Forest fireplace threatens Asia’s largest fowl park in Chai Nat Nation [Thailand]
Microplastics Discovered Within the Brains of Mice Inside Hours of Consumption PhysOrg
COVID-19/Pandemics
This can be the most important information of the last decade. Fully overshadowed by shenanigans within the White Home.
It seems to be like H5N1 reinfections are totally doable. Which means that our farms are going to be a unending circulating pump of H5N1.
This. Is. Not. Good.
— Lazarus Lengthy (@LazarusLong13) January 28, 2025
Are we sicker now than we had been earlier than Covid got here alongside?
The brief reply: YES.
A fast thread on the rise in Norovirus right here.
(and I will clarify this chart) pic.twitter.com/TjDuIam1SX— tern (@1goodtern) January 28, 2025
Local weather/Surroundings
The approaching nice world land reshuffle Monetary Instances
‘Final Ice Space’ within the Arctic may disappear a lot ahead of beforehand thought PhysOrg
Excessive warmth will kill thousands and thousands of individuals in Europe with out fast motion Nature
How the Mafia is weaponizing wildfires CNN
a href=”https://spectrum.ieee.org/microreactor” rel=”nofollow”>These Microreactors Might Deliver Nuclear Energy to Distant Areas IEEE Spectrum (Chuck L)
US Photo voltaic Increase Continues, However It’s Offset By Rising Energy Use ars technica
China?
White Home evaluates impact of China AI app DeepSeek on nationwide safety Reuters (Kevin W)
‘Cooperation with China will severely influence Trump’s coverage on Georgia’ JAMnews
Africa
Democratic Republic of Congo warns of dire penalties if UN fails to intervene in disaster Anadolu Company
European Disunion
Denmark to pump $2bn into Arctic safety as Trump eyes Greenland Aljazeera
Just about no Greenlanders wish to be part of the US, new ballot finds EurActiv (Micael T)
How NATO and the Pentagon simulate the destruction of Europe Thomas Fazi (Micael T)
🇩🇪 German overseas minister, Baerbock, finds it inspiring that her grandfather was a fanatical nazi who fought for Hitler in 1945.
“Wow, we’re standing on the shoulders of our grandparents” pic.twitter.com/Pf1m6xZyso
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 27, 2025
French PM angers Socialists just about ‘submersion,’ a time period in style on far proper Le Monde
Taxes for enterprise capitalists are being lowered – paid for by elevated taxes on alcohol and tobacco Breakit through machine translation (Micael T)
Previous Blighty
Reeves plans to create ‘Silicon Valley’ between Oxford and Cambridge Guardian (Kevin W). I had a protracted dialogue with a UK technologist who now lives right here on how insanely arduous it was to start out a brand new enterprise within the UK (as in tons of silly bureaucratic obstacles, staring with the financial institution placing him via hoops to open a enterprise account, and never of the KYC type).
Cardiff College to chop 400 employees and drop topics together with nursing and music Guardian (Kevin W)
Israel v. The Resistance
Israel: Netanyahu to be first overseas chief to go to Trump DW
Israeli strikes on south Lebanon wound 24: well being ministry Arab Information
In 1951, the US & Israel pressured Egypt closely to mass switch Palestinian refugees from Gaza into Sinai
In 1953, UNRWA & Egypt agreed to resettle 12,000 Palestinians in Sinai in return for $30 million from the US (at the moment equals $355 million)
Gaza revolted & killed this plan… pic.twitter.com/5dffvbmCQb
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) January 28, 2025
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Doomed Plan for Ukraine Consortium Information
Ukrainian power infrastructure on snapping point – Forbes RT
Trump & Ukraine: The Coming Battle Over Conscription Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
Or see ThreadReader model (Chuck L):
🚨🇺🇦📉 Ukraine is headed for a DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS
☠ Even when Ukraine in some way ‘wins’ the warfare, it will likely be a DEPOPULATED WASTELAND
👇🧵 Right here’s what you should know pic.twitter.com/a9N11YFE7h
— NewRulesGeopolitics (@NewRulesGeo) January 28, 2025
Tucker Carlson claims Biden administration tried to ‘kill Putin’ Politico. Subhead notes the absence of proof.
Syraqistan
What’s Turkey’s imaginative and prescient for the Kurds in Syria? Center East Eye
Huge Brother is Watching You Watch
Baguette bandits strike once more with ransomware and a facet of mockery The Register
CVS Is Turning Locked Cabinets Into an Excuse to Make You Obtain Its App Gizmodo (Paul R). Discuss loudly within the retailer about how you might be shifting all of your prescriptions to Walgreens as you get the staffer to open the cupboards.
New VPN Backdoor Bruce Schneier
Imperial Collapse Watch
U.S. Air Power F-35 Filmed Crashing at Key Arctic Air Base Army Watch
The ‘Iron Dome for America’ Boondoggle Daniel Larison
The True Price of Guantánamo Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
Trump 2.0
Trump’s ‘Flood the Zone’ Technique Leaves Opponents Gasping in Outrage New York Instances. The silence of distinguished Democrats, like both Clinton (Invoice would clearly be the higher spokescritter), Obama, Schumer, Pelosi, is deafening.
Trump sows chaos in federal workforce then says “resign inside per week and I’ll offer you 7 months severance.” Don’t fall for it! Trump instructed innumerable contractors he’d pay—then stiffed them. He has no authority to vow severance pay. Wait him out!https://t.co/frtYnVOqbA
— Senator Tim Kaine (@SenTimKaine) January 29, 2025
Trump Buyouts Mirror Elon Musk’s Twitter Purge Ken Klippenstein
Federal decide quickly blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans Related Press
NY legal professional common sues Trump administration as state will get locked out of Medicaid Gothamist
Trump’s Spending Halt Spawns Day of Chaos Earlier than Getting Blocked Bloomberg
Personal emails present RFK Jr. making false claims about Covid-19 pictures, linking vaccines to autism STAT (KLG)
Pete Hegseth’s Worldview Is Even Worse Than His Private Habits Present Affairs (fk)
EPA fires science advisers Politico
Elon Musk, WH Press Secretary, & Fox claimed that Trump needed to freeze grants and govt funding as a result of Biden supposedly despatched $50 million in condoms to Gaza. One other lie in a firehose of day by day lies. https://t.co/sHbBHrVGXS pic.twitter.com/3e8w5uwLmW
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 29, 2025
Trump indicators order to dam federal help for minors’ gender transitions CNN
Trump doesn’t discuss softly, however does he carry a giant stick? Asia Instances (Kevin W). Necessary.
On day one, Trump wasn’t the dictator he promised to be. Jacobin (Robin Okay)
Trump White Home Confirms that Drones Over New Jersey had been Accepted by FAA Larry Johnson
Immigration
ICE brokers in NYC space take no less than 20 individuals into custody in early morning operation, sources say CBS
Dramatic Immigration Arrests Rattle Bronx and Higher Manhattan THE CITY
Antitrust
File $4.5 Billion EU Wonderful Punished Its Innovation, Google Tells EU Court docket Reuters. The declare that Google is within the enterprise of innovation, versus hire extraction, is laughable.
Cloud Providers Market Is ‘Not Working,’ Says UK Regulator Gov.UK
Mr. Market is Moody
Glut of New Homes for Sale within the South Is Larger Even than throughout the Housing Bust. The Glut within the West Will get Shut Wolf Richter
AI
How China’s DeepSeek Outsmarted America Wall Avenue Journal (Li)
Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Information Bloomberg
I am so sorry I am unable to cease laughing. OpenAI, the corporate constructed on stealing actually the complete web, is crying as a result of DeepSeek might have educated on the outputs from ChatGPT. They’re crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little infants. https://t.co/Qt2OjiyGTA pic.twitter.com/4PMDQlsQwp
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) January 29, 2025
Guillotine Watch
Many reported on Nancy Pelosi dumping thousands and thousands price of Nvidia forward of the DeepSeek fallout.
However only a few observed she purchased into Tempus AI, a healthcare AI inventory that’s almost doubled in worth since her funding.
Why? As a result of she is betting on People getting sicker. 🤨 pic.twitter.com/AvoLnz4s3Q
— James Li (@5149jamesli) January 28, 2025
Class Warfare
Late Stage Social Capitalism Matthew Eric Bassett
The top of neoliberalism? aeon
Antidote du jour. Timotheus: “Ffrom Sharon J. Sheron in Story Lake, Indiana”
And a bonus (guurst):
Сирота по имени Пиппа🥰
Спасибо доброму человеку, который заменил ей маму❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/OkB5b1aHRZ— 𝕃𝕪𝕦𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕒 (@nordw51) January 28, 2025
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
