By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Affected person readers, I rebooted the syndemics part, so the politics part is quickly very gentle. Extra quickly! –lambert UPDATE All completed!
Chicken Track of the Day
Northern Mockingbird, Sharpsburg., Washington, Maryland, United States. Grownup Northern Mockingbird imitating the flight track of Willow Flycatcher.” “Sharpsburg” makes me assume maybe I ought to do a tour of Civil Battle battlefields; I noticed “Antietam” in passsing at present additionally.
In Case You Would possibly Miss…
- BIden addresses the nation.
- Deploy the Blame Cannons!.
- Air flow in colleges (in Australia and the USA).
- Mushroom colour atlas.
Politics
“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are actually a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
2024 Submit Mortem
“I advised you so” [Sam Kriss, Numb at the Lodge (DC)]. Good clear enjoyable: “Do you bear in mind Brat Summer time? I bear in mind Brat Summer time. It was genuinely superb, one of the weird mass psychological phenomena I’ve ever seen. Earlier than a clock spring popped out of Joe Biden’s brow on stay TV, Kamala Harris was the least standard Vice President in latest US historical past. There have been a number of causes for this, however I believe the massive ones are these. Firstly, she was already deeply unpopular—0% polls, bear in mind—earlier than she grew to become VP. Secondly, she’d completed completely nothing with the place besides emit unusual and incomprehensible bromides every time she opened her mouth. However as quickly as she grew to become the candidate, regardless of nothing about her truly altering, her approval score skyrocketed. It seems that each one it’s a must to do is inform the Democratic base that they ought to love somebody, and so they’ll simply begin liking her. I believe that is proof of a unprecedented generosity of spirit.” • Or Gleichschaltung.
* * * “Watch stay: Biden addresses nation after Democrats’ election losses” [The Hill]. • Clip:
BIden: “To see one another not as adversaries, however as fellow People.” Actually? So all that stuff about “our democracy,” “fascism,” “Hitler”:
* * * Deploy the Blame Cannons!
“This Time We Need to Maintain the Democratic Get together Elite Accountable for This Disaster” [Jeet Heer, The Nation]. “The important thing to understanding the Trump period is that the true divide in America isn’t between left and proper however between pro-system and anti-system politics. Professional-system politics is the bipartisan consensus of multinational Democrats and Republicans: It’s the politics of NATO and different navy alliances, of commerce agreements, and of deference to economists (as once they say that value gouging isn’t the reason for inflation). Trump stands for no mounted ideology however quite a basic thumbing of the nostril at this consensus. The principle truth of American politics within the post-Obama period is that an ever bigger majority of People are indignant at the established order and open to anti-system politics.” And: “Democrats might want to radically reform themselves in the event that they need to ever defeat the unconventional proper. They’ve to understand that non-college-educated voters, who make up two-thirds of the voters, should be gained over. They should notice that, for anti-system People, a promised return to bipartisan comity is simply ancien régime restoration. They should grow to be the celebration that aspires to be greater than caretakers of a damaged system however quite is prepared to embrace radical insurance policies to alter that establishment. That is the one path for the celebration to rebuild itself and for Trumpism—which with out such efficient opposition is prone to lengthy outlive its standard-bearer—to truly be defeated.” • So the Democrats are doomed then? (I do know that events do reinvent themselves, however this iteration of the Democrat Get together appears unusually tenacious.)
“Dems rage in opposition to Biden’s ‘conceitedness’ after Harris loss” [Politico]. “In accordance with interviews with practically a dozen officers and celebration operatives, Biden squandered priceless months solely to finish in catastrophe on the controversy stage. And by the point he determined to move the torch, he had saddled Harris with too many challenges and much too little time to construct a successful case for herself.” Nonetheless: “[Biden] aides and allies contended, Tuesday’s defeat was so complete it’s unclear any Democrat may’ve gained below such circumstances. The anti-incumbency anger ignited by inflation that had swept throughout Europe lately lastly arrived within the U.S. And as working-class voters shifted decisively towards Trump, they expressed doubt Harris may’ve cobbled collectively a workable coalition even when she’d had extra time to marketing campaign.” And: “However past the coverage turning factors, critics faulted the president and his shut advisers for badly misreading Democrats’ 2020 victory as pushed by a groundswell of help for Biden himself — quite than a short lived expression of dissatisfaction over the pandemic and an unpopular incumbent in Trump.” • Provided that Biden, like Kamala, was put in by a cabal, it’s odd to assume there was ever a “groundswell” in Biden’s favor in any case. Third time is the appeal, although, so maybe the subsequent candidate elected by the Democrat[ic leadership] will do higher.
“All of the Incorrect Strikes: An Early Post-mortem of Kamala Harris’ Marketing campaign” [Newsweek]. Not too early, I belief; we wouldn’t need the physique to twitch. Extra: “The primary flawed assumption was that there have been additional inroads to be made with Republicans who’re uncomfortable with Trump. As I argued right here lately, most of these folks have already switched events and have been Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents for years. Nothing that Trump did over the previous six months, as loopy as this appears, is way completely different from issues he did starting in 2015. . That signifies that her closing flurry of marketing campaign stops with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and certainly the entire “Republicans for Harris” effort together with the deeply conservative messaging and rhetoric that the marketing campaign adopted starting on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August, was doubtless all for nothing. Worse, it could have actively alienated younger folks and lower-propensity voters who have been in search of change. These are teams of voters who’re disproportionately dissatisfied with the established order, and nothing says “I’m the established order” greater than cavorting with a broadly disliked Republican congresswoman who’s the icon of a long-vanished Republican political coalition that steered the nation into a number of gigantic icebergs within the early 2000s and which now not has any significant political constituency in America.” • I like the practice metaphor, however absolutely with a billion {dollars} to spend, the Harris marketing campaign did some inner polling on this? What occurred?
“‘I’m Profoundly Disturbed!’ Sunny Hostin Denounces Trump Win as a ‘Referendum On Cultural Resentment’ in Jawdropping A-Block on ‘The View’” [Mediaite]. Hostin: ” And so I fear not about myself, truly, I don’t fear about my station in life. I fear concerning the working class.” • No, you actually don’t.
* * * “The tip of an American world” [Le Monde]. “The trail on which Trump, strengthened for his second time period by his celebration’s success within the Senate, will take his nation diverges essentially from the one charted by the USA for the reason that finish of the Second World Battle. It marks the top of an American period, that of an open superpower dedicated to the world, desirous to set itself up as a democratic mannequin. It’s the well-known “shining metropolis on a hill,” extolled by President Ronald Reagan. The mannequin had been challenged over the previous twenty years. Now, Trump’s return is placing a nail in its coffin. Trump views the world solely by the prism of American nationwide pursuits. It’s a world of energy struggles and commerce wars, which scorns multilateralism. A world the place transactional diplomacy replaces value-based alliances. A world, finally, the place the US president reserves his harshest phrases for his allies however spares the autocrats, who’re seen as companions quite than adversaries.” • What’s Le Monde been smoking? France, like Germany, is a vassal state. How on earth is NATO a “value-based” alliance?
* * * PA: “Why Kamala Harris misplaced the election” [Politico]. “Three weeks earlier than Election Day in Pennsylvania, the most important swing state, Jewish Democrats and their allies met behind closed doorways with Harris officers in Pittsburgh, in line with 4 individuals who attended or have been briefed on the dialogue. They stated the surrogate operation was less than snuff, a criticism echoed in different key states. They stated the Pennsylvania group lacked relationships with key elected officers; that this mattered as a result of it meant validators weren’t successfully getting used to assist persuade voters to help a candidate they barely knew…. Throughout the state, in Philadelphia, Latino and Black Democrats held comparable personal conferences with Harris’ group within the weeks main as much as Election Day, the place they made most of the similar complaints. And on Wednesday, Democrats have been additionally beginning to level fingers at Harris’ information group. A Pennsylvania Democratic strategist, granted anonymity to talk freely, stated that the Harris marketing campaign predicted increased turnout in key counties comparable to Chester and Montgomery within the Philadelphia suburbs. ‘That is trying like Robby Mook 2.0,’ the individual stated.” • A degree improve? Ouch!
PA: “Harris concedes, telling supporters ‘don’t despair;’ Pa. Senate race may head to a recount; Harris marketing campaign pushes again on Philly Dem chair’s claims” [Philadelphia Inquirer]. “ice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign sharply criticized Philadelphia Democratic Get together Chairman Bob Brady after he laid blame with them for lower-than-expected turnout within the metropolis. Brendan McPhillips, a senior adviser to the Harris marketing campaign in Pennsylvania, stated in a press release that their group ‘knocked greater than two million doorways within the weekend main as much as Election Day, which is 2 million extra doorways than Bob Brady’s group can declare to have knocked throughout his complete tenure as celebration chairman.’ McPhillips added: ‘If there’s any instant takeaway from Philadelphia’s turnout this cycle, it’s that Chairman Brady’s decades-long follow of fleecing campaigns for cash to make up for his personal lack of fundraising capacity or management is a nugatory endeavor that no future marketing campaign ought to ever be compelled to entertain once more.’” So why is Brady nonetheless chair? What does that say concerning the Get together? Extra: “The criticism directed at Brady, the longtime head of the Democratic Metropolis Committee, got here shortly after the previous member of Congress advised The Inquirer that he felt no duty for the pink wave that descended on the state. Brady stated cash was a problem, and criticized the Harris marketing campaign for paying solely about ‘half’ of the cash the town committee requested for its get-out-the-vote effort. These funds, in any other case referred to as “avenue cash,” are used to pay committee members to get out the vote.” • No strolling round cash? In Philly? Actually?
Republican Funhouse
“Trump Wins As a result of He’s Simply Higher” [RealClearPolitics]. “Trump is noticeably extra genuine, relatable, charming, intelligent, convincing, insightful, intuitive, and enjoyable than Kamala. Trump gained on each coverage and persona.” • Again in 2023, Trump visited East Palestine, the place Norfolk Southern’s poisonous derailment occurred. I wrote:
“Watch: Trump stops at McDonald’s throughout East Palestine go to” [Fox8]. “Whereas visiting the positioning of the horrific practice derailment in East Palestine Wednesday, former President Donald Trump stopped in at a neighborhood restaurant — McDonald’s. ‘Is everybody prepared to just accept free meals from Trump?’ he requested as he walked into the quick meals spot, saying he deliberate to additionally buy meals for the native hearth and police departments. He advised the staff he knew the menu higher than them and requested for a ‘good array of issues,’ whereas refraining to make an order for himself. Fielding questions from reporters, whereas getting his picture taken by close by prospects and staff alike, the President stated he didn’t consider deregulation had something to do with the practice incident and that he had traveled to the realm to verify residents have been taken care of.” • On “regulation,” see below Class Warfare; word that not one of the reporters requested him about Precision Scheduled Railroading (and Trump, not being a element individual to say the least, in all probability doesn’t even know). Two Democrats react:
Mixed IQ roughly 50 in your entire city. Trump trashed practice security guidelines. Now their water and land, to not point out themselves, are poisoned. I stay 50 miles away from East Palestine, OH. I am sorry for the folks, however they made their very own beds. https://t.co/KJE0L761AS
— Lincoln Belongs To The Ages (@Mr_Lincoln) February 22, 2023
At all times good to see liberal Democrats calling for the deaths of their political opponents; it’s an ever-green trope! Observe additionally the deal with being good (vs. IQ of fifty), the deregulation speaking level (it’s Trump’s fault the brake programs are dangerous, not Precision Scheduled Railroading and the “sizzling field”). Then there’s the same old refusal to just accept reponsibility (Trump and Biden killed one million folks between them, Biden killed extra, and for my part has the better culpabiliity, as a result of he ought to have recognized higher than to undertake a coverage of mass an infection with out mitigation).
Personally, I believe it is a good search for Trump, and never simply because Biden was off swanning about in Kiev; Trump seems good striding round on the February grass within the black coat and pink hat, no tie; it’s a a lot better look than the pomp of Air Drive One. Nonetheless ready for quondam Presidential hopeful and Democrat, Sherrod Brown, to point out up. Then once more, why can be? They’re solely residents.
In some ways, this episode leads on to the McDonald’s and rubbish truck stunts. Trump actually is excellent, and clearly was the higher candidate. (And it took Biden a 12 months to make the identical go to.)
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Covid Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the tackle given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. 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 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 (wastewater); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Airborne Transmission
“Requires indoor air high quality mandate and $10 billion for college air flow” [ABC Australia]. “A latest examine of 60 New South Wales public colleges discovered if home windows have been shut, classroom carbon dioxide (CO2) ranges simply exceeded 2,500 elements per million (ppm), which was ‘actually dangerous air flow’, in line with Mr Hanmer. In Australia, out of doors CO2 ranges sit at round 415ppm. Australia’s Nationwide Development Code specifies indoor CO2 ranges mustn’t exceed 850ppm averaged over eight hours, however that is solely a tenet. Mr Hanmer stated when CO2 went above 1,200ppm, it began to impair folks’s cognition, which was an enormous drawback in a classroom surroundings.” • So possibly if we ventilate we will come out even on the mind injury. Value a shot!
“Air flow in Colleges, Places of work, and Business Buildings” [United States Environmental Protection Agency]. New steering. “Every year, respiratory viruses are answerable for hundreds of thousands of sicknesses and hundreds of hospitalizations and deaths in the USA. Along with the virus that causes COVID-19, there are lots of different forms of airborne respiratory viruses, together with influenza (flu) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), that may unfold extra simply indoors than open air since their focus can construct up indoors and individuals are usually nearer to one another. One essential strategy to cut back the unfold of frequent respiratory viruses, is to extend air flow, which is the quantity of air transferring out and in of a constructing. Air flow removes indoor air which may be concentrated with airborne viruses and replaces it with recent out of doors air. Guaranteeing correct air flow is a vital part of selling good indoor air high quality generally.” • Commentary:
This isn’t an endorsement, however right here is the Korean nasal spray:
LUCA V Nasal Protection https://t.co/Ygjkbe430V
Ought to be again through Amazon shortly
— Adam Van Bavel (@AdamVanBavel) November 5, 2024
Transmission: Covid
“COVID Circumstances Replace: Map Reveals Return of ‘Very Excessive’ Water Virus Ranges” [Newsweek]. “After weeks of decline, ‘very excessive’ ranges of coronavirus have been detected in wastewater samples within the U.S. ‘Excessive’ ranges of viral exercise are additionally on the rise with detections now in 5 U.S. states, in line with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC). ‘Very excessive’ ranges of viral exercise have been detected in Montana, with ‘excessive’ ranges in Arkansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wyoming.” • That is their map:
(You may inform that the map wasn’t created by CDC as a result of it’s utilizing pink in a wise means, as a substitute of CDC’s horrid and incomprehensible colorway of greenish pastels). I don’t use this fashion of map besides when I’ve to (Walgreens). I don’t consider state-level details about tranmission is helpful to readers, particularly for journey and masking functions. “Covid is excessive in Helena, Montana” is helpful. “Covid is excessive in Montana” isn’t.
Elite Maleficence
How eugenics performs out within the finances course of:
Hey anybody bear in mind thishttps://t.co/bo9piMWGxT pic.twitter.com/JdmwykM68w
— Stephen Semler (@stephensemler) November 6, 2024
“Inside Canada’s chaotic response to avian flu” [CTV News]. “For years, Canadian farmers and authorities companies have waged a fierce battle in opposition to the brand new wave of avian flu, which consultants say is far more transmissible than earlier variants of the virus. Now, newly uncovered paperwork reveal the [Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)] and business have been caught unprepared for the outbreak, which overwhelmed the company’s assets and compelled it to depend on third-party contractors who generally broke bio-security guidelines meant to maintain the virus in test. The IJF and CTV Information have reviewed hundreds of pages of CFIA documentation about their response to the present outbreak, together with area experiences, manuals on most well-liked killing strategies, inner correspondence and dozens of invoices. The data, which have been obtained through entry to info regulation by animal-rights group Animal Justice, paint an image of the CFIA’s wrestle to comprise a large outbreak of avian flu during which greater than 11 million Canadian farm birds have been killed. Internally, high CFIA officers described the business, and the company, as being unprepared for such an outbreak. At instances, inspectors described working out of carbon dioxide (CO2) gasoline — the popular software for euthanizing giant numbers of birds. CFIA staff generally arrived at farms the place many birds have been already useless. In addition they relied closely on personal firms, the paperwork stated, who generally did not comply with bio-security protocols meant to cease the unfold of the virus. ‘CFIA has taken the result in date as a result of business was not ready,’ wrote CFIA Atlantic regional veterinary officer Dr. Margaret McGeoghegan in an October 2022 e mail to colleagues.” • Properly, let’s hope whichever entity finally ends up working the Trump administration’s response to H5N1 — assuming the Biden Administration doesn’t handle to let it free within the transition interval — gained’t make the identical errors.
Now that the election is over, CDC says that Chicken Flu Is Unhealthy:
The timing of that is as soon as once more, INTENTIONAL. 5pm on the Wednesday after a horrifying US election. Nobody is paying consideration. And that’s what I’ve been speaking about. It’s the weaponized incompetence that has been inflicting and continues to be inflicting SO. MUCH. HARM. https://t.co/aaYB8bt0Un
— Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP-BC (She/Her) (@ErinSandersNP) November 7, 2024
To be honest, I haven’t checked the CDC website. Extra on “headache”:
So the #H5N1 signs could embrace ‘headache’
Headache is the correct phrase @CDCFlu? https://t.co/2p1weEDNxl pic.twitter.com/7R437duVyQ— Danielle Beckman (@DaniBeckman) November 7, 2024
Yeah, however which pandemic are they speaking about?
Leaked footage of the CDC dealing with the pandemic pic.twitter.com/uok7C9TJsR
— Outbreak Updates (@outbreakupdates) November 5, 2024
Lambert right here: I’ve rebooted Desk 1. There are, surprisingly, no dangerous surprises, besides that New York Hospitalization has no new information (my oldest and most dependable information sequence, sigh). I believe that if, throughout and after the Thanksgiving, there is no such thing as a surge, I’ll rethink this presenation.
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
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LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new at present; all others aren’t up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (CDC) Excellent news!
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* nonetheless standard. XEC has entered the chat.
[4] (ED) Down.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Steadily down.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Truly improved.
[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
Employment State of affairs: “United States Preliminary Jobless Claims” [Trading Economics]. “The variety of people submitting for unemployment advantages within the US edged increased by 3,000 from the earlier week to 221,000 within the final week of October, aligned with market expectations. Regardless of the slight improve, the rely remained nicely under averages from earlier within the month, persevering with to level to some extent of resilience within the US labor market. ”
Tech: “16 U.S. States Nonetheless Ban Neighborhood-Owned Broadband Networks As a result of AT&T and Comcast Instructed Them To” [TechDirt]. “For years we’ve famous how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and sluggish due to senseless consolidation, regulatory seize, regional monopolization, and restricted competitors. That’s resulted in a rising variety of pissed off cities, cities, cooperatives, and city-owned utilities constructing their very own, locally-owned broadband networks in a bid for higher, cheaper, sooner broadband. Regional giants like Comcast, Constitution, or AT&T may have responded to this natural pattern by providing higher, cheaper, sooner service. However finally they discovered it far cheaper to undermine these efforts through regulatory seize, congressional lobbying, lawsuits, protectionist state legal guidelines, and deceptive disinformation. At present sixteen states have legal guidelines — normally ghost written by regional telecom monopolies — limit or outright ban group broadband. A few of these legal guidelines are outright bans on group broadband, mainly letting Comcast or AT&T veto your native infrastructure voting rights. Others erect elaborate, cumbersome restrictions on the financing and growth of such networks and faux that’s not a ban. The excellent news: The Institute For Native Self Reliance (the place I examine and write about broadband entry) notes that these sixteen legal guidelines are a notable discount from the 21 state legal guidelines we had in 2020. What brought on the change? The pandemic residence schooling and telecommuting growth highlighted the important nature of broadband (or extra precisely, the costly, sluggish, horrible nature of monopoly choices).
Right now’s Worry & Greed Index: 60 Greed (earlier shut: 57 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 46 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 7 at 2:06:30 PM ET.
Permaculture
“Gardens cut back seasonal starvation gaps for farmland pollinators” [Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences]. “Gardens can profit pollinators dwelling in surrounding farmland landscapes, however the motive for his or her worth isn’t clear. Gardens aren’t any completely different from many semi-natural farmland habitats by way of the amount of floral assets (pollen and nectar) they produce, however the timing of their useful resource provide could be very completely different, which can clarify their worth. We present that gardens present 15% of general annual nectar in farmland landscapes in Southwest UK, however between 50% and 95% throughout early spring and late summer season when farmland provides are low. Gardens can subsequently cut back seasonal nectar gaps skilled by farmland bumblebees. According to this sample, bumblebee exercise elevated in gardens relative to farmland throughout early spring and late summer season…. We present that over 90% of farmland in Nice Britain is inside 1 km of a backyard and subsequently constructive actions by gardeners may have widespread spillover advantages for pollinators throughout the nation. Given the widespread distribution of gardens around the globe, we spotlight their essential interaction with surrounding landscapes for pollinator ecology and conservation.” • Land use very completely different within the UK, I believe, however the precept is identical.
Gallery
Guide Nook
“It’s time to radicalize your e-book membership” [Literary Hub]. “It’s essential to get collectively — it’s time to activate your communities: your e-book membership, your working group, your knitting circle, your group texts. Now we have to attract these bonds of group tighter. We don’t have time to attend 4 years…. To cite Kwame Ture, it’s the ‘top of bourgeois propaganda’ to assume that your ‘duty is restricted to a one-day vote. Politics is every single day, each minute.’ Get your e-book membership and your communities concerned. Let’s begin inviting one another into group organizations, mutual help teams, unions, and political organizations working for one thing brighter. It’s time for solidarity and collective motion.” • Truthful sufficient, however “all the time has been.”
Musical Interlude
“Emptyset – ash” [neural.it]. “James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas, aka Emptyset, mark the fiftieth launch for the Subtext label (based by Ginzberg) with Ash. It’s considerably of a return to the label’s roots– the duo recorded the album in 2023 in Bristol, the town the place Subtext was based. Emptyset benefit from spatialized recording methods, dynamic controls, and a sequence of analogue machines, giving life to polymorphic, artificial and sculptural compositional constructions, echoing the sound system tradition which have been central to all the things that has emerged from Bristol for the reason that nineties.” • Bristol is the house of Large Assault, so, fascinating. I’m unsure I like this, however right here it’s anyhow:
“A Symphony of Terror” (press launch) [NewsWise]. “The screech of a dissonant violin, a ghostly whisper, a cry within the night time, a sinister snigger, a distant rumble, a howling wind. These unsettling sounds are the stuff of horror movies and haunted homes. They will make our blood run chilly…. [P]sychoacoustics measures a sound’s timbre or high quality on a scale of shiny to darkish. A joyful sound is usually ‘shiny,’ energetic, harmonious and richer within the excessive frequencies. Nonetheless, if the timbre is extra dissonant, excessive frequencies also can arouse concern or terror due to their resemblance to human screams.”
Information of the Wired
“The English Paradox: 4 Many years of Life and Language in Japan” [TokyoDev].
“The Highly effective Density of Hypertextual Writing” [Kottke.org]. Keying off this New York Occasions opinion piece: “What makes this piece so efficient is its plain language and its info density. This density is an actual energy of hypertext that’s usually ignored and brought without any consideration. Solely 110 phrases in that paragraph however it comprises 27 hyperlinks to different NYT opinion items revealed over the past a number of months that increase on every linked assertion or argument. When you have been inclined to comply with these hyperlinks, you might spend hours studying about how unfit Trump is for workplace. A easy record of headlines would have completed the identical primary job, however by presenting it this fashion, the Occasions editorial board is concurrently capable of ship a robust opinion; every of these hyperlinks is sort of a fist pounding on the desk for emphasis… [B]am! bam! bam! bam! bam! Right here! Are! The! Fucking! Receipts! How the hyperlinks are deployed is an integral a part of how the piece is learn; it’s a mode of writing that’s native to the net, pioneered by websites like Suck within the mid-90s. It seems so easy, however IMO, that is top-notch, refined info design.” • 100% appropriate, and naturally that is one strategy any blogger shall be very famliar with. That stated, whereas fashion is its personal fact, it isn’t fact, and maybe not even a partial fact.
Contact info for vegetation: Readers, be happy to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn how to ship me a test in case you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn how to ship me pictures of vegetation. Greens are advantageous! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary vegetation! In order for you your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it initially 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 SK:
SK writes: “You’ve been skirting the sides, so thought I’d ship you this. There are vegetation there… It was sprinkling ever so flippantly this AM after I went out entrance to get the paper. There have been spots of blue sky amidst the still-pink low clouds, however arcing over all was an entire rainbow. Ten minutes later boy #2 despatched me this shot, from 5 miles away, trying throughout Corte Madera Creek at Mt. Tamalpais.” I suppose I may make an occasional exception for spectacular pure phenomena. However the place are the ponies?
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