Top synchro execution in action!
Gabriela Agundez and Alejandra Estudillo deliver height, precision, and perfect timing 🙌🇲🇽#Bestdives pic.twitter.com/P1Kxc04dvh
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) May 18, 2025
The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory Nature
20-Million-Year-Old Rhino Fossil Rewrites Evolutionary History SciTech Daily
An electric scooter that accelerates faster than a Tesla Model 3? No thanks! The Verge
COVID-19/Pandemics
Actually, research supports the COVID school closures The Hill
US withdraws from WHO pandemic response reforms Al Jazeera
Climate/Environment
Researchers develop 30,000 AI-induced climate mitigation scenarios Andolu Agency
EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs ABC News
Is Climate Change an Existential Threat? Gizmodo
China?
kindergarten lessons in China
pic.twitter.com/DKCT6UZLrM
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 17, 2025
Exclusive: China quietly issues 2025 rare earth quotas, sources say Reuters
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang praises China’s EVs, says he would love to buy Xiaomi car Global Times
‘Great British Energy solar panels’ were made in China BBC
New Images Of China’s J-35 Naval Stealth Fighter, Could Depict Third Example The War Zone
China begins construction of world’s largest hydropower station in Tibet Andolu Agency
Will China Abandon Its Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy for Iran? Oilprice.com
South of the Border
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy may deny flights from Mexico over broken aviation agreement NY Post
Could Trump’s threats against Brazil backfire? Al Jazeera
IMF and Milei – partners in Argentina’s neoliberal autocracy Bretton Woods Project
Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa Can’t Afford to Eat on a Carbon Diet The Ecomodernist
French military to leave Senegal amid ongoing withdrawal from Africa RFI
European Disunion
EU Regulatory Tensions and the Future of European Bank Mergers: Navigating the New Landscape of Risk and Reward Ainvest
U’s Bold High-Speed Rail Vision Faces Major Hurdles: Can Europe Overcome Challenges To Achieve Its 2030 And 2050 Goals, You Need To Know Travel and Tour World
Old Blighty
UK reduces voting age to 16, aims to boost electoral participation Scripps News
Britain faces a test of identity: Will Britons become a minority in their homeland? – opinion Jerusalem Post
Israel v. Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Lebanon
Gaza is undergoing one of the worst famines in the world and what do Israeli citizens do?
They are attacking a destroying what little aid caravans go to Gaza.
They want babies to starve and children to die.
They say it all the time. pic.twitter.com/xmaFxA3TCn
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) July 19, 2025
JUST IN: British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard says Israeli soldiers in Gaza are turning the targeting of Palestinian children into a “HUMAN-HUNTING GAME.”
“These children are being targeted almost as if it’s a game… One day they’re all shot in the head, the next day in the neck,… pic.twitter.com/YMRjdNA58L
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) July 19, 2025
Bad Days and Worse Days London Review of Books
Dr. Hussam Abu Safia fed two spoonfuls of rice a day in Israeli prison——In an interview with Arab48 published Thursday, attorney Ghaid Qassem said that director of Kamal Adwan Hospital Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, who is currently imprisoned in Ofer prison, had been subjected to… pic.twitter.com/VST2Ttmg7I
— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) July 18, 2025
Why Did Israel Attack Syria? What Comes Next? Zeteo
Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions BBC
New Not-So-Cold War
The notion that Ukraine might defeat Russia and destabilise it has always been a delusional fantasy. They are outnumbered, outgunned, and facing a nuclear superpower; this is not strategy – it is madness. It’s time for peace and common sense to prevail ‼️ pic.twitter.com/40RXiUDayo
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) July 18, 2025
Condoleezza Rice: Trump’s aggressive stance on Putin is ‘turning point’ in Russia-Ukraine war The Hill
The CIA Initiated an Intelligence and Terrorist War on Russia Based on a Lie Larry Johnson
Genocide or tragedy? Ukraine, Poland at odds over Volyn massacre of 1943 Al Jazeera
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data TechCrunch
USDA again asks for Kansans’ personal data, as lawsuit seeks privacy protections Kansas Reflector
puts his Grok AI chatbot in Teslas—and raises questions around data and privacy Fortune
Imperial Collapse Watch
‘Home bags’ aim to ease hardship for Brockton’s homeless students. How the program works. The Enterprise
These 10 states have the worst infrastructure in America in 2025 CNBC
Trump 2.0
Donald Trump Is Having One of His Worst Weeks, Ever The New Republic
Ghislaine Maxwell believed Trump would save her, now she’s documenting everything behind bars: jail source NY Post
Republicans’ food aid cuts will hit grocers in many towns that backed Trump Politico
Barack Obama Now Squarely in Russiagate Crosshairs Matt Taibbi
Musk Matters
Trump administration ordered review of SpaceX government contracts following Trump-Musk fallout: Report The Economic Times
How Elon Musk Created a Nightmare for Donald Trump Gizmodo
Elon Musk moves xAI, Grok onto Palantir turf The Street
Democrat Death Watch
How can Democrats win back working-class voters? Change their tune The Guardian
Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death NY Times
Immigration
Thousands of Californians lost work after LA immigration raids. Citizens did, too Santa Monica Daily Press
New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst to be used for immigrant detention CBS News
Our No Longer Free Press
Journalists among those arrested during immigration-related protest in Cincinnati NY Post
Did Trump Play a Role in Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Getting Canceled? Fulcrum
Mr. Market Is Moody
Dollar Weakens as a Fed Official Calls for Rate Cuts Nasdaq
Stocks just hit a ‘line of death’ last reached at the peak of the dot-com bubble, veteran investor Bill Smead warns Business Insider
Another major trucking operation files Chapter 11 bankruptcy The Street
AI
Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines The Register
People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions Futurism
Human programmer beats OpenAI’s custom AI in 10-hour marathon, wins World Coding Championship — Polish programmer might be the last human winner Tom’s Hardware
AI robot performs gallbladder surgery autonomously Fox News
The Bezzle
Christine Hunsicker, CEO of a Bankrupt Fashion Tech Startup, Charged for Alleged $300M Fraud Scheme People
Amazon warns customers about a devious new scam The Street
Guillotine Watch
This LA mansion is selling for $250M, it is the most expensive home for sale in the US pic.twitter.com/EwnswjSezp
— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) September 8, 2018
💎 The most expensive ring was created by Swiss jewelers Shawish.
The ring is not adorned with a #diamond – the fabulously expensive accessory is carved out of a single diamond.
Its cost is $70,046,000. pic.twitter.com/YGZuz9h3Cy
— Jaouad (@jaouad2d) March 4, 2024
Antidote du jour (via)
A bonus:
The leap range of a tiger. pic.twitter.com/HYo4AEIcOU
— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) July 20, 2025
A second bonus:
That sign about falling cats is hilarious. pic.twitter.com/LOQYaZgS5e
— We don’t deserve cats 😺 (@catsareblessing) July 18, 2025
And a third:
Beluga whales love to play, scare, joke and generally interact with humans.
This clip is the perfect example.pic.twitter.com/YZwf3LteJv
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 19, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
