Links 1/22/2025 | naked capitalism

Max the cat was washed at 40 levels – survived Omni through machine translation (Micael T)

Canine Paired With Suppliers at Hospitals Assist Ease Employees and Affected person Stress KFF Well being Information

Earth’s magnetic north pole is on the transfer, and scientists simply up to date its place CNN (Kevin W)

Scientists Solid Doubt on Atmospheric Methane Elimination Know-how ScienceBlog

Improved radon gasoline mapping finds practically 25% of People residing in highest threat areas PhysOrg (fk)

#COVID-19/Pandemics

These outcomes indicate SARS-CoV-2 mutations can have very totally different impacts on serum antibody neutralization relying on an individual’s publicity historical past.

We confirmed this for a subset of mutations as proven beneath. pic.twitter.com/PEQz9yCPi0

— Bloom Lab (@jbloom_lab) January 21, 2025

Cease letting your youngsters get Covid.
Cease letting your youngsters get Covid.
Cease letting your youngsters get Covid. pic.twitter.com/TB8oJPp5yV

— 💜OldFashionedAnne (@oldfshndanne) January 20, 2025

Instantly after withdrawing from the WHO, Trump stops CDC, FDA & NIH from giving public well being updates.

“The CDC was scheduled to publish a number of MMWR stories this week, together with 3 about H5N1 outbreak, in accordance with federal well being official who spoke on situation of anonymity” pic.twitter.com/itopmWAL03

— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) January 22, 2025

Local weather/Atmosphere

Reads that will help you make sense of the climate-changed insurance coverage market Yale Local weather Connections. An excellent and wide-ranging assortment of articles.

Nice Barrier Reef Hit By Its Most Widespread Coral Bleaching, Examine Finds Guardian

EPA strikes to withdraw resolution on paraquat, delays report on dangers The New Lede 🙁

Excessive fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest research finds Guardian

‘Chilling impact’ spreads to European asset managers over local weather whilst dangers rise Monetary Instances

China?

President Xi Jinping Has Digital Assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin Ministry of Overseas Affairs of the Folks’s Republic of China. Skinny readout for what has been reported as a 95 minute name.

Constructing a mature and secure China-US relationship from a brand new place to begin: World Instances editorial World Instances

China’s Put in Renewables Achieved But One other File in 2024 Monetary Publish

European Disunion

Tusk tells Europeans ‘maintain your heads excessive’ however warns ‘time of consolation is over’ Guardian

Scrapped presidential elections frontrunner tops polls once more RT (Kevin W)

Denmark to ditch ‘parenting competency’ exams for Greenlandic households Guardian (Kevin W)

Outdated Blighty

A New Frontier: Organised Immigration Crime and UK Sanctions RUSI. The cash quote is on the finish: …”he historical past of sanctions is affected by instances of over-promising and under-delivering, the place expectations and hopes for impression are misplaced.”

Israel v. The Resistance

As a part of the massive scale operation it launched yesterday in Jenin, West Financial institution, instantly after the Gaza ceasefire, the Israeli navy is disconnecting the inhabitants from the town’s medical amenities. The struggle on Palestinian hospitals has turn out to be a coverage. https://t.co/p77maAZmOW

— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) January 22, 2025

Unlawful Israeli settlers torch Palestinian houses, automobiles in West Financial institution assaults Anadolu Company

Israel launches navy operation in West Financial institution metropolis DW

New Not-So-Chilly Warfare

⚡ Scholz at Davos: Europe Should Arm for Warfare with Russia

“We’ve all began to spend extra on protection. I believe nearly each nation in Europe now spends greater than 2% of GDP on protection as a result of there’s a risk to our safety from Russia, which we actually perceive after the… pic.twitter.com/kXLkWjxlXw

— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) January 21, 2025

DMITRI ROGOZIN ON FIGHTING AND FINISHING THE WAR DIFFERENTLY – ACCELERATION, DECAPITATION, MOBILIZATION John Helmer

Zelensky calls for no less than 200,000 ‘peacekeepers’ on Ukrainian soil – Reuters RT

No, Russia is just not going through a banking disaster BNE

Russian Overseas Ministry reaffirms dedication to keep up neutrality of Panama Canal TASS through machine translation

Turkiye

Turkiye’s Victory Get together chief Umit Ozdag faces trial for ‘inciting hatred’ Aljazeera

Syraqistan

France points arrest warrant for ousted Syrian chief Assad on struggle crimes expenses Anadolu Company. The advantage signalling, it burns. So the place is the arrest warrant for struggle crimes in opposition to Netanyahu over the demise of Marine Vlahovic, a French journalist documenting Israeli struggle crimes on the Gaza Strip? See additionally: French NGO information case with ICC over journalists’ deaths in Gaza

Massive Brother is Watching You Watch

“Web Badasses” aren’t going to cease Digital ID Libre Options (Micael T)

Imperial Collapse Watch

China Will Discipline a Sixth Technology Fighter Earlier than America Can – Knowledgeable Highlights Why Army Watch

Stefanik paints a grim image of a UN she desires to reform Politico (Kevin W)

Downward Russia in World Affairs (Micael T)

There’s motive to be fearful in regards to the plethora of pardons from Trump and Biden Politico

Trump 2.0

Lambert has a full checklist of Trump’s first day govt orders in addition to different actions in yesterday’s Water Cooler, so please verify that out if curious.

Be aware that the a lot ballyhooed Tuesday immigration raids in Chicago haven’t but occurred.

Trump Widens Tariff Threats to China, Europe on Day 2 in Workplace Bloomberg

Donald Trump threatens tax struggle over US multinationals Monetary Instances

India Set to Take Again 18,000 Residents From US to Placate Trump Bloomberg

Crypto Thought Trump Would Deliver It Legitimacy. Then He Launched a Meme Coin. Wall Road Journal. As readers indicated yesterday.

Crypto executives worry investor backlash over Trump memecoins Monetary Instances. Key bit:

Following Trump’s lead, Lorenzo Sewell, a Detroit pastor who spoke in the course of the president’s inauguration, introduced the launch of his personal memecoin later that day.

US exit from WHO may see fifth of price range disappear BBC (Kevin W)

Police Categorical Outrage Over Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons New York Instances (Kevin W)

Trump Abolishes Democrats’ DEI And Trans-Craze Insurance policies Moon of Alabama

Jim Jordan indicators extended probes into Biden household and debunked Jan. 6 conspiracies Uncooked Story

Biden

On Overseas Coverage, Biden Leaves a World Path of Destruction Jacobin (Kevin W)

Our No Longer Free Press

Main Tech Corporations Signal EU Pledge To Deal with Hate Speech The Verge. Be aware that hate crimes are acknowledged in US legislation, however not hate speech.

The collective West’s facade of freedom of speech, human equality, and human rights has been fully destroyed.

Free Palestine https://t.co/u3O1CiWMh5

— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) January 22, 2025

Trump broadcasts an as much as $500 billion AI infrastructure funding involving OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank Enterprise Insider

AI pork is approach fatter than navy pork:

Chinese language AI software program DeepSeek was constructed at a fraction of the price of American corporations like Meta & OpenAI, however performs higher.

From the consumer perspective, DeepSeek is 96% cheaper than ChatGPT and different fashionable LLM.

China mannequin = work smarter, not more durable. pic.twitter.com/2Cw2fvJmQx

— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) January 22, 2025

We stated early on a giant drawback for AI was the shortage of obstacles to entry. So how a lot of US inventory market (over)valuation is AI dependent?

Most individuals most likely do not understand how dangerous information China’s Deepseek is for OpenAI.

They’ve give you a mannequin that matches and even exceeds OpenAI’s newest mannequin o1 on numerous benchmarks, they usually’re charging simply 3% of the value.

It is primarily as if somebody had launched a… pic.twitter.com/aGSS5woawF

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 21, 2025

Chinese language researchers reveal learn how to reproduce Open-AI’s o1 mannequin from scratch pic.twitter.com/ZF0tKSWZGm

— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) December 29, 2024

AI Benchmarking Group Criticized For Ready To Disclose Funding from OpenAI TechCrunch

CIA’s Chatbot Stands In For World Leaders New York Instances. I can’t even…

‘It’s a nightmare’: couriers mystified by the algorithms that management their jobs Guardian (fk)

AI Growth Offers Rise To ‘GPU-as-a-Service’ IEEE Spectrum

Guillotine Watch

Class Warfare

Inflict large financial violence on a bunch of VCs out of spite LinkedIn. I can’t entry LinkedIn however Micael T kindly despatched the textual content:

Generally once I run into open supply software program that gates fundamental auth behind a paywall, it happens to me that I ought to collaborate with the weblog readership to fork their code, add SSO, and inflict large financial violence on a bunch of VCs out of spite.

Which we 100% ought to do, we simply have to determine what firm has software program value preserving however a enterprise mannequin that isn’t.

The Black E-book of Communism Is a Shoddy Work of Historical past Jacobin

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