New Clues to the Origins of Human Medicine: Chimpanzees Caught Healing Each Other\u2019s Wounds in the Wild <\/a>SciTechDaily (Chuck L)<\/p>\n Dolphins Give Themselves Names That Could Hide Secret Information<\/a> ScienceAlert (Chuck L). See? Sp Putin really was using them as spies!<\/p>\n 250 million bees escape after truck overturns in US<\/a> DW<\/p>\n A cure for individualism<\/a> aeon<\/p>\n Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection<\/a> SSRN. Paul R:<\/p>\n This paper brought to you by the letters W, T, and F. I thought toxic origins meant prior bad behaviour or something metaphorical like that, but no, they literally meant prenatal exposure to toxins leading to dysfunctional CEO behaviour. The abstract:<\/p>\n We examine how selection bias in CEO promotion amplifies risk-taking, using prenatal exposure to pollution as an exogenous shock to individual risk preferences. CEOs born in future Superfund sites are more likely to be promoted internally, suggesting firms reward observed success without recognizing underlying risk tolerance. These \u201cSuperfund CEOs\u201d excel in internal roles but pursue riskier external policies once promoted-leading to greater volatility and weaker performance. Our results suggest firms may systematically mistake luck for skill in promotion decisions, filtering for high-variance risk-takers whose traits only become problematic when decision-making shifts to exposed, irreversible domains. In short, Superfund CEOs display performance with essentially lower mean but higher variance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Moi: See this list of spurious correlations<\/a>, which also includes AI justifications! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Harmful chemicals often migrate into tinned food \u2013 here\u2019s how to avoid eating them<\/a> The Conversation<\/p>\n #COVID-19<\/p>\n COVID-Related Cardiac Deaths Spiked Significantly Post-Pandemic<\/a> Naveen Shankar<\/p>\n Thailand, Singapore and China mask up as COVID-19 reemerges<\/a> Nikkei<\/p>\n Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids<\/a> Washington Post. But no one is recommending ventilation for kids. IM Doc reported that a school district in his region did that in a serious way, plus had sick kids stay home for the duration, and their level of cases was a IIRC 1\/10th the average in the state. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Climate\/Environment<\/p>\n World faces new danger of \u2018economic denial\u2019 in climate fight, Cop30 head says<\/a> Guardian (Kevin W)<\/p>\n Scientists fear Britain\u2019s entire food chain is contaminated as study finds microplastics in bugs <\/a>Independent<\/p>\n Carbon footprint of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries<\/a> Guardian (resilc)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n China?<\/p>\n US defence secretary urges military build-up over \u2018imminent\u2019 China threat<\/a> Financial Times<\/p>\n Trump claims China has \u201ctotally violated\u201d tariff pause deal<\/a> Axios<\/p>\n Bessent Says US-China Talks \u2018Stalled,\u2019 Pushes for Trump-Xi Call<\/a> Bloomberg<\/p>\n U.S.-China Trade Truce Risks Falling Apart Over Rare-Earth Exports<\/a> Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n All the Chinese tech giants are currently in the process of switching from Nvidia to homegrown AI chips, forced to do so by US export controls.<\/p>\n Hard to overstate how ironic it is: the entire point of the export controls was to prevent exactly this, the whole of China \u2013 the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/t1G5Ygcxgy<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) May 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Macron to China: Keep North Korea out of Ukraine war or risk NATO coming to Asia<\/a> Politico (Kevin W). Kill me now. I hope we get a Global Times finger-wagging on the epic stoopid that this demand represents. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Japan<\/p>\n Soaring rice prices are stirring political trouble in Japan \u2013 history shows this often leads to a change of government<\/a> The Conversation (Kevin W)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n European Disunion<\/p>\n Brussels tells EU capitals to cut water use by 10% in face of droughts<\/a> Financial Times<\/p>\n Global investors launch Europe defence funds to profit from rearmament<\/a> Reuters<\/p>\n Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country? <\/a> Guardian (Kevin W)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Old Blighty<\/p>\n UK car production slumps to lowest April levels since 1952 amid van factory closure and global trade turmoil<\/a> BM Magazine<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Israel v. the Resistance<\/p>\n \u2018Catastrophic hunger\u2019: UN warns 2.3 million people in Gaza face starvation<\/a> Aljazeera<\/p>\n When the Dead Speak and the Living Refuse to Listen<\/a> CounterPunch (resilc)<\/p>\n What\u2019s inside the boxes of aid being distributed in Gaza?<\/a> Middle East Eye<\/p>\n The \u2018chaos\u2019 of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail. <\/a>Mondoweiss<\/p>\n Hamas says US Gaza ceasefire plan backed by Israel fails to meet its demands<\/a> BBC<\/p>\n The US, Britain, France, and Germany are preparing to push the UN nuclear watchdog to declare Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations at the upcoming IAEA meeting \u2014 the first such declaration in nearly two decades, Reuters reported citing diplomats. pic.twitter.com\/y9vrc8S7zu<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) May 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump Says New Iran Deal Must Allow US To \u2018Blow Up Whatever We Want\u2019 <\/a> Antiwar.com (Kevin W)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n New Not-So-Cold War<\/p>\n CopeState map updates. “Grey zone” in their parlance can mean anything from actually grey zone (i.e., not really under anyone’s control) to 100% secured by Russian forces. <\/p>\n Sumy oblast is turning into a shaping theater. Kiev has already siphoned off two of its better mobile\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/EDB2akrSw1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) May 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u203c\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 Uprising in Ukraine. The media won’t show you this because it doesn’t fit the narrative.<\/p>\n The Ukrainian people are now mobilising to attack or hinder conscription officers taking their sons and husbands. pic.twitter.com\/y7DZBwzbaW<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Spetsna\u2124 007 \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa (@Alex_Oloyede2) May 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n U.S.-Supplied Air Defenses Fail In Ukraine<\/a> Moon of Alabama<\/p>\n Zelenskyy says he discussed possible Ukraine-Russia-US-T\u00fcrkiye summit with Turkish president<\/a> Anadolu Agency. Lordie. Trying to retrade the \u201cshape of the table\u201d agreement. So how can Ukraine be trusted to adhere to anything serious?<\/p>\n NATO reportedly wants 40,000 more German troops for defense against Russia<\/a> Kyiv Independent<\/p>\n WWIII came and went <\/a>Julian Macfarlane<\/p>\n Putin Seeks Broad Security Agreement, + Oreshnik to Berlin?<\/a> Simpilcius. resilc: \u201cAny western pledge is equal to a bucket of cold spit\u201d<\/p>\n WHAT DID PRESIDENT TRUMP KNOW WHEN PRESIDENT PUTIN\u2019S HELICOPTER CAME UNDER UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK IN KURSK<\/a> John Helmer<\/p>\n The government is selling the roof<\/a> Kommersant via machine transaltion. Micael T: \u201cHousing must be an object of speculation, never just a house.\u201d Moi: The neoliberals won in Russia.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Big Brother is Watching You Watch<\/p>\n Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans<\/a> New York Times. resilc: \u201cStasiland.\u201d<\/p>\n NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans\u2019 data with Israel<\/a> Guardian (Chuck L)<\/p>\n Haiti\u2019s Beleaguered Government Launches Drones Against Gangs<\/a> Wall Street Journal. resilc: \u201cComing to USA USA for a two way battle vs the state\u201d<\/p>\n Imagine letting your rival read every chip blueprint you design. That\u2019s what the US just confirmed you\u2019ve been doing.https:\/\/t.co\/ZzFJBkWsN3<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 William Huo (@wmhuo168) May 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Imperial Collapse Watch<\/p>\n Larry Wilkerson & Chas Freeman: Why America\u2019s Missing Grand Strategy Could Be a Global Disaster<\/a> Dialogue Works. A must listen. Note both say the US has no grand strategy, which is even worse than a bad one. <\/p>\n Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov\u2019s remarks at Eurasian international public political hearings on the formation of a contour of equal and indivisible security and cooperation in Eurasia, Perm, May 29, 2025 <\/a>Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Important. Lavrov has found new notes in depicting how Russia has had it with the duplicitous US. <\/p>\n America Let Its Military-Industrial Might Wither. China\u2019s Is Booming<\/a> Wall Street Journal (resilc)<\/p>\n How American intelligence sees the new global order<\/a> Lorenzo Maria Pacini (Chuck L)<\/p>\n Why liberal democracies win total wars<\/a> Engelsberg Ideas. Readers no doubt readers will have a field day. Without having read this, one wonders how this article tortures facts so as to deny that it was Russia that defeated Germany in World War II.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump 2.0<\/p>\n Jamie Dimon warns US bond market will \u2018crack\u2019 under pressure from rising debt<\/a> Financial Times. The Fed can go the Japan route of buying the debt\u2026but many heads will explode. <\/p>\n Surprise! New \u201cMAHA\u201d Report Is Full of Junk Science and Fake Studies<\/a> New Republic Looks like RFJ, Jr. is up to his old tricks. I could not get past the first chapter of his Fauci book due to its dishonesty. It was heavily footnoted and over half were bogus. In the majority of that half, the text of the book misrepresented what the study said. For the rest, the evidence in the footnote was dubious, such as from a cherry picked, contested study. <\/p>\n ACA coverage losses resulting from tax bill could rile GOP voters<\/a> STAT<\/p>\n GOP runs into voter buzzsaw of criticism on Trump\u2019s \u2018big, beautiful bill\u2019<\/a> The Hill<\/p>\n Republican Senator (Iowa) Joni Ernst hosted a tall hall this morning. The county (Butler) voted 72% for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Medicaid cuts (UNIVERSALLY UNPOPULAR, even in GOP strongholds) came up, the audience yelled “people will die!”<\/p>\n With a big ass shit-eating grin, she replied\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Drwz2ySLOZ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 William Walter (@wilwalter93) May 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n New York Charities Worry They Won\u2019t Be Able to Make Up for Steep Medicaid and SNAP Cuts<\/a> THE CITY<\/p>\n I don\u2019t understand the basis for concern from Varoufakis re other nations\u2019 CBDCs. The US has no jurisdiction. If the US tries something epically stupid, like yanking the banking licenses of foreign banks licensed in New York (the most common way for foreign banks to operate in the dollar) in countries that allow CBDCs, that would in very short order create a global depression. Trade and international securities transactions would come to a grinding halt. It would probably stop the operation of Visa and Mastercard overseas, for instance. Nevertheless:<\/p>\n TRUMP WANTS THE DARKEST CORNERS OF BIG TECH TO OWN THE DOLLAR <\/p>\n The IMF-World Bank Spring meetings are usually placid affairs that participating central bankers wish to forget soon after they are over. Not this Spring. This April the feeling several central bankers brought back\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) May 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Tariffs<\/p>\n Trump doubles steel tariffs to 50% in \u2018major announcement\u2019<\/a> CNN. Lordie. Aluminum too. So Trump has to compensate for the courts roughing him up on his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs? <\/p>\n Immigration<\/p>\n The Trump Administration Wants to Create an \u2018Office of Remigration\u2019<\/a> Wired (Dr. Kevin)<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s Deportations Haunt Workers in the Fields of Rural New York<\/a> New York Times. resilc: \u201cDairies will be closing\u2026.twice a day times 365 milkingzzzzzzzzzzz\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Groves of Academe<\/p>\n US orders extra visa screening for Harvard-bound travelers<\/a> Anadolu Agency (Kevin W)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Mr. Market is Moody<\/p>\n U.S. Oil Companies Are \u2018Battening Down the Hatches\u2019<\/a> New York Times (Kevin W)<\/p>\n How Financial Services, a Market Plunge in April, and a Historic Cliff-Dive by Recreation Services Messed with PCE Inflation Today. But a Snap-Back Cometh<\/a> Wolf Richter<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n AI<\/p>\n AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data<\/a> Futurism. We linked to the underlying story, but important not to miss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Bezzle<\/p>\n Digital Corruption Takes Over DC<\/a> Paul Krugman (resilc)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Guillotine Watch<\/p>\n Exclusive | Former Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure Sells Aspen Teardown for $37.3 Million<\/a> Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n Musk\u2019s SpaceX town in Texas proposes a new map and zoning<\/a> CNBC (resilc)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Class Warfare<\/p>\n Burnout is at a 10-year high for U.S. workers<\/a> The Hill (resilc)<\/p>\n Don\u2019t Call It a Side Hustle. These Americans Are \u2018Polyworking.\u2019<\/a> New York Times. resilc: \u201cserfs until death.\u201d<\/p>\n The Tragic History of Neoliberalism<\/a> Robert Reich (resilc). Did he ever apologize for touting NAFTA? I seem to have missed it.<\/p>\n Colorado\u2019s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms<\/a> Associated Press (Paul R) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Antidote du jour (via<\/a>):<\/p>\n A bonus:<\/p>\n I can\u2019t stop laughing.. \ud83d\ude02 pic.twitter.com\/MAU6BB6uRq<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A second bonus (Chuck L):<\/p>\n Rare footage of a moose shedding both its antlers captured with a drone in a forest in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcfd: Derek Burgoynepic.twitter.com\/rTaUQ95gcC<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And a third:<\/p>\n Watch the moment this mother owl who lost her babies meets two orphaned chickspic.twitter.com\/qBhUeQCJv8<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n See yesterday\u2019s Links and Antidote du Jour here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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