The Weirdest Eyes in The Animal Kingdom See a World We Can’t Even Think about ScienceAlert (Chuck L)
Wait, does America immediately have a report variety of bees? Washington Submit (Dr. Kevin)
#COVID-19
There is a massive confounder within the Covid reinfection IQ loss examine that hasn’t been talked about
It is the chance that individuals who did not hearken to the rhetoric that Covid is sort of a chilly selected to stay vigilant and stop an infection and reinfection, and so they simply have increased IQ
— AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD (@fitterhappierAJ) April 2, 2024
This week’s USA influenza vs. COVID stats:
COVID deaths in Jan 2024: 10,200
Influenza deaths in Jan 2024: 3,106 pic.twitter.com/fiLz8YdC9t— Gregory Travis. Make colleges #DavosSafe (@greg_travis) April 2, 2024
Appears principally like a meaningless or deceptive chart if mainly solely severe hospital circumstances are being examined. Actually does not say something about how a lot COVID there’s, or about something aside from probably the most extreme acute infections. 🤷♂️ https://t.co/tRMhIJBVH9
— T. Ryan Gregory (@TRyanGregory) April 2, 2024
Local weather/Atmosphere
International glut turns photo voltaic panels into backyard fencing choice Monetary Instances
The place Was Exxon Planning to Inject CO2 in Louisiana? It’s a Commerce Secret. DeSmog
Orange Steam Funnels Are a New York Image. What Are They For? New York Instances
China?
Taiwan earthquake: what is thought and what occurs subsequent Asia Instances
Taiwan Quake Places World’s Most Superior Chips at Threat MSN
Intel Discloses $7 Billion Working Loss For Chip-Making Unit Reuters. On this part because of chip wars.
Cesium Wars: China and America Battle for the Way forward for Huge Tech OilPrice
President Xi Jinping Speaks with U.S. President Joe Biden on the Cellphone Ministry of International Affairs of the Folks’s Republic of China
Readout of President Joe Biden’s Name with President Xi Jinping of the Folks’s Republic of China White Home
European Disunion
At 75, Has NATO Outlived Its Use? American Conservative
Fall in German inflation boosts hopes of ECB charge minimize Monetary Instances
Finland capturing: Little one held after pupil aged 12 shot lifeless at college in Vantaa BBC
Previous Blighty
That is a part of the neoliberal playbook. Trigger a disaster to advertise privatization and permit monetary markets to money in. What Jamie Galbraith has known as the Predatory State, within the case of the US https://t.co/YOi0txoJnW
— Matías Vernengo (@NakedKeynes) April 1, 2024
JUST IN:
Residence homeowners within the UK have been instructed that “obligatory promoting of dwelling” shall be enforced to deal with unlawful migrants …
Aged persons are being instructed their homes are too massive for them and they should promote.
This should be a joke.
🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/nswNL2yzKl
— Wall Road Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 2, 2024
Gaza
Israel’s intentional killing of seven support staff confirmed by Bellingcat watchdog report Anadolu Company. While you’ve misplaced Bellingcat…..
Israel retains denying company support access as anger over Gaza killings grows Aljazeera
Israel’s Assault on Iranian Consulate Highlights Netanyahu’s Pending Defeat in Gaza Sputnik
Israel vows to ‘act anyplace’ following Syria, Lebanon strikes The Cradle
Support ships are turning again from Gaza with round 240 tons of undelivered support after the killing of seven World Central Kitchen support staff. pic.twitter.com/1yMzkNzYq8
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) April 2, 2024
US foils Houthi drone assault in Pink Sea Arab Information
October 7 | Al Jazeera Investigations YouTube (furzy)
Israeli parliament passes regulation paving the best way for Al Jazeera closure Aljazeera (furzy)
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
Zelensky Indicators Legislation Reducing Conscription Age to 25 Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
Simply 8% of Ukrainians able to take up arms in opposition to Russia – pollster RT
🇺🇦‼️🚨 Give up your husband and get a reward!
-> The army recruitment commissar awarded wives who surrendered their husbands to the army!
On March 26, in Lozovaya, Kharkov area, the pinnacle of the native army registration and enlistment workplace introduced awards to… pic.twitter.com/Cw638fHhVH
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) April 1, 2024
* * * Kyiv Loyalists FLEEING Kharkiv. Religion within the Ukrainian Military and Air Protection is totally LOST. 🇺🇦
“The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!” pic.twitter.com/Ek3b96Pzu9— James Porrazzo (@JamesPorrazzo) April 2, 2024
Poland and Belarus ramp up the conflict rhetoric Unherd
* * * When Opining Battle Specialists Can’t Learn Maps Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
With Real Respect For Laymen… Andrei Martyanov. Through which Martyanov chews out Simplicius.
RUSSIAN OPINION POLL ON CROCUS ATTACK BACKFIRES AS KIEV PROPAGANDA John Helmer
Syraqistan
‘A Declaration of Battle’ Towards Iran Consortium Information
Huge Brother is Watching You Watch
A stealth assault got here near compromising the world’s computer systems Economist (Dr. Kevin)
FCC To Vote To Restore Internet Neutrality Guidelines Reuters
Imperial Collapse Watch
What makes a UN choice binding? Accountable Statecraft
Trump
From Security First, hoisted from yesterday’s Water Cooler:
Re: Trump’s cash/bond/and so on.
In the event you learn the spac’s pre-merger SEC filings, particularly the S-1 (or is it the S-4? one of many S’s), you’ll uncover some fascinating issues:
1. Trump and others weren’t “traders” in Reality Social – they owned an $875mm convertible bond in Reality Social. The spac paid out the convert holders to execute the merger.
2. Compensation for the convert holders was:
a) $875mm in money.
b) 87.5 million shares of the merged firm.
c) Between 10 million and 15 million of extra shares within the merged firm if the inventory trades above $12.50-$17.50 for 20 consecutive buying and selling days, which it’s extremely more likely to do.
3. Trump’s new stake in DJT is meant to be 58%, presumably post-10-15 million share issuance, so you may work backwards to get one thing like a 70%-75% stake in Reality Social.
In different phrases, Trump didn’t simply get shares – he acquired 70%-75% of an $875mm money payout, which works out to someplace north of $600mm. Now, possibly he had different obligations, e.g. he’d borrowed some cash to purchase the unique convert. However the level is, even with out the appeals court docket lowering the bond measurement, he shouldn’t have had an issue post-merger.
After all, as far as I can verify, not a single, solitary journalist writing any of the “Trump’s bond” tales over the previous few weeks has ever, ever bothered to learn the S-1.
Trump Media sues its co-founders, accuses them of ‘extreme mismanagement’ CNBC. Headline handed over key piece of the battle:
The lawsuit filed in Sarasota County, Florida, civil court docket seeks to bar Trump Media & Know-how Group co-founders Wesley Moss and Andrew Litinsky from appointing members to the corporate’s board — or from proudly owning any of its shares.
Moss and Litinsky declare {that a} 2021 settlement that Trump signed with an organization they based, United Atlantic Ventures, LLC, ensures them an 8.6% share of Trump Media’s whole inventory, undiluted by the issuance of recent shares.
Trump’s attorneys push for recusal of Decide Juan Merchan in hush cash case ABC Information (Kevin W)
Biden
White Home Makes Final-ditch Push for Web Subsidy Program Reuters
Biden Assails ‘Outrageous’ Florida Abortion Ruling as His Marketing campaign Blames Trump New York Instances (Kevin W)
“Not Proof”: Federal Decide Denies Hunter Biden Motions to Dismiss Tax Fees in Stinging Rebuke Jonathan Turley. Story broke yesterday however this side not effectively lined.
2024
Monitoring the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Biden leads Trump Morning Seek the advice of. Different polls of polls nonetheless present Trump forward.
Wisconsin voters approve constitutional amendments on election funding, officers PBS Discover the “election funding” situation:
Non-public cash to fund elections shall be banned in Wisconsin after voters permitted a constitutional modification on April 2 put ahead by Republicans in response to grants obtained in 2020 that had been funded by donations from Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Staff R calls this Zuckerbucks and thinks different measures like this may improve turnout. See present lead headlines from Citizen Free Press:
Trump tells crowd. We now have to ban Zuckerbucks. And so it was achieved.
Tonight’s lesson is apparent. Republican turnout will increase when anti-Zuckerbuck amendments are on the poll. This may assist November republican turnout in Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia. Use the identical technique democrats are utilizing with IVF.
Our No Longer Free Press
Apple Acquired Caught Censoring Its Personal Regulator Lina Khan Matt Stoller
Well being Care
Louisiana Senate Passes Invoice to Finish State Cooperation with UN and WHO Tenth Modification
ACA medical insurance plans are being switched with out enrollees’ OK NPR (BC)
CalPERS Selects Stephen Gilmore as Chief Funding Officer CalPERS. For as soon as, somebody who appears to be like certified. However they needed to relent and rent a white man.
AI
Seems AI chatbots are far more persuasive than people The Register
The Bezzle
Bitcoin Tumbles $5,000 In 24 Hours As Curiosity Charges Leap CNBC. That is affecting a number of different international locations. Thai baht was not sturdy throughout excessive season and is now fairly weak.
Amazon to Take away ‘Simply Stroll Out’ Checkout Know-how at U.S. Grocery Shops Wall Road Journal
Class Warfare
Housing ‘affordability has simply completely collapsed,’ economist says CNBC (Kevin W)
70% of the land in Britain remains to be owned by 1% of the inhabitants, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s military ZMEScience (Dr. Kevin)
California Introduces ‘Proper To Disconnect’ Invoice That Would Permit Staff To Presumably Calm down endagget
Antidote du jour. Janet T:
Steve mentioned that you simply put a name out for extra animal photographs, and that I ought to ship you one taken of our cats (who’ve now been with us for nearly 4 years) once they had been nonetheless small
We adopted them from our native shelter in mid-July of 2020. This was taken August 28 (2020) by our youthful son who came visiting from Chicago and met them. In entrance, Moogie (named Smaug by the shelter – not likely a match for him, though we love Tolkien), was simply over 3 months previous, and Luna, simply over 5 months, behind.
And a bonus:
Whereas biking alongside the roads of Pointe-Taillon Nationwide Park in Quebec, this bicycle owner got here throughout a household of skunks. pic.twitter.com/UkwObwDpnu
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 31, 2024
And a second bonus:
A tower of giraffes out for a run pic.twitter.com/ghFpn6uNsP
— Nature is Wonderful ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) March 30, 2024
Caption this !
pic.twitter.com/rtXUJ8oDn1— Science woman (@gunsnrosesgirl3) April 1, 2024
— Why you must have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) April 2, 2024
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
