Beneficiant and affected person readers, please forgive me for mentioning that the 2024 Water Cooler fundraiser is ongoing. –lambert
Love them or hate them, hyenas are getting the final snigger Nationwide Geographic
Dealmaking slowdown leaves non-public fairness with file unsold belongings FT. Anyone name a wh-a-a-a-a-bulance!
Take word, downtowns: Crystal Metropolis suffered its workplace apocalypse and got here out higher Better Better Washington
Perpetually rising meat! pharyngula. Similar to “Hen Little” in The Area Retailers!
Local weather
The Nice Barrier Reef’s newest bout of bleaching is the fifth in eight summers – the corals now have nearly no reprieve The Dialog
Breaking The Ice: Frederic Tudor’s Frozen Empire Investor Amnesia
Water
Colorado ranchers sentenced after tampering with rain gauges to extend crop subsidies CBS
#COVID19
We ignored AIDS. Let’s not repeat the error on lengthy COVID Newark Star-Ledger. Once more, mass media beginning to get out in from of CDC and the general public well being institution.
On the influence of mass screening for SARS-CoV-2 by way of self-testing in Greece Frontiers in Public Well being. From the Summary: “Screening applications that pre-emptively and routinely check inhabitants teams for illness at an enormous scale had been first applied in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in a handful of nations. Certainly one of these nations was Greece, which applied a mass self-testing program throughout 2021. In distinction to most different non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), mass self-testing applications are significantly engaging for his or her comparatively small monetary and social burden… Conservative estimates present that this system diminished the copy quantity by 4%, hospitalizations by 25%, and deaths by 20%, translating into roughly 20,000 averted hospitalizations and a pair of,000 averted deaths in Greece between April and December 2021.”
China?
China’s ‘two periods’ 2024: new mandate, celebration management push central financial institution past atypical function South China Morning Put up. Headline on the entrance web page: “‘An entire new ball recreation’: China’s central financial institution appears to be like to be taught from US blunders.”
Behind the doorways of a Chinese language hacking firm, a sordid tradition fueled by affect, alcohol and intercourse AP. What, no “cuddle puddles“?
Myanmar
Fears of mass migration from Myanmar as army plans to draft hundreds Al Jazeera
Sealed destiny: The second sons of Ta’ang State Frontier Myanmar
India
LS polls: Will cast off ‘secular’ in Preamble, says Karnataka BJP MP Enterprise Commonplace
The Koreas
South Korea begins suspending licences of 4,900 placing medical doctors; leaves door open for dialogue Channel Information Asia
Africa
1000’s of Chinese language employees depart Africa as lack of funding and influence of pandemic take their toll South China Morning Put up
Syraqistan
Muslim nations announce begin of Ramadan in shadow of Gaza struggle Al Jazeera
Hamas Bets on Ramadan to Assist It Survive Israel’s Assault WSJ
Israeli police block entry of Palestinians to Al-Aqsa Mosque Anadolu Company
* * * Israel’s Chief Sephardic Rabbi: If They Drive Us to Go to the Military, We’ll All Depart the Nation Haaretz (Furzy Mouse). “The troopers succeed because of the Torah learners.”
Spook, Terrorist or Legal? America’s Mysterious Information on Netanyahu Washington Report on Center East Affairs. From 1996, nonetheless germane.
* * * Can ships carrying help assist avert famine in Gaza? FT. No.
Determined to Escape Gaza Carnage, Palestinians Are Pressured to Pay Exorbitant Charges to Enter Egypt The Intercept (Furzy Mouse).
European Disunion
Portugal’s centre proper claims victory in election marked by populist surge France24
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Livid critics examine Pope’s name for Ukraine to wave ‘white flag’ to Nazi appeasement NY Put up
France’s Macron postpones journey to Ukraine Reuters. Commentary:
Masterful takedown by Dominique de Villepin, former French Prime Minister, of Macron’s completely irresponsible rhetoric on sending NATO floor troops to Ukraine (Villepin himself calls it irresponsible).
I translated it in full, as a result of I feel it is so essential persons are conscious… pic.twitter.com/z1v8mGNYYb
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) March 10, 2024
NATO Ought to Not Settle for Ukraine—for Ukraine’s Sake Stephen Walt, International Coverage
This Prophetic Tutorial Now Foresees the West’s Defeat NYT
* * * SITREP 3/11/24: Patriots Blown Up as Combine-Messaged NATO Fumbles On Simplicius the Thinker(s)
Important Russian Provide Strains In Black Sea Minimize By Ukrainian Drones Naval Information. Or not–
Has the U.S. Ceded the Black Sea to Russia? Maritime Government
“The drive isn’t the identical as at 19, however I do know why I’m right here.” 10 years of combating for Ukraine JAM Information. An Azov.
* * * ‘Novorossiya’ rising from ashes like phoenix M. Okay. Bhadrakumar, Indian Punchline
Ukraine struggle is altering the worldwide arms commerce Deutsche Welle
UPDATE TO “Did the West Deliberately Incite Putin to Conflict?” Gordon Hahn
US uranium miners resurrected by nuclear revival and Ukraine struggle FT
Haiti
Haiti’s capital ‘underneath siege’ as armed gangs assault key infrastructure France24
US mulls deploying Marine safety crew to Haiti amid gang disaster Marine Corps Instances. Be aware: URL exhibits authentic headline: “elite-marine-security-team-deploys-to-haiti-amid-gang-crisis.” Besides not:
Marine Corps Instances has issued an enormous correction: US troops are NOT on the bottom in Haiti, and are being mentioned as a contingency. pic.twitter.com/rRwLxNqJux
— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) March 8, 2024
Blooper? Final minute change of plans?
Biden Administration
Biden administration to deliver port crane manufacturing again to the US Seatrade Maritime
Why astronomers are frightened about 2 main telescopes proper now Area.com
2024
What’s Actually Going On with Immigration? Neil Howe, Demography Unplugged
Antitrust
How 16 Corporations are Dominating the World’s Google Search Outcomes (2024 Version) Detailed
Healthcare
Need assistance with a giant medical invoice? How a former surgeon common is combating a $5,000 tab USA As we speak. Jerome Adams
Digital Watch
The De-Google Venture Tim Bray
Palantir’s NHS-stealing Large Lie Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic. On Palantir and the NHS, see NC right here, right here, and right here.
Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls WIred
49% of founders say they’re contemplating quitting their startup this yr Sifted
Silicon Valley is pricing teachers out of AI analysis WaPo
Bushnell
Will Aaron Bushnell’s Loss of life Set off Anarchism Witch Hunt? The Intercept
Our Famously Free Press
How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism William Deresiewicz, Persuasion
The Oscars
Hayao Miyazaki scoops second Oscar with The Boy And The Heron Channel Information Asia
On the Crimson Carpet London Assessment of Books
* * * Jonathan Glazer Condemns ‘Occupation’ and Violence in Israel and Gaza NYT. Shudder quotes? Actually? What Glazer stated: “Proper now, we stand right here as males who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to battle for therefore many harmless folks.” What Selection says Glazer stated. Commentary:
.@Selection ought to actually right this this. This isn’t in any respect what Jonathan Glazer stated. It is lacking some key phrases. https://t.co/opSIBf8rSY pic.twitter.com/2VtV1ysjrV
— Avi Asher-Schapiro (@AASchapiro) March 11, 2024
Who edited this? Might they at the very least have signaled the omission with an ellipsis?
Class Warfare
The 0 darkish thirty shift: At work with the sweepers, lifties and corduroy farmers who maintain Colorado resorts buzzing Colorado Solar
Getting meals delivered in New York is straightforward. For the employees who do it, getting paid just isn’t AP
The Billionaire And The Con Artist Forbes
Forecaster Peter Turchin: ‘The US is in a way more perilous state than Russia’ FT
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