Crabs are chomping salt marshes down to Florida Futurity (resilc)
Microbiologists at Caltech discovered a bacteria that feeds on manganese metal Slashgear (David L)
An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care StatNews (David L)
Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’ BBC
The Scandal of Our Drug Supply New York Review of Books (Kevin C). Important.
#COVID-19
Americans watching other countries that have gotten Covid under control. pic.twitter.com/6dGIqYlnIG
— Duchess of Wakanda @HRComedy (@hadiyah) July 16, 2020
Arturo Tedeschi redesigns historic ATM Class 1500 tram for a post-Covid world Dezeen (resilc)
Why governments have the right to require masks in public ScienceBlog (Dr. Kevin)
The New Must-Have Museum Souvenir: Face Masks New York Times (resilc)
Science/Medicine
COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool Georgia Tech (ChiGal)
Coronavirus: no easy way out of pandemic, even with a vaccine, experts say South China Morning Post
New Yorkers Advised to Avoid LabCorp, Quest Coronavirus Tests Bloomberg. Wonder why other states aren’t following suit….any place with a med school, a large outpatient clinic, or a hospital system has labs. Why aren’t they being asked/ordered to process Covid-19 tests?
NEW—Speed of testing is most critical factor in success of contact tracing strategies to slow #COVID19; a delay of 3 days or more between symptom onset & testing will not reduce onward transmission of virus sufficiently: a modelling study @TheLancetPH https://t.co/fMuK523UzM pic.twitter.com/Nf2aEU0NIG
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) July 17, 2020
Baby Was Infected With Coronavirus In Womb, Study Reports New York Times. So a friend’s pregnant MD daughter was not nuts to be in extreme avoidance of people mode.
Mosquitoes flying free as health departments focus on virus ABC (ma)
Reopening K-12 Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Press release here.
US
Teachers Are Panicking About Schools Reopening in the Fall Vice
Political Responses
How HHS’s new hospital data reporting system will actually affect the U.S. Covid-19 response StatNews. Consistent with Lambert’s post yesterday.
Masks win political momentum despite GOP holdouts The Hill
Trump Is Donating Ventilators to Countries That Don’t Need or Can’t Use Them ProPublica
Laura Brown: “We honor Dr Anthony Fauci with this special cover of @instylemagazine.” Instagram (Dr. Kevin)
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Sues Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Over Face Mask Order NPR (David L)
Senate GOP Aims to Funnel Covid Liability Cases to Federal Courts Wall Street Journal
Why America needs a national innovation plan right now The Hill
Finance/Economy
Why Won’t Trump Spend What Is Needed to Save His Presidency? New York Magazine
Federal Aid Helped Wide Swath of Small Businesses, Needy or Not Wall Street Journal
Recovering fully from the coronavirus shock will require large increases in federal debt—and there’s nothing wrong with that Economic Policy Institute. “Debt”. Sigh.
Investor group lambasts ‘earnings before coronavirus’ Financial Times. Investors who agreed to idiocy like cov-lite can hardly complain when it comes back to bite them.
A potential wave of mass evictions could make this year’s turbulent hurricane season even worse Popular Science
Virus surges. Work hours plateau. U.S. may be flattening the wrong curve Reuters
China?
World splitting into pro and anti-Huawei camps Asia Times (Kevin W)
China Will Sanction Lockheed Martin Over Arms Sales To Taiwan CNN
EU regulators to probe Alexa, Siri and other voice assistants Reuters
New Cold War
Intelligence Illargi
American spies: “Those sneaky Russians want to get their grubby asiatic fingers on our patriotic COVID cure!” Yasha Levine
Syraqistan
The man who drove the US out of Afghanistan Asia Times (Kevin W)
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier Reuters (Dan K)
Tech Firms Like Facebook Must Restrict Data Sent From EU To US, Court Rules Guardian
Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack? Brian Krebs
Imperial Collapse Watch
Isoliert, auf hoher See – plötzlich ist die Crew Corona-positiv Die Welt (guurst). Google translate: Isolated, on the high seas – suddenly the crew is Corona positive
Trump Transition
The CIA, Covert Action and Operations in Cyberspace LawFare
Trump Administration Discussing Travel Ban on China’s Communist Party Members Wall Street Journal
Donald J. Trump, or Osama bin Laden’s Revenge Tom Engelhardt
2020
Silicon Valley pours money into Biden’s campaign — and snubs Trump’s Recode
Black Injustice Tipping Point
Berkeley moves toward removing police from traffic stops ABC (ma)
Hawley calls for civil rights probe of prosecutor investigating gun-wielding St. Louis couple The Hill. Help me. The basis for prosecution is not having a gun, but threatening people engaged in lawful activity. And the “private road” business has been misconstrued. It means the road is closed to cars but open to pedestrians.
Hundreds of Hyperpartisan Sites Are Masquerading as Local News NiemanLab
Largest California Oil Driller Files for Bankruptcy OilPrice
Troy Harlow has always made sure to pay his mortgage on time. Wells Fargo had other plans for him. Gretchen Morgenson, NBC (Jim B). Wells just can’t control itself….
Economists on the Run Foreign Policy (David L). From last year but still of interest.
Guillotine Watch
Woman who refused to wear mask wants half of $100K donated to Starbucks barista WGNTV (Kevin W)
The true story of the heartthrob prince of Qatar and his time at USC Los Angeles Times
Class Warfare
On June 19, the Fed bought $4,000,000 worth of $AMZN bonds with a .4% coupon, maturing in 3 years.
On June 18, the Fed bought $4,000,000 worth of $AAPL bonds with a .75% coupon, maturing in 3 years
Another $8,000,000 on June 24th
Your $600 PUA runs out in a few weeks, Amerika
— SheepleAnalytics (@SheepleAnalytic) July 16, 2020
At this point 3.3 million people have viewed this video but @NYCMayor says he’s not one of them https://t.co/Us27Gky6p5
— Yoav Gonen (@yoavgonen) July 16, 2020
Explainable AI under contract and tort law: legal incentives and technical challenges Artificial Intelligence and Law (David L)
Antidote du jour (Leroy R):
And a bonus (Kevin W). This ‘roo looks like a juvenile or maybe a wallaby. And it barely put up a fight, which means either it is tame or not feeling so hot.
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
