part of the pair that reported their horrific Gaza experience to Politico. While the facts are horrible, it is important that they get out. The doctor discussed how snipers are targeting children, which the press has shied away from admitting:

Polio and the destruction of Gaza’s health infrastructure Mondoweiss (guurst)

Will Hezbollah and Israel Go to War? New Yorker (furzy)

How western Big Tech giants enable Israel’s occupation The Cradle (Micael T)

Finally recognizing the Israeli opioid disaster Jerusalem Post

Jordan’s quagmire: NATO sets up shop in Amman The Cradle. Micael T: “One would think that NATO is considered fools after Ukraine and outside of the collective West but apparently not.”

New Not-So-Cold War

West Admits Ukraine is Losing, Encourages Ukrainians to Fight on Anyway Brian Berletic, YouTube

American B-52 bombers intercepted near russian border in tense standoff MSN

Private creditors forgive Ukraine 20 billion euros and thus postpone its national bankruptcy Anti-Spiegel via machine translation (Micael T)

Türkiye

Erdogan threatens to build naval base in Cyprus amid tensions FirstPost

Türkiye pushes for diplomatic, economic influence in Africa Daily Sabah

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

Google Won’t Be Deprecating Third-Party Cookies In Chrome After All Digital Day

Imperial Collapse Watch

Russian expert: “The world expects an era without disarmament treaties” Anti-Spiegel via machine translation (Micael T)

Geopolitics overtakes inflation at top of sovereign wealth fund worry list Reuters

The meaning of freedom and security Alex Krainer (Micael T). Lambert featured yesterday but more important than anodyne title suggests.

Biden Exits, Sort Of

Yes, I know we should probably not promote questions like this, but even one of our readers noticed the underscore to the signature was not normal for Biden. He’s not alone in wondering (see also Moon of Alabama):

Succession by Defenestration: How Biden’s Withdrawal May Trigger a 25th Amendment Fight Jonathan Turley

Biden is gone, but BlueAnon remains Aaron Mate

Harris

Is Kamala Harris’ mental health shaky? The presidential hopeful’s ‘word salads’ and inappropriate laughter could be symptoms of a little-known psychological disorder Daily Mail (Li)

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Kamala Harris cannot use Biden’s election campaign funds – WaPo RT

Kamala Harris Suffers Double Polling Blow Against Donald Trump Newsweek (furzy)

Kamala Harris can’t count on American labour Financial Times

Trump Assassination Attempt Post Mortem

Live updates: Secret Service director grilled over Trump shooting The Hill. I can’t believe she is still in her post. She must have the 5×7 glossies on the Bidens from all the SS supervision. An instance of hair smelling gone too far? Or maybe they know who that cocaine found in the White House belongs to?

Mace moves to force a vote on impeaching Secret Service director The Hill. Paul R: “Someone on Lemmy: “peak performative pearl clutching”.

Note the contact URL. This is not a bunch of randos:

Our No Longer Free Press

Hugo Mercier says we’ve been misinformed about misinformation Freethink. Micael T: “Again blaming the people for failing to believe our misleadership. A radical idea: how about people in power were to have words and actions coincide? Maybe trust would be established and there would be no misinformation?”

Meta Risks Sanctions Over ‘Sneaky’ Ad-Free Plans Confusing Users, EU Says ars technica

‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken? Guardian (Kevin W). So it’s not until errors this big arise that people take notice?

AI

We Need An FDA For Artificial Intelligence Nomea (Micael T)

Crowdstrike 404

Insurers can withstand loss from CrowdStrike chaos: Fitch Anadolu Agency

Recession pop’ is in: Why so many listeners are returning to music from darker economic times CNBC

The Bezzle

Investing in Opportunity Zones Alts (Micael T)

NullShip selling counterfeit postal labels, FreightWaves investigation finds FreightWaves. Lance N:

Someone advertised themselves as a logistics company, and sold their customers fraudulent shipping labels. UPS/USPS confiscated some of the packages, and the company said “oh this happens sometimes”. Amazing.

Boeing Expects Its Pilotless Air-Taxi To Begin Carrying Passengers ‘Later In the Decade’ Reuters

Guillotine Watch

Billionaires’ utopia company California Forever scraps plan for ballot initiative in wake of damning report Mercury News (furzy). Notice the URL, which presumably was the original headline.

Silicon Valley Investors’ Plans for a New City Put on Hold New York Times (furzy)

Class Warfare

Our obsession with ownership Steve Keen (Micael T)

Antidote du jour. Alan T’s poms, ready for a road trip:

And a bonus:

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

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