By Lambert Strether of Corrente
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In Case You Would possibly Miss…
(1) The Trump v. Biden debate.
(2) The Black vote, and who will get it.
(3) Epigenetics: Heritable recollections?
Search for the Helpers
From 2018, however nonetheless form (dk):
How lovely is that this?
A bookshop proprietor in Southampton has requested for assist as he strikes his inventory resulting from excessive lease and desires to maneuver the books to the brand new location.
The previous proprietor was stunned by the sight of greater than 250 younger individuals, aged, and other people with particular wants who… pic.twitter.com/MZ6krGxu3d
— Some Man (@in_bloke) June 16, 2024
There are different examples within the thread. One thing about books….
My electronic mail tackle is down by the plant; please ship examples of “Helpers” there. In our more and more determined and fragile neoliberal society, on a regular basis regular incidents and tales of “the communism of on a regular basis life” are what I’m in search of (and never, say, the Crimson Cross in Hawaii, and even the UNWRA in Gaza).
Politics
“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in actual fact a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
Biden Administration
“Half 1,000,000 immigrants might finally get US citizenship below a brand new plan from Biden” [Associated Press]. ” President Joe Biden is taking an expansive election 12 months step to supply aid to doubtlessly a whole lot of hundreds of immigrants with out authorized standing within the U.S., aiming to steadiness his personal aggressive crackdown on the southern border earlier this month that enraged advocates and lots of Democratic lawmakers. The White Home introduced Tuesday that the Biden administration will, within the coming months, permit sure spouses of U.S. residents with out authorized standing to use for everlasting residency and finally citizenship. The transfer might have an effect on upwards of half 1,000,000 immigrants, in response to senior administration officers. To qualify, an immigrant will need to have lived in the US for 10 years as of Monday and be married to a U.S. citizen. If a qualifying immigrant’s software is accredited, she or he would have three years to use for a inexperienced card and obtain a brief work allow, shielded from deportation within the meantime. About 50,000 noncitizen youngsters with dad and mom who’re married to U.S. citizen might additionally doubtlessly qualify for the method, in response to senior administration officers who briefed reporters on the situation of anonymity. There isn’t a requirement on how lengthy the couple will need to have been married, however nobody turns into eligible after Monday. Meaning immigrants who attain that 10-year mark after Monday won’t qualify for this system, in response to the officers.” • Looks as if a clumsy compromise. Presumably trailing bait for the controversy on the twenty seventh, however how?
2024
Lower than a half a 12 months to go!
RCP Ballot Averages, Might 24:
Nonetheless ready for some discernible impact from Trump’s conviction (other than, I suppose, his nationwide numbers rising). Swing States (more here) still Brownian-motioning around. Of course, it goes without saying that these are all state polls, therefore bad, and most of the results are within the margin of error. If will be interesting to see whether the verdict in Judge Merchan’s court affects the polling, and if so, how.
* * * Trump (R): Trump on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in Detroit, a critique. From the thread:
Having chaired the UNCF governmental affairs committee I personally know this is a lie. Let’s look at his first budget, FY2018. The UNCF said his budget “misses the mark.” The president’s budget proposed $245M “while UNCF requested $375 million in full funding for the grants.” 9/ pic.twitter.com/U9qmNWl4lA
— Walter M. Kimbrough (@HipHopPrez) June 17, 2024
Trump (R): “Tim Scott Leverages Billionaires to Increase Vice-Presidential Bid” [Bloomberg]. “Because the veepstakes heats up, [Scott’s] greatest shot at successful Trump’s approval might come from his means to appeal billionaires who’ve been hesitant to endorse the controversial former president. The extra money Scott can elevate, the larger the monetary warfare chest he can supply to deploy as Trump’s working mate. Already Scott’s political motion committee has introduced it’s spending $14 million to spice up Black and Hispanic assist for Trump and Republicans in November. And his 501(c)4 nonprofit, Nice Alternative Coverage Inc., provides a versatile and highly effective funding route. Not like his PAC, it’s not required to reveal the names of its funders, an interesting prospect for conservative donors who don’t wish to be publicly related to Trump. And whereas Trump is contemplating a number of names for his VP decide, together with Ohio Senator JD Vance, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, he spent probably the most time speaking up Scott at an occasion final week on Capitol Hill. He’s referred to as him an ‘unbelievable’ surrogate. Scott’s attraction to those super-wealthy donors rests on each coverage and persona. Griffin stated he’s identified Scott for over a decade and admires how his ‘kindness, compassion, and political conviction’ information ‘a relentless pursuit of the American Dream for each American in each group of our nice nation.’ In a Republican celebration that has taken a populist flip, a minimum of in its rhetoric, the rating Republican on the Senate Banking Committee sticks his neck out for Wall Avenue. He got here from the monetary world, a former insurance coverage dealer who touts his rise from poverty as proof that such success remains to be potential in America. Most significantly, rich donors and former colleagues say, Scott has a uncommon means to attach one-on-one.” • Observe that the USA TODAY/Suffolk College ballot of Black voters (beneath) says Black voters could be much less more likely to vote for Trump if he picks Scott. So maybe Scott might take Treasury.
Trump (R): “Playbook: Trump the group participant” [Politico]. “Final night time, Home GOP strategists had been rigorously reviewing the 9 candidates Trump advisable within the wake of the assembly. A number of of them had been inconsequential or re-endorsements of candidates who had been on their strategy to victory, corresponding to former Trump staffer BRIAN JACK, who’s favored to win the first runoff immediately in Georgia’s third District. These had been basically Trump “defending his batting common,” as somebody quipped to Playbook final night time. However there have been two endorsements — for NANCY DAHLSTROM in Alaska and TOM BARRETT in Michigan — that stood out as proof to Republicans that Trump is listening to Johnson and Hudson, simply as he has typically listened to NRSC Chair STEVE DAINES in his Senate main endorsements. Trump’s submit in regards to the Alaska race learn as if he had simply obtained a briefing on the state’s ranked selection voting system. Republicans consider the one strategy to defeat Democratic Rep. MARY PELTOLA is for Dahlstrom, Alaska’s lieutenant governor, to push Republican NICK BEGICH out of the race. Johnson selected Dahlstrom over Begich again in December and getting Trump to do the identical was thought-about a high precedence for the Mar-a-Lago assembly. It labored. Trump and Johnson uniting round Dahlstrom ‘is extraordinarily consequential,’ stated a nationwide Republican strategist concerned in Home races. As Sarah Ferris notes, the hope is that Trump’s nod will ‘put Dahlstrom over the end line within the upcoming main, since Begich has stated he’ll drop out if he loses, reasonably than run once more and take a look at his probabilities in ranked selection.’” • I believe I preferred Trump 1.0 higher….
* * * Biden (D): “A Overseas Coverage for the World as It Is” [Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs]. Rhodes coined “The Blob.” Value a learn; Rhodes criticizes Biden’s Gaza coverage, which takes some guts. That stated: “If Biden does win a second time period, he ought to use it to construct on these of his insurance policies which have accounted for shifting world realities, whereas pivoting away from the political concerns, maximalism, and Western-centric view which have brought about his administration to make a number of the similar errors as its predecessors.” • And a pony. In the meantime, and in contrast:
Prof. Mearsheimer doesn’t assist Trump however he credit him for not beginning any new wars.
He’s serious about geoeconomics over geopolitics, has realist instincts and tries to conduct critical diplomacy. He may even begin weakening the Blob.pic.twitter.com/W16KuIoq50— Mearsheimer Fan (@Real_Politik101) June 15, 2024
Biden (D): Biden’s antitrust insurance policies don’t meet with common applause:
The US authorities going after Ticketmaster on behalf of Taylor Swift™ and Adobe on behalf of higher center class shoppers earlier than going after literal warfare criminals, and this being promoted as proof of Genocide Joe admin “preventing for us” is so fucking weak
— thomas 🛠 (@t_NYC) June 18, 2024
Biden (D): “FBI knew since 2016 Hunter Biden’s group almost scored $120 million Ukrainian deal whereas Joe was VP” [Just the News]. “The FBI realized way back to 2016 that Hunter Biden and his companions had plotted to arrange a brand new enterprise in tax-friendly Liechtenstein that will be capitalized by a whopping $120 million funding from the controversial proprietor of the Ukrainian power agency Burisma Holdings, in response to paperwork obtained by Simply the Information which were saved from the American public for eight years. The mega-deal was not referenced inside Hunter Biden’s now notorious laptop computer or throughout the 2019 impeachment proceedings involving Ukraine, however was as an alternative chronicled in a trove of three.39 million paperwork the FBI seized from Hunter Biden and his enterprise companions throughout an investigation of securities fraud almost a decade in the past…. The brand new proof exhibits the foremost funding plan was being constructed on the time when Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma’s board of administrators and Joe Biden was nonetheless serving as Barack Obama’s vp answerable for U.S.-Ukraine coverage…. The proof confirmed legal professionals in each the US and Ukraine had been placing a remaining time period sheet collectively forward of September 2015 when Hunter Biden’s group bought two consecutive items of unhealthy information in a 24-hour span. First, certainly one of Hunter Biden’s enterprise associates, Galanis, was arrested within the securities fraud case on Sept. 24, 2015. Then, that very same day, the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, gave a speech pressuring that nation’s prosecutors to pursue Zlochevsky on corruption costs after months of inaction within the case.” • The one tie to Joe Biden is a dinner “on the swanky Cafe Milano restaurant in Washington, D.C.”, a dinner Biden ought to by no means have attended, however what of that.
* * * Biden (D): “Hollywood stars might be key to Biden’s marketing campaign” [Axios]. “Biden’s marketing campaign broke Democrats’ single-evening fundraising report throughout a earlier high-profile occasion that includes a number of present and former presidents. A-listers, like these of Biden’s marketing campaign extravaganza on the Peacock Theater, might be his secret weapon in opposition to former President Trump, The New York Instances’ Peter Baker writes. Hollywood legend Jeffrey Katzenberg — a Biden marketing campaign co-chair identified for ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Shrek’ — is main the cost. ‘Whereas Katzenberg has not solved Biden’s age downside by any means … [he’s] helped construct a warfare chest that has been outpacing the Trump marketing campaign,’ Baker writes.” • I believe a Trump greenback goes farther than a Biden greenback, so fundraising quantities aren’t instantly comparable.
* * * “Trump, Biden and CNN Put together for a Hostile Debate (With Muted Mics)” [New York Times]. “The 90 minutes of debate time will begin, according to the rules circulated by CNN, once the first question is answered. Up to five minutes are designated per question: two minutes for the opening answer, a one-minute rebuttal, a one-minute response to the rebuttal and an extra minute to be used at the discretion of the moderators. Each candidate will also be allowed a two-minute closing statement.” • I wonder how “the discretion of the moderators” will play out. More on the rules:
The rules for the CNN debate:
1. Mics cut off when not your turn to speak: Advantage Biden
2. No live audience: Advantage Biden
3. Two commercial breaks: Advantage Biden
4. No pre-written notes: Advantage Trump
Surprised Trump team agreed to these rules honestly…
— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) June 17, 2024
I’m nonetheless stunned Trump agreed to no viewers.
“James Carville Says He Wouldn’t Wager on Trump Showing at Subsequent Week’s Debate: ‘If You Gave Me Even Cash, I’d Say He’s a No-Present’” [Mediaite]. “[MSNBC’s Ari] Melber remarked on the microphone rule and requested Carville, ‘Will that matter?’ ‘Effectively, if I used to be a gambler – and really, I’m a gambler – I’d take even cash that Trump doesn’t present up.’ ‘Ha!’ the host exclaimed incredulously. ‘You don’t assume Trump’s coming subsequent week?’ ‘I imply, I don’t know, however I believe he’s gonna get up and resolve,’ Carville responded. ‘Identical to he stated he was gonna testify at his protection in his trial. He didn’t even placed on a protection. Let him present up. I wouldn’t be shocked, however I definitely wouldn’t be stunned in the event you gave me even cash, I’d say he’s a no-show.’” • Truly, Trump’s lawyer’s did placed on a protection; they referred to as two witnesses. Anyhow, presumably Biden received’t be cross-examining Trump about his intercourse life. Though that will be entertaining.
* * * USA Immediately]. “Unique USA TODAY/Suffolk College polls of Black voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania, two essential swing states, present a extra difficult dynamic inside a demographic group that’s unexpectedly in play in November’s election…. Seventy-six % of these surveyed in every state stated they voted for Biden 4 years in the past. Now, his assist has fallen 20 share factors in Pennsylvania (to 56%) and 22 factors in Michigan (to 54%)…. The highest cause volunteered by respondents within the survey was discontent with the job he’s completed within the White Home, adopted by worries about his age and psychological acuity. Third was concern about wars, together with his assist for Israel within the battle in Gaza…. Biden’s large losses have resulted in small good points for Trump. Within the ballot, the presumptive Republican nominee was backed by 15% of Black voters in Michigan, in contrast with 9% who stated they voted for him in 2020, and by 11% in Pennsylvania, in contrast with 8% in 2020… By greater than 2 to 1, Trump drew extra assist from Black males than Black ladies − by 22% to 9% in Michigan, and 16% to six% in Pennsylvania…. Regardless of [her] groundbreaking standing, [Kamala Harris] is considered a tick much less favorably than Biden amongst Black voters in these two states, though her unfavorable score can also be a bit decrease: 60% to 24% in Michigan and 55% to 30% in Pennsylvania…. A majority of Black voters, with percentages starting from 55% to 59%, stated they’d be much less more likely to vote for Trump if he selected any of three Black males ceaselessly talked about as potential vice-presidential candidates: former Housing and City Growth Secretary Ben Carson, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Florida Rep. Byron Donalds…. [Do] Black People [see Trump] as a fellow sufferer of an unfair justice system[?] By a 5 to 1 margin, 79% to fifteen%, Black voters in Michigan disagreed. In Pennsylvania, they disagreed by a margin of seven to 1, 84% to 12%… Nearly two-thirds of Black voters in every state − 64% in Michigan and 65% in Pennsylvania − stated Trump’s conviction in New York on costs of falsifying enterprise information in a hush-money scheme made them much less more likely to vote for him…. In 2020, simply 1% of these surveyed stated they voted for a third-party candidate. Now the drift from Biden has swelled that quantity to fifteen% in Michigan and 16% in Pennsylvania.” • A lot to ponder….
“‘I’m Like Speechless’: CNN’s Harry Enten Says Trump ‘Careening In direction of A Historic Efficiency’ With Black Voters” [Daily Caller]. Sorry, however it’s primarily quoting Enten: “‘I preserve in search of this to vary, to return to a historic norm and it, merely put, has not but. So that is the margin, or, Biden and Trump amongst black voters, examine the place we had been at this level in 2020, examine to the place we are actually. At this level, take a look at this. In 2020, Joe Biden was getting 86% of the African American vote. Take a look at the place it’s now. It’s 70%, that’s a 16-point drop, John,’ Enten informed host John Berman. ‘And greater than that, it’s not simply that Joe Biden is dropping floor. It’s that Donald Trump is gaining floor. You go from 7%, single-digits at this level in 2020, to now 21% and once more, John, within the polling of something proper now. We’re careening in the direction of a historic efficiency for a Republican presidential candidate, the likes of which now we have not seen in six many years.” • Working from the identical numbers as USA Immediately above, however with a special tone (which I believe is extra applicable).
* * * “Democrats and the Euroleft” [Harold Mayerson, The American Prospect]. “Sadly, Starmer and different Labour leaders appeared to have propelled their celebration from ….” • Completely not. I definitely hope Mayerson’s falsehood isn’t the primary signal {that a} mixture of the spooks, the Israeli embassy, and the press (not simply AIPAC) goes to weaponize anti-Semitism to begin taking down US politicians, as they did Corbyn. FWIW — actually nothing to the powers that be — Mayerson simply dropped a number of notches in my regard.
* * *
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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 Normal 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 crops. 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 (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
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Airborne Transmission
“Carbon dioxide tips for indoor air high quality: a assessment” [Nature]. From the Summary: “Many present indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) tips for indoor air high quality specified no adversarial results supposed for management. Odor dissatisfaction was the impact talked about most ceaselessly, few talked about well being, and three talked about management of infectious illness. Just one CO2 guideline was developed from scientific fashions to regulate airborne transmission of COVID‐19. Most tips supplied no supportive proof for specified limits; few supplied persuasive proof. No scientific foundation is obvious for setting one CO2 restrict for IAQ throughout all buildings, setting a CO2 restrict for IAQ as an prolonged time-weighted common, or utilizing a one-time CO2 measurement to confirm a desired VR.” • A methods to go, apparently. Maybe citizen science from these with CO2 displays might assist.
Transmission: Covid
Surge anecdata (1):
I do know roughly 13 individuals in my circle who’ve covid proper now. That is indicative of a big surge within the Northeast.
— Shauna Allen (@ShaunaLeva) June 17, 2024
Surge anecdata (2):
Gals on Instagram posting about getting COVID.
Wave is official.
This has been the simplest early warning system for me over the previous 4 years 😂🫠
— Alexander Riccio (@co2trackers) (@ariccio) June 17, 2024
Surge anecdata (3):
Bumped into a brand new sort of particular person whereas procuring. They noticed my masks and stated “I used to assume that was loopy. I would like to begin carrying one. Everybody’s sick.” I believe actuality is setting in for some individuals
— Pat Simply Pat 🍉 (@PatTheSocialist) June 18, 2024
Maskstravaganza
Make it make sense (1):
Docs will do all of this however then refuse to place a masks on for 20 minutes to fulfill with you or carry out a routine process. pic.twitter.com/eTZGtwVzRG
— Covid Warning KP.2 / KP.3 FLiRT Variant (@CovidCaution) June 18, 2024
Make it make sense (2):
“Surgical masks are far more practical at stopping using respirators than they’re at stopping respiratory infections.”
– Dr Lee Altenberg
👏👏👏
— Barry Hunt – #DavosSafe #WHOknew (@BarryHunt008) June 18, 2024
Immune Dysregulation
“Infectious illnesses skyrocket worldwide fueled by COVID-19 pandemic” [World Socialist Web Site]. “A brand new research has discovered that the worldwide affect of the COVID-19 pandemic over the previous 4 years coincides with a brand new surge in lots of different infectious illnesses far past their pre-pandemic ranges. The research was reported by Airfinity, a UK-based information and analytics firm that makes a speciality of monitoring and forecasting traits in world illness and public well being. The implication of this discovering is that the systematic dismantling of public well being measures by capitalist governments worldwide, permitting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, unimpeded entry to the world’s inhabitants, has created the circumstances for even larger injury to human well being. Airfinity beforehand tracked the horrendous affect of lifting Zero-COVID in China on the finish of 2022, which led to a whole lot of tens of millions of individuals being contaminated and greater than 1,000,000 deaths. Final week the corporate posted a brand new evaluation on its webpage displaying that ‘the world is seeing a resurgence of a minimum of 13 infectious illnesses, with instances greater than earlier than the pandemic in lots of areas. Over 40 nations or territories have reported a minimum of one infectious illness resurgence that’s 10-fold or extra over their pre-pandemic baseline.’”
Coverage
Does make you marvel how Brownnose Institute will get such traction:
Stunning information.
Regardless of the extraordinary partisan revisionist historical past, a robust majority of People see COVID public well being insurance policies as “typically a good suggestion.”
Solely 20% assume all had been unhealthy thought.
Does ideology matter? Yep. 71% of Democrats assume all a good suggestion. Solely 18% of… pic.twitter.com/06WihLK6Tm
— Timothy Caulfield (@CaulfieldTim) June 17, 2024
Elite Maleficence
I’m undecided the institution view on aerosols is that concise or nonchalant:
It’s taken institution figures 4 years to concisely & nonchalantly say how COVID is unfold.
How lengthy will it take them to be equally as open & inform the general public we’re all susceptible to the long-term ramifications Covid causes more and more so w/ further infections?#MaskUpN95 pic.twitter.com/G1sHbxP0Qt
— Jesse Worldwide (@jesseintl) June 18, 2024
Maybe a veteran of the AIDS disaster can inform us whether or not public well being is shifting on the similar tempo because it did then, or extra slowly. Laborious to consider they’re shifting quicker, and the H5N1 response is much more of a cluster than the Covid response, and I’m not the one one saying it.
“NIH electronic mail scandal: A ‘stunning disregard’ for public record-keeping or inside federal guidelines?” [FedScoop]. The deck: “A Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments official who stated he was informed easy methods to make emails ‘disappear’ shines a lightweight on the tough process of managing digital authorities information.” This caught my eye: “The Morens incident highlights different ways in which federal officers can theoretically attempt to keep away from FOIA requests about their digital communications. It’s not unusual for FOIA officers to encourage requesters to share particular key phrases so as to conduct information searches. However emails from Greg Folkers, Fauci’s former chief of workers at NIAID, included misspellings of key phrases that people may need included of their request for information, corresponding to “EcoHealth” written as “Ec~Well being” and virologist Kristian Anderson spelled as “anders$n.” A Republican-led group of legislators has charged that the misspellings had been intentional.” • Why not go the entire 9 yards and use one-time pads?
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
LEGEND
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NOTES
[1] (CDC) This week’s wastewater map, with sizzling spots annotated. The numbers in the proper hand column are similar. The dots on the map will not be.
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, on condition that final week KP.2 was throughout the whole lot like kudzu, and now it’s KP.3. If the “Nowcast” can’t even forecast two weeks out, why are we doing it in any respect?
[4] (ER) That is the most effective I can do for now. No less than information for the complete pandemic is introduced.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) A slight lower adopted by a return to a slight, regular enhance. (The NY city space has kind; in 2020, as the house of two worldwide airports (JFK and EWR) it was an essential entry level for the virus into the nation (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, because the wealthy sought to flee, after which across the nation by way of air journey.)
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). That is the most effective I can do for now. Observe the idea that Covid is seasonal is constructed into the presentation. No less than information for the complete pandemic is introduced.
[7] (Walgreens) 4.3%; large leap. (As a result of there may be information in “present view” tab, I believe white states right here have skilled “no change,” versus haven’t any information.)
[8] (Cleveland) Going up.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Up. These sh*theads at CDC have modified the chart in order that it doesn’t even run again to 1/21/23, because it used to, however now begins 1/1/24. There’s additionally no strategy to modify the time rasnge. CDC actually doesn’t need you to have the ability to take a historic view of the pandemic, or examine one surge to a different. In an any case, that’s why the form of the curve has modified.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) Identical deal. These sh*theads. I’m leaving this right here for one more week as a result of I detest them a lot:
[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.
[12] Deaths low, ED up.
Stats Watch
Manufacturing: “United States Industrial Manufacturing” [Trading Economics]. “Industrial manufacturing within the US rose 0.9 % from a month earlier in Might 2024, greater than market expectations of a 0.3 % enhance and after displaying no progress in April. Manufacturing output, which makes up 78% of whole manufacturing, superior 0.9 %, in contrast with market forecast of a 0.3 % enhance.”
Retail: “U.S. Retail Gross sales” [Trading Economics]. “Retail gross sales within the US edged up a 0.1% month-over-month in Might 2024, following a downwardly revised 0.2% fall in April and beneath forecasts of a 0.2%, in one other signal client sentiment is cooling. Gross sales of sporting items, passion, musical instrument and books recorded the most important enhance (2.8%), adopted by clothes (0.9%), motorcar and half sellers (0.8%) and nonstore retailers (0.8%).”
Tech: Oops:
No cheaper than a ICE with cheap gasoline mileage. Important time spent charging. Vitality to cost the automotive largely supplied by fossil fuels. Not seeing the profit TBH.
— Mark A (@MEA6380) June 18, 2024
Tech: “Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Disaster” [Rolling Stone]. “Between 2019 and 2021, the variety of teen deaths from fentanyl tripled — and the motive force of that plague, per the cops and feds I talked to, was faux drugs bought on-line. Phony opioids that seemed like Oxycontins however had been lower with fentanyl, not oxycodone; bogus Xanax however with fentanyl, not alprazolam, on board. Title any pharmaceutical with a foothold on campus — Adderall, Valium, Suboxone, what-have-you — and it was immediately obtainable by way of social media and delivered to your door like Papa John’s. The oldsters compounding these drugs weren’t pharm-school grads. They had been cartel adjuncts or lost-soul dropouts with a storage unit and a capsule press. And whether or not their fentanyl got here from Mexico or instantly from China, they had been in every single place and nowhere without delay: invisible on the road however ubiquitous on-line; and lots of had been hawking poison disguised as pharma medicine over Snapchat. In the meantime, nobody gave the impression to be doing a rattling factor about it. The DEA didn’t launch its first PSA alert till the autumn of 2021, and native cops walked away, or made half-hearted searches of a deceased child’s cellphone for actionable hyperlinks to the vendor. These hyperlinks had been lengthy gone, although, scrubbed minutes or hours after the final change between vendor and purchaser. That, Neville realized, was why the sellers had moved to Snapchat: It was successfully a secure house for them. All forensics vanished inside 24 hours, cleaned by the delete perform of the app. That wasn’t a bug however a characteristic of Snap, the code selection that despatched its fortunes hovering and marked it out from its social media rivals. On TikTok and Instagram, your DMs and pictures largely lived until you deleted them, one after the other. On Snap, it was the reverse: The whole lot turned to smoke until you manually saved it to your account.” • Stoller feedback:
Immediately’s Concern & Greed Index: 42 Concern (earlier shut: 38 Concern) [CNN]. One week in the past: 43 (Concern). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jun 17 at 1:48:29 PM ET.
Well being
“Extra excellent news for espresso drinkers from a research of sitting and sipping” [WaPo]. “Sedentary espresso drinkers had a 24 % decreased danger of mortality in contrast with those that sat for greater than six hours and didn’t drink espresso, in response to the lead writer of a research printed not too long ago within the journal BMC Public Well being. The discovering, which was not a part of the unique article, was calculated at The Washington Publish’s request and supplied by Huimin Zhou, a researcher on the Medical Faculty of Soochow College’s Faculty of Public Well being in China and the lead writer of the research on espresso and well being.”
“Consuming Cheese Helps You Age Higher, Scientists Say” [Newsweek]. From a paywalled Nature research: “Additionally they discovered that lack of exercise, smoking, and watching an excessive amount of TV had been related to poorer well-being, whereas consuming extra cheese and fruits had been related to higher well-being. ‘We discovered that way of life elements corresponding to sedentary behaviour (that’s, TV watching time), smoking (that’s, age of smoking initiation and cigarettes per day), and dietary intakes of cheese and recent fruit, in addition to behaviours and performances corresponding to remedy use (that’s, antihypertensive remedy and NSAIDs), cognitive efficiency and age at menarche, every mediated 1.82 % to 9.54 % of the entire impact of the well-being spectrum on [healthiness of aging],’ the researchers wrote. ‘Most of those mediators had been well-established danger elements related to aging-related outcomes, and our findings lengthen their roles in linking psychological well-being to wholesome getting old.’” • I’ve bought the coffee-at-my-desk half down — in actual fact, I simply purchased a brand new (low-end) espresso machine — so now I’ve to get the cheese half below management. Grapes are a fruit. Does wine depend as a fruit?
The Gallery
Extra wallpaper from the Nabis, this time Vuillard:
Edouard #Vuillard, Flowers on the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, 1904. pic.twitter.com/Nut8my3QDu
— Mordecai (@MenschOhneMusil) March 27, 2024
I Am Not An Artwork Critic (IANAAC), however I keep in mind seeing a number of work from the Nabis, I believe on the Corcoran, after I lived in DC. The drafting and the brushwork weren’t, to my thoughts, particularly good — very a lot not like the Impressionists! — however ZOMG the colour! The work appeared to drift within the air, freed from the body and the wall, as Rothkos are stated to do (by no means seen it myself, however that’s what they are saying).
Information of the Wired
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