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Yves right here. No authentic posts by me right now resulting from connectivity points. My common service is down, my freestanding hotspot doesn’t work on the twelfth ground, and I’ve by no means been capable of make my iPhone work as a hotspot. I’m going by way of all the standard steps and both the pc doesn’t try to hook up with the cellphone though it sees it or it does after which says “Connection rejected” after I by no means obtained a question on the cellphone and have enabled Private Hotspot. I even tried plugging the cellphone into the pc and authorizing the USB connection for sharing and that didn’t work both. Luckily the common web did come again however I spun wheels when it was down attempting to make my varied backups work. And sure, I had problem making Private Hotspot work within the US too.

Sperm Whales Dwell in Large, Distinct Clans Unfold Throughout The Ocean Science Alert (Chuck L)

As males evolve to have higher weapons, females develop larger brains Nationwide Geographic (Chuck L)

What’s the world’s loveliest language? Economist (Dr. Kevin)

Skilled Reveals What Occurs to Your Liver When You Give up Alcohol ScienceAlert (Chuck L)

New Proof Highlights a Critical Flaw in Our Notion of Autism Science Alert (Chuck L).

I dunno, seems like Darwin Award futures to me:

Folks in Salthill waters in Galway, Eire right now throughout Storm Isha.

Eejits!!

🎥 @galwaytourism #StormIsha pic.twitter.com/aR2U7diBdh

— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) January 21, 2024

How A lot of the World Is It Attainable to Mannequin? New Yorker (furzy)

Why We Ought to All Learn Hannah Arendt Now Literary Hub (DLG)

#COVID-19

Let’s discuss #DeathTrajectories 🧵

One of many biases in #PublicHealth coverage is the give attention to acute COVID deaths. It is a lagging indicator and solely covers 1 of 5 widespread loss of life trajectories.

For COVID, folks think about the higher left. Get COVID, then a fast loss of life.
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— Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA (@michael_hoerger) January 23, 2024

Why don’t COVID assessments appear to work in addition to they used to? Bloomberg (Robin Ok)

It is constantly disappointing that articles like this refuse to level out the obvious reply: When governments push out propaganda that COVID is gentle, and the pandemic is over, that’s understandably going to result in decrease vaccination charges. https://t.co/sBEefvzK3V

— Dr. Fortunate Tran (@luckytran) January 23, 2024

Local weather/Surroundings. Discover how the horrible geopolitical scenario has crowded out this information class?

Chilly Climate Has Elevated Vary Anxiousness For EV Drivers OilPrice

‘Received’t hand over’ is a brand new anthem for the local weather motion Yale Local weather Connections. That is imagined to be inspiring? The staging of the video makes it look an excessive amount of like a love tune? There are many fashions for music meant to encourage within the face of wrestle, corresponding to Jerusalem, Les Miz’s “Can You Hear the Folks Sing?” or on the much less massive choral finish of the spectrum, Watch for Me from Hadestown

China?

EU to ringfence extra excessive tech areas from China Asia Instances (Kevin W)

China is including extra renewable vitality capability than the remainder of world mixed.

The Worldwide Power Company stories China will account for 56% of renewable vitality capability additions in 2023-28.

China will improve capability by 2,060 GW. The remainder of Earth will add 1,574 GW.… pic.twitter.com/u1ISxYyUi5

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 23, 2024

India

In Ayodhya, Modi Opens Ram Temple in Triumph for Hindu Nationalists New York Instances (furzy)

Outdated Blighty

Sunak’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda receives first parliamentary defeat Guardian (Kevin W). I want this had been from Day by day Mash however it’s actual.

European Disunion

Federal Workplace of Statistics Exports to the USA and China are collapsing Tagesschau through machine translation (guurst)

Gaza

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 108: Israel is systematically obliterating Gaza, part by part Mondoweiss

Israel’s warfare on Gaza stay: 24 Israeli troops killed as floor battles rage Aljazeera

Israeli forces storm hospital in Gaza’s bloodiest preventing thus far in 2024 Sydney Morning Herald (Kevin W)

Israeli hostages’ households storm Knesset assembly to demand their return Guardian (Kevin W)

U.S. Claims No Various To Bigger Center East Conflict Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)

US, British militaries launch new spherical of joint strikes towards a number of Houthi websites in Yemen Arab Information

This will likely be fascinating: China – one of many 5 everlasting members of the UN Safety Council – requires full membership for Palestine on the UN.

The query is: will the US, additionally one of many 5, veto it? This may check their sincerity almost about really wanting a… https://t.co/H2xMTTeZHj

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 22, 2024

My Letter to the Worldwide Court docket of Justice Sam Husseini. Hussieni appears to have discovered a “gotcha” on the dispute dispute that we mentioned at size yesterday. Nonetheless, South Africa didn’t embody the incident in its submitting, and one can see why. The South African who accused Israel was a senior member of the ANC, not a member of the federal government, so he can’t converse for South Africa. The opposite cause for the dressing down was South Africa having made a referral to the ICC over varied warfare crimes…however not genocide, at that time. And bear in mind, the ICC prosecutes solely people, not states. Once more, (since nobody appears to have the bandwidth for nuance lately) I’m not saying the ICJ will discover for Israel on this level. However South Africa doesn’t have a slam-dunk case on this difficulty, and worse misrepresented a few of its citations of proof, plus the ICJ has causes to not set the bar too low right here. As Aurelien identified in an e-mail we quoted in feedback to our put up:

So the actual difficulty is whether or not the statements by (and never essentially exchanges between) SA and Israel earlier than the ICJ listening to are enough to indicate that the perimeters held “clearly reverse views.” As you say, this appears a bit flaky, however the Court docket would possibly resolve that nonetheless, any cheap individual would conclude that the 2 states did, actually, disagree on the difficulty.

So it appears to me that, if it wished to, the Court docket might argue {that a} level of legislation was concerned (achievement of obligations beneath the Conference) and that the 2 nations held clearly totally different views, and that due to this fact the ICJ had the jurisdiction to resolve who was proper. In fact, how they might try this, and whether or not it’s even potential, are different questions.

That stated, what bothers me about this argument is that all the instances talked about within the [exhaustive] paper [on ICJ’s handling of the “dispute” question] (and all of the ICJ instances I do know of) have been about one thing which divides the 2 sides, who’ve a standard curiosity in resolving the issue of their favour. The classics are issues like boundary disputes, business disputes, reparations and many others., the place the 2 sides have an apparent sensible curiosity within the info of the scenario. That’s not the case right here, so far as I can see: there is no such thing as a approach through which SA can declare the least bit to have a sensible curiosity in whether or not genocide is happening in Gaza. I feel the SA group recognised this as a result of they discuss in regards to the prevention of genocide being a part of ius cogens, ie peremptory worldwide authorized norms, and all states having a duty to all different states (on this case, presumably Palestine.) The weak spot of this argument in fact, is that any state might accuse every other state of genocide, and argue that there was a dispute, and that the ICJ ought to make a ruling. The probabilities for mischief and chaos are limitless. Whether or not the ICJ will need to go into this argument I don’t know.

This “mischief” potential could also be a cause, if not the rationale, that Norman Finkelstein thought Russia and China could be leery of discovering for South Africa, regardless of their in any other case apparent curiosity in discrediting the US and being on the facet of stopping heinous conduct in Gaza. Consider what the implications could be for China concerning allegations of genocide vis-a-vis the Uighurs….

Israel drops leaflets on under-siege Palestinians asking for his or her assist to search out Israeli hostages, as Gaza loss of life toll hits 25,000 Enterprise Insider (BC)

Irish Authorities will ‘contemplate’ becoming a member of genocide case towards Israel after preliminary stage The Journal (BC)

A Hannibal Directive by Any Different Identify Brad Pearce (Userfriendly)

Why Israel’s Violence Will get So A lot Discover (It’s Not Antisemitism) Intercept (Dr. Kevin)

Jewish Students vs. Jewish Donors on Antisemitism Ken Silverman

New Not-So-Chilly Conflict

Rats and mice swarm trenches in Ukraine in grisly echo of World Conflict I CNN (Henry L)

Experiences That Zelensky Sacked Zaluzhny as Head of the AFU & Changed Him with the Head of the GUR Kyrylo Budanov. Army Sitrep – Kiev’s Defenses in South Avdeevka Collapse Mark Sleboda

US forming ‘colonial administration’ in Ukraine – Russian spy chief RT

Large Brother is Watching You Watch

How a 27-12 months-Outdated Codebreaker Busted the Fantasy of Bitcoin’s Anonymity Wired (fk)

Meta Now Lets EU Customers Unlink Their Fb, Messenger and Instagram Accounts Neowin

IT Marketing consultant Fined For Daring To Expose Shoddy Safety The Register

Imperial Collapse Watch

New Miss America wanting to “bomb the shit out of the enemies of America” DuffelBlog (BC)

How VC is busting the Army Industrial Complicated — for its personal profit Accountable Statescraft (Kevin W)

Why Are Nearly 40 % of US Nuclear Assault Subs Out of Service? Sputnik (Kevin W)

No Dhowt Willian Schreyer

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The Pipe-bomb Caper James Howard Kunstler (Kevin W)

2024

Why Biden received’t be on the poll in New Hampshire The Hill

Pretend Biden robocall tells Democrats to skip New Hampshire major CBS (furzy)

DeSantis, R.I.P.

How DeSantis collapsed within the glare of a presidential marketing campaign Politico (furzy)

What DeSantis obtained fallacious in regards to the media—and the media obtained fallacious about DeSantis Columbia Journalism Assessment

GOP Clown Automotive

After Mike Johnson Superior Israel Support Package deal, AIPAC Money Flowed In Intercept (Dr. Kevin)

Abortion

Miscarried in Texas. My Medical doctors Put Abortion Legislation First Newsweek (furzy). I hate to be a cynic. However as a each day press watcher, there was a falloff in abortion horror tales in current months, regardless of there being no cause to assume the variety of underlying abortion horror tales having fallen. Abortion is the perfect card Workforce Dem now has to play towards Workforce R, so count on to see an uptick in what the press ought to have been protecting all alongside.

Immigration

Razor wire on the border: Supreme Court docket says feds can take away obstacles in Texas meant to dam migrants USA Right now

Immigration overtakes inflation as high voter concern: Ballot The Hill

NEW- President Biden was requested if he believed that the border was safe; “No it isn’t, I have never believed it for the final 10 years, and I’ve stated it for the final 10 years. Give me the cash.” pic.twitter.com/jrxpklRlck

— Overton (@OvertonLive) January 21, 2024

AI apocalypse too quickly Asia Instances (Kevin W)

People Nonetheless Cheaper Than AI in Huge Majority of Jobs, MIT Finds Bloomberg

“Folks with cash are utilizing AI and robots like their new slaves” dezeen

Falling Aside (Not Simply) Boeing Airplanes

NYC-bound flight canceled when passenger notices lacking bolts on aircraft wing Fox (Chuck L, Paul R)

Kayak’s New Flight Filter Permits You to Exclude Plane Fashions From Your Outcomes reddit (Paul R)

The Bezzle

Fb made a significant change after years of PR disasters, and information websites are paying the value CNBC

I’ve labored in a financial institution (10yrs), a hedge fund (6yrs) and in HFTs (4yrs). Two issues:

1. Sure, I am previous

2. You be amazed – surprised – by the variety of premium title counterparties whose polished branding and exterior picture belies a myriad of inner ‘techniques’ which are held collectively…

— Tim Meggs (@TimMeggs) January 21, 2024

Guillotine Watch

Invoice Ackman Is a Sensible Fictional Character Atlantic (Lance N). ZOMG that is terrific. Non-paywalled model right here.

Class Warfare

The Economists Who Discovered the Richest Folks of All Time New Republic (Micael T)

Why staff now not really feel loyalty in the direction of their bosses, employers Enterprise Insider. Lordie, take a look at the specific expectation, that employees must be loyal. The one cause is pragmatic: in order to not weaken the enterprise (say by leaking confidential data) and due to this fact hurt their job safety. In any other case, employers haven’t any cause to count on or demand that employees do greater than carry out their assigned duties diligently. If bosses or firms are paternalistic, then it could be cheap to count on some reciprocation. However how usually do you see that lately?

Homeless courageous chilly in Paris as France plans to maneuver them out of metropolis earlier than Olympics Anadolu Company

Antidote du jour:

And a bonus (Chuck L):