Phrase of the day: sonder Richard Murphy
4,000-year-old tablets reveal magic spells, kings feared, and a beer receipt Science Day by day (Kevin W)
New examine in Nature Drugs: Suboptimal weight loss program nonetheless drives huge ischemic coronary heart illness (IHD) burden worldwide.
Key findings (2023 knowledge):
• 4.06 million IHD deaths (95% UI 0.74–6.22M) attributable to poor weight loss program.
• 96.84 million DALYs misplaced.
• International age-standardized…— World of Statistics (@stats_feed) Might 3, 2026
🇺🇸 Thoughts-blowing demographic shift: For the primary time in fashionable U.S. historical past, girls 40+ now have extra infants per capita than youngsters.
The traces crossed in 2022 — and the hole retains widening.
Teen births down ~80% in 30 years. Older motherhood normalized by delayed households +…
— World of Statistics (@stats_feed) Might 5, 2026
Get Them Off the Rattling Boat! | M/V Hondius in Cape Verde with a Hantavirus Outbreak Sal Mercogliano, YouTube
BREAKING: human-to-human unfold suspected
Cue the classics: “it’s uncommon,” “it’s gentle,” and my private favourite, “have you ever thought of pretending it’s not taking place?”
I’ve seen this film earlier than .. https://t.co/DygWAbP1ub
— Jess (@MeetJess) Might 5, 2026
COVID-19/Pandemics
What number of get organ injury after SARS-CoV-2 an infection is dependent upon who you ask and the way effectively they test
In the event you ask me, 100% get persistent, progressive injury
Properly carried out autopsies present 100%
However you may’t go round telling individuals 100%. Name it 10% and let’s transfer onCovid is Lengthy Covid https://t.co/Gac6NDr6dF pic.twitter.com/N31AWHU5yj
— 🎒Joanna Teglund✊😷🍉Human life is sacred (@JoannaTeglund) Might 2, 2026
Cøvid upregulates osteoclasts over osteoblasts… Elevated bone turnover is the consequence.
Untimely osteoporosis is not your buddy
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— David Joffe MB BS (Hons), PhD, FRACP 🇦🇺 (@DavidJoffe64) Might 3, 2026
Final time we noticed Kapsosi’s sarcoma do this-HIV/AIDS disaster right? We don’t have an increase in HIV.
AIRBORNE SARS2 nevertheless IS behaving “eerily much like HIV” per HIV researchers right? Airborne SARS2 uncontained criminally lively, BILLIONS, to this point, together with ALL YOUTH? UNSAFE? pic.twitter.com/v5ceGWznda
— Sass (@sasswashere) Might 3, 2026
Local weather/Setting
Harmful heavy rains are getting extra doubtless and widespread Yale Local weather Connections. US centered however the discovering is extensively relevant.
World’s largest marine ecosystems are affected by sudden jumps in ocean temperature Earth
The strongest El Niño in 150 years? Sure, it’s legitimately attainable. Not hype. In truth, the “median” forecast for December of all of our pc fashions mixed is barely “above” the largest occasion we all know of again in 1877. (+2.9 vs +2.7 utilizing ONI) Whereas this peak depth could… pic.twitter.com/ejsYpSawF2
— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) Might 4, 2026
Cities are rehearsing for lethal warmth. Will it assist when catastrophe comes? Grist
Local weather change will increase spillover danger of rodent-borne arenaviruses EurekaAlert
Hazen Fireplace close to Buckeye nonetheless 0% contained, virtually 1K acres burned Arizona Repubilc
China?
Trump-Xi summit at finest could codify new US-China coexistence guidelines Asia Instances (Kevin W)
Stealing the Farm: China Continues Raid of US Agriculture by Theft and Agroterror AgWeb. Word it is a bona fide US ag pub and never a safety/intel state mouthpiece
India
India is burning extra coal as excessive warmth and the Iran struggle squeeze vitality provides CNBC
India, Russia Discover Collaboration in Crucial Minerals, Industrial Infrastructure InfoBRICS
Africa
Mali is FALLING to Jihadists: What Occurred? Historical past Legends
Egypt & Saudi Arabia Are Pitting Sudan Towards Ethiopia Andrew Korybko
80% of Africa’s fertiliser is imported: how meals methods can adapt to the Iran shock The Dialog
A Unusual Change of U.S. Coverage in Africa Daniel Larison
European Disunion
The “Large 3” Are Accountable for Europe’s Decline Finn Andreen (Micael T)
Berlin faces missile hole after Trump’s troop cuts Politico
The Economic system of the Multipolar Future: Eire and the case for a Folks’s Economic system Multipolar Press (Micael T)
Outdated Blighty
Craig Murray: The Morass of Injustice Consortium Information (The Joker)
New risk to Labour spending plans as UK long-term borrowing prices hit highest stage since 1998 Guardian (Kevin W)
Meals costs set to soar by 50 per cent in comparison with begin of the cost-of-living disaster Metropolis A.M.
Wild Scottish salmon catch sinks to report low Telegraph
Salmon ‘worn out’ and different wildlife killed after ‘tragic’ River Spey chemical spill Day by day Document
Israel v. The Resistance
‘Complete Victory’: How Iran Defeated Israel Package Klarenberg. In the present day’s should learn.
Israeli Settler Violence Continues Beneath American Neglect American Conservative. Extra like “tacit approval” however even this gentle a reprimand wants to seem extra typically.
Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich Says Son Requested Him to Depart A few of Lebanon for Him to Destroy Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
I Was Crushed and Kidnapped by Israeli Troopers When They Illegally Intercepted the Gaza Flotilla Zeteo
White Home gave Iran personal message earlier than new Hormuz operation Axios
Over 22,000 Folks on Extra Than 1,550 Industrial Ships Trapped in Gulf – Pentagon Sputnik (Robin Ok)
The web has a Strait of Hormuz downside Asia Instances
Ex-spy Jonathan Pollard says he’s coming into politics, slams Netanyahu and Bennett Instances of Israel (Kevin W)
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
How Russia Wins the New World Warfare International Geopolitics
Oreshnik Days Olivier Boyd-Barrett. Essential.
Zelensky Threatens Moscow Parade; Putin Permits Strike Central Kiev; Oreshnik; Visits HQs; US Hormuz Alexander Mercouris, YouTube. Dialogue of Russia issues begins at 34:00
Temporary Frontline Report – Might fifth, 2026 Marat Khairullin and Mikhail Popov
Drawback with Ukraine’s 25,000 fight robots isn’t {hardware} — it’s retaining them linked on battlefield Euromaidan (Robin Ok)
Colombian mercenaries ‘dying for nothing’ in Ukraine – president RT (Robin Ok)
The concept Ukraine are in a position to strike Russian tankers off the coast of Senegal, or within the Arctic, is ludicrous. Who gave them the information, instruments, and intelligence to drag this off?
These are US strikes. And the opposite half of the marketing campaign, Operation Arctic Sentry, is…
— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) Might 5, 2026
Lavrov, Rubio ‘contact base’ on present state of worldwide affairs, US-Russia relations TASS
Imperial Collapse Watch
An Equilibrium Mannequin of Counter-Base Warfare within the Western Pacific Coverage Tensor (Vikas S). A mannequin with a variety of assumptions to make it tractable, however reveals a variety of effort to have them be reasonable. Backside line: “Given these observations and our outcomes, deterrence in Asia is now not a possible overseas coverage goal for the USA.”
My Non permanent Enemy’s Non permanent Enemy… Aurelien
The Military is searching for ‘different protein’ for troopers within the area Job & Goal
Trump 2.0
Trump’s retribution? What to look at in Tuesday’s elections in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan Related Press
Democrats Suck
>Graham Platner has Democrats questioning in the event that they want an outsider to win the White Home The Hill. Assist me. Over a variety of useless billionaires’ our bodies.
Democrats need Trump to elevate lid on Israeli nukes RT (Robin Ok)
Our No Longer Free Press
X has now eliminated the blue test from Iran’s MFA Spokesperson’s account—after stripping the Ministry and Minister’s verified badges—regardless of our full Premium+ funds.
This arbitrary de-verification matches X’s sample of selective censorship and American digital piracy, aimed toward…— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) Might 5, 2026
Economic system
Overlook oil, fertiliser is the scarcity that may trigger probably the most struggling The Instances
Is A Famine Baked In For 2027? Ian Welsh. He forgets lubricants. Not solely are they derived from petrochemicals, however output was additional dented by Iran’s giant and profitable strikes on Saudi Arabia’s Jubail petrochemical facility. You want lubricants to run forklifts. You want forklifts to distribute meals. So the US is extra uncovered than many suppose.
Why Water Shortage Is Rising As A Key Power Constraint Forbes
UK airways given inexperienced gentle to cancel or consolidate flights to preserve jet gas Guardian
US gasoline inventories are at their lowest seasonal stage for greater than a decade – FT pic.twitter.com/L5lHVnirPu
— Power Headline Information (@OilHeadlineNews) Might 5, 2026
Manufacturing Is the Largest Web Loser in Jobs, 5 Quarters Complete Michael Shedlock
US economic system on an unstable knife edge at current Invoice Mitchell
Mr. Market is Giddy
The bond bubble’s reckoning FX Road
AI
The U.S. and China Have a Widespread Foe. Trace: It’s Not the usS.R. Thomas Friedman, New York Instances (Dr. Kevin). ZOMG!!! Not an effort to promote Chinese language motion v. Iran, as you may anticipate.
Breaking: Autonomous Brokers are a Shitshow Gary Marcus
Pennsylvania sues AI firm, saying its chatbots illegally maintain themselves out as licensed docs Related Press (Kevin W)
Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Approved and Actively Inspired’ Meta’s Large Copyright Infringement to Prepare AI Programs, Publishers and Scott Turow Allege in Lawsuit Selection (Kevin W)
The Bezzle
How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion {Dollars} Axel Rietschin. Essential. Illustrates how an excessive amount of contact with AI makes individuals dangerously silly. Additionally: “In the event you’re working manufacturing workloads on Azure or counting on it for mission-critical methods, this story issues greater than you suppose.” Our tech maven Dave: “I’m fairly cynical concerning the state of software program, however this 6-part collection was eye-opening.”
Non-public Credit score May Spark Psychological Contagion, Barr Warns Bloomberg
A man in Alberta is promoting tractors with zero computer systems. No software program. No sensors. Only a diesel engine you may repair with a wrench.
400 American farmers tried to purchase one after a single interview.
Typically the moat is not extra options.
It is much less.
— Russell Brunson (@russellbrunson) Might 1, 2026
Guillotine Watch
Can Monitoring Non-public Jets Predict an Imminent Apocalypse? One Website Thinks So Gizmodo (Dr. Kevin)
Don’t Cry for Jeff Bezos’s Yacht Paul Krugman
Class Warfare
The brand new era of pretend leftists: from Zohran Mamdani to Zack Polanski Political Economist (Micael T)
Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is useless. Say good day to Techlordism – The Level Yanis Varoufakis
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “This can be a Costa’s hummingbird. First one I ever noticed, however I’ve seen him a number of occasions. He visits the identical department of one in every of our bushes, is why I feel I’m seeing him recurrently slightly than simply the identical form of hummingbird. I’m guessing I received’t be seeing the Allen’s hummingbirds that I noticed in Orange County (CA) out right here within the desert the place we’ve moved to.”
And a bonus:
Constructing slightly bridge within the aquarium so the fish by no means get bored. pic.twitter.com/PEhuqRVLgl
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) Might 3, 2026
A second bonus:
That is Mendo. He’s a rescued Vizsla hobbit that steals coronary heart throughout IG for his insane balancing abilities. He does it finest and we love him for it ❤️ pic.twitter.com/8rFR5PQmYq
— Puppies 🐶 (@Puppieslover) Might 2, 2026
And a 3rd:
Daughter all the time stated she most popular canine. They adopted a cat, and this occurredpic.twitter.com/ZdTznsaFHd
— Wolf of X (@WolfofX) Might 3, 2026
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
