Hyperlinks 29/10/2022 | bare capitalism

The majestic motion of a whale brings a dramatic finish to the rescue at sea off the coast of Canada BBC (livid). I watched 2x.

An engineer creates an impediment course for loopy squirrels in his backyard Boing Boing (resilic)

The cat has your tongue: cats distinguish between speech meant for them and people EurekAlert (Anthony L)

Watch polar bears in motion Polar Bears Worldwide (Chuck L). Bear cameras!

A photographer captures the neon fantastic thing about Kyoto at night time PetaPixel (David L)

Phenomenal. The Band-tailed Godwit broke its personal file: a first-year chook (5 months outdated!) flew 13,560 km, just below the direct flight restrict of a Boeing 787, from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly continuous, in simply 11 days (common velocity: round 51 km/h). https://t.co/Q3vemnrKaF pic.twitter.com/op1ZYeKVFN

—Alex Berryman (@AlexJB497) October 25, 2022

Easy methods to get probably the most Halloween sweet (with out resorting to extortion) ScienceTech (Chuck L)

Historic viruses 15,000 years outdated present in melting Tibetan glaciers ScienceAlert (resilc)

Even nuns watch porn, Pope says, warning of dangers BBC

An intermediate cult Instances Literary Complement (Anthony L). On Terry Pratchett.

Will we all see the person holding an iPhone on this 1937 portray? Vice (resilic)

Up to now this flu season is extra extreme than it has been in 13 years Washington Publish (Kevin W)

#COVID-19[FEMININE[FEMININE

we let infants die of COVID so we are able to have workplace events and get our nails executed

— 🐝🍯 (@DisabledBeing) October 29, 2022

Masks as an ethical image: Masks cut back deviant conduct of wearers in China throughout COVID-19 PNAS

Science/Drugs

The pandemic far exceeds the main causes of demise Pandemic

There was a rise of about 900,000 folks with disabilities within the US workforce since 2020, probably because of the improve within the variety of People who’ve had COVID for a very long time, in keeping with new analysis 💔

h/t@ejustin46 https://t.co/UYEvTS4HTI

— Jess (@MeetJess) October 29, 2022

Asia

Pious want is outstanding. Xi’s actions made it clear what his priorities are:

Most disappointing was the guess that Xi would announce the top of zero-Covid on the Occasion Congress. The case of the misbegotten bull assumed that an financial rebound would now be Xi’s essential goal. It essentially failed Xi to measure success by how effectively Covid is underneath management and never how briskly GDP grows pic.twitter.com/KDLdaGAwQ2

— Shehzad Qazi (@shehzadhqazi) October 28, 2022

Local weather/Setting

Goats and sheep brawl within the Rockies. Blame the glacial soften Wired (David L)

Turkish honey apocalypse is a warning to the world Atlantic (resilic)

Past catastrophe: a brand new local weather actuality is rising New York Instances (David L)

Greater than half of identified human pathogenic ailments might be made worse by local weather change Nature (resilic)

As seas rise, farmers in Bangladesh revive floating farms Reuters

China?

Does China actually need all of the extra coal-fired energy? Sixth tone (resilc)

Exxon hits Guyana oil once more with two new discoveries Reuters (resilc)

Outdated Blighty

Enter Sunak, the fifth Brexit Prime Minister Chris Grey (visitor)

Hundreds of individuals are too ashamed to go to work as a result of they can not afford cleaning soap and deodorant Sky Information

Poland lists calls for for WWII reparations from Germany RT (Kevin W)

New not so chilly battle

Russian timber circumvents US sanctions through Vietnam and China Washington Publish (resilic)

US accelerates plans to stockpile upgraded nuclear weapons in Europe Politics

US ought to deliver nuclear weapons from overseas, Antonov Al Mayadeen

Struggle-torn Ukraine faces a bleak demographic future Al Jazeera (resilic)

Russia’s central financial institution warns that Putin’s navy plan will drive up inflation Monetary Instances. *Sigh* The direct quote from the central financial institution says “may have a pro-inflationary affect”.

US LNG can not substitute Russian pure fuel that Europe has misplaced Oil costs. Your humble blogger and lots of others have stated this from the beginning, nevertheless it’s one other factor for it to be acknowledged in additional mainstream venues.

Scholz and Macron threaten commerce retaliation towards Biden Politics

Syrian

Iran confiscates our bodies of slain protesters from households, says UN human rights workplace France24 (livid)

Mass protests in Iran towards UK, US and EU linked terrorist assaults and media regime change plots. Questioning why they go unreported in NATO international locations the place TV stations are shut down and free speech is illegitimate? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/VoHFl7eQ7Y

— Afshin Rattansi (@afshinrattansi) October 28, 2022

Massive Brother is watching you watch

Data Commissioner warns corporations towards ’emotional evaluation’ applied sciences Guardian

Iran’s secret guide for controlling protesters’ cellphones Intercept (resilc)

Imperial Collapse Watch

US plans to step up drone strikes in Somalia Anti-war (resilc)

NATO within the Amazon: Petro performs with hearth CounterPunch (resilc)

Biden

Texts from Hunter Biden associates trace at pushing to ‘contain Joe’, make it appear to be a ‘true household enterprise’ FoxNews

Republicans examine Biden’s ‘misuse’ of SPR to regulate pump costs Oil Worth

2022

A 3rd of 2022 midterm voters may use mail-in ballots Backlash

Federal decide permits activists to stake poll packing containers in Arizona New York Instances (livid)

Congress cannot even do that factor Atlantic (resilic)

Democrats in negligee

Elise Stefanik believes she will flip New York right into a Republican state New York Instances (resilic)

Our press is now not free

The consortium imposing the rising censorship regime – and our new primetime reside rumble program Glenn Greenwald

The bezzle

Bitcoin miner Core Scientific points chapter warning and inventory is down 97% for the yr CNBC. Kevin W: “‘It is such a disgrace.’”

The Tesla Cyberquad for youngsters has been recalled for failing to fulfill security requirements The Verge (resilic)

Guillotine watch

Elon Musk’s fortune plummets by $110 billion in lower than a yr Enterprise Insider (resilc)

By shopping for Twitter, Elon Musk created his personal hilarious nightmare Intercept (livid). The massive drawback with this deal is that Musk paid approach an excessive amount of. There isn’t a technique to resolve this drawback. Every little thing else is secondary.

GM quickly suspends Twitter promoting after Musk takeover CNBC

European Commissioner to Elon Musk: Twitter will respect our guidelines Coverage. Um, what occurs when Starlink is accessible to European shoppers? I suppose the EU can attempt to block fee, however I feel they have been too pleasant with crypto to stifle it.

Can Mark Zuckerberg go bankrupt? Heisenberger report (resilc)

The non-public extra financial savings from the Covid stimulus are all gone…

In the meantime, client lending is rising at a really steep angle…

It should finish effectively… 🔥 pic.twitter.com/DcoQhvQpAM

— Wall Road Cash (@WallStreetSilv) October 29, 2022

Class battle