Giant pigeon to visit New York BoingBoing. We have the same type of pigeons here as in NYC except they are on average a bit smaller. Due to the heat?
Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild ScienceAlert (Chuck L)
Oyster shells repurposed as magic ‘Seawool’ Taipei Times (Robin K)
If new technologies snarl your airline experience, here are old-school strategies to cope The Conversation
No Screens Before Age of Two, Swedish Health Authority Tells Parents Guardian
Having Your Tubes Tied May Not Be as Reliable For Birth Control as You Think ScienceAlert (Chuck L)
Companies are crafting new ways to grow cocoa, and chocolate alternatives, to keep up with demand Associated Press (Robin K)
Mpox Outbreak Hits Iowa Prison As Multiple Inmates Infected Vice
#COVID-19
As COVID Surges, the High Price of Viral Denial The Tyee
In 2021, at the start of this graph we warned about Covid infections increasing the risk of the development of drug resistant bacteria.
Look what has happened since covid was allowed to run rampant and vaccinations were withdrawn. pic.twitter.com/2yfiBqJNQ7
— tern (@1goodtern) September 4, 2024
Houston Health Department opens COVID-19 testing centers as surge happens nationwide @HoustonChronhttps://t.co/3i1z2qs49H
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) September 4, 2024
Climate/Environment
Texas woman uses AirTags to see where recyclable plastics REALLY end up – and is left speechless Daily Mail (Kevin W)
Clean energy’s next trillion-dollar business Economist (Dr. Kevin)
Breaking News!
The August monthly global surface temperature anomaly is in, and it is nearly a tie! I’m going to wait for the final audited results (about a week) before reconciling the #climatecasino wager.
August, 2023: 1.505°C
August, 2024: 1.497°C pic.twitter.com/gJURXSEXB7— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) September 2, 2024
🌡️EUROPEAN HISTORIC HEAT WAVE
Hundreds of records in Germany,Austria,Hungary,Slovakia,Balkans, etc
Including hottest autumn nights in Hungary and Croatia,states records in Austria etc.
See below the most important ones.
MANY more tomorrow with Poland joining the “party” 👇 pic.twitter.com/ZS3TcvTGVE— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) September 2, 2024
Historic Drought Cuts Zambia’s Power Supply to Three Hours a Day Bloomberg
Extreme weather drives surge in Pakistan child marriages DW
Extreme heat worsens chronic health conditions in millions of Americans NBC
World’s biggest underwater methane hotspot is found off Barents Sea coast Barents Observer
What back-to-back storms did to Lake Charles, Louisiana Grist
Cloud computing hits the nuclear button amid energy crisis The Register
China?
Former high-ranking Hochul aide arrested for acting as a foreign agent for China New York Post
Pro-China activists harassed anti-Xi Jinping protesters in San Francisco Washington Post
South of the Border
USD/ARS: Argentine Peso Alternative Emerges in La Rioja: the Chacho Bloomberg (furzy)
European Disunion
European legal drift disguised as “rule of law” Cocominute (Micael T)
Europe Jumps On the Train El Pais
Sweden’s ‘Queen of Trash’ on trial for mountains of waste BBC (Kevin W)
Is Germany in crisis? Giants consider pulling billions from economy Fortune (Kevin W)
End of the German export model German Foreign Policy (Micael T)
Therefore, we should care more about Germany than the United States Aftonbladet. Micael T: “Sweden starts to take notice but still verboten to mention the reason why the German economy is deindustrializing. Most likely because Sweden also suspended their investigation into Nordstream 2.”
Old Blighty
Starmer to face test next week as MPs vote on limiting winter fuel allowance Guardian
Gaza
Palestinian Resistance: From the Lone Sniper to an Army of Snipers Orinoco Tribune (Robin K)
US charges Hamas leader, other militants in connection with Oct. 7 massacre in Israel Associated Press (Kevin W)
the Zionist propaganda line about “OMG KHAMAS KILLED AN AMERICAN!!!” is so deranged. As if the Israeli regime doesn’t routinely kill Americans, from Rachel Corrie to Shireen Abu Akleh, without even flinching. And of course nothing is done about it, as John Mearsheimer notes: pic.twitter.com/UP0tZM3Itj
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) September 3, 2024
Trump’s Former Envoy to Israel: US Should Fund Israeli Annexation of West Bank Antiwar (Kevin W)
Why the West should stand up to Netanyahu Middle East Eye (guurst)
Why Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitic Wall Street Journal (Dr. Kevin)
There Is No Argument For Supporting Israel That’s Both Logical And Moral Caitlin Johnstone (Dr. Kevin)
New Not-So-Cold War
Mongolia was meant to arrest Russia’s President Putin last night. It didn’t, and now it’s in trouble CNBC. This is silly. All UN members are members of the ICJ (which handles disputes between countries and on treaty/charter matters) but countries can opt out of the ICC (which is why the US and Russia are not subject to ICC rulings). I believe countries can opt out of the ICC with six months notice. So Mongolia needs to get rolling. I would think Mongolia took stock of what would happen next when it decided to assure Russia it would not execute the arrest warrant.
Ukrainian foreign minister resigns in government shake-up Financial Times
Russian missile attack on Lviv: 7 people killed, including 3 children, and 47 injured – photos, video Ukrainska Pravda. Wonder what was targeted so far west.
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
Cops’ favorite face image search engine fined $33M for privacy violation ars technica (Kevin W)
Trump
Trump Calls Journalists “Enemy Of The People” During Pennsylvania Rally Minutes Before Man Storms Into Media Section Vanity Fair (Dr. Kevin)
Kamala
James Carville: Kamala Harris’s Best Strategy to Defeat Trump New York Times
Via e-mail, DLG, Reality Czar, as a cook, took exception to the idea of washing greens in a bathtub. It appears black cooks very much agree. From a 2022 article, Woman Seen Cleaning Collard Greens In Bathtub: Black America Responds. Note the disapproval included the use of soap in the viral video, which one assumes was deemed necessary because bathtub.
Why vote for Trump? Why vote for Harris? Amazon’s Alexa gives shockingly different answers YouTube (Micael T)
Our No Longer Free Press
Warning labels from fact checkers work—even if you don’t trust them—says study MIT Sloan School of Management
Starlink in Brazil’s crosshairs as spat over Elon Musk’s X escalates CNBC
Canadian journalist outs himself as Canadian, Ukrainian intelligence collaborator The Grayzone (Kevin W)
AI
Google’s James Manyika: ‘The Productivity Gains From AI Are Not Guaranteed’ Financial Times. But its enormous energy bill is.
Embedded Bias: STAT investigates use of
race in clinical algorithms STAT (Dr. Kevin)
Guillotine Watch
Robbie Robertson estate battle holds lessons for inheritance disputes SF Chronicle
Class Warfare
Koch says its $3.6 billion purchase of Iowa fertilizer plant finalized Des Moines Register. Robin K: “Public subsidy of the outrageously rich.”
Party of one: Restaurants are catering to a growing number of solo diners Associated Press (Kevin W)
Antidote du jour. Tom H: “Junkyard cat at the local salvage shop in Berkeley, CA, fast asleep in the middle of everything.”
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Honey badger vs 3 Leopards pic.twitter.com/fGy2VBnR9m
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) September 3, 2024
A second, atypical bonus (Shiela M):
A video that made our day better, the little girl dances wonderfully pic.twitter.com/9WkYvURFuj
— Enez Özen (@Enezator) July 13, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
