Notes Today: 

• Almost 770,000 CalPERS members hit by cyber attack. Largest US pension fund says dates of birth and social security numbers compromised. FT

• 3 people have acquired malaria in the US (Florida & Texas). They’re the first in 20 years.

• A Ukrainian source I trust says Wagner is headed to Moscow. (Looks like the wagner dude is having second thoughts).
  
  
  
• Russia possesses a total of 5,889 nuclear warheads as of 2023. 

• Morgues full and hospitals overwhelmed as India’s heatwave death toll hits 170. 

• Beijing issues highest heat alert as north China swelters. 

 

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that