Lambert and I, and many readers, agree that Ukraine has prompted the worst informational environment ever. We hope readers will collaborate in mitigating the fog of war — both real fog and stage fog — in comments. None of us need more cheerleading and link-free repetition of memes; there are platforms for that. Low-value, link-free pom pom-wavers will be summarily whacked.
And for those who are new here, this is not a mere polite request. We have written site Policies and those who comment have accepted those terms. To prevent having to resort to the nuclear option of shutting comments down entirely until more sanity prevails, as we did during the 2015 Greek bailout negotiations and shortly after the 2020 election, we are going to be ruthless about moderating and blacklisting offenders.
–Yves
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Please do not write us to ask why a comment has not appeared. We do not have the bandwidth to investigate and reply. Using the comments section to complain about moderation decisions/tripwires earns that commenter troll points. Please don’t do it. Those comments will also be removed if we encounter them.
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Rocky Mountain Massacre: Was Yellowstone’s Deadliest Wolf Hunt in 100 Years an Inside Job? The Intercept
Why Rain Smells So Good But Tastes Really Bad Laughing Squid (reŠilc)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Computer Startup is Beat Again Fortune (furzy)
A Classic American Concession was First Fried in Oregon: The Corn Dog OPB (David L)
The Investment Drought of the Past Two Decades is Catching Up with Us Financial Times
The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility NBER
Myanmar: Fighting a Brutal Regime With the Help of a Video Game New York Times
In Delhi: Sheltered but Homeless Pari Education
#COVID-19
Like the Rest of Us, Biden Learns to Live With the Risks of the Virus New York Times (reŠilc)
No President Is Safe From His Own COVID-19 Policy FiveThirtyEight (reŠilc)
More Than 50 Long-Term Effects of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Nature
The Ridiculous New Covid Panic National Review
If You’ve Never Had COVID, Are You a Sitting Duck? The Atlantic (reŠilc)
Reinfection Will be Part of the Pandemic for Months to Come. Each Repeat Illness Raises the Risk of Long COVID The Conversation
America Was in an Early-Death Crisis Long Before COVID The Atlantic
Swedish study on COVID vaccines and DNA misinterpreted AP News
Monkeypox
WHO Declares Monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern CNN
2 Children Diagnosed with Monkeypox in the U.S., Officials Say PBS
Climate/Environment
Northeast Heat Wave Turns Deadly, Set to Intensify This Weekend Accuweather
With Record-Breaking Heat, Europe Glimpses Its Climate Future Scientific American
Protesters in UK Decry Climate Change After Record Heat Wave ABC News
Climate Activists Glue Themselves to Botticelli Masterpiece at the Uffizi Museum in Italy USA Today
Climate Change is Making the Tour de France More Extreme Washington Post
How Well Do You Know Your Heatwave? A Study of India Data The Wire
Spanish Worker’s Death Shows Need to Adapt to Climate Change ABC News
Do These Heat Waves Mean Climate Change is Happening Faster Than Expected? MIT Technology Review
Italy
Italy’s Meloni: Right-Wing Government is ‘Nothing to Fear’ Politico
Italy Will Keep Supporting Ukraine if Right Wins Vote, Says Meloni Reuters
The Future Is Italy, and It’s Bleak New York Times
Paul Krugman – Wonking Out: What’s the Matter With Italy? New York Times
La Stampa asked @GiorgiaMeloni about my piece, and she blamed it on ‘prompting by think tanks’ (?). Then she just reiterates that because of her line on Ukraine there is no reason to worry about her, which is exactly the marketing strategy my article says she has…. pic.twitter.com/O26Ue0Otmy
— David Broder (@broderly) July 23, 2022
China?
China Won Over Southeast Asia During the Pandemic The Diplomat
Brexit
Britons Say They’ll NEVER Travel Through Dover Again and Abandon All Hope of Making it to France After Sitting in Traffic All Day Daily Mail (reŠilc)
New Cold War
Sinking Germany New Left Review – Sidecar
Imperial Collapse Watch
Empire Burlesque Harpers
Biden
1/6
The Cult of Donald Trump The Intercept (reŠilc)
Jan. 6 Committee Has Done Little to Sway Republicans: Poll Axios
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Zionism
Donna Edwards Loses Maryland Primary Following $6M pro-Israel Spending Bonanza Jerusalem Post
AIPAC Hails Democrat’s Defeat for not Being Sufficiently Pro-Israel The Guardian
Syraqistan
MBS’s $500 Billion Desert Dream Just Keeps Getting Weirder Bloomberg
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Sri Lanka
The Hope and Fear of the Sri Lankan Protest Movement The New Yorker
Sri Lanka Won’t Get a Bailout From the IMF Until Chaos Ends, Johns Hopkins Professor Says CNBC
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
DHS Broke its Own Rules to Buy Huge Trove of Warrantless Phone Data: ACLU Ars Technica
Guillotine Watch
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Class Warfare
Can Laws Spur Labor Militancy? Eric Blanc Substack
Antidote du Jour (Tracie H):
I followed this little bird around for a good 20 minutes trying to get a picture where he was reasonably sharp and unhidden by foliage. He didn’t seem to care that after a while one’s arms and eyes get exhausted holding a camera up and squinting through its eyepiece.
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
