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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
My E[pastes]f[pastes]fing “[pastes]f” key continues to be [[pastes]household blogged] and will likely be or the orseeable uture… The worst o it’s that I can’t ind something I any reader has a intelligent answer or my 2021 M1 MacBook Professional, so I don’t need to take it to the store, I might recognize it. Shake it the wrong way up? Microwave it? Care[pastes]absolutely detach the… no no no no no. –lambert
Hen Track of the Day
Sage Thrasher, Twelve Mile Cr., Criminal, Oregon, United States. “Track.” Voluble little chap!
Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are the truth is a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
Biden Administration
“Biden world restructures itself round promoting Bidenomics” [Politico]. “Contained in the White Home, a crew of senior officers led by deputy chief of employees Natalie Quillian has been charged with main the acceleration of 1000’s extra investments within the bridge repairs, railroad upgrades and clear power initiatives that the White Home believes will drive job progress and, in the end, present an antidote to Biden’s stagnant approval scores. That’s only one element of the push. Cupboard departments are additionally beneath orders to hurry implementation of key social and financial insurance policies handed beneath final 12 months’s large local weather, well being care and tax legislation. And the White Home plans to deploy prime officers throughout the U.S. to focus on development enhancements and new manufacturing initiatives in pink and blue states alike, punctuated by a two-week blitz on the finish of June that the administration has dubbed its ‘Investing in America’ tour.” • Obama did infrastructure throughout his miserably insufficient and needlessly extended “restoration,” however by no means publicized it, so that is good. However will Biden additionally tout the “acceleration” of lashing the poor with work necessities?
2024
I assume it’s time for the Countdown Clock!
* * * On the Trump matter, I feel this Greenwald video is dispositive:
Double normal. And the Espionage Act is unhealthy. Case closed. 23:15, however nicely value listening to in full. Seize a cup of espresso. (I do attempt to pay attention whereas writing, and infrequently I can multitask like that efficiently. Greenwald’s voice, which is likely to be described as grating, can also be very compelling. On this case it’s value it.)
Maddow lets the cat out of the bag:
MSNBC’s Maddow suggests DOJ may do quid professional quo with Trump, dropping fees if he leaves 2024 race pic.twitter.com/ELjpvDx4J7
— TV Information Now (@TVNewsNow) June 10, 2023
Of course [slaps forehead]! Why didn’t I consider that?
* * * RFK on Jordan Peterson:
RFK jr aka Bobby Kennedy lays it out to Jordan Peterson about why we see a lot sexual/gender dysphoria. It’s within the water. #leavethekidsalone pic.twitter.com/RpAV1uwUKE
— Erin Elizabeth Well being Nut Information 🙌 (@unhealthytruth) June 10, 2023
I’m advantageous with more-than-worrying about poisonous chemical compounds in our water provide. However I feel RFK may very well be going too far with Atrazine and the frogs (a topic of controversy that RFK presents as settled science and quantitatively to an viewers actually primed for this factoid). Extra knowledge welcome — research, please, and no YouTubes or rants.
“Is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. antivaccine? Choose him by his personal phrases!” [Science-Based Medicine]. “Alongside the best way, his claims to be “fiercely pro-vaccine” however, RFK Jr. demonstrated himself to be, in actuality, fiercely antivaccine, whether or not he was likening vaccination to the Holocaust, attempting to persuade Samoan officers that the MMR vaccine was harmful (in the midst of a lethal measles outbreak!), claiming that in the present day’s technology of kids is the “sickest technology” (resulting from vaccines, in fact!), or toadying as much as President-Elect Donald Trump through the transition interval to be chair of a “vaccine security fee.” Certainly, just a few years in the past his family even known as him out for his antivaccine activism….” • For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not a fan of mRNA and don’t assume there ought to have ever have been a mandate for them. However measles?
“Cornel West for President” ‘[Cornel West]. • His marketing campaign web site. Quite spare, I need to say. And, naturally, not utilizing Act Blue for fundraising.
“Democratic fears develop over third-party candidates” [The Hill]. “The bipartisan group ‘No Labels’ has been working towards constructing the inspiration to launch a ‘unity ticket’ to run as an choice separate from Democrats or Republicans as polls present a rematch between Biden and former President Trump is probably going. And Cornel West, a progressive activist, turned the primary comparatively well-known third-party candidate to enter the race. The developments come as polling reveals People souring on the prospect of a Biden-Trump rematch. A NewsNation/DDHQ ballot launched this week discovered 49 % of respondents stated it was considerably or very probably they’d take into account voting for a third-party candidate in 2024 if Trump and Biden have been the nominees. In the meantime, an NBC Information ballot launched final month discovered 70 % of People stated they didn’t need Biden to run for president subsequent 12 months, whereas 60 % say they don’t need Trump to run for president in 2024. ‘It’s nearly common,’ stated former Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who’s concerned with No Labels. ‘Persons are simply saying ‘350 million People, can’t we now have a special match?’” • I hate that phrase “unity” as a result of it implies that there’s no such factor as a faction, which is traditionally false. Additional, battle is constructed into our republican system; it’s known as [genuflects] the separation of powers. Once you hear anyone preaching unity, rely the spoons once they go away.
“Lawsuits towards state might be filed in solely two counties beneath measure signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker” [Chicago Tribune]. “Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed into legislation a measure that requires lawsuits difficult the constitutionality of government orders or state legal guidelines to be filed in both Prepare dinner or Sangamon county…. State Rep. Dan Caulkins of Decatur, who has sued the state over the sweeping gun ban signed into legislation in January, voiced objections through the flooring debate on the invoice final month. ‘They cross unconstitutional legal guidelines to make law-abiding residents criminals, after which they make those self same residents journey a whole lot of miles to a kangaroo court docket that they management,’ Caulkins stated of Democrats. ‘Tyrants are at all times the identical, whether or not kings or lawless Chicago politicians.’”
“IDPH to offer air purifiers to Head Begin lecture rooms” [Shaw Local News Network]. “Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Division of Public Well being have introduced that the state will likely be offering greater than 1,000 HEPA purifiers to Illinois Head Begin and Early Head Begin applications across the state to assist scale back the transmission of respiratory viruses, together with COVID-19…. The trouble builds on a beforehand introduced IDPH program to offer HEPA air purifiers to Okay-12 faculties all through Illinois and is funded by way of the CDC’s Epidemiology and Laboratory Capability for Prevention and Management Reopening Faculties funding.” • Good. Extra like this, please.
* * * “George Soros Arms Management to His 37-12 months-Outdated Son: ‘I’m Extra Political’” [Wall Street Journal]. “Alex [Soros] stated he was involved in regards to the prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White Home, suggesting a big monetary position for the Soros group within the 2024 presidential race. ‘As a lot as I might like to get cash out of politics, so long as the opposite aspect is doing it, we must do it, too,” he stated in an interview on the fund supervisor’s New York places of work.’”
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, it appears that evidently persons are truly studying the back-dated put up! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are a lot of updates. So I must do this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Social gathering (“the Democrat Social gathering is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated put up, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “dwell” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Social gathering is, the truth is, a tough downside. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Social gathering is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Social gathering didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” in fact.) Second, all of the working components of the Social gathering reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Social gathering (ka-ching, however not solely) these components comprise a community — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with belongings within the press and the intelligence group.
Notice, in fact, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
* * * Phrase-making!
Toxicoplasmosis economicus
— Official_Parody_Anabasis (@Anabasi74801802) June 10, 2023
Realignment and Legitimacy
#COVID19
“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
Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort.
Assets, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin); 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).
Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Search for the Helpers
If you already know of kids going to summer time camp:
Bus journey sadly a blind spot for the @VicGovDE cv secure plans – these readings are extremely excessive.
Makes statements like this come as no shock (3 June Courier Mail) https://t.co/VKUaEBSFz9 pic.twitter.com/UvzJMdnkSu
— MsAmyLewis (@MsAmyLewis) June 12, 2023
(From Australia, however a bus is a bus.) And:
Replace: 9 children away in the present day. What number of extra will there be after the weekend? And what number of susceptible relations can pay the value? 😳
Legislate college air high quality in – and out of – the classroom! @pruecar @ChrisMinnsMP @RyanPark_Keira
— We Put The Libs Final! (@Mimlet2) Might 26, 2023
Maskstravaganza
The CDC lastly “helps” masks. I feel that is the lamest advert I’ve ever seen (or listened to):
First, the opener means that masks are solely for the disabled. Second, the protagonist is barely carrying a Saggy Blue. Why not a respirator? Has CDC realized nothing? (Wait, don’t reply that). Leaving apart the cloying selection of a disabled American Indian woman having what to do defined to her by her father, the ultimate message: “Some individuals put on masks. Some don’t. That’s okay!” No, it’s not. Infecting different individuals with your individual bio-effluent isn’t the most immoral act on this planet, however morally impartial? Innocuous? No, it’s very not. For those who simply can’t do it, for pity’s sake reduce the probabilities of tranmission to others in each method attainable.
Censorship
“Social media, duct tape are serving to individuals make DIY air purifiers to filter out wildfire smoke” [Associated Press]. Despite the fact that the Corsi-Rosenthal Field emerged as a response to the Covid pandemic, there is no such thing as a point out of Covid within the article. The whole historical past has been erased. With deadly impact, in fact, since when what you may see — smoke — goes away, it is going to appear OK to show of the field, at which level what you can’t see — the virus — can infect you. A stunning dereliction by AP.
Sequelae
“Gentle SARS-CoV-2 an infection ends in long-lasting microbiota instability” [American Association for Microbiology]. “Viruses concentrating on mammalian cells can not directly alter the intestine microbiota, doubtlessly compounding their phenotypic results. A number of research have noticed a disrupted intestine microbiota in extreme instances of extreme acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) an infection that require hospitalization. … Taken collectively, our outcomes exhibit that even gentle instances of SARS-CoV-2 can disrupt intestine microbial ecology. Our findings in non-hospitalized people are in keeping with research of hospitalized sufferers, in that reproducible shifts in intestine microbial taxonomic abundance in response to SARS-CoV-2 have been tough to determine. As a substitute, we report a long-lasting instability within the intestine microbiota. Surprisingly, our mouse experiments revealed an impression of the Omicron variant, regardless of producing the least extreme signs in genetically prone mice, suggesting that regardless of the continued evolution of SARS-CoV-2, it has retained its means to perturb the intestinal mucosa.” • Hmm. Mucosa once more, as within the nostril.
Remedy
“Dicoumarol is an efficient post-exposure prophylactic for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron an infection in human airway epithelium” [Nature]. From the Summary: “Repurposing current medication to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 an infection in airway epithelial cells (AECs) is a fast solution to discover novel therapies for COVID-19. Computational screening has discovered dicoumarol (DCM), a pure anticoagulant, to be a possible SARS-CoV-2 inhibitor, however its inhibitory results and attainable working mechanisms stay unknown…. Collectively, we demonstrated that DCM is an efficient post-exposure prophylactic for SARS-CoV-2 an infection within the human AECs, and these findings may assist physicians formulate novel therapy methods for COVID-19.” • The mechanism, apparently, operates on the cilia of nasal tissues. Extra on DCM–
“A pharmacological evaluation of dicoumarol: An outdated pure anticoagulant agent” [Pharmacological Research]. From 2020: “Dicoumarol is an oral anticoagulant agent prescribed in medical for many years… Because of its structural similarity to that of vitamin Okay, it considerably inhibits vitamin Okay epoxide reductase and acts as a vitamin Okay antagonist. … The uncomfortable side effects of dicoumarol elevate security issues for medical utility.” • Youngsters, don’t do this at residence!!! (This 1948 article on “Dicumarol Poisoning” contains the phrase “bloody stool.”)
“One thing Terrible”
Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” is likely to be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. A lot of exceptionally nasty sequelae, most definitely deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we would add mind harm, together with character adjustments therefrom.
* * * “SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity and Neurological Targets within the Mind” [Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology] (through). From 2020, nonetheless germane. From the Abtract: “The gateway for invasion by the novel extreme acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) into human host cells is through the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) transmembrane receptor expressed in a number of immune and nonimmune cell sorts. SARS-CoV-2, that causes coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19; CoV-19) has the weird capability to assault many several types of human host cells concurrently…. The best ACE2 expression degree was discovered within the pons and medulla oblongata within the human brainstem, containing , and will partially clarify the susceptibility of many CoV-19 sufferers to extreme respiratory misery.” • Useful chart:
Heaven is aware of I don’t play a neurologist, not even on TV, and [hand on heart] I like mechanisms however dislike mechanistic explanations, as a result of the physique is extraordinarily advanced, however: The second-highest bars is the amygdala. Let’s assume harm there. From PNAS, “Dealing with the position of the amygdala in emotional data processing”: “The amygdala is usually thought to kind the core of a neural system for processing fearful and threatening stimuli.” Therefore, one would possibly speculate, the anecdata on refusal to guard oneself or others, aggressive individualism, unhealthy driving, normal rudeness, and many others., post-covid? Intriguingly: “[H]umans with amygdala harm are typically impaired in recognizing emotional facial expressions, particularly fearful ones.” Speculating much more wildly, the oft-heard demand for eradicating one’s masks could also be an unconscious response to/rationalization of impaired facial recognition capability, resulting from covid. (And to spherical out the woo woo, each these speculations could be a case of SARS-CoV-2 optimizing its personal surroundings for unfold. Maybe we now have some neurologists within the readership?
Elite Maleficence
The Surgeon Normal’s web site on Covid is ghastly. However then there’s this:
The three parts of social connection—construction, perform, & high quality—are important to our well being and well-being. My Advisory on the Therapeutic Results of Social Connection & Group explains this idea and the numerous advantages of connecting with others. https://t.co/gEmfPehfKp pic.twitter.com/h1fq2bFKg6
— Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon Normal (@Surgeon_General) June 10, 2023
Additionally, on the “Three Important Parts of Social Connection,” shouldn’t there be 4? Moreover Construction, Operate, and High quality, shouldn’t there be — placing this in neoliberal phrases — Danger? Just like the Danger on infecting or being contaminated? Extroverts are gonna kill us all. Respiration is a social relation, in spite of everything:
Second verse, identical as the primary:
I had one reply. A doc from the @UHN instructed I do rounds there. He reached out to the upper ups… and was refused.
The place are we in science after we will not even take into account vital, life-saving ideas? If nothing else, have me (or one other) there to debate the idea? 2/2
— 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 (@jvipondmd) June 12, 2023
Case Information
UPDATED WITH NOTE From BioBot wastewater knowledge from June 5:
Lambert: Oh no….
For now, I’m going to make use of this nationwide wastewater knowledge as the perfect proxy for case knowledge (ignoring the medical case knowledge portion of this chart, which in my opinion “goes unhealthy” after March 2022, for causes as but unexplained). At the least we will spot tendencies, and evaluate present ranges to equal previous ranges.
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, June 10:
Lambert right here: Seems to love XBB.1.16 and now XBB.1.16 are outcompeting XBB.1.9, however XBB.1.5 has actually endurance. I certain hope the volunteers doing Pangolin, on which this chart relies upon, don’t all transfer on the inexperienced fields and pastures new (or have their entry to amenities reduce by directors of ailing intent).
CDC: “As of Might 11, genomic surveillance knowledge will likely be reported biweekly, based mostly on the provision of optimistic check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Seems like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform. Seems like the Walgreens variants web page isn’t updating.
Covid Emergency Room Visits
NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, from June 3:
NOTE “Charts and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not all the pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “identical to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is acceptable for eachMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these individuals a lot. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, at the very least for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, although CDC is attempting to get us to imagine that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections.
Positivity
NOT UDPATED From Walgreens, June 5:
0.4%. Frequency all the way down to as soon as every week.
Deaths
NOT UPDATED Loss of life price (Our World in Information), from June 7:
Lambert right here: Theatre of the absurd. I can imagine that deaths are low; I can’t imagine they’re zero, and I can’t even imagine that each one docs signing dying certificates have agreed to make it so. Seems to me like some administrative minimizer at WHO put the worst intern accountable for the venture. And thanks, Johns Hopkins of the $9.32 billion endowment, for abandoning this knowledge feed and passing accountability on to the clown automotive at WHO.
Complete: 1,166,663 – 1,166,408 = 255 (255 * 365 = 93,075 deaths per 12 months, in the present day’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit larger than the minimizers would really like, although they’ll discuss themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could need to resolve that is what the powers-that-be take into account “mission completed” for this specific tranche of dying and illness).
Extra Deaths
NOT UPDATED Extra deaths (The Economist), revealed June 4:
Lambert right here: Truly some encouragement!
Lambert right here: Based mostly on a machine-learning mannequin. (The CDC has an extra estimate too, however because it ran endlessly with an enormous typo within the Legend, I figured no person was actually taking a look at it, so I obtained rid it. )
Stats Watch
There are not any official statistics of be aware in the present day.
Tech: “Tesla is about to drag the plug on its fundamental EV charging rival” [The Verge]. “Quick-forward to in the present day’s electrical car charging requirements battle, and it looks like déjà vu. Final month, Ford introduced it’s adopting Tesla’s beforehand proprietary North American Charging Commonplace (NACS) port for its future autos. And Normal Motors, the biggest automaker in North America, simply introduced yesterday that it’s following swimsuit. Collectively, Ford, Tesla, and GM signify almost three-quarters of the EV market within the US — or 72 %.” •
At present’s Worry & Greed Index: 78 Excessive Greed (earlier shut: 77 Excessive Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 73 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jun 12 at 1:29 PM ET.
Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. Report Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 184. (Keep in mind that bringing on the Rapture is good.) NOTE on #42 Plagues: “The coronavirus pandemic has maxed out this class.” Extra sincere than most!
The Gallery
“Syntax in Santa Barbara” [nonsite]. That is very cool; nonsite is among the few websites to have actually rigorous artwork criticism, which I like. This can be a nice story:
Within the late Nineteen Forties, William Carlos Williams’s understanding of recent artwork instantly turned inseparable from an origin story about it. Repeatedly that includes the anecdote in his lectures of the interval, he would simply as commonly point out how fond he was of telling it. “I’ve instructed this story usually earlier than,” he says in a 1952 speech revealed as “The American Spirit in Artwork,” “but it surely bears repeating”:
Alanson Hartpence, who was with the Daniel Gallery, as soon as, throughout his boss’s absence, had one of many gallery’s finest patrons there taking a look at an image. The estimable woman admired one of many work and appeared about to purchase it—or at the very least she was leaning that method.
However Mr. Hartpence, she stated, what’s all this down right here on this left-hand decrease nook? […]
That, stated Hartpence, leaning nearer to examine the place, that, Madame, he stated, straightening and taking a look at her, that’s paint.
He misplaced the sale.
However that’s the precise place the place for us the virus first bit in. That’s the precise place the place for us fashionable artwork started.
Now, I’m unsure I agree with this…
Zeitgeist Watch
“Drowning in Dupes Buyers will purchase something — besides the true factor” [The Cut]. ” Influencers have constructed huge followings shilling dupe suggestions in each product class, from make-up to electronics to meals, and when a dupe goes viral, each it and the unique product usually promote out. However as dupes have taken on a lifetime of their very own, all sense of what makes a very good one appears to have been misplaced. At present, the dupe itself is extra priceless than the unique, and the standard alternate options have been eclipsed by a tsunami of trash. That is Peak Dupe, when the essential guidelines of spending and high quality not apply.” • Price studying in full.
Guillotine Watch
“JPMorgan to pay as much as $290mn to settle Epstein accusers’ lawsuit” [Financial Times]. “PMorgan Chase has agreed to pay as much as $290mn to settle certainly one of two bombshell lawsuits over its 15-year relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which accused the financial institution of taking advantage of human trafficking by ignoring a number of inside warnings about their former shopper’s intercourse crimes. The settlement got here simply hours after a federal choose dominated that the case, initially introduced by a single Epstein accuser beneath the pseudonym Jane Doe, could be widened to incorporate dozens of girls who declare to even have been abused by the disgraced financier. The entire measurement of the group who will share the payout exceeds 150 victims, a lawyer for Doe stated.” • 150? That’s loads, as Dima would say. I ponder when Epstein’s “black e-book” will likely be revealed? I don’t assume the world is run by literal lizard individuals, Epstein moved in rarefied circles — “There should not very lots of the Shing” — and I can nicely imagine that his milieu, broadly, has tastes which might be extra numerous, let’s assume, than these of lifeless normals.
Class Warfare
“A large UPS strike may devastate the financial system. It may very well be simply eight weeks away” [CNN]. • So give the employees what they need and deserve. Is that so very arduous?
Information of the Wired
“SmolNet” [Community Wiki]. “Sadly, capitalism has been working ever diligently in the other way in the direction of hooking individuals into unhealthy computing practices. It could really feel hopeless listening to my family members actively complain about how Fb and Twitter make them really feel unhealthy but proceed checking their timeline all through the day. … By reconsidering the utility of time-tested protocols and hobbling collectively just a few new ones, a rising group of persons are leaving the proprietary world of flashy social-media web sites to decelerate and revel in life accented by computer systems, not managed by them. … On the Small Internet, communities host themselves which implies cross-domain searching could be very a lot inspired and an vital function of the community at massive. Actual individuals, not companies, host the Small Internet.” • Fascinating…
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