Via Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Readers, should you planted anything else on Memorial While, I’m hoping that went smartly. –lambert
Chook Tune of the While
Japanese Phoebe, Spruce Run Relax Department, Hunterdon, Unutilized Jersey, United States. “Singing above boat rental.”
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In Case You May Leave out…
(1) Google Seek’s inner engineering documentation has leaked (!), and — keep onto your hats, people — they’ve been mendacity a bundle.
(2) Terminating arguments from the protection in Pass judgement on Merchan’s courtroom.
(3) Bookcases have wonderful UI/UX.
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Politics
“So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
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2024
Not up to a part a while to exit!
RCP Ballot Averages, Would possibly 24:
No longer a just right day for Group Trump, with lots of the Swing States (extra right here) Brownian-motioning themselves towards Biden. No longer, then again, Michigan, to which Trump paid a seek advice from, nor the most important Pennsylvania. After all, it is going with out announcing that those are all order polls, subsequently malicious, and lots of the effects are inside the margin of error. Now, if both candidate begins breaking away in issues, rather of tenths of some degree…. NOTE I modified the notation: Up and indisposed arrows for will increase or decreases over terminating day, circles for incorrect alternate. Purple = Trump. Blue can be Biden if he have been well-known anyplace, however he isn’t.
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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Trump attorney hammers Michael Cohen in hush money closing arguments: Live updates” [The Hill]. “Todd Blanche concluded his closing argument by giving jurors 10 reasons the attorney said should give them reasonable doubt of Trump’s guilt. Among other arguments, Blanche said there was no evidence Trump had an intent to defraud and that Cohen was the ’embodiment’ of reasonable doubt. The jury was then dismissed for their lunch break, though the partie\\s are debating a legal issue before they leave.” • So the headline isn’t correct (and would have implied that Blanche was once table-pounding and grand-standing, which in flip would heartless that Bragg’s structure and concept of the case are forged, which might be malicious information for Trump.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan) “Closing arguments underway at Trump hush money trial” [Politico]. 5 of the ten causes (and sheesh, in case your humble blogger have been live-bloggging this, you’d have all ten, WTF):
Prosecutors didn’t hyperlink Cohen’s origination of invoices (for his peace cash reimbursements) to Trump himself.
The Nationwide Enquirer was once ready to run some unflattering tales about Trump in spite of a purported conspiracy to offer protection to his candidacy.
Agree with problems with Cohen heartless jurors can’t believe the recordings he equipped.
There’s incorrect proof Trump desire to illegally affect the 2016 election.
Michael Cohen is “the human embodiment of reasonable doubt.”Anna Bower of Brooking’s creature Lawfare does give the 10 causes, in a story that begins right here, Right here’s the primary section:
I detest Lawfare, each capitalized and lower-case, however I don’t assume they create sh*t up, so I believe I will be able to bargain their protection accurately.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan) “CNN legal expert says idea of Trump being acquitted in hush money case is ‘out of reach’” [CNN]. “‘This was a winnable case. It still is not a slam dunk, in my view, having been there every day for the prosecution,’ Eisen said in a CNN interview with Jim Acosta on Monday. ‘I think the odds of conviction are somewhere upwards of 80 percent.’ ‘In part because of this scattershot approach, the defense is not really gunning for an acquittal. That’s out of reach here,’ he continued. ‘What they are hoping for is one angry juror.’ ‘Whether there’s one juror who either feels sympathy for Trump or just for whatever reason does not follow the evidence and the law. The holdout,’ the expert added. ‘That’s what they’re trying for. Just one.” • After all, Eisen would say this. Once more, IANAL, but when the “object offense” has in truth been within the indictment, most likely the protection would were in a position to arrange one thing alternative than a “scattershot approach.”
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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Merchan and Bragg Fashion a Vague Fraud Instruction to Convict Trump” [Andrew McCarthy, National Review]. “It deals with the central issue of fraud, and it is fleshed out in a “red-line” draft workout Merchan directed, through which the events desire to slim disputes through offering the courtroom with a draft that indicated what proposed directions they correct and disagreed on. There, please see is obtainable to outline the central thought of intent to defraud. Until I’m lacking one thing, I don’t see any indication of an objection through the protection to this language: “In order to prove an intent to defraud, the People need not prove that the defendant acted with the intent to defraud any particular person or entity. A general intent to defraud any person or entity — including the government or the voting public — suffices.”… However implicit in this is that fraud, as at the start understood, is a misleading scheme to deprive community of cash or tangible estate — concrete belongings…. As I evocative a while in the past when the Ultimate Court docket threw out two federal political-corruption convictions of cronies of former Unutilized York governor Andrew Cuomo, a significant infection arises when politicians — typically, aspiring politicians — aim to stretch the idea that of fraud to bring to impose their optic of fine governance. They do that through transmogrifying the concrete-property purpose of fraudsters right into a opaque intangible pastime in honesty. This will get so opaque that, in essence, prosecutors start indicting (oblivion the tautology) misleading schemes to be misleading — i.e., circumstances through which nobody was once in truth bilked out of anything else concrete, and even focused to be so bilked, however the fraud is claimed to be some artifice that produced a end result the prosecutor doesn’t like… Thus does the footnote supporting the proposed fraud instruction elaborate that ‘in the electoral context,’ Unutilized York’s easiest courtroom has ‘recognized that the concept of fraud can encompass any deliberate deception (to be committed upon the electorate),’ or any ‘corrupt act to prevent a free and open election.’ That is approach too huge. There nonetheless needs to be fraud — which means the design to scouse borrow one thing through which community have a concrete pastime.” • Deeply ironic that the political birthday celebration of RussiaGate, the political birthday celebration of Hunter Biden’s pc, would get all pious about “corrupt act to prevent a free and open election” — and switch them into felonies, incorrect much less. As I hold announcing: How is that this other from commonplace campaigning?
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “The Closing: Trump’s Final Argument Must Be Clarity to Chaos in Merchan’s Courtroom” [Jonathan Turley]. “Even a cursory review of the evidence shows this case does not have a leg to stand on. “The dead misdemeanor that is the foundation for this entire prosecution requires the falsification of business records. It is not clear that there was such falsification or that Trump has any knowledge or role in any falsification. Witnesses testified that Trump would sign checks prepared by others and that the specific checks in this case were signed while Trump was serving as president. Some of these checks, labeled ‘legal expenses,” have been allegedly for legal professional Michael Cohen to repay Breezy Daniels. Most significantly, Jeffrey McConney, the Trump Group’s retired controller and senior vice-president, testified that it was once no longer Trump who designated those bills as ‘legal expenses.’ In lieu, the company worn an ‘antiquated’ drop-down menu the place any bills to legal professionals have been designated ‘legal expenses.’ … The federal government additionally cites the designation of bills to Cohen as a part of his ‘retainer,’ which incorporated repayment for the cost of the Daniels non-disclosure pledge. On the other hand, that designation was once the results of discussions between Cohen and previous Trump Group CFO Allen Weisselberg, who’s sitting in a prison mobile in Unutilized York Town. The federal government will have known as Weisselberg, however didn’t.” And: “The government must also show that any falsification was done to further or conceal another crime. This is where the defense needs to bring greater clarity to its own narrative. Trump’s team needs to drive home that a non-disclosure agreement is common in political, business and entertainment circles. The payment of money to quash a story before an election is neither unlawful nor unusual. Indeed, Keith Davidson, Stormy Daniels’ attorney, described the NDA as routine and said that it was not hush money but a simple contractual transaction: ‘It wasn’t a payoff. It wasn’t hush money. It was consideration.’… Merchan has allowed the jury to repeatedly hear of “election violations,” era blockading a prison knowledgeable to give an explanation for that there’s no federal election regulation violation. The cost of peace cash isn’t a marketing campaign contribution and, once more, the government no longer solely declined in order any felony rate, however discovered incorrect foundation for even a civil effective.” That is truthful, however the order regulation (§ 17-152, see nearest merchandise) that may be the article offense calls for solely “conspir[ing] to promote or prevent the election of any person by unlawful means” which doesn’t equate to a marketing campaign contribution. Extra: “The entire basis for the alleged criminal intent is Michael Cohen, a disbarred lawyer and serial perjurer…. Cohen’s lack of credibility and his admitted financial interest in attacking Trump only highlight again the absence of Weisselberg, whom Cohen references repeatedly as the key person making decisions on how these payments were made and described. If what Cohen said was true, corroboration was sitting a car ride away in Rikers Island. Traffic may be bad but it is not that bad. The only reason not to call Weisselberg was that he would contradict Cohen.”
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “What Must Prosecutors Prove in Trump’s NY Trial?’ [Lawfare]. From May 7, and worth a read again. Key point: “While the indictment alleges no conspiracy, as Bove correctly mentioned, Bragg charged Trump under New York Penal Law § 175.10, falsifying business records in the first degree, a felony “stepped up” from the misdemeanor rate below § 175.05, through alleging that Trump cooked the books with the “intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof.” Justice Merchan has authorized the prosecution to pursue 3 theories alike to that underlying crime, referred to as the article offense, however the prosecution appears to be zeroing in up to now on one, particularly: Unutilized York Election Legislation § 17-152, a misdemeanor offense that prohibits ‘conspir[ing] to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means.’ As Steinglass mentioned in courtroom on April 23, ‘while it’s true that there’s no conspiracy in the second one stage rate at the indictment, it isn’t true {that a} conspiracy has no longer at all times been speculated to be a part of this situation.’” • So Trump helps to keep getting accused of items — e.g., riot on January 6, however right here conspiracy — that no person ever fees him with. If he did it, why no longer rate him? IANAL, however this is going over my head.
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Trump (Bragg/Merchan) “Another Violation of Trump’s Constitutional Rights in the Bragg Case” [National Review]. Utility studying at the “conspiracy.” However this: “[NMI/National Enquirer’s David] Pecker testified to two supposed legal admissions of guilt. One was a non-prosecution agreement between Pecker and the Justice Department, which was premised upon the theory that AMI paying McDougal was a campaign expense of the Trump campaign and should have been reported as such. Note that this was not even a formal admission of guilt, let alone a judicial precedent on the highly debatable legal theory that the payment was covered by the federal campaign-finance laws. The other thing Pecker testified about was a fine paid by AMI to the Federal Election Commission. But here’s the key fact: It wasn’t Pecker who decided to pay the fine. He had already left the company. It was the AMI board that made that decision. It did so for business reasons anyone could understand: The company was trying to sell the Enquirer, and businesses routinely pay all manner of settlements to get legal controversies out of the way (even bogus ones) when they’re trying to do a merger or sale of a business. I once worked on a case where a company paid six times the statutory maximum fine — six times what it could possibly have been forced to pay if convicted at trial — just so it could get a merger done. Why does it matter that Pecker wasn’t involved in that decision? Because the decision to pay the fine was evidence used against Trump at his criminal trial. That, in practical effect, made AMI a witness against Trump. The prosecution was effectively using Pecker to admit, on behalf of AMI, that AMI broke the law. But Pecker can’t be cross-examined about something he didn’t do. Neither AMI as an entity, nor its board, was called as a witness, so Trump was denied the right to cross-examine AMI about why it paid the $180,000 fine. That’s a violation of Trump’s rights under the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause. Since Crawford v. Washington (2004), the Supreme Court has cracked down on the use of out-of-court statements by people who aren’t called as witnesses, because the Constitution guarantees the right of the accused in every criminal case “to be confronted with the witnesses against him.’” • Fascinating argument. Can prison experts within the readership remark?
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Trump (R) (Cannon/Smith) “Cannon chastises Smith team, denies ‘gag order’ request in Trump classified docs case” [The Hill]. “Judge Aileen Cannon chastised special counsel Jack Smith’s team Tuesday after she said they failed to meaningfully reach out to former President Trump’s attorneys on a motion to limit his speech in the classified documents case after Trump claimed law enforcement had the power to assassinate him. She likewise denied a motion from Trump’s legal team seeking to censure prosecutors over the matter. Smith’s team filed a late Friday motion asking Cannon to clarify that false claims from Trump violated his existing conditions of release after he said President Biden and the Justice Department were authorized to ‘take me out’ during the search for documents at Mar-a-Lago. Prosecutors — who like Trump’s team are required to confer with the other party before filing motions in the case — did not do so until 5:30 p.m. ahead of Memorial Day weekend. ‘The Court finds the Special Counsel’s pro forma ‘conferral’ to be wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy,’ Cannon wrote. ‘It should go without saying that meaningful conferral is not a perfunctory exercise. Sufficient time needs to be afforded to permit reasonable evaluation of the requested relief by opposing counsel and to allow for adequate follow-up discussion.” • Smith is being infantile. Come on.
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Trump (R): “Eyeing Trump, but on the Fence: How Tuned-Out Voters Could Decide 2024” [New York Times]. “Politically disengaged Americans are emerging as one of the most unpredictable, complex and potentially influential groups of voters in the 2024 race. They are fueling Mr. Trump’s current polling leads but in many cases hail from traditionally Democratic communities, giving Mr. Biden a chance to win some of them back.” Achieving them is a infection: “In a presidential election in which more than 80 percent of voters, according to a Pew Research Center survey, say they wish one or both major candidates were not running, some are opting out of straight-ahead political news entirely… ‘When your team’s losing, you don’t read the sports page after the game,’ said Ken Goldstein, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. ‘You have a big swath of the country that just thinks they’re losing when it comes to politics, and so the way to deal with that is to just not pay attention.’” • And are they mistaken? See Ferguson and Typhoon right here. Spoiler: They’re no longer mistaken.
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Biden (D): “Dems in full-blown ‘freakout’ over Biden” [Politico]. “A customery sense of concern has settled in on the easiest ranges of the Democratic Celebration over President Joe Biden’s reelection potentialities, even amongst officeholders and strategists who had in the past expressed self assurance concerning the coming combat with Donald Trump. All while, Democrats have been on a joyless and laborious grind during the 2024 election. However now, just about 5 months from the election, anxiousness has morphed into palpable trepidation, in keeping with greater than a bundle birthday celebration leaders and operatives. And the distance between what Democrats will say on TV or in print, and what they’ll textual content their pals, has solely grown as worries have surged about Biden’s potentialities. ‘You don’t wish to be that man who’s at the file announcing we’re doomed, or the marketing campaign’s malicious or Biden’s making errors. No one desires to be that man,’ mentioned a Democratic operative in akin contact with the White Area and granted anonymity to talk freely. However Biden’s stubbornly penniless polling and the stakes of the election ‘are creating the freakout,’ he mentioned. • Thought: Let’s aid out Large Z through development a pier in Ukraine. Possibly if we manufacture a pier on dried land, it is going to be more straightforward.
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Our Famously Separate Press
“Washington Post sat on Alito upside-down flag interview for years” [Axios]. “It turns out that The Post’s former Supreme Court reporter, Bob Barnes, did a front-yard interview with Justice Samuel Alito on Jan. 20, 2021 — President Biden’s inauguration day — about the upside-down American flag that had flown outside the justice’s home in Fairfax County, Va. The Post decided it wasn’t a story, until The New York Times broke the news on May 16 — 3 years, 4 months later. The flag — which Alito attributed to his wife, Martha-Ann Alito — raised ethics questions that were heightened after The Times reported last week on a second provocative flag flown at an Alito property.” • From all the tale, it seems like the “signal of distress” flag is all the way down to Martha-Ann Alito, who sounds a bit of shrill; however the second one flag, the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, appears to me like an revealed endorsement of a political faction,
Syndemics
“I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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Covid Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; comprises many counties; Wastewater Scan, comprises drilldown through zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts” (particularly on hospitalization through town).
Lambert right here: Readers, thank you for the collective struggle. To replace any access, do really feel distant to touch me on the cope with given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic order. Thanks!
Assets, 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 (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Govt of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Illness
“Triple threat: The winter viruses you can get at the same time” [The New Daily]. The supply is from Australia, the place it’s iciness. “In the first three months of 2024, there were three times as many confirmed Covid-19 cases as influenza cases. This means that there’s a lot more of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (which causes Covid-19) circulating in the community than influenza. Worse, the death rate associated with Covid-19 was about four times as high as for influenza. This may even out a little over winter, but Covid-19 will likely remain the biggest threat of you becoming seriously ill. On the other hand, RSV is an extremely common respiratory disease among small children. It’s highly infectious, and yet not top of mind. It’s not as lethal as flu or Covid, but it can get very nasty for the very young, old and those in between with lung issues.” • Australia, after, is within the embrace of a syndemic. In the meantime, it’s past silly for the US to imagine that Covid is over when it’s emerging in alternative international locations that experience breeze connections to the US.
Sequelae: Covid
“Long COVID and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study” [BMJ]. N = 2545. From the Dialogue: “On this potential observational find out about of hospitalised COVID-19 survivors in the United Kingdom fewer than one in 3 sufferers with cardiovascular comorbidities or at top possibility of creating [cardiovascular disease (CVD)] had whole affected person perceived bodily, psychological and cognitive fix as much as 1 while
following SARS-CoV-2 illness. The profound practical deterioration and cheapen detail of day which have been in the past reported at 5 months persist at 1 while, specifically for the ones with established CVD or with cardiovascular possibility components.” You’ll be able to’t magic “Covid” with out “C, V, D”!
Origins Debate
Daszak’s EcoHealth, checked out merely as an establishment (an NGO that raised cash through snagging grants) was once rotten to the core. Now it seems like the NIH, considered one of its grantors, was once simply as rotten. That is astonishing:
Why was once Fauci’s Leading-of-Group of workers deliberately misspelling key phrases in emails? No longer simply typos however the usage of particular characters (ex. Ec~Fitness, Anders$n, and many others). https://t.co/YNn1AMFWTB
— Leading Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) Would possibly 28, 2024
Crafting emails to steer clear of FOIA? In reality? What imaginable just right purpose for that may there be? And the way a long way again does the rot exit? Way back to Fauci’s habits within the AIDS emergency?
Famous person Supervise
Modeling just right conduct:
If the paparazzi can inform that is Robert Pattinson, there may be completely incorrect reason why for there to be a forbid on mask, for scientific usefulness, anyplace. https://t.co/u05z74OZlt
— Misplaced in a Dystopian Hell written through AI Monkeys (@lsthart) Would possibly 26, 2024
‘Tis a thriller (1):
Neil Younger’s Chicago display suspension at terminating modest ‘because of disorder’ https://t.co/2C5QfdKLHG
— Jess (@MeetJess) Would possibly 25, 2024
‘Tis a thriller (2):
Bruce Springsteen Cancels Display in Marseille, France “Unable to Sing and Perform” https://t.co/fj28l4RXEl
— Jess (@MeetJess) Would possibly 25, 2024
‘Tis a thriller: “Novak Djokovic suffers sixth defeat this year and admits he may struggle at French Open” [The Telegraph]. The deck: “World No.1 at a loss to explain poor form with Roland Garros defence looking even tougher after Geneva Open defeat.”
Elite Maleficence
“Covid will still be here this summer. Will anyone care? [WaPo]. No, since the propaganda campaign supporting a population cull has been Goebbelsian in its intensity and immersiveness. “This is shaping up to be the first covid wave with barely any federal pressure to limit transmission and little data to even declare a surge. People are no longer advised to isolate for five days after testing positive. Free tests are hard to come by. Soon, uninsured people will no longer be able to get coronavirus vaccines free…. So we’re left with a virus that continues to hum in the background as an ever-present pathogen and sporadic killer. The public health establishment no longer treats covid as a top priority. Only a smattering of passengers still wear masks on trains and planes. Weddings, vacations and conferences carry on as normal. Many who do get sick won’t ever know it’s covid. Or care…. The CDC and health authorities continue to promote the coronavirus vaccine, last updated in fall 2023 for a subvariant no longer in circulation, as the best form of protection against the disease…. In April, hospitals stopped reporting confirmed covid-19 cases – ending the most commonly cited metric for measuring the virus’s toll. The CDC still tracks the levels of coronavirus detected in wastewater and discloses the percentage of emergency room visits with a diagnosed covid-19 case, which has been declining since February. But Hotez said the available metrics are no longer enough to properly grasp the covid situation.” That is most likely the most efficient quote: “Many summer campers, for instance, will no longer be forced to isolate for covid while asymptomatic since the CDC revised its quarantine protocols to allow people to reemerge after their fevers break, said Tom Rosenberg, president and chief executive of the American Camp Association. ‘Kids [cough cough] can have more fun,’ Rosenberg said. ‘We want to keep them in camp as much as we can as long as they are well and ready to participate.’” • Incorrect hesitation! Not anything would please me greater than to be informed/settle for the Covid pandemic was once over. Not anything respectable — no longer the knowledge, and on no account conduct — convinces me that it’s. Trade my thoughts!
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Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m moving to must reconsider this superbly formatted desk. Biobot knowledge is long gone, CDC variant knowledge purposes, ER visits are useless, CDC restrained necessary health center knowledge assortment, Unutilized York Instances dying knowledge has restrained. (Observe that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each long gone lightless). Preferably I might exchange hospitalization and dying knowledge, however I’m no longer positive how. I may additionally extend the wastewater category to incorporate (yech) Verily knowledge, H5N1 if I will be able to get it. Ideas and resources welcome. UPDATE I changed the Instances dying knowledge with CDC knowledge. Amusingly, the URL doesn’t come with parameters to assemble the tables; one should reconstruct after manually every age. Caltrops abound.
TABLE 1: Day-to-day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts fresh nowadays; all others aren’t up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution symbol, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) at the chart thumbnail and “open image in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Useless.
[2] (Biobot) Useless.
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, for the reason that the fashion utterly overlooked KP.2.
[4] (ER) CDC turns out to have killed this off, because the hyperlink is damaged, I feel in partial of this factor. I can attempt to substantiate. UPDATE Sure, shed it to CDC to execute a web page, and after announce it was once archived a hour nearest. And heaven forfend CDC must give an explanation for the place to exit to get similar knowledge, if any. I favored the ER knowledge, as it appeared actually parched to sport.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Fairly, however distinctly up. The Unutilized York town segment has mode; in 2020, as the house of 2 global airports (JFK and EWR) it was once an noteceable access level for the virus into the rustic (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, because the affluent prosperous desire to resignation, and across the nation thru breeze go). So my herbal inclination is to look how wastewater at JFK and EWR is doing. CDC, prior to it made up our minds to butcher wastewater visualization, equipped knowledge all the way down to the sewage remedy plant degree, so I may take a look at the Brooklyn plant for JFK (and likewise the Brooklyn plant for LGA). Neatly, that’s now not imaginable, however the Verily [vomits quietly] wastewater web site — Biobot being kaput — supplies knowledge on EWR. Right here it’s:
So, Unutilized York Town Hospitalization up, Covid from breeze go up. Manufacture of that what you’ll. Covid could also be up in Singapore and France, you’ll recall.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless indisposed. “Maps, charts, and data provided by CDC, updates weekly for the previous MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Department Visits, Test Positivity) and weekly the following Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.
[7] (Walgreens) Negligible uptick.
[8] (Cleveland) Leveling out.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Up and indisposed.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) KP.2 enters the chat, as does B.1.1.529 (with backward revision).
[11] CDC’s knowledge and visualization, nonetheless being up to date.
Stats Supervise
Production: “United States Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ general business activity index for manufacturing in Texas decreased to -19.4 in May 2024, hitting a new 4-month low.”
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Retail: “Amazon Returns Have Gone to Hell” [The Atlantic]. “If you can’t see and touch goods that you’re about to buy, then you don’t ever really know what you’re going to get, and you might be disappointed. Free shipping and returns have helped consumers hedge that risk. But free for you doesn’t mean free for the retailers, which lose a lot of money on restocking and refurbishment. As Amanda Mull wrote for The Atlantic last year, the standard way of selling things online—with the blanket promise You can always send it back!—has become unsustainable. ‘For the first time, companies are making return reductions a priority,’ Jacob Feldman, an associate professor of supply chain, operations, and technology at Washington University in St. Louis, told me… ‘The name of the game now is mitigation: How do we mitigate this crazy number of returns?’ Rogers said. ‘One of the things you could do is put a little more friction in it. They’ll never say returns are going to cost money or not be allowed. But if it’s a little more inconvenient, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.’ In other words, if a return process put customers off just enough to dissuade some returns, but without upsetting the precious idea of free returns, that would be a net benefit for retailers.” Caltrops anyplace you glance. However the tale starts: “After ordering two packs of 11-inch, rope-woven storage cubes from Amazon.com recently, I found that the resulting cubes were, in fact, 11-by-10.5-by-10.5 inches. Alas, they weren’t what I expected. I elected to return both sets.” • So I’ve to confess — and I by no means concept this is able to occur — I’ve a wee little bit of condolense for Amazon, right here. Those are “rope-woven storage cubes,” no longer plane fuselage portions.
Tech: “An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them” [SparkToro]. “On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google’s Search division. The email further claimed that these leaked documents were confirmed as authentic by ex-Google employees, and that those ex-employees and others had shared additional, private information about Google’s search operations. Naturally, I was skeptical. …. So, this past Friday, May 24th (following several emails), I had a video call with the anonymous source. After the call I was able to confirm details of their work history, mutual people we both know from the marketing world, and several of their claims about being at particular events with industry insiders (including Googlers)…. During our call, this contact showed me the leak itself: more than 2,500 pages of API documentation containing 14,014 attributes (API features) that appear to come from I reached out to one of the world’s foremost technical SEOs: Mike King, founder of iPullRank. During a 40-minute phone call on Friday afternoon, Mike reviewed the leak and confirmed my suspicions: this appears to be a legitimate set of documents from inside Google’s Search division, and contains an extraordinary amount of previously-unconfirmed information about Google’s inner workings. Based on the document’s commit history, this code was uploaded to GitHub on Mar 27, 2024th and not removed until May 7, 2024th… think of this as instructions for members of Google’s search engine team. It’s like an inventory of books in a library, a card catalogue of sorts, telling those employees who need to know what’s available and how they can get it. But, whereas libraries are public, Google search is one of the most secretive, closely-guarded black boxes in the world. In the last quarter century, no leak of this magnitude or detail has ever been reported from Google’s search division.” • This is King’s technical overview–
Tech: “Secrets from the Algorithm: Google Search’s Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked” [Mike King, iPullRank]. “What I’ll do here is contextualize some of the most interesting ranking systems and features (at least, those I was able to find in the first few hours of reviewing this massive leak) based on my extensive research and things that Google has told/lied to us about over the years. ‘Lied’ is harsh, but it’s the only accurate word to use here. While I don’t necessarily fault Google’s public representatives for protecting their proprietary information, I do take issue with their efforts to actively discredit people in the marketing, tech, and journalism worlds who have presented reproducible discoveries.” I’m pressed temporally, so I don’t have age to exit into the weeds in this, however here’s one snippet: “It’s been a long-running conspiracy theory that Google’s status as a registrar feeds the algorithm. We can upgrade to a conspiracy fact. They store the latest registration information on a composite document level.” • That feels like simply one of these factor that monopoly experts like Stoller can be eager about. Does any person within the readership wish to do a deep dive?
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These days’s Concern & Greed Index: 54 Impartial (earlier akin: 53 Impartial) [CNN]. One day in the past: 60 (Greed). (0 is Terminating Concern; 100 is Terminating Greed). Latter up to date Would possibly 28 at 12:33:39 PM ET.
Rapture Index: Closes up one on Floods. “It has been very wet in the US” [Rapture Ready]. Document Prime, October 10, 2016: 189. Tide: 189. (Take into account that bringing at the Rapture is just right.) • Chook flu no longer a priority, it sounds as if. And I dislike even to exit right here, however the “Tribulation Temple” section is an insignificant 3. If Tribulation Temple = 3rd Temple = no matter temple it’s that the Purple Heifer loons wish to manufacture, after the Rapture Index made the proper name, amazingly plethora. It mentioned: “Don’t worry about the Red Heifers.”
Secure Corner
“The Bookcase as World’s Most Underrated UI” [Miller’s Book Review]. All true:
Virtual guarantees speedy retrieval. However it by no means relatively delivers. On the lookout for a accumulation in a virtual shape way scrolling thru two-dimensional, from time to time black-and-white thumbnail accumulation covers in hopes of recognizing the proper identify, or worse, scanning order then order of identical-looking, text-only seek effects.
Secure app UIs have stepped forward through the years, however they’re nonetheless good-looking penniless in comparison to the usual bookcase. My bookcases at house, for example, permit me to show a pair thousand titles immediately. They’re arranged to my style, and I will be able to to find virtually anything else in seconds.
Spatial data, colour, and design all issue into the quest effects. After I go in my find out about, I do know historical past and length literature is at the left, chronologically organized, roughly. Trade books are instantly forward, organized through topic. Psychology and artwork are forward to the left, philosophy forward to the proper.
When searching for an issue or theme, I will be able to briefly spot a specific accumulation I feel will aid. Via grabbing a couple of of its neighbors I will be able to to find some other attitude or two. And it’s all visually triggered and tactilely supported, rather of manually keyed and electronically served. I will be able to view the textual content and design knowledge of a bundle accumulation spines immediately, run my finger alongside their edges and remove this one or that.
Surfing do business in backup advantages. I steadily need one accumulation particularly however understand a life into scanning the cabinets that some other accumulation will handover me higher. The bookcase do business in serendipity in some way virtual UIs haven’t but replicated or surpassed. That’s additionally true for length. My bookcases run flooring to ceiling, wall to wall, on two aspects of my find out about. Incorrect telephone or desktop can fit that show.
Additionally, books and bookcases don’t exit indisposed when the grid is going indisposed,
Elegance Conflict
“OpenAI and Political Bias in Silicon Valley” [RealClearPolitics]. AI-generated paintings representing each events, straight away recognizable for the fascistic kitsch that it’s. However this sentence stuck my optical: “[A]sked to promote careers that don’t require higher education, such as the trades, ChatGPT steadfastly features an image of a graduate at its center.” • ChatGPT is PMC to the core, after. Therefore the robbery, the mendacity….
“The Loneliness of the American Worker” [Wall Street Journal]. • It seems like one thing came about in past due 2019/early 2020. I marvel what? At hand chart:
Are we shopping at trust scarring?
Information of the Stressed out
“Retiring abroad can mean more bureaucracy than bruschetta. But it’s growing in popularity” [CNN]. “‘Our goal, which is very doable based on research, is to live on less than $3,500 per month in Portugal while still being able to afford travel in Europe,’ mentioned [Laura Barnett}. Their financial adviser told them that to comfortably retire in the US, they’d need to have about double that amount — $7,000 per month.” • As I keep saying, if you (and your family, if any) don’t have a passport, you’re depriving yourself of an option. Of course, if the lunatics around Biden start a nuclear war, you might need to wear a Canadian lapel pin,
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