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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Fowl Track of the Day
Spectacled Finch, Seri Paya, North-West Frontier, Pakistan.
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Politics
“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in reality a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
The Constitutional Order
“Trump foes check rebellion idea in authorized case to dam him from 2024 poll” [Washington Times]. “The trial, which kicked off Monday in Denver, exams the novel idea that Mr. Trump ought to be blocked from the 2024 major and basic election ballots in Colorado due to his actions after the 2020 presidential election…. In Colorado, the case was introduced by six plaintiffs recognized as Republican and unbiased major voters and led by the left-wing activist group Residents for Duty and Ethics in Washington. They stated Mr. Trump led an rebellion on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of indignant protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol whereas lawmakers had been certifying Mr. Biden because the winner of the 2020 election. ‘Trump incited a violent mob to assault our Capitol, to cease the peaceable switch of energy beneath our Structure,’ Eric Olson, an lawyer for Residents for Duty and Ethics in Washington, argued in a gap assertion peppered with footage of the riot. ‘We’re right here as a result of Trump claims, in any case that, he has the correct to be president once more. However our Structure, or shared constitution for our nation, says he can not accomplish that.”• Which is why Biden’s Justice Division charged Trump with rebellion. Oh, wait…. However significantly, I perceive the idea of the case. However do we actually need state election officers of 1 occasion throwing candidates of one other occasion off the poll? And do we actually need Secretaries of State and election officers usually making what are in essence prosecutorial choices?
“Trial begins in lawsuit trying to dam Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 presidential major poll [Colorado Sun]. “Dozens of circumstances citing Part Three of the 14th Modification have been filed in latest months, however the ones in Colorado and Minnesota appear an important, in response to authorized consultants. That’s as a result of they had been filed by two liberal teams with important authorized sources. In addition they focused states with clear, swift processes for challenges to candidates’ poll {qualifications}.”
“Ban Trump from 2024 poll? Why courts ought to rule he can’t function president once more” [Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut, USA Today]. The circumstances in Colorado and Minnesota “have been introduced beneath Part 3 of the 14th Modification: ‘No individual shall … maintain any workplace … beneath the US … who, having beforehand taken an oath …[1] to assist the Structure of the US, shall have engaged in rebellion or insurrection in opposition to the identical.’” • Sure, that ellipsis is within the textual content. I’ve helpfully underlined the, er, authentic textual content that Tribe and Aftergut elided: “as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the US, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an govt or judicial officer of any State.” As readers know, the query of whether or not the President is “an officer of the US” is contested. However Larry, Larry, Larry: You simply left that half out! That’s sheer dishonest lawyering. Unsurprisingly, I’d add.
“The 14th Modification Case to Bar Trump From the Poll Is Politics At Its Worst” [Newsweek]. “Give it some thought: If the 14th Modification is used to bar Trump, what’s to cease Republicans from utilizing the 14th Modification to disqualify anybody who endorsed or condoned riots following occasions like George Floyd’s killing? This is able to inject an unprecedented stage of subjectivity into the electoral course of and probably suppress official political dialogue.” • A debater’s level that will resonate with some. The wording of the modification is what is going to “cease Republicans,” for the reason that Modification doesn’t apply to “anybody.”
Biden Administration
Pretty:
The White Home simply in contrast “anti-Israel protesters” — the phrase utilized by the Fox Information reporter in his query — to the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville. pic.twitter.com/t9oEu6YyOe
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) October 30, 2023
“Take heed to Black girls.” Particularly the pro-apartheid ones!
2024
Time for the Countdown Clock!
Solely six extra days till a full 12 months to election day!
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* * *“Biden’s Major Challenges Are A lot Extra Critical Than DC Insiders Suppose” [The Nation]. “It’s true that US Consultant Dean Phillips, the 54-year-old Minnesota Democrat who on Friday formally launched what he admitted was a “last-minute marketing campaign” in opposition to Biden, appears to be operating totally on none-too-subtle arguments that the incumbent is simply too outdated and too susceptible to be handed the 2024 nomination. However Phillips is rich, he’s employed some expert strategists and he’s correctly determined to gamble on the New Hampshire major to check his attraction to “the exhausted majority” in a state the place Biden’s identify received’t be on the Democratic poll.” • So, “the exhausted majority” trope made it by way of the filters tout suite. Attention-grabbing.
“Biden backers launch write-in marketing campaign amid 2024 major struggle with New Hampshire” [USA Today]. “President Joe Biden’s supporters in New Hampshire launched a write-in marketing campaign Monday morning aimed toward successful the first-in-the-nation major for the incumbent Democrat who declined to place his identify on the poll. Their web site implores New Hampshire voters to affix the ‘grassroots motion of Granite Staters who’re pledging to face up for our democracy by writing in Joe Biden for President within the New Hampshire major in January 2024.’ ‘The destiny of our democracy itself hangs within the steadiness within the 2024 election,’ the web site says.” “Our democracy,” twice. Grassroots? Actually? Extra: “New Hampshire is in a struggle with the Democratic Nationwide Committee over its anticipated major date, which has not been introduced however is predicted to happen in January. Biden didn’t file to seem on the state’s major poll, in consequence, and Democrats backing his reelection bid went forward with a deliberate write-in marketing campaign on Monday as an alternative.”
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“3 Professional Shoemakers Say Ron DeSantis Is In all probability Carrying Top Boosters” [Politico]. • Press now in full pulling-wings-off-flies mode.
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“Virginia restores 3,400 to voting rolls, however questions stay” [Axios]. “Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has restored the voting rights of practically 3,400 residents who had been wrongly taken off the state’s voting rolls…. ‘We now have no technique to know if that 3,400 is definitely right,’ [Shawn Weneta, a policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia,] stated. ‘After they acknowledged the error, they stated it was solely 270 folks. Effectively three weeks later, they are saying it’s greater than 10 occasions that quantity.’… Critics of Youngkin nonetheless have questions on how the voter purge occurred and what they name a scarcity of communication from the governor’s workplace.”
“Massive firms donate hundreds of thousands on Newsom’s behalf, elevating considerations about company affect” [Los Angeles Times (Bill Brand)]. “With no restrict on how a lot cash will be donated by organizations or people on the behest of the governor, hundreds of thousands of {dollars} flowed in to prop up public providers through the pandemic and fund Newsom’s favored packages…. The firms say they had been merely attempting to assist the state in a time of want. However regardless of how noble the trigger, critics concern the donations may enable firms to carry extra sway in state authorities. They famous most of the donors produce other enterprise earlier than the governor, obtained no-bid authorities contracts over the past 12 months or had been in search of favorable appointments on necessary state boards, which they are saying creates the looks of a pay-to-play system.” The jargon for these so-called donations is “behested funds.” Extra: “Google gave $7 million on April 9, 2020 in a behested donation to Newsom’s workplace for public well being advertisements. Days later, Verily, the health-focused subsidiary of Google father or mother firm Alphabet, was awarded an expanded no-bid contract for $13.1 million for coronavirus testing. Verily was in the end paid greater than $68 million for 3 testing providers contracts earlier than the state ended the agreements earlier this 12 months.” • Verily, eh?
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“The Third Celebration Wild Card” [Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball]. “None of those [third party] candidates, individually, would have a prayer of successful barring some really unbelievable change in American politics, nor are they even assured to be on the poll all over the place. Collectively, although, the extent of assist they get can be fascinating to watch, and it could be that the third occasion vote finally ends up disproportionately hurting one of many main occasion nominees over the opposite, though that isn’t sure.” Helpful chart:
Not a swing state amongst them….
Republican Funhouse
“EDITORIAL: New speaker on to one thing with debt fee” [Las Vegas Review-Journal]. “Speaker Johnson’s committee ought to conduct its enterprise overtly and think about a variety of potential options to controlling the pink ink — even these which can be anathema to 1 occasion (tax hikes) or the opposite (spending cuts). It’s admittedly a protracted shot, however fostering vigorous dialogue and debate on the debt could also be step one towards accepting and implementing options.” • You’ll be able to guess there received’t be any MMT representatives on this “fee.”
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 various updates. So I should do this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Celebration (“the Democrat Celebration 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 “stay” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Celebration is, in reality, a tough drawback. I do suppose the paragraph that follows is on level all the way in which again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Celebration is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Pay attention, Liberal!). It follows that the Democrat Celebration is as “unreformable” because the PMC is unreformable; if the Democrat Celebration didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. If the Democrat Celebration fails to manipulate, that’s as a result of the PMC lacks the potential to manipulate. (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working components of the Celebration reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Celebration (ka-ching, however not fully) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.
Notice, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is proscribed 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.
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Realignment and Legitimacy
“Can public officers block you on social media? It’s as much as the Supreme Courtroom” [NPR]. • Making a marketplace for moderation providers?
“The Nice Reordering” [Washington Monthly]. “Fairly than talking to Goldman Sachs, Biden spoke to autoworkers.” • The railroad staff didn’t struggle for his or her contract in an election 12 months. Anyhow, this text is price a learn. Maybe a wee bit triumphalist.
#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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 vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
Assets, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater reviews); 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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Keep protected on the market!
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Covid is Airborne
If we handled the air like a swimming pool:
Swimming pools ask clients to remain away once they have a abdomen bug.
And once they do, nobody complains about crypto immunity debt, or freedom, or only a diarrhoea, or all of us need to get it.
You simply get requested to not unfold the evil shit in your guts.
— tern (@1goodtern) October 28, 2023
Transmission
Joyful holidays:
This is the hazard of a Thanksgiving gathering within the U.S. (Nov 23). Many individuals are finalizing vacation plans now.
In a big household gathering of 15-20 folks, there’s a couple of 25% probability somebody could be infectious.
I’m fairly assured in these numbers.
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— Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA (@michael_hoerger) October 30, 2023
An infection
We’ll verify again with Hoerger in a month:
PMC C0VID-19 Tracker, Oct 30, 2023
We’re on the onset of an eighth U.S. pandemic wave.
In the present day’s Numbers:🔹 1.27% (1 in 78) are infectious 🔹 >600,000 C0VID circumstances/day 🔹>30,000 #LongCovid circumstances/day
We’ll cross the late-summer wave’s peak in simply over a month.
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— Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA (@michael_hoerger) October 30, 2023
“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, almost definitely deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we’d add mind injury, together with persona adjustments therefrom.
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Elite Maleficence
Extra “Inexperienced Map” pondering. Thought: “Let’s simply jigger the numbers:
Fairly than tackle the rising disaster of an ongoing pandemic, to not point out these already disabled, the US Census is responding by altering the definition of incapacity.
And in the event that they accomplish that, the speed of incapacity as recognized by the Census is slated to drop to eight%. (2/7)
— It’sME(Jaime) (@exceedhergrasp1) October 30, 2023
They write letters:
For extra info you should use, try the incapacity researchers’ pattern letter right here:
Alt textual content continues within the follow-up tweets. pic.twitter.com/GvTNnJxyae
— It’sME(Jaime) (@exceedhergrasp1) October 30, 2023
Definitely worth the clickthroughs to the photographs.
“Alberta docs, nurses name on province for extra transparency amid discrepancies in COVID-19 hospitalization information” [CTV]. “An inner Alberta Well being Companies doc obtained by CTV Information signifies that the variety of sufferers hospitalized provincially with COVID-19 has surpassed 900, regardless of accessible public information revealing only a third of these numbers. As of Friday, the province’s respiratory virus dashboard(opens in a brand new tab) confirmed 320 hospitalizations for SARS-CoV-2, indicating the info was up-to-date as of Oct. 21. Nonetheless, an inner doc obtained by CTV Information reveals there have been truly 898 COVID-19 sufferers province-wide as of Oct. 21, with a mean of 912 COVID-19 sufferers in hospital over the earlier seven days. The interior doc additionally reveals amongst main medical centres in Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge, 273 sufferers ended up testing constructive for COVID whereas in hospital for one thing else as of Oct. 26. To have upwards of 900 hospitalizations for COVID-19 would imply that a lot of these hospitalizations have roughly doubled in a couple of month.” • Effectively, I by no means. This is able to by no means occur in the US!
Jay, Martin, Suneptra, good job:
The variety of diagnoses of neural system ailments in kids aged 1-6 started to extend sharply about one 12 months after the Finnish Institute for Well being and Welfare (THL) switched to a herd immunity technique (August 25, 2021).2/x pic.twitter.com/k7q1gibeA6
— Ilkka Rauvola (@jukka235) October 23, 2023
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Case Information
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater information, October 30:
Lambert right here: Circumstances leveling out to a excessive plateau wasn’t on my Bingo card!
Regional information:
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, October 28:
Lambert right here: Prime of the leaderboard: HV.1, EG.5 a powerful second, with FL.1.15.1 and XBB.1.1.16.6 trailing. No BA.2.86 (though that has confirmed up in CDC’s airport testing). Nonetheless a Bouillabaisse…
From CDC, October 14:
Lambert right here: I positive 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 unwell intent).
CDC: “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance information can be reported biweekly, primarily based on the provision of constructive check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Seems to be like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
Covid Emergency Room Visits
NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, October 21:
Lambert right here: Flattening? Solely per week’s lag, so this can be our greatest present nationwide, present indicator till Verily will get its home so as (and dealing class-centric, since I’d doubt the higher crust goes to the ER).
NOTE “Charts and information offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not your entire 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 bothMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these folks a lot. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, not less than for its time interval, that Covid shouldn’t be seasonal, although CDC is attempting to get us to imagine that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the present institutional equipment for injections.
Hospitalization
Bellwether New York Metropolis, information as of October 31:
Hospitalization is leveling out, too. (I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading, though the hospital-centric public well being institution loves it, hospitalization and deaths being the one metrics that matter [snort]).
NOT UPDATED Right here’s a distinct CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, not less than. October 21:
Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and information offered by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Take a look at Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”. So the place the heck is the replace, CDC?
Positivity
From Walgreens, October 30:
1.3%. Enhance. (It will be fascinating to survey this inhabitants usually; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and massive peer strain, went and bought examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From Cleveland Clinic, October 28:
Lambert right here: Slight improve. I do know that is simply Ohio, however the Cleveland Clinic is nice*, and we’re starved for information, so…. NOTE * Even when hospital an infection management is attempting to kill sufferers by eliminating common masking with N95s.
NOT UPDATED From CDC, traveler’s information, October 9:
Down, albeit within the rear view mirror. And listed here are the variants for vacationers:
Sudden huge BA.2.86 look.
Deaths
NOT UPDATED Iowa COVID-19 Tracker, September 27:
Lambert right here: The WHO information is nugatory, so I changed it with the Iowa Covid Information Tracker. Their methodology: “These information have been sourced, by way of the API from the CDC: https://information.cdc.gov/NCHS/Situations-Contributing-to-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Stat/hk9y-quqm. This visualization updates on Wednesday evenings. Information are provisional and are adjusted weekly by the CDC.” I can’t appear to get a pop-up that reveals a complete of the three causes (high proper). Readers?
Complete: 1,180,405 – 1,180,403 = 2 (!) (27 * 365 = 730 deaths per 12 months, as we speak’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing 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 think about “mission completed” for this specific tranche of dying and illness).
Extra Deaths
The Economist, October 27:
Lambert right here: Primarily based on a machine-learning mannequin.
Stats Watch
Manufacturing: “United States Chicago PMI” [Trading Economics]. “The Chicago Enterprise Barometer, also called the Chicago PMI, fell marginally to 44 in October 2023 from 44.1 and under market forecasts of 45. The studying marked the 14th consecutive month of strong contraction in enterprise exercise within the Chicago area.”
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Tech: “.US Harbors Prolific Malicious Hyperlink Shortening Service” [Krebs on Security]. “The highest-level area for the US — .US — is residence to 1000’s of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious hyperlink shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new analysis suggests. The findings come shut on the heels of a report that recognized .US domains as among the many most prevalent in phishing assaults over the previous 12 months. Researchers at Infoblox say they’ve been monitoring what seems to be a three-year-old hyperlink shortening service that’s catering to phishers and malware purveyors. Infoblox discovered the domains concerned are usually three to seven characters lengthy, and hosted on bulletproof internet hosting suppliers that cost a premium to disregard any abuse or authorized complaints. The brief domains don’t host any content material themselves, however are used to obfuscate the true tackle of touchdown pages that attempt to phish customers or set up malware…. .US is overseen by the Nationwide Telecommunications and Info Administration (NTIA), an govt department company of the U.S. Division of Commerce. However Uncle Sam has lengthy outsourced the administration of .US to varied non-public firms, which have regularly allowed the US’s top-level area to devolve right into a cesspool of phishing exercise.” • On model for the Empire of Lies, no?
Tech: “Right here’s what Apple actually means when it says ‘shot on iPhone’” [The Verge]. “Behind-the-scenes footage of Apple’s Monday night Scary Quick occasion reveals the way it was filmed utilizing an iPhone 15 Professional Max… with the help of a full suite {of professional} recording tools and studio lighting. Nonetheless photos and a video reveal that (unsurprisingly) an excessive amount of fancy tools — from drones, gimbals, dollies, industrial set lighting, and different recording equipment — continues to be required to make iPhone footage look this good. Apple has utilized related however far much less excessive setups for earlier occasions that had been filmed utilizing iPhones, together with the Burberry spring / summer time 2014 style present. It’s a neat technique to promote the recording high quality of iPhone cameras, nevertheless it’s not like on a regular basis of us can recreate these sorts of outcomes at residence except they occur to personal a shedload of ludicrously costly tools. The gear proven within the ‘Scary Quick’ behind-the-scenes footage is pretty customary for large studio productions, however Apple’s implication with these so-called ‘shot on iPhone’ promotions is that anybody can do it if solely they purchase the most recent iPhone.”
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In the present day’s Concern & Greed Index: 29 Concern (earlier shut: 30 Concern) [CNN]. One week in the past: 35 (Concern). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Oct 31 at 12:25:30 PM ET.
The Gallery
“Ever-enduring Dürer” [The New Criterion]. “Whether or not he was in reality the primary trendy artist to even be notably narcissistic appears unlikely, however what Dürer created does certainly present astonishing genius—genius that he himself was unafraid to acknowledge…. the crowning and most private works of the artist’s profession are his three painted self-portraits. Ekserdjian traces Dürer’s profession by way of these self-portraits, alongside such highlights as Adoration of the Holy Trinity (1511), the Protestant 4 Apostles (1526), and a lot of different magnificent altarpieces and portraits. However it’s within the three surviving self-portraits that one finds probably the most ability. Ekserdjian writes that “Dürer painted not less than 4 unbiased self-portraits, whereas most artists of the interval didn’t execute even one.” These works, along with the various research and commissions the place Dürer inserted himself into the body, reveal his novel curiosity in his personal picture. Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (1493) reveals a twenty-three-year-old Dürer gazing out on the viewer, as he does in all his self-portraits. His garments are elegant, and but an adolescent high quality stays on his face. The Prado Self-Portrait (1498) depicts the artist as a twenty-six-year-old, this time in even finer apparel, his golden hair executed in tight ringlets, with any look of uncertainty now absent from his visage. Lastly, the Self-Portrait on the Age of Twenty-Eight (1500) is the artist’s Meisterwerk. Right here, his picture is merged with the iconography of Christ. These work show each the ingenuity and mastery with which Dürer melded artist and topic into one, thereby realizing the perfect of the self-portrait.”
I just like the later Hopper a lot better:
American Village, 1912 https://t.co/sx0DFEAdee pic.twitter.com/njppUrCC6K
— Edward Hopper (@artisthopper) October 31, 2023
Though Hopper was solely 1912 – 1884 = 28 when he painted this.
Class Warfare
“UAW reaches cope with GM, ending strike in opposition to Detroit automakers” [Reuters]. “Normal Motors and the United Auto Employees (UAW) struck a tentative deal on Monday, ending the union’s unprecedented six-week marketing campaign of coordinated strikes that received document pay will increase for staff on the Detroit Three automakers. The accord follows offers the union reached in latest days with Ford Motor and Chrysler-owner Stellantis – important victories for auto staff after years of stagnant wages and painful concessions following the 2008 monetary disaster. ‘We wholeheartedly imagine our strike squeezed each final dime out of Normal Motors,’ UAW President Shawn Fain stated in a video tackle. ‘They underestimated us. They underestimated you.’” So far as two-tier: “The contract reverses years of efforts by GM to create lower-paid teams of UAW staff at models comparable to part vegetation, components warehouses and electrical car battery operations…. The contract additionally restricts use of decrease paid short-term staff. ‘We now have slammed the door on having a everlasting underclass of short-term staff at GM,’ Fain stated.” • Presumably the contrac language can be forthcoming, so we will guarantee that two-tier, per se, is gone, and Fain and the UAW management didn’t nibble spherical the sides.
“Return To Workplace is all about energy” [Werd I/O]. In contrast to… In contrast to… Oh, wait…. “The important flip is between an employer-controlled surroundings and a worker-controlled surroundings. Within the former, staff will be noticed and their conduct influenced. Within the latter, not a lot…. This steadiness of energy, not less than for information staff, is what has flipped eternally. No person’s willingly going again to an surroundings of predominant employer management — not less than not with out important concessions. Irrespective of which method you chop it or which instruments you utilize, distant work does rely upon belief in your staff, extra devolved energy and distributed fairness, excessive transparency, and nice, bi-directional communication. If these are difficult to a company, there simply is likely to be deeper issues that must be addressed.”
Information of the Wired
“Tesla Mannequin Y Proprietor Provides Buttons to Touchscreen, Will get Flamed by Tesla Fanboys” [The Drive]. “The set up was proven in a video from an unknown Chinese language social media platform, which has since unfold to Twitter. In it, a Mannequin Y proprietor installs a plug-and-play button panel beneath the touchscreen, which controls capabilities comparable to local weather management, door locks, and the trunk launch. On high of letting the driving force function these (and different capabilities) with out taking their eyes off the highway, the row of buttons matches with the Tesla’s design and shade scheme, wanting prefer it may’ve been factory-installed. All in all, a win-win.” • Shocked there’s no after marketplace for this.
“Can I take away my private information from GenAI coaching datasets?” [Knowing Machines]. “How will you take away private information from coaching datasets whenever you have no idea in case your information is even there? A technique could also be to ask properly…. One other method is to sue…. However possible probably the most promising methodology to study whether or not your private information is in GenAI coaching datasets and to hunt its deletion is to ship a request beneath the CCPA, which is just accessible for California residents…. For now, there isn’t a foolproof technique to power firms to reveal whether or not, how a lot, and what sorts of your private information have been used as coaching information for his or her GenAI merchandise. Even when there was a method, nevertheless, it’s at the moment technically unimaginable to completely take away information from coaching datasets with out influencing deep studying fashions in unpredictable methods…. In a couple of months, we might even see some technical progress on this difficulty; till then, firms could also be unable to adjust to information deletion provisions in legal guidelines just like the CCPA.” • The businesses can comply; it’s simply that their AIs received’t work. So who’s drawback is that? That’s what occurs whenever you construct your bullshit era enterprise on theft at scale.
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Chet writes: “Goldenrod is without doubt one of the most important flowers, because it blooms within the autumn at a time when most different flowers are on the way in which out.”
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