How Multitasking Drains Your Mind MIT Press
Calfornia Burning
Area satellites observe astonishing growth of lethal California wildfires FOX. The video:
In maps: Hundreds of acres on hearth in LA BBC
* * * How a tiny spark in an LA again backyard become town’s worst ever hearth in HOURS, incinerating 20 sq. miles and leaving an alien panorama of charred mansions… and it’s nonetheless uncontrolled Every day Mail
Hollywood Boulevard is evacuated as wildfires erupt in superstar epicentre: One other 100,000 advised to flee NOW as horror photographs present LA neighborhoods lowered to ashes and demise toll rises Every day Mail
Monstrous wildfires blanket Southern California with smoky air, threatening the well being of hundreds of thousands AP. Commentary:
CDC And WHO Situation Pressing Warning To Individuals In Areas Of Wildfires To Wash Arms To Keep away from Inhaling Poisonous Wildfire Smoke pic.twitter.com/DAevS5lxr3
— The Vertlartnic (@TheVertlartnic) January 8, 2025
* * * It’s probably not the correct time for nasty California fires. What are the elements that modified that? AP
On the Water Provide controversy:
After hundreds of thousands of views spreading lies in regards to the Palisades firefighters missing water due to rules, the boring reality comes late like common and wont be shared. Right here it’s:
1 – Reservoirs and water tanks have been at regular ranges and utterly full earlier than the hearth.
2 – All… pic.twitter.com/DmSaTQJuiB
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) January 9, 2025
“Lead your life” :
we stay in fucking hell pic.twitter.com/LdrgwsqVT6
— kelsey mckinney (@mckinneykelsey) January 9, 2025
Local weather
Catastrophes price the world $320bn in 2024, reinsurer stories FT
How Large Oil Hindered The Battle In opposition to L.A.’s Wildfires Lever Information
Water
How datacenters use water – and why kicking the behavior is sort of unimaginable The Register
Syraqistan
Japanese crime boss admits to conspiring to promote nuclear materials to Iran Al Jazeera
Coping with Trump, Israel, and Hamas: The trail to peace within the Center East European Council on Overseas Relations
No Israeli Hostage Deal Will Be Signed Till All Sides Agree on Learn how to Management Gaza Haaretz
New York Instances rejects Quaker advert for calling Israel’s actions “genocide” American Associates Service Committee
The Koreas
S.Korean police observe impeached President Yoon’s location with new warrant Anadolu Company
North Korea says it examined hypersonic intermediate vary missile geared toward distant Pacific targets AP
China?
China’s CPI up 0.2 pct in 2024 Xinhua. Commentary:
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For 2024 as a complete, CPI inflation got here in at a really meager 0.2%, the identical because it was final 12 months and the bottom since 2009. For all of the stimulus and the surge in debt throughout the 12 months, in different phrases, China has been unable to revive inflation.— Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis) January 9, 2025
New discoveries elevate China’s lithium reserves to second largest on the earth South China Morning Publish
China Discovers Huge Copper Deposit on Tibetan Plateau WION
As Trump talks up commerce battle with China, fears rise for uncommon earths provide Al Jazeera
Enormous cement-dust cloud blankets streets in China after silo rupture South China Morning Publish
China, hMPV, and the `Fog of Flu’ Avian Flu Diary
European Disunion
Slovakia’s PM says he visited Putin due to Ukraine’s refusal to proceed fuel transit Ukrainska Pravda
Hungary threatens to dam Ukraine’s EU accession over suspension of Russian power transit Ukrainska Pravda
Expensive Outdated Blighty
Musk examines find out how to oust Starmer as UK prime minister earlier than subsequent election FT
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Trump Is Dealing with a Catastrophic Defeat in Ukraine Robert Kagan, The Atlantic
A Person’s Information to ‘Who Misplaced Ukraine?’ Overseas Coverage
Trump says he sympathizes with Russia’s opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine Reuters
How Suicide Drones Remodeled the Entrance Traces in Ukraine NYT
Putin’s Booming Warfare Financial system Poised for Mushy, Bumpy Touchdown Bloomberg
South of the Border
Venezuelan president says FBI official amongst ‘mercenaries’ arrested for plotting assaults Anadolu Company
Three Ukrainians are amongst seven alleged mercenaries arrested in Venezuela, chief Maduro says Ukrainska Pravda
Biden Administration
US Justice Division accuses six main landlords of scheming to maintain rents excessive AP
Trump Transition
Trump, the ‘America First’ candidate, has a brand new preoccupation: Imperialism AP
Overseas Leaders Lambast Trump Over His Expansionist Insurance policies Overseas Coverage. Versus genocide and a proxy battle with a nuclear energy?
Blinken says Trump’s push for US to take management of Greenland is ‘not going to occur‘ AP
Antitrust
FTC Chair Khan hopes Amazon, Fb received’t get ‘sweetheart deal’ from Trump in antitrust circumstances CNBC. Commentary:
My god the reconnection of Individuals to their very own energy on this financial system has been simply wonderful–folks really feel and see the issue however our tongues have been minimize out by 30 years of sidelining antimonopoly and antitrust, the core instruments for addressing energy, to the purview of technocrats. https://t.co/qQsp6zIiDE
— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) January 8, 2025
Digital Watch
Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels. That’s not sufficient. Six Colours. And–
Jason Snell: ‘Apple Intelligence Summaries Would possibly Get Warning Labels. That’s Not Sufficient.’ Daring Fireball
Groves of Academe
As a Berkeley professor, I see the influence H-1B visas and AI have on college students’ job alternatives FOX
The Last Frontier
Why the house neighborhood ought to care about Arctic geopolitics Area Information
Our Famously Free Press
Wikileaks has simply put all its recordsdata on-line. It’s all there! Defend Democracy Press
Washington Publish ‘rudderless’ as Bezos’ paper engulfed by layoffs, expertise exodus forward of Trump’s second time period FOX
Healthcare
Individuals residing close to airports face elevated coronary heart assault danger: Research Anadolu Company
Trade teams sue over Biden ban on medical debt in credit score stories Al Jazeera
Gunz
Research: Extra Individuals Shopping for Firearms To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Discovered Their Gun (video) The Onion
Democrats en déshabillé
Dems’ 2024 losses gas new openness to GOP payments Axios
Class Warfare
Two highly effective labor teams combining forward of the Trump administration Axios
Sanders doubles down on assaults on Musk over H-1B visas: ‘Lifeless improper’ The Hill
US east coast strike averted Splash 247
Compelled Labor in World Provide Chains RAND
The battle over robots threatening American jobs FT
Free Money, Mergers, and Capital Spillage Month-to-month Evaluation
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