Feed your fish remotely with this Raspberry Pi-powered feeding system Tom’s Hardware
Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair 404 Media
Climate
How Global Capital Killed Climate Science George Tsakraklides
Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires Nature. From the Abstract: “The 2023 Canadian forest fires have been extreme in scale and intensity with more than seven times the average annual area burned compared to the previous four decades…. We find that the magnitude of the carbon emissions is…. comparable to the annual fossil fuel emissions of large nations, with only India, China and the USA releasing more carbon per year.”
New study highlights expansion of drylands amidst impact of climate change (press release) University of Bristol
Hundreds of Ancient Viruses Discovered Deep Inside Tibetan Glacier Yale Environment 360
Namibia authorises culling of elephants, hippos, other wild animals owing to worst drought in a century BNE Intellinews
How Japan Ignored Climate Critics and Built a Global Natural Gas Empire Bloomberg. Handy map:
Syndemics
Summer COVID surge shows we may have to return to 2020 pandemic measures The Hill
Column: Stanford throws a party for purveyors of misinformation and disinformation about COVID Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
* * * Cluster of Influenza A(H5) Cases Associated with Poultry Exposure at Two Facilities — Colorado, July 2024 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC. From the Abstract: “As the prevalence of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus clade 2.3.4.4b genotype B3.13 increases, U.S. public health agencies should prepare to rapidly investigate and respond to illness in agricultural workers, including workers with limited access to health care.”
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work Brookings
* * * Strengthening community resilience: lessons from COVID-19 for mpox prevention The Lancet. “Only through collective and coordinated action can we hope to build a world better prepared to meet future health challenges, ensuring that no one is left behind. Global health is not a luxury, but a fundamental right and a prerequisite for global stability and prosperity.”
China?
Chinese offices emptier than during Covid pandemic as slowdown hits FT
China’s industrial strategy on ‘collision course’ with top German export industries Euractiv
* * * China’s Futuristic Industries: Investment Prospects in the Emerging Low-Altitude Economy China Briefing
China’s low-altitude economy spreads its wings as struggling locales look skyward South China Morning Post
China’s low-altitude economy lacks growth roadmap, says industry group Reuters
Philippines and Vietnam to sign defence agreement Channel News Asia
Indonesian app-based motorcycle taxi drivers strike in protest over low pay Channel News Asia
Africa
What Transsion tells us about Chinese investment in Africa African Business
Syraqistan
Israel Starts Ethnic Cleansing In West Bank Moon of Alabama
Is the US Trying to Pick a Fight With Hezbollah? Prem Thakker, Zeteo
Israel agrees to pauses in fighting for polio vaccine drive BBC
Houthis release footage of fighters boarding Greek oil tanker in Red Sea Al Jazeera
The Beijing Declaration is a key step to resolve the Palestinian question Al Jazeera
European Disunion
France’s unprecedented and dangerous political situation Le Monde
Dutch government to ban ASML from servicing installed wafer tools in China Tom’s Hardware
Dear Old Blighty
The UK nuclear fusion start-up helping the US develop stealth submarines FT
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine SitRep: The Collapse Of The Donbas Front Moon of Alabama
What the fall of Pokrovsk could mean for Ukraine Euromaidan Press
First F-16 downed in Ukraine, but confusion over how it happened BNE Intellinews
* * * Ukraine’s daring offensive intensifies pressure on US to ease cautious approach to the war AP
ATACMS and Russia’s Sanctuary WSJ
* * * Brazil did not warn Ukraine about its intention to present joint peace plan with China – Ukraine’s Ambassador to Brazil Ukrainska Pravda
Global Elections
What 2024’s Historic Elections Could Mean for the Climate World Resources Institute
2024
READ: Harris and Walz’s exclusive joint interview with CNN (transcript) CNN
Kamala Harris addresses policy shifts in CNN interview, her first as Democratic nominee CBS
Kamala Harris goes all in on fracking in testy interview exchange Politico
* * * Trump calls 2024 presidential election ‘a choice between communism and freedom’ Anadolu Agency
Harris-Trump debate rules include muted mics and no audience AP
The Supremes
The Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Decision Says What??? (PDF) Albert W. Alschuler, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 861. “This Article uses Justice Sotomayor’s “Seal Team 6 hypothetical” to explore the categories Trump v. United States employs in determining whether the acts of a former President are immune from prosecution. It concludes that, contrary to Justice Sotomayor’s assertion, a President who orders a military unit to assassinate a political rival can be prosecuted…. The Article describes the procedural tangle the Court’s decision has created. It concludes that if the American legal system proves incapable of bringing the most corrupt President in American history to justice, the fault will rest primarily with the Supreme Court.”
Digital Watch
Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits Gizmodo. Deloitte.
* * * Why Telegram CEO Pavel Durov stands apart from other tech executives Fortune
Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms? NYT
* * * Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping WIred
How Intel Missed the iPhone: XScale Era The Chip Letter
Zeitgeist Watch
Hiker rescued after workmates left him on mountain, says search crew BBC. During an office retreat.
Healthcare
Can the Brain Help Heal a Broken Heart? The Scientist
B-a-a-a-d Banks
Class Warfare
Dollar General warns poorer US consumers are running out of money FT
As Much Power As the President: How Billionaires Became More Influential than World Leaders Literary Hub
The emergence of monumental architecture in Atlantic Europe: a fortified fifth-millennium BC enclosure in western France Cambridge University Press
The Phantoms Haunting History Noema
Antidote du jour (Diego Delso):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
