By Lambert Strether of Corrente
Too-patient readers, thanks on your expressions of concern over my “main life occasion” (and no, I didn’t win the lottery, or get married). The requirement is coping with a bunch of inter-related challenge administration points, together with sunk prices. Life has ready me for such issues, I hope. If I need assistance (uncertain, besides on your accepting my briefly restricted time) I’ll attain out, thanks! In the meantime, if I had needed to share element, I’d have. So please don’t speculate. And discuss election 2024 as a lot as you want in feedback; simply play good! –lambert
Hen Music of the Day
Catbirds are within the Mimidae species (!), like mockingbird and thrashers. Readers have mentioned they just like the mimicry, so hopefully MacCaulay Library has sufficient recordings to maintain us all glad, a minimum of for a time.
Black Catbird, Planta de Tratamiento de Aguas Residuales de San Miguel, Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
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In Case You May Miss…
“It’s too quickly to inform”.
Detective searched for Kamala masks video.
Pandemics are mobility-borne.
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Politics
“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in reality a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
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2024
Lower than 100 days to go!
Friday’s RCP Ballot Averages:
Excellent news for Trump in that final week’s deterioration appears to have been slowed, though we will should see if Kamala will get a conference “bounce.” Bear in mind, nevertheless, that each one the fluctuations — in reality, all of the leads — are throughout the margin of error. When you learn many of the press, you’d assume Kamala has this race within the bag. It’s not so. Do observe, nevertheless, Trump’s deterioration in North Carolina: +2.4 final week to +0.9 this week, when OG pollster Sabato moved it to “toss-up” standing from “lean Republican.” No marvel Trump held a rally there this week. NOTE With Kennedy, it might appear, about to drop out, I began monitoring the nationwide proportion as “High Battlegrounds,” the place Trump’s shrinking lead is +0.1 this week (versus “5-Approach RCP Common, the place Harris led by +1.1 final week).
“Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?” [FiveThirtyEight]. Now not Nate Silver, as reader have jogged my memory. “n Friday, Aug. 23, unbiased candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced he was suspending his marketing campaign for president and endorsed former President Donald Trump. The endorsement from Kennedy, at 4 p.c within the in style vote in our forecast, has the flexibility to offer Trump an important increase in battleground states. Our mannequin forecast a 4-in-10 likelihood that Kennedy’s vote share in November could be bigger than the margin for both Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris in a minimum of one decisive state. Each candidates will probably welcome that likelihood going to zero. It’s tough, nevertheless, to supply a fast evaluation of RFK’s affect on the race. On the one hand, his affect on our polling common is small and Kennedy’s voters largely in any other case appear like robust partisans. However it isn’t really easy for a forecasting mannequin to react to such a pointy change within the race, primarily as a result of it wants information (from the polls) to take action. Though you and I do know that Kennedy endorsed Trump, which ought to in idea assist him a bit of, the mannequin doesn’t have entry to that info till it sees polling information displaying such a shift. Programming the mannequin a special manner would require us to invest, largely with advert hoc rationalization, concerning the future trajectory of the race. We desire to go away such forecasting to the mannequin. Readers ought to anticipate our mannequin to react to this information over the subsequent week, if Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump does in reality change the polls.” • Laborious to say “It’s too quickly to inform” in a hundred- now seventy-day race, but it surely’s too quickly to inform. Absent one other staggering occasion, I’d say “it’s too quickly to inform” will persist all the way in which to the top of the race.
It’s too quickly to inform:
Checked in with sources in MI WI and PA right now and all of them mentioned the race is actually tied — throughout the margin of error.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 26, 2024
Let’s wait every week, then see!
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Kamala (D): “Black Lives Matter Assertion on Kamala Harris Securing Sufficient Delegates to Turn out to be Democratic Nominee” [Black Lives Matter]:
Whereas Joe Biden wasn’t our most well-liked candidate, we can’t ignore the troubling actions of the Democratic Social gathering:
The DNC refused to host debates throughout the major, regardless that a overwhelming majority of Democratic voters needed them. This is able to have probably allowed America to see the decline of Joe Biden in 2023.
The DNC modified the first schedule and created guidelines that made it nearly unimaginable for non-Biden candidates to look on the poll, successfully clearing the sector of any challengers to the incumbent president.
Following the first the place hundreds of thousands of Black voters weighed in, after one poor debate efficiency, the DNC Social gathering elites and billionaire donors bullied Joe Biden out of the race.Now, Democratic Social gathering elites and billionaire donors are trying to control Black voters by anointing Kamala Harris and an unknown vp as the brand new Democratic ticket with out a major vote by the general public. This blatant disregard for democratic rules is unacceptable. Whereas the potential end result of a Harris presidency could also be historic, the method to attain it should align with true democratic values. We don’t know the place Kamala Harris stands on the problems, now that she has assumed Joe Biden’s place, and we don’t know of the report of her potential vp as a result of we don’t even know who it’s but.
They sound identical to Kennedy. Extra:
Allow us to be clear: That is concerning the Democratic Social gathering following a course of that protects the legitimacy of any future Democratic president following this unprecedented second. Putting in Kamala Harris because the Democratic nominee and an unknown vp with none public voting course of would make the fashionable Democratic Social gathering a celebration of hypocrites. It might undermine their credibility on points associated to democracy. Think about our first Black girl president not having received some form of public nomination course of. The pundits would instantly label it as affirmative motion or a DEI transfer, and any progress made by a President Harris could be on shaky foundations. If Kamala Harris is to be the nominee, it should be by a course of that upholds democratic rules and public participation.
The DEI speaking level is already on the market (though as a Republican speaking level.)
Kamala (D): “‘Merely put, they’re out of their minds’: Kamala Harris received’t let Republicans disguise their misogyny” [Amanda Marcotte, Salon]. • I didn’t know Marcotte was nonetheless typing.
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Trump (R): “The Case for Staying Nervous within the Slog Forward” [The Bulwark]. “Bounces following conventions have thinned in current cycles as a result of rising polarization has yielded fewer swing voters. Hillary Clinton obtained an 8-point bounce after her conference after which misplaced to Trump. Trump is definitely flailing, unable to command the eye he as soon as might, and self-destructing due to it. The percentages are that on the debate scheduled for September 10, the actual Trump will present up, be an asshole, and lose.” • That Trump is an asshole is already priced in. The query is when and the way (I imply, was Trump an asshole when he mentioned Biden “beat it to demise” on Medicare? Definitely. Did he win the controversy and knock Biden out of the race? He did.
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Kennedy (I): “RFK Jr. says he’s been tapped for Trump’s transition workforce” [Axios]. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised Tucker Carlson throughout an interview that aired Monday that he was requested to hitch former President Trump’s presidential transition workforce, and he’s ‘trying ahead to that.’” • In my sizzling tackle Kennedy’s enlistment within the Trump marketing campaign, I emphasised the “fuzziness” of Kennedy’s future place within the govt department. Anyone who remembers what occurred to the Sandernistas on the Biden transition workforce will look askance at this.
Kennedy (I): “Will RFK Jr.’s endorsement swing the election to Trump?” [The Hill]. “Tens of millions upon hundreds of thousands of People really feel completely disenfranchised by a system seemingly rigged to learn the elites. For a large number of causes, Kennedy could also be one of the best individual to seize their consideration and persuade a quantity to both solid their vote for Trump or swap their vote from Harris. Even a 1 p.c swing in Trump’s favor might make all of the distinction in states comparable to Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina. By attacking Kennedy, Biden-Harris, the Democratic powerbrokers and far of the mainstream media foolishly woke up a sleeping large — one who, due to his personal distinctive physique of labor and his still-revered household title, has super rapport with and respect from minority communities; blue collar staff; rust belt staff; union staff; mother and father of kids with persistent illnesses; communities coping with polluted lands and waterways; younger voters; unbiased voters; and the disenfranchised.” • Perhaps. It’s. Too. Quickly. To. Inform.
Realignment and Legitimacy
“Swing States Notch Main Victories For Election Integrity” [Association of Mature American CItizens]. I received’t be becoming a member of this one! “Election integrity” (“By no means eat at a spot referred to as Mother’s”) is a time period to be careful for. However it is a good compendium of actions taken on the state stage, together with paper ballots.
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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Covid Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be at liberty to contact me on the handle given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
Sources, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater studies); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Transmission: Covid
“New vaccines arriving as COVID-19 spoils summer season season for hundreds of thousands” [Consumer Affairs]. The deck: “A shocking surge sickened many People over the summer season; subsequent up — winter.” I don’t assume NC readers might probably have been shocked. Extra: “The summer season surge took well being authorities and shoppers without warning. On August 11, Joyce, a New York Metropolis residence dweller, mentioned she was simply recovering from a prolonged bout. ‘I’m sharing as a cautionary observe that I simply went by a three-week bout of COVID. Yesterday I had my second destructive check in 48 hours and don’t have any fever, so I hopefully can now simply get well,’ she mentioned. ‘I’m listening to each couple of days that somebody I do know or know of has Covid, and whereas I do know we’re fortunately lengthy out of the pandemic, there’s plenty of sickness on the market, rather more than I can recall within the final two years.’ Corona virus ranges in wastewater are thought of ‘excessive’ or ‘very excessive’ in 45 states, together with California and the District of Columbia. Coronavirus sewage ranges had been thought of ‘reasonable’ in Michigan, New Jersey, Vermont and West Virginia. There are actually 26 states the place COVID-19 is projected to be ‘rising’ or ‘probably rising.’ That’s down from 44 states in these classes about six weeks in the past, based on the CDC.” • “It isn’t what we don’t know that provides us bother, it’s what we all know that ain’t so.” —Will Rogers
“Speedy antigen detection of extreme acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 in stray cats: A cross-sectional research” [Veterinary World]. N = 126 stray cats. “Of the 126 animals examined, 30 (23.60%) had been optimistic for SARS-CoV-2 antigens. To our information, for the primary time, this research detected the SARS-CoV-2 antigen in stray cats and confirmed the presence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Brazil’s stray cat inhabitants.” • The authors observe the small pattern measurement.
Transmission: H5N1
“”PROPAGANDIZED?” Media and Federal Avian Flu Responses Stress Covid-Period Belief Points Amid mRNA Push” [Beef News]. “‘It’s nearly as if the general public has been propagandized,’ Thornsberry mentioned throughout a cellphone interview with BeefNews. ‘For no matter purpose, the media and the USDA have actually downplayed the impacts of this virus on dairy farms, whereas deceptive the general public on human dangers.’ Following the devastating Texas panhandle fires in early March, dairy farms within the Texas Panhandle started to note a lower in milk manufacturing in just a few lactating cows. Initially, signs had been regarded as related to the fires, till some cows started discharging thick, yellow milk, concerning the consistency of Elmer’s glue. Checks for mastitis got here again destructive as different signs started to current in a small proportion of the regional dairy herd. In line with the presentation, about 20 p.c of the Texas dairy herd Petersen oversaw started going off their feed and salivating excessively. A smaller p.c of the herd (about 5 p.c) exhibited important signs—comparable to excessive fevers between 105-107 levels. As one of many first veterinarians on the entrance traces, Petersen ran each check she might consider, however all of them got here again destructive. Casting a wider web, Petersen despatched in samples to check for Avian Flu, which then got here again as optimistic. Whereas the virus itself winds down, the media narrative and federal rules are ramping up—neither of which seem like useful.” • Good to see Peterson get a shout-out. I hadn’t identified the Texas Panhandle fireplace was a attainable precursor. However as for “the virus itself winds down”, how would we all know that? (I suppose if State Honest season ends with out a main outbreak, we are able to breathe a sigh of reduction, however that technique appears a bit of rough-and-ready.)
Vaccines: Covid
One hates to attribute motive, however the persevering with FDA hold-up on Novavas doesn’t explicable on both a well being or public coverage foundation:
When you’ve got Redfield saying the plain and simpler vaccine is from NOVAVAX…..Perhaps @US_FDA and @CDCDirector ought to take into consideration life being extra necessary than Moderna and Pfizer’s PROFITS and your future profession strikes
— Evaluar (@bio_evaluar) August 18, 2024
Transmission: Monkeypox
Pandemics are mobility-borne:
You will have dozens if not lots of of flights departing a sizzling zone internet hosting a novel Mpox clade with a present mortality charge of near 4%. You simply can’t make these things up. pic.twitter.com/10p5NjGqYS
— Michael (@mrmickme2) August 27, 2024
Norman, Bar-Yam, and Taleb obtained this precisely proper in January 2020 (!) in “Systemic Danger of Pandemic through Novel Pathogens – Coronavirus” [New England Complex Systems Institute]. “International connectivity is at an all-time excessive… Essentially, viral contagion occasions depend upon the interplay of brokers in bodily house… With growing transportation we’re near a transition to situations by which extinction turns into sure each due to speedy unfold and due to the selective dominance of more and more worse pathogens…. [T]hese observations result in the need of a precautionary method to present and potential pandemic outbreaks that should embody constraining mobility patterns [chokepoints] within the early phases of an outbreak, particularly when little is understood concerning the true parameters of the pathogen…. It should price one thing to cut back mobility within the quick time period, however to fail accomplish that will ultimately price the whole lot—if not from this occasion, then one sooner or later.”
An infection: Covid
“COVID virus evolves extra quickly within the central nervous system than within the lungs, research finds” (press launch) [UIC Today]. Mouse research. “The coronavirus chargeable for the COVID-19 pandemic evolves extra quickly within the mind than within the lungs, based on new analysis from College of Illinois Chicago and Northwestern College. New viral variants created within the mind and different components of the nervous system might additionally journey again to the lungs, the place they may change into transmissible, the researchers report in Nature Microbiology. That might unfold new, harmful variants of the virus. ‘Probably, this might be a supply of novel variants of concern,’ mentioned Justin Richner, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at UIC and co-lead creator of the paper. ‘It might be that the virus is utilizing these totally different tissue websites to evolve new mutations, after which these can site visitors again into the respiratory tract and unfold all through the inhabitants.’… The flexibility of the virus to quickly evolve in immune-protected areas of the physique, such because the mind or the testes, might drive future harmful variants.” • Apparently the mutations happen on the Furin Cleavage Web site, and will make the virus much less virulent (however there appears to be no assure of that).
Sequelae: Covid
“Epigenetic patterns, accelerated organic growing older, and enhanced epigenetic drift detected 6 months following COVID-19 an infection: insights from a genome-wide DNA methylation research” [Clinical Epigenetics]. N = 96. From the Summary: “Our research offers invaluable insights into the epigenetic penalties of COVID-19. Outcomes recommend attainable associations with accelerated growing older, epigenetic drift, and the disruption of important organic pathways linked to insulin resistance, immune response, and vascular well being. Understanding these epigenetic adjustments might be essential for elucidating the advanced mechanisms behind long-COVID and growing focused therapeutic interventions.” • Britannica: “Epigenetics, the research of the chemical modification of particular genes or gene-associated proteins of an organism. Epigenetic modifications can outline how the data in genes is expressed and utilized by cells.” And: “It’s clear that a minimum of some epigenetic modifications are heritable, handed from mother and father to offspring in a phenomenon that’s usually known as epigenetic inheritance, or handed down by a number of generations through transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. The mechanism by which epigenetic info is inherited is unclear; nevertheless, it’s identified that this info, as a result of it isn’t captured within the DNA sequence, shouldn’t be handed on by the identical mechanism as that used for typical genetic info. ”
Movie star Watch
“Potential affect of nationwide responses to the COVID pandemic on medal tallies on the Paris 2024 Olympics” [medRxiv]. From the Summary: “The Western Pacific international locations with a COVID-cautious nationwide perspective (Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea) tended to win extra Gold medals than anticipated in Paris, in comparison with international locations with a COVID-stoical nationwide perspective (e.g. Nice Britain, United States) which received fewer Golds than anticipated. This means {that a} COVID-cautious mentality could have contributed to higher efficiency than a COVID-stoical method. It’s unclear whether or not any mechanism was physiological (much less infectious illness affect earlier than or throughout the Olympics) or psychological. If this impact existed for Golds, it didn’t seem to have any impact on Silver and Bronze medals.”
Elite Maleficence
Though I had hoped to put up on masking on the DNC, the clock ran out. Tomorrow, a giant round-up. Nevertheless, as quickly because the DNC masking story obtained traction, this Tiktok video from a Harris-affilated website, by which Kamala is masked, began propagating on the Twitter. Are there any detectives within the readership? Right here’s the video:
@2024voteharris “I used to be ready to speak to you” 🥹 #kamalaharris #harris2024 #trump #trump2024 #democrat #election #republican #unitedstates #usa ♬ authentic sound – HARRIS 2024
Reader detective, are you able to run down when and the place this video was recorded? “I used to be ready to speak to you” doesn’t present up wherever however on this video and derivatives (i.e., not in any reporting). As far as I can inform, Kamala was not scheduled to look at any colleges after the conference, so the video was recorded beforehand. However how a lot earlier than? I’m guessing when the Biden administration nonetheless beneficial masking, however Lambert the Cautious wish to ensure. Thanks! (Trendy black masks, although. They weren’t simple for lots of people to get.)
CDC and CMS transfer, one hopes, in response to stress for good information:
Because of everybody’s advocacy, CMS might be requiring hospitals to report key COVID, flu, and RSV information once more, after the CDC ended this requirement earlier this yr.
— Dr. Fortunate Tran (@luckytran) August 23, 2024
Perhaps if HICPAC can handle to get a quorum collectively for the subsequent assembly, they’ll do one thing equally wise and require common masking in hospital settings.
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TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
Lambert right here: Readers, I apologize for butchering the desk formatting yesterday; I simply spent a while reformating the HTML so it’s not so fragile. Do be at liberty to convey formatting points to my consideration in feedback.
Wastewater
This week[1] CDC August 20:
Final Week[2] CDC (till subsequent week):
Variants [3] CDC August 17
★ Emergency Room Visits[4] CDC August 17
Hospitalization
New York[5] New York State, information August 23:
★ Nationwide [6] CDC August 10:
Positivity
Nationwide[7] Walgreens August 20:
Ohio[8] Cleveland Clinic August 17:
Vacationers Knowledge
Positivity[9] CDC July 29:
Variants[10] CDC July 29:
Deaths
Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11]CDC August 10:
Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12]CDC August 10:
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new right now; all others aren’t up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (CDC) This week’s wastewater map, with sizzling spots annotated. Retains spreading.
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* very fashionable. XDV.1 flat.
[4] (ER) Price noting Emergency Division use is now on a par with the primary wave, in 2020.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Happening. Doesn’t have to be a everlasting factor, in fact. (The NY city space has type; in 2020, as the house of two worldwide airports (JFK and EWR) it was an necessary entry level for the virus into the nation (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, because the wealthy sought to flee, after which across the nation by air journey.)
Lambert right here: Since issues are unhealthy out on the West Coast, I went in search of California hospitalization information to check with New York’s, and located this: “Because of adjustments in reporting necessities for hospitals, CDPH is now not together with hospitalization information on the CDPH dashboard. CDPH stays dedicated to monitoring the extreme outcomes of COVID-19 and influenza, together with the affect on hospitals. CDC’s Nationwide Healthcare Security Community (NHSN) will stay open to just accept information, and CDC and CDPH strongly encourage all amenities to proceed reporting.” Thanks, Mandy!
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). The visualization suppresses what’s, in proportion phrases, a big improve.
[7] (Walgreens) Fiddling and diddling.
[8] (Cleveland) Leaping.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Up. These sh*theads at CDC have modified the chart in order that it doesn’t even run again to 1/21/23, because it used to, however now begins 1/1/24. There’s additionally no technique to modify the time vary. CDC actually doesn’t need you to have the ability to take a historic view of the pandemic, or evaluate one surge to a different. In an any case, that’s why the form of the curve has modified.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) The brand new variant in China, XDV.1, shouldn’t be displaying up right here.
[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.
[12] Deaths low, ED up.
Stats Watch
Manufacturing: “United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The composite manufacturing index within the US Fifth District fell to -19 in August of 2024 from -17 within the earlier month, reflecting the sharpest decline in manufacturing facility exercise because the pandemic-triggered crash in Might 2020.”
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Tech: “The Root Causes of Failure for Synthetic Intelligence Initiatives and How They Can Succeed” [RAND]. “By some estimates, greater than 80 p.c of AI tasks fail — twice the speed of failure for info expertise tasks that don’t contain AI. Thus, understanding translate AI’s monumental potential into concrete outcomes stays an pressing problem. The findings and suggestions of this report needs to be of curiosity to the U.S. Division of Protection, which has been actively in search of methods to make use of AI, together with different leaders in authorities and the personal sector who’re contemplating utilizing AI/ML.” • The “root trigger” bullet factors handle neither AI bullshit (not “hallucinations,” bullshit) nor AI coaching set theft. Aside from that, this web page may need been machine-generated from some mixture of pre-existing white paper slop.
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As we speak’s Concern & Greed Index: 53 Impartial (earlier shut: 53 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 47 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Aug 27 at 2:22:37 PM ET.
Public Well being
I don’t know the way Trump’s Surgeon Common might be extra humane than extra liberal Democrats, however right here we’re:
Have employer/ industrial medical insurance? Have the time and know navigate insurance coverage authorization? Have an additional $1000 a month? Properly then you will get Ozempic.
Guess who tends not to slot in the above classes? Poor and minority populations- who additionally want it most. 😞
— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) August 26, 2024
Gallery
Pissaro paints the night time sky higher than I can {photograph} it:
Boulevard Montmartre at Evening by Camille Pissarro pic.twitter.com/yNml5RUUH0
— Impressions (@impression_ists) August 27, 2024
I’m a bit of suspicious of this account — it’s AI? however the juxtapositions are nonetheless fascinating. Thread:
A thread on well-known work that influenced a few of cinema’s most iconic movie scenes.. You will be shocked by a few of these..!
1. Alien 3, directed by David Fincher
Reference to : Woman’s Head beside a Cranium by Rex Whistler pic.twitter.com/wEbNHEIIc7
— Wolf of X (@tradingMaxiSL) August 26, 2024
Information of the Wired
“Consuming the Birds of America: Audubon’s Culinary Opinions of America’s Birds” [US Bird History]. “Whether or not birds had been massive or small, acquainted or obscure, palatable or nauseating, Audubon made sampling their meat part of his intensive means of finding out America’s birds for his Ornithological Biography, or, An account of the habits of the birds of america of America, a five-volume textual content that might accompany the 435 work that composed his Birds of America, for which he gained his fame. Alongside an outline of every hen’s look, eating regimen, conduct, and breeding habits, Audubon ceaselessly included a mirrored image on the style of the hen’s flesh.” • Hmm.
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