Second snow crab season canceled as researchers pinpoint trigger Seattle Occasions
Bennu Asteroid Samples Anticipated to ‘Basically’ Shift Our Perspective on Cosmic Life Gizmodo
Local weather
How psychedelic remedy could assist with local weather change anxiousness WaPo
Water
A Tangle of Guidelines to Defend America’s Water Is Falling Quick NYT
#COVID19
CDC panel backs looser steering on hospital masking Becker’s Hospital Evaluation. HICPAC:
In emailed feedback to Becker’s, a spokesperson for the CDC stated, “the method has been misunderstood,” and reiterated that the suggestions aren’t remaining. “The advisory committee has not launched any binding suggestions, however is as a substitute kicking off a course of that features a clear, prolonged public remark interval.”
The truth is, the method is sort of effectively understood; see NC right here, right here, and right here.
Individuals’s CDC Public Touch upon HICPAC Individuals’s CDC. Mail feedback by Monday:
STILL TIME to e mail your Feedback to CDC HICPAC‼️
🚨ALL welcome!
🚨EMAIL feedback to hicpac@cdc.gov by🔺MONDAY Nov 6
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🚨Pls share!#CovidInquiry @mryoung151 @violetblue @MAHealthEquity @AWangMPH https://t.co/jFdGYikcN4 pic.twitter.com/j9H1shDLP0
— HealthCommunication (@Comm_in_Care) November 2, 2023
A lapse in COVID wastewater detection is worrying scientists about distorted knowledge Salon. After the “Inexperienced Map” episode, I feel CDC is able to something, together with a useful “lapse” between the plateau from the final wave and a surge from the approaching holidays.
China?
China’s Xi Jinping says Communist Celebration management too weak in rural areas, new ebook reveals South China Morning Submit
Western Left and the US-China Contradiction Individuals’s Democracy
A Story of three Nations: Debt Restructuring in Ghana, Zambia, and Sri Lanka The Diplomat
Myanmar
Russian Warships Arrive for Myanmar Naval Workouts The Irrawaddy
Myanmar ethnic teams seize extra outposts in junta offensive Channel Information Asia
European Disunion
Expensive Previous Blighty
The UK’s Shambolic COVID Winter Vaccine Programme Alarms Consultants Byline Occasions
Boris Johnson Believed Previous Individuals Ought to ‘Settle for Their Destiny’ And Catch Covid HuffPo
Syraqistan
Far-right minister: Nuking Gaza is an possibility, inhabitants ought to ‘go to Eire or deserts’ The Occasions of Israel. Clarifying!
Israel’s ‘Whole Struggle’ Technique in Gaza Tikun Olam
Imperial Designs New Left Evaluation
The case for optimism:
The truth that no person can agree on what Nasrallah was attempting to say helps my studying: he’s sustaining strategic ambiguity and holding his choices open.
By no means let a superb disaster go to waste.
— Huge Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 (@witte_sergei) November 3, 2023
We should always assume that regional gamers — Nasrallah, Khamenei, El-Sisi, Erdogan, Assad, even Salman — and international gamers — Putin, Modi, and Xi — are smarter and extra strategic than Bibi, Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, et al.
* * * ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 29: Israel hits hospitals, ambulances, and faculties throughout Gaza Mondoweiss
Between 350,000 to 400,000 folks nonetheless in northern Gaza, says US particular envoy France24
Israeli military says 345 troopers killed preventing Palestinians since Oct. 7 Anadolu Company
The Tunnel Struggle New York Journal
Israel posts pretend video of canine chase in Gaza tunnel Digital Intifada
* * * As their troopers combat hand at hand in Gaza, Israelis marvel concerning the endgame Guardian. Aleady?
‘Extraordinarily difficult’: Israel’s Gaza floor assault faces stumbles Al Jazeera. Illustrative video (though I’ve no option to authenticate it, so “huge if true”):
So proper off the bat we now have a pair of Hamas fighters stepped out of an alleyway and take a shot into what appears to be like to be the rear of a Namer fitted with the unmanned turret.
The place is the infantry or different autos securing the road behind the lead armoured factor? pic.twitter.com/PZxhmvbn3L
— Fennec_Radar (@RadarFennec) November 5, 2023
And:
A variety of these assaults may have been prevented by having extra eyes round to identify motion and interact it. Primarily infantry.
Additionally having all of the crew buttoned up within the autos is so detrimental to situational consciousness as to be worse for security than having their heads out.
— Fennec_Radar (@RadarFennec) November 5, 2023
“The place is the infantry”? Seems just like the IDF is, certainly, casualty-averse.
Scoop: Blinken tells Israelis humanitarian pause will purchase Israel time for Gaza operation Axios
* * * Obama Urges Individuals to Absorb ‘Entire Reality’ of Israel-Gaza Struggle NYT. Right here it’s if you happen to can stand it:
President @BarackObama on the violence in Gaza.
Full interview out Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/U42Jy2Aa4y
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) November 4, 2023
Israel Army Studies It Was You, The Reader, Who Blew Up Hospital The Onion
* * * America is discovering the boundaries of its leverage on Israel FT
Contained in the Biden White Home, Doubts About Gaza Struggle Are Starting to Creep In Ryan Grim, The Intercept
The President Who Stood Up To Israel and Received Ettingermentum E-newsletter
Blinken goes begging Gilbert Doctorow
‘Persons are pissed off’: Gaza conflict opens rift amongst US Democrats FT
* * * George Orwell’s 1984 in Washington The American Conservative. Syria.
Going to hell with no chance of redemption Yasha Levine, weaponized immigrant
New Not-So-Chilly Struggle
U.S., European officers broach subject of peace negotiations with Ukraine, sources say NBC. And commentary–
The Ukraine Peace Speak Trial Balloon Moon of Alabama. Additionally commentary–
Gaza battle ‘taking away focus’ from Ukraine, Zelensky says France24
Because the U.S. fights over help, Ukraine’s hopes dangle within the stability David Ignatius, WaPo. “My go to was organized by the McCain Institute, as a part of its Ukraine Enterprise Alliance, a bunch of corporations working with the Ukrainian authorities, together with tech giants Microsoft and Palantir.” As if these goons had been Ignatius’s actual sponsor….
* * * The Highway to Ukraine’s Wreck and Probably a Russian Quagmire Gordon Hahn, Russian and Eurasian Politics
Russia should defend Zelensky RT. The deck: “The Ukrainian chief’s erratic conduct and rising messiah complicated means he’s now an asset to Moscow.”
Russia’s nuclear saber rattling: A menace or wake-up name for the West? Christian Science Monitor
Republican Funhouse
Tensions erupt inside Senate GOP over Tuberville navy holds The Hill
2024
Choose, citing Trump’s ‘repeated public statements,’ orders nameless jury in defamation go well with trial Orlando Sentinel
Digital Watch
Huge Tech’s “consideration rents” Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic
It Is Not Correctly Referred to as “Technofeudalism”. However What Is It? Brad DeLong’s Greedy Actuality
* * * A day within the lifetime of a supply robotic The Verge
The AI-Generated Baby Abuse Nightmare Is Right here WIred
PSA: Your chat and name apps could leak your IP tackle TechCrunch
The Way forward for RSS is Textcasting Kottke.org. Hmm…
Imperial Collapse Watch
Inflection Level: The way to Reverse the Erosion of U.S. and Allied Army Energy and Affect RAND
U.S. Coast Guard Reduces Energetic Cutter Fleet Because of Personnel Scarcity Maritime Govt
Class Warfare
Labor Unions Are Industrial Coverage Lee Hepner, BIG
Environmental, Social, and Governance Components v. Fiduciary Obligation JSTOR Each day
Antidote du jour (through):
Bonus antidote:
Kittens know no physics..🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/nVPa9FkOQu
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) November 2, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
