Links for you. Science:
The first discovery of SFTSV in the Centre of Metropolitan Beijing, China
Maximum Likelihood Estimators For Colony Forming Units
Parts of Amazon rainforest could tip toward collapse by 2050
A ‘collapse’ is looming for Louisiana’s coastal wetlands
Coral bleaching is now so extreme, scientists had to expand their scale for it
Silence of the Wolves: How Human Landscapes Alter Howling Behaviour
Other:
Restoring the Past Won’t Liberate Palestine (gift link; must-read)
Boeing is a wake-up call: America’s businesses gambled that ‘greed is good.’ Now they’re losing that bet, big time.
The World Must Force Peace on Israel
Chiefs fan gets death threats after GOP congressman falsely IDs him as shooter (sue his ass)
U.S. to give $1.5 billion for computer-chip plant, heating up global race (gift link)
This building made of growing trees could change the way we think about architecture
‘The Alternative’ is just the book economists should read — and won’t
Will Stancil: ‘repetitive and annoying’ — and an influential player in American politics
Unions are hugely popular. Why aren’t they more powerful?
Subprime Intelligence
The Real Way to Think About Biden’s Age This Run
Trump’s hubris has brought about the downfall of his family’s business empire
In New York, the Trump Brand Is Costing Some Condo Owners (gift link)
A Second Trump Term Would Be Hell for LGBTQ People
Let’s Spend Weeks Talking About The Fact That Our Candidate Is A Drooling Vegetable
Amid high rents, eviction filings in major Texas cities soar above pre-pandemic levels
Well That Was All A Big Mistake
Trump Killed Abortion Rights. But Voters Still Don’t Blame Him.
House cleaners find two of the world’s first desktop PCs in random boxes — Intel 8008-powered Q1 PC has 16KB of memory, 800 kHz CPU
Kroger, Albertsons Allegedly Colluded Against Grocery Workers’ Union
Maryland’s House Speaker Promotes ‘Decency Agenda,’ Including Library Protections
Out of Ink: Washington Post Reduced Daily Editorials in Another Turn Away from Local Coverage (given how awful the local editors have been historically, this might not be such a great loss)
The Democrats Are Blowing the 2024 Election. Joe Biden’s reelection hopes have been ill served by his complacent colleagues—who are currently getting pummeled by their more vigorous Republican counterparts.
Poland’s new government deprograms its once far-right public media (unlike Democrats, Poles take their equivalent of ‘deTrumpification’ seriously)
A Celebrity Dies, and New Biographies Pop Up Overnight. The Author? A.I.
Virginia Pitches Unprecedented Arena Financing Source: Personal Income Taxes. Legislation authorizing a new $2.2 billion suburban sports complex for the Washington Capitals and Wizards draws from income and corporate taxes.
mikethemadbiologist
From Restoring the Past:
“There is no doubt that Palestinians long lived in the land that became Israel. Jews have deep historical roots in that land, but a vast majority of the people who established the state of Israel came from elsewhere, fleeing genocide and persecution in Europe and forced into exile by Middle Eastern and North African nations.”
Simply not true. Most Palestinian Arabs came to Israel *after* the influx of Jews started in the late 19th century. And they came from surrounding Middle Eastern countries. In the late 1800’s there were far more Jews in Jerusalem than Arabs. Today, more than half of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi – dark skinned from the Levant.
And, btw, individual Jews coming from all over the world to settle in their new homeland, that every nation in the League of Nations voted for, is the exact *opposite* of colonialization. Arabs spreading throughout MENA from Saudi, by the sword, mostly, is the very definition of colonialism.
This ubiquitous narrative of a colonialist Israel is absurd.
Oh, look, a Joan Peters fan!
It’s pretty damned easy to prove that the so-called Palestinians are from neighboring countries. You could, if so inclined, read some history.
Or, you could simply look at their last names – they refer back to their countries of origin.
The Palestinians in Israel and most Jews in Israel all came after 1917. Except for the many Jews who were established in Jerusalem.
So, one of the key points made by the author of Restoring the Past is false.