{"id":85624,"date":"2024-10-08T23:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/200pm-water-cooler-10-8-2024-naked-capitalism\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T23:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T23:22:22","slug":"200pm-water-cooler-10-8-2024-naked-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/200pm-water-cooler-10-8-2024-naked-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"2:00PM Water Cooler 10\/8\/2024 | naked capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><strong>By Lambert Strether of Corrente.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kind readers, thanks to so many of you for asking after me yesterday, when I had described my fall. In fact, I am, as I thought I would be, in form today. No sprain or tear, which is what I was most worried about (since my back is stiff as the best of times). A few twinges in my knee. Scrapes nicely scabbed over. The whole episode brings home to me how lucky I have been, not only in this particular episode, but generally: Many, many people have experienced more pain in their lifetimes than I ever have. \u2013lambert P.S. Also a hat tip to Big Pharma for the pills. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back to the mimidae!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/macaulaylibrary.org\/asset\/617267811\/embed\" height=\"300\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tropical Mockingbird,Punto Sin Retorno, Ocotepeque, Honduras. \u201cImitando otras especies: 0:30 (Melanerpes aurifrons) 1:08 (Falco sparverius) 1:28 (Camptostoma imberbe) 2:00 (Piaya cayana) 2:08 (Rupornis magnirostris).\u201d Quite a virtuoso!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>New <a href=\"#polling\">Trump\u2019s 2020 polling underestimates<\/a> vs. margins in the Swing States today.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#immigration\">The Feds launder migrants through NGOs<\/a> to firms owned by the American gentry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing\u2019s stock<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"helper\"\/><strong>Look for the Helpers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like introverts <em>need<\/em> help, of course\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Omg this is the type of book club I can get behind!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CbpRJWmDT7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/CbpRJWmDT7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Non-anxiety Magnet (parody) (@goesonrants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goesonrants\/status\/1842781497755132122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u2026. but it still can be nice.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>My email address is down by the plant; please send examples of there (\u201cHelpers\u201d in the subject line). In our increasingly desperate and fragile neoliberal society, everyday <em>normal<\/em> incidents and stories of \u201cthe communism of everyday life\u201d are what I am looking for (and not, say, the Red Cross in Hawaii, or even the UNWRA in Gaza).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>2024<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Less than forty days to go!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/free.timeanddate.com\/countdown\/i8ubjj5e\/n179\/cf100\/cm0\/cu1\/ct0\/cs1\/ca0\/cr0\/ss0\/cac000\/cpc000\/pcfff\/tcfff\/fs100\/szw320\/szh135\/tatTime%20left%20to%20Election%20Day%2C%202024\/tac000\/tptTime%20since%20Event%20started%20in\/tpc000\/mac000\/mpc000\/iso2024-11-05T00:00:00\/bo2\/pd2\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"322\" height=\"137\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <a name=\"rcp\"\/>Friday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RCP<\/a> Poll Averages:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"990\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-279819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-04.png 636w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-04-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-04-624x971.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you ignore the entire concept of margin of error, Trump gained a few inches of ground in the trench warfare (Of course, we on the outside might as well be examining the entrails of birds when we try to predict what will happen to a subset of voters (undecided; irregular) in a subset of states (swing), and the irregulars especially might as well be quantum foam, but presumably the campaign professionals have better data, and have the situation as under control as it can be <sub>MR SUBLIMINAL Fooled ya. Kidding!<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"polling\"\/>The other day I muttered about making a map putting Trump\u2019s 2020 voting underestimates against Trump (or Kamala\u2019s) margins in Swing States. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/10\/200pm-water-cooler-10-4-2024.html#comment-4111181\">Hat tip to alert reader hk<\/a> for doing the hard work and digging out the numbers. I did the easy part, which was making the handy map: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/270toWin_trump_margins.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"474\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-280063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/270toWin_trump_margins.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/270toWin_trump_margins-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Legend<\/strong>: Numbers in Blue (Kamala) or Red (Trump) show the leading candidate in 2024. Naturally, orange numbers show Trump\u2019s underestimates in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, if the polls in 2024 are off by as much, and in the same direction, as the polls in 2020, this election looks very, very different (and, in fact, in the bag for Trump). But are they? Opinions differ (\u201cInfinite are the arguments of mages\u201d \u2013Ursula LeGuin).<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: I am not a polling maven!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCNN data guru declares Trump will win White House if he outperforms current polling by one point\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cnn-data-guru-trump-win-white-house-outperforms-current-polling-one-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201cCNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said that the presidential race between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is so close that if Trump outperforms current polling by one point, he will win the White House. \u2018We\u2018re talking about the closest campaign in a generation where ,\u2019 Enten told CNN anchor John Berman on Friday.\u201d \u2022 Oh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Asterisk on Kamala Harris\u2019s Poll Numbers\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/10\/The%20Asterisk%20on%20Kamala%20Harris%E2%80%99s%20Poll%20Numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Atlantic<\/a>]. \u201cThe 2016 election lives in popular memory as perhaps the most infamous polling miss of all time, but 2020 was quietly even worse. The polls four years ago badly underestimated Trump\u2019s support even as they correctly forecast a Joe Biden win. A comprehensive postmortem by the American Association for Public Opinion Research concluded that 2020 polls were the least accurate in decades, overstating Biden\u2019s advantage by an average of 3.9 percentage points nationally and 4.3 percentage points at the state level over the final two weeks of the election\u2026. According to The New York Times, Biden led by 10 points in Wisconsin but won it by less than 1 point; he led Michigan by 8 and won by 3; he led in Pennsylvania by 5 and won by about 1. As of this writing, Harris is up in all three states, but by less than Biden was. .\u201d More: \u201c[Don Levy, the director of the Siena College Research Institute] told me that, in 2020, the people working the phones for Siena frequently reported incidents of being yelled at by mistrustful Trump supporters. \u2018In plain English, it was not uncommon for someone to say, \u2018I\u2019m voting for Trump\u2014fuck you,&#8217;\u201d and then hang up before completing the rest of the survey, he said. (So much for the \u2018shy Trump voter\u2019 hypothesis.) In 2020, those responses weren\u2019t counted. This time around, they are. Levy told me that including these \u2018partials\u2019 in 2020 would have erased nearly half of Siena\u2019s error rate.\u201d What if Trump voters are so disaffected that they lie about supporting Harris? Nobody seems to have mentioned that possibility. And: \u201c\u2018In 2016, the feeling was that the problem we had was not capturing non-college-educated white voters, particularly in the Midwest,\u2019 Chris Jackson, the head of U.S. public polling at Ipsos, told me. \u2018But what 2020 told us is that\u2019s not actually sufficient. There is some kind of political-behavior dimension that wasn\u2019t captured in that education-by-race crosstab. So, essentially, what the industry writ large has done is, we\u2019ve started really looking much more strongly at political variables.\u2019 .\u201d \u2022 Perhaps the Republican and Democrat voters are fundamentally different not along ideological lines but in terms of capability. Republicans, after all, hated their party leadership and overthrew it. Democrats have done no such thing. Perhaps that level of commitment carries over to turnout (though I grant this possibility wouldn\u2019t apply to undecided or irregular voters, unless they thought this capability worthy of emulation). One might speculate that Trump\u2019s \u201cfight, fight, fight!,\u201d and continued presence on the campaign trail despite not one but two assassination attempts feeds into this propensity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we trust the polls this year?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2024-elections\/370649\/trust-polls-2016-2020-election-2024-pollster-polling-miss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VOX<\/a>]. Various: \u201cIt has been getting harder because of Trump\u2019s ability to turn out the kinds of voters many polls have trouble capturing.\u201d If these \u201ckinds\u201d of voters are irregular or disaffected, that would mean that Trump is making \u201cour democracy\u201d work better than Democrats. More: \u201cThe phrase I heard most in my conversations was a worry about \u2018solving for the last problem\u2019 or \u2018fighting the last battle.\u2019 In other words, lessons have been learned, but will those lessons apply this time around? In 2016, for example, pollsters addressed some of the reasons they overestimated Mitt Romney\u2019s performance in 2012 but missed that state-level surveys were overrepresenting college graduates. That miss ended up artificially boosting Hillary Clinton\u2019s support, especially in the Midwest battleground states that proved decisive.\u201d And a list of the worries: Nonresponse bias, unlikely and late-deciding voters, hard-to-poll subgroups (approached by looking crosstab results that \u201ccan yield conclusions with margins of error much larger than those of a poll\u2019s topline results\u201d). And tips: Look at the sample size, methodology, firm, margin of error, and stay skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you\u2019re sure the presidential race will be close?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2024\/09\/16\/so-youre-sure-the-presidential-race-will-be-close\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[Roll Call<\/a>]. \u201cRemember, polls are based on turnout assumptions, and if Harris generates stronger turnout among younger voters, voters of color, former Republicans, and college-educated whites, she could outperform the polling.\u201d \u2022 I\u2019m doubtful. I\u2019m seeing two swing states where voters meet the \u201ccrawl over broken glass\u201d turnout test. Both sets of voters are Trump voters. The first is PA, where Trump was almost assassinated in Butler. The second is NC, where Trump voters in WNC may feel they have been abandoned (and disrespected) by the Biden Administration\u2019s response to Helene. Now, NC cuts both ways, because those Trump voters, motivated though they be, simply may not be able to reach the polls (the Post Office isn\u2019t getting many absentee ballots right now, for example). However, if Republicans successfullly frame the Biden Administration\u2019s response to Milton as similar to the response to Helene, then WNC sentiment may spread to Georgia, another swing state hit hard by Helene, or even go national. And I think the Democrat counter-messaging on abortion is preaching to the choir. From Georgia, KLG amplifies:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My sources have no reason to lie. Perhaps some exaggeration but it all seems too likely to me.<\/p>\n<p>FEMA is a charlie foxtrot, whatever its apologists and administrators say. Almost every person who applies for the $750 is denied. For example, if you have insurance, no $750 because your benevolent insurance company will pay. Yeah, but for many, only after being dragged kicking and screaming to cut the check. An assistant rents her house in rural Georgia. Her losses are real but because she is a renter, no $200 to replace the farm produce and meat lost in her freezer due to a week without electricity. That\u2019s all she asked for. $200B or whatever for Ukraine but no $200 for her. Some areas still do not know when power will be restored. Compared to the mountains of North Carolina, these are the fortunate. This is the message the people are getting\u2026It is likely to get worse when Milton slams into Tampa-St. Pete Wednesday night. Sustained winds back up to 150 mph with 24 hours to go. This can be a killer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p10\">If that assistant is not afflicted with TDS, there\u2019s another potential \u201cbroken glass\u201d voter in a swing state (and thirty days is time to marinate a lot of grievance).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolling isn\u2019t broken, but pollsters still face Trump-era challenges\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/538\/polling-broken-pollsters-face-trump-era-challenges\/story?id=110677969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC<\/a>]. Report from the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in May: \u201c[Cameron McPhee, chief methodologist for SSRS} told me the industry has moved toward agreement that multi-mode approaches are the best way to get a more representative sample. She stressed that it\u2019s not that one mode is better, but rather a combination is \u2018better than the sum of its parts.\u2019 For instance, one SSRS survey experiment saw improved response rates for state-level surveys that recruited respondents by various means, including postcard or SMS text message, and gave respondents six potential access points to respond: URL, QR code (directing them to the survey), text, email, a phone number for respondents to call (inbound dialing) and SSRS reaching out to them by phone (outbound dialing).\u201d \u2022 I wonder if the different recruitment mode affects the response. I might not be \u201cthe same person\u201d answering a call as I am when making a considered response to email.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): \u201cKamala\u2019s Comedown How the Harris campaign became a grim slog\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/gqn7r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Magazine<\/a>]. \u201cHer once-ascendant polling numbers have stalled and her campaign has become cautious, granting TV interviews mostly to a handful of local news channels in swing states. If the first month of her candidacy was an exhalation after the suffocating defeatism under Biden, the last weeks before Election Day have felt like a collective holding of breath.\u201d Perhaps to a Democrat. More: After the Vance-Walz debate, \u201c[i]t was apparent that the Harris campaign had backed away from its primary value-add: the promise that it would break with the politics of the past\u2026 In response to Republican smears casting her as America\u2019s \u2018border czar\u2019 responsible for a dysfunctional immigration system, Harris has pivoted rightward on the issue, promising a more restricted path for asylum seekers during a September trip to the U.S.-Mexico border\u2026 Harris\u2019s deference to the status quo has been even more pronounced on foreign policy, which has been dominated by Israel\u2019s grinding war in Gaza\u2026. [S]elling nostalgia for a pre-Trump world raises the question of how Harris is any different from Biden. It also sends the message that Democrats have failed to convince voters that Trump and his acolytes are beyond the pale. So what\u2019s to be done about a political reality in which voters want the opposing forces of liberalism and authoritarianism to be reconciled? The answer, for Harris, increasingly resembles a paradox: stave off Trumpian calamity through politics as usual.\u201d \u2022 \u201cAcolytes\u201d being approximately half the population, deplorable though they may be?<\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): \u201cDoug Emhoff was a foul-mouthed \u2018a**hole\u2019 and \u2018misogynist\u2019 who hired a \u2018trophy secretary\u2019 because she was \u2018pretty\u2019 and \u2018retaliated against women who didn\u2019t flirt back\u2019 at LA law firm, ex-staff claim\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13925099\/kamala-harris-husband-doug-emhoff-office-misogynist-flirt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>]. IOW, he was an entertainment lawyer? \u201cAttorneys who worked with Doug Emhoff at his former firm Venable say he yelled expletives, held a men-only cocktail hour in the office, revoked work perks from women who didn\u2019t flirt with him, and took only young, attractive associates in a limousine to a ball. A 2019 lawsuit also claimed sex discrimination by other partners in the LA office Emhoff ran, and that while engaged to Harris, he hired an \u2018unqualified\u2019 part-time model as a legal secretary \u2018because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office\u2019. The claims are the latest in a string of allegations revealed by DailyMail.com that threaten to shatter Emhoff\u2019s image, heavily promoted by the Harris presidential campaign, of a feminist ally and \u2018wife guy\u2019. In August DailyMail.com revealed the Los Angeles lawyer cheated on his first wife and got his daughter\u2019s grade school teacher-cum-nanny pregnant. And last week we uncovered claims that he struck his ex-girlfriend in 2012\u2026. Now his former colleagues from the Venable Los Angeles office, which he ran from 2006 to 2017, are coming forward with allegations about his \u2018inappropriate\u2019 and \u2018a**hole\u2019 behavior in the workplace. They all spoke upon agreement they would not be named, fearing retaliation. One senior former staffer claimed Emhoff \u2018bragged\u2019 about yelling \u2018get the f*** out of my office\u2019 to a female partner at the firm, later telling his top male colleagues that he had \u2018put her in her place\u2019.\u201d \u2022 Put the weight of evidence here against that presented during the Kavanaugh nomination, and compare the levels of hysteria. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Kamala\u2019s said a whole raft of <del>idiotic<\/del> clarifying things in the past few days, but I have no time to aggregate the clips and review transcripts. Perhaps tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): Sorry to quote World Net Daily, but here we are:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democracy Dies with Democrats <\/p>\n<p>CBS: You were handed the nomination, no votes, not elected, ie: not democracy <\/p>\n<p>Kamala: I\u2019ve earned the support <\/p>\n<p>CBS: People don&#8217;t even know you<\/p>\n<p>Kamala: I&#8217;ve been in this race for 70 days \ud83e\udd74 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BTY0YagOPd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/BTY0YagOPd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldnetdaily\/status\/1843543796812001542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so old I remember when Roger Mudd took down Teddy Kennedy \u2014 IIRC, while on Kennedy\u2019s yacht \u2014 by asking Teddy to explain why he wanted to be President, and Teddy coughed up a giant hairball. This clip reminds me of that. Wouldn\u2019t it be great to have a candidate whose voice you would actually <em>enjoy<\/em> hearing? For four years?<\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): Kamala\u2019s Glock:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The next journalist who gets to interview Harris needs to delve into this choice. The Glock has no safety. It was banned by a California law she supported. Using it for self-defense in her home in DC (as she promises) was the EXACT subject of the Heller decision she opposed in an\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M2dN0qbTeL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/M2dN0qbTeL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Todd (@BradOnMessage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradOnMessage\/status\/1843612703220257238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Can readers dig into the Glock? Guns are not my field of expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): Why propagate a phrase like \u201cwhat can be, unburdened by what has been\u201d if you\u2019re not going to use it when the time comes?<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris was just asked on The View what she would have done differently than President Biden\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is not a thing that comes to mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing. Absolutely insane. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FSNh78U1xu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/FSNh78U1xu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geiger_Capital\/status\/1843679122574455143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): \u201cWhat Really Happened On Tim Walz\u2019s Trips to China\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/10\/05\/what-really-happened-on-tim-walzs-trips-to-china-00179326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. Worth a read. From this story, those kids were lucky to have Walz as a teacher (and how stupid of the Harris campaign to frame him as \u201cCoach.\u201d I imagine the campaign felt that framing made Walz a manly man, solving some demographic problems for them, but being a fine teacher is one excellent form of manhood, and with way less bullshit than American football [snort]). And oppo me no oppo; if any appears, I\u2019ll worry about it then.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cHow Jack Smith Outsmarted the Supreme Court\u201d [Sean Wilentz, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ERCin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Atlantic<\/a>]. \u201cSmith\u2019s filing tries to slice through the Court\u2019s security shield regarding the insurrection. Skillfully quoting from or alluding to language in the Court majority\u2019s own opinion, the filing demolishes the notion that Trump\u2019s activities, culminating on January 6, deserve immunity. Outwardly, Smith\u2019s filing respects the Court\u2019s dubious ruling about the immunity of official presidential acts. Legally, Smith had no choice but to operate within that ruling, a fact that sharply limited how far his filing could go. But even though it never challenges the conservative majority directly, the filing makes a case, incontrovertible in its logic and factual detail, that the core of Trump\u2019s subversion involved no official actions whatsoever. It persuasively argues, with fact after fact, that Trump was the head of an entirely private criminal plot as a candidate to overthrow the election, hatched months before the election itself. In remounting his case, , that underscore the depravity as well as the extent of Trump\u2019s criminal actions.\u201d \u2022 Unless trying a case in the court of public opinion leads to conviction, Wilentz\u2019s use of \u201ccriminal\u201d is question-begging. Further, I don\u2019t much like the outcome of <em>Trump vs. United States<\/em> myself. But the ruling is a case of \u201chard cases make bad law.\u201d And IMNSHO case <em>was<\/em> \u201chard\u201d because Democrat lawfare put Smith\/Chutkan in the public mind, along with Smith\/Cannon (dead), Bragg\/Merchan (mind-bogglingly trivial, and appealed), James\/Engoron (appealed, court dubious), and Willis\/McAfee (farcial, not tried). Perhaps if the Democrats had tried for a clean kill with January 6, instead of starting five separate cases on the theory that one would prevail, FAFO would not have applied. (But perhaps they also felt internally \u2014 having held hearings on the matter including a documentary film, ffs \u2014 that a January 6 case was not all that strong.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Expect continued volatility:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lambertstrether\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@lambertstrether<\/a> this explanation definitely makes way too much sense, it can&#8217;t be quite this coherent, but <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ethaRJ9DSI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/ethaRJ9DSI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 moe tkacik (@moetkacik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moetkacik\/status\/1835791045147201725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Nice shoutout from Tkacik [lambert blushes modestly]. <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"immigration\"\/>\u201cA Troubled Place\u201d [Christopher F. Rufo and Christina Buttons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/charleroi-pennsylvania-grapples-with-surge-of-haitian-migrants?skip=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CIty Journal<\/a>] (Charleroi, PA). This is well worth reading in full. It pains me to quote the Manhattan Institute, but they went and got the story, credit due. Here is the nut graf: \u201cThe basic pattern in Charleroi has been replicated in thousands of cities and towns across America: the federal government has opened the borders to all comers; a web of publicly funded NGOs has facilitated the flow of migrants within the country; local industries have welcomed the arrival of cheap, pliant labor. And, under these enormous pressures, places like Charleroi often revert to an older form: that of the company town, in which an open conspiracy of government, charity, and industry reshapes the society to its advantage\u2014whether the citizens want it or not.\u201d And: \u201cThe best way to understand the migrant crisis is to follow the flow of people, money, and power\u2014in other words, to trace the supply chain of human migration.\u201d \u2022 So this is \u201cour democracy.\u201d I wondered who was driving where migrants would relocate (though I\u2019m sure some is spontaneous): The (Democrat-leaning and -funded) NGOs. And all to service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/09\/trump-american-gentry-wyman-elites\/620151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the American gentry<\/a>, too (making <em>them<\/em> the real problem, what a surprise). Clamp down on \u201clocal industries\u201d and problem solved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Happens if a Hurricane Smashes Tampa?\u201d [Matt Stoller, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebignewsletter.com\/p\/what-happens-if-a-hurricane-smashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BIG<\/a>]. \u201cRegardless, we are entering a world beset by climate change, which will require a different political order. Last July, I wrote a piece on how we are forgetting the lessons from Covid. We are still highly dependent on China, and the fragility of our supply chains hasn\u2019t improved. And that\u2019s because, while there are some good policymakers in positions of authority like Lina Khan and Rohit Chopra, the bulk of our leadership class is still in thrall to a finance-friendly model of industrial fragility. And this dynamic is as much an ideological problem as anything else.\u201d \u2022 Absent the sort of \u201cchange\u201d that so many of us hope for, I think that our response to the Covid pandemic gives a clear precedent for our already-in-place \u201cdifferent political order\u201d: The ruthless application of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/03\/neo-liberalism-expressed-simple-rules.html#rule2\">Rule #2<\/a>. Stoller is more optimistic, and I hope he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Syndemics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in earnest \u2014 I will not equivocate \u2014 I will not excuse \u2014 I will not retreat a single inch \u2014 AND I WILL BE HEARD.\u201d \u2013William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Covid Resources, United States (National): Transmission (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&amp;list_select_county=all_counties&amp;data-type=Risk&amp;null=Risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>); Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>, <del><a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biobot<\/a><\/del>; includes many counties; <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wastewater Scan<\/a>, includes drilldown by zip); Variants (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/businesssolutions\/covid-19-index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a>); \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iowacovid19tracker.org\/hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iowa COVID-19 Tracker<\/a>\u201d (in IA, but national data). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/icemsg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts<\/a>\u201d (especially on hospitalization by city).<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To update any entry, do feel free to contact me at the address given with the plants. Please put \u201cCOVID\u201d in the subject line. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Resources, United States (Local): AK (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/af2efc8bffbf4cdc83c2d1a134354074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/6d2771faa9da4a2786a509d82c8cf0f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AR (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/633006d0782b4544bd5113a314f6268a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AZ (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/covid19\/data\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); CA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/COVID-19\/CalSuWers-Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.marinhhs.org\/surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marin, dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/healthalerts.stanford.edu\/covid-19\/wastewater-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanford, wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/?v=SC2_N&amp;l=Oakland%2C+CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oakland, wastewater<\/a>); CO (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.colorado.gov\/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/cdphe.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/d79cf93c3938470ca4bcc4823328946b#utility=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); CT (<a href=\"https:\/\/data.ct.gov\/stories\/s\/COVID-19-data\/wa3g-tfvc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); DE (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.delaware.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); FL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/5b9d75ba683849928dc1a49c39ab0b1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); GA (<a href=\"https:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/ga-nwss-wastewater-surveillance-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); HI (<a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); IA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmmwra.org\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater reports<\/a>); ID (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Boise; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/?plantId=1056f05c-0e46-4e3d-b007-c0453ba7dc0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Central Idaho; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/#:SARS-CoV-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Coeur d\u2019Alene; dashboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.srhd.org\/topics\/spokane-county-case-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spokane County<\/a>); IL (<a href=\"https:\/\/iwss.uillinois.edu\/wastewater-treatment-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); IN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.in.gov\/indiana-covid-19-dashboard-and-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); KS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov\/160\/COVID-19-in-Kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/4456bae8a38f4b6180e008477382fff9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Lawrence); KY (<a href=\"https:\/\/louisville.edu\/envirome\/thecoimmunityproject\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Louisville); LA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh.la.gov\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-wastewater-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MD (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); ME (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dhhs\/mecdc\/infectious-disease\/epi\/airborne\/coronavirus\/data.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/coronavirus\/stats\/wastewater-surveillance\/dashboard\/sentinel-wastewater-epidemiology-evaluation-project-sweep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/gisportal.state.mi.us\/portal\/apps\/insights\/index.html#\/view\/52bbb104ed574887918f990af9f3debe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/coronavirus\/stats\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MO (<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/f7f5492486114da6b5d6fdc07f81aacf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MS (<a href=\"https:\/\/msdh.ms.gov\/page\/14,0,420.html#Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>MT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; NC (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.ncdhhs.gov\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard)<\/a>; ND (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NE (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlas-dhhs.ne.gov\/Atlas\/Respiratory_Illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NH (<a href=\"https:\/\/wisdom.dhhs.nh.gov\/wisdom\/dashboard.html?topic=covid-19&amp;subtopic=recurring-updates&amp;indicator=covid-19-wastewater#tabnavbarid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NJ (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.nj.gov\/forms\/datadashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NM (<a href=\"https:\/\/cvprovider.nmhealth.org\/public-dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NV (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvhealthresponse.nv.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/empower.unlv.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Southern NV); NY (<a href=\"https:\/\/mbcolli.shinyapps.io\/SARS2EWSP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OH (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.ohio.gov\/dashboards\/other-resources\/wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/51657c21386d4f1a962b1853c76ec589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>OR (<a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/oregon.health.authority.covid.19\/viz\/OregonsCOVID-19DataDashboards-TableofContents\/TableofContentsStatewide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; PA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.pa.gov\/topics\/disease\/coronavirus\/pages\/Cases.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); RI (<a href=\"https:\/\/ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SC (<a href=\"https:\/\/scdhec.gov\/index.php\/covid19\/covid-19-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SD (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.sd.gov\/COVID\/Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/health\/cedep\/ncov\/data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TX (<a href=\"https:\/\/txdshsea.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/4ae43eefd0f641d59d35c3df82ee59cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); UT (<a href=\"https:\/\/avrpublic.dhhs.utah.gov\/uwss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/sars-cov-2-in-wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WA (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.wa.gov\/emergencies\/covid-19\/data-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.bfhd.wa.gov\/cases-and-roadmap-to-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.wisconsin.gov\/covid-19\/wastewater.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); WV (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/oehs.wvdhhr.org\/news\/oehs-coivd-19-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>); WY (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/covidwastewatermonitor.wyo.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (National): Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/covid-19\/wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government of Canada<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (Provincial): ON (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthontario.ca\/en\/Data-and-Analysis\/Infectious-Disease\/COVID-19-Data-Surveillance\/Wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); QC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/covid-19\/donnees\/eaux-usees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>les eaux us\u00e9es<\/em><\/a>); BC (<a href=\"https:\/\/bccdc.shinyapps.io\/respiratory_wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); BC, Vancouver (<a href=\"https:\/\/metrovancouver.org\/services\/liquid-waste\/testing-for-the-covid-19-virus-in-wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Hat tips to helpful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, KF, KidDoc, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, square coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ticks<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnother Reason to Hate Ticks\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/NBKAy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Atlantic<\/a>]. \u201cWhen Clark Giles first heard about ticks making people allergic to meat, he found the notion so unbelievable, he considered it \u201chogwash.\u201d Then, in 2022, it happened to him. Following a spate of tick bites, he ate a hamburger and went into sudden anaphylaxis\u2026. This unusual allergy is most often caused by the lone-star tick, whose saliva triggers an immune reaction against a molecule, alpha-gal, found in most mammals besides humans. The allergy is also known as alpha-gal syndrome, or AGS. In recent years, the lone-star tick has been creeping northward and westward from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/NBKAy\/https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/figure\/Historic-and-current-expanded-distribution-of-Amblyomma-americanum-showing-sampling_fig1_301318889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">its historical range<\/a>, in the southeastern United States. (Oklahoma is in fact right on the edge; ticks are more prevalent in its east than its west.) Alpha-gal syndrome, too, is suspected to be <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/NBKAy\/https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7230a2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on the rise<\/a>. Farmers who spend their days outdoors are particularly exposed to lone-star ticks, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/NBKAy\/https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0190962217328669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">repeated bites<\/a> may cause more severe reactions. And so, Giles is among a group of farmers who have become, ironically, allergic to the animals that they raise\u2026. Farmers with severe AGS find it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to care for their animals at all.\u201d \u2022\u00a0One way to solve the factory faming problem, I suppose. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: CDC\u2019s wastewater map should have been updated by Friday at 8:00pm. This is Tuesday. It hasn\u2019t been.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> This week[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> September 23<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Last Week[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> (until next week):<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-3-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"align: left; margin-left: 0px !important; padding: 9px 0 9px 0;\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2.png 602w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-2-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> September 28<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> <strong>Emergency Room Visits<\/strong>[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_select_7dayeddiagnosed_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> September 28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-3-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Hospitalization<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data October 7:<\/td>\n<td>\n<blockquote>\n<p> National [6] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covidnetdashboard\/de\/powerbi\/dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> September 14:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-280057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-3-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-hospitalization-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-hospitalization-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-hospitalization-natl-300x263.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Positivity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> October 7:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> October 5:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/covid-walgreens-positivity-states-4-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-280059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Travelers Data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> Positivity[9] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> September 16:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Variants[10] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> September 16:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11]<a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> September 28:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12]<a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronadisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> September 28:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl\u0327.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl\u0327.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-death-positivity-natl\u0327-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-279826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-cdc-death-ed-natl-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) This week\u2019s wastewater map, with hot spots annotated. Much less intense!<\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* very popular. XEC has entered the chat.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ED) Down, but worth noting that Emergency Department use is now on a par with the first wave, in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Definitely down.<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). <\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) Big drop continues!<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Dropping.<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Up, though lagged.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants).<\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, positivity down.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no official statistics of interest today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cWhy Every Day the Boeing Strike Lasts Is a Bigger Problem for the Stock\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/boeing-strike-stock-price-5e507a23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barron\u2019s<\/a>]. \u201cA month or so shouldn\u2019t pressure Boeing\u2019s balance sheet too much. Longer than that, the company, and its investors, will feel more significant pain\u2026. The cash burn can go on for a while, though. Boeing ended the second quarter with almost $13 billion in cash and short-term investments on its books. Boeing also had $10 billion of unused borrowing capacity on its revolving credit lines. With some $23 billion available, Boeing can, in theory, survive for months. The fact that Boeing can survive a strike that long doesn\u2019t mean it should, or that its lenders will be happy. CFO Brian West is meeting with company lenders this week. The lending syndicate, which includes many banks, will want an update about the strike, how Boeing will minimize its cash burn, and what cash flow will look like as production ramps up following the work stoppage. West will likely reiterate his recent messaging that Boeing is actively managing liquidity and that his company will maintain its investment-grade credit rating, which Wall Street has interpreted as a willingness to sell new stock to raise more cash\u2026. Coming into Tuesday\u2019s trading, Boeing stock was down about 37% since an emergency door plug blew out of a 737 MAX 9 jet while in flight on Jan. 5. Shares are down about 4% since the start of the strike. The relative moves show what investors are most concerned about. Production quality and the 737 MAX matter more than the strike\u2014for now.\u201d \u2022 Of course, the two are related. You can\u2019t fix production quality without recreating a functional shop floor, and you can\u2019t do that while screwing the workers as hard as you can.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing, striking union to continue negotiations\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/news\/2024\/10\/08\/boeing-continues-strike-talks-with-workers-union\/75568058007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing and its largest union said they would continue contract talks on Tuesday, as both sides seek an agreement to end a strike by around 33,000 U.S. West Coast factory workers. The company and the union, whose members have been on strike for 25 days, had resumed contract talks on Monday in the presence of federal mediators. \u2018Although we met with Boeing and federal mediators all day, there was no meaningful movement to report. We will be back at it tomorrow,\u2019 The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said late on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing Starts Union \u2018Education Sessions\u2019 as Labor Movement Stirs\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zRxJd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing Co. has started offering workers at a planemaking factory in South Carolina \u201ceducation sessions\u201d about the implications of joining a union, as a crippling strike at its sites in the Pacific Northwest puts the spotlight on the resurgence of organized labor in the US. The company is holding the voluntary meetings in response to \u2018questions and concerns from many of you about union organizing activity taking place\u2019 at the facility in North Charleston, according to an Oct. 7 memo by Scott Stocker, a Boeing vice president and general manager of the 787 Dreamliner program. Workers at the site, which isn\u2019t unionized, will gain insights into the legal consequences of signing cards authorizing a union vote and what to do should a labor organizer knock on their door, according to the memo viewed by Bloomberg.\u201d \u2022 Oh, sure, \u201cvoluntary.\u201d So one of Boeing\u2019s responses to a strike in Redmondis to crank up union-busting in North Charleston, showing the machinists exactly what will happen to them if they don\u2019t win, and win big. This Ortberg dude had to approve this, too. I thought he was supposed to be a breath of fresh air?<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cEl Segundo Boeing workers file whistleblower lawsuits alleging retaliation\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2024-10-08\/boeing-whistleblower-lawsuit-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>]. \u201cLate last year, Boeing employee Craig Garriott says a 4-ton satellite inside an El Segundo plant fell after engineers failed to properly secure a clamp. No one was injured by the collapse of the $1 billion-plus satellite that happened over a weekend, but it could have been fatal if workers were present, Garriott claims. The incident highlighted a raft of safety violations that were ignored by management, according to a whistleblower lawsuit that was recently transferred to federal court in Los Angeles. In the lawsuit, the veteran Boeing employee alleges that his employer retaliated against him for speaking out about problems he saw at Boeing and Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing defense contractor that makes small satellites\u2026. \u2018This is another black eye,\u2019 Dan Bubb, a professor of history with a focus on aviation at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said of the lawsuits. \u2018The punches just keep landing one after the other.\u2019 Boeing acquired Millennium Space Systems in 2018 for an undisclosed amount.\u201d \u2022 McDonnel-Douglas was such a success, so they bought Millenium?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear &amp; Greed Index: 72 Greed (previous close: 70 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 67 (Greed). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Oct 8 at 1:57:20 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p>Rapture Index: Closes up one on Oil Supply\/Price. \u201cConflict in the Middle East has driven up oil prices\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptureready.com\/rapture-ready-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rapture Ready<\/a>]. Record High, October 10, 2016: 189. Current: 180. (Remember that bringing on the Rapture is good.) \u2022 Hard to believe the Rapture Index is going <em>down<\/em>. Do these people know something we don\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looks like a chip:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A striking aerial photo of the Nippon Steel works in Japan<\/p>\n<p>Brings to the fore the very real environmental consequences of our insatiable use of materials<\/p>\n<p>Photo from Territorio <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W2p8jhlShQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/W2p8jhlShQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philip Oldfield (@SustainableTall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SustainableTall\/status\/1843547083741245740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"zeitgeist\"\/><strong>Zeitgeist Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nice smile on that guy:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reposting this in the light of the imminent vote on AD \u2013 a Times columnist saying the quiet but out loud, that old, dying &amp; disabled people *should* be killed prematurely \u2013 to save us the cost of caring for them.<\/p>\n<p>If that doesn\u2019t cause pause for thought, I don\u2019t know what will. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yoee7OpOeB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/yoee7OpOeB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doctor_oxford\/status\/1843168555455652208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/oct\/05\/the-blogosphere-is-in-full-bloom-the-rest-of-the-internet-has-wilted-dave-winer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Guardian<\/a>]. \u201cLike many of us, he realised that what came to be known as the blogosphere could be a modern realisation of J\u00fcrgen Habermas\u2019s idea of \u201cthe public sphere\u201d because it was open to all, everything was discussable and social rank didn\u2019t determine who was allowed to speak. But what he \u2013 and we \u2013 underestimated was the speed and comprehensiveness that tech corporations such as Google and Facebook would enclose that public sphere with their own walled gardens in which \u201cfree speech\u201d could be algorithmically curated while the speakers were intensively surveilled and their data mined for advertising purposes.\u201d \u2022 Well worth a read. And allow to me beg everyone wjho can turn on their RSS feed to do so; RSS is great, and if the right vertical is populated by RSS, RSS is more effective than search, at least for covering daily beats.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact information for plants<\/strong>: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please place it at the start of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Otherwise, I will anonymize by using your initials. See the previous Water Cooler (with plant) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/10\/200pm-water-cooler-10-7-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From SR:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rabbit_brush.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-280061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rabbit_brush.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rabbit_brush-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SR writes: \u201cMore rabbit brush.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"donate\"\/><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Water Cooler is a standalone entity <em>not<\/em> covered by the annual NC fundraiser. Material here is Lambert\u2019s, and does not express the views of the Naked Capitalism site. If you see a link you especially like, or an item you wouldn\u2019t see anywhere else, please do not hesitate to express your appreciation in tangible form. 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More tangibly, a constant trickle of donations helps me with expenses, and I factor in that trickle when setting fundraising goals:<\/p>\n<p>Here is the screen that will appear, which I have helpfully annotated:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-226891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/contribution.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/contribution.png 606w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/contribution-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you hate PayPal, you can email me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, and I will give you directions on how to send a check. 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