2:00PM Water Cooler 7/23/2024 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Fowl Track of the Day

Northern Mockingbird, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. “Singing up a storm on each side of the street by 71 Maltby Highway. Lengthy tailed gray hen with white outer tail feathers and white wing bars.”

In Case You Would possibly Miss…

(1) Pelosi and the Twenty Fifth Modification.

(2) Kamala’s rollout.

(3) Institution voices on the Atlantic.

(4) Boeing cluster continues.

Politics

“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

The Constitutional Order (Twenty-Fifth Modification)

“High Dems threatened to forcibly take away Biden from workplace except he dropped out, set him as much as fail at Trump debate: sources” [New York Post (Turley)]. Observe that is single-sourced. “As requires him to bow out mounted, Biden insisted he would proceed, however . The modification permits for the vp and members of the cupboard to declare the president is unfit to serve and power him to step down, the supply added. The White Home and representatives from the Democratic Nationwide Committee didn’t instantly reply to The Publish’s requests for remark.” • Might it’s that is Pelosi’s “onerous method“? Right here in related half is the Twenty Fifth Modification; Part 4:

Each time the Vice President and a majority of both the principal officers of the manager departments or of such different physique as Congress could by regulation present, transmit to the President professional tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Home of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his workplace, the Vice President shall instantly assume the powers and duties of the workplace as Appearing President.

So Kamala would have needed to provoke the method (which is cumbersome and of unsure consequence. Nonetheless, I can hear Pelosi saying “Kamala’s going to begin making calls.” That would actually be “the onerous method.” Different explanations contain but extra leaks. However “the onerous method” implies to me a change of state. A Twenty Fifth modification invocation is that; extra leaks usually are not). Nonetheless, if this story is confirmed, it implies that the Internal Celebration is ready to threaten Constitutional means to get their most popular candidate on the poll, but when the menace works, they’ll depart a cognitively impaired President in workplace. Celebration earlier than nation!

Trump Assassination Try

“Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle resigns after stunning failures led to Trump assassination try” [New York Post]. Yet one more element: “Crooks was additionally allowed to enter the rally regardless of being stopped on the entrance with a rangefinder — a kind of eyepiece typically utilized by hunters or golfers to find out far-off distances on the fly.” • Yikes!

2024

Lower than 4 months to go!

Friday’s RCP Ballot Averages:

Virginia and North Carolina added to the record. NC was by no means going for Biden Harris, however Virginia? Yikes!

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Biden Defenestration:

“Biden to handle nation tomorrow on resolution to drop out of marketing campaign” [New York Post]. “President Biden will handle the nation at 8 p.m. Wednesday about his resolution to desert his marketing campaign for a second time period amid mounting questions on his psychological acuity. ‘Tomorrow night at 8 PM ET, I’ll handle the nation from the Oval Workplace on what lies forward, and the way I’ll end the job for the American folks,’ Biden, 81, tweeted Tuesday. The president hasn’t been seen in public since final Wednesday when he traveled to his Delaware trip residence to recuperate from COVID-19 and is predicted to return to the White Home Tuesday afternoon.”

“It’s over! How Dem elites locked in Harris” [Axios]. “Harris’ rollout was as well-choreographed because it was beautiful, involving lots of of telephone calls by Harris’ crew to senators, Home members and governors.” • I’m undecided about that. If we have a look at Kamala’s Twitter presence, the rollout was a scorching mess. Once I heard Biden was out, I went instantly to his website. That is what I discovered:

The Biden website redirects to not a Kamala website with a contemporary new identification, however to ActBlue, for a right away donation. I believe that’s a little bit crass. It additionally means that the method was not fully gamed out. Right here is the ActBlue web page, up to date with a quote from the letter Biden signed and an image of Kamala:

Right here for reference is an archived model of the Biden website:

I went to the DNC. There’s no hyperlink to Kamala’s website, however there’s a ginormous pop-up for DNC fundraising:

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“The Celebration will undertake a clear and orderly course of” is wealthy; apparently the DNC thought they had been going to play a big position within the transition. No such luck! And right here is Kamala’s important Twitter web page as of press time:

Amateurish. And Kamala’s “official” speedy response web page, additionally at press time:

The horrid inexperienced! The horrid font! And why two totally different websites in several commerce gown? All to day that some facets of Kamala’s rollout had been certainly well-choreographed — because the puff piece in Axios reflexively exhibits — however actually not all.

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The Marketing campaign Path:

Harris (D):

Tonight, I’m proud to have earned the assist wanted to change into our celebration’s nominee.

Over the following few months, I will be touring throughout the nation speaking to Individuals about every little thing on the road. I absolutely intend to unite our celebration and our nation, and defeat Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/Bsq3N6pMAi

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 23, 2024

Sometimes, in any system resembling a democracy, “assist” is “earned” by going through the voters in elections. Apparently, that’s not essential to the Democrat Celebration or their candidate.

Harris (D): “Harris earns $231 million in donations on first day of presidential marketing campaign” [New York Daily News]. “Vice President Kamala Harris claimed a shocking $231 million[1] from small and massive donors within the first 24 hours since she launched her presidential marketing campaign. In an enormous vote of confidence for her still-nascent marketing campaign, Harris received $81 million[2] in small-dollar donations and reportedly scored an extra $150 million[3] “cash bomb” from massive donors in what amounted to the most important one-day haul of the 2024 election cycle.” • [1] The story at NBC has $46.7 million at ActBlue, which is sweet, however 46.7 will not be equal to 231. [2] Harris marketing campaign press launch, undecided whether or not this consists of ActBlue or not. [3] Nothing on this article signifies “$150 million” has been scored. Usually, I wouldn’t get into the trivia of marketing campaign funds, however after our collective expertise with Democrat’s years-long denial of Biden’s apparent cognative points, we all know that they’ll lie about actually something. So right here we’re!

Harris (D): “Scoop: Biden doubted Harris’ election probabilities” [Axios]. “Harris’ time as vp has been sometimes rocky, outlined partly by giant employees turnover, retreating from politically dangerous tasks, and mocking from some Beltway insiders. A lot of Harris’ employees has turned over up to now 3½ years.About half of the vp’s employees is paid by the Senate, which requires common disclosures. Of the 47 Harris staffers listed in 2021, solely 5 nonetheless labored for her as of this spring, based on the disclosures. Her full employees record will not be publicly disclosed.

Throughout Obama’s first time period, then-Vice President Biden had way more employees stability, as 17 of 38 of his aides stayed with him over an analogous interval, based on the disclosures for employees paid by the Senate. Former Harris aides informed Axios the excessive turnover is partly due to how the vp treats her employees. Some former aides mentioned Harris had excessive requirements that some didn’t wish to sustain with, however others felt that she steadily grilled them the way in which she grilled Trump officers, reminiscent of then-Lawyer Normal Jeff Classes, when she represented California within the U.S. Senate. Former aides typically consult with it as Harris’ ‘prosecuting the employees.’ Throughout the 2020 marketing campaign, Biden aides recall watching Harris interrogate her then-chief of employees Karine Jean-Pierre to the purpose that it made others uncomfortable. After the election, Jean-Pierre moved to the White Home’s press crew.” • To the press crew’s detriment. That mentioned, Biden’s reciprocal loyalty to employees served him nicely.

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Straight down the yellow stripe in the course of the street:

“All of the sudden Trump Appears Older and Extra Deranged” [Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic]. • Take into account the supply; Applebaum is signaling Kamala is extra more likely to proceed the warfare in Ukraine than Trump.

“Can Harris Reassemble Obama’s Coalition?” [Ron Brownstein, The Atlantic]. • No, as a result of all of the Obots at the moment are eight years older, are saddled with school debt, and might’t afford to purchase homes. And no, as a result of there was by no means an “Obama coalition” within the first place. However Brownstein has been penning this piece for years, and so he writes it once more.

“The Harris Gamble” [David Frum, The Atlantic]. “Earlier this month, Trump posted on Fact Social an advance warning of the marketing campaign he’ll run towards Harris: ‘Additionally, respects to our probably new Democrat Challenger, Laffin’ Kamala Harris. She did poorly within the Democrat Nominating course of, beginning out at Quantity Two, and ending up defeated and dropping out, even earlier than attending to Iowa, however that doesn’t imply she’s not a ‘extremely proficient’ politician! Simply ask her Mentor, the Nice Willie Brown of San Francisco.’ In case you missed Trump’s trace, he’s referencing an previous web smear that Harris slept her method to political success.” • The Harris crew had higher scrub Kamala’s Wikipedia web page, then, or clarify Brown’s really outstanding act of selfless generosity to, because it seems, his girlfriend:

In 1994, Speaker of the California Meeting Willie Brown, who was then courting Harris, . Harris took a six-month depart of absence in 1994 from her duties, then afterward resumed working as prosecutor throughout the years she sat on the boards. Harris’s connection to Brown was famous in media reportage as

And it does appear that getting appointed as a ‘buddies and constant political soldier’ hasn’t been a contented occasion for Harris just one time. Come on. Are we little kids of six?

“Democrats Are Making a Big Mistake” [Graeme Wood, The Atlantic]. “The error will not be the selection of Kamala Harris. It’s the sudden rallying behind her, the torrent of endorsements, proper after Biden’s self-removal. Biden’s senescence was solely a part of the celebration’s disaster. The opposite half was the impression that Democratic politics felt like a recreation rigged by insiders to favor a candidate of their alternative, and to isolate that candidate from the chance related to campaigning. For 27 minutes, between the time Biden introduced his withdrawal and the time he broke the seal on Harris endorsements by bestowing his, the competition felt thrillingly, bracingly wide-open.” • It felt that method as a result of it was that method.

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My timeline is a sordid mess (1):

Kamala goes to win in a landslide and we’re going to take again the Home and Senate🌊🔥 pic.twitter.com/hcTcXEZ2LG

— ꪖꪀᧁꫀꪶꪶꫀ꠸ᧁꫝ🪷✨🌌💫 (@angel_leigh) July 23, 2024

My timeline is a sordid mess (2):

YES WE KAM pic.twitter.com/gZnu59tlU2

— Kat 4 Obama (@Kat4Obama) July 23, 2024

My timeline is a sordid mess (3):

Harris has a complete collection of cooking movies on her YouTube and one factor I’ve discovered to date is that she’s acquired the one-handed egg crack down. pic.twitter.com/oNzjeKIztY

— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) July 22, 2024

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Democrats en Déshabillé

“A Historian of the Democratic Celebration Sees Disaster and Alternative” [Politico]. “However Democrats will first have to handle the the reason why so many individuals with working-class backgrounds voted twice for Donald Trump and appear prepared to take action once more. That’s not simply members of the white working class who’ve departed the celebration in droves in current a long time; polls have proven Trump poised to scoop up working-class Black and Latino voters in probably historic proportions. Trump and his vice presidential decide JD Vance have eagerly embraced the populist mantle and sought to co-opt some progressive critiques of the free market, even when they’d absolutely govern in service of plutocrats. Too typically, Democrats have didn’t articulate a coherent imaginative and prescient of the place to take the nation, aside from tolerating cultural variations and shifting towards a greener economic system, and neither purpose speaks to those that have struggled to make ends meet. With Kamala Harris as their candidate, they’ve a possibility to start to vary that picture. The hazard is that they might imagine that the disaster they’ve gone by way of might be resolved by shifting candidates with out addressing the discontents that roil the nation.” • The issue, as Thomas Frank exhibits, is that the Democrat PMC base hates the working class. The one method that may change is that if the Democrats lose in 2024, badly. And once more in 2028, as a result of they all the time double down on failure. That’s a very long time to attend. Commentary:

Joe Biden began an unimaginable restoration of democracy along with his trustbusting administration.

And made some enemies that anybody needs to be happy with.

Harris would win a lot assist if she simply got here out swinging. The earlier she provides Lina Khan a bear hug the higher.

— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) July 22, 2024

Would anybody prefer to make guide on Kamala giving Lina Khan a bear hug?

Syndemics

“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison

Covid Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

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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).

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Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

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Maskstravaganza

As a result of many N95s have a steel nosewire:

FYI, Vitacore makes masks that may be worn in CT and MRI.https://t.co/kyHaoJFw1U

— AndiH (she/her) (@AndiH72) July 22, 2024

Lambert right here: Appears like the vacation journey dumped accelerant on the pre-existing surge; see particularly the expansion in wastewater “scorching spots.” Keep secure on the market!

Manufacturing: “United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The composite manufacturing index within the US Fifth District declined for a second consecutive month to -17 in July 2024, the bottom stage since Might 2020.”

Manufacturing: “Boss of greatest 777X buyer needs Boeing fastened — with union assist” [Seattle Times]. “Tim Clark, who runs Gulf provider Emirates and is a vital and exacting buyer of each Airbus and Boeing, is ready for supply of greater than 200 large 777Xs with each optimism and fear. He doesn’t count on to get the primary ones till mid-2026, he mentioned in an interview on the Farnborough Air Present. He is aware of Boeing has a tough time forward to repair its manufacturing issues. And he believes Boeing administration wants the corporate’s front-line staff and their union on its facet to get the job accomplished. ‘The blokes on the store ground, the engineers, the machinists, they know what to do,’ mentioned Clark. ‘They’ll get it sorted.’ ‘Don’t neglect the workforce. Make sure that they get a very good deal. Just be sure you take care of them,’ he added. ‘Be sure you acknowledge the criticality of what they do.’ If that makes Clark sound like a socialist, he’s not. A 74-year-old Englishman, he runs one of many richest airways on the planet from Dubai within the United Arab Emirates. He does imagine in Boeing’s legacy of engineering and manufacturing prowess, and he needs it restored as a result of he wants it for his enterprise. Emirates has a large fleet of 271 massive business jets, together with 118 Airbus superjumbo A380s, and greater than 140 Boeing 777s. The A380 is discontinued after it didn’t generate profits for Airbus. So Clark wants the 777X to resume his fleet. He has positioned nearly half the full orders for the jet. He described the Puget Sound area as ‘the cradle, the crucible,’ of Boeing and the employees there as able to pulling the corporate from the pit it has fallen into. ‘It’s fixable, very fixable,’ Clark mentioned.” • However what in regards to the government’s bonuses?

Manufacturing: “Boeing Boss Nonetheless Hasn’t Met with Whistleblowers to Speak Security, Lawyer Says” [Newsweek]. “Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson requested [Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun] whether or not it could be ‘a good suggestion’ for him to satisfy and converse with any of the whistleblowers that had voiced their considerations over the corporate’s security practices. Calhoun responded: ‘Yeh, I believe it could.’ Brian Knowles, an lawyer who represents over a dozen present and former workers of Boeing, mentioned that he has but to listen to from Calhoun or the corporate. [Knowls client sam] Mohawk is a high quality assurance inspector at Boeing’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington. In a criticism shared by Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, Mohawk alleged that the corporate had didn’t doc or appropriately retailer broken plane elements, which had been then possible used within the meeting of Boeing planes. Knowles additionally informed Newsweek that Mohawk had noticed 1000’s of components being left ‘within the parts’ outdoors of the Renton facility, resulting in corrosion of the elements. When requested whether or not his purchasers can be prepared to satisfy with Calhoun or the Boeing board, Knowles mentioned: ‘I believe they should.’” • Calhoun wouldn’t soil his fingers, would he.

Tech: “Google to kill off URL shortener as soon as and for all” [The Register]. “Google will quickly make its personal contribution to the issue of hyperlink rot by shutting down the Google URL Shortener service in 2025. The Google URL Shortener was launched in 2009 as an try and make prolonged hyperlinks manageable by feeding them into Google’s shortener, which spat out shorter ones within the type of https://goog.gl/*. 9 years later, Google determined to tug the service and direct customers to Firebase Dynamic Hyperlinks (FDL) as a substitute. On the time, Google mentioned, ‘All present hyperlinks will proceed to redirect to the supposed vacation spot.’ Nonetheless, as of August 25, 2025, any hyperlinks constructed with the Google URL shortener within the type of https://goog.gl/* received’t return a response.” • Let that be a warning to you all!

Tech: Thanks, Silicon Valley:

Tech: “AI artwork has no anti-cooption immune system” [Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic]. “One factor Myspace had going for it: it was exuberantly ugly. The choice to let customers with no design coaching free on a extremely customizable user-interface led to a proliferation of Myspace pages that vibrated with persona. The ugliness of Myspace wasn’t simply thrilling in a form of outsider/folk-art method (although it was that). Myspace’s ugliness was an anti-cooption force-field, as a result of company designers and art-directors would, by and enormous, quite break their fingers and gouge out their eyes than produce pages that seemed like that. On this regard, Myspace was the inheritor to successive generations of ‘design democratization’ that gave novice communities, particularly countercultural ones, an area to function in the place genuine neighborhood members may very well be simply distinguished between parasitic commercializers. The speedy predecessors to Myspace’s ugliness-as-a-feature had been the net, and desktop publishing. Between the img tag, imagemaps, the blink tag, animated GIFs, and the million ways in which you possibly can bizarre a web page with tables and padding, the early net was positively bursting with particular person persona.”

Right now’s Worry & Greed Index: 59 Greed (earlier shut: 55 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 60 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jul 22 at 12:14:59 PM ET.

Zeitgeist Watch

“Glasgow 2024 Hugo Awards Assertion – twenty second July 2024” (assertion) [Glasgow2024]. “A lot of votes in 2024 had been forged by accounts which fail to satisfy the standards of being “pure individuals”, with apparent faux names and/or different disqualifying traits. These included, as an illustration, a run of voters whose second names had been similar besides that the primary letter was modified, in alphabetical order; and a run of voters whose names had been translations of consecutive numbers. Many of those votes favoured one finalist particularly, who we’ll name Finalist A. This sample of knowledge is startlingly and clearly totally different from the votes for some other finalist in 2024, and certainly for any finalist in any of the earlier years the place any member of the present Hugo Subcommittee has been concerned with administering the Hugo remaining poll. Along with patterns observable within the information, we acquired a confidential report that not less than one particular person had sponsored the acquisition of WSFS [World Science Fiction Society] memberships by giant numbers of people, who had been refunded the price of membership after confirming that that they had voted because the sponsor wished. On the premise of the above proof, now we have concluded that not less than 377 votes have been forged fraudulently, of a complete of three,813 remaining poll votes that we acquired. We have now subsequently disqualified these 377 votes from the ultimate vote tally…. We recognise that after the Hugo voting in 2023, many in the neighborhood will, understandably, have questions on this. Sadly, our means to reply could be very restricted, on account of our duty to keep up the confidentiality of the poll and information safety laws. There are proposals to institute a system of impartial audit for Hugo votes. However at current such a system doesn’t exist, subsequently the uncooked 2024 voting information can not and won’t be shared outdoors the Glasgow 2024 Hugo crew.”

“Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit ‘lemon’ of a mega-mansion” [The Register]. “[R[aw sewage was even ejected onto the ground in a ‘hard to access area at the side of the residence’ due to a bathroom sewer line being unconnected. Contractor bags were also found jammed into a sewer line, ‘apparently by a disgruntled, unpaid subcontractor,’ Altman’s lawyers claim.”• Yes, that seems like the kind of mansion an OpenAI co-founder would own. Not that different from work!

News of the Wired

“The Elegance of the ASCII Table” [DanQ]. “The primary printing character is area; it’s an invisible character, nevertheless it’s nonetheless one which has which means to people, so it’s not a management character (this sounds apparent as we speak, nevertheless it was really the supply of some semantic argument when the ASCII commonplace was first being mentioned). Placing it numerically earlier than some other printing character was a really carefully-considered and deliberate alternative. The rationale: sorting. For a pc to type an inventory (of information, strings, or no matter) it’s best if it may achieve this numerically, utilizing the identical character conversion desk because it makes use of for all different purposes7. The area character should naturally come earlier than different characters, or else John Smith received’t seem earlier than Johnny 5 in a computer-sorted record as you’d count on him to. Being the primary printing character, area additionally enjoys a lovely and memorable binary illustration {that a} human can simply recognise: 0100000…. There’s a wierd and delicate allure to ASCII. On condition that all of us use it (or issues derived from it) actually on a regular basis in our trendy lives and our on a regular basis units, it’s simple to consider it as just a few arbitrary encoding. However the selections made in deciding what streams of ones and zeroes would characterize which characters expose a refined logic. It’s aesthetically pleasing, and suffering from historic artefacts that educate us a hidden historical past of computing. And it’s constructed atop patterns which might be sufficiently refined to facilitate highly effective processing whereas being coherent sufficient for a human to memorise, study, and perceive.”

“On This Weblog as a Numbers Station” [Random Notes]. “I’d quite Random Notes be a numbers station, learn intently by a couple of, than a bustling on-line property. That’s extra satisfying on so many ranges.” • Numbers station.

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