Watch Cockatoos Dip Their Food in Water to Make It Soggy Smithsonian
New Paper Argues That the Universe Began with Two Big Bangs JSTOR Daily
NASA Study Finds Life-Sparking Energy Source and Molecule at Enceladus NASA. One of Saturn’s moons.
Climate
How the world agreed to move away from fossil fuels at COP28 Reuters
From forest gaps to landscapes: new insights into ecosystem functions (press release) University of Würzburg
Water
White House orders studies of Snake River dam removal to restore salmon populations The Hill
#COVID19
What companies can do against Long Covid (abstract-only; paywalled, like, everywhere) Britta Domke, Harvard Business Manager. Original. “There’s money in prevention.” Translated from German (images only, sorry):
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) December 14, 2023
The dangers of repeated COVID-19 infections Halifax Examiner. Good.
“No one I know has Long Covid” John Snow Project
The Global Economy Is A Pandemic Factory Nate Bear, ¡Do Not Panic!
China?
China’s Country Garden prevents worsening of debt crisis with payment Business Standard
China’s former railway head sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption South China Morning Post
Xi Jinping urges ‘to the letter’ compliance as China’s economic recovery remains top concern South China Morning Post
‘Digital afterlife’: Chinese mourners turn to AI to resurrect the dead France24
COVID-19 surge in Southeast Asia: Experts stress personal responsibility, dismiss need for pandemic-era curbs Channel News Asia. In Southeast Asia, personal responsibility includes masking. What a concept. No mention whatever of ventilation, however.
Myanmar
Temporary ceasefire agreed between junta, armed groups in north Myanmar: China Channel News Asia. Framed by China as a “conflict in northern Myanmar,” and NUG is not at the table.
Meta in Myanmar (full series) Erin Kissane
Syraqistan
Graphic Videos and Incitement: How the IDF Is Misleading Israelis on Telegram Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz. Courageous reporter. And editor.
* * * Israeli control of Gaza would not ‘make sense’, says US security adviser FT
Kirby: White House knows two-state solution to Israel-Hamas war ‘elusive,’ not giving up The Hill
In shift, a top Hamas official floats Israel recognition Al Monitor. Haven’t seen this elsewhere….
Biden points to Gaza hostages when asked about Israeli tunnel flooding reports Reuters
* * * How are Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea affecting global trade? AP
* * * Su-35 vs. JF-17 Block III: Iran and Pakistan’s New Fighters Are Total Opposites – Which is Better? and How Useful Are Israel’s F-35s For Gaza and Lebanon Operations? Surge in Parts From U.S. Facilitates Intensified Strikes Military Watch. “The F-35 still suffers from over 800 combat bugs and is considered unsuitable for even medium intensity combat, with the nature of operations against non-state militia groups representing combat at a very low intensity.” Combined, a useful round-up on aircraft in Syraqistan.
* * * CNN Goes To Gaza Caitlin’s Newsletter
Conjuring Trick New Left Review
* * * Not. however, hegemonic:
7th generation palestinian Jew about his families experience living together with palestinian Muslims:
pic.twitter.com/PSeI9rIL8a— Black Silver (@BlackSilver33) December 12, 2023
Happy anniversary:
Today marks 15 years since Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush at a news conference in Baghdad to express his rage towards America's illegal invasion of Iraq. pic.twitter.com/JouDSYeY4e
— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) December 14, 2023
European Disunion
Hungary vetoes $54B EU funding for Ukraine Anadolu Agency
Europe’s true beliefs on Ukraine are put to the test Politico. The deck: “Hungary and Ukraine fatigue risk undermining ‘as long as it takes’ vow.”
New Not-So-Cold War
Accepting Defeat In Ukraine Moon of Alabama
Biden says US will support Ukraine ‘as long as we can’ amid GOP standoff, a change from ‘as long as it takes’ Business Insider
Ukraine needs help now, “not after the eggnog” – White House Ukrainska Pravda. “….to be a friend is fatal.”
How the US keeps funding Ukraine’s military — even as it says it’s out of money AP
* * * Key takeaways from Putin’s 1st major news conference since war on Ukraine began Axios
Putin’s Q&A and Some Revealing Article Roundups on AFU’s Deterioration Simplicius the Thinker(s)
Vladimir Putin’s “Direct Line” Q&A session today Gilbert Doctorow
* * * Ukraine gets EU membership boost, but no new European aid, after setback in US ABC
* * * Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag The Grayzone
South of the Border
Venezuela and Guyana to Maintain Direct Dialogue Amid Essequibo Dispute Venezuelanalysis. Commentary:
Following lengthy, but fruitful talks between Guyana and Venezuela, I share with the world The Joint Declaration Of Argyle For Dialogue And Peace Between Guyana and Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/z11EX2tGBU
— Mia Amor Mottley (@miaamormottley) December 15, 2023
The Afterlife of a Coup The Baffler
Grievance and Reform Phenomenal World
Biden Administration
House passes annual defense bill with extension of controversial surveillance tool FOX. Snowden:
Congress has voted to pass the NDAA—in which they deceitfully concealed an extension of the warrantless spying program ("Section 702") universally opposed by the public.
Last year the FBI exploited 702 to spy on Americans (protestors, donors—even Congress) more than 200k times.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 14, 2023
AUKUS Partnership Given Go Ahead By Congress Naval News
5 NDAA topics causing a stir as defense bill heads toward final vote The Hill
* * * The FAA is developing an air traffic tool built for the space age. It may need help FedScoop
Our Famously Free Press
When the New York Times lost its way 1843
NY Times publisher fires back at ex-editor who says paper ‘lost its way’: That’s a ‘false narrative’ FOX
Digital Watch
ChatGPT may have become ‘seasonally depressed’ as creators race to fix AI after users moan over bizarre change The US Sun. Anthropomorphism and the seasonality agenda item. Impressive.
Take It to the Spank Bank The Baffler
AI isn’t and won’t soon be evil or even smart, but it’s also irreversibly pervasive TechCrunch. Key AI use case: Making sure callers to customer service lines never, ever “reach a real human.” Generalizing: 100% crapification of the customer experience.
US highlights AI as risk to financial system for first time Al Jazeera. Don’t worry. Silicon Valley will sell us protection.
The Bezzle
Politics and the Future Andreesen Horowitz. “If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them.” What’s “important”? Shorter: We did not misallocate capital to broken tech (robot cars, Web3, crypto). We merely need to optimize the political economy so our tech doesn’t break (or is not seen to).
Science fiction writers imagine a future in which AI doesn’t abuse copyright, or their generosity The Register. Science fiction stuff!
Fraudsters steal more than $25 million in “AI-powered” crypto ponzi Web3 is Going Just Great
Spook Country
Portrait of a Troubled Loner-Leaker Spy Talk. Jack Teixeira.
Realignment and Legitimacy
Constitution in the Crosshairs: The Far Right’s Plan for a New Confederacy The Progressive
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Self-Doubting Superpower Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs. The deck: “America Shouldn’t Give Up on the World It Made.” Sunk cost fallacy.
Class Warfare
Jet Defects Stoke Debate Over Who Should Inspect Mechanics’ Work WSJ. “Exacerbating the issue is a shortage of workers to build planes in an industry that lost legions of its most qualified mechanics amid the pandemic shutdown and the grounding of 737 MAX jets after a pair of fatal crashes.” I wonder if there could be…. some other Covid-related factor besides (America’s totally pissant) shutdowns?
Why Do We Dream? Maybe to Ensure We Can Literally ‘See’ the World upon Awakening Scientific American
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BLOOD TIDE
(melody borrowed from Walk On the Wild Side by Lou Reed)
Genocide is an easy price to pay when forever war is the order of the day.
Profits flow from an ethnic cleanse to all our ultra-wealthy friends.
So tell Biden we sail on the blood tide.
Tell Biden it’s a lotta jobs stateside.
Every bomb dropped on the Gaza strip was rushed there on a US plane or ship.
We don’t send fuel or flour for bread, just weapons to make Arabs dead.
Go tell Biden we don’t want him to backslide.
Tell Biden, if he isn’t tongue-tied!
And the UN goes:
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo…
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo…
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo…
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo… dooooo…
We own all the stock of the weapons industry, so we see war as a profit jubilee.
Big dividends from every share — we’ll kill people anywhere!
So tell Biden, keep the IDF supplied.
Say, Hey Joe, we don’t see a downside.
Next year y’all elect a President, but there’s no real choice in that event.
No matter who wins the rodeo, we own the stable — ho, ho, ho
You tell Biden to trade from the inside.
Tell Biden, stand tall for apartheid! alright
Huh!
To the One Percent, it’s all our ballet. Politics is all a puppet play.
We don’t march like common trash; we buy laws with cold, hard cash.
So tell Biden we don’t count when kids die.
Tell Biden, a percent for the Big Guy!
And the UN goes:
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo…
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo…
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo…
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo…
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo…
Doo do doo do doo do do doo… Doo do doo do doo do do doo… dooooo…..
Warm appreciation of high-brow satire would be extended by Lou Reed’s family if, you know, man, his cousin’s were not Israeli citizens fighting for their lives in a war to the death for the foreseeable future. Lou, himself, hit up Tel Aviv on every tour so he could visit his extended family… (Blink)… The bar is so low, and yet, look at the all contusions and dented shins around here. Devo was spot on.
Ask yourself; who started that war? Not just this latest version, but originally.
I wish that Robert Mothersbaugh was still around for his role in portraying General Boy in DEVO’s shorts.
The biting satire of the You Chose to See A DEVO Performance short was scarily prescient.
fighting for their lives in a war to the death for the foreseeable future.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbole
I’m not sure what gestalt actually is, but my laymans understanding came from when I worked at a macrobiotic fast food joint in the peoples republic of boulder co. long years past. At a meeting the boss had one person stand up and then asked one of the others to get up and grab one arm, then another to grab the other arm, then for one leg, then the other leg and then had a sixth ask the first for help and this person was obviously unable to do so. Extrapolate the lesson as you will, but for current purposes the boss called this “gestalt” and from that I’ve run it in my imagination as someone who comes up to you and starts poking at you and getting in your face etc, then when you respond the pusher says “You’re attacking me!”
I have lost all sympathy for your plight. Do unto others and all…
Continuing, I completely agree with the palestinian jew, it’s easy get backwards, but in my religious studies from the same time period (long past) religion is a contract between people about how to get along, and it’s aim is to ameliorate human nature. Currently human nature is in the ascendant. On the sports radio, it’s high praise when one of the hosts says “the only finger he points with is his thumb.”
@Tegnost, I’m just guessing, but maybe you worked at Jerry Kanty’s restaurant, “Pebble in the Water” a few doors up from the Lincoln school building that became Naropa and that maybe you were a Trungpa student.
Of course I don’t know, but I’ll bet you at least knew of all that.
I could not care less about Lou Reed and do not consider him an authority on anything.
Most of all music :)
Lou Reed was pretty famous for being a selfish, abusive, mean jerk so cribbing that melody seems all fine, antifa.
Some of us in the tribe care about Palestinian lives as well as Israeli ones. Doubt Reed did. Not his style.
Also, he only has one good solo album and that was in no small part due to Mick Ronson and Bowie. That’s just my opinion, man.
The situation in Gaza is very much like the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto. Israel is being destroyed by the neo-Zionists.
“What companies can do against Long Covid”
Pretty sure that you could change that title to ‘What companies will do against Long Covid’ and the answer is that any employees showing signs of Long Covid will be immediately fired and replaced with another worker. Being America, that worker with Long Covid will lose their health benefits but that would not be the company’s problem. So the way that it will shake out is that managers will be expected to maintain a ‘churn’ of workers by firing workers with Long Covid and replacing them with new workers until they develop Long Covid. Rinse and repeat.
Why even bother reading articles about COP28 and the ‘pledge’ to get off hydrocarbons. It is simply delusional to think we will, because we can’t. No one, as in no one, will accept the pain and disruption to their economy or lives that this would mean. Does anyone believe any petro-state, oil major, coal producer, etc. is going to pump one less barrel, dig one last ton? No chance.
Electrification, as a replacement is a pipe dream. Look at all the utility scale projects being cancelled because the subsidies are insufficient. Anyone seen Orsted’s stock price recently, the EUR15 billion bail-out of Siemens, etc.
There is only one way out, conservation on a mass scale. Ending a GDP growth model predicated on producing more every year and throwing things out — e.g., why does Apple purposefully design products that obsolete themselves and need to be replaced despite nothing being wrong with them?
I feel the same and can barely read articles about CO28. There were so many oil lobbyists there that I bet that more oil deals were worked out between all those players than planned resolutions what to do about climate change. On a side note, COP29 is due to be held next year in Baku, Azerbaijan which just happens to be another major oil producer.
So far Europeans seem to be taking their climate pain in remarkably good spirit. Yeah, Hungary, but all the woke countries of Europe have shouldered the sacrifice.
Agree that COp28 is a joke, but oil and gas will end, although not as rapidly as necessary.
China’s oil demand is expected to peak by 2030 at between 780 and 800 million metric tons per year …The country’s oil demand is expected to fall to 220 million tons per year by 2060, roughly a quarter of the peak level, due to falling demand for transport fuels, Wu added.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-oil-demand-seen-peaking-by-2030-cnpc-research-2023-12-07/
Even today levels of peak gasoline have been reached in China due to 1.1 million electric vehicles, electric railways, and high speed rail.
Sinopec just announced that 2023 marks peak gasoline demand in China.
What is Sinopec? Merely the world’s largest oil refining, gas, and petrochemical conglomerate, wholly owned by the Chinese state, and the supplier of a rather absurd percentage of China’s fossil fuels. It approaches being the Chinese oil and gas industry, so in general it knows what it is talking about. Given that 45% of every barrel of oil turns into gasoline, that means China has reached peak petroleum demand.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/11/chinas-oil-gas-giant-sinopec-says-peak-oil-demand-already-happened-in-china/
Found the example of 16,000 electric buses and 22,000 electric taxis in Shenzhen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P7fTPLSMeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbHSoBe62J4
US highlights AI as risk to financial system for first time. You don’t even need Silicon Valley for protection, just cancel the trades you don’t like. Remember this, https://www.reuters.com/business/lme-suspends-nickel-trading-day-after-prices-see-record-run-2022-03-08/ ? Also I don’t think there’s a difference between AI and Algorithmic Trading, which has been in use for a LOOONG time.
From that Reuters article, “The LME announced that all trades will be voided from midnight until 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday when trading stopped and added that it was considering a closure of several days.”
If the stock market ever found itself in the same position, I bet you, the next time around the authorities will keep them closed for as long as necessary until morale improves ;)
Oh by the way, the epilogue to the Reuters article: https://www.ft.com/content/7d778448-08c6-4b3f-87a3-c3ab528e8e2a. TL;DR the cancellations were found to be legal.
7th Generation Jew….salt of the earth common sense. But can’t help but wonder, if there were a Hillary Clinton wing political party in Isreal, would this guy be called a deplorable? After we can infer he definitely does live on the East or West coast.
He says “…here in England…” in the video, so he may well live in the UK.
Jiminy cricket you just can’t ever get past your mysogyny! What does Secretary Clinton have to do with ANY of this other than in your fevered imagination of a “wing?” You might as well cast your aspersions at Taylor Swift who is, at least, relevant these days. That “deplorable” comment when taken in context must’ve really insulted you.
“Fraudsters steal more than $25 million in “AI-powered” crypto ponzi”
Stupid AF move number one was being brain-dead enough to keep letting conmen preach about “inevitability.”
Turbo charged fraudstermobiles. The Frankenstein marriage of AI and crypto bezzles !!
If only SBF had waited a bit longer.
Sam the sham has positioned himself well in macro mackerel trading futures in gaol, which has to be disappointing dealing in something that’s actually real & useful, not his speed.
Greased AI and crypto currencies
Go together just like grand larceny
Side by side side on my rap sheet
Oh Lord, where’s the SEC?
We all know that people are the same whereever you go
There is good and bad in ev’ryone
We learn to live, when we learn to steal from
Each other what we need to survive, together alive
Apologies to Sir Paul M.
“Graphic Videos and Incitement: How the IDF Is Misleading Israelis on Telegram”
There are lies being spread all across Israel and not just by the IDF as well as all sorts of cover ups. The thousand cars destroyed on October 7th will be shredded and buried deep so no forensic examination will be possible. And all the security video footage along the fences that day are now gone and either deleted or buried deep by the Netanyahu government. But I saw a bad example recently. Militants attacked and killed Israelis at a bus stop until they were killed. A passing lawyer – Yuval Castleman – stopped, grabbed his gun and started shooting. When the police turned up he dropped his gun, got on his knees, opened his shirt to show he was not armed and raised his hands in the air. So the Israeli police pumped him full of bullets and claimed the militants did it. The family was not sitting for that one and had his body exhumed which showed police M-16 bullets and fragments in him. Bad luck for those cops that there was also video of the whole thing-
https://www.timesofisrael.com/state-attorney-orders-probe-into-police-conduct-in-killing-of-yuval-castleman/
Lies, right across the board. Remind me again how Israeli police train American police.
Hasbara
On a related point, I subscribe to Seymour Hersh’s substack but on Gaza. I think he is mostly worthless. I could be wrong, of course, but my sense is that his Israeli sources are mostly just feeding him hasbara about incompetent Hamas fighters vs super competent Israelis. Not the kind of sources the Israeli magazine 972 found who told them about deliberate targeting of Gazan civilians.
I would love to see someone with inside sources about what happened on Oct 7. Hamas is guilty of mass kidnapping and murder— that won’t change. But what exactly did the Israeli forces do? And for that matter, I never assume every single IDF soldier is a war criminal, so why assume that about Hamas fighters as so many Westerners do? Based on Israeli testimony, some were cruel and some weren’t.
>>>Based on Israeli testimony, some were cruel and some weren’t.
In other words, they are all human beings, neither side being all demons or angels?
Yes, but in the West that is a revolutionary concept. We always demonize the enemy but our side is either pure good or at worst, complicated.
But what exactly did the Israeli forces do?
If the Israelis do not set up a commission to investigate what really happened, endowed with wide-ranging powers and made up of members of unimpeachable probity and tenacity, we will probably have to wait decades till archives get released (if they ever are).
Because so far, reports are dripping about the IDF shooting indiscriminately at the places where hostages were being held, killing many of them in the process — as reported by those who managed to survive, for instance here, and here. And by military present on the scene. And by tank squads, told to shoot with no regard for possible Israeli victims. And by helicopter pilots, ordered to shoot even without being able to distinguish between Palestinian militants and Israelis — as officially admitted by the Israeli government.
Far from acting “professionally”, the IDF seems to have resorted to unloading its guns frantically in the general direction of the enemy.
Well, it seems that the “friendly fire incidents” in the immediate aftermath of the 7th October attack were so “immense and complex in quantity” that the Israeli government does not want to investigate them…
And in recent news, the IDF mowed down three Israeli hostages who had managed to escape their Palestinian jailers and were running towards what they believed was their salvation.
As I said, the IDF just sprays ordnance of every calibre in the general direction of the enemy — Israeli civilians and hostages be damned.
RE: Making sure callers to customer service lines never, ever “reach a real human.” Generalizing: 100% crapification of the customer experience.
I read an article comparing AI customer service chatbots to the way fortune tellers operate. They ask leading questions and reword your responses and repeat them back to you. They haven’t really done a damn thing.
I recently tried renewing a magazine subscription online that I’d paid for by check for years. Had difficulties, and when I called for support, I’m pretty sure I was talking to a chatbot because it operated just like the article I’d read. It kept asking me questions and didn’t solve the actual problem, until I finally asked if it wouldn’t be quicker if I just sent a check again, and it agreed. Complete waste of time.
Just tried searching for the article I read earlier. Couldn’t find it, but I did find that AI chatbots are now actually replacing psychics and fortune tellers. Perfect job for something that just spews out gobbledegook. If you need real accurate information, not so much.
Before you buy a product or service, call their help or warranty line and see how you are treated.
No readily accessable human option?
No purchase.
Did this with a bank I wanted to plop a big chunk of cash into. “You’re call is important to us”…no human, no deposit.
I’ve taken to just responding to any question with “operator” or any other unexpected response. Sometimes this will get me to a human, as the system doesn’t know what to do with random responses, though I’ve noticed systems are starting to dump me out of the phone tree after a few times.
I have found the most fastest reliable way of getting A human is to use the voice tone of Darth Vader when he ad hoc executes his subordinate and shout if there isn’t anybody in earshot who you would unduly alarm. The precise words don’t seem to matter.
GET ME A HUMAN NOW YOU WORTHLESS ROBOT YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO ME FOR THE LAST TIME YOU ARE DEAD NOT ALIVE.
Re today’s Lion in the Antidote du jour-
Pro tip. If one day you find yourself on the African Savannah and stumble upon a Lion sleeping like this do not, repeat, do not go up to it and go-
‘Pst, pst. pst. Here kitty, kitty.’
Lambert, today’s antidote has yesterday’s via link
you’re not lion
“ChatGPT may have become ‘seasonally depressed’ as creators race to fix AI after users moan over bizarre change” The US Sun.
Wow. They really expect that repeating this fantasy, this emotion projecting, will make it so? Reading that mess was like being gaslighted, conned, and Rickrolled all at the same time.
Seasonally depressed? ChatGPT as Marvin the paranoid android. / ;)
With on sentence, Jame Bennet, author of, ‘When the NY Times lost it’s way’ , perfectly demonstrates the problem. He states in part . . . ‘the editors defended their coverage against the inevitable criticism’ . . . (yapping about the trans) and more clearly than ever, shows exactly how he’s lost the ball, altogether. Sulzberger was right to demand his resignation as unfit for the job. Why?
Simple, it’s because editors don’t need to defend their coverage, they need to report it. Both sides. Do not take a side!
By this meaning they need to report the news instead of making it by telling me what to think. So Bennet, now with the Economist as his platform, shows how badly he still doesn’t grok this simple fact; it’s up to me to form an opinion, not for them to inform me of theirs!
Bennet doesn’t understand he (and news outfits in general) don’t need to be defending their coverage of anything, they just need to report the news. All of it.
Regarding the trans; tell all sides. 1) Those *for* mutilating kids. 2) Those against it. 3) Give voice to the views of those who are fine with mutilation if the kids aren’t involved at all, e.g. once they reach legal age. 4) Share the story of genital mutilation and its basis in religion. 5) Explain what it has involved historically for women and men. 6) Tell the story of mental health’s involvement. 7) Tell the story of the lack of mental health. 8) Tell the story of government’s role in funding mental health care. 9) Tell the story of cutbacks in funding.
Just tell *all* these stories. Stories coming from all sides. But don’t for crying out loud inform us of *their* (the author’s) opinion. By this meaning whomever is slanting the news in any given article.
STOP THE SLANT!
Honestly? If I can suss out the writer’s views on the subject, their opinion, the article shouldn’t be published. You won’t fire too many (or not publish at all) before they figure out how to tell a straight story regarding, who, what, when, where, why.
Not the author’s why, the why related to the story! So just fire these kids so they can seek another profession, if they can find one, where anybody give s a flip what a 20-y/0 thinks.
Recapping, just give it to us straight, no slant. I really couldn’t emphasize enough how I really couldn’t care less what a snot nose 20-y/o thinks about trans, or Israel, the President, Trump or Biden, or much of anything else. Just report the news! Leave it to me to form my opinion.
All this by way of explaining why I no longer read the gray lady. Simply put, I’ve lost faith – totally – in what they have to say. This is because one thing I *can* be absolutely sure of is this; it’ll be biased toward their position. That, and it’ll be left of me, e.g. unlikely to be mine.
In short, they took a side and instantly eliminated 50% of their market. This is about as stupid a business decision as I can imagine. But it’s Sulzberger’s money, and he can do as he please.
Me? Were I to do it for my business I’d deserve to be fired for it.
Imagine if the Walmart CEO instructed the company to take the position of, ‘we only sell to men, women’s money is wanted (~50% of the market). Yikes!
This is same as Bud Light tanking their sales by taking a position on the gender ‘wars’ (meaning what was really none of their f-ing business, e.g. selling light beer).
So when the NYT should have stayed neutral and done their job, e.g. report the news, not make it, they declared a side and lost half their market. Bennet shows he learned nothing from the experience even though the article purports expressly this, to lay out how it was the NYT’s fault. Bennet accepts no fault, and worse, keeps defending the action.
So they (NYT) continue today, to be fully committed against Donald Trump. Essentially viewing him as shit on the bottom of their shoe, and by extension, everybody for him as the deplorables, which HRC gave name to. I’m proud to be a deplorable.
Too bad the NYT, and the group think that gave birth to its death, fail to understand how much I abhor DJT. Thing is, nobody is giving me a voice. With with regard to the NYT, it’s too bad they failed the nation. Worse, that they continue in this folly. but sadly worse still, those responsible land (Bennet, as an example) continue landing on their feet at other once worthy news sources. The Economist in this instance, also now being brought low by those too stupid to realize the error of their ways.
Yes, I’m saying Bennet is stupid. Profoundly so for rising to his position, for claiming to see what’s wrong, all without realizing he and his ilk *are* the problem.
Adding to my own thoughts, Bennet engendered the view through example, that one viewpoint was good or desirable. In defying the publisher’s thought toward providing links to other’s views (against Cotton’s, with which I happen to agree, the country was being burned down the cops were overwhelmed and calling in help via the NatGuard would be a great aid to restoring order, but that’s my view, not for the NYT time to express), he again demonstrated his pro-one-view stake.
Does Bennet really defend the newsroom having become one-sided just *happened* when he was the leader, it wasn’t his responsibility, e.g. fault? That he couldn’t have called a team meeting and said, our job is to report the news, not make it. And reminded them what journalists as taught, who, what, when, where, and why? Does he take the position his responsibility is zero?
Proof remains, in my view, his take on ‘editors defending their position’ regarding the trans, when my point is . . . they should have *no* discernible position at all.
Just report the news! It’s the reader’s job to take the position.
What you say about the New York Times may be valid but how they report news is another matter altogether. About a decade ago I read an article by a West Coast reporter who was pleased as punch to score a job with the New York Times. He said that what he found when he got there was that there was an office on the upper floors of their building and every day the top editors would get together and decide what the ‘narrative’ of the day was going to be. Having done that, then it flowed down to the lower editors. If there was a news report that fitted the narrative, then it was included in that day’s issue. But if it was a news report that went against the narrative, then it was dropped down the memory hole. This was literally how they reported the news that all the ‘important’ people read – and you know that I am not making this up.
One gets that sense reading their coverage on a lot of issues. And they sometimes censor my comments even though they don’t violate civility standards if I point to something really embarrassingly bad or dishonest about their coverage. That has happened several times in the past year.
Examples—
An article last spring quoting a Ukranian official who implied that reports that Ukraine shells civilians were Russian lies going back to the outbreak of the civil war. I linked to some human rights reports from 2015 refuting this. They didn’t print it. I tried three times. Lots of other comments went up. Mine didn’t.
They did a recent story on US marines injured by the blasts of ther own artillery when shelling Raqqa. They misrepresented it as successful in mostly just killing Isis but it also hurt our troops and the Pentagon covers this up. Fine, good story, except we also killed 1600 civilians. I pointed this out with a link to Amnesty Int. Didn’t go up. Tried again. Other comments went up.Mine did not.
On I- P I find you can’t say that anti- Palestinian racism on the pro Israeli side is the flip side to whatever antisemitism you find on the pro Palestinian side, except anti Palestinian racism dominates our political culture. They won’t print that.
You can’t point to the explicitly anti- Palestinian racism of some of their opinion pieces over the years. They won’t print that.
Having worked in a newsroom “back in the day” I couldn’t stop reading the Bennet piece. Fascinating insight into the inner workings of a monolith. As for Cotton’s op-ed, I remember at the time thinking no freaking way should federal troops be used against the public – Posse Comitatus Act, and all that. After finishing the Bennet piece (and many cups of green tea), I found myself thinking, while this is interesting “insider” stuff, for me The Times lost its way when it published Judith Miller’s WMD fabrication and arguably placed tens of thousands of lives at risk (including journalists), destroyed an entire country, and helped accelerate the US’s crumbling status on the world stage. Apparently the newsroom was infected with an emotional plague:
I subscribed to the NY Times for many years both print and digital. When the front page became one opinion piece after another, the copy editing and proof reading sloppy, the many sections of no particular interest, I ended my subscription. The 1619 Project was the coup be grace. The so-called coverage of the Ukraine War and the Gaza genocide confirm my decision. The Times was once a great newspaper. I have no words to describe what it has become.
I keep my subscription for the food & wine sections, and the “What to watch” on Amazon, Netflix, etc. The Times is mostly “service” stories these days anyway.
Back in the early 80’s, Sam Marcy, founder and chairman of Workers World Party, explained to the comrades the value of reading the NYT when you viewed the newspaper as basically the daily briefing of the ruling class. He also took pains to remind everyone that the paper was notorious for burying the lede, where useful and important information was tucked away nicely, at a point when most readers will have moved on to the next article.
Sam’s advice is still useful. I’m unwilling to subscribe, so I rarely read full articles, but I get NYT headlines in a daily email, and it reflects what a faction of the ruling class considers important to itself. In its online presentation, however, the Times presents and represents the PMC in all its ‘diversity. I assume the print version is much the same. I am grateful to those who do read full articles and abstract worthy nuggets for our consideration (all y’all knows who you is).
Chomsky always said that he read the Times, Wall Street Journal, etc. because the business articles had to be accurate because investors needed proper info
He also said the right way to read the Grey Lady was to start with the last paragraph
‘because the business articles had to be accurate because investors needed proper info’
No longer true of the Financial Times who have been doing dodgy reporting on the Russian economy recently. All in a good cause maybe but if you were an investor, you would wonder about the other work that the Financial Times was doing that was biased.
>China’s former railway head sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption
Well, I certainly like the principle, but am left wondering if the process was transparent.
Here, much good could come from giving are own perps, of whom we have no shortage, lengthy jail times. That’s what they would fear most, imho. There’s a lot of hoosegow room to be had by downsizing the current non-violent plebeian residency.
Well running down the roll call, the squad did vote against the NDAA, so did my former representative Nadler and believe it or not the clown Bowman. Pelosi, Jeffries, the current Speaker Johnson and my current “representative” Goldman proudly voted for it.
The Vote.
Sadly, my Michigan rep, along with every other one, except Tlaib, voted aye.
it is disappointing AX – our senators/reps to national offices suck and will not vote for them this Fall – and we have an ex-spook hoping for Stabenow’s seat since she’s retiring – i even called Dingall’s office about the upcoming NDAA vote to express my fears, a first and last time of ever doing that again – my only interest is keeping our state houses in Dem hands, will see who else there is to vote for nationally – Gretch seems to be working it right and like our AG too – i’ve written Dingall 3X asking for her position on Line 5 with no responses – but Dingall sure is quick to send a form response when i sign one of those environmental petitions i get in the email – not surprised and really not disappointed, need to expect better or at least the possibility, in order to have something to be disappointed about –
Well, it IS the MICC, or as one anti-war acquaintance recently put it, the MICIMaC (MickeyMac), the Military Industrial Congressional Intelligence Media Complex.
And with 702, a spooks jobs program at that.
Those CongressCritters™ are just acting on behalf of the people they actually represent.
Both Oregon senators and 7 of 9 reps voted against it, giving me once again conviction that I chose wisely in deciding where to put down roots. Now bring on that constitutional convention so we can dissolve the US and make our own decisions, state by state.
Yeah, state and local retail levels of corruption rather than national wholesale levels. The Koch SMART ALEC machine is already well infiltrated in most states, writes and buys “legitimization” of a whole lot of “legislation.” I’m just sure that a ConCon and the Idaho model will fix any of that. (I’ve had hopes that the Russian Federation or maybe the CPC might catalyze a different healthier system, but listening to Putin’s recent public-availability session and granular bits from out of Russia and China does not leave the impression that zio-capitalism is even close to being on the ropes. Damn human nature… “we seen our opportunities and we took ‘em.” Plus ca change, and all that. Let’s hear it for the genius of COP28!)
My Kevin (since ’07) last act was voting for 702, it figures.
I stole your descriptive naming for my new guy because I see a lot of the same things I saw in Kevin. I am not sure if he will last longer before hitting the buzz saw and getting ejected into an equally undistinguished but lucrative retirement than Kevin, but he is most assuredly trying to fast track himself to more prominence.
I don’t know if you had this from the newly retired McCarthy, but I now read My Dan’s (since 2022) missives with scornful amusement since I realized that almost every thing he is spotlighting is the result of others hard work despite his giving the impression of involvement.
…musical interlude…
I Hope I Never, by Split Enz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSAcH5e6ibY
Surprised but pleased that my Rep-Mike Garcia (R) voted No. He is a 20 year Navy Vet and then worked for Raytheon before going to Congress. His explanation for why he voted No had to do with the Senate stripping out the proposed pay raise for E-1’s not the surveillance stuff, etc. I’ll take it.
in Hawaii, military is second largest contributor to state economy, so our reps don’t really have any choice but to support the authorizations.
just started reading “The Brothers” about John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles – 11 pages in and writing about their grandfather John Watson Foster while Sec of State for President Benjamin Harrison, in 1893 helped direct the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy – Foster just another tight-bunged Calvinistic white guy who wrote later, “The native inhabitants had proved themselves incapable of maintaining a respectable and responsible government…and lacked the energy or will to improve the advantages which providence had given them.” – this made Foster the first american sec of state to participate in the overthrow of a foreign government – excellent example for his grandsons – i lived in Makiki Heights & Waimanalo at the end of the 60’s – an ongoing geometric decay since 1893 – sad –
Juice Media ad – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfAiB2ZoRhM
Kinzer’s book is well worthwhile, I’m just into the Devil’s Chessboard which has many parallels.
Kinzer’s Book Overthrow is another worthwhile one.
thanks for the suggestion AX – will pick it up – i’ve read reviews of the “Devil’s Chessboard” and definitely on my list to read –
#COVID19
Been thinking about this Pandemic lately and something that Lambert said recently struck a chord when he said ‘Unexpectedly, “personal risk assessment” tends to involve other people.’ A bit of context first. After the 9/11 attack a whole new industry boomed around ‘Security’ and universities were quick to offer courses in this subject. In addition, a whole new ultra-powerful government authority arose – the Department of Homeland Security – to make sure the government would never again be threatened by terrorists. Or ordinary Americans. These days it is hard to tell.
Now getting back to the present Pandemic, we have seen how when the elite gather they make sure that there is plenty of ventilation and they probably dose themselves to the gills with Ivermectin. But that is the elites. So here is my point. After three years you would expect there to be “consultants” to the middle class who would, for a sizable fee, help people make a “personal risk assessment” and offer advice and guidance. That there would be universities offering courses in Pandemic lifestyle precautions or some such name. And they they would be on par with boutique doctors too and maybe working in conjunction with them. And yet I am hearing nothing along these lines. With all the money that could be made off this potential industry, you would expect to see them everywhere but they are just not there. Strange that. Very much a non-barking dog.
Interesting. One hitch may be that invisible measures that work are too expensive for many – especially if they have client facing jobs and kids in school.
There’s not much “middle class” remaining. The only people who could afford such “personal services” are the PMC, who have already drank the Kool-Aid, are vaxxed to the gills, and thus smug in their self-satisfaction that they are protecting themselves and others.
I’ll admit I didn’t make it all the way through James Bennet’s lengthy clutching of pearls re the Times…the state of the nation..the dreadful Trump. His defense of the Times as historic bastion of integrity may come as a surprise to those who remember “weapons of mass destruction” or their unending support for US imperialism in general. But then he thinks their past flaw was being too “liberal.”
Here’s suggesting that what we need is not a better NYT but no NYT or at least no national “thought leader” always leading their elite readership down the garden path.
I too found Bennet’s piece laborious, pendantic, and ultimately naive. I kept reading only in the hope of some insight. Ended in utter frustration, of course. By the way, he doesn’t think of Times reporters as liberals, he actually calls the new ones (his enemies) “progressives.”
As annoying as acronym-studded writing can be, in this case a simple reference to TDS and PMC — neither of which seems to have warranted inclusion in Bennet’s principled mind– would have allowed him to sum up the entire article in a couple of paragraphs.
Agreed. Bennet’s complete lack of ability to self-reflect was tedious to skim and impossible to take seriously. Claims he was trying to “understand” people he didn’t agree with and still utterly clueless as to why so many Americans despise “liberals”.
Bennett worked at the NYT during the WMD fiasco – he worked there until 2006 I believe. Not really a word or any discussion about that whole era in his incredibly long article, which I read, and read, and read……
> From forest gaps to landscapes: new insights into ecosystem functions
If that’s tasty, here’s a bigger plate:
Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components
On customer service, I finally switched auto insurance providers and saved a ton switching to a mutual insurance company. Lots of states have a kind of farm bureau that offers insurance to farmers, and now the general public.
In any case, they actually have offices, although I called in. I was initially rankled that I couldn’t just sign up for insurance online, and be done with it. But instead I had to call, where I immediately spoke to an agent that was helpful. Saved me from having dangerously low auto coverage limits. Saved $80 on the auto over geico, and $150 on the renters insurance for the year. They even sent over PDFs that I could sign instead of coming into the office.
As much as I hate phone calls, the experience was actually far better than signing up on a web site with a much better outcome than getting insurance from a national carrier, and at a much better price, and the $25 annual membership fee goes to helping out local communities in the state with agricultural stuff or whatever. And they must pay these agents enough money they clearly seemed to have time to be helpful.
Insurance agent is a good gig if you sell and are ethical. Younger people with questions bit of cash should walk into local agencies and demand a five year take over plan.
The good agents do go through the “what ifs” and the “did you hear that on tv” stuff you shouldn’t waste money on. I hope your agent pushed liability and relatively down played collision.
Insurance companies that are organized as a mutual insurance company are part of the cooperative sector of the economy, much like credit unions are the cooperative alternative to commercial banks. There are also ‘community banks’, which are shareholder owned and operated pretty much by commercial standards, but are restricted to a relatively small geographic service area. Community banks tend to be more supportive of their communities than the TBTF cartel (low bar, I know).
The co-op part of the US and global economy is not widely-enough appreciated. If you have of the curiosities, please to visit National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International!
Seconded! There was a great public interest lawyer named Jason Atkins in Boston who spent years fighting tooth and nail to stop the “demutualization” of mutual insurance companies that happened in the 90s, basically theft from the policyholders (the insured) by converting the firms into public companies with a pittance in compensation. The companies would lobby state insurance commissioners to put a template law on the legislative agenda to allow the scam and hardly anyone was paying attention.
I have Mutual of Tijuana, anything to be concerned about?
Not familiar with Mexican insurance regulation, dear friend, but I would recommend visiting the home office once a year for some good food and a fun night on the town.
Indeed, it saddened me when Ohio National finally sold out to a big pension fund in Canada. I don’t think there are many mutual life insurance companies left, and COVID damage might well nuke life insurance as a going concern entirely.
We’ll see.
“‘Digital afterlife’: Chinese mourners turn to AI to resurrect the dead”
This is really sad for those parents and I am not sure that this idea is a mercy or not. Not that long ago a woman lost her child near here who was buried in a nearby cemetery. Every day we drove by we could see her sitting at that grave with the rest of her kids and there were always flowers there. She simply could not let go and it was a very, very long time before we no longer saw her there. But with this Digital Afterlife, I can see the next step. People would visit at night-time and by entering a code on that grave, a life-size hologram would appear that would have the ‘personality’ of that person in a dedicated AI. You could hold simple conversations with that person and in some ways it would be like talking to a digital ghost. But it would be teaching people that after death that you do not have to let go but I think that it is a mistake. The whole point of a funeral and wake is to say goodbye to someone. When my father died and we went to the house, it was like he was still there, But after the funeral it was different and you knew that he was gone. But for those parents, that day may never come.
I think this new ‘service’ qualifies for Lambert’s useful and appropriate recommendation, “Kill it with fire“.
Hell money (Chinese: 冥鈔; pinyin: míngchāo) is a modernized form of joss paper printed to resemble legal tender bank notes. The notes are not an official form of recognized currency or legal tender as their sole intended purpose is to be offered as burnt offerings to the deceased as a solution to resolve their assumed monetary problems in the afterlife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money
There was something similar on South Korean news a couple of years ago. It actually makes sense in certain cultural contexts where the dead never “leave,” so to speak.
i saw that headline and said, “nope…not in a million years.”
its bad enough, a year and a half on, doing the grieving thing the old fashioned way…pictures on the wall, avoiding the room at moms where she died, and just being reminded of her by a billion little things every day.
hot shrink lady over yonder hill insists that all this is a part of some process, and that i’m doin it right(!?)…so to prolong it with some AI facsimile sounds like frelling torture.
especially given that the ai things as currently extant seem rather janky and prone to weirdness.
Charlie Brooker did this already ten years ago in his ‘Black Mirror’ series.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780/
Truly creepy.
Gooooooooood Moooooooorning Fiatnam!
The ‘Dominowe Factor’ loomed large, a cumulative effect produced when one financial event initiates a succession of similar events compare ripple effect.
I don’t know, but i’ve been told
A bunch of Jodys are gonna get rolled
Sound off!
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percent,
is great!
Zakaria’s “The Self-Doubting Superpower: America Shouldn’t Give Up on the World It Made” is a curious amalgam of some obvious statements about the emerging world order with a delusional nostalgia for a world that never was.
He is fooling himself if he believes that the post-war set of international institutions so obviously constructed for the advantage of America and its comprador elites around the world suited everyone — the Global South’s efforts to wriggle out from under the “rules based order” (where the US makes the rules and orders everyone else around) are all the evidence necessary to the contrary.
Wait a minute, after WWII, there was a USSR, a Communist China, a nonaligned group with India up there. Quite a bit of a landmass with quite a bit of population that the US of A didn’t run or control. Heck, they didn’t control that pesky island 80 miles south of Florida. Still don’t. Same goes for Russia and its proximity in Asia, China, India, etc.
Fared is a self styled priest of this “rules based order” and as a priest, he must afirm his faith…
“Who maintains jets…can’t open the article because of a defective Captcha that goes nowhere.
Keep in mind that United maintains it’s jets in china, Soutwest and Alaska in El Salvador. Wonder if they could train Haitians? Think of the profits!
re: “Dangers of Repeated Covid-19 Infections” and “No One I Know Has Long Covid”
Both refer to this study done by Statistics Canada:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231208/dq231208a-eng.htm
At the end of the Note to Readers on that page (which has a nice 5-point summary), they write:
I was interested in this caveat, although I do not understand these methodological subtleties. Certainly the numbers reported are enough to encourage me to continue to avoid catching Covid. I think I’m just looking for something that might make it not as bad as it sounds.
It’s the most blunderful time of the year
With the IDF pounding the surroundings
And everyone telling you things are not as they appear
It’s the most blunderful time of the year
It’s the unhap-unhappiest season of all
With those Merkava greetings and Uzi meetings
When fiends come to call
It’s the unhap-unhappiest season of all
There’ll be parties for hosting
Civilians for toasting
And carrying out of the show
There’ll be scary Hamas stories
And tales of the glories of
1967 long, long ago
It’s the most blunderful time of the year
There’ll be much missiles going
And corpses will be glowing
When loved ones are near
It’s the most blunderful time of the year
There’ll be parties for hosting
Civilians for toasting
And carrying out of the show
There’ll be scary Hamas stories
And tales of the glories of
1967 long, long ago
It’s the most blunderful time of the year
There’ll be much missiles going
And corpses will be glowing
When loved ones are near
It’s the most blunderful time
Of the year
man, oh man.
at the end of the Simplicius thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDyQxtg0V2w&t=138s
had no idea such a film was in the works…and like him, the mind reels.
is it a Lone Gunman kind of precog telegraph thing?
an artifact of the current zeitgeist?
like we useto say at LATOC, get yer preps in.
meanwhile, ive been a mother hen for 3 days…chicks popping out in the brooder in wife’s former closet…whole lotta cheepin goin on.
i collected those eggs over a week…mainly selecting the ones that were filthiest, and that i was to lazy to scrub.
and maybe might have cracker rigged the washin machine, bypassing the lid switch…runnin out every 15 minutes to check(its raining and cold)
and bill frelling gates still reckons he owns this laptop…forced an update, despite my numerous precautions. took about 5 hours this am to get everything turned off again,lol…because as always, updates seem bent on turning every damned thing on, which slows the machine to a crawl….added, this laptop is inherited from the school(they were getting new ones when wife died, and she paid bills with this one, so they gave it to us), and i dont have the admin code to turn off everything…let alone uninstall things like “Edge”, which really really like to keep in touch with mother.
sigh.
but rainy day, dream away…and im high on my own supply,lol.
If you want to give the middle finger to Billy, you could consider going penguin depending on computing needs. May not even need to install over Windows but just boot it in parallel off a external drive. That is unless by admin code you mean the UEFI/BIOS boot is locked by a school admin code you do not have.
And yeah, Rev Kev linked to that trailer in yesterday’s water cooler. What timing. curiously i had never heard of the distribution company before, and it seems it was founded back in 2012. Looks like art film going “mainstream”, or maybe one should say SXSW going political?
Feels like everything that was “fringe” around the likes of that from a decade ago “suddenly” has become massively mainstream. As if the entertainment world has become completely detached from the rest, and has somehow grabbed the reins of society.
and regading the Progressive article on a constituional convention:
this part:”he far right’s Constitutional convention is a dagger aimed at the heart of most of what we look to Washington for: vital programs like Social Security and Medicare, and protection from economic catastrophes, pandemics, and climate disasters. But that’s not all, because convention boosters have never reconciled themselves to the human rights reforms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries such as civil rights for racial minorities, women’s rights, and protections against anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.”
many of us already live in that world.
“protection” from “economic catastrophes, pandemics, and climate disasters”?
lol
and the civil rights stuff is already a state based system,de facto…
as for safety nets…well, i have only my own experience and that of folks i have known to go on.
i hear its all working for some people, somewhere…but in rural texas, not so much.
ill learn about SS in 8 years, i guess.
mom says it aint what it used to be.
and all of that said…dems have been whinging about these efforts for 20 years…and have done zero to either prepare for it, or to counter it….so just another scary monster to drive whatever voters that havent abandoned them, and to fundraise on.
> the Progressive article …
Oh, man. When I was a callow undergrad in Madison in the early ’70s, I would fairly often walk past the headquarters of The Progressive on Gilman St. Imbued with the Zeitgeist, I was somehow proud of the fact that they were right there, with us; ‘Fighting Bob lives’, and all that. Of course, with time the scales fell from my eyes, etc., and I eventually realised that they were simply bourgeois hacks: no more, no less.
Not pertaining specifically to The Progressive magazine, but I found it amusing when I learned that the early 20th C. ‘Progressives’ were at the forefront of the pro-Prohibition campaign! That would have put my support for them into question, right there. :-)
Used to be quite the jet-head as a kid, but i notice that i have not kept up with things since 2000 or so. In particular anything involving China.
That JF-17 looks like a weird mix of a F-18 front and a F-16 back, do wonder where they got the design docs from…
And i would be wary of underestimating the SU-35, as Russia has been reusing the same airframe with varying designations since the SU-27. Supposedly a recent-ish encounter between a SU and a Italian operated F-35 over the Baltic Sea resulted in the F-35’s computer glitching out thanks to the SU’s radar jammer. And it may well be that once Iran gets them delivered, they will do their own thing with them. After all, they have managed to keep F-14s flying through decades of sanctions.
To me it looks like if a Mirage 2000 and a Mig-21 had a child… but with cropped delta wings.
Yeah i can see some of that as well when you mention it. A very odd duck for sure.
Reminds me of some comments i have read about Chinese cars, that they look like a Rolls for the front but a Passat from the back.
F-35 has a fair number of SW glitches. It integrates a lot of tactical systems and runs herd on a lot of “condition monitoring” sqwalks from equipment self tests. Who knows how a strange signal coming off a jammer would look to the backbone controller?
It’s not as if it is 20 years in development and no one thought about jammers!
As the article noted Israel is getting first dibs on spare parts for the aircraft which needs a “lot of maintenance” a tech term for it breaks all the time, and that condition monitor system don’t help much.
Unsuitable is why DoD testers cannot pass the F-35.
An X rated solar flare hit the Earth yesterday, the Sun seems to be ramping up activity, as we had an M class solar flare a week ago.
X is the most powerful, and of the sort that the 1859 Carrington Event was all about~
Love NC
Re: Jet Defects Stoke Debate Over Who Should Inspect Mechanics’ Work WSJ
As much as major aerospace manufacturers would like to reduce QA inspections, it has not worked well in the past when the whole industry was in much better position with a much more experienced work force. Now is not the right time, they need to concentrate on stability of production, not speed.
Those little bread-in-the-water cockatoos . . . I wonder if they could be corellas?
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