“Supergiant” sea bug named after Darth Vader present in South China Sea CBS
Do Bugs Really feel Ache? The New Yorker
Archaeologists Are Discovering Dugout Canoes within the American Midwest as Outdated because the Nice Pyramids of Egypt Smithsonian
James Galbraith – The Origins of the Fashionable Period of the Federal Reserve: 5 Books Courageous New Europe
California Burning
UPDATE on CA Lithium Battery Plant hearth close to “Salad Bowl of America” (produces 70% of our greens) Jordan Chariton, Threadreader
Hundreds evacuate Hughes Hearth close to LA as California faces recent threats Axios
Syndemics
USDA Updates Mammalian Wildlife With HPAI H5 Listing Avian Flu Diary. “Because the HPAI H5 virus continues to seek out new mammalian hosts it’s prone to develop into extra deeply entrenched in our shared ecology, growing the dangers that it’s going to discover new evolutionary pathways that had been unavailable to it when it was primarily a illness of birds.”
Avian Influenza Prevention Zone launched in Northern Eire Love Ballymena
COVID research: 40% of youngsters nonetheless infectious after symptom decision Middle for Infectious Illness Analysis and Coverage
Local weather
Snow in New Orleans (1):
I’m nonetheless in disbelief this occurred. Right here it’s. Timelapse of historic New Orleans snow storm. Snow obtained as much as 12 inches on my snowboard within the French Quarter. pic.twitter.com/M9byQeZJGL
— Payton Malone WWL-TV (@paytonmalonewx) January 22, 2025
Snow in New Orleans (2):
Snow falls in Houston and New Orleans as uncommon storm sweeps Gulf Coast.
It is a snowball struggle on Bourbon Avenue, New Orleans on Jan 21, 2025pic.twitter.com/FIrkFnG1T2
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 22, 2025
The hidden price of unreliable insurance coverage 3 Quarks Day by day
China?
Wage caps unfold in China’s finance sector amid ‘widespread prosperity’ drive South China Morning Submit
Drone pilots emerge as subsequent sought-after career in China CGTN
* * * Rubio backs Manila, condemns Beijing’s ‘harmful’ actions in South China Sea South China Morning Submit
Transcription issues Language Log. “Rubio” in Chinese language.
* * * DeepSeek: How China’s AI Innovators Are Difficult The Standing Quo Forbes. Commentary:
Actually attention-grabbing how the US and China are taking such completely different roads on AI.
Past the PR that this “Stargate Mission” is to “create most cancers vaccines”, what it actually appears to be about is doubling down on OpenAI’s technique of constructing a “cash moat” by means of large… https://t.co/sfsodx3UYs
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 22, 2025
China’s second-largest foundry hires former Intel government to steer superior node improvement Tom’s {Hardware}
Dutch authorities excludes most ASML gross sales to China from ‘twin use’ export information Reuters
* * * Chinese language exams of seawater close to Fukushima nuclear plant present no impression on marine life South China Morning Submit
Myanmar
No laughing matter: Meet the junta’s courtroom jesters Frontier Myanmar
China and the Wars in Myanmar The Irrawaddy
The New Nice Sport
Opinion: Protests in Georgia ought to contain not simply center class however all social teams JAM Information
Syraqistan
Why is Israel launching a crackdown within the West Financial institution after the Gaza ceasefire? AP
IDF launches Operation Iron Wall in opposition to Palestinian terror in Jenin as PA exits Jerusalem Submit. Commentary:
Israel has launched “Operation Iron Wall” within the West Financial institution’s Jenin, on Day 2 of Trump’s presidency. It’s named for Jabotinsky’s 1923 essay, “The Iron Wall”. This is an extract: “Zionist colonisation…can proceed and develop solely…behind an iron wall.” https://t.co/LWASJQ8M1v pic.twitter.com/DJ5g7UKV2d
— Heidi Matthews (@Heidi__Matthews) January 21, 2025
Trump’s Center East envoy will enter Gaza as a part of ‘inspection staff’ Al Jazeera. Steve Witkoff.
Expensive Outdated Blighty
Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his “first buddy” Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Ukraine Is Burning Via 155mm M777 Howitzer Barrels So Quick The U.S. Military Can’t Preserve Up The Warzone. The deck: “The U.S. Military is now making an attempt to fulfill a requirement to provide not less than 30 new barrels for M777 howitzers each month.” Thirty. Oh.
* * * Zelenskyy: Ukraine wants not less than 200,000 peacekeepers to stop renewed Russian aggression Ukrainska Pravda
Trump tells Putin to finish ‘ridiculous conflict’ in Ukraine or face new sanctions BBC
We wish to finish conflict in Ukraine in order that it doesn’t restart in two to 4 years – US secretary of state and Russian International Ministry claims to see “small window of alternative” for agreements beneath Trump Ukrainsaka Pravda
Trump Administration
Trump’s Crypto Belongings Are Nonsense. The Money They Throw Off Is Very Actual Forbes
* * * How Trump’s government orders will roll out — if courts enable them Al Jazeera
Trump’s evident coverage contradictions are each a blessing and a curse South China Morning Submit
Can the US Truly Buy Greenland? International Coverage
* * * Division of Justice freezes all civil rights division instances: report FOX
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on conferences, journey, communications, and hiring Science
* * * US navy sends troops to Mexico border amid Trump immigration crackdown Al Jazeera
‘Scare tactic’: Bonta slams Trump transfer concentrating on native officers over immigration Los Angeles TImes
* * * Trump suggests states ought to deal with emergency response as an alternative of FEMA Axios
Cracks emerge in Home GOP after speaker’s menace to saddle California wildfire assist with situations AP
* * * Demystifying Jared Isaacman, Trump’s NASA nominee House Information
Susan Collins: ‘Troubling’ that Hegseth FBI report omitted key data The Hill
Spook Nation
VICTORY! Federal Court docket (Lastly) Guidelines Backdoor Searches of 702 Information Unconstitutional Digital Frontier Basis
Instruments for Pondering About Censorship Ex Urbe
Davos
‘The elephant is within the room’: Trump’s return on everybody’s lips at Davos France24
Digital Watch
Decentralized Social Media Is the Solely Various to the Tech Oligarchy 404 Media
How usually do sudden scientific discoveries happen? Extra usually than you would possibly suppose Nature
Zeitgeist Watch
Mississippi politician recordsdata ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’ WLBT. “As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the invoice would make it ‘illegal for an individual to discharge genetic materials with out the intent to fertilize an embryo.’” I assume parody, as for instance:
Provide Chain
World’s prime wheat exporter makes regarding choice after experiencing heavy losses: ‘The profitability of grain crops is approaching zero’ The Cooldownd
Imperial Collapse Watch
World’s first submarine-launched drones that swims and flies poses new menace to US Fascinating Engineering
Why Plane Carriers Are Turning into Out of date Philip Pilkington, The Nationwide Curiosity
Class Warfare
What the worldwide elite disclose to Davos intercourse staff: Excessive-class escort spills the beans on what occurs behind closed doorways – and the way rich ‘know the world is doomed, so might as properly exit with a bang’ Day by day Mail
Amazon closing all Quebec warehouses, shedding greater than 1,700 staff CTV. Commentary:
Amazon is closing ALL warehouses in Quebec after unionizing passed off at 1 warehouse.
As an alternative of working with first profitable union of Amazon in North America, they selected to layoff all 1,950 staff.
A transparent menace to all staff that in the event that they unionize—they are going to be fired.
The… pic.twitter.com/KyQvTZTEp2
— LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻 (@LongTimeHistory) January 22, 2025
Pungent bloom of ‘corpse flower’ enthrals hundreds BBC
Vegetable Backyard Safety Act South Arkansas Reckoning
Antidote du jour (Thomas Fuhrmann):
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
