Hyperlinks 5/25/2023 | bare capitalism

Yves says she has to stand up very at the moment for property duties, and so should sleep when she would in any other case be posting. So want her luck, and she or he’ll make it as much as you later. –lambert

If you undertake a desert tortoise, put together for a surprisingly social and zippy pet AP

Borealis Mud Volcano – Distinctive new volcano found within the Barents Sea The Watchers

Non-public-Fairness Fundraising Blues Weigh Closely on Newer Managers WSJ

Downtown LA’s Workplace Misery Exhibits the Ache Coming for Cities Bloomberg. Why, it’s virtually as if, official propaganda however, persons are voting with their toes towards 3Cs areas, like workplaces (with elevators).

Foul Temper? Barry Ritholz, The Huge Image

Tina Turner, ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ whose triumphant profession made her world-famous, dies at 83 AP

Local weather

Ozone Treaty Delayed Arctic Melting by 15 Years Scientific American

What Is Allowing Reform? Right here’s a Cheat Sheet. Warmth Map. If you wish to combat any infrastructural mission, perceive allowing.

The Good “Pathogen” Storm – Lethal Micro organism Is Adapting to Plastic Scitech Day by day

Water

Regardless of deal, Colorado River’s long-term water disaster stays unsolved Los Angeles Occasions. Helpful chart:

Unimaginable how lengthy it’s taken main newsrooms to determine the trade killing the Colorado River (ranching), but it surely’s lastly occurring.

The info visualization is each stunning and horrifying. https://t.co/X6HCusgdm0 pic.twitter.com/9EyEjvUKqX

— spencer 🐡 (@Unpop_Science) Might 22, 2023

#COVID19

Estimation of Extra Mortality in Germany Throughout 2020-2022 Cureus. From the Conclusion: “These findings point out that one thing should have occurred in spring 2021 that led to a sudden and sustained improve in mortality, though no such results on mortality had been noticed through the early COVID-19 pandemic up to now.” Mind Belief member GM’s most important observations:

1) Germany stopped counting in mid-2022 and because of this extra deaths in December 2022 had been 6-7x the official COVID deaths. 2) It was truly the worst winter of the pandemic for them but it surely was virtually fully ignored by the media and official statistics suppressed it 3) As I’ve identified many occasions, there isn’t a temporal correlation between vaccination drives and extra deaths.

(#1 can be a triumph of German (social) engineering….) GM: “Numerous helpful knowledge, Figures 7 and 9 are essentially the most related.” Right here they’re:

Research finds vital quantity of clotting within the arteries of sufferers with STEMI and COVID-19 Information Medical Life Sciences

COVID-19 vaccines could endure main overhaul this fall Science

China?

US State Division’s prime China official Rick Waters is stepping down South China Morning Publish

New Chinese language ambassador to US acknowledges ‘severe difficulties’ in relations Channel Information Asia

The partitions are closing in:

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As Caixin notes, “The primary holders of LGFV bonds embody banks and insurance coverage firms, and banks are additionally main lenders to the automobiles. The federal government is worried that any large-scale defaults might destabilize the banking sector and the monetary system.”

— Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis) Might 25, 2023

LGVF = Native Authorities Financing Automobile. “They name it a ‘automobile’ as a result of it’s designed to drive off together with your cash.”

China’s 2023 iron ore imports seen unchanged as demand falters – trade sources Hellenic Transport Information

Myanmar

UN urges Myanmar junta to divulge heart’s contents to Cyclone Mocha reduction Channel Information Asia. Myanmar’s mlitary rulers failed to deal with a cyclone in 2008: “[T]he Burmese regime was caught between the plain want for assist and an acute sense that its survival depends upon protecting the reality from its folks and from the world.” Historical past rhymes….

The Koreas

Large Inventory Pump-and-Dump Scheme Alleged, That includes Power Corporations and Okay-pop Stars The Blue Roof

Syraqistan

China stated to be negotiating arms offers with Saudi Arabia and Egypt South China Morning Publish

European Disunion

Spanish voters face ‘unusual disaster’ of excessive employment and rising costs FT

Will Romania Turn out to be The third Submarine Operator In The Black Sea? Naval Information

Expensive Outdated Blighty

Meals costs are falling dramatically on world markets. Why then is UK meals value inflation operating at 19%? Richard Murphy, Funding the Future (was Ta Analysis UK).

SNP assist down as Sure voters eye Labour, ballot finds Holyrood

Ely riot: All the things we all know after loss of life of two boys and unanswered questions that stay Wales On-line

New Not-So-Chilly Conflict

Ukraine’s membership amid warfare ‘not on agenda,’ says NATO chief and NATO chief says supply of F-16s to Ukraine ‘stays to be determined’ Anadolu Company. Ouch and ouch!

I used to be simply in Kyiv below hearth. I noticed why Ukraine can win. Max Boot, WaPo. “The Ukrainians tried negotiating an finish to the warfare within the Minsk course of.” Angela Merkel (!!) disagrees, so one can solely marvel what else Boot is delusional about.

Ukraine Misplaced in Bakhmut. However It Has A lot Greater Plans (transcript) NYT. Doubling down.

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Ukraine Armed Forces’ Commander-in-Chief Receives Head Damage in Missile Strike: Supply to Sputnik Sputnik however Russia has knowledge on Zaluzhny’s situation, however is not going to disclose it — overseas intel chief TASS. Is it actually a coincidence that Zaluzhny disappears and Ukraine ratchets up the cray cray in Belgorod, after shedding the most important battle on the nice European plain since World Conflict II?

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A take a look at the Free Russia Legion, the pro-Ukrainian group that attacked Belgorod France24

Russian raiders of Belgorod facet with Ukraine however battle to stay to Kyiv’s official line CNN. Oh, my candy summer season little one!

Recent From Assault on Russian Soil, Raiders Taunt the Kremlin NYT. As a result of the world is like highschool.

White Home says it’s wanting into reviews about Ukraine’s use of US automobiles in Russia Anadolu Company

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Head of Russian personal military Wagner says greater than 20,000 of his troops died in Bakhmut battle AP

Questioning About Prigozhin Weapons and Technique. The deck: “Will he run for President in Russia?”

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After Ukraine: Arming down for lasting Eurasian safety Accountable Statecraft. Articles like these assume that the USA is agreement-capable, however we’re not. Why would Russia signal on to a second Minsk, in order that the Azovs can rebuild and provides it one other go? Large triers, these boys.

The End result of the Conflict in Ukraine Will depend on China and India The Nation. The deck: “Whether or not Individuals prefer it or not, this nation may have little alternative however to start planning for an rising world order.” Or others will do the planning for us. Oh, wait, that’s already occurring….

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Tech-Mythologies New Left Evaluate. “Ukraine claims to be the primary state on the earth with a digital ID that’s legitimate all through the nation.” Commentary:

At this occasion on the Diaa digital ID app, I requested Ukraine’s ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova about her govt selling itself as a laboratory for predatory surveillance tech & its upkeep of a kill record that features my colleagues Anya and @aaronjmate

She walked away https://t.co/PmH2zuALk6 pic.twitter.com/eBdd5lyYf1

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) Might 23, 2023

South of the Border

Argentina in talks to broaden China forex swap line, supply says Reuters

LAC turns into second-largest vacation spot for China’s outbound funding Xinhua. LAC = Latin American and Caribbean.

Biden Administration

Listed below are some doable debt ceiling escape hatches for McCarthy, Biden The Hill

JPMorgan’s US debt default Q&A FT. The deck: “Sellside analysis as a public service.”

Pressing measures are wanted to shore up NIST’s crumbling services Physics Immediately

Central NY resort administration despatched long-term residents scrambling to make room for migrant contracts Syracuse.com (bob). On the brilliant facet, who stated actual property was lifeless?

2024

DeSantis, Musk bash the media – after embarrassment of Twitter chat crashing FOX

Digital Watch

Fixing the explainable AI conundrum by bridging clinicians’ wants and builders’ objectives Nature. “[Clinicians] had been on the lookout for the scientific plausibility of mannequin outcomes. They did this by connecting mannequin outputs with patient-specific context info gathered from EHR methods* and by observing the manifestations of scientific signs of their sufferers…. they had been on the lookout for the scientific plausibility of mannequin outcomes. They did this by connecting mannequin outputs with patient-specific context info gathered from EHR methods and by observing the manifestations of scientific signs of their sufferers.” Definitely AI, being a bullshit generator, is effectively positioned to ship “plausibility.” However will reifying typical knowledge in software program imply that paradigmatic shifts will likely be tougher than they already are? I’m guessing sure. NOTE * EHR is optimized for billing, allow us to bear in mind. So the fashions would, presumably, additionally optimize for upcoding.

Healthcare

How docs purchase their method out of hassle Reuters. A must-read.

The Bezzle

How Will We Know When Self-Driving Vehicles Are Secure? When They Can Deal with the World’s Worst Drivers WSJ. Which explains why they’re being examined in Phoenix, with its broad streets, rectangular streetmap, and wuss-level snow.

Gunz

Empowered or Traumatized? A Name for Proof-Knowledgeable Armed-Assailant Drills in U.S. Colleges NEJM. “Have we utilized the rigor of evidence-informed determination making to those armed-assailant preparedness drills which have profoundly modified the college expertise?” Rigor just isn’t, in itself, a optimistic, if the premises for it are improper.

Guillotine Watch

Why Are Economists Nonetheless Unsure Concerning the Results of Financial Coverage? Federal Reserve Financial institution of Coverage. As a result of they haven’t added sufficient epicycles?

Class Warfare

Billionaires Contribute to Local weather Change the Most — and Decide Local weather Coverage Teen Vogue

Air air pollution publicity linked to extreme COVID-19 outcomes Heart for Infectious Illness Analysis and Coverage. Stochastic eugenics.

LiDAR analyses within the contiguous Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala: an introduction to new views on regional early Maya socioeconomic and political group Historical Mesoamerica. WaPo story. Commentary:

“The primary freeway system.” Fancy that!

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