What was that falling from the sky Friday morning? Graupel! MPR. Chuck L: “I have lived in Minnesota for all but 12 years of my life, but never before have I heard of graupel.”
Turning plants blue with gene editing could make robot weeding easier New Scientist (Dr. Kevin)
In Two States, Transforming the Model for Palliative Care Undark
As Syphilis Cases Soar in Newborns, ACOG Advises More Testing During Pregnancy Associated Press. Third world.
Influencers Love Ozempic—but They Aren’t Telling You About the Risks Wall Street Journal. IM Doc by e-mail some months ago:
We have already had 3 people in this area who have ODd on these drugs accidentally – resulting in rather long hospital stays for hypoglycemia. It is actually pretty wicked.
I will admit – I ONLY put the orders in for any of these drugs the first thing in the AM – the dosing and concentrations on these things are absolutely hare-brained.
But where is the outrage?
#COVID-19
Has COVID set us up for a major heart disease epidemic? It’s happened before – Post 1918 as’ Flu epidemic. I’ve been raising these concerns for several years now re:SARS2. I’ve raised them to politicians, DHSC, CMOs,WHO – yet we still aren’t mitigating 1/ https://t.co/ebSYNgdBxv
— Rae (@Sunny_Rae1) April 19, 2024
After Covid abruptly disabled me in very early 2020, I spent the next 4 years trying to educate people. I made countless threads about the nefarious players who infiltrated governments & defunded & gutted public health as a gift to business. The worst people on the planet are…
— Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) April 19, 2024
Climate/Environment
India makes a big bet on electric buses Yale Climate Connection
‘Water is more valuable than oil’: the corporation cashing in on America’s drought Guardian (Kevin W)
Removing PFAS from public water systems will cost billions and take time – here are ways you can filter out harmful ‘forever chemicals’ at home The Conversation. NYC has PFAS free water! You do get something for all those taxes.
EPA Will Make Polluters Pay To Clean Up Two ‘Forever Chemicals’ New York Times
Tesla co-founder JB Straubel has built an EV-battery colossus in the scrublands of Nevada. He spent the day giving me the first look at everything @redwoodmat has been building.
It starts with *30 acres* of old batteries headed headed for recycling 🧵 pic.twitter.com/hUgwz8j8ut
— Tom Randall (@tsrandall) April 18, 2024
Pathways Alliance Paid Google to Advertise on ‘Greenwashing’ Searches DeSmog
Experts raise concerns about how our environment will give rise to an ominous new era of unrest: ‘That’s the politics of the armed lifeboat’ MSN
New York Passed an Ambitious Climate Bill for Publicly Owned Power. The Perfect Partner? McKinsey Hell Gate
China?
Chinese Cities Are Sinking Rapidly NPR
De-Dollarization: Even Businesses in China Are Hanging Onto Their USD Business Insider (furzy)
India
India election: Voting begins as Modi seeks 3rd term DW
Indian IT Outsourcing Firms Cut 60,000 Jobs in First Layoffs in 20 Years India Dispatch
Down Under
Sydney stabbing incidents stoke Islamophobia, antisemitism as social tensions in Australia unravel South China Morning Post
European Disunion
EU member worried about ‘underground’ mosques – media RT.Kevin W: “They should check Rome’s Catacombs!”
Old Blighty
Squatters move into Marco Pierre White’s Leicester Square restaurant days after Gordon Ramsay pub Independent
Crackdown on ‘sick note culture’ could see GPs banned from signing people off Metro (GM). More on this story.
Gaza
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 196: Israel strikes Iran, Gaza health ministry says Israel destroyed the Strip’s health system Mondoweiss
Major U.S. Charity Blocks Donations to Gaza Relief Agency Amid Starvation Rolling Stone (ma)
The US Doesn’t Support A Two-State Solution, It Just Supports Saying It Does Caitlin Johnstone (Kevin W)
Blinken shelves special request to probe Israeli war crimes: Report The Cradle
Is the Gaza war destabilizing Jordan? Responsible Statecraft
Israel v. Iran
Israel gave US ‘last minute’ warning before attacking Iran Telegraph. Includes “Netanyahu’s war cabinet splintering as security minister calls attack on Iran ‘lame’”
Max Blumenthal: Hamas Still Stands YouTube. See particularly starting at 14:07, on Israel press admissions about the effectiveness of Iran attacks, that Israel took down only about 84% of the Iran missiles, as opposed to the much ballyhooed 99%.
Precision over power: How Iran’s ‘obsolete’ missiles penetrated Israel’s air defenses The Cradle (Chuck L)
Israel Ceases to Exist If It Goes Nuclear | Andrei Martyanov Nima, YouTube. A topic of discussion in comments yesterday
Israel and Iran: Itching for War, Playing with Fire Juan Cole (Randy K)
New Not-So-Cold War
Sizing up the China-Russia ‘New Axis’ Asia Times
Ukraine introduces scheduled blackouts in 3 regions amid Russian attacks Kyiv Independent
SITREP 4/19/24: A Small Gust for Ukraine’s Sails? Simplicius the Thinker
ECB fires back at plans to seize Russian assets RT. From Thursday, still germane.
UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were ‘government’ backed Grayzone
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules ars technica
Senate reaches deal to pass FISA reauthorization by deadline The Hill
UK digital visas to fully replace physical immigration documents by 2025 Biometric Update
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data New York Times
Trump
Man Who Self-Immolated Near Trump Trial Has Been Identified: Live Updates New York Magazine. Daily Beast had posted a link to his Substack manifesto and appears to have also embedded it, but that has been scrubbed. If anyone has come across a copy that is still up (perhaps via the non-US press?) please pipe up with details.
Trump campaign says it will deploy thousands of election workers to monitor poll sites Politico
Trump Eyes Social Security Cuts By Slashing Payroll Tax Common Dreams (Paul R)
Our No Longer Free Press
Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Day After Omar Grills Its President Truthout
Microsoft’s VASA-1 Can Deepfake a Person With One Photo and One Audio Track ars technica
AI
Linus Torvalds on ‘Hilarious’ AI Hype ZDNet
The First Unintended Consequence Of AI—And It’s Huge Forbes (furzy)
Meta’s newest AI-powered chatbots show off impressive features and bizarre behavior CBS (Kevin W)
Netflix Doc Accused of Using AI To Manipulate True Crime Story ars technica
Reddit Is Taking Over Google Business Insider
The Bezzle
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 Nikkei
Class Warfare
Why Do My Groceries Cost So Much? Counterpunch
A Great Labor Explosion: Will Auto Workers Unionize in Trump Country? Matt Stoller
Supreme Court should let states and cities clear homeless encampments Washington Post (Dr. Kevin)
FAA to increase time off between air traffic controller shifts after report highlights risks CNN (Kevin W)
War on the Young Scott Galloway (Robert H). Useful data, but agency wrong. This is capital versus the young, with young capitalists also benefitting.
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits Nola (Kevin W)
IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay The Register
Antidote du jour. CC: “This guy showed up in my backyard last spring with six hens. The flock loved my birdfeeders. They moved on after a few weeks, but two hens stayed and still show up at the feeders every day.”
And a bonus (Chuck L). Is this doe a Darwin Award candidate, or has she worked out does are not allowed to be shot during hunting season?
A hunter while aiming at a deer, pulls down his weapon, and she peacefully approaches him. pic.twitter.com/8ZzF0qAm4i
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 19, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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