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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Fowl Music of the Day
Western Home-Martin, Foz da ribeira de Odeleite, Castro Marim, Faro, Portuga. ‘Name; Flight name.” With numerous different bonus birds.
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Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in reality a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
Our Famously Free Press
2024
Lower than a yr to go!
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Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, evidently persons are truly studying the back-dated submit! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are lots of updates. So I should do this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Social gathering (“the Democrat Social gathering is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated submit, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “reside” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Social gathering is, in reality, a tough drawback. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the way in which again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Social gathering is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). It follows that the Democrat Social gathering is as “unreformable” because the PMC is unreformable; if the Democrat Social gathering didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. If the Democrat Social gathering fails to control, that’s as a result of the PMC lacks the potential to control. (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working elements of the Social gathering reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Social gathering (ka-ching, however not fully) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence neighborhood.
Word, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
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“Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Michigan residence spray-painted with the phrase ‘Nazis’” [Chicago Sun-Times]. • I condem this anti-semitic act. Positive, Obama’s former chief of employees presided over a torture website at Homan Sq. that disappeared and tortured loads of Black individuals, however he’s no Nazi!
#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the deal with given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
Sources, 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).
Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Keep protected on the market!
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Covid is Airborne
A retrospective:
1) Fewer hospital outbreaks, inflicting fewer affected person deaths.
— 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca (@jvipondmd) November 20, 2023
Dysregulation
“Dysregulations in hemostasis, metabolism, immune response, and angiogenesis in post-acute COVID-19 syndrome with and with out postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome: a multi-omic profiling research” [Nature (Jason Boxman)]. N = 21. From the Summary: “Collectively, these observations counsel a transparent and distinct dysregulation within the proteome, cytokines/chemokines, and sphingolipid ranges in [Post-acute COVID-19 (PACS)] sufferers in comparison with wholesome topics with none clear signature related to [postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)].” And from the Dialogue: “We recognized ~ 200 proteins, 11 cytokines and 16–19 sphingolipids with altered ranges in beforehand wholesome non-hospitalized PACS-patients as much as 18 months after contracting a comparatively mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 an infection…. It’s well-known that COVID-19 an infection triggers a hyperinflammatory response through the acute part of the an infection. Nearly all of COVIDomics research on sufferers with acute COVID-19 have proven {that a} pro-inflammatory and pro-coagulative signature is dominant and doubtless drives cardiovascular perturbations and problems throughout ongoing sickness…. Our outcomes counsel that alterations in hemostasis and apoptosis would possibly play a key function within the PACS pathophysiology as a number of proteins concerned in platelet activation and coagulation had been dysregulated in PACS… These observations are prolonged within the present research which means that sufferers with PACS exhibit persistent and extended immune activation and dysregulation of coagulation pathways that will contribute to symptom perseverance in PACS, even 18 months after a light acute an infection.” • Yikes. The opening tweet of a thread on this text:
Your physique just isn’t a group of organs, it is a assortment of processes, and people processes are collections of sophisticated chemical compounds making extra sophisticated chemical compounds.
Covid upsets your physique’s capacity to make the correct amount of the fitting sophisticated chemical compounds, particularly the… https://t.co/oNkoy10njx
— tern (@1goodtern) November 20, 2023
Testing and Monitoring
“Verily’s COVID Testing Program Halted in San Francisco and Oakland” [KFF Health News]. “Amid fanfare in March, California officers celebrated the launch of a multimillion-dollar contract with Verily — Google’s health-focused sister firm — that they stated would vastly increase COVID testing among the many state’s impoverished and underserved communities. However seven months later, San Francisco and Alameda counties — two of the state’s most populous — have severed ties with the corporate’s testing websites amid considerations about sufferers’ information privateness and complaints that funding supposed to spice up testing in low-income Black and Latino neighborhoods as an alternative was benefiting higher-income residents in different communities. Folks signing up for a check by way of Verily had to take action on-line, utilizing an present or newly created Gmail account; the sign-ups had been provided solely in English or Spanish; and contributors had been requested to offer delicate private info, together with their residence deal with and whether or not they had been managing power well being situations corresponding to diabetes, weight problems or congestive coronary heart failure, which might expose their information to third-party use…. Verily had two websites in Alameda County, and one was shuttered by Might. The second, situated at an Oakland church, closed in August and is about to reopen utilizing a special testing vendor. Alameda County testing director Dr. Jocelyn Freeman Garrick stated that whereas the Verily websites helped the county attain testing targets when it comes to uncooked numbers, they had been phased out due to lengthy wait instances of per week or extra for outcomes, and since the assessments weren’t reaching the residents in biggest want.” • Good firm. Little doubt outcomes like this are why CDC picked them over Biobot for wastewater.
“One thing Terrible”
Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” is likely to be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. Numerous exceptionally nasty sequelae, more than likely deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we would add mind harm, together with character adjustments therefrom.
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Lambert right here: Numerous new outcomes immediately, most up, beginning with wastewater. (The one I fear about probably the most is ER visits, since I believe that information is tough to recreation, and who desires to go to the ER, anyhow?) I believe it’s time to ship the relations these clippings you saved on mind harm (additionally, after all, the 2022 clippings: right here, right here. And the 2020 one).
Case Information
From BioBot wastewater information, November 20:
Lambert right here: Circumstances up, simply in time for Thanksgiving (and tinfoil hat time: That is the, er, inflection level CDC was making an attempt to hide after they gave the contract to Verily and didn’t guarantee a seamless transition).
Regional information:
In all places!
• “Information Tracker” [Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative]. Undecided about this one, since I can’t discover the methodology. However:
That 1 in 63 individuals can be contaminated in November is an attention-grabbing determine. A primary-class Acela automobile holds 44 individuals. A Greyhound bus, 52. A 737-400, 188.
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, November 11:
Lambert right here: Prime of the leaderboard: HV.1, EG.5 a robust second, with FL.1.15.1 and XBB.1.1.16.6 trailing. No BA.2.86 (though that has confirmed up in CDC’s airport testing). Nonetheless a Bouillabaisse…
From CDC, October 28:
Lambert right here: I positive hope the volunteers doing Pangolin, on which this chart relies upon, don’t all transfer on the inexperienced fields and pastures new (or have their entry to services reduce by directors of ailing intent).
CDC: “As of Might 11, genomic surveillance information can be reported biweekly, primarily based on the provision of optimistic 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.
Covid Emergency Room Visits
NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, November 11:
Lambert right here: Slight will increase in some age teams, conforming to wastewater information. Solely per week’s lag, so this can be our greatest present nationwide, present indicator till Verily will get its home so as (and dealing class-centric, since I might doubt the higher crust goes to the ER).
NOTE “Charts and information supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not the complete pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “identical to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is acceptable for bothMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these individuals a lot. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, not less than for its time interval, that Covid just isn’t seasonal, though CDC is making an attempt to get us to imagine that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections.
Hospitalization
Bellwether New York Metropolis, information as of November 17:
Slight rise. (I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading, though the hospital-centric public well being institution loves it, hospitalization and deaths being the one metrics that matter [snort]).
Right here’s a special CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, not less than. November 11:
Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and information supplied by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Take a look at Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”. So the place the heck is the replace, CDC?
Positivity
From Walgreens, November 20:
0.5%. Decline arrested. (It might be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer strain, went and bought examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From Cleveland Clinic, November 11:
Lambert right here: Improve (with backward revision; guess they thought it was over). I do know that is simply Ohio, however the Cleveland Clinic is sweet*, and we’re starved for information, so…. NOTE * Even when hospital an infection management is making an attempt to kill sufferers by eliminating common masking with N95s.
From CDC, traveler’s information, October 30:
Down, albeit within the rear view mirror. And listed here are the variants for vacationers, October 30:
BA.2.86 actually rolling now amongst vacationers, so it needs to be getting free. Variant professionals are apprehensive:
Word that the y-axis just isn’t linear—50% is slightly below the highest of the graph.
BA.2.86*/JN.1 dominance is nigh. The XBB period is closing. A brand new period begins.
In a month or so we should always have a good suggestion how XDD—the JN.1/EG.5.1.1 recombinant with the JN.1 spike—will consider. https://t.co/onnNs5MtfQ
— Ryan Hisner (@LongDesertTrain) November 20, 2023
No signal of JN.1 (a extra evasive subvariant of BA.2.86).
Deaths
Complete: 1,182,945 – 1,182,259 = 686 (686 * 365 = 250,390 deaths per yr, immediately’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit greater than the minimizers would really like, although they will speak themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I may should determine that is what the powers-that-be think about “mission achieved” for this explicit tranche of demise and illness).
Extra Deaths
The Economist, November 18:
Lambert right here: Primarily based on a machine-learning mannequin.
Stats Watch
The Economic system: “United States Chicago Fed Nationwide Exercise Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Chicago Fed Nationwide Exercise Index fell to -0.49 in October 2023, the bottom in seven months, in comparison with -0.02 in September.”
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Lambert right here: There are two Elon Musk tales happening simulaneously (or, to place it extra pointedly, liberal Democrats are attacking Musk on two fronts). The primary entrance is Media Issues’ declare that X (previously referred to as Twitter), positioned adverts for main advertisers subsequent to Nazi-adjacent accounts). The second is that Musk is himself anti-semitic, primarily based on considered one of his tweets. We cowl each under, in that order.
Tech: “Musk’s X sues liberal advocacy group Media Issues over its report on adverts subsequent to hate teams’ posts” [Associated Press]. “X’s criticism claims that Media Issues manipulated algorithms on the platform to create photos of advertisers’ paid posts subsequent to racist, incendiary content material. The juxtapositions, in response to the criticism, had been ‘manufactured, inorganic and terribly uncommon.’ It says Media Issues did this through the use of X accounts that simply adopted X customers identified to supply “excessive fringe content material” and accounts owned by X’s main advertisers. This, the criticism says, led to a feed aimed toward producing side-by-side placements that Media Issues might then display shot in an effort to alienate X’s advertisers. Media Issues stated Monday that it stands by its reporting and expects to prevail in court docket.” • David Brock’s Media Issues doesn’t do reporting, any greater than the DNC press workplace does reporting. For skeptics, right here is the criticism. X CORP., a Nevada company, Plaintiff, v. MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA, a Washington, D.C. non-profit company, and ERIC HANANOKI:
The irony right here is that Twitter’s curation is considered one of its strongest options (probably not shared by different social media platforms). So it is sensible that former Clinton enforcer David Brock would attempt to destroy it.
Tech: “Why Elon Musk Is Going ‘Thermonuclear’” [RealClearPolitics]. “The lawsuit is in response to a Media Issues report final week that X, the Musk-owned social media platform previously referred to as Twitter, was putting adverts for main manufacturers corresponding to Apple and IBM subsequent to ‘pro-Nazi content material.’ After some prodding from Media Issues, inside a day of their report, a slew of main companies, corresponding to IBM, Disney, Comcast, Sony, NBC, and Warner Brothers, introduced they had been pulling adverts from X. As a part of his announcement, Musk posted a press release making particular allegations that Media Issues technologically manipulated the service to supply the specified juxtapositions of adverts and extremist content material – and that these contrived adverts had been seen by nearly nobody.” Since Musk, the proprietor of the platform, has information of each motion carried out by the Media Issues account, this shouldn’t be a tough allegation to show (modulo discovery). Extra: “Recall that in 2020, each Fb and Twitter (earlier than it was owned by Musk) instantly censored the New York Put up for reporting the small print contained on Hunter Biden’s now-notorious laptop computer. One doesn’t should be a conspiracy theorist to imagine that the rationale organizations corresponding to Media Issues are ginning up slurs in opposition to Elon Musk is as a result of we’re heading into one other presidential election.” • It appears apparent to me that liberal Democrats, enamored of/employed by the Censorship Industrial Complicated, are outraged that X, owned by Musk, slipped from their grasp (and worse, that Elon Musk aired their filthy laundry with the Twitter Information). Liberal Democrats regard continued embubblement as existential; X threatens that; therefore the continued assaults that we see.
“Elon Musk on antisemitic nice substitute concept submit: ‘You’ve got stated the precise reality’” [Forward]. “Elon Musk accepted of a social media submit that claimed ‘western Jewish populations’ had been ‘flooding their nation’ with ‘hordes of minorities,’ writing to the person who posted the message, ‘you will have stated the precise reality.’ The change got here Wednesday, after a person on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter, which Musk owns, shared a video from Stand As much as Jewish Hate, and invited antisemites to precise their bigotry ‘to our faces.’ In response, a person whose deal with is ‘The Artist Previously Often called Eric’ posted that Jews are ‘pushing’ a ‘dialectical hatred in opposition to whites that they declare to need individuals to cease utilizing in opposition to them.’ He then went on to state that Jews had been pushing minorities into Western international locations, a conspiracy concept referred to as the good substitute, which motivated numerous antisemitic and racist assaults, together with the October 2018 Tree of Life Bloodbath.” • The article contains the thread, not like a lot of the protection, and that is an correct description. I dunno. I ought to say I’ve sturdy priors right here, as a result of I noticed what the spooks, the press, Parliamentary Labor, and the Israeli Embassy did to Jeremy Corbyn with (false) costs of anti-semitism, and so my hermeneutic, at this level, is to start with the concept all such costs are performative and motivated (see above). I do observe that “the artist” — who writes a reasonably incoherent tweet — doesn’t truly use the phrase “Nice Alternative.”
“Why ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt is praising Elon Musk as advertisers flee X over antisemitism” [Jerusalem Post]. “But at the same time as firms together with IBM, Apple and Disney are pulling their advert {dollars} in protest, the ADL is continuous to purchase adverts on X — and Greenblatt has shifted to praising Musk, this time for what he says is a significant effort to battle antisemitism. Musk had written one other submit, saying that two phrases widespread to pro-Palestinian protests — ‘decolonization,’ and ‘from the river to the ocean’ — ‘essentially suggest genocide.’ He added that customers could be suspended in the event that they posted ‘clear requires excessive violence.’” • Correct. Right here is Musk’s tweet:
As I stated earlier this week, “decolonization”, “from the river to the ocean” and related euphemisms essentially suggest genocide.
Clear requires excessive violence are in opposition to our phrases of service and can end in suspension. https://t.co/1fCFo5Lezb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2023
Then once more, Musk’s “reality” tweet was November 15; that is November 17.
“Elon Musk Antisemitic Row: President Biden and VP Kamala Harris be a part of ‘threads’” [Economic Times]. “The transfer of becoming a member of ‘Threads’ comes after the White Home commented on current Elon Musk’s antisemitic controversy the place he shared a conspiracy concept on X.” • So now we now have Presidents endorsing platforms. Superior. As a result of everyone knows what a positive, upstanding younger man Mark Zuckerberg is.
Lambert right here: As readers know, my dream is that AI goes by way of the enshittification cycle with nice rapidity and drive. From my armchair at 30,000 toes, I don’t imagine that AI goes to turn out to be a super-intelligence, or something prefer it. Silicon Valley can’t even get self-driving vehicles to work, and certainly that’s a less complicated drawback than synthetic basic intelligence. Quite, AI will convey a few Philip Ok. Dick-style dystopia, a world the place it’s by no means potential to achieve a human to resolve an issue. For instance, think about the next worth extraction chain: An AI on the hospital upcodes considered one of your medical remedies. An AI on the insurance coverage firm jacks up your invoice. Whenever you complain to the insurance coverage firm, your attain an AI, which sends you into an AI-generated fruitless phone-tree. The chances are limitless!
Tech: “The Sam Altman drama factors to a deeper cut up within the tech world” [Yahoo Finance]. “What is evident, although, is that the occasions at Openai are probably the most dramatic manifestation but of a wider divide in Silicon Valley. On one facet are the ‘doomers’, who imagine that, left unchecked, AI poses an existential danger to humanity and therefore advocate stricter laws. Opposing them are ‘boomers’, who play down fears of an AK apocalypse and stress its potential to turbocharge progress. The camp that proves extra influential might both encourage or stymie tighter laws, which might in flip decide who will revenue most from ai sooner or later. OpenAI’s company construction straddles the divide. Based as a non-profit in 2015, the agency carved out a for-profit subsidiary three years later to finance its want for costly computing capability and brainpower to be able to propel the expertise ahead. Satisfying the competing goals of doomers and boomers was at all times going to be tough.” • As you’ll be able to see from my remark above, I’m neither a Doomer nor a Boomer. Sadly, I can’t nuke the false binary with one other rhyming phrase. Maybe “ill-humored”?
Tech: “Microsoft and OpenAI: Navigating a fancy partnership post-shakeup” [CTECH]. “Late Sunday night time, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced that Altman will be a part of Microsoft, the place he’ll head a ‘new superior AI analysis workforce.’ Altman can be joined by former OpenAI president Greg Brockman, who resigned following Altman’s ouster, and numerous different executives and staff who additionally resigned in protest over the removing of Altman. ‘We stay up for shifting rapidly to offer them with the sources wanted for his or her success,’ Nadella wrote in a submit he printed on X (previously Twitter). Altman responded briefly: ‘The mission continues.’” • Seems like Microsoft is giving Clippy one other shot on the Huge Time:
Tech: “Unique: OpenAI traders contemplating suing the board after CEO’s abrupt firing” [Reuters]. “Some traders in OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT, are exploring authorized recourse in opposition to the corporate’s board, sources conversant in the matter instructed Reuters on Monday, after the administrators ousted CEO Sam Altman and sparked a possible mass exodus of staff. Sources stated traders are working with authorized advisers to review their choices. It was not instantly clear if these traders will sue OpenAI. Buyers fear that they might lose lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} they invested in OpenAI, a crown jewel in a few of their portfolios, with the potential collapse of the most popular startup within the quickly rising generative AI sector.” • See, it’s crucial that traders assume no danger. That’s what places the “enterprise” in enterprise capital! I hope they lose all their cash, and I hope the inventory choices of the OpenAI staffers turn out to be nugatory. AI delenda est.
Lambert bere: Anyhow, the apparent framing is capital: Financial capital (the traders; inventory choices), social capital (Altman’s very highly effective social community, initially primarily based at Y Combinator); and symbolic capital (lanyards at a “sizzling” startup).
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Immediately’s Concern & Greed Index: 64 Greed (earlier shut: 62 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 50 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 21 at 12:31:11 PM ET. Primarily based on what? Iodine futures?
Rapture Index: Closes unchanged. Once more! [Rapture Ready]. Report Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 187. (Keep in mind that bringing on the Rapture is sweet.) NOTE on #42 Plagues: “The coronavirus pandemic has maxed out this class.” Extra sincere than most! •
Information of the Wired
“Knuth Airgaps & Knuth Buffers” [taylor.town]. “Knuth is aware of the best way to preserve info hygeine. Knuth is unreachable through digital communication. He airgaps himself from the web:…. He additionally maintains airgaps between his machines.” • Superior! In fact, Knuth has a secretary….
“The Low Down on the Best Dictionary Assortment within the World” [Atlas Obscura]. “Madeline Kripke’s first dictionary was a duplicate of Webster’s Collegiate that her dad and mom gave her when she was a fifth grader in Omaha within the early Nineteen Fifties. By the point of her demise in 2020, at age 76, she had amassed a group of dictionaries that occupied each flat floor of her two-bedroom Manhattan condominium—and overflowed into a number of warehouse areas. Many imagine that this chaotic, private library is the world’s largest compendium of phrases and their utilization…. Kripke—”the mistress of slang,” within the phrases of 1 colleague—devoted many years of her life to curating this assortment of phrases, together with numerous ones we would prefer to overlook. When she handed away and not using a will, the destiny of her overwhelming library, plus a trove of paperwork on the historical past of dictionary making, was unsure. Auctioning it off in tons might have introduced the very best bids, however Kripke’s household labored together with the lexicographic neighborhood to protect what Adams calls “her legacy.” That it was in the end bought in complete by Indiana College Bloomington, a state college that dedicated to creating the works accessible to the general public, appears in step with the way in which Kripke herself seen the gathering, as a useful resource for the curious.” • So if any of you, readers, have related collections of no matter type, don’t take the chance Kripke took!
“How running a blog is totally different from tweeting” [Mark Carrigan]. “It occurred to me lately that I really feel extraordinarily in another way about ‘outputs’ through Twitter than blogs. I first got here throughout the notion of the ‘concepts backyard’ through Doug Belshaw and it suggests a weblog could be seen as a spot the place you assist concepts take root and develop. This contrasts with the inherently performative really feel of Twitter the place the deal with fast suggestions implies that particular person merchandise turning into a focus to your reflection. In different phrases I care concerning the response a tweet will get as a result of it’s self-standing and instantly public whereas a weblog submit is a component of a big complete. It’s a contribution to rising my concepts backyard, for my very own later use and no matter enjoyment others discover in it, quite than one thing I’ve expectations of receiving a response for. The weblog itself then involves really feel like one thing greater than the sum of its elements: a cumulative manufacturing over 13 years and 5000+ posts which captures my mental growth in a far more granular and genuine than something I might handle on my own. Over time I see outdated posts I’d forgotten about resurfacing as individuals stumble throughout them and this lengthy tail heightens my sense of the emergent complete. It’s turn out to be an concepts forest which individuals wander into from totally different instructions, discovering trails which I had lengthy since forgotten about and welcoming me to discover a now overgrown space to see if I ought to start tending to it as soon as extra.” • Nicely put!
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