How to treat patients without their consent new york times
Crytoxin improves female sexual function Feminine Wellness Newsletter. Dr. Kevin: “Another miracle of modern medicine…”
First person to receive kidney transplant from genetically modified pig dies NPR. The survival period is only 2 months. It seems that many difficult medical interventions are required, and the additional quality of life is probably not very high.
Global study finds that internet use is associated with improved happinessGuardian. I wonder how cautious they were about confounding factors.
#COVID-19 (new coronavirus infection)
panic. That was great. Jessica Wildfire (Randy K)
“Fecal contamination of surfaces[with SARS-CoV-2]can facilitate disease transmission.
Viral shedding has been reported to occur longer than the onset of symptoms of COVID-19 and can continue for up to 30 days after symptoms stop.
We also know that the shedding time of SARS-CoV-2 is…— Hiroshi Yasuda (@Yash25571056) May 11, 2024
Climate/Environment
How Microsoft employees pressured the company over its ties to the oil industry grist
New rules overhauling power grids could boost wind and solar power generation New York Times (Kevin W)
Air quality alerts issued for four US states due to Canadian wildfires NBC (Kevin W)
China?
US significantly increases tariffs on Chinese-made EVs and semiconductor imports financial times
US proposes new tier of tariffs on China, citing ‘unfair’ technology transfer policies that would ‘burden’ US trade South China Morning Post
discord in europe
old blighty
Why most people regret Brexit economist. I confess I missed this last month. There is still a close relationship.
Labor heads towards election victory, but government falls into trouble open democracy
About British melancholy MIT Press Reader (Anthony L)
Gaza
Day 220 of Operation Al-Aqsa Floods: Resistance forces return to the north, UNRWA announces 300,000 people evacuated from Rafah Mondo Weiss (Gust)
Death toll in Gaza soars to 35,173 as Israel intensifies attacks anadolu agency
‘It’s like the first day of war’: Israel carries out the most extensive bombing of Gaza in months middle east eyes
Bound, blindfolded and diapered: Israeli whistleblower details abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention centers CNN. From the weekend. Please note that this was reported despite strict censorship.
Qatari Prime Minister says talks over Gaza ceasefire are deadlocked middle east online
What happens when the Holocaust prevents the world from seeing Israel as it really is? Haaretz (Dan K)
On Independence Day this year, Israel split into two irreconcilable Jewish states. Haaretz (Dan K)
Gaza protests
Virginia Commonwealth University students complete graduation ceremony BBC
I wish I had the bandwidth to handle this:
(Thread) Fun fact! Your private university’s police department may be subject to FOIA disclosure. It would certainly be a shame if everyone requested records from each department in the thread below, or demanded “all” emails regarding pro-Palestinian encampments and rallies.
— Theia Chatelle (@theiacatelle) May 13, 2024
President Trump’s biggest donor is behind the mass expose of pro-Palestinian students New Republic (Erasmus)
The crackdown on campus protests claims to be anti-Semitic, but part of a right-wing plan Guardian (Dr. Kevin)
caucus meeting
Georgia opposition leader urges UK to oppose foreign influence bill BBC (Kevin W). So much for pretending to be sovereign.
A new war that’s not so cold war
Ukraine’s Blinken offers ‘strong sense of security’ as US weapons reach front lines BBC. Blinken looks really bad in this photo. On top of that, he soon became quite gray. Still, he gets off relatively easy when it comes to cheating.
Kharkiv Offensive and the change of Defense Minister Shoigu Gilbert Doctorow (Gust). Check out his food notes as well.
The United States had plans to launch a nuclear attack on the moon in the late 1950s, which is explained in this document. The explosion would have been visible from Earth. Its purpose would have been to intimidate the Soviet Union. pic.twitter.com/JaJ0rSBME0
— Scott Hamilton RTM (@SikotiHamiltonR) May 11, 2024
imperial collapse watch
Putin’s visit to China could show US threats are wishful thinking financial times
US Navy pays price for shipbuilding failures in Red Sea Responsible Politician (Kevin W)
The results of this annual survey by the Democracy Alliance are always interesting because they directly challenge what we think democracy is. https://t.co/FYqB0CRHrJ
The countries whose citizens most perceive themselves to be living in a democracy are:
– China
– Switzerland
-… pic.twitter.com/VuFoGKzgo0— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) May 13, 2024
Niger, Biden, second military withdrawal failure after Afghanistan Torrence Stevens
How the GPS war is disrupting civilian life financial times
playing cards
Introducing Michael Cohen: A Wreck in Search of a Race Jonathan Turley
biden
Joe Biden is not old enough american conservative
republican clown car
Infighting within the Republican Party could lead to primary losses. the hill
Queering the word “queer” white hot harlots
Our press is no longer free
An independent journalist makes a documentary about the FBI, only to have his funds stolen and frozen by Bank of America.
America has so much freedom. https://t.co/2J0FWF0bUM
— SL Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) May 14, 2024
How Britain’s security services neutralized the country’s leading liberal newspaper Declassified Britain (Erasmus)
From PropOrNot to a new line: How Washington is weaponizing the media Alan McLeod, Mint Press
falling bridge
Crews conduct controlled demolition on Baltimore Bridge 9 News (Kevin W)
A.I.
Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers The Washington Post (TF). This will hurt major pubs. Google has already narrowed down its search results for small pubs to zero.
OpenAI, which collects a large amount of copyrighted works, claims copyright to subreddit logo 404 Media (Michael T)
AI will hit workers like a “tsunami”, says IMF chief Yahoo
Aldous Huxley tells how humans have become ‘victims of their own technology’ (1961) (Michael T.)
basil
Red, yellow, green… and white?Smarter vehicles could bring big changes to traffic lights Associated Press. Kevin W: “How many traffic lights are there in North America? Who will pay for all these changes?”
Attack causes self-driving technology to ignore road signs register
Cruise ship returns to self-driving mode after pedestrian dragging incident The Verge
Brain activity of professional investors predicts future stock market performance, study finds Such Science (Dr. Kevin)
An immediate antidote. From reader Chet G, who just had hip replacement surgery! He has sent red squirrels before and pointed out that American red squirrels don’t have ear tufts, but European red squirrels do.
And bonus (Chuck L):
Sometimes the internet is great pic.twitter.com/WPtNMYsJp2
— Frank💥 (@frankbullitts) May 10, 2024
And the second bonus (Gust):
— Etnaetoya (@Etnaetoya) May 11, 2024
See yesterday’s link and antidote. here.
