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The Great Elk Trek. Micael T: “Beautiful nature with the occasional elk.”. Moi: You need to be patient.
2 More Endangered Ferrets Have Been Cloned from Critter Frozen in the 1980s People (furzy)
89-Year-Old Japanese Man Bikes Over 370 Miles to Visit Children Halfway Across the Country My Modern Met
No One Buys Books Any More Elysian Press
Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves in startling image New Scientist (Dr. Kevin)
Monkeypox virus: dangerous strain gains ability to spread through sex, new data suggest Nature (Dr. Kevin)
Belgian Man Whose Stomach Brews Alcohol Beats Drink Driving Charge Science (Chuck L)
What is a confounder (confounding variable), and why should I care? Nerdy Girls (Dr. Kevin)
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching Springer (Dr. Kevin, Paul R)
Parents Who Regret Having Children TIME (Dr. Kevin)
Breaking: Bird flu particles found in pasteurized milk; FDA backs safety of supply STAT. Lordie.
Viral particles of H5N1 bird flu have been found in commercial milk but the FDA says it’s safe to drink.
Testing is currently underway to confirm pasteurization killed the virus. Results will be made public in the coming days or weeks. pic.twitter.com/gjhDFIpByo
— BNO News (@BNOFeed) April 24, 2024
#COVID-19
Man dies after 613-day COVID-19 infection that underwent 50 mutations Scripps (furzy)
Climate/Environment
Toyota’s Hydrogen Future Is Crumbling As Owners File Lawsuits, Call For Buybacks InsideEVs
I KNEW EVs were not all they are claimed to be! Click through to see the money quote:
It takes 7 years for an electric car to reach net-zero CO2. The life expectancy of the battery is 10 years (average). Only in the last 3 years do you start to reduce your carbon footprint, but then the batteries must be replaced and you lose all gains made.
And finally, consider the amount of energy required to process the raw materials and the amount of energy used to haul these batteries to the U.S. sometimes back and forth a couple of times.
Ok kiddos…It’s time for Environmental Class!!
YAY !!!!
This is a Tesla model Y battery. It takes up all of the space under the passenger compartment of the car.
To manufacture it you need:–12 tons of rock for Lithium (can also be extracted from sea water)— 5 tons of… pic.twitter.com/r9mO9jpH4H
— Denise (@Likeshesays) April 23, 2024
What Really Happens When You Trade In an iPhone at the Apple Store Bloomberg (ma)
As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive Grist
China?
Yuan internationalization drive hits a local speed bump Asia Times
China’s Ageing Tech Workers Hit By ‘Curse of 35’ Financial Times
Africa
US troops set to withdraw from Niger, State Department official says CNN
U.S.-Trained Burkina Faso Military Executed 220 Civilians Intercept
Gaza
UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals Guardian
Three days under fire: Palestinians in Tulkarem describe the ‘most violent’ Israeli raid in years Mondoweiss
Israeli army preparing for Rafah ground offensive ‘very soon’: Report Anadolu Agency
Palestinian families, terrorized by relentless Israeli bombardment in Beit Lahia, flee the area seeking safety. pic.twitter.com/Bw8bStO1c5
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 23, 2024
Hezbollah Air Defences Shoot Down Another Israeli Hermes Drone Amid Escalating Hostilities Military Watch
‘Smokescreen’: officials voice concern over US plans for Gaza aid pier Guardian (furzy). D’ohblockquote>
Gaza Protests
The outrageous clampdown protests against Israel’s slaughter in Gaza are not isolated incidents. They reveal a larger, ominous reality:
To sustain blind support for Israel, Western countries are forced to erode their own democracies.
We are seeing clear signs of this. In the… pic.twitter.com/sRrDqRu2M6
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) April 23, 2024
Very beautiful message by Mélenchon, amidst attempts to smear him and his party in France for “antisemitism” because of his support of Palestinians.
Here’s a translation of what he says:
“The worst form of domestication is racism. Whether it is Islamophobic racism, anti-Semitic… https://t.co/Dw29EOEIXh
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) April 23, 2024
University protesters at @Columbia @nyuniversity @MIT and other academic institutions are receiving the classic Zionist treatment, or as I call it –
The “Zionist one-two propaganda punch”
A thread 🧵1/
— Yoav Litvin (@nookyelur) April 23, 2024
NYPD is intimidating the students as they pray; non-praying students are rushing to protect them. pic.twitter.com/Xna645WYUt
— Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) April 23, 2024
infiltrator school is not very good, yesterday a guy jumped into the encampment and my friend asked him who he is so he says “i’m with the organizers” she goes “okay which org?” and man says “ana arabi, *pause* ana masri” https://t.co/Z0BUamLxxV
— 𓂆 حلا (@hotgirlhala) April 23, 2024
Berlin bans protesters from singing in Irish and Hebrew at pro-Palestine rally New Arab (Kevin W)
Google Fires More Employees Over Protest of Cloud Contract With Israel Axios
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine war: Kyiv tightens pressure on fighting age men abroad BBC
Mark Sleboda: Russia has DESTROYED Ukraine’s Army and Putin’s Next Move has NATO Worried Danny Haipong, YouTube. Much better than the headline. Includes how NATO is gearing up for a long-term conflict over control of Odessa and the Black Sea.
US State Department cites Ukraine’s national newscast in human rights violations report Ukrainska Pravda
Evan Gershkovich: Appeal rejected by Moscow court DW
🇪🇪 Estonian Interior Minister Läänemets has threatened to close Orthodox monasteries that refuse to renounce their allegiance to the Russian Orthodox Church.
He also recently proposed that the Estonian parliament recognise the Moscow Patriarchate as a terrorist organisation.…
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) April 23, 2024
German leader tells Putin he can’t quote legendary philosopher RT. Micael T: “Scholz wouldn’t even understand the title of any of Kant’s books.”
How Armenia destroyed in just a few years what it had spent decades building Anti-Spiegel (Micael T)
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) New York Times
Google Delays Cookie Phase-Out Following Regulatory Pushback Wall Street Journal
Imperial Collapse Watch
The US military is embedding its officers in corporate America Responsible Statescraft (Kevin W)
On Warsplaining, or: How prevailing political assumptions have encouraged a bizarre discourse on human conflict that often studiously ignores what these conflicts are actually about eugyppius (Micael T)
Trump
Inside the Off-the-Record Calls Held by Anti-Trump Legal Pundits Politico
Bill would strip Trump of his Secret Service protection if convicted Ground (furzy). Petty in light of the fact that convicted criminals can run for President, witness Eugene Debs.
Biden
Games Biden Plays Counterpunch. On Venezuela.
Biden, 81, suffers ANOTHER embarrassing gaffe as his attempt to brand Trump untrustworthy spectacularly backfires at Florida rally Daily Mail (BC)
2024
Five takeaways from the Pennsylvania primaries The Hill
Gunz
Tennessee passes bill to let teachers carry guns at school DW
Police State Watch
Arkansas senators say Clinton airport exec. killed by ATF with no bodycam: ‘Violation of its own policy‘ Fox
Antitrust
FTC Enrages Corporate America by Eliminating Non-Compete Agreements Matt Stoller
AI
Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI The Register (Paul R)
Tesla driver was using Autopilot before fatal Monroe crash, police say Seattle Times. Furzy: “Tesla kills.”
Class Warfare
Starbucks Leads Business Opposition to Pro-Worker Labor Board Wall Street Journal (Dr. Kevin)
Tesla cutting around 2,700 jobs in Austin and more than 3,300 in California as part of broad restructuring CNBC
Antidote du jour (Alan T):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.