2:00PM Water Cooler 5/31/2023 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Affected person readers, I feel by the point the countdown clock hits 500 I’ll have accomplished one thing of an editorial redesign as soon as extra. The issue is that Covid, as a narrative, is popping all over the place however the mainstream (particularly because the research funded one or two years in the past develop into revealed). However election 2024 is popping as effectively, and though 500 days is a very long time in politics, it’s a short while editorially. And in each circumstances, I’m leaving extra on the slicing room ground than I would really like. So I’ve to do some pondering. –lambert

Chook Tune of the Day

Oriental Turtle-Dove, Yusmarg, Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India. “Songs from one chicken, after which very quiet calls from the identical particular person after it flew to a different tree. A second chicken flies in, and the primary chicken offers extraordinarily quiet growl tune. That second chicken then flies off, and the unique chicken resumes regular tune. Word particularly the quiet calls from 0:29 to 0:46.” I attempted a number of recordings. They actually do growl!

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

Biden Administration

“Home GOP prepares for remaining procedural drama earlier than anticipated debt deal passage” [Politico]. • What drama?

“McConnell to face off with conservative opponents on debt ceiling invoice” [The Hill]. • I’d guess on McConnnell, aged although he’s.

2024

I assume it’s time for the Countdown Clock!

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“Bidens provide ‘secure harbor’ to Hunter as he flails over scandalous studies, new messages present” [New York Post]. “It seems that Hunter was in a free fall and his uncle Jim Biden reached out in newly found messages to supply him a ‘secure harbor.’ … As revealed not too long ago by the Home Oversight Committee, the Bidens constructed a labyrinth of firms and accounts to switch thousands and thousands from these offers to varied Biden members of the family, together with grandchildren.” They did certainly, from financial institution information. Extra: “[Hunter] was the firebreak between the cash and any scandal. This was made evident in a current and uncommon sit-down interview; MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle delicately broached the scandals involving Hunter by emphasizing that it’s a ‘private’ matter and assuring the president (and the viewers) that the still-unknown prices contain ‘no ties to you.’ Hunter more and more seems to be just like the designated defendant of the Bidens — the sin-eater who might need to take one for the staff within the type of a few tax prices…. As made clear by Jim Biden, there’s all the time a plan within the Biden household. Again in 2018, he assured his nephew that ‘as standard simply want a number of months of [your father’s] assist for this to work.’ ‘Let’s speak about it. It makes good sense to me.’” • It’s exhausting to see this as something aside from a yarn diagram with a narrative hook. Sadly!

“Can Republicans Hope To Outrun Trump In 2024 Home Races?” [Amy Walter, Cook Political Report]. “In 2020, Republicans discovered success with candidates who have been feminine and/or individuals of shade. These candidates didn’t look, sound or act like Donald Trump or the stereotype of the GOP. Even so, virtually the entire good points Republicans made that 12 months have been in districts that Trump had additionally carried. Solely 5 challengers — David Valadao (CA-21), Younger Kim (CA-39), Michelle Metal (CA-48), Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27) and Beth Van Duyne (TX-24) — received in CDs carried by Biden. One other 4 incumbents — Mike Garcia (CA-25), Don Bacon (NE-02), John Katko (NY-24), and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) — received re-election in Biden-won districts. In 2022, Republicans narrowly received management of the Home because of the truth that 18 Republicans received in districts Biden had carried in 2020. Nevertheless, Republicans’ failure to flip different high-profile seats that Biden narrowly carried two years earlier (like MI-08, MI-07, PA-07, CO-08, NM-02 and OH-13) price them a extra strong majority. To carry the Home in 2024, Republicans first need to restrict their losses in Biden-held districts. Probably the most susceptible Republicans are the 5 freshmen who outperformed Trump’s 2020 exhibiting of their districts by double digits: John Duarte (CA-13), George Santos (NY-03), Anthony D’Esposito (NY-04), Mike Lawler (NY-17) and Lori Chavez DeRemer (OR-05). For instance, Biden received the Central Valley-based thirteenth District by 11 factors. Freshman Rep. John Duarte carried it by slightly below one level. The subsequent tier of susceptible incumbents are the 4 freshman Republicans who outperformed Trump by 5 to 9 factors: Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07), Marc Molinaro (NY-19), Brandon Williams (NY-22) and Jen Kiggans (VA-02). Why did I single out the freshmen members? They’re the least established, and as such are probably going to have the toughest time overcoming the pull of the nationwide surroundings. ”

Democrats en Déshabillé

Affected person readers, evidently individuals are truly studying the back-dated submit! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are various updates. So I must try this. –lambert

I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Get together (“the Democrat Get together 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 “stay” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Get together is, in reality, a tough downside. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:

The Democrat Get together is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Get together didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working components of the Get together reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Get together (ka-ching, however not solely) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.

Word, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is proscribed by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.

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#COVID19

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

Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information).

Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. We at the moment are as much as 50/50 states (100%). That is actually nice! (It happens to me that there are makes use of to which this information could be put, past serving to individuals with “private danger assessments” acceptable to their state. For instance, pondering pessimistically, we would keep the checklist and see which states go darkish and when. We’d additionally tabulate the properties of every web site and search for variations and commonalities, for instance the usage of GIS (an train in Federalism). I don’t that CA stays slightly sketchy; it feels slightly odd that there’s no statewide web site, however I’ve by no means been capable of finding one. Additionally, my working assumption was that every state would have one web site. That’s turned out to not be true; see e.g. ID. Trivially, it means I must punctuate this checklist correctly. Much less trivially, there could also be extra native websites that must be added. NY metropolis in NY state springs to thoughts, however I’m certain there are others. FL additionally springs to thoughts as a particular case, as a result of DeSantis will most likely be a Presidental candidate, and IIRC there was some foofra about their state dashboard. Thanks once more!

Assets, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater studies); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).

Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).

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

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Search for the Helpers

Look! You may socialize with out making a superspreader occasion!

in a single place. Tied a JBL speaker excessive up within the fig tree to get the acoustics excellent. Folks used the indoor restroom. Had the restroom window open, fan on, home home windows open + 3 hepa filters working. My bed room was closed off tight. So submit occasion

— AndyAF🎧🔮 (@CactusAndy) May 29, 2023

The entire thread is commonsense (which doesn’t imply I’d have considered all of it). I believed the 2 finest ideas have been ensuring the lavatory was effectively ventilated, and organizing issues so individuals didn’t hand around in the kitchen.

Look! You may set up a convention with out making a superspreader occasion!

That second when an anime conference outdoes the CDC & the complete medical trade on pandemic mitigation. https://t.co/KrdF7sl6Jw

— Springtime for Hitler Particles (@ljmontello) May 27, 2023

To be honest, you in all probability can’t if you happen to’re a mind genius from CDC, or from An infection Management usually. But when your ***cough*** not knowledgeable ***cough*** you’ll be able to!

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“COVID-Aware Therapist Listing” [Covid Conscious Therapists]. “Your psychological well being supplier shouldn’t let you know that persevering with to take security precautions to decrease your danger of an infection is irrational.” • For the US, Canada, and internationally. All information submitted by the suppliers.

Vaccines

“Perceived Affect of Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination Resolution-making and Belief” [JAMA]. “This survey research discovered that though there was substantial coverage consideration round incentivizing COVID-19 vaccination, fewer than 1 in 10 vaccinated people in a nationally consultant pattern of US adults reported receiving an incentive.” • There was “substantial coverage consideration” as a result of our elites assume everyone and every part might be purchased. With some justification, I would add.

Maskstravaganza

Extra horrifying than Darth Vader?

New look pic.twitter.com/lYJbRFMJYF

— Michael A Osborne (@maosbot) May 27, 2023

Nonetheless, self-expression is what will get masks out of the medical field and into the style field, so…..

Sequelae

“Lengthy COVID: a overview and proposed visualization of the complexity of lengthy COVID” (overview article) [Frontiers in Immunology]. “Submit-Acute Sequelae of Extreme Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus – 2 (SARS-CoV-2) an infection, or Lengthy COVID, is a prevailing second pandemic with almost 100 million affected people globally and counting. We suggest a visible description of the complexity of Lengthy COVID and its pathogenesis that can be utilized by researchers, clinicians, and public well being officers to information the worldwide effort towards an improved understanding of Lengthy COVID and the eventual mechanism-based provision of care to stricken sufferers. The proposed visualization or framework for Lengthy COVID must be an evidence-based, dynamic, modular, and systems-level strategy to the situation. Moreover, with additional analysis such a framework might set up the energy of the relationships between pre-existing circumstances (or danger components), organic mechanisms, and ensuing scientific phenotypes and outcomes of Lengthy COVID.” • To this layperson, this visualization is way superior to NIH’s lamestream “12 signs,” not least as a result of it seeks to visualise the complexity, not handle it. Right here is the complete visualization:

The authors clarify:

The energy of the affiliation between any two [of the round-cornered] nodes [e.g, age, an ancedent, and autoimmunity, a mechanism] primarily based on a qualitative synthesis of the present proof by the authors, is represented by the thickness of the connecting traces. It’s obvious {that a} single pathway is unlikely to elucidate the genesis and evolution of this advanced post-viral phenomenon and that multi-hit, multi-mechanistic pathways are extra probably.

I’m additionally a giant fan of placing organic mechanisms entrance and heart (inexperienced center column) Right here is the visualization centered on the autoimmunity mechanism:

My solely quarrel with the “thickness of the traces” indicating the energy of affiliation — except for the truth that it must be captioned — is that it’s merely not intuitive to me; I simply see, effectively, yarn. They may darken the tone of the traces to point energy, and even add numerical weights to the traces. That apart, it is a really noble effort to visualise and conceptualize a really exhausting downside.

“Viral persistence, reactivation, and mechanisms of lengthy COVID” [eLife]. That is, in essence, a plea for “extra research.” However this nugget was interesing: “Reactivation of latent viruses has been linked to the dysregulation of the host immune response throughout acute SARS-CoV-2 an infection, that’s, by disabling the host kind I interferon response through autoantibodies (Acharya et al., 2020), leading to decreased management of those latent pathogens.”

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“Persistent Exhausted T-Cell Immunity after Extreme COVID-19: 6-Month Analysis in a Potential Observational Examine” [Journal of Clinical Medicine]. “Extreme COVID-19 can lead to a major and irreversible impression on long-term restoration and subsequent immune safety…. The immunological activation within the SARS-CoV-2 group throughout hospitalization is reversed on the follow-up time level. Nevertheless, the marked exhaustion sample stays over time. and the event of different pathologies. Moreover, excessive SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cells response ranges seem like related to an infection severity.:

“One thing Terrible”

Lambert right here: I’ve been muttering about Covid and mind injury for a while, however with Topol’s article instantly beneath, the subject ought to attain the mainstream, or a minimum of that portion of our mighty media stream not clogged with gaslighting, denial, and repair provision for these with money in hand.

“The Mind and Lengthy Covid” [Eric Topol, Ground Truths]. Essential. Right here is the lead: “Ever because the UK Biobank research that confirmed mind atrophy, lack of gray matter, and cognitive decline in about 400 individuals who had Covid in contrast with matched controls, through baseline (pre-Covid) and subsequent (~3 years later) MRI scans, there was important fear concerning the impression this virus has on the mind. Two new research, each from researchers in Germany, illuminate the . Importantly, these have been research of individuals with Covid, not particularly people who have been affected by Lengthy Covid.” The Munich Examine stained tissue (n = 20). The Hamburg Examine used MRI (n = 223). I’ve helpfully outlined and highlighted the lead buried on this beautiful graphic:

“The purposeful and structural adjustments within the hippocampus of COVID-19 sufferers” (overview article) [Acta Neurologica Belgica]. “COVID-19 prompts microglia within the hippocampus and induces a CNS cytokine storm, resulting in lack of hippocampal neurogenesis. The purposeful and structural adjustments within the hippocampus of COVID-19 sufferers can clarify neuronal degeneration and lowered neurogenesis within the human hippocampus. This may open a window to elucidate reminiscence and cognitive dysfunctions in ‘lengthy COVID’ by means of the resultant lack of hippocampal neurogenesis.” • Possibly. There are quite a lot of laborers on this specific winery…..

“Creutzfeldt-Jakob illness after COVID-19: infection-induced prion protein misfolding? A case report” [Prion]. “We describe a younger affected person creating CJD two months after delicate COVID-19. Presenting signs have been visuospatial deficits and ataxia, evolving right into a bedridden state with preserved consciousness and diffuse myoclonus. Diagnostic work-up was suggestive of CJD. The early age of onset and the brief interval between respiratory and neurological signs would possibly recommend a causal relationship: a COVID-19-related neuroinflammatory state might have induced the misfolding and subsequent aggregation of PrPSc. The current case emphasizes the hyperlink between neuroinflammation and protein misfolding. Additional research are wanted to determine the function of SARS-CoV-2 as an initiator of neurodegeneration.” And: “A prognosis of possible sCJD was made primarily based on present diagnostic standards.” And: “Our affected person developed the primary signs of sCJD two months after COVID-19. 4 earlier circumstances of sCJD after COVID-19 have been reported, highlighting a potential causal relationship [4–6]: our case exhibits related options suggesting a causal hyperlink between an infection and neurodegeneration, notably the early age of onset and the two-month-long latency between COVID-19 and onset of neurological signs. The younger age at onset and the restricted familial historical past prompted us to carry out genetic testing.” • Hmm.

Elite Maleficence

Elites on masks (1):

That is a residual profit to the administration’s company overlords. The CDC girl already defined the central downside with individuals being seen in public carrying masks is that it reminds us of the continuing plague they’ve labored so exhausting to gaslight us into pondering it is over. pic.twitter.com/2Sg52Fru1q

— Hugh Wouldathunkit (@HughThunkIt) May 29, 2023

Looking back, Walensky was fairly proper. Beneath present circumstances, a masked inhabitants isn’t gaslit, and isn’t in denial. That’s an issue for elites, who know there’s a pandemic — #DavosSafe — however don’t need you to assume there’s, as a result of in any other case how would the capital accumulation bandwagon hold rolling?

Elites on masks (2):

Applicable behaviour on a part of college students to unreasonable calls for of the lecturer – do what you want with respect to mask-wearing however don’t begin speaking OH&S in case your viewers doesn’t need to play ball https://t.co/pw00wB5Oyi

— Peter McIntyre (@peter_2611) May 30, 2023

McIntyre, a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of Specialists of WHO, kicking down towards a professor whose solely sin is desirous to keep away from getting contaminated by her college students within the classroom. McIntyre can be an immunologist, so maybe he ought to keep in his lane.

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Boring normals on elastomerics:

I met a outstanding IPC at #IPAC2023 who works for a small rural indigenous hospital in Manitoba. Firstly of the pandemic, he purchased private reusable elastomeric respirators for every HCW.

Filter adjustments each 6 months.

Zero COVID outbreaks.

Zero HCW HAIs.

👏👏👏

— Barry Hunt – #DavosSafe (@BarryHunt008) May 29, 2023

From Canada. For extra on Canada, see beneath.

“Nosocomial COVID-19: A Nationwide Spanish Examine” [Gerontology]. From the Summary: “It is a nationwide, retrospective, multicenter, observational research that analyzed sufferers hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 in 150 Spanish hospitals… [=Nosocomial COVID-19 (NC) infection] was outlined as sufferers admitted for non-COVID-19 illnesses with a constructive SARS-CoV-2 check on the fifth day of hospitalization or later. The first end result was 30-day in-hospital mortality (IHM). The secondary end result was different COVID-19-related problems…. Of the 23,219 sufferers hospitalized with COVID-19, 1,104 (4.8%) have been NC…. . IHM was considerably greater amongst NC sufferers.” • Hospital An infection Management whacking individuals in Spain, too!

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Oy, Canada! (1): IPAC Canada erases non-pharmaceutical interventions. Cute, cheerful, pleasant poster, although!

Comfortable to be a part of the Chapter President assembly with IPAC Canada. NB/PEI are represented!! #IPAC2023 pic.twitter.com/LxA6j3Mrn1

— Julie Weir (@JulieDWeir) May 28, 2023

IPAC is, as you in all probability guessed, An infection Prevention and Management (Canada).

Oy, Canada! (2):

That seems to be the profitable poster for the upcoming Nationwide An infection Management Week October 16-20, 2023. The poster designer received a free journey to this convention, or if they’re sensible, took the $500 and purchased an air air purifier pic.twitter.com/5323hZLDNc

— David Elfstrom (@DavidElfstrom) May 29, 2023

From IPAC’s convention.

The Jackpot

“Speech Sounds” [Octavia E. Butler]. • The Final of Us, however from 1983 and with out SARS-CoV-2 Cordyceps. Genuinely horrifying, so contemplate your self warned, but additionally a traditional.

Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” could be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. Numerous exceptionally nasty sequelae, probably deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we would add mind injury, together with character adjustments therefrom.

Case Information

From BioBot wastewater information from Might 30:

Lambert right here: Until the USA is totally, er, distinctive, we must be seeing a rise right here quickly. UPDATE Nonetheless on the excessive plateau. Are we’re the purpose within the international pandemic the place nationwide experiences actually diverge?

For now, I’m going to make use of this nationwide wastewater information as the very best proxy for case information (ignoring the scientific case information portion of this chart, which in my opinion “goes unhealthy” after March 2022, for causes as but unexplained). At the least we will spot developments, and examine present ranges to equal previous ranges.

Variants

NOT UPDATED From CDC, Might 27, 2023:

Lambert right here: XBB.1.16 and XBB.1.9.1 nonetheless on the best way up, consuming into XBB.1.5. I certain 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 lower by directors of ailing intent).

CDC: “As of Might 11, genomic surveillance information can be reported biweekly, primarily based on the provision of constructive check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Appears like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform. Appears just like the Walgreens variants web page isn’t updating.

Covid Emergency Room Visits

From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, from Might 27:

NOTE “Charts and information supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not the complete pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “similar to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is suitable for each_{MR SUBLIMINAL I hate these individuals a lot}. Discover additionally that this chart exhibits, a minimum of for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, regardless that CDC is attempting to get us to consider that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the prevailing institutional equipment for injections.

Positivity

NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, Might 30:

-1.8%. Frequency right down to as soon as every week.

Deaths

NOT UPDATED Loss of life charge (Our World in Information), from Might 24:

Lambert right here: Zero deaths, for 3 days in a row. Not potential. Thanks, Johns Hopkins of the $9.32 billion endowment, for abandoning this information feed and passing duty on to the clown automobile at WHO.

Complete: 1,165,317 – 1,165,281 = 36 (36 * 365 = 13,140 deaths per 12 months, at this time’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “dwelling 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 need to determine that is what the powers-that-be contemplate “mission achieved” for this specific tranche of dying and illness).

Extra Deaths

NOT UPDATED Extra deaths (The Economist), revealed Might 21:

Lambert right here: Based mostly on a machine-learning mannequin. (The CDC has an extra estimate too, however because it ran endlessly with an enormous typo within the Legend, I figured no person was actually taking a look at it, so I acquired rid it. )

Stats Watch

Employment Scenario: “The variety of job quits in the USA decreased by 49K from the earlier month to three.79 million in April of 2023, the bottom degree since March of 2021 and falling farther from the document peak of roughly 4.5 million quits reached in November 2021” [Trading Economics].

Manufacturing: “United States Chicago PMI” [Trading Economics]. “The Chicago Enterprise Barometer, also referred to as the Chicago PMI, fell to 40.4 factors in Might 2023, down from an eight-month excessive of 48.6 in April and beneath market forecasts of 47. The studying marked the ninth consecutive month of contraction in enterprise exercise within the Chicago area, however one which was the softest since November final 12 months.”

Tech: Twitter’s “For You” feed is a poisoned chalice:

Tech: “Electrical autos have an effectivity downside” [Axios]. “Automobile batteries are like wine fridges: They’re by no means sufficiently big. That’s an actual downside for anyone who hopes that electrical autos will assist decarbonize the planet and cut back air pollution. EVs are terribly heavy, and the bigger their batteries, the heavier they develop into. That makes them extra harmful, will increase air pollution, minimizes decarbonization, and locks in a geopolitically fraught reliance on China.” • Oops.

Right this moment’s Worry & Greed Index: 64 Greed (earlier shut: 65 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 59 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Might 31 at 2:16 PM ET.

Information of the Wired

“Ask HN: Is it simply me or GPT-4’s high quality has considerably deteriorated recently?” [Hacker News] • That was quick. Attention-grabbing thread.

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