Links 3/16/2025 | naked capitalism
She’s One of Florida’s Most Lethal Python Hunters Garden & Gun
Which Movies Do People Love to Hate? A Statistical Analysis Stat Significant
Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? Space.com
Visualized: All of the World’s Data Visual Capitalist
COVID-19/Pandemics
New Drug Could Block COVID-19 Before It Starts, Study Finds UVA Today
With crumbling public health infrastructure, rural Texas scrambles to respond to measles The Texas Tribune
Study explores impact of pandemics on birth rates in Switzerland News Medical
Climate/Environment
Climate change will reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space MIT News
Can the Tools of Finance Help Combat Climate Change? Yale Insights
China?
Ship Wars: Confronting China’s Dual-Use Shipbuilding Empire CSIS
Trump’s China strategy seeks ‘containment with a smile’ The Hill
Chinese ‘invasion barges’ spotted on drills for first time The Guardian
Africa
Fear spreads that NIH will terminate grants involving South Africa Science
US expels South Africa’s ambassador, calling him ‘race-baiting’ Trump hater Reuters
How well is Africa doing across the Sustainable Development Goals? Brookings
Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’ The Guardian
South of the Border
Pentagon asked for military options to access Panama Canal Reuters
‘Haiti’s survival is at stake,’ says UN expert, warning of worsening crisis UN News
From Mexico cartel safe house to US streets: BBC tracks deadly fentanyl targeted by Trump tariffs BBC
European Disunion
Fury erupts at Keir Starmer’s EU capitulation as he sets date for Brexit betrayal Express
Dutch lawmakers object to EU’s multibillion defense proposal DW
Israel v. The Resistance
Trump’s Bombast Towards Yemen and Iran Could Sink his Presidency Larry Johnson
US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza AP
Former head of Israeli military intelligence welcomes ‘chaos’ in Syria Middle East Eye
Israel is Denying Doctors and International Aid Workers Entry to Gaza at Unprecedented Rates Dropsite News
Growing despair in besieged Gaza amid shortages of much-needed food and fuel DAWN
this is straight gestapo shit btw https://t.co/zW1hfZcGsy
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) March 14, 2025
New Not-So-Cold War
Putin guarantees life of Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk if they surrender Euronews
BREAKING: Absolutely *damning* ECHR ruling finds Kiev bears heavy responsibility for the massacre of scores anti-Maidan activists in Odessa, May 2014. Inevitable Western media blackout on this, as it confirms what Russia was saying all along.🧵…https://t.co/4g8hVCTe2j pic.twitter.com/NNUc3HFVtA
— Kit Klarenberg 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 (@KitKlarenberg) March 13, 2025
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
If you think AI Agents will be a boon to our lives then just stop and think a moment about what the AI Agent has to have access to. The security/privacy implications are profound. Description of the problem very nicely put here by @mer__edith pic.twitter.com/nVpJ3c6k4B
— Alan Woodward (@ProfWoodward) March 10, 2025
Data Privacy Experts Concerned About DOGE Access to ED Government Technology
CPPA Puts the Brakes on Honda’s Data Privacy Practices McDermott, Will & Emery
Imperial Collapse Watch
High attrition rates and increased waivers muddy enlistment numbers Responsible Statecraft
US Air Force in Crisis as Only 6 in 10 Aircraft Mission-Ready Newsweek
I tried the viral $20 strawberry. It tasted like the end of the American empire The Guardian
No empire dies quietly: the violent twilight of US dominance Morning Star
Trump 2.0
Donald Trump threatens opponents with jail in Justice Department speech Al Jazeera
Trump’s Canadian tariffs are having a chilling effect on Vermont’s small business owners CNBC
‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts Nature
Donald Trump’s Slumping Poll Numbers Council on Foreign Relations
DOGE
Elon Musk wants to use AI to run US gov’t, but experts say ‘very bad’ idea Al Jazeera
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Teams Up With DOGE to Gut USPS TruthOut (Kevin W)
Are Elon Musk’s politics threatening Tesla and his empire? DW
DOGE is endangering Trump’s priorities Brookings
Democrat Death Watch
The Democrats’ Enabling Act: Senate votes to fund Trump’s dictatorship WSWS
The Big Lesson From Bernie Sanders’s Gangbusters Anti-Oligarchy Tour The New Republic
The Schumer-Jeffries Split Explodes in Public Politico
Charlamagne tha God: Schumer, Jeffries should step down The Hill
Immigration
Judge blocks Trump administration from implementing Alien Enemies Act The Hill
Birthright Citizenship in the United States American Immigration Council
Trump’s New Immigration Ban: An Arbitrary, Discriminatory Legal Immigration Rewrite Cato Institute
Scoop: ICE already short $2 billion as Trump’s immigration crackdown ramps up Axios
Our No Longer Free Press
CPJ, partners urge FCC to stop threatening press freedom and free speech Committee to Protect Journalists
News Guild President Jon Schleuss identifies three big threats to press freedom People’s World
Mr. Market Is Moody
Wall Street tumbles 10% below its record for first ‘correction’ since 2023 on Trump’s trade war AP
Ominous market signals show more trouble could await US stocks Reuters
DC housing market shows signs of cracks amid mass federal layoffs CNBC
AI
Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’ TechCrunch
Google’s New Robot AI Can Fold Delicate Origami, Close Zipper Bags Slashdot
Google’s Gemini DeepResearch is now available to everyone engadget
The Bezzle
New FTC Data Show a Big Jump in Reported Losses to Fraud to $12.5 Billion in 2024 FTC
AI voice-cloning scams: A persistent threat with limited guardrails Axios
Guillotine Watch
The Top 6 Most Expensive Hermès Birkin Bags Southeby’s
Class Warfare
The push to restore semiconductor manufacturing faces a labor crisis − can the US train enough workers in time? The Conversation
Antidote du Jour (via)
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