By Lambert Strether of Corrente
Chook Track of the Day
Speckled Nightingale-Thrush, Milpe Chook Sanctuary, Pichincha, Ecuador. “Two cuts of track from the identical chook, sitting on a fallen log in dense foothill forest. The primary minimize is of track at full quantity, the second at a a lot quieter quantity (for unknown causes).”
Politics
“However what’s authorities itself, however the biggest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“Right here’s meals for thought, had Ahab time to suppose; however Ahab by no means thinks; he solely feels, feels, feels” –Herman Melville, Moby Dick
“So most 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
“White Home’s hopes for a lame-duck debt ceiling deal are fading quick” [Politco]. #MintTheCoin.
2022
“The Midterm Elections and U.S. Coverage on Public and World Well being” [ThinkGlobalHealth]. “[T]he have to strengthen home public well being within the wake of a devastating pandemic performed no obvious function in political campaigns or when ballots had been forged.” • After 1,000,000 useless beneath two administrations. In World Warfare II, 880,000 British troopers died. In return, after the battle, they obtained the NHS. What can we get?
“Was crime as unhealthy because it was portrayed forward of the midterm elections?” [ABC]. No. It by no means is. “Nonetheless, surveys present People are repeatedly unhealthy at perceiving simply how a lot crime is definitely occurring. The Pew Analysis Middle discovered that 61% of voters say violent crime was a key challenge of significance when voting on this 12 months’s congressional elections, regardless of studies from the Bureau of Justice Statistics that present no vital improve within the U.S. violent crime price. The crime price — for each violent/property and general offenses — has been at a gradual decline because the crime peak of the Nineteen Nineties, and stays a lot decrease than that. Pew discovered that People’ poor notion of crime has been seen in lots of elections earlier than it: in 2020, 2016, and past.”
“Abortion and the 2022 Elections” [RealClearPolitics]. “Pew Analysis studies that over 60% of ‘People say abortion needs to be authorized in all or most instances.’ This isn’t a lot of a difficulty for Democrats, Ziegler says, as a result of the get together is unified in its assist of abortion. There’s extra dissent on the Republican facet, which presents an issue prone to emerge throughout the get together: disagreement between state lawmakers and their fellow partisans on Capitol Hill. Legislators on the state stage have proven a willingness to move uncompromising statutes. Hardline abortion bans handed on the state stage might stymie efforts to current GOP congressional candidates as caring and understanding. If Ziegler is true, abortion will vex Republicans for elections to come back. However Democrats could also be tempted to press their benefit past what the market will bear. If Democrats attempt to ‘see how far they’ll go’ they could ‘overlook political realities’ and push an absolutist place. That may be the very ‘mistake that the GOP has made,’ she says. Does that portend infinite, bitter battle between People who insist that abortion on demand is a proper and those that imagine all abortion is homicide? Mary Ann Glendon doesn’t suppose so. She means that the push and pull of politics permits the voters to work out its variations reasonably than performing them out.”
* * * NY: “The New York institution is thrashing up on AOC. It needs to be wanting within the mirror” [NBC]. Completely brutal, justifiably so. “Democratic losses within the Empire State look like pivotal within the slender majority within the Home of Representatives that Republicans are prone to have beginning subsequent 12 months. The icing on this rotten cake is that New York Democrats have nobody guilty however themselves.” Extra: “On an evening of many disappointments, the get together’s most egregious personal objective was the one scored for Republicans by nobody lower than the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee Chairman himself, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. Maloney, whose DCCC function is to elect as many Democrats to the Home as potential, not solely presided over the lack of 4 beforehand Democratic New York districts, however didn’t win his personal race after placing his ego above the warnings of get together officers and activists. Maloney isn’t the one one guilty for Democrats’ Massive Apple bludgeoning, nevertheless. The Democratic legislators who management the statehouse fumbled the ball once they got the duty of drawing up new congressional districts to replicate the outcomes of the 2020 census. Their new congressional maps didn’t fulfill the courts that they didn’t violate the state structure’s bar on partisan gerrymandering, resulting in the appointment of a nonpartisan election knowledgeable as a particular grasp to attract new maps that minimize deeply into Democrats’ beforehand secure districts. However even dealing with these powerful maps, Democrats might have prevailed had their state get together — which was busy deflecting progressive criticism of their conduct — marshaled higher infrastructure and monetary assist for swing-district candidates. The maps had been an issue; the get together’s malpractice was deadly.” • Liberal Democrats would reasonably hammer on “progressives” than beat Republicans. No shock, however the proof is laid out right here.
PA:
2024 One good textual content with Kipp Hebert, a Fetterman advisor https://t.co/QUqobgp8lu pic.twitter.com/q8x8Hh9fOS
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) November 18, 2022
We’ll see….
WI: “15 Takeaways from the 2022 Midterm Election in Wisconsin” [The Recombobulation Area]. “Going into Election Night time, one of many huge image questions I had for the state outcomes at giant was about suburban voters in Wisconsin. This 2022 midterm appeared like it could form as much as be a check case on whether or not or not the suburban shift in direction of Democrats that largely started throughout Donald Trump’s presidency was nonetheless unfolding, or if it had reached some extent the place there can be some stage of backlash and a return to the GOP for some suburban swing voters. The suburban pattern towards Democrats appeared to occur extra slowly within the Milwaukee suburbs than it did in different elements of the nation. Maybe that is partly because of the deep rifts within the area that prompted the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert within the 2010’s to establish the Milwaukee space as one of many nation’s most politically polarized metros. The polarization was so deeply entrenched, it took awhile for it to shake free. However this shift has been occurring right here for a number of election cycles now, and it doesn’t appear to be slowing down in any respect. In reality, it appears to be selecting up steam. After the election, the decision is in: That shift remains to be occurring….”
2024
“Trump and the Combat Republicans Have to Have” [Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal]. “Within the coming 18 months of the massive argument, Trump supporters can pretty be requested to think about a thought experiment. What if it had been Barack Obama in 2012 who refused to simply accept a democratic final result to a presidential election? What if we later came upon he most likely knew he’d misplaced however didn’t wish to settle for it so he incited the Obamaites with accusations and false claims and made speeches insisting the election was stolen? What if he’d made an enormous out of doors speech and despatched his forces, together with some antifa chapters, to storm the Capitol in an try to thwart the Structure and cease the counting of electoral votes? What if he refused to cease them as soon as he noticed on TV what they had been doing? What if Democrats had executed that? Republicans would really feel righteous rage. They might by no means forgive Mr. Obama, who’d have proven the worst of himself and his motion. He and his actions would make you are feeling democracy itself was within the stability, and you’d pledge to by no means let him enter the White Home as president once more. You’d really feel as Liz Cheney does now: This should finish.” • However see Taibbi’s publish beneath…
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, evidently persons are really studying the back-dated publish! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are a lot of updates. So I should 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 publish, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “stay” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Social gathering is, the truth is, a tough downside. I do suppose 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 Pay attention, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Social gathering didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working elements of the Social gathering reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Social gathering (ka-ching, however not fully) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.
Be aware, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different lessons; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
* * * “The true story of the making of Nancy Pelosi” [Ryan Grim]. Effectively value a learn on Democrats going again to 1980. For many who don’t know this: ” In case your data of her comes from Republican assault adverts, you realize her as a “San Francisco liberal” and even “radical,” however she was raised in Maryland by her father Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., the boss of the Baltimore political machine, who was by turns a congressman and mayor of Attraction Metropolis. D’Alesandro’s operation, like most big-city machines of the period, was linked in public to native Mafia figures, in accordance with his FBI file.”
“REVEALED: Oil Trade Lobbying Group Funded ‘Darkish Cash’ Advert Marketing campaign for Conservative Democrats” [Read Sludge]. “The American Petroleum Institute’s (API) 990 tax type for 2021 reveals it paid greater than $3.5 million to the Higher Jobs Collectively Marketing campaign, an opaque Virginia company that was shaped in April 2021, for advocacy companies it carried out as an unbiased contractor…. The group’s adverts reward Cuellar, Schrader, Rep. Vincente Gonzalez, Rep. Marc Veasey, Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, in accordance with copies that may be considered on its web site. The majority of Higher Jobs Collectively’s spending went in direction of adverts that reward Cuellar, on which they spent a minimum of $1.4 million, in accordance with AdImpact. Cuellar has been labeled “Massive Oil’s favourite Democrat” for his tendency to cross the aisle and take votes aligned with Republicans and the fossil gasoline business. He has the worst environmental voting document of any Home Democrat, in accordance with the League of Conservation Voters’ scorecard. The American Petroleum Institute’s 2021 990 reveals it paid Higher Jobs Collectively as an unbiased contractor That is the second election cycle in a row that Cuellar has been boosted by a darkish cash political group that Sludge later uncovered was funded by API.” • It’s an enormous, stunning tent!
Republican Funhouse
“GOP turns focus to Hunter Biden enterprise dealings after profitable Home” [The Hill]. • Good, as a result of the intelligence operatives, Democrat operatives, and their property within the press and the platforms who suppresse the story of Hunter’s laptop computer earlier than Election Day all must be punished severely and pushed from public life. OTOH, the Republicans can’t pull one other Benghazi. No extra yarn diagrams, as a result of I’m not having it. Clear narratives, proof, timelines, and no posturing. “Revenge is a dish finest served chilly.”
Realignment and Legitimacy
“”Election Denial” for Me, However Not for Thee: YouTube Censors TK-Produced Movies, Once more, Regardless of Factual Accuracy” [Matt Taibbi, TK News]. “This video in any case is filled with clips of individuals like Karine Jean-Pierre saying the 2016 election was ‘stolen,’ Joe Biden saying ‘I completely agree’ Trump is an ‘illegitimate president,’ Kamala Harris saying ‘you’re completely proper’ Trump didn’t actually win in 2016, and even Jimmy Carter saying ‘Trump didn’t really win the election in 2016.’ Outdated pal Keith Olbermann proclaimed the general public wouldn’t stand for this ‘cold coup’ known as voting, Chris Hayes stated Trump ‘cheated,’ and a conga line of officers from Adam Schiff to Elizabeth Warren insisted foreigners had ‘hacked our elections.’ These movies made what we imagine to be a robust and legit level in regards to the framing of the final two presidential elections. The primary is that regardless of Hillary Clinton’s reluctant capitulation on Election Night time in 2016, the Democratic Social gathering as a complete in addition to key officers within the authorities by no means acknowledged Donald Trump as a authentic president. Clinton the truth is spent 4 years main a public relations marketing campaign insisting {that a}) she really gained in 2016 b) Trump solely gained due to fraud and precise vote tampering and c) Democrats going ahead shouldn’t acknowledge his victory ought to he win a second time. Our view is that whether or not it’s Cease the Steal or Russiagate, denying a president’s legitimacy since you imagine a conspiracy principle is similar conduct, and needs to be handled the identical manner. YouTube by administering a strike to [videographer] Orfalea is sending a message that you could be depart movies of Hillary Clinton saying ‘we all know that they had been into voting rolls’ (they being the Russians), or Olbermann warning ‘It is not going to be a peaceable change of energy!’ or the present president and vice-president agreeing their predecessor ‘didn’t actually win,’ all with out YouTube’s required Surgeon Basic-type warning known as ‘EDSA’ (YouTube’s clunky acronym for ‘Instructional, Documentary, Scientific, or Creative’ context). In different phrases, you could depart up such statements with out mentioning they’re unproven, incorrect, or irresponsible. It is a de facto endorsement of such conduct when dedicated by sure individuals. When others do precisely the identical factor, it’s conspiracy principle, incitement, even riot.” • Wait ’til YouTube begins censoring movies on paper ballots, as a result of the Democrat Social gathering doesn’t assist them.
#COVID19
Lambert right here: I can’t name a winter surge, although we’ll actually have to attend for Thanksgiving journey. Nonetheless, excessive transmission (CDC), the elevation and continued improve in positivity (Walgreens), and the regular takeover of BQ.1* (CDC; Walgreens) are all just a little unsettling (as is the obvious proliferation of variants). Keep secure on the market! (So far as Thanksgiving journey goes, missing CDC’s “Fast Riser” counties function, one of the best we will do, I believe, is comply with the information and take a look at wastewater. I might order threat from highest to lowest at JFK/LGA (New York), LAX (Los Angeles), ATL (Atlanta), and ORD (Chicago). Since New York — as of this writing, and naturally all the information is delayed, making private threat evaluation an effort in delusion, however I digress — is a BQ.1* hotbed, I’d attempt to use EWR (Newark) not JFK/LGA. My $0.02!
“The Finish of Vaccines at ‘Warp Pace’” [New York Times]. A should learn. “However as a 3rd pandemic winter begins in the USA, its vaccine-making effort has misplaced steam. Efforts to check and produce next-generation Covid vaccines are slowed down by bureaucratic issues and funding shortfalls. International rivals have raced forward in approving long-awaited nasal-spray vaccines, together with one invented in St. Louis, making a state of affairs by which People must journey overseas for the newest in American vaccine know-how. The Biden administration has launched a last-ditch effort to revive the nation’s edge. In a bid to resurrect Operation Warp Pace, President Biden requested the lame-duck session of Congress this week for $5 billion for next-generation vaccines and therapeutics, as a part of a broader $9.25 billion pandemic spending request. However Republicans, having blocked requests for next-generation vaccine funding because the spring amid complaints about how the White Home spent earlier pandemic assist allocations, have proven no indicators of dropping their resistance. Consequently, even with the pandemic nonetheless taking a heavy toll, prospects have dimmed for the 2 most coveted sorts of next-generation vaccines: nasal sprays that may block extra infections, and common coronavirus photographs that may defend in opposition to a wider array of ever-evolving variants…. China, India, Russia and Iran have all authorised vaccines delivered by the nostril or the mouth, though they haven’t launched a lot information about how the merchandise work. In the USA, nasal sprays have been held again by the identical funding constraints and logistical hassles that, earlier than the pandemic, typically made growing vaccines a decade-long ordeal. The delay couldn’t solely weaken the nation’s defenses in opposition to a extra deadly coronavirus variant but additionally damage preparations for a future pandemic, depriving the world of an oven-ready nasal vaccine platform that may very well be tailored to a brand new pathogen.” • Biden ought to have carried out his personal Operation Warp Pace on the primary day of his administration, not two years on. After all, if you take a look at who income — and who will stay and who will die — the whole lot’s going in accordance with plan. (And naturally, each Pfizer and Moderna denied nasal vaccine researchers entry to their mRNA machines, so the use case the place nasal vaccines may very well be used as boosters couldn’t be examined. These executives must be within the Hague, together with Walensky and Klain.)
• “Affiliation between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 an infection and mortality” [Nature]. From the Dialogue: “Vitamin D supplementation through the pandemic was related to a big 20% and 28% discount in laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 charges for vitamin D3 and vitamin D2, respectively. Vitamin D3 was related to a big 33% lower in mortality inside 30-days of COVID-19 an infection. This lower in COVID-19-related mortality is equivalent to the 33% noticed within the Andalusian information for calcifediol when prescribed 15 days earlier than hospitalization and just like the 25% related discount in mortality for cholecalciferol21. For vitamin D2 the related discount in mortality was 25% however was not statistically vital. These related reductions in threat are substantial and justify extra vital exploration and affirmation utilizing RCTs. That is notably vital given the excessive charges of vitamin D deficiency within the US inhabitants and COVID-19.” • Holy moley!
• A thread about how New Brunswick, Canada Public Well being (PH) was formally informed about Lengthy Covid, however shared nothing with the general public it’s their authorized responsibility to provide:
PoP NB submitted a RTI request for information of discussions of Lengthy Covid. The response brings to mild a stunning stage of deception perpetrated in opposition to the individuals of NB, beneath which true magnitude of threat was hidden and the basic precepts of public well being had been deserted.
🧵 pic.twitter.com/kSIZkxlEkV— Chris (@HallwayOrchard) November 16, 2022
• ”Aerosols from talking can linger within the air for as much as 9 hours” [Building and Environment]. From November 2021, nonetheless germane. From the Summary: “To know the function of speech aerosols within the unfold of COVID-19 globally, the lifetime and dimension distribution of the aerosols are studied by a mix of sunshine scattering remark and aerosol sampling. It was discovered that aerosols from talking suspended in stagnant air for as much as 9 h with a half-life of 87.2 min. ” • Oh.
Transmission
Right here is CDC’s interactive map by county set to group transmission. (That is the map CDC needs solely hospitals to take a look at, not you.)
Positivity
From the Walgreen’s check positivity tracker, revealed November 17:
0.3%. Up.
Wastewater
Wastewater information (CDC), November 14:
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November 13:
Lambert right here: Queens County (JFK/LGA) is now not orange, i.e., not growing, so I assumed I’d take a look at Cook dinner (ORD) which isL
Variants
Lambert right here: It’s past irritating how sluggish the variant information is. Does no one within the public well being institution get a promotion for monitoring variants? Are there no grants? Is there a single lab that does this work, and all people will get the outcomes from them? [grinds teeth, bangs head on desk]. UPDATE Sure. See NC right here on Pango. Each Friday, a stately, educational tempo totally incompatible with defending your self in opposition to a variant exhibiting doubling conduct.
• Helpful chart:
The clearest proof that with out containment we’re growing the probabilities for SARS-CoV-2 to mutate additional. Mutation price elevated by 30% in simply 1 12 months. @TRyanGregory @denise_dewald @K_G_Andersen @EricTopol @kakape @ewencallaway https://t.co/KVajkqwx1M https://t.co/KRQuOAg1I6
— Daniele Focosi, MD, PhD, MSc (@dfocosi) November 17, 2022
Variant information, nationwide (Walgreens), November 6:
Lambert right here: BQ.1* transferring alongside fairly briskly, although decrease than CDC. XBB current right here, not in CDC.
Variant information, nationwide (CDC), October 29 (Nowcast off):
BQ.1* transferring alongside fairly briskly. New York/New Jersey (Area 2) numbers are increased:
• As a verify, since New York is a BQ.1* hotbed, New York hospitalization, up to date November 17:
Lambert right here: Appears to be like prefer it’s leveling out, for the second.
Deaths
Demise price (Our World in Information):
Whole: 1,101,843 – 1,101,370 = 473 (473 * 365 = 172,645 deaths per 12 months, as we speak’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “dwelling with” Covid (fairly a bit increased than the minimizers would really like, although they’ll discuss themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I may need to determine that is what the powers-that-be contemplate “mission achieved” for this explicit tranche of loss of life and illness).
It’s good that for deaths I’ve a easy, day by day chart that simply retains chugging alongside, not like the whole lot else CDC and the White Home are screwing up or letting go darkish, good job.
• “Who Is Dying from COVID Now, and Why” [Scientific American]. “Older individuals had been at all times particularly weak and now make up a better proportion of COVID fatalities than ever earlier than within the pandemic. Whereas the overall variety of COVID deaths has fallen, the burden of mortality is shifting much more to individuals older than age 64. And deaths in nursing houses are ticking again up, at the same time as COVID stays one of many high causes of loss of life for all ages. COVID deaths amongst individuals age 65 and older greater than doubled between April and July this 12 months, rising by 125 p.c, in accordance with a current evaluation from the Kaiser Household Basis. This pattern elevated with age: greater than 1 / 4 of all COVID fatalities had been amongst these age 85 and older all through the pandemic, however that share has risen to a minimum of 38 p.c since Might. The place individuals stay additionally impacts their threat stage. The pandemic first hit city areas more durable, however mortality rose dramatically in rural areas by the summer season of 2020—a sample that has held. The hole is presently narrowing, however individuals dwelling in rural areas are nonetheless dying at considerably increased charges. Rural loss of life charges fell from 92.2 p.c increased than city charges on the finish of September to 38.9 p.c increased in mid-October. Racism and discrimination additionally play an outsize function in COVID deaths. Whereas variations in age-adjusted loss of life charges based mostly on race have lately turn out to be smaller, consultants predict inequities will doubtless skyrocket once more throughout surges. For the previous a number of weeks, the COVID loss of life price within the U.S. has stayed pretty regular, with 2,344 individuals dying of the sickness within the seven-day interval ending on November 9, in accordance with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Even so, the U.S. nonetheless accounts for a big portion of all confirmed COVID deaths occurring across the globe, and it has the best variety of confirmed COVID deaths of any nation. There have been 1.2 million extra deaths within the U.S. since February 2020, in accordance with the CDC—losses which have reshaped nearly each a part of American life. The viral sickness has remained a number one explanation for loss of life all through the pandemic. And general U.S. life expectancy has dropped considerably because the disaster started. ‘That’s unprecedented,’ says Kristin Urquiza, co-founder of Marked by COVID, an advocacy community memorializing the victims of the sickness. ‘And I don’t suppose that’s going to cease anytime quickly.’”
Stats Watch
There are not any official statistics of curiosity as we speak.
The Bezzle: “Let crypto burn” [Financial Times]. “Within the aftermath of the collapse of FTX, authorities ought to resist the urge to create a parallel authorized and regulatory framework for the crypto business. It is much better to do nothing, and simply let crypto burn. Actively intervening would convey undeserved legitimacy upon a system that does little to assist actual financial exercise. It additionally would supply an official seal of approval to a system that presently poses no risk to monetary stability and would result in requires public bailouts when crypto inevitably erupts once more…. Banks, sellers, insurers, and pension funds shouldn’t be allowed to buy and maintain crypto or settle for it as collateral. For essentially the most half, crypto as we speak is only a multiplayer on-line online game (like World of Warcraft). If just about all of the transactions stay inner to the crypto world with out hyperlinks to the true financial system, the method may as effectively be occurring on Mars, leaving conventional finance unaffected. The overriding objective of policymakers needs to be to maintain crypto systemically irrelevant. One of the best ways to do that is let it implode beneath the strain of its unsafe and unsound enterprise practices. In the meantime, authorities ought to continually level to the document that crypto is rife with failures and fraud.” • Commentary:
It is a helpful reminder that some high crypto individuals — executives, whales, buyers — are in small personal group chats discussing different market gamers and coordinating exercise. There is a membership they usually’re in it. https://t.co/7thi054UUt
— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) November 18, 2022
The Bezzle: “Binance in Scorching Water After Transferring $2.7B Out of Proof of Reserves Pockets” [Be In Crytpo]. “All eyes are turning to Binance because the crypto group observed that the trade had moved $2.7 billion out of its “proof of reserves” pockets. One other Reddit publish additionally said that the trade didn’t maintain enough proof of reserves on the BNB chain. Some group members declare that Binance moved 2.7 billion USDT 20 hours after it had revealed its report. It was famous that the vacation spot handle wasn’t talked about within the report. 200 million USDT was later moved again, leaving 2.5 billion USDT within the undisclosed pockets. Binance has since responded to the publish, noting that the undisclosed pockets is a TRX chilly pockets. The manager said, ‘the asset actions [highlighted] are the results of commonplace operations which transfer funds between our inner wallets.’” • After all, after all.
Tech: “Twitter API Standing” [Twitter]. • One other website to verify to see if Twitter is de facto down (though in a world completely with out belief, the inexperienced checks may very well be faked).
Tech: Twittergeddon (1):
it ought to’ve been Fb 💔
— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) November 18, 2022
Tech: Twittergeddon (2):
Sergey Brin revives Google Plus crew from cryogenic chamber.
“It is time.”
— Alex Parker (@AlexParkerDC) November 18, 2022
Tech: Twittergeddon (3):
i really imagine that i’ll usher in a brand new period of peace and prosperity when i get each single publish on hthis fucking web site deleted by 2022
— wint (@dril) August 24, 2017
Tech: Fond farewell (1):
if twitter is de facto executed, i simply wish to say thanks all a lot for serving to me present over 12,000 n95 masks to individuals in want this 12 months. you all LiTERALLY & in a really direct manner helped save lives.
— Wendi Muse (@MuseWendi) November 18, 2022
Tech: Fond farewell (2):
it was at all times your love and assist that helped me to enhance my artwork (though they’re nonetheless poorly) and create one thing stunning, i hope i can see you on different social medias! (and that i nonetheless hope twitter will survive)
— poorly drawn cats (@poorlycatdraw) November 18, 2022
Tech: Nonetheless shopping for inexperienced bananas?
That “final evening on Twitter” factor was enjoyable final evening! Do it once more tonight?
— Stephen Silver (@StephenSilver) November 18, 2022
At the moment’s Concern & Greed Index: 61 Greed (earlier shut: 62 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 65 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 18 at 1:48 PM EST.
MMT
Fiat guidelines, crypto drools:
The inescapable, everlasting, non-reciprocal obligation requiring e.g. USD for last discharge says “hiya!”. 😉
— Greek Stav (@GrkStav) November 18, 2022
Our Famously Free Press
Podcasts FTW:
Thanks @joerogan https://t.co/eU2quwA3z3
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) November 17, 2022
Most pitches or blurbs for podcasts embody the phrase “or wherever you get your podcasts.” (Technically, it’s because podcasts are distributed through good old style Internet 1.0.) I can not assist considering that the dearth of a monopoly podcast platform is what’s making the creativity and ensuing progress potential.
Zeitgeist Watch
That is the video on NFTs, Bitcoin, crypto, and so-called Internet 3.O I used to be searching for. The constant thread is NFTs, however all the opposite subjects are lined. That is a particularly thorough stomping:
(I’ve began it with Chapter 1 (at 7:19) as a result of Chapter 0 is on the Nice Monetary Crash, the place he doesn’t emphasize the essential function of CDOs). Undoubtedly seize a cup of espresso, however if you wish to dig into the bullsh*t behind FTX, this is a superb introduction. Chapter 6 is a superb introduction to the tradition of crypto. It truly is fraud all the best way down.
Class Warfare
“She Was Within the CIA. Now She Makes Pajamas for the Royals” [Wall Street Journal]. • Why isn’t she working for Congress as a Democrat?
Information of the Wired
“Why This Universe? A New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical” [Quanta]. “Our universe is the best way it’s, in accordance with Neil Turok of the College of Edinburgh and Latham Boyle of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, for a similar purpose that air spreads evenly all through a room: Weirder choices are conceivable, however exceedingly inconceivable.” • Oh no. Not the stupidest timeline?
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