Jellyfish forces French reactor shutdown, strain grey Euraactiv
So bad they’re good – why do we love terrible movies? BBC (Robin K)
Learning Greek – Practical Guide Spangler (Mikael T)
#Covid-19/Pandemics
Visual Capitalist State Incidents in 2025
The US helped defeat malaria in Guinea. Now, illness is set to soar. #lrenads @pulitzecenter https://t.co/jefbg7jmb
– News from Science (@newsfromscience) August 12, 2025
Climate/environment
Western Europe and North Africa break records besides the 80 records in France.
Morocco’s brutal record fever on the Atlantic coast
47.9 Essauira AP
46.5 Safi
Spain records hot nights in highlands
Minimum 26.2 Segovia, 21.9 Leon
Italy
38.5 Genova AP Thailand
38.3 Sarzana ap https://t.co/j8yvqhqwpg
– Extreme temperatures repeat the world (@extremetemps) August 11, 2025
There is no hope for the Pyrenea Glacier Chronicles (Goose) of Glacier Studies
The satellite saw the wildfires of France’s Ragast in 1975, burning areas larger than Paris’ space
Cyprus on the brink of government paying water suppliers in Cyprus’ drinking water competition
Iraq tackles serious drought and encourages turkeys to recover water Kurdistan 24
Fire waves of forests and grasslands in 11 provinces amid news updates of the battle of Iran, heat waves and drought
Japanese rice crop at risk as a face record-breaking heat Bloomberg
Biochar from human waste may solve global fertilizer shortages, and research finds guardians
James Hansen, who sees the forest for the trees:
Climate sensitivity is significantly higher than the best estimate of IPCC (3°C for double CO2), and is the conclusion reached at Confidenze above 99.
Daibun New Celebration and Biological Edition: A New Eco-Social Class Uggs through Machine Translation (Micael T)
China?
The US government cuts sales of Nvidia and AMD AI chips to China’s New York Times (Resilc). Connor received a preliminary report from Reuters yesterday.
Trump Edort companies to pay taxes in Alabama export month
China is urging local businesses not to use Nvidia’s H20 chips, Bloomberg News reported to Reuters. Bwahaha
China accelerates with its landmark Fortescue Loan South China Morning Post to promote currency
Chinese unemployed young adults pretending to employ BBC
India
The Americans in Modi backfired badly by the India Asia Times (Kevin W). It’s better in the military/weapons part, but tariffs are wrong. Almost all exports in India have been exempt from additional Expanyon Diamonds and other gemstones.
Africa
Nigeria: Military says dozens of gang members killed DW
Rwandan-backed rebels killed at least 80 civilians
South of the border
Unprecedented feud between the US and Brazilian financial era
Mexico’s $4 billion gambling: The intermaritime corridor reshaping the interesting engineering of global trade (Robin K)
Eric Prince Pitch, founder of Blackwater, US mercenaries, deployed to South American WSWS (Micael T).
European injustice
As weapons factors expand in the Triple Speed Financial Times, Europe is being built for war. Lead story.
EU staff revolts Gaza stance politics
Old man
Is the Royal Navy at a breakpoint or a turning point? Naveer Lookout (Colonel Smithers)
Jeremy Clarkson warns about “devastating” British harvests as farmers fight extreme weather and rising cost business issues
Israel vs.
Israel announces a “final plan” to occupy Gaza Simprisius. It also mentions the Lebanese government’s plan to disarm Hezbollah. Alastair Crooke says it creates a civil war. Israel will probably be seen as a rebukeable fallback.
Palestinians and groups today denounced the strike in the tent of Al Jazeera journalists at Al Sifa Hospital in Gaza, a seven-party faction that includes Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Kraik and five journalists than several photographers and photographers. …
-Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) August 11, 2025
Israel killing all journalists is like the mafia killing all eyewitness council housing complexes (Resilc)
Gaza: 49% of Palestinians leave the strip to return to Livelfat quoto via machine translation. DLG:
Aya Assur is a young woman from northern Gaza and has written for Fat Kaomiano since the invasion of Israel and the initiation of genocide in October 2023. Her large family has been difficult to avoid numbers and is currently in the south. Essayist/journalist Tomaso Montanari, editor of Fatto Quoto and president of the Foreign College of Perugia, extracted her from Gaza about four months ago. She is currently visiting researchers there.
Aya Ashour is effective in publishing information about life on the ground in Gaza.
UK moves to hide Gaza spy flights asawinstanley
“You have to take yours and leave. There are no more residents here.”
Israeli Army expels Bedouin communities on the West Bank
Ein Ayoub, Deir Ammar, near the West Bank: after residents had already accepted ES pic.twitter.com/gvfvrgru4f
-BM (@irelllyhateyou) August 11, 2025
Nasifid Society’s Brain Bettbeat
Anthony Albanese said Netanyahu “denies” the humanitarian situation in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/59zka7ujfw
– Reuters (@Reuters) August 12, 2025
Only 13 members of the Congress had a count that said Israel was committing genocide. pic.twitter.com/zxiuykbwa9
-AIPAC Tracker (@tackaipac) August 11, 2025
Israel is not an ally – it is the responsibility of the American conservatives (Resilc).
Caucasus
Zangezur or Bust: US corridor scheme meets the red line of Iran
Not so cold new war
European and Ukrainian leaders are calling for talks with Trump to defend profits ahead of the US Russian Summit Associated Press (Kevin W).
I think they’ll get the message… Andrei Martyanov. In another summit fantasy of a massive Arctic energy trade. That doesn’t mean that Russia may not throw bones at the US to be targeted for a spin on Trump.
Friday’s Putin/Trump Summit Larry Johnson Expectations Surge
Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis: Putin’s “No Worth” and Trump’s “No Win” Alaska Summit Rachel Blevins, YouTube situation
Halfway Alaska Julian McFarlane
Moscow hopes that Putin and Trump’s meeting will inflict impulses on bilateral relations.
Future negotiations between Trump and Putin in Alaska tell you everything you need to know about the nature of the Ukrainian war and the current geopolitical position in Europe.
I did my research: There are few unparalleled examples of the history of the military in Europe thousands of years ago… pic.twitter.com/j5g2zy2qcj
-Arnaud Bertrand (@rnaudberand) August 10, 2025
Yermak Enigma I Event in Ukraine
Imperial Collapse Watch
The new world trade obstacle is the economist Gadfly via machine translation (Micael T).
Are the same kinds of people leading all society? Ian Wales (Mikael T)
Playing cards 2.0
Trump is furious with Nobel Prize-winning “Mad Bum” in the late-night Meltdown Daily Beast. Trump is really losing his heart. Punchdowns are bad looks and acknowledge their weakness. The first Medvedev, now Krugman.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegses promotes abolishing popularity vote information for women (Dr. Kevin)
Trump manages DC police station, active National Guard hill
Trump sends the National Guard to DC and threatens Chicago with the same Michael Shedlock. Why did Aleen’s libertarian get mad?
Leaked DC troop deployment order Ken Klippenstein
“Federalization” DC Steve Vladek
EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collections. He has been in five years since his PhD. He has written one economic paper before. His explicit, only qualification is that he works for a super conservative think tank and believes in Trump’s plot about BLS. Something tough. https://t.co/wxlxl5deyh
-Joey Politano August 11, 2025
Customs
Trump announces an additional 90-day hiatus at China’s Guardian Tariff (Kevin W)
Trump said gold imports will not be involved in the grace period for the Bloomberg market. As the Submist claimed, I think the team Trump Sumon will help Comex by pushing tariffs on the gold stick, but when the noise from the gold bug began, Trump touched again.
High cost after Triff poses a threat to Trump and goops the hill. Hey, do you think so already?
Democrats’ wish for death
When did Republican women become such a sneaky four? The New Republic. Misogyny doesn’t often see Soi-Disan’s liberals. Resilc: “We’ve named some Dancerzzzzzz starting with Hersted Hilliary. Moi: Add Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Neera Tanden.
Newsom leaps towards AI as the “future” in new policy announcement SFGATE (Paul R)
economy
How AI, Healthcare and Labubu became the American economy Kyla Scanlon (Resilc). important.
Restaurants are rising costs and are under threat as consumers cut CNN (Resilc)
The Las Vegas servers have seen a 50% drop in tips amid high prices and tourism decline FOX News. Resilc: “But now it’s tax-free. Nothing = nothing.”
Mr. Market is moody
Why should the world listen to a boy crying wolves over the risks of a financial crisis? South China Morning Post
Tips Investors Face Tips Watch (resilc) of the “falling in the sky” moment
ai
The LLMS’ “simulated reasoning” ability is “fragile mirage,” and refachers find Ars Technica. Here’s the underlying paper
AI is trapping Zitron (bug) with traps. Since last week, it’s still secretly.
Deads need the rights they need to delete their data.
Bezul
You are a car. YouTube is an important indicator of predation in the automotive industry. Resilc: “The truck from 20 years ago is sucked in and redoing. USA = Cuba Now.”
How heavy trucks and SUVs clenched the entire automotive industry (Micael T)
Out of nowhere, Teslas is suddenly stuck in California, locals say SFGATE. Paul R:
This is Los Angeles. Dozens (at least) of Teslas with temporary license plates appear in the parking spaces in nearby homes, moving every day to avoid becoming tickets. The meaning is that these are unsold stocks from Tesla or large local dealers, but reporters were unable to confirm this, so she doesn’t come out and say directly. Another Elon Shell game I guess.
Air Force Buys Cyber Trucks – Blow Up Boeing Boeing (Resilc)
GM Plan updated driverless car push after a cruise blunder in search of Alpha
Openai CEO Sam Altman says that a decade later the university graduates will be working in “all-new, exciting, and extremely well-paid” jobs. Even if this worked (not), it’s another “dying faster.” Being in the space for meaningful time enhances the health costs of the Hage, including loss of bone density, loss of muscle mass and exposure to radiation.
Guillotine Watch
Foreign investors quietly spent $65 million on Malibu real estate burning in the January wildfire https://t.co/jaoijgyvppp pic.twitter.com/17sgqzdomh
– New York Post (@nypost) August 8, 2025
San Francisco Estate Auction will take a peek at Diane Feinstein’s Private World SFGATE (Paul R).
Class battle
Americans returned to the desert
Goodbye, $165,000 high tech job. Student coders are looking for work at Chipotle. New York Times.
Antoidal dot dujour (via):
And bonus:
The bird still doesn’t take him seriously pic.twitter.com/ijuj8yodgr
– Why should I keep a cat (@shouldhavecat) August 10, 2025
Second bonus:
I’m pleased with his new neighbor. pic.twitter.com/ukfiqiazwr
– Figan (@thefigen_) August 10, 2025
And thirdly:
Protecting the baby pic.twitter.com/yfjwe6h0p7
– The beauty of nature (@shouldhaveanima) August 12, 2025
Check out yesterday’s link and the antidote Du Jour.
