By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Fowl Music of the Day
Northern Mockingbird, Antietam Nationwide Battlefield, Washington, Maryland, United States. “Male Northern Mockingbird singing from roadside Japanese Crimson Cedar. This birds plumage was brownish moderately than black — subsequently the age shouldn’t be identified for sure. Looks like a moderately achieved singing for a HY chook.” 12 minutes of mockingbird track! An excellent begin to the week. Seize a cup of espresso! HY = Hatching 12 months.
“Be taught to tune into birdsong – respite and fascination await” [David Logue, Psyche (AL)]. “On a typical day, I’m within the tropical forest lengthy earlier than daybreak. I stand close to a tree with a microphone, ready for the chook that lives there to get up and sing. When it lastly does, I whisper ‘chook’ into the microphone. It’s a message to my future self that the chook on the recording is the one I meant to report. Because the daybreak refrain ramps up, I focus ever extra on the sound of that chook. I whisper ‘chook’ after every of its songs, like a monk reciting his mantra. All of my consideration is on the Adelaide’s warbler, singing from the highest of the tamarind tree; there’s none left for extraneous thought. I really feel like I belong within the current second, with no need to be or do the rest. That feeling stays with me lengthy after I depart the sector web site… Listening deeply to birdsong – that’s, listening mindfully, with open consideration – combines the advantages of mindfulness apply and people of listening to chook sounds. Right here’s learn how to get began.” • “A tree” and “the chook” implies that each tree has its chook. Can that be true?
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In Case You May Miss…
“Pleasure” at Bluesky.
Trump staff drags ft on signing ethics and transparency agreements.
“Everyone seems to be taking their skim” (of Democrat campaigns).
Boeing 737 DHL aircraft crashes in Lithuania.
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Politics
“So lots 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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Trump Assassination Makes an attempt (Plural)
An instance of “pleasure” at Bluesky:
Sooner or later, like a miracle. ☕️
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— 𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🫧🦋 (@lepapillonblue.bsky.social) November 24, 2024 at 10:06 AM
The feedback are cute.
Trump Transition
“Trump staff barred from companies amid authorized standoff” [Politico]. “Advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reached out to the Well being and Human Companies Division a number of instances after Donald Trump tapped him to guide the large company, hoping to jumpstart coordination earlier than his takeover in late January. They had been rebuffed. Kennedy’s incapacity to speak with the company he could quickly handle, confirmed by an administration official with information of the episodes granted anonymity to explain inner deliberations, is only one consequence of the president-elect’s continued foot-dragging on signing the usual trio of ethics and transparency agreements with the federal authorities — one thing his staff pledged to do shortly after the election. … Each the Trump transition and the White Home confirmed to POLITICO that negotiations on the agreements are nonetheless underway…. Watchdog teams, ethics specialists and former authorities officers say the delay in coordination with federal companies, which usually begins by mid-November, means the brand new administration gained’t be in control on the state of the profession workforce and funds and what complications could await them when Trump takes the oath of workplace on Jan. 20. The failure up to now to signal the memorandums has additionally troubled Biden officers, who’re significantly involved concerning the potential nationwide safety implications. With out the agreements in place, Trump’s staff can’t entry any private authorities information — depriving it of a full view of efforts the White Home and federal companies are taking to safeguard in opposition to a spread of threats.” • A part of me says that working solely from public information could be a terrific concept, since in any other case you’re owned by the individuals who personal the secrets and techniques.
“Trump Locks Lavatory Door So Elon Musk Can’t Observe Him In” [The Onion]. • The headline is healthier than the textual content. However.
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“Sexual-Misconduct Allegations Sank One Trump Nominee and Loom Over Kennedy” [Wall Street Journal]. “Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s choose for Well being and Human Companies secretary, has been accused of sexual assault within the late Nineteen Nineties by a girl who’s prepared to testify earlier than the Senate. Kennedy has stated he’s ‘not a church boy.’” And: “‘It appeared like he thought I used to be any individual else or wasn’t paying consideration,’ she wrote in her diary on the time, which she confirmed to the Journal. ‘Like he would come to each every now and then and snap out of it or I might transfer away.’ Later within the journal entry she speculated whether or not he was ‘testing’ her.” • So, contemporaneous proof (although in full “Smiley’s Folks” mode, I might need to authenticate that diary, all the way down to the ink and paper, given the cash, the stakes, and the gamers concerned).
2024 Submit Mortem
Deploy the Blame Cannons!
“‘Everyone seems to be taking their skim’: How Democratic consultants cashed in on Harris’ dropping marketing campaign” [Salon]. A must-read. “Whereas most political strategists agree that some spending on paid media is critical to win a marketing campaign in 2024, Faiz Shakir, a senior advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., instructed Salon that the Harris marketing campaign’s spending profile is indicative of a structural problem with how the Democratic Celebration approaches paid media and political technique. In accordance with Shakir, Democratic strategists typically see chopping a brand new 30-second advert as a type of cure-all to a marketing campaign’s issues and a method for campaigns to deal with a weak spot with out re-evaluating the message or stances they’ve taken. “There’s no room you stroll into wherein saying we must always run an advert appears like unhealthy recommendation,” he stated…. ‘The chance to generate profits off of the agency that has created 30-second advertisements and the one that has positioned the advertisements is ripe for abuse as a result of there are lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} going into it and everyone seems to be taking their skim,’ Shakir stated. ‘There’s an enormous escalation each step of the best way due to a skim at each degree.’” Of the rentiers, by the rentiers, for the rentiers. Extra: “ In some circumstances, Shakir stated, even senior marketing campaign employees will get a minimize of advert spending.” Oh. Extra: “Reviewing the advert spending from the Harris marketing campaign, it’s clear that the majority of the cash was funneled via companies run or owned by Democratic Celebration insiders…. Lots of the FEC filings documenting funds from the Harris marketing campaign to Media Shopping for and Analytics lump collectively media manufacturing and shopping for, which means it’s not possible to tell apart how a lot the agency is being paid to create media for the marketing campaign versus how a lot it’s spending on air time and what kind of fee the agency is making on these advert buys.” And: “The core problem, as Shakir places it, is that the social gathering political operations are a closed loop with well-off consultants, politicians and donors all taking recommendation from one another with little exterior enter. ‘We’ve got a working-class downside within the Democratic Celebration and when you’ve gotten rich consultants speaking to rich donors who’re all residing in an elite bubble, it could possibly turn into indifferent from what messages will resonate with individuals who aren’t within the elite bubble.’” • Keep in mind the Unity Reform Fee in 2016? Nothing has modified since this well-known clip from Sanders supporter Nomiki Konst:
“This smells.” It did eight years in the past, after which stench is worse at the moment. The distinction that no person again then was prepared to call names, which this time round Shakir names the consultants; learn the article. And the way good it’s to see a Sanders supporter placing the boot in. Extra like this, please.
“Mega-donor: Democratic overspending disqualifies Harris ‘without end’” [The Hill]. “[Political mega-donor John Morgan] added that the reported $1.5 billion spent in 4 months is proof that Harris shouldn’t run once more. ‘I feel this disqualifies her without end,’ Morgan stated. ‘When you can’t run a marketing campaign, you possibly can’t run America.’ ‘The identical factor goes to observe Harris for the remainder of her profession. She can’t be trusted with the cash, and the donors are going to be, like, ‘The place is that this cash?” he added.”
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“One Election Takeaway: Voters Hate Momentary Security Nets” [Nathan Tankus, Notes on the Crises]. “One theme I usually took up was the truth that congress responded to the Coronavirus pandemic with a sequence of financial measures which had been highly effective, however time restricted. These coated the gamut, however a very powerful had been the expansions and extensions to unemployment insurance coverage —the direct financial funds (‘checks’) and the extensions to Medicaid. These packages had been necessary not as a result of they offered ‘fiscal stimulus’, however as a result of they underpinned households’ livelihoods at a tough time and facilitated ‘social distancing’. My fear then was that having such giant packages on a time restricted foundation created what I known as ‘fiscal cliffication’. Meaning politics would more and more revolve round giant fights over what to do as large packages approached their expiration dates.” And: “[T]he pandemic significantly impacted the volatility of labor market earnings and, on the similar time, the expansions of the social security internet — significantly unemployment insurance coverage — significantly lowered the volatility of general earnings. That is particularly the case for the underside 50% of households, who at all times have much more risky incomes than the highest 50% of households…. The explanation that households’ monetary wellbeing improved considerably between 2019 and 2021 regardless of such a dramatically regressive melancholy is solely due to the pandemic security internet.” Concluding: “The final minute switchover to Harris was doubtless too quick to dramatically change messages, or achieve credibility as a ‘change’ candidate in a ‘change’ election In truth, it’s that Harris didn’t even actually strive. That is comprehensible given the bizarre circumstances, nevertheless it was electoral poison given that there’s nothing like the fashion of falling financially behind whereas being instructed the ‘financial system’ goes nice.” • This can be a very attention-grabbing paper and nicely value a learn (espresso cup in hand). The thesis within the headline, although intuitively apparent, shouldn’t be actually confirmed by the paper, however that ought to be the straightforward half, contemplating the work that Tankus already did.
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“Democrats ought to cease mocking Trump’s floor recreation and begin studying from it” [Astra Taylor, Guardian]. “Trump succeeded, at the very least partly, as a result of he’s a person who will say something and do something to win. And naturally he was boosted by conservative media – by Fox Information talkshows, conspiratorial podcasts, manosphere influencers, misleading deepfakes, focused advertisements, and “First Buddy” Elon Musk’s transformation of Twitter into X. However he additionally gained as a result of he had a robust floor recreation, even when it sometimes blundered and infrequently appeared completely different from what observers and specialists anticipated from a get-out-the vote drive, together with its use of ‘untraditional’ and ‘micro-targeted’ methods geared toward reaching low- and mid-propensity voters who didn’t match the same old Republican profile, together with Latinos, Black males, and Asian and Arab People…. When Democrats insist that Trump had no floor recreation, they ignore the best wing’s funding and presence in areas that aren’t purely electoral and that interact individuals year-round, together with teams like Libre, together with the evangelical church buildings and scholar teams that more and more operate as social golf equipment recruiting individuals to the Maga trigger. As Tiffany Dena Loftin particulars within the new problem of the Black leftist journal Hammer & Hope, the best wing has spent many years systematically attacking and defunding progressive scholar unions and networks and increase their conservative counterparts.” And: “The Trump marketing campaign constructed on this mannequin, offering its base with group and goal and organizing them, in flip, to mobilize others to prove and vote. Earlier than becoming a member of Trump’s staff as marketing campaign co-chair, Susie Wiles spent years working to lock down Florida for Republicans (she’s since been named Trump’s incoming chief of employees). Her techniques make individuals really feel like a necessary a part of a bunch with a transparent purpose. Wiles piloted the ’10 for Trump’ Iowa caucus program, which gave a subset of two,000 volunteers the title of ‘captain’, a limited-edition gold-embroidered hat, and the purpose of motivating 10 individuals of their precincts to prove.” • Susie Wiles is solely re-inventing the Precinct Captain, an age-old Democrat construction alert reader DCblogger typically spoke of. And shock, it really works!
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Please, no:
Unburdened by what got here earlier than pic.twitter.com/KKCnF22vIe
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 25, 2024
On what grounds would Kamala run once more?
The #Resistance
“That is the brand new progressive technique for warring with Trump” [Politico]. “Progressive Democrats wrestling with learn how to navigate a second Donald Trump presidency are deciding on a brand new strategy: Take his populist, working-class proposals at his phrase — or at the very least fake to. If he succeeds, they will take some credit score for bringing him to the desk.” Lol. No they will’t. Extra: ” If he doesn’t, they will bash him for it. It’s a change in technique, rising in personal conversations amongst some liberal elected officers and operatives, that comes after years of resisting Trump ended with him returning to the White Home.” And at last: “Progressives are clear-eyed that with a Republican-controlled Home and Senate, many, if not most, of Trump’s populist marketing campaign guarantees won’t occur — if he had been ever critical about them to start with. However they consider that his voters need him to observe via. Additionally they lack any energy in Congress and are determined for even an out of doors probability to affect coverage.” • Not with a bang however a whimper. Hey, I’m so outdated I bear in mind when Trump was a fascist!
Clinton Legacy
“Individuals who put on ties”:
Invoice Clinton: “in demonizing all institutions and all individuals who put on a tie such as you and me to work and have a superb training, we’re breaking down the legitimacy of…individuals who truly know issues which can be essential for us at the moment and essential for our continued… pic.twitter.com/0OfAJOa6yV
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 24, 2024
“Individuals who truly know issues.”
Democrats en déshabillé
Centrist dipshits, as Atrios calls them:
Democratic pundits berated Bernie’s coalition as “Bernie Bros” and likewise instructed individuals they had been ingrates for not higher appreciating the financial system.
Now they’re fusing these 2 threads collectively, asserting that Bernie supporters are mentally unwell & lazy & *selecting* to be poor. pic.twitter.com/6vpKWFOMIE
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) November 25, 2024
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; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of 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).
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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 reviews); 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 (wastewater); 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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Search for the Helpers
Masks Challenge:
This can be a nice crowd sourcing mission to measure how nicely varied N95s/KN95s and many others match all kinds of individuals.
The info will drive an app to assist individuals choose the masks probably to offer them good particular person match and safety.
— Gerard Hughes ( @ghhughes@zeroes.ca ) (@ghhughes) November 24, 2024
“I Ran Operation Warp Pace. I’m Involved About Fowl Flu” [David A. Kessler, New York Times]. “As Donald Trump will get able to return to the White Home on Jan. 20, he have to be ready to sort out one problem instantly: the likelihood that the spreading avian flu would possibly mutate to allow human-to-human transmission….. I’ve been monitoring the unfold of chook flu, also called H5N1, and discussing the scenario with colleagues across the nation. My concern is rising…. With out necessary testing, chook flu will proceed circulating at farms throughout the nation, which considerably will increase the danger that the virus mutates and evolves to permit a human-to-human transmission that will likely be laborious to cease…. Nobody is aware of what number of mutations will likely be required to set off human-to- human respiratory unfold. That might require many mutations and will by no means occur. However we is also simply two or three mutations away. If the virus begins to transmit effectively amongst people, will probably be very tough to comprise, in response to the Johns Hopkins evaluation, and ‘the probability of a pandemic could be very excessive.’ The incoming Trump administration must be ready.” • I hope uncooked milk stans don’t have inordinate affect….
Vaccines
Though Adams had a place within the final Trump Adminisration, sadly he doesn’t within the present one:
Listed below are the highest and backside international locations in response to life expectancy globally- together with their respective measles vaccination charges. U.S. can be listed. Discover something? 🤔
High 4 international locations by life expectancy: 1. Japan– Life Expectancy: 84.5 years– Measles Vaccination…
— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) November 25, 2024
Private Threat Evaluation
Admirable dedication to the bit:
He in all probability should not have “caught COVID on goal.” There’s principally no lasting immunity from COVID both through an infection or vaccine, and the injury even a gentle case does to your physique can kill you down the street. pic.twitter.com/QvksLdvMsq
— L., MA (@leslieleeiii) November 24, 2024
FAFO….
Elite Maleficence
I suppose the one resolution is to place our belief within the billionaires, particularly the tech bros:
The shameless denial of science & dearth of care & consideration exhibited for individuals throughout the pandemic so far has ended the credibility of:
WHO
CDC
PHAC
HICPAC
APIC
SHEA
IPAC
PHO
PICNET
COCHRANE
NHE
CELL IPC
Public Well being
Medical group
Political leaders
— Barry Hunt ————————– Novavax 4 Me (@BarryHunt008) November 24, 2024
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TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
Wastewater
★ This week[1] CDC November 18
Final Week[2] CDC (till subsequent week):
Variants [3] CDC November 23
★ Emergency Room Visits[4] CDC November 16
Hospitalization
★ New York[5] New York State, information November 25:
Nationwide [6] CDC November 21:
Positivity
★ Nationwide[7] Walgreens November 25:
Ohio[8] Cleveland Clinic November 16:
Vacationers Knowledge
Positivity[9] CDC November 4:
Variants[10] CDC November 4:
Deaths
Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11] CDC November 2:
Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12] CDC November 2:
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new at the moment; all others should not 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) Excellent news!
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* nonetheless common. XEC has entered the chat. That WHO label, “Ommicron,” has accomplished a terrific job normalizing successive waves of an infection.
[4] (ED) Down.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Steadily down.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Really improved; it’s now one of many few charts to point out the complete course of the pandemic to the current day.
[7] (Walgreens) Down.
[8] (Cleveland) Down.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Down.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants). Now XEC.
[11] Deaths low, positivity down.
[12] Deaths low, ED down.
Stats Watch
Manufacturing: “United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The composite manufacturing index within the US Fifth District was unchanged… The studying confirmed that exercise remained sluggish.”
Housing: “United States FHFA Home Value Index” [Trading Economics]. “Housing Index in the USA decreased to 0.70 factors in September from 427 factors in August of 2024. Housing Index in the USA averaged 200.20 factors from 1991 till 2024, reaching an all time excessive of 427.00 factors in August of 2024 and a report low of 0.70 factors in September of 2024” • What?
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Manufacturing: “Chilling cockpit audio from doomed Boeing 737 DHL aircraft simply earlier than it crashed in fireball is revealed – together with recording of air site visitors management scrambling to take care of aftermath: ‘We simply obtained a crash’” [Daily Mail]. “The reason for the crash stays a thriller as Lithuania’s Nationwide Disaster Administration Centre deployed specialists to analyze… The incident follows reviews in latest months that mysterious explosions had occurred at DHL warehouses in Leipzig and Birmingham amid fears of a Russian covert sabotage operation meant to blow up plane flying within the West.” • Lithuania. Oh.
Manufacturing: “The unanswered questions surrounding the DHL Boeing 737 crash” [iNews]. “After departing from Leipzig, Germany, the Boeing 737 made a “compelled touchdown” one kilometre from the airport, splitting into items upon affect and sliding greater than 100m, leaving a path of burning wreckage. Germany’s overseas minister prompt the incident might have been a hybrid assault in “risky instances”, apparently referring to suspected acts of sabotage by Russia in opposition to Ukraine’s EU allies…. On Tuesday afternoon, the Lithuanian Justice Ministry stated the black packing containers, containing flight information and voice recorders, had been discovered… In footage of the incident, the aircraft is seen turning shortly on its aspect moments earlier than crashing in a residential space, close to a street. The identical motion was described by witness Kotryna Ciupailaite, who noticed the aircraft flying over her automobile as she drove to work. ‘The appropriate wing of the aircraft turned down earlier than it crashed as if it was attempting to show,’ she stated. ‘There was one thing shiny popping out of the best aspect of the aircraft, like sparks or a flame, earlier than it hit the bottom.’”
Manufacturing: “Boeing SC seeks extra environmental permits forward of deliberate 787 manufacturing hikes” [Post and Courier]. “Boeing Co. has filed a flurry of allow functions over the previous 12 months — together with 4 this month — with an eye fixed towards future growth of its 787 plant in North Charleston, because the planemaker hopes to double the variety of wide-bodies it builds in South Carolina…. The plans are being pushed by Boeing’s projections that airways globally will want 8,065 new wide-body industrial jets just like the Dreamliner over the subsequent 20 years because the demand for air journey outpaces financial progress. The necessity is especially robust within the Center East…”
Manufacturing: “China Southern Airways Proclaims Plan To Promote Total Fleet Of 10 Boeing 787-8s” [Simple Flying]. “[T]he 787-8 has regularly been overshadowed by its bigger sibling, the Boeing 787-9. The 787-8, with its smaller passenger capability and better per-seat prices, is not as economically viable for airways. Compared, the 787-9 affords higher seating capability and improved operational effectivity, making it a most popular selection for contemporary fleets. China Southern’s intent to promote all 10 of its 787-8s aligns with a broader trade pattern amongst Chinese language airways to part out older widebody plane in favor of extra environment friendly fashions. Earlier this 12 months, the airline retired its Airbus A380s and has considerably slowed widebody plane acquisitions, reflecting a shift towards narrowbody planes higher fitted to the post-pandemic restoration in home and regional markets.”
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At the moment’s Concern & Greed Index: 64 Greed (earlier shut: 61 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 49 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 26 at 1:21:13 PM ET…
Rapture Index: Closes up one on Drought. “A really giant space of the nation is below common drought situations” [Rapture Ready]. Report Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 183. (Do not forget that bringing on the Rapture is sweet.) • Onerous to consider the Rapture Index goes down. Do these individuals know one thing we don’t?
Gallery
Maybe I would like the {photograph}, the “authentic”?
From round 1927, Walter Sickert labored primarily from images and this work of Dawson Bros division retailer on Metropolis Highway in London was in all probability painted from a snapshot. It was a technique that allowed him to work within the studio and give attention to composition and element moderately than… pic.twitter.com/CsT4xy7gJN
— Richard Morris (@ahistoryinart) November 25, 2024
Zeitgeist Watch
“‘What many people really feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s phrase of the 12 months” [Guardian]. “However enshittification not solely gained their vote, it took out the individuals’s selection award. ‘This phrase captures what many people really feel is going on to the world and to so many facets of our lives for the time being,’ the [dictionary] committee stated. Doctorow himself is surprisingly optimistic about the place this might all find yourself. Motion on competitors to stop market dominance, regulation on issues comparable to digital privateness, extra energy for customers to determine how they use platforms, and tackling the exploitation of staff might reverse the method, he wrote, as a result of ‘everybody has a stake in disenshittification.’ Huge tech can’t be fastened, he argues, however possibly it may be destroyed. He provides a fourth stage to the tech platforms’ scatological journey from being good to customers, to abusing them in favour of their clients, to abusing their clients to serve themselves. ‘Then they die,’ he wrote.” •
Class Warfare
“Bossware is unfair (within the authorized sense, too)” [Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic]. “You will get into numerous hassle by assuming that wealthy individuals know what they’re doing. For instance, would possibly assume that ad-tech works – bypassing peoples’ essential schools, reaching inside their minds and brainwashing them with Huge Knowledge insights, as a result of if that’s not what’s occurring, then why would wealthy individuals pour billions into these advertisements? You would possibly assume that personal fairness looters make their buyers wealthy, as a result of in any other case, why would wealthy individuals hand over trillions for them to play with? The reality is, wealthy individuals are suckers like the remainder of us. If something, succeeding a few times makes you a fair larger mark, with a way of your personal infallibility that inflates to fill the bubble your yes-men seal you within. However although wealthy individuals can fall for scams the identical method you and I do, the best way these scams play out could be very completely different when the marks are rich. As Keynes had it, “The market can stay irrational longer than you possibly can stay solvent.” When the marks are wealthy (or worse, super-rich), they are often performed for for much longer earlier than they go bust, creating the looks of solidity.” • Adopted by a dialogue of Keynes and the idea of “the bezzle.”
Information of the Wired
I’m not feeing wired at the moment.
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Contact data for vegetation: Readers, be happy to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn the way to ship me a test in case you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn the way to ship me photographs of vegetation. Greens are tremendous! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary vegetation! If you’d like your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it firstly of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize through the use of your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From a pal of Bob or Janet:
The pal writes: “Two weeks or so in the past now, I found this cute plant off to the aspect of the campus of my highschool simply up the hill from me: I used PlantNet to ID it first time round, and it gave me Geranium sibirica, however questioned it. I went to GoBotany, and found they’ve one thing known as PlantShare (I feel that’s how I bear in mind it) and submitted my photograph to them. I obtained a solution again from Arthur Haines of the Native Plant Belief saying he thought it was G. pratense and requested me for extra photographs and measurements, and many others., ultimately asking for photos of the rhizomes and roots popping out of the rhizomes, ending up with asking for photograph of the bigger space the place it’s rising, which I despatched together with my first video ever of the realm. In session with another botanists, he has confirmed that it’s G. thunbergii, and that it is a first sighting in NH but! He’s going so as to add it to GoBotany’s distribution maps. I’ve had such a superb time working with him, and he has been very appreciative of my curiosity and participation.” Fascinating!
Readers, in case you haven’t despatched in a plant photograph to Water Cooler, why not strive it? It’s simple, it’s enjoyable, and also you get some good compliments! (When you want instructions, see under.)
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