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Animals Sense Earthquakes Before They Happen. Can They Help Us Predict Disasters? Discover (David L)
Earliest evidence for humans in the Americas BBC (Kevin W)
Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios Bloomberg (David L)
First active leak of sea-bed methane discovered in Antarctica Guardian
Renewable Energy Is Seizing Market Share During The Pandemic OilPrice
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless MIT Technology Review (David L)
How Extremophile Bacteria Living In Nuclear Reactors Might Help Us Make Vaccines Forbes (UserFriendly)
Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer Up To Four Years Before Symptoms Appear Scientific American
#COVID-19
Coronavirus latest: Global infections top 15 million DW
Why Armed Groups in Latin America Are Enforcing COVID-19 Lockdowns MSN (Kevin W)
Keeping Canadians safe: Canada-U.S. border closure extended Canada Immigration News
Science/Medicine
Covid-19 Vaccines With ‘Minor Side Effects’ Could Still Be Pretty Bad Wired (resilc). Acetaminophen? Are you kidding? I refuse to have that stuff in the house. IMHO it should never have been approved as an OTC drug. From StatPearls at the NIH site:
Acetaminophen toxicity is the second most common cause of liver transplantation worldwide and the most common in the US. It is responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits, 2600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths per year in the United States.
T-cells may hold the key to Covid-19 vaccine Asia Times
Now French, German studies say HCQ doesn’t prevent, treat Covid in primates, human lung cells The Print (J-LS)
Covid-19 is pushing doctors to the brink. Medicine needs to recognize they’re human and need help. Washington Post (Dr. Kevin). As we warned. Anti-Covid measures are significantly about keeping the medical system from breaking down.
US
How McKinsey Is Making $100 Million (and Counting) Advising on the Government’s Bumbling Coronavirus Response Mother Jones
Almost 8 Million Americans Are Out of Work Without Childcare Bloomberg. Several school districts in AL just announced remote learning for the first nine weeks of the school year.
The Latest in School Segregation: Private Pandemic ‘Pods’ New York Times (resilc)
NFL-Total of 95 players test positive for COVID-19, union says Reuters
Political Responses
ALEC Develops Bill for Corporate Liability Protections Amid Pandemic Intercept
“Trump Voters Are Old and They Don’t Want to Die”: Why Trump Finally Flip-Flopped on Mask Wearing Vanity Fair (Dr. Kevin)
Finance/Economics
Small Businesses Brace for Prolonged Crisis, Short on Cash and Customers Wall Street Journal. As we predicted, but the stories are still very sad.
Turns Out Mass Death Is Bad For The Economy Huffington Post (UserFriendly)
Bay Area Tech Workers Consider Moving Amid Layoff Fears Axios
China?
Oil and gas fueling South China Sea tensions Asia Times (Kevin W)
U.S. Move on Houston Consulate Risks American Footprint in China Bloomberg
7 things to know about the EU virus recovery plan RTE (PlutoniumKun)
Syraqistan
House Democratic Leadership Teams Up With Republicans To Keep US Troops in Afghanistan Antiwar (resilc)
If Congress Wants the War in Afghanistan, Trump Should Force them to Authorize It American Conservative (resilc)
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled. MIT Technology Review (David L)
New York Bans Use of Facial Recognition In Schools Statewide VentureBeat
Security Breach Exposes More Than One Million DNA Profiles On Major Genealogy Database BuzzFeed
Trump Transition
House passes major conservation bill, sending it to Trump’s desk The Hill (UserFriendly)
Why Did Republicans Abandon American Idealism? Literary Hub (resilc)
2020
Trump Vincibility Watch: How the Horrifying Comeback Could Unfold Slate
Wherein joe Biden erases the southern strategy… and most of American history. https://t.co/p8OEs4N4nQ
— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) July 22, 2020
Re-animated Strom Thurmond to speak at DNC Convention Beet Press (UserFriendly)
Senator & potential VP candidate @KamalaHarris just voted with the GOP majority to defeat @BernieSanders‘ proposal to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and “invest that money in jobs, education, health care, and housing.” https://t.co/I7ccvB7DMX pic.twitter.com/UR4erHjLR8
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) July 22, 2020
Black Injustice Tipping Point
How Many U.S. Presidents Owned Enslaved People? History (Chuck L)
Police State Watch
fascism https://t.co/nh4NpoC4HE
— Zach Carter (@zachdcarter) July 22, 2020
Former Bush DHS secretary rips Trump for treating department like ‘the president’s personal militia‘ The Week
Trump to send ‘surge’ of federal agents to cities BBC. Oof. After our Middle East “surges” did so well!
Trump announces he’s sending federal agents to Chicago The Hill
Mothers across U.S. stand up to federal agents at anti-racism protests Reuters
Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty Has a Message for Trump and the Feds Marie Claire (David L)
Plastic Handcuff Use by NYPD During Anti-Brutality Protests Strikes a Nerve The City
Ohio corruption case throws focus on US nuclear plant troubles Financial Times
Tesla Turns a Profit For the Fourth Quarter In a Row, Chooses Austin For Next Gigafactory The Verge
Guillotine Watch
The Sacklers Could Get Away With It New York Times (resilc)
Class Warfare
The Debt Predators Project Syndicate (David L). Important.
Homeless Encampments Springing Up in Pittsfield Parks iBerkshires (resilc) 🙁
Government assistance. https://t.co/AXYTGw72NZ
— Jessica Cisneros (@JCisnerosTX) July 22, 2020
Antidote du jour. mgl thinks this is a moth, found on Park Strip in downtown Anchorage:
And a bonus (guurst). So handsome! Enough to make me think I should run a banana plantation so I could have birds like these.
Chestnut-eared Aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis)🐦🦜🕊️🎵❤️ pic.twitter.com/O8WbCD0zzc
— World birds (@worldbirds32) July 15, 2020
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.