By Lambert Strether of Corrente

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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 most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in actual fact a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

The Constitutional Order (Twenty-Fifth Modification)

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

At any time when the Vice President and a majority of both the principal officers of the manager departments or of such different physique as Congress could by legislation 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 really be “the onerous approach.” Different explanations contain but extra leaks. However “the onerous approach” implies to me a change of state. A Twenty Fifth modification invocation is that; extra leaks are usually not). Nonetheless, if this story is confirmed, it implies that the Interior Social gathering 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. Social gathering earlier than nation!

Trump Assassination Try

“Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle resigns after surprising failures led to Trump assassination try” [New York Post]. Another element: “Crooks was additionally allowed to enter the rally regardless of being stopped on the entrance with a rangefinder — a sort 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 checklist. NC was by no means going for Biden Harris, however Virginia? Yikes!

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Biden Defenestration:

“Biden to handle nation tomorrow on choice to drop out of marketing campaign” [New York Post]. “President Biden will handle the nation at 8 p.m. Wednesday about his choice 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 individuals,’ Biden, 81, tweeted Tuesday. The president hasn’t been seen in public since final Wednesday when he traveled to his Delaware trip house to recuperate from COVID-19 and is anticipated 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 gorgeous, involving lots of of telephone calls by Harris’ group to senators, Home members and governors.” • I’m unsure 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 web site. That is what I discovered:

The Biden web site redirects to not a Kamala web site with a contemporary new id, however to ActBlue, for a direct donation. I believe that’s a little bit crass. It additionally means that the method was not completely 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 web site:

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

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“The Social gathering will undertake a clear and orderly course of” is wealthy; apparently the DNC thought they have been going to play a major function within the transition. No such luck! And right here is Kamala’s principal Twitter web page as of press time:

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

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

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The Marketing campaign Path:

Harris (D):

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

Over the subsequent few months, I will be touring throughout the nation speaking to Individuals about the whole lot on the road. I absolutely intend to unite our occasion and our nation, and defeat Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/Bsq3N6pMAi

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 23, 2024

Usually, in any system resembling a democracy, “assist” is “earned” by dealing with the voters in elections. Apparently, that’s now not necessary to the Democrat Social gathering 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 largest one-day haul of the 2024 election cycle.” • [1] The story at NBC has $46.7 million at ActBlue, which is nice, however 46.7 will not be equal to 231. [2] Harris marketing campaign press launch, unsure 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 trivialities 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 possibilities” [Axios]. “Harris’ time as vice chairman has been often rocky, outlined partly by giant employees turnover, retreating from politically dangerous duties, and mocking from some Beltway insiders. A lot of Harris’ employees has turned over previously 3½ years.About half of the vice chairman’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 checklist 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 the same interval, based on the disclosures for employees paid by the Senate. Former Harris aides advised Axios the excessive turnover is partly due to how the vice chairman treats her employees. Some former aides stated Harris had excessive requirements that some didn’t wish to sustain with, however others felt that she incessantly grilled them the best way she grilled Trump officers, reminiscent of then-Lawyer Common Jeff Periods, 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 group.” • To the press group’s detriment. That stated, Biden’s reciprocal loyalty to employees served him properly.

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

“All of a 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 are actually eight years older, are saddled with school debt, and may’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 Reality Social an advance warning of the marketing campaign he’ll run in opposition to Harris: ‘Additionally, respects to our doubtlessly 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 outdated web smear that Harris slept her approach to political success.” • The Harris group 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 through 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 ‘mates and constant political soldier’ hasn’t been a cheerful occasion for Harris just one time. Come on. Are we little youngsters 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 occasion’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 approach as a result of it was that approach.

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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 sequence of cooking movies on her YouTube and one factor I’ve realized up to now is that she’s bought 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 Social gathering Sees Disaster and Alternative” [Politico]. “However Democrats will first have to handle the the explanation 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 occasion in droves in latest many years; polls have proven Trump poised to scoop up working-class Black and Latino voters in doubtlessly historic proportions. Trump and his vice presidential choose 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, other than tolerating cultural variations and transferring towards a greener financial 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 consider that the disaster they’ve gone via will be resolved by shifting candidates with out addressing the discontents that roil the nation.” • The problem, as Thomas Frank exhibits, is that the Democrat PMC base hates the working class. The one approach that may change is that if the Democrats lose in 2024, badly. And once more in 2028, as a result of they at all times double down on failure. That’s a very long time to attend. Commentary:

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

And made some enemies that anybody ought to be pleased with.

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

— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) July 22, 2024

Would anybody wish to make e-book 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 Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

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

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

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

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Maskstravaganza

As a result of many N95s have a metallic 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 protected 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 degree since Could 2020.”

Manufacturing: “Boss of largest 777X buyer needs Boeing mounted — 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 big 777Xs with each optimism and fear. He doesn’t count on to get the primary ones till mid-2026, he stated 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 employees and their union on its facet to get the job executed. ‘The blokes on the store ground, the engineers, the machinists, they know what to do,’ stated Clark. ‘They’ll get it sorted.’ ‘Don’t overlook the workforce. Ensure that they get a superb deal. Just be sure you take care of them,’ he added. ‘Be sure to 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 consider 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 industrial jets, together with 118 Airbus superjumbo A380s, and greater than 140 Boeing 777s. The A380 is discontinued after it didn’t earn cash for Airbus. So Clark wants the 777X to resume his fleet. He has positioned virtually half the entire 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 stated.” • However what concerning 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 will be ‘a good suggestion’ for him to fulfill and communicate with any of the whistleblowers that had voiced their issues over the corporate’s security practices. Calhoun responded: ‘Yeh, I believe it will.’ Brian Knowles, an lawyer who represents over a dozen present and former workers of Boeing, stated that he has but to listen to from Calhoun or the corporate. [Knowls client sam] Mohawk is a top quality assurance inspector at Boeing’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington. In a grievance 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 parts, which have been then doubtless used within the meeting of Boeing planes. Knowles additionally advised Newsweek that Mohawk had noticed 1000’s of elements being left ‘within the parts’ exterior of the Renton facility, resulting in corrosion of the parts. When requested whether or not his shoppers can be prepared to fulfill with Calhoun or the Boeing board, Knowles stated: ‘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 an alternative. On the time, Google stated, ‘All current 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 character. The ugliness of Myspace wasn’t simply thrilling in a sort of outsider/folk-art approach (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, moderately break their fingers and gouge out their eyes than produce pages that regarded 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 could possibly be simply distinguished between parasitic commercializers. The instant predecessors to Myspace’s ugliness-as-a-feature have been the online, 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 character.”

Right now’s Concern & Greed Index: 59 Greed (earlier shut: 55 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 60 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 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]. “Numerous votes in 2024 have been forged by accounts which fail to fulfill 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 have been an identical besides that the primary letter was modified, in alphabetical order; and a run of voters whose names have 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 another 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 closing poll. Along with patterns observable within the knowledge, we obtained 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 have been refunded the price of membership after confirming that they’d 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 closing poll votes that we obtained. We now have 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 potential to reply may be very restricted, on account of our duty to take care of the confidentiality of the poll and knowledge safety rules. 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 knowledge can not and won’t be shared exterior the Glasgow 2024 Hugo group.”

“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, but it surely’s nonetheless one which has which means to people, so it’s not a management character (this sounds apparent in the present day, but it surely was truly the supply of some semantic argument when the ASCII customary was first being mentioned). Placing it numerically earlier than another printing character was a really carefully-considered and deliberate alternative. The rationale: sorting. For a pc to type an inventory (of recordsdata, strings, or no matter) it’s best if it will probably 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 checklist as you’d count on him to. Being the primary printing character, area additionally enjoys a ravishing and memorable binary illustration {that a} human can simply recognise: 0100000…. There’s an odd and delicate appeal 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 gadgets, 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 symbolize which characters expose a refined logic. It’s aesthetically pleasing, and plagued by historic artefacts that train us a hidden historical past of computing. And it’s constructed atop patterns which might be sufficiently subtle to facilitate highly effective processing whereas being coherent sufficient for a human to memorise, be taught, and perceive.”

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

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