Carbon Market Faces Upheaval as 32% of All Credits Fail Test (Bloomberg) That's because carbon credits are a scam. Always has been.- Noah Lyles’ collapse with Covid: How not to manage health at the Olympics (STAT) Lots of Covid, and countries whose Olympic teams tried to protect their athletes from the disease outperformed those that did not.
- Maybe Murder and Humiliation is the Whole Point (Alon Mizrahi) The thesis is that colonialism is driven more by the desires of people to exert power oven another. Colonialism as sadism. Money quote, "What I think is: it may be very possible (and intuitively I feel strongly that this is the case) that the greatest temptation in colonialism, as in capitalism, is not the expected profit, but the sadistic joy of crushing people in a system that does not punish but rewards such behavior." (Archive.is link here)
- The low-tax countries wooing the world’s wealthy (Financial Times) It's called a race to the bottom, and only the hyper-wealthy benefit from this.
- The National Endowment for Democracy:What It Is and What It Does (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China) Short version, as I have noted before, the NED is a cutout for the US State Security Apparatus to destabilize and overthrow governments that it does not like.,
- Pluralistic: MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (16 Aug 2024) (Cory Doctorow) Not a surprise. Human intestines thrive without tapeworms as well. Elsevier are a bunch of parasites.
- ‘Monument to history’ battle between US and China over future of Mao’s secretary’s diary (The Guardian) Senior Chinese official Li Rui kept extensive diaries, and his daughter sent copies of them to the Hoover Institution in the US. Li's widow is trying to get them back, claiming ownership. It is believed that the lawsuit is being promulgated by the leadership of the PRC.
- Inside Boeing’s factory lapses that led to the Alaska Air blowout (The Seattle Times) This is a complete horror show. If it's Boeing, I ain't going.
My mind is blown. I will never look at Looney Toons the same way again:
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