Via Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Chicken Tune of the Date
Killdeer, Parc Michel-Chartrand, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. I like the identify “Charadrius vociferus.” As a result of it’s!
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In Case You Would possibly Leave out…
(1) Trump’s conviction continues to reverberate.
(2) Unions can defeat the correct (in Europe).
(3) Glad Birthday Charlie Watts.
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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
Lower than a part a generation to walk!
RCP Ballot Averages, Would possibly 24:
A blended bag for Workforce Trump, this while with some Swing States (extra right here) Brownian-motioning themselves again towards him, together with Pennsylvania. Now not, on the other hand, Michigan, to which Trump paid a seek advice from. After all, it is going with out pronouncing that those are all environment polls, due to this fact sinful, and many of the effects are throughout the margin of error. If will likely be fascinating to look whether or not the decision in Pass judgement on Merchan’s court docket impacts the polling, and if that is so, how.
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Trump (R): “Poll: 49% of Independents think Trump should drop out post-guilty verdict” [Axios]. Headline is a bit of much less nuanced than truth: “54% of registered voters “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of the responsible verdict in comparison to 34% who “strongly or “somewhat” disapprove. 49% of Independents and 15% of Republicans stated Trump must finish his marketing campaign as a result of the conviction. The polls discovered the race successfully join nationally in a 1-on-1 with Biden at 45% and Trump at 44%. Week they are going to believe the responsible verdict, the ballot discovered that extra citizens assume Trump must get probation (49%) instead than walk to jail (44%). 68% of registered citizens stated the punishment must be a wonderful. The ballot additionally perceivable some deep mistrust of the legal justice gadget. 3 in 4 Republican citizens stated the decision made them really feel much less assured within the gadget. And 77% of GOP citizens, in addition to 43% of independents, stated they believed the conviction was once pushed via motivation to break Trump’s political occupation.”
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Trump (R) (Public v. Trump): “We Are Talking About the Manhattan Case Against Trump All Wrong” [New York Times]. “the case is about preventing wealthy people from using their businesses to commit crimes and hide from accountability. Manhattan prosecutors have long considered it their province to ensure the integrity of the financial markets. As Robert Morgenthau, a former Manhattan district attorney, liked to say, ‘You cannot prosecute crime in the streets without prosecuting crime in the suites.’ Lawmakers in New York, the financial capital of the world, consider access to markets and industry in New York a privilege for businesspeople. It is a felony to abuse that privilege by doctoring records to commit or conceal crimes, even if the businessman never accomplishes the goal and even if the false records never see the light of day.” Isn’t it nice-looking to assume so. What number of financiers have been prosecuted for accounting keep watch over fraud upcoming the Superior Monetary Strike? Extra: “We may never learn which crime the jurors believe Trump was seeking to commit or cover up, but they can still conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that this was his intent.” • If Pass judgement on Merchan had sought after us to grasp, this is how he would have contructed the decision sheet; with checkboxes for the item offenses. He didn’t. But when “our democracy” were his first precedence, he would have. Trump is working for place of business. Wouldn’t it create a remaining to citizens if his object offense was once a Federal marketing campaign finance violation, or a tax offense the place the federal government made cash?
Trump (R): “James Comey says a Trump incarceration is ‘obviously doable’” [The Hill]. “Former FBI Director James Comey said Sunday he thinks imprisoning former President Trump is ‘obviously doable,’ despite some logistic hurdles. In an interview on ‘Inside with Jen Psaki’ on Sunday, Comey was asked about some of the public’s concerns about the logistical challenges that may arise if law enforcement institutions try to imprison Trump — who was convicted this past week on 34 felony counts of falsifying false business records to cover up a scheme to conceal potentially damaging information before the ‘They would just put him in a double wide, somewhere out near the fence, out in the grass. And he would eat there. He’d shower there, he’d exercise there, he’d be away, as Danya Perry said, from general population,’ Comey continued, citing the attorney of Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, who served time for related crimes. ‘But it’s obviously doable,’ Comey added. Trump will be sentenced on July 11 and is not detained until that time. After that point, Comey said he wasn’t sure whether Trump will have to wear an ankle bracelet or go to jail.”• Lovingly going over the component; it’s nearly like pr0n….
Trump (R) (Public v. Trump): “Alvin Bragg Was Right, His Critics Were Wrong” [The American Prospect]. “At New York, Jonathan Chait argued the case shouldn’t have been brought because only a political candidate could have committed it (which is true of all campaign finance laws, but I digress), saying it ‘is like getting Al Capone for paying off his mistress.’ At The Atlantic, David Frum made an incredulous-stare argument that it couldn’t possibly be a big enough crime to merit the first-ever prosecution of a president. At Slate, law professor Richard Hasen argued the case didn’t have legal merit. Yet it turned out that the Bragg case was solid. After just a couple days of deliberation, the jury delivered total victory: guilty on every one of 34 felony counts.” I believe the lesson is that the Flex Internet at the back of Bragg is superb at lawfare, and a mixture the method of denying Trump his 6th Modification rights to shield himself via delaying revelation of the item crimes — the purpose of the 2 layer structure that appeared so bizarre on the age — Merchan’s rulings, and (to be truthful) skillful industry data monitoring via Bragg’s place of business enabled the prosecution to string the needle to a conviction (and due to Merchan’s obfuscatory verdict sheet, we’ll by no means know what Trump was once in truth convicted of, or why). Extra: “And I suspect politics did play a role here. As legal analyst Michael Liroff pointed out on my Left Anchor podcast recently, it surely can’t be a coincidence that so many cases dating from such a wide span of dates all came to court at the same time.” • Oh.
Trump (R) (Public v. Trump): Michael Tracey has been studying the transcripts, fortunate man:
Shortage of self-discipline, Trump’s wretched flaw….
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Biden (D): “Some Democrats try to Biden-proof their 2024 campaigns” [Axios]. “To some Democrats running in key congressional races, the 2024 election is about abortion rights, MAGA extremism, inflation, the border, local issues — anything except President Biden…. Democratic incumbents, candidates and operatives described to Axios a dynamic in which many in tight congressional races are maintaining their independence from Biden without publicly rejecting him…. The prospect of Biden visiting their districts is a sensitive topic for many Democratic candidates.” Upcoming once more: “Some Democrats are looking at the glass as half full — welcoming Biden to their districts and expressing hope his poll numbers improve.”
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Kennedy (I): Inquiring for my vote:
The Ukrainian army — with President Biden’s approbation— is now firing US, British and German missiles onto civilian objectives within Russia together with Beograd and alternative towns in an struggle in order NATO into all-out battle towards Russia. The Washington Submit is reporting that…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 1, 2024
Kennedy (I): “RFK Jr. Is Even Crazier Than You Might Think” [Mother Jones]. A protracted and unexcerptable disquisition about Kennedy’s perspectives on Tournament 201. “During his chat with Von, Kennedy remarked, “Any of your listeners who do not believe what I am saying can go and look up Event 201. It’s still on YouTube.” He was once precise about that. The video of Tournament 201 rest on YouTube—as does a whole site dedicated to the workout—and it under no circumstances fits Kennedy’s description. Now not even akin.” The general paragraph: “Donald Trump has long pitched assorted conspiracy theories—most notably, the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Yet he does so as a carnival barker who will say whatever he needs to say whenever he needs to say it. Kennedy comes across as a true believer in the lunacy he peddles. And the depth of his battiness has not received the attention it warrants. Kennedy is not just a possible spoiler candidate; he is a crackpot candidate. The less that is covered, the greater his opportunity to spoil.” • I mentioned Kennedy with a long-term fellow follower of politics, they usually stated (paraphrasing): “At least Kennedy is asking good questions.” He’s. However the solutions topic to (as do the forms Kennedy via implication recommends to reach at the ones solutions).
Republican Funhouse
TX: “Texas GOP divisions grow after fraught primaries” [The Hill]. “In elections that saw unprecedented levels of outside spending, the party’s so-called business faction was left battered but still standing as some incumbents hung on, most notably Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) and Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas). Their positions, however, are precarious. In Tuesday’s vote, conservative hard-liners in the state executive largely wiped the board of holdout members — largely those who had fought the rise of privatization in the state’s massive public school system, as well as a smaller group that had backed the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). Tuesday’s results ‘were truly the most chaotic outcome,’ said Joshua Blank of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin. ‘You had most of the targeted Republicans losing, and yet the Speaker eking out a victory.’ As a result, the primaries have widened divisions within the state GOP as a whole — a body that has been widely criticized, Blank noted, for ‘prioritizing going after Republicans more than building out the state party.’ Now, he said, ‘it looks like the party is continuing in that direction.’”
TX: “Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office” [Texas Tribune]. “Passed by delegates at the party’s biennial convention, the platform has traditionally been seen not as a definitive list of Republican stances, but a compromise document that represents the interests of the party’s various business, activist and social conservative factions. But in recent years — and amid a party civil war that’s pushed it further right — the platform has been increasingly used as a basis for censuring Republican officeholders who the party’s far right has attacked as insufficiently conservative, including Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, and U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzalez, R-San Antonio. … Perhaps the most consequential plank calls for a constitutional amendment to require that candidates for statewide office carry a majority of Texas’ 254 counties to win an election, a model similar to the U.S. electoral college. Under current voting patterns, in which Republicans routinely win in the state’s rural counties, such a requirement would effectively end Democrats’ chances of winning statewide office. In 2022, Gov. Greg Abbott carried 235 counties, while Democrat Beto O’Rourke carried most of the urban, more populous counties and South Texas counties. Statewide, Abbott won 55% of the popular vote while O’Rourke carried 44%. However, some attorneys question whether such a proposal would be constitutional and conform with the Voting Rights Act because it would most likely limit the voting power of racial minorities, who are concentrated in a relatively small number of counties. (The party’s platform also reiterates its previous calls for the repeal of the Voting Rights Act).”
Democrats en Déshabillé
TX: “Houston Underdogs Beat Established Democrats in House, Senate Runoffs” [Texas Observer]. “Both Lauren Ashley Simmons, who trounced four-term incumbent Shawn Thierry to win the House District 146 race by 29 percentage points, and Molly Cook, who narrowly beat House Representative Jarvis Johnson in the Senate District 15 race by 74 votes, drew upon the community they helped organize to turn out votes leading up to yesterday’s runoff election. It paid off. Both Simmons and Cook see their wins as blueprints for not only how progressive upstarts can beat established Democrats, but how Democrats can energize a broader and lethargic base to flip seats across the state…. Both seats are securely Democratic, guaranteeing Simmons and Cook a likely win in the general election.”
Realignment and Legitimacy
“Of Men and Myths” [James Howard Kunstler]. “The mysterious cabal in power knows that they must ditch the old stumblebum pretending to run for president, and time is running out to get the dastardly deed done. They are staring down a month of dread days that lead to the proposed great debate between the major party candidates, which is doomed to play like a combo of the classic horror movie endings — the unmasking of the phantom with a wooden stake driven through his heart, with Donald Trump cast as Prof Van Helsing. Can our resourceful intel blob instead maybe find a way before that to make it look like the “president” gave up the ghost peacefully in his shut eye? Or in all probability it could suffice to simply scatter the resonance recording of his interview with Particular Suggest Robert Hur and make allowance public to check what’s in it with the already-released revealed transcript.” • Or in all probability Unutilized York’s penal gadget will come to a decision that one specific felon is a pre-sentencing aviation chance….
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 Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; comprises many counties; Wastewater Scan, comprises drilldown via zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts” (particularly on hospitalization via town).
Lambert right here: Readers, thank you for the collective attempt. To replace any access, do really feel separate to touch me on the deal with given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the matter series. 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 experiences); 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 (Govt of Canada).
Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Airborne Transmission
But some other skillful explanation why to get a CO2 observe:
Al Haddrell is superior. ❤️👇Monitor this *grand* explainer of ways upper CO2 ranges aren’t simply a hallmark that there’s extra exhaled breeze in a room, however a spice up to viral airborne longevity. 🔥🔥🧯🧯👇👇 https://t.co/owNVgaeEcb %.twitter.com/n5srLbjtA5
— tern (@1goodtern) June 3, 2024
475 if somebody’s asking.
Airborne Transmission: Covid
Hmm:
Have by no means distinguishable this prior to: Gliding from BKK to SFO on Philippine Airways providing upgrades via buying emptied seats adjoining to yours. %.twitter.com/ngfSG2KUuw
— Justin Dunne (@justindunne) June 2, 2024
Dunno if that is Covid-consciousness or simply an struggle to create farm animals magnificence much less painful (for a worth). Nonetheless….
Maskstravaganza
“Aerosol pandemic/Adjusters” [Appropdedia]. • Tricks to create saggy blues extra protecting.
Spared Dysregulation
“Syracuse University student diagnosed with tuberculosis” [Syracuse.com]. “The student lives off-campus and has not been on-campus since their diagnosis, SU officials said Friday.” • In order that’s alright after.
“United Airlines Forced to Remove Plane For Deep Cleaning After Up to 30 Passengers From Cruise Trip Fall Sick With Nausea and Vomiting” [Paddle Your Own Kanoe]. “United Airlines has confirmed that it was forced to remove a plane from service for deep cleaning after up to 30 passengers fell sick during a four-hour flight from Vancouver, Canada [Hi, Bonnie!], to Houston on Friday afternoon. The sickened passengers were part of a larger group of 75 cruise line passengers who had just finished a trip in British Colombia and were returning to Texas. The cause of the sickness hasn’t yet been determined, although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking several norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships, including the Celebrity Summit which is sailing around Alaska and British Colombia.” • At the glorious aspect, no less than United is cleansing the aircraft, in lieu of forcing the passengers to try this.
Censorship and Propaganda
Transmission: H5N1
“Massive outbreak of Influenza A H5N1 in elephant seals at Peninsula Valdes, Argentina: increased evidence for mammal-to-mammal transmission” (preprint) [bioRxiv]. From the Summary: “In October 2023, following outbreaks in sea lions in Argentina, we recorded unprecedented mass mortality (~17,000 individuals) in southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) at Peninsula Valdes. …. [High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI)] H5N1 was confirmed in seals and terns. Moreover, genomic characterization showed viruses from pinnipeds and terns in Argentina form a distinct clade with marine mammal viruses from Peru, Chile and Brazil. These mammal-clade viruses share an identical set of mammalian adaptation mutations which are notably also found in the terns. Our combined ecological and phylogenetic data support mammal-to-mammal transmission and occasional mammal-to-bird spillover. To our knowledge, this is the first multinational transmission of H5N1 viruses in mammals ever observed globally. The implication that H5N1 viruses are becoming more evolutionary flexible and adapting to mammals in new ways could have global consequences for wildlife, humans, and/or livestock.” • Oh excellent.
Extra mammal-to-mammal transmission:
Them: however why is there any such top CFR amongst cats on dairy farms with H5N1 instances?The cats: %.twitter.com/grGTQ37aM7
— Laurel Bristow, MSc (@Laurel_Bristow) June 1, 2024
Origins Debate
“Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points” [Alina Chan, New York Times]. This can be a horrid mobile-friendly web page, and the govern part gained’t load for me, so if the 5 key issues are there, they’re mysterious to me. From the textual content: “[A] laboratory accident is the most parsimonious explanation of how the pandemic began.” That can be. It’s nonetheless the Watchmaker’s Speculation, loved of anti-Evolution religionists (“Like a watch, the universe is so beautiful, complex, and functional that only a consciousness could have created it”). In any alternative medical context, the Watchmaker’s Speculation can be unwelcome out of hand. So far as coverage: “Given what we now know, investigators should follow their strongest leads and subpoena all exchanges between the Wuhan scientists and their international partners, including unpublished research proposals, manuscripts, data and commercial orders. In particular, exchanges from 2018 and 2019 — the critical two years before the emergence of Covid-19 — are very likely to be illuminating (and require no cooperation from the Chinese government to acquire), yet they remain beyond the public’s view more than four years after the pandemic began.” • I couldn’t believe those coverage advice extra.
Coverage
“We aren’t prepared for the next pandemic” [Understanding the Unseen]. “It will probably start with a cluster of unusual symptoms. Some of the people with the disease will know each other, but won’t have been exposed to animals, suggesting the infection can spread between people. Then more cases will start appearing in other areas, maybe even in other countries. The next pandemic could take many forms, but a respiratory infection remains high on the list of probabilities. It could be a new flu virus, or a new coronavirus, or perhaps something else. It might emerge from a market, or a mink farm, or from another source. It may be years away, or months away – or it could be spreading now, yet to be detected. People often talk about ‘pandemic preparedness’, but increasingly I think this is an unhelpful term. Only in hindsight can we sort events into ‘pandemics’ or ‘outbreaks’ or ‘isolated cases’. In real-time, all these paths begin with a cluster of infections. So if we want to curb pandemics, we need to think about what the response to a small new outbreak will look like.” • With a bit of luck no longer like H5N1 seems now….
“World Health Assembly agreement reached on wide-ranging, decisive package of amendments to improve the International Health Regulations” [WHO]. • It kind of feels sunlit to me that there’s negative alternative option to keep watch over pandemics than via governing governments, enhancing what Mearsheimer screams anarchy between states; at the alternative hand, if your best option for implementation is WHO, it’s sun-baked to consider they’ll accomplish anything else excellent, upcoming their appalling efficiency on Covid. Now not a super poised of possible choices, right here.
Superstar Monitor
Cognitive disorder at the tennis circuit:
Maximum public assume cognitive disorder simply way slowness, forgetfulness, and basic considering issues. However SARS-CoV-2 🧠harm can top to lack of self-discipline or even violence. I’ve been ⚠️apprehensive about this for the reason that pandemic started, and when you glance intently, you’ll see it…
— Dr. Sean Mullen (@drseanmullen) June 1, 2024
Elite Maleficence
Cochrane trashing its i’m sick emblem:
They are able to’t even do hand sanitizer research correctly with no need to retract them 😂😂
Cochrane has change into any such shaggy dog story %.twitter.com/WMAv1mDxHl
— Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston’s semi-transperant mode (@jmcrookston) June 2, 2024
Once more.
“In the pandemic, we were told to keep 6 feet apart. There’s no science to support that” [WaPo]. “‘It sort of just appeared, that six feet is going to be the distance,’ Fauci testified to Congress in a January closed-door hearing, according to a transcribed interview released Friday. Fauci characterized the recommendation as ‘an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data.’” • Fauci is mendacity in a specifically bizarre method. As readers know, social distancing as a non-pharmaceutical intervention, traditionally, is a repercussion of droplet dogma (for the reason that droplets have been stated to be pushed via ballistics, the space they might advance prior to falling might be calculated). Social distancing didn’t simply “appear” as an “an empiric decision”; it was once a repercussion of sixty years of sinful principle, deeply embedded within the folk fitness status quo, because the extra of the item uncrisply presentations (for some explanation why, the reporter pulled air flow professional Joseph Allen out of his Rolodex, in lieu of aerosol scientists like Linsey Marr or Jose-Luis Jimenez).
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Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m moving to need to reconsider this fantastically formatted desk. Biobot information is long past, CDC variant information purposes, ER visits are lifeless, CDC opposed obligatory health facility information assortment, Unutilized York Occasions dying information has opposed. (Notice that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each long past twilight). Preferably I’d substitute hospitalization and dying information, however I’m no longer positive how. I may also extend the wastewater category to incorporate (yech) Verily information, H5N1 if I will be able to get it. Ideas and resources welcome. UPDATE I changed the Occasions dying information with CDC information. Amusingly, the URL doesn’t come with parameters to manufacture the tables; one should reconstruct after manually every age. Caltrops abound.
TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts brandnew 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) Lifeless.
[2] (Biobot) Lifeless.
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, for the reason that the fashion totally ignored KP.2.
[4] (ER) That is the most productive I will be able to do for now. A minimum of information for all the pandemic is gifted.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Nonetheless going up, even though thankfully negative signal of geometric build up. The Unutilized York town section has mode; in 2020, as the house of 2 world 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 lavish wanted to leaving, and across the nation thru breeze advance)
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). That is the most productive I will be able to do for now. Notice the guess that Covid is seasonal is constructed into the presentation. A minimum of information for all the pandemic is gifted.
[7] (Walgreens) Going up.
[8] (Cleveland) Going up.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Pulling down.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) KP.2 enters the chat, as does B.1.1.529.
[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.
[12] Deaths low, ED no longer up.
Stats Monitor
Production: “United States ISM Manufacturing PMI” [Trading Economics]. “The ISM Manufacturing PMI unexpectedly edged lower to 48.7 in May 2024 from 49.2 in April, below forecasts of 49.6. The reading showed another contraction for the manufacturing activity as demand was soft again, output was stable, and inputs stayed accommodative.”
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The Bezzle: Smartly finished!
That’s neat, a write-up I did of Equifax’s monopoly over source of revenue verification has become a category motion antitrust swimsuit via loan lenders towards the credit score bureau. https://t.co/Jdh5eNcB6L https://t.co/HKKXELMpI4 %.twitter.com/sgXR3HvZAr
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) Would possibly 31, 2024
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As of late’s Worry & Greed Index: 48 Impartial (earlier akin: 48 Impartial) [CNN]. One while in the past: 51 (Impartial). (0 is Closing Worry; 100 is Closing Greed). Extreme up to date Jun 3 at 1:43:17 PM ET.
Rapture Index: Closes i’m sick one on Earthquakes. “The lack of activity has downgraded this category” [Rapture Ready]. Document Prime, October 10, 2016: 189. Tide: 188. (Understand that bringing at the Rapture is excellent.) • Chicken flu no longer a priority, it seems that. Nonetheless flirting with the 189 ceiling….
The Conservatory
Once I develop up, I need to be as cool as Charlie Watts:
Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones was once born in this month in 1941. He was once the engine of the band from 1963 till his dying 3 years in the past and remains to be ignored. %.twitter.com/rSAf4dna6D
— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) June 3, 2024
“Music as a Magical Language” [Ecosophia]. This stuck my optical: “The point to this exercise in unfamiliar music is to get past a certain pervasive bad habit in modern books on the occult dimensions of music: the notion that music—meaning our kind of music, post-eighteenth century Western music using an equally tempered scale—is a “universal language.” It’s no longer. When it was once first presented to public outdoor the Western international locations, maximum of them concept it was once as atypical as you almost certainly to find gagaku. Lots of them are old to it now, for a similar explanation why that you’ll to find anyone who speaks English in a in point of fact impressive area of nations in all places the arena, however there’s not anything inherently common about our idiosyncratic Western song. Western song itself has long past thru a complete line of convulsions in its historical past, riding and pushed via genius adjustments in what counted as song. The medieval church insisted that the one excellent song was once theirs, and adopted strict laws that forbade sure scales from being performed—nowadays’s primary scale, the one who maximum public who aren’t musicians recall to mind because the musical scale, was once condemned because the modus lascivius or “lustful mode.” Come the Renaissance, the medieval forms were given chopped up and changed via seven planetary forms, wherein the Ionian form (our primary scale) was once slightly sensibly assigned to Venus, and the Aeolian form (our herbal minor scale) was once given to the Moon. The bizarre unhappy taste of Appalachian society song? That’s for the reason that mountain society guarded probably the most others, the Mixolydian form, which belongs to Saturn.” • Smartly usefulness a learn. Only for grins, I went again to this Keith Richards interview to look if he stated song is a common language. He didn’t. He stated: “Give me a tribe’s music, and I’ll tell you how they live, what they smell like, almost.” And: “There’s no lying when you’re playing music.” Attention-grabbing to juxtapose the 2 (and Richards, amazingly plenty, is a pupil in his personal method).
The Gallery
Silicon Valley has misplaced its thoughts over AI:
Adobe scolded for website hosting ‘Ansel Adams-style’ photographs generated via AI https://t.co/U49gQcD1lY
— The Verge (@verge) June 3, 2024
Can’t anyone see how damaging to worth — each senses — fakes like which are?
Zeitgeist Monitor
“Scents and memories at the hospital” [Scope, Stanford Medicine]. “For me [like Marcel Proust], involuntary memories are most triggered by scent. Olfaction can be considered an ancient sense — traced back to the chemoreceptors found on rudimentary bacteria. However, despite (or perhaps because of ) its antiquity, I find smell to be the most difficult sense to capture with words. Still, all of us can remember a moment in which a whiff transported us away to another time and place. In medicine, interesting smells are in no short supply. Every day, the first thing that I encounter when the hospital doors open is the omnipresent smell of antiseptic. To most people, this scent likely triggers involuntary memories of negative events — the illness of a loved one, for example. For me, the first wave of antiseptic reminds me of my previous hospital rotations and prompts me to be ready to work for my patients and for my team.” • I’m departure out the “interesting” portions. I believe there’s extra right here than the creator realizes, however I’m no longer positive what….
Magnificence Battle
“Trade Unions Can Defeat Europe’s Far Right” [Project Syndicate]. “Across Europe, from Ireland to Germany, trade unions act as a bulwark of democracy. They counter misinformation through digital-skills trainings, provide educational materials about the anti-social voting record of far-right parties, mobilize their members to vote, and organize demonstrations to rally the general public. The 2023 elections in Spain are a case in point. When Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called early elections after his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party suffered heavy losses in local polls, the right-wing nationalist Vox party was polling at 15-16% – high enough to form a majority with the conservative Partido Popular. But Vox received only 12.4% of the vote, and Sánchez stayed in power, partly owing to a nationwide campaign launched by the major Spanish trade union federations Unión General de Trabajadores and Comisiones Obreras. They organized workplace assemblies and powerful digital campaigns to inform their members about Vox’s anti-worker policies and highlight the progressive government’s achievements: a significant increase in the minimum wage, a new labor code, and better protections for gig workers. If European leaders want to beat the far right, they need to abandon the failed neoliberal consensus that has disempowered workers.” • It appears, the easiest way to shield nuestra democracia isn’t with consistent ritual incantations, however with efficiency.
Information of the Stressed
It’s not that i am feeling stressed nowadays.
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Rainlover writes: “This is a wild rhododendron near Mt. Walker in Washington State. The wild rhodies are blooming all along Hwy 101 on the Hood Canal this time of year. I caught a glimpse of this sweet arrangement on my way down the mountain and turned around specifically to get this shot.”
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