2:00PM Water Cooler 4/26/2024 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Fowl Tune of the Day

American Woodcock, E. Gwillimbury Twp.; Brown Hill, Ontario, Canada. “A recording of the flight sounds. No. flights: 1 flight (0:00-0.58) – floor calls – flight 2 (3:31-4:29) flight 3 (4:37-5:32).” 17’38” of peents (title worthy of John Cage). 1962!

In Case You May Miss…

(1) Seattle Clear Air Collective

(2) Presidential immunity argued on the Supreme Courtroom.

(3) Susie Wiles, feared political operative and Trump’s proper hand particular person.

(4) AI infesting Etsy crochet sample market.

Search for the Helpers

“The Seattle Clear Air Collective Is Making the Metropolis’s Reveals and Areas COVID-Safer” [The Stranger]. “Seattle Clear Air Collective, a mutual assist group that lends air purification gear like air filters and specialised, pathogen-destroying ultraviolet lights to artists and musicians for no cost. The group is a part of a rising motion composed of individuals throughout the nation who really feel authorities companies and companies have deserted their security and ignored an evolving understanding of the virus for revenue and a false promise of normalcy. Within the absence of official motion, folks like White really feel security has turn into a group duty… The variety of Individuals nonetheless taking COVID-19 precautions, similar to indoor masking, is dwindling as native and nationwide public well being companies proceed to chill out well being pointers… The Seattle Clear Air Collective isn’t the primary group of its sort. A Chicago-based group known as Clear Air Membership is credited with the thought of a clear air lending library when it started distributing air filters final 12 months. In September, Clear Air Membership posted its information on Instagram instructing folks the way to begin their very own golf equipment. Individuals commented the names of their cities under, looking for others thinking about organizing, together with Seattle Clear Air Collective co-founder Taylor Klekamp. Organizers in a minimum of 29 cities—Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Charlottesville, Melbourne, Australia, and Vancouver, British Columbia—have additionally replicated the Clear Air Membership mannequin.” Spectacular! Extra: “Seattle’s collective has a small assortment of three purifiers and three far-UVC lamps circulating in Seattle. The gear is so in demand that more often than not organizers are coordinating direct hand-offs between debtors.” • Encouraging!

My electronic mail handle 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 searching for (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 reality a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

The Constitutional Order (Riot)

Trump v. United States, the Presidential immunity case wherein oral arguments had been heard yesterday. There’s numerous sound and fury about this, numerous aghastitude, numerous Trumpian grandiosity, and I don’t say the problems are simple, however they aren’t difficult. First the pragmatics–

“US Supreme Courtroom alerts delay in ruling on Trump’s declare of absolute immunity” [France24]. “The energetic questioning of all 9 justices left the robust impression that the courtroom was not headed for the kind of speedy, consensus determination that may enable a trial to start shortly.” • Nothing flawed with kicking the can down the highway, eh?

“The Final Factor This Supreme Courtroom Might Do to Shock Us” [Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Slate]. Regardless of the aghastitude, Slate presents the 2 poles of the argument: (1) “[Justice Sonia Sotomayor] responded in what might solely be heard as a cri de coeur: ‘Secure democratic society wants good religion of public officers,’ she stated. ‘That good religion assumes that they’ll observe the legislation.’ The justice famous that regardless of all of the protections in place, a democracy can typically ‘doubtlessly fail.’ She concluded: ‘In the long run, if it fails utterly, it’s as a result of we destroyed our democracy on our personal, isn’t it?’ and (2): “[B]y that time we had heard each Alito and Gorsuch opine that presidents have to be protected in any respect prices from the whims of overzealous deep state prosecutors brandishing ‘obscure’ legal statutes.” • Sotomayer appears blissfully unaware of the realities of lawfare, not doable to observe in good religion; Alito and Gorsuch appear OK with, say, Obama whacking US residents, plural, with drone strikes (the precedent might come in useful this summer season!) It appears to me that Trump has, as normal, managed to seek out his option to a horrid edge case; what the Supreme Courtroom is attempting to do is, in essence, quite a bit just like the Third World drawback of attempting to jot down a Structure to forestall the army from staging a coup (or from writing a brand new Structure and granting themselves retroactive immunity). In such a case, and maybe for us, “auxiliary precautions” have failed, and “a dependence on the folks” is the one “main management” remaining.

Biden Administration

2024

Lower than a 12 months to go!

★RCP Ballot Averages, April 26:

Nationwide outcomes are nonetheless transferring Biden’s means. However all of the Swing States (extra right here) are transferring Trump’s means, though in tiny increments. It’s exhausting to attribute this consistency to mere probability. “All” with one exception: Pennsylvania. If Susie Wiles is such a mind genius, why isn’t she fixing this?

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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Trump might keep away from trial this 12 months on 2020 election expenses. Is the hush cash case a worthy proxy?” [Orlando Sentinel]. “Richard Painter, a College of Minnesota Regulation Faculty professor and former affiliate White Home counsel through the George W. Bush administration, stated he believed the details of the case met the proof wanted to find out whether or not a felony had been dedicated that violated marketing campaign legislation, however added, ‘The election interference half, I’ve a bit little bit of hassle on this.’ Richard Hasen, a UCLA legislation college professor, stated the New York case doesn’t examine to the opposite election-related expenses Trump faces. ‘We will draw a reasonably brilliant line between trying to alter vote totals to flip a presidential election and failing to reveal embarrassing info on a authorities type,’ he wrote in a latest Los Angeles Instances column. In an electronic mail, Hasen stated New York prosecutors had been calling the case election interference ‘as a result of that reinforces what often is the solely case heard earlier than the election.’ Some stated prosecutors’ determination to characterize the New York case as election interference gave the impression to be a technique designed to boost its visibility.”

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Trump (R): “The Most Feared and Least Recognized Political Operative in America” [Politico]. Susie Wiles (whose father was, amazingly, soccer nice and and alcoholic Pat Summerall). “Wiles isn’t just one among Trump’s senior advisers. She’s his most vital adviser. She’s his de facto marketing campaign supervisor. She has been in essence his chief of employees for the final greater than three years. She’s one of many causes Trump is the GOP’s presumptive nominee and Ron DeSantis isn’t.” I bear in mind when the press flipped into pull-the-wings-off-flies mode on DeSantis: An assault on his spouse’s style sense. Then, IIRC, got here the lifts in his footwear. Seems Wiles planted these tales. Extra: “Trump after all isn’t an alcoholic — he in reality doesn’t drink in any respect — however Trump is each bit an addict, of chaos and battle, of consideration and affirmation. And Wiles sees in Trump, as she noticed in her father, a ranging, voracious intelligence, a quenchless capability for exercise, and a drive that borders on nearly manic ambition. They had been stars, too, each of them, of a unique kind, sure, however in the identical place and on the similar time — not simply in and round New York however much more particularly the New York of the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s, which for Trump stays his most formative stretch and stage. It’s a chunk of the previous that they share. It’s one thing to Trump that issues quite a bit. It’s a part of what makes him say Wiles has ‘good genes.’ They’d on paper appear dissimilar,’ she informed me. ‘However they’re simply not that dissimilar.’” • This an extended however well-written beat sweetener. Nonetheless, I extremely suggest it to our Anglosphere readers, who could not perceive that America’s sheer scale makes its politics completely different from a lot smaller nations (capital construction too, I might think about). The article additionally makes clear that electoral politics is a extremely expert commerce. It’s not simple in any respect (“the best of all reflections on human nature”).

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Biden (D): “Scoop: Biden adjustments strolling routine to Marine One” [Axios]. “President Biden has launched a change to his White Home departure and return routine. As a substitute of strolling throughout the South Garden to and from Marine One by himself, he’s now usually surrounded by aides. With aides strolling between Biden and journalists’ digital camera place exterior the White Home, the visible impact is to attract much less consideration to the 81-year-old’s halting and stiff gait. Some Biden advisers have informed Axios they’re involved that movies of Biden strolling and shuffling alone — particularly throughout the grass — have highlighted his age. Weeks in the past the president informed aides that he’d choose a much less formal strategy, a White Home official informed Axios. He advised that they stroll with him. White Home staffers and reporters alike observed the sudden change in Biden’s stroll routine starting in mid-April, after greater than three years wherein he’d usually walked solo. Senior aides similar to deputy chiefs of employees Bruce Reed and Annie Tomasini and shut adviser Mike Donilon are amongst those that’ve walked with the president throughout the garden to and from the helicopter.Because the change, some advisers suppose the pictures of Biden’s walks to and from the helicopter are higher, they usually count on him to proceed to have aides be part of him.” • Most scrutinized man on earth….

Biden (D): “Contained in the failed White Home coup to oust Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre” [New York Post]. ” High aides to President Biden secretly hatched a plan this previous fall to exchange White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by recruiting exterior allies to nudge her out the door, The Publish has realized. Jean-Pierre, who made historical past in Might 2022 by changing into the primary black and first brazenly homosexual particular person to carry the place, had developed the exasperating behavior of studying canned solutions straight from a binder to reporters at her common briefings — providing what her superiors considered as a less-than-compelling pitch for the 81-year-old Biden as he readied his re-election marketing campaign. De facto White Home communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the spouse of Biden private legal professional Bob Bauer, informed colleagues she had determined to name in distinguished Democrats to elucidate to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to maneuver on, sources informed The Publish…. ‘Karine doesn’t have an understanding of the problems and he or she reads the e book [binder] word-for-word,’ stated the second supply, including that the scenario is made worse by the truth that ‘she thinks she’s doing an incredible job.’ ‘She doesn’t have a grasp of the problems and doesn’t spend the time to study,’ this particular person stated. ‘These points will not be second nature to folks. Israel and Gaza is an ideal instance. It’s very nuanced. Jen would have calls with folks to really feel well-versed sufficient to go to the briefing.’ ‘There’s an unlimited quantity of labor that goes into preparing,’ the primary supply stated, ‘and persistently she doesn’t put in that degree of labor.’” • Jean-Pierre refusing to be muscled by Anita Dunn?! That’s fairly one thing!

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“With DNC nomination set for after Ohio deadline, legislators negotiate to make sure Biden is on poll” [FOX]. “OP Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman informed reporters Wednesday that productive discussions are underneath means between each legislative chambers and each political events about the way to repair the truth that the Democratic Nationwide Conference, the place Biden is to be formally nominated, falls after Ohio’s poll deadline of Aug. 7. The conference will likely be held Aug. 19-22 in Chicago. ‘Actually, it’s one thing that’s going to occur. We have to deal with it,’ Huffman stated, seeming to regulate his earlier stance that it was ‘a Democratic drawback’ that was as much as the Normal Meeting’s minority social gathering to work out. He stated the reply could also be added to an present invoice or it might be contained in a stand-alone measure…. As Ohio nears the Might 9 cutoff set by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, laws meant to make sure Biden will seem on fall ballots in Alabama cleared the state’s Senate Tuesday. The Alabama invoice affords lodging to the president like these made 4 years in the past for then-President Donald Trump.” • Good. A minimum of partisanship hasn’t gone utterly around the twist.

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Democrats en Déshabillé

Realignment and Legitimacy

“Unhealthy Management Is a Nationwide-Safety Menace” [Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal]. “I usually learn the memoirs of up to date British politicians. As soon as I learn weighty biographies by critical historians of the greats—Gladstone, Disraeli, Churchill, Harold Macmillan—however present leaders don’t appear nice, and don’t final. They usually write memoirs, nevertheless, and I learn them to horrify myself… Why is that this value mentioning, since everybody appears to have observed a deterioration of their high quality? As a result of our foes know. The character of our leaders appears to me a national-security subject. My concern is that historical past will see it this fashion: On the precise second America’s foes determined to turn into extra public of their antipathy and deadlier of their calculations—”again to blood,” as Tom Wolfe stated, by way of the character of peoples’ future loyalties—at that very same second our leaders within the West had been changing into extra frivolous and unfocused, extra superficial, than ever in trendy occasions. I believe our foes discover this. It’s maybe a part of why they’ve turn into extra aggressive. Harry S. Truman and Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, no matter else they had been, nobody ever thought they had been buyable or shallow of their development of America’s which means and pursuits. Their successors appear to lack a comparable inside stature…. The unseriousness of our leaders isn’t a small and amusing tabloid story however a actuality that should startle us. Leaders of different nations extrapolate from our leaders, whom they know. They suppose that as they’re, we’re. It contributes to the facility of the argument, of their councils of state, that the West has misplaced its means…. One significantly good man right here, one exceptionally good lady there, might start to show it round, or would possibly on the very least startle overseas leaders and make them reappraise. That may be a great long-term mission for us as residents: Get a greater class of people to enter the enterprise of main us.” • Third World pondering: “Get a greater class of people.” That’s not how our system was designed! “If males had been angels, no authorities could be needed. If angels had been to control males, neither exterior nor inside controls on authorities could be needed. In framing a authorities which is to be administered by males over males, the nice issue lies on this: you have to first allow the federal government to manage the ruled; and within the subsequent place oblige it to manage itself. A dependence on the folks is, little question, the first management on the federal government; however expertise has taught mankind the need of auxiliary precautions. This coverage of supplying, by reverse and rival pursuits, the defect of higher motives, may be traced by way of the entire system of human affairs, personal in addition to public.” –Federalist 51. That’s the system that has been rigorously demolished and changed with blobs and vibes.

Pandemics

“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; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of 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 at liberty to contact me on the handle 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 (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

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Maskstravaganza

“Behind the masks: Why the brand new US campus protestors cowl their faces” [Semafor]. “The very first thing you see are the masks — the N-95s, the surgical masks, the patterned fabric masks, the bandanas — which largely vanished from American life over the past two years however are a defining characteristic of America’s swelling left-wing protest tradition. College members at New York College hyperlink arms to guard a “Gaza solidarity encampment,” most of them carrying face masks. Activists block journey throughout the Golden Gate Bridge, all of them in masks. Members of the March on DNC 2024 coalition present as much as their Chicago press convention in face masks, eradicating them solely when it’s their flip to talk. Practically one 12 months after the official finish of the federal COVID-19 emergency declaration, the common use of face masks for non-immunocompromised folks has light from American life. Out of doors masking, mandated in lots of states through the peak of the pandemic, grew to become even rarer after a 2022 CDC advisory scaled it again. However that gradual return to barefaced life by no means reached left-leaning protests, the place face masks are extensively used and inspired. A part of the rationale, say organizers, stays an try to make a degree about publicity to COVID-19 and different well being dangers, which some within the left-wing protest actions consider stay dire. And half is the specter of a unique sort of publicity — from being captured by facial recognition expertise or changing into doxxed (their private info being shared on-line) by counter-protesters. ‘To us, the optics are speaking that we deny the Biden administration’s narrative about COVID — that it’s now not a giant deal,” stated Olan Mijana, a spokesman for the March on DNC 2024 coalition. “It’s about collective security, and it’s additionally about connecting this COVID neglect to the very points that we’re marching on the DNC for.’” • I don’t suppose this text is appropriate; I’ve seen constant complaints from the immunocompromised that left-leaning areas don’t implement common masking in any respect; and never simply the brunch varieties, both. In any case, masking immunocompromized folks are actually doubly othered, because of the left’s fecklessness again at the beginning of the pandemic.

Elite Maleficence

Twitter community-corrects the droplet goons at WHO:

Shockingly, @Twitter has accomplished what @WHO has REFUSED to do for two.5 years.

Inform us that the “FACT: COVID-19 is NOT AIRBORNE” message from !WHO “was not confirmed on the time, and is NOW CONFIRMED FALSE”

Will @WHO please affirm they agree and apologize?@mvankerkhove? @DrTedros? pic.twitter.com/wcRvMW8wsV

— Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez (@jljcolorado) October 6, 2022

TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts

LEGEND

1) ★ for charts new at this time; all others will not be up to date.

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NOTES

[1] (Biobot) Our curve has now flattened out at a degree far above valleys underneath Trump. Not an awesome victory. Be aware additionally the realm “underneath the curve,” apart from peaks. That space is bigger underneath Biden than underneath Trump, and it appears to be rising steadily if inconsistently.

[2] (Biobot) No backward revisons….

[3] (CDC Variants) As of Might 11, genomic surveillance information will likely be reported biweekly, based mostly on the provision of constructive check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Seems like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.

[4] (ER) CDC appears to have killed this off, because the hyperlink is damaged, I feel in favor of this factor. I’ll attempt to affirm. UPDATE Sure, go away it to CDC to kill a web page, after which announce it was archived a day later. And heaven forfend CDC ought to clarify the place to go to get equal information, if any. I appreciated the ER information, as a result of it appeared actually exhausting to recreation.

[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Flattening out to a non-zero baseline. I suppose to a tame epidemiologist it seems like “endemicity,” however to me it seems like one other tranche of lethality.

[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless down. “Maps, charts, and information supplied by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Check Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.

[7] (Walgreens) Leveling out.

[8] (Cleveland) Slight uptrend.

[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Uptick.

[10] (Vacationers: Variants) JN.1 dominates totally.

[11] Seems just like the Instances isn’t reporting demise information any extra? Perhaps I want to return to The Economist….

Stats Watch

Inflation: “United States Core PCE Worth Index Annual Change” [Trading Economics]. “The US core PCE worth index, the Federal Reserve’s most popular gauge to measure inflation, rose by 2.8% from the earlier 12 months in March 2024, the least since March 2021, as in February. Figures got here above market forecasts of two.6%.”

The Financial system:

Right now’s Worry & Greed Index: 43 Worry (earlier shut: 40 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 32 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Apr 26 at 1:54:00 PM ET.

Class Warfare

“Can Biden Revive the Fortunes of American Staff?” [Paul Krugman, New York Times]. • What an absurdly wrong-headed query. The actual query: “Can American employees revive the fortunes of American employees?”

“‘The working class can’t afford it’: the surprising fact concerning the cash bands make on tour” [Guardian]. “For this text, the Guardian has seen 12 tour finances sheets for varied bands and artists various from up-and-comers to firmly established and profitable acts, all of whom commonly undertake headline excursions throughout the UK in venues starting from 150 to 2,500 capability. Nearly all of those end in losses. Understandably, most shared their stability sheets on the situation of anonymity. One four-piece indie band, whose final two albums went High 10 within the UK charts, reported a lack of £2,885 from a six-day UK tour. The one tour that exhibits something resembling wholesome revenue was a 29-date tour for a solo artist who got here away with £6,550. Not unhealthy going for a month’s work however, as Martin factors out, ‘that’s then his touring accomplished for the following six months. So it’s not sufficient cash…. The query is: who else will be capable to afford to pursue music as a interest? ‘It depresses me what number of center and higher class folks there are within the music business,’ says supervisor Potts. ‘As a result of the working class simply can’t afford to fork out £150 a day for van rent. The one artists doing which are individuals who have deeper pockets and may afford to take the hit.’”

Information of the Wired

“Etsy crochet patrons say AI-made photographs are getting used to promote disappointing patterns” [NBC]. “A yarn-woven Garfield, a highland cow and a child dragon are simply a few of the cute plush objects displayed within the Etsy shops of crochet-pattern retailers. However consumers on the on-line retailer, which makes a speciality of handmade, classic and distinctive items, say the polished last merchandise that seem within the Etsy photographs aren’t something like the ultimate merchandise made with the patterns, and that they suppose the pictures may be made with synthetic intelligence. Crochet, a observe of creating clothes objects, materials and collectibles out of yarn, has a thriving group on Etsy. And lots of lovers, relatively than purchase the completed product, purchase the patterns, which usually vary from $2 to $10, that instruct them in crafting the objects themselves. An NBC Information seek for “crochet patterns” returned greater than half a dozen storefronts with crochet sample product listings that seem to characteristic dozens of AI-generated photographs. Etsy broadly permits AI-generated content material, to the dismay of some sellers. Nonetheless, Etsy requires sellers to precisely depict their merchandise in itemizing images. In response to NBC Information’ request for remark, Etsy stated that its Buy Safety Program permits patrons to obtain refunds for merchandise that don’t precisely replicate what was marketed on the platform. It additionally stated it takes motion towards sellers who’ve been the topic of a number of complaints.” • So why do the knitters should shovel again the tide of AI crap? Why isn’t that Etsy’s job?

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