Have a Nice Day: David Lynch (1946-2025) Roger Ebert. Commentary:
Farewell, Mr. Baseball JoeBlogs
RedNote/Xiaohongshu
Biden gained’t implement TikTok ban: Experiences The Hill
US ‘TikTok refugees’ spark international rush of sign-ups to China’s RedNote platform South China Morning Publish. Commentary:
Individuals and Chinese language share jokes on ‘different TikTok’ as US ban looms BBC Commentary:
Persons are posting this within the remark sections on Xiaohongshu 🥺
I can’t I’m gonna cry 😭#TikTokRefugee #xiaohongshu #rednote pic.twitter.com/dNDqlMY9Jd
— Giokielicious (@jokieliu) January 16, 2025
“Energy of weak ties” however nonetheless transferring.
* * * The voice of a brand new era:
She has over 90,000 followers on RedNote after only some days: “Transferring to China after 1 day on RedNote”😂❤️🥰#RedNote #tiktokrefugees pic.twitter.com/6oNlwulZ1B
— Johannes Maria (@luo_yuehan) January 16, 2025
California Burning
Circumstances not ignitions:
Each wildfire begins with an ignition – downed powerlines, lightning, arson – and we will do rather a lot to cut back these.
However in California the variety of fires has dropped whereas the realm burned has doubled. What has modified is situations, not ignitions: pic.twitter.com/aKnoywYBvz
— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) January 16, 2025
Oblique loss of life toll from the L.A. fires might find yourself within the hundreds Yale Local weather Connections. The deck: “The poisonous smoke from the fires, mixed with disruption to the financial system, well being care system, and psychological well being might result in hundreds of deaths over the approaching years.” I feel respiratory poisonous smoke could be very “direct” certainly.
* * * Enormous hearth at Moss Touchdown battery plant spurs evacuations, street closures, sends out plumes of poisonous smoke Mercury-Information
Local weather
Atlantic overturning inferred from air-sea warmth fluxes signifies no decline because the Nineteen Sixties Nature. AMOC jackpot occasion not imminent?
Has Trump Modified the Retirement Plans for the Nation’s Largest Coal Vegetation? Inside Local weather Information
Huge Wind & Huge Photo voltaic Are Attempting To Sue Rural America Into Submission Robert Bryce (PI).
Water
An excellent greater risk is looming behind California’s fires Vox
Bloodletting beneficial for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination Guardian
Chemical substances in sewage sludge fertilizer pose most cancers danger, EPA says AP
Syndemics
Hospitals Ought to Check All Influenza Sufferers for Fowl Flu, CDC Says Barron’s. Uh oh. Extra–
CDC HAN: Accelerated Subtyping of Influenza A in Hospitalized Sufferers Avian Flu Diary. Commentary:
Simply because seasonal flu is current doesn’t suggest H5N1 isn’t ALSO current.
They will and do co-occur. And the presence of each is the proper incubator for producing a deadly pandemic pressure of H5 flu.
There may be at present no available check for H5 subtypes.
2/2
Hyperlink under— Stan Willenbring (@StanWillenbring) January 16, 2025
Fowl Flu Detected on Virginia’s Jap Shore Charlottesville Now
Fowl flu: One other capitalist disaster Liberation
* * * American Airways Flight Attendants Now Face Being Terminated If They Catch COVID-19 Below Harsh New Attendance Guidelines PYOK. “A constructive COVID-19 check is not going to, nonetheless, be sufficient proof to use for a go away of absence, and flight attendants might want to search out knowledgeable certificates from a healthcare supplier.”
Meet the Individuals who nonetheless take COVID-19 precautions critically AP
Don’t fake COVID-19 didn’t occur Science
NIMH awards $1.5 million grant for lengthy COVID neurological analysis Information Medical Life Sciences. A million. Fancy that!
* * * Scientists uncover how viral an infection triggers autoimmune illness Information Medical Life Sciences. Hep-C, at the very least. Huge if true.
China?
China says it’s sending prime official to Trump’s inauguration Axios
China investigates whether or not CHIPS and Science Act harms its chip firms Tom’s {Hardware}
China Begins Probe Into US Chip Grants, Alleged Dumping Bloomberg
China’s native governments increase minimal wages to spice up consumption South China Morning Publish
The Koreas
South Korean Courtroom rejects petition in opposition to detention of impeached president Anadolu Company
Fowl feathers, blood present in two engines of Jeju Air jet that crashed in South Korea: Supply Straits Instances
Syraqistan
Netanyahu says hostage deal now agreed BBC. Commentary:
Trump’s nationwide safety advisor Mike Waltz lays out a plan Netanyahu has hinted at: Israel views this deal as just one part to get the Israeli and U.S. hostages out. He says Hamas will probably be destroyed and Gaza completely demilitarized. pic.twitter.com/4aBsPgXY3q
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) January 16, 2025
Ron Johnson expresses concern Israel ‘coerced’ into ceasefire settlement The Hilll
Mysterious airstrip seems on a Yemeni island as Houthi insurgent assaults threaten area AP
Gaza authorities to unveil plan for return of displaced Palestinians Anadalu Company
* * * Israeli lawyer information genocide case with ICC in opposition to Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and 6 others The Skwawkbox
* * * Our famously free press:
🟡 BREAKING: Reporter Sam Husseini (@samhusseini) is arrested and dragged out of a press briefing by @SecBlinken for daring to ask the robust query: ‘Why aren’t you in The Hague? pic.twitter.com/SV0FzxyHRO
— purple. (@redstreamnet) January 16, 2025
Max Blumenthal too:
My video and his: https://t.co/ia7EtlnTgl
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) January 16, 2025
And:
I’m grateful to have lastly gotten a dialog happening how America’s outgoing prime diplomat repeatedly proclaimed his ethnoreligious and familial loyalty to a international apartheid state, then assisted it because it carried out a Holocaust, and the way this was not a problem in official DC https://t.co/afj9iqUALL
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) January 17, 2025
* * * Beirut blast investigator resumes work after two years, prices 10 folks The New Arab
The “Terrorists” in My Grandmother’s Neighborhood Boston Overview
Africa
Chinese language nationals sentenced to jail over unlawful mining, cash laundering in Democratic Republic of Congo Anadolu Company
The New Nice Sport
Armenia makes a strategic flip from Russia in direction of the West BNE Intellinews
New Not-So-Chilly Struggle
Trump’s State Division decide delivers Ukraine actuality test RT. In the meantime:
Ukraine offered many of the weapons and US-made drones on the black market; the newest gross sales have been to rebels in Syria to topple Assad. That is extensively recognized, but it stays largely undiscussed… pic.twitter.com/H42O7iDM2K
— Anna (@provemewrong411) January 16, 2025
Wanted: A Sober Evaluation of Putin’s Russia to Assist Finish the Struggle The Nation
* * * NATO takes over coordination of army help to Ukraine Ukrainska Pravda
NATO and EU membership and weapons: Zelenskyy names key safety ensures forward of Trump assembly Ukrainska Pravda
What British boots on the bottom would seem like in Ukraine The Telegraph
Who’s Afraid of America First? Overseas Affairs. The deck: “What Asia Can Educate the World About Adapting to Trump.”
Biden Administration
Govt Order on Strengthening and Selling Innovation within the Nation’s Cybersecurity The White Home
Trump Transition
The Greenback’s Smile Can Change the World for Trump John Authers, Bloomberg
Trump Plans to Designate Cryptocurrency as a Nationwide Precedence Bloomberg
Will Trump Wage ‘No New Wars’? Overseas Coverage
Groves of Academe
Provide Chain
USGS releases map figuring out potential geologic hydrogen deposits within the US S&P World
The Closing Frontier
Area Power procurement official eliminated amid investigation Area Information
Class Warfare
Why We Have Jail Gangs Asterisk Journal
Younger Morality and Previous Morality Hamilton Nolan, How Issues Work
Antidote du jour (Derek Keats):
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
