[ad_1]
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Fowl Music of the Day
Darkish-eyed Junco (cismontanus), Belleau Woods Forest Protect. “Distinct separation between hood and physique coloring. Photographs and audio recording of 1 particular person, one other was close by partially obscured in brambles.” What an ensemble! Even the white noise…
* * *
Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are the truth is a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
The Constitutional Order
“Practically 200 congressional Republicans urge SCOTUS to maintain Trump on the poll” [Politico]. “Practically 200 congressional Republicans, together with Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, have joined a Supreme Court docket transient urging the courtroom to facet with former President Donald Trump on the query of if he’s eligible to be on Colorado’s poll within the 2024 election…. The transient from congressional Republicans doesn’t weigh in on whether or not the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was an rebellion or not, regardless that that dedication was on the coronary heart of the Colorado courtroom’s resolution. Lawmakers spent a lot of the 37-page submitting questioning whether or not Trump bore accountability for the violence that day. ‘It’s onerous to think about an precise insurrectionist rapidly asking for peace and inspiring disbandment,’ the group writes, specializing in one among many actions Trump took that day to direct the group. McConnell’s signature is especially notable as a result of he has repeatedly stood by feedback he made within the weeks after the Jan. 6 assault, squarely blaming Trump for stoking the violence.” • Republicans consolidating quickly….
“Legal professionals for Trump urge the Supreme Court docket ‘to place a swift and decisive finish’ to poll elimination efforts” [Associated Press]. “Trump’s Supreme Court docket staff is led by Texas-based lawyer Jonathan Mitchell, who devised elements of the anti-abortion laws that largely shut down abortions in Texas months earlier than the Supreme Court docket overturned the Roe v. Wade resolution in June 2022.” Attention-grabbing; lastly Trump has a reliable, or not less than a intelligent, lawyer? Extra: “And the courtroom has stated that it intends to listen to an enchantment that would upend lots of of costs stemming from the Capitol riot, together with in opposition to Trump.” • Hmm. If the Court docket overturns these “lots of of costs” — the cost of interrupting an official continuing comes from Sarbanes-Oxley, weirdly — that ought to get rid of the rebellion cost by the again door. What’s an rebellion with out insurrectionists?
2024
Lower than a 12 months to go!
* * *
“Hunter Biden agrees to non-public deposition with Republicans” [Associated Press]. After the stunt of refusing to not! “The Home Oversight Committee introduced Thursday that the 2 events have agreed for Hunter Biden to sit down for a deposition on Feb. 28. ‘The president’s son is a key witness on this investigation and he’s gonna be capable to are available now and sit down and reply questions in a substantive, orderly method,’ Rep. James Comer, chair of the Oversight Committee, instructed reporters. He added that Hunter Biden will be capable to testify publicly someday after his deposition.” And: “Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, wrote in a letter Friday that his consumer’s cooperation relies on the committee issuing a brand new subpoena, which they are going to now do given the up to date deposition date. That they had argued that the 2 subpoenas despatched in final 12 months weren’t authentic as a result of they have been issued earlier than the total Home approved the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.” • Properly, fantastic. Nothing incorrect with a fig leaf, I suppose.
* * *
“Nikki Haley DID cheat on husband Michael – had affairs along with her comms advisor and a MARRIED South Carolina lobbyist earlier than she turned governor, sworn affidavits and new witnesses declare” [Daily Mail]. “Presidential candidate Nikki Haley falsely denied dishonest on her husband when she was accused of participating in two extramarital affairs throughout her gubernatorial marketing campaign, a number of sources who labored along with her declare. New witnesses have come ahead telling DailyMail.com that Haley’s denials of two alleged 2008 affairs are false, and that the supposed trysts have been brazen and broadly identified amongst South Carolina politicos. Will Of us, 49, and Larry Marchant, 61, each signed affidavits in 2010 alleging that they had a sexual relationship with the then-South Carolina lawmaker, earlier than she went on to change into governor. Whereas the contents of the affidavits have been described by main information retailers on the time, that is the primary time they’ve been revealed outdoors of Of us’ personal doc which he revealed on his weblog…. However a number of GOP insiders instructed DailyMail.com that they have been intimately conscious of Haley’s infidelity as a South Carolina lawmaker – together with tales of steamy liaisons behind her Cadillac SUV, ‘canoodling’ in her lovers’ laps at bars, and nights spent collectively in a Columbia, South Carolina duplex…. Sources spoke to DailyMail.com about Haley’s alleged affairs after noticing her rosy references to her relationship along with her husband, a significant within the Nationwide Guard who’s at the moment deployed in Africa, on her presidential marketing campaign path.” And what the hell are we doing in Africa? Don’t we now have sufficient on our plate? Extra: “A fourth supply, a senior political official in South Carolina, claimed Of us confessed to him he had intercourse with Haley in her automobile in a restaurant parking zone. ‘Within the South Carolina legislature, there are two sorts: the individuals who consider not sufficient will get finished as a result of there aren’t sufficient lawmakers and lobbyists sleeping collectively; and the people who find themselves holier than thou and say that having an affair violates the Ten Commandments,’ the political official stated.” • “South Carolina is simply too small for a republic and too giant for an insane asylum.” Anyhow, the Every day Mail posts copies of the affidavits. Hopefully Nikki does higher on the Seventh Commandment than she did on slavery. And also you’ve gotta marvel why this oppo didn’t come out nicely earlier than this.
* * *
“Trump Needs Revenge—And So Does His Base” [The Atlantic]. “Very similar to Trump himself, these voters are unable to just accept what’s occurred over the previous a number of years. Trump, in so some ways, rapidly made fools of them; his numerous inanities, failures, and attainable crimes despatched them scrambling for ever more odd rationalizations, defenses of the indefensible that separated them from household and associates. If in 2016 they suspected, rightly or wrongly, that many Individuals regarded down on them for any variety of causes, they now know with certainty that hundreds of thousands of individuals look down on them—not for who they’re however for what they’ve supported so vocally.” • Clinton did all that with one phrase: “Deplorables.” It’s items like this that make me marvel if all of the “hate” is on one facet….
“Trump’s closing argument to New Hampshire voters pushes misinformation suggesting Democrats would ‘infiltrate’ GOP major” [CBS]. I hate the pseudo-profundit of that “closing argument” trope. The “story arc,” because it have been, of a political marketing campaign just isn’t that of a lawsuit. Anyhow: “Former President Donald Trump’s closing message to New Hampshire voters accommodates falsehoods in regards to the upcoming major election, together with a baseless declare that Democrats are planning to ‘infiltrate’ the first to help former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley…. By regulation, undeclared residents might vote in New Hampshire’s GOP major, together with Republican voters. Registered voters might solely vote in a single occasion’s major, and the deadline to modify occasion registration expired in early October. Of the state’s greater than 873,000 registered voters, simply 3,542 voters modified their registration from Democrat to undeclared earlier than the state’s Oct. 6 deadline, and simply 408 Democrats modified their registration to Republican.”
* * *
“Do You Bear in mind the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden?” [Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine]. No. Chait writes: “The one method to cease an authoritarian-minded candidate from profitable is for a coalition of anti-authoritarian voters to unify behind one other presidential candidate. That coalition very conspicuously did not materialize in 2016 for quite a lot of causes…. In 2020, the dynamic modified. The central concern on the general public’s thoughts was Trump, and Biden managed to assemble a majority in opposition to him, ranging all the way in which from Bernie Sanders supporters to disillusioned Republicans within the Atlanta suburbs…. For the time being, the state of the anti-Trump coalition seems to be way more grim than it did in 2020 and even 2016. Biden has an anemic approval score, far worse than Trump, Barack Obama, or another incumbent at this stage.” • At which level Chait goes in for an prolonged spherical of hippie-punching. The phrase “coalition,” to me, remembers the FDR “coalition,” which — being primarily based on the fabric curiosity of voters — lasted for forty or fifty years. In actuality, what Chait’s calling a “coalition” is the Democrat’s stable base within the PMC — itself, identical to MAGA or Bush the Youthful’s Christianists, too small to control by itself — cobbled along with no matter free-floating demographics appear acceptable for the given election (true since 2008, when Obama’s “coalition” putatively fashioned).
* * *
“Dean Phillips drops DEI from marketing campaign web site” [Politico]. “Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips eliminated a reference to selling “Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion” on his marketing campaign web site after one among his high monetary backers, a number one DEI opponent, prodded Phillips publicly on the topic. That donor, the hedge fund investor Invoice Ackman, has at totally different occasions referred to as Phillips’s language about DEI a ‘mistake’ and stated the candidate was ‘getting educated’ on the difficulty. Writing on X, he stated a number of occasions that he anticipated Phillips would revise his marketing campaign web site’s reference to DEI. Earlier this week, the Minnesota consultant’s marketing campaign took out the time period DEI from the platform part of its web site and changed it with ‘Fairness & Restorative Justice.’ The language below the header stays the identical, with Phillips’ marketing campaign saying he believes, ‘We’re a rapidly-diversifying nation, and it’s that range, which makes America nice.’ However the resolution to drop reference to DEI — an decades-old initiative in academia and authorities to advertise fairer illustration amongst teams which have confronted historic discrimination — stands out for its timing. Phillips’s tremendous PAC lately obtained a dedication for a $1 million donation from Ackman….” • Oh.
* * *
IA: “Let’s Take a look at the Iowa Outcomes With a Chilly Eye” [Esquire]. “[L]ook on the outcomes with, and you’ll pardon the expression, a chilly eye. That is the primary time {that a} candidate ever broke 50 p.c of the caucus vote, and the previous president* received by the most important margin in Iowa caucus historical past. In 2016, his marketing campaign at this stage was the mere semblance of a marketing campaign. (On the day of the 2016 New Hampshire major, his headquarters in downtown Manchester was an empty storefront.) Any person in that operation this time is aware of their onions about area organizing this time round. This, I discover unsettling.” • Allow us to recall that PA, essentially the most delegate-rich swing state, may be received with area organizing. That’s what Fetterman — bless his coronary heart — did (that and an excellent media marketing campaign).
* * *
#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 knowledge). “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 vegetation. 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 stories); 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 (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
Hat tricks to useful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, sq. coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3).
Keep protected on the market!
* * *
Covid is Airborne
“Ultraviolet gentle can kill nearly all of the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it in all places?” [Vox]. “These advocates think about a world during which far-UV lamps are arrange in most giant indoor areas the place folks collect, emitting rays that kill airborne viruses and micro organism whereas leaving people unhurt. If all goes in response to plan, day cares will cease spreading round noroviruses and flus; hospital infections will plummet; aged and immunocompromised folks can collect overtly, unmasked, with out fearing they’ll catch one thing. In a world the place the flu alone imposes a mean of $11 billion in financial prices per 12 months to the US and Covid has price america on the order of $14 trillion, it’s a virtually utopian imaginative and prescient. The following Covid could be strangled within the crib, unable to achieve the billions of individuals SARS-CoV-2 did as a result of it’s deactivated at each flip. Not like a vaccine, which must be formulated anew for each rising pathogen after which proactively taken by everybody in danger, far-UV could be a passive protection in opposition to respiratory viruses of all kinds, current ones in addition to these to come back. Pandemics would go from an everyday risk to a factor of the previous. That’s the plan, anyway. However there’s nonetheless lots we have no idea, not least about what shining these lights does to the air it touches and what that would do to people who breathe that air. It’s a know-how with unimaginable promise, however one the place getting the main points proper might hardly be extra essential.” • I’m all for layered safety, and Far-UV might be one layer. That stated, I like easy and rugged, which air flow and masking are, and which Far-UV just isn’t.
Maskstravaganza
“7 of the Very Finest KN95 Masks Genuine, high-quality KN95 masks as really useful by docs and Strategist editors” [New York Magazine]. I confess that The Strategist is a guiltu pleasure of mine, so it’s good to see a masks overview there. And: ” Like many hundreds of different folks, I choose carrying KN95 masks: Their foldable beaklike form and ear loops (versus the hairdo-ruining head straps discovered on N95 masks) make them a extra handy and cozy on a regular basis alternative for me.” • Sigh, however I suppose that interprets right into a design problem for the N95 producers, a paradigm shift for them: 3M sees the N95 as a medical equipment for the office, not a style merchandise for public areas.
Prevention
“‘I’m an oncologist – that is the nasal spray I exploit to forestall viruses attaching to me’” [Express]. UK. “However oncologist Dr Yussef Gaffar has one other hack to struggle off infections – utilizing a nasal spray. Dr Gaffar makes use of BioSURE PRO nasal spray which features a “silver bullet” ingredient, ethyl lauroyl arginate hydrochloride (ELAH).” • In a UK tabloid!!
Origins Debate
From over the transom:
Restriction enzymes are used to chop sequences at particular sites-they recognise a particular sequence and that tells them the place to chop (like scissors minimize). Restriction enzymes have humorous names like BamH1, EcoRI, and many others. Each recognises a unique sequence, so relying on the place in your sequence you wish to minimize, you lookup the restriction enzyme that’ll minimize that particular spot. In case you’re designing one thing, you stick in a sequence that’ll help you minimize later at a particular spot, and use that individual restriction enzyme. It’s very, very particular. So, if this virus has a web site that matches a really specific restriction enzyme goal, and that particular goal was listed within the EcoHealth Alliance grant or paperwork, which means that they had inserted it within the sequence throughout design, it’s basically being caught red-handed. It’s like a one in a gazillion fingerprint that was inserted in the course of the design for manufacturing functions. Onerous to elucidate, and I in all probability didn’t do it very nicely. What you find yourself with is a sequence map, and you may establish that web site and sequence. Map often even has the minimize web site marked.
https://www.neb.com/en-us/merchandise/r0739-bsmbi-v2#Productpercent20Information
I f-ing knew it from the start. I hate being proper about this, however rattling. Have run a lab for too lengthy and knew instantly.
To be truthful, the EcoHealth grant was not authorised; that doesn’t imply one other model didn’t get authorised, and the EcoHealth grant utility course of was a veritable cesspit (Self-importance Honest article, too lazy to search out the hyperlink). However the backside line is that paperwork generated by Ecohealth contemplated making cuts that may style a virus with distinctive options much like SARS-CoV-2, as proven by the enzymes named and to be bought. This story has not but made it into the mainstream AFAIK, however yikes.
* * *
Case Knowledge
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater knowledge, January 16:
Lambert right here #3: Slight lower in slope, because of the Northeast and the West (until it’s a knowledge concern). Personally, I wouldn’t name a peak, primarily based totally on the anecdotes I’m scrolling by, which aren’t encouraging, notably with regard to the colleges. Very unscientific, I agree! Let’s wait and see. Word that I don’t settle for the PMC “homework” mannequin, whose most well-known exponent is Sociopath of the Day Bob Wachter, the place you alter your conduct in response to a number of sources of (horrible, gappy, lagged) knowledge about an infection ranges (ignoring “threat of wreck”). Simply stick together with your protocol day in and day trip, my recommendation. Okay.I.S.S. Nevertheless, monitoring these developments, moreover having intrinsic curiosity, is pragmatically helpful for main selections, like journey, cruises (certainly not, readers), relocation, household occasions, communication with recalcitrant HCWs, and many others.
Lambert #4: Appears to be like like I used to be too pessimistic! (In fact, half the circumstances below the curve happen after the height….)
Regional knowledge:
Large decline within the Northeast!
Variants
From CDC, January 20:
Lambert right here: JN.1 now dominates. That was quick.
CDC: “As of Might 11, genomic surveillance knowledge will likely be reported biweekly, primarily based on the provision of optimistic take a look at specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Appears to be like 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, January 13:
Lambert right here: In line with Biobot knowledge.
NOTE “Charts and knowledge offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous 12 months, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not all the 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 suitable for bothMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these folks a lot. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, not less than for its time interval, that Covid just isn’t 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. And naturally, we’re not even entering into the standard of the wastewater websites that we now have as a proxy for Covid an infection general.
Hospitalization
NOT UPDATED Bellwether New York Metropolis, knowledge as of January 17:
Lambert right here: Lower for the state, lower then improve for New York Metropolis. (This has been updating every day for a long-time, all of a sudden it’s intermittent [snarl].
Right here’s a unique CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, not less than. January 13:
Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and knowledge offered by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Check Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”. So the place the heck is the replace, CDC?
Positivity
NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, January 15:
-0.7%. (It could be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants usually; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer strain, went and acquired examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From Cleveland Clinic, January 13:
Lambert right here: Share and absolute numbers down.
NOT UPDATED From CDC, traveler’s knowledge, January 1:
Up, albeit within the rear view mirror. And listed here are the variants for vacationers, January 1:
Deaths
NOT UPDATED Right here is the New York Occasions, primarily based on CDC knowledge, January 6:
Stats Watch
There are not any statistics of curiosity at the moment.
* * *
The Economic system: “Individuals Are All of the sudden Upbeat About Economic system. Sentiment Simply Logged Its Greatest Soar in Many years” [Wall Street Journal]. “Shopper sentiment leapt 13% within the first half of January from December, the College of Michigan stated Friday. That got here on the heels of a pointy rise in December, inflicting the index to surge a mixed 29% from November, the most important two-month improve since 1991. The pickup in sentiment was broad-based, spanning customers of various age, earnings, schooling and geography. The restoration in sentiment ‘is probably going to supply some optimistic momentum for the economic system,’ stated Joanne Hsu, the Michigan survey’s director. Persistently excessive inflation, the lingering shock from the pandemic’s destruction and fears {that a} recession was across the nook had put a damper on emotions in regards to the economic system in recent times, regardless of stable progress and constant hiring. Now Individuals are bucking up as inflation cools and the Federal Reserve indicators that interest-rate will increase are doubtless behind us. And with the stable labor market placing cash within the financial institution accounts of freely spending customers, recession fears for 2024 are fading. Regardless of the latest sentiment good points, the measure continues to be about 20% decrease than earlier than the pandemic took maintain in 2020 and nearer to ranges in line with an economic system simply rising from a downturn—not one which recorded surprisingly sturdy progress final 12 months.” • Hmm. I preserve studying about layoffs….
* * *
Right now’s Concern & Greed Index: 71 Greed (earlier shut: 66 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 71 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jan 19 at 12:45:47 PM ET.
Zeitgeist Watch
Gobsmacked:
A truck loaded with hundreds of copies of Roget’s Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York Witnesses have been shocked, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, stunned, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed. pic.twitter.com/1Xd3lq4ovL
— Doc (@DocAtCDI) January 18, 2024
The Gallery
Lord of Misrule:
Revenue I, 1982 https://t.co/C6QY6iQVSq pic.twitter.com/sPiw3cn3SV
— Jean-Michel Basquiat (@artistbasquiat) January 18, 2024
Information of the Wired
“Don’t look again: the aftermath of a distressing occasion is extra memorable than the lead-up, research suggests” (press launch) [Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]. “A brand new research from psychologists on the Beckman Institute for Superior Science and Expertise means that we keep in mind the moments instantly following a distressing episode extra sharply than the moments main as much as it. Clarifying the connection between trauma and reminiscence can enhance how we consider eyewitness testimonies, inform therapies to deal with PTSD, and assist clinicians fight reminiscence decline in mind issues like Alzheimer’s illness. This research seems within the journal Cognition and Emotion….. That is unintuitive, the researchers say. ‘You may think that people developed to have an excellent reminiscence for what led to damaging issues,’ Bogdan stated. ‘In case you acquired bit by a snake, what foolhardy factor have been you doing beforehand?’ One clarification is that damaging emotional spikes (for instance, upon sustaining a snake chunk) trigger a rush of focus and application, telling our brains to take exhaustive notes about what occurs subsequent and squirrel them away for future use. However the prelude to trauma employs a a lot much less diligent notetaker. This casts a doubtful eye on eventualities like witness testimonies, the place contextual particulars are paramount… Taking again management over traumatic reminiscences, then, requires reattaching them to their context — their authentic place and time. The researchers hope to include this technique into cognitive therapies for folks with PTSD.” • Hmm.
“The geometry of different folks” [Aeon]. “Why do social relationships type distinct geometries in our minds? Previously few many years, analysis has proven that these metaphors will not be merely idiosyncratic makes use of of language. As an alternative, they reveal one thing essentially spatial about how we expertise our social lives. And this results in a radical chance: if we make sense of our friendships, acquaintances, colleagues, households and societies by spatial relationships, might architectural ideas – the intentional design of area – change into instruments for creating new metaphors for social and political thought?” • Like “upstairs, downstairs”?
* * *
Contact info for vegetation: Readers, be happy to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn the way to ship me a examine if you’re allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn the way to ship me pictures of vegetation. Greens are fantastic! Fungi and coral are deemed to be honorary vegetation! If you need your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it in the beginning of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize through the use of your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From Angie Neer:
Angie Neer: “These tiny vegetation (not less than I assume they’re vegetation) are rising inside the highest finish of a rotting-out fence submit. The photograph reveals an space about 4 inches throughout. Shot Dec 12, 2023 in a park close to Seattle.”
* * *
Readers: Water Cooler is a standalone entity not lined by the annual NC fundraiser. So should you see a hyperlink you particularly like, or an merchandise you wouldn’t see wherever else, please don’t hesitate to specific your appreciation in tangible type. Bear in mind, a tip jar is for tipping! Common optimistic suggestions each makes me really feel good and lets me know I’m heading in the right direction with protection. After I get no donations for 5 or ten days I get fearful. Extra tangibly, a relentless trickle of donations helps me with bills, and I think about that trickle when setting fundraising objectives:
Right here is the display that can seem, which I’ve helpfully annotated:
In case you hate PayPal, you possibly can electronic mail me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, and I will provide you with instructions on learn how to ship a examine. Thanks!
[ad_2]
Source link
