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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Affected person readers, I’m sorry this can be a greater than a little bit gentle, initially; I had prolonged family issues to take care of. –lambert
Fowl Music of the Day
Killdeer, Waterview Retention Pond & Wetlands, Fort Bend, Texas, United States. Wetlands noises!
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In Case You Would possibly Miss…
(1) Biden’s interview with Time.
(2) Carbon dioxide, viruses, and local weather.
(3) Nabokov’s Pale Hearth
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Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in reality a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
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2024
Lower than a half a yr to go!
RCP Ballot Averages, Might 24:
A blended bag for Workforce Trump, this week with some Swing States (extra right here) Brownian-motioning themselves again towards him, together with Pennsylvania. Not, nevertheless, Michigan, to which Trump paid a go to. In fact, it goes with out saying that these are all state polls, subsequently dangerous, and many of the outcomes are throughout the margin of error. If will probably be fascinating to see whether or not the decision in Decide Merchan’s court docket impacts the polling, and if that’s the case, how.
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Trump (R) (Folks vs. Trump): “Bragg’s thrill kill in Manhattan may show short-lived on attraction” [The Hill]. “The issue was not the jury, however the prosecutors and the decide…. Appearing Supreme Courtroom justice Juan Merchan was handpicked for this case quite than randomly chosen. … A number one threshold challenge would be the resolution to permit Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg to successfully strive Trump for violations of federal regulation [campaign violations and tax]…. Decide Merchan allowed a torrent of immaterial and prejudicial proof to be launched into the trial by the prosecution… Merchan allowed the jury to seek out that the secondary offense was any of the three vaguely outlined choices. Even on the jury type, they didn’t should specify which of the crimes had been discovered. Underneath Merchan’s instruction, the jury may have cut up 4-4-4 on what occurred within the case. They might have seen a conspiracy to hide a federal election violation, falsification of enterprise information or taxation violations. We’ll by no means know. Worse but, Trump won’t ever know. The Supreme Courtroom has repeatedly emphasised that the requirement of unanimity in prison convictions is sacrosanct in our system. Whereas there was unanimity that the enterprise information had been falsified to cover or additional a second crime, there was no categorical discovering of what that crime could have been. In some methods, Trump could have been lucky by Merchan’s cavalier strategy. Provided that the jury convicted Trump throughout the board, they may have discovered all of three secondary crimes. The decision type by no means requested for such specificity…. These are only a few of the appellate points. There are different challenges, together with however not restricted to due course of violations on the dearth of specificity within the indictment, vagueness of the underlying state regulation and the dearth of evidentiary basis for key defenses like ‘the authentic press perform.’ They’re the explanation why many people view this case is more likely to be reversed in both the state or federal programs. None of that’s more likely to dampen the fun on this kill in Manhattan. But when Biden wins the election earlier than this conviction is overturned, historical past’s judgment will probably be deafening.” • Certainly.
Biden (D): “Learn the Full Transcript of President Joe Biden’s Interview With TIME” (transcript) [Time]. Begins off with a bang:
Thanks for doing this, Mr. President. We recognize your time. Busy second. I’ll dive proper in. You’re touring subsequent week to Normandy for the eightieth anniversary of D-Day to commemorate a turning level in America’s management with the free world. However the anniversary comes at a time when the US beneath your management has been unable to discourage crises. First in Afghanistan, then Ukraine, Israel, and mounting tensions within the Far East. Is America nonetheless capable of play the position of world energy that it performed in World Battle Two, and within the Chilly Battle?
Biden: Sure, we’re planning much more. We’re, we’re the world energy.
[Fap fap fap fap fap].
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Realignment and Legitimacy
“How a Drop in Small-Greenback Donations Is Shaking Up Each Events” [Notus]. “In a stark reversal from latest political historical past, each events have seen a big decline this election cycle within the small-dollar contributions they harvest through textual content and electronic mail, largely from rank-and-file voters of modest means. Gone are the times when any candidate may count on to rake in small donations, in keeping with Republican and Democratic digital strategists. As an alternative, solely the neatest campaigns — and the perennial company on Fox Information — see the kind of money inflow that was routine 5 years in the past. ‘Now we have squeezed each final penny in a time period when the pennies are more durable to return by,’ stated John Corridor, a GOP digital strategist. For Republicans, the downturn began within the 2022 midterm election. However Democrats say they’re additionally seeing small donations lower this election cycle throughout a spread of candidates and liberal organizations. ‘I’ve seen it. I’ve heard it,’ stated Stephanie Schriock, former president of the Democratic group EMILYs Checklist. ‘It’s undoubtedly been a slowdown this election cycle on small-dollar presents.’ The change has rocked fundraising for the Republican Nationwide Committee, which has seen small-dollar donations — typically seen as contributions of lower than $200 — plummet from $39 million at this level in 2020 to $14 million to this point this yr. However smaller declines are happening throughout the nation. Strategists attribute the slowdown to a mixture of inflation, widespread exhaustion over the state of politics and poor donor upkeep from each events. The change is remaking budgets, forcing campaigns to refocus on rich donors and confront the likelihood that they merely may not have as a lot money to spend as they anticipated. ‘It’s been actually irritating as a result of for a few cycles, shoppers had been getting actually used to giant sums of cash coming in from on-line,’ stated Amanda Elliott, a GOP digital strategist. ‘It was nice for some time, and now it’s been truly fizzling out.’” • Heaven is aware of what horrific techniques Mothership Methods will devise now….
“Why is a gaggle of billionaires working to re-elect Trump?” [Robert Reich, Guardian]. “Billionaire cash is now gushing into the 2024 election. Simply 50 households have already injected greater than $600m into the 2024 election cycle, in keeping with a brand new report from Individuals for Tax Equity. Most of that is going to the Trump Republican celebration…. If we wish to guard what’s left of our freedom, we should meet the anti-democracy motion with a daring pro-democracy motion that protects the establishments of self-government from oligarchs like Musk and Thiel and neo-fascists like Trump.” • Sounds nice. If solely there have been a celebration that was that “daring” (a inform).
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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Covid Assets, 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 Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be at liberty to contact me on the tackle given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
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 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 (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Airborne Transmission
“A brand new discovery about carbon dioxide is difficult decades-old air flow doctrine” [STAT]. “No sensor can monitor what number of infectious aerosols are swirling round us in actual time. However carbon dioxide, or CO2, can act as a handy proxy. Folks exhale it once they breathe, and in areas that aren’t effectively ventilated, the gasoline accumulates. Excessive CO2 concentrations can present a warning signal that a number of the air you’re inhaling is popping out of different individuals’s respiratory tracts. For many years, that’s how aerosol scientists and air flow engineers have principally thought of CO2 — as a type of indicator for the well being of indoor environments. However over the past three years, researchers within the U.Okay. working with next-generation bioaerosol applied sciences have found that CO2 is greater than a helpful bystander. The truth is, it performs a important position in figuring out how lengthy viruses can keep alive within the air: The extra CO2 there may be, the extra virus-friendly the air turns into. It’s a revelation that’s already reworking the best way scientists examine airborne pathogens. However on a planet the place burning fossil fuels and different industrial actions inject 37 billion metric tons of CO2 into the environment every year, it may even have big implications for human well being. ‘By rising the CO2 within the air, we’re eliminating a pure means by which viruses turn out to be inactivated,’ stated Allen Haddrell, an environmental chemist on the College of Bristol Aerosol Analysis Middle, who led the brand new work. ‘It’s fascinating, however it’s additionally horrifying.’” • Now that’s a syndemic and a half! (I posted the unique of this examine already, however the international implications had escaped me. Yikes!)
Maskstravaganza
Superb how deep the propaganda and the social norming go:
I may by no means have imagined a time the place individuals could be so freaked out by respiratory safety 😂.
Think about individuals angered by arduous hats, irate at metal toecap boots, irked by ear defenders, infuriated by gloves, enraged at goggles or incensed by overalls.
Unusual instances 😷 😁
— Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne (@PeteUK7) June 4, 2024
Immune Dysregulation
“Aircraft evacuated by specialist infectious ailments groups” [Metro UK]. “Passengers had been faraway from a flight after it was pressured to land resulting from ‘instances of suspected infectious ailments’ immediately.” • This does appear to maintain taking place. The illness was not talked about, and an unruly — why? — passenger was additionally faraway from the aircraft.
Censorship and Propaganda
“Results of Submit-COVID-19 Syndrome on High quality of Life Amongst Airline Crew” [Workplace Health Safety]. From the Summary: “The bodily area [quality of life (QoL)] was considerably larger within the cockpit crews than that within the cabin crews. Important variations had been present in psychological and general QoL relying on years of steady service. Social area and environmental QoL had been decrease in those that had no signs after being recognized with COVID-19 than in those that had been symptomatic. Among the many contributors, 4.2% had post-COVID-19 syndrome, indicating vital variations within the bodily area, relying on whether or not they exhibit post-COVID-19 syndrome. Conclusion: It’s pressing to develop measures to extend the QoL of airline crews, examine post-COVID-19 syndrome earlier than returning to work, and develop methods to handle it.” • Hmm.
Sequelae: Covid
Celeb Watch
Shock, outside areas are a lot safer:
Swifties kindly share their CO2 measures at @taylorswift13 exhibits. This enables us to make comparisons on the standard of indoor air renewal in a number of venues: Paris and Las Vegas (indoor arenas), Madrid (retractable roof stadium) and Sydney (open-air stadium). Extra venues to return. https://t.co/eU7m9UAS6O pic.twitter.com/8qF9si7Y9o
— LET’S AIR / NOUS AÉRONS (@nousaerons) June 4, 2024
How unlucky that Swift doesn’t confine herself to them. Or promote Swift-branded respirators as merch. Why not?
Elite Maleficence
Amusingly, Ashish Jha clambers onto the aerosol bandwagon whereas nimbly rewriting historical past, a neat trick. Helpfully annotated:
[1] No, it comes from 60 years of dangerous public well being ideology (“droplet dogma”), not simply the CDC.
[2] No, it isn’t:
Flu spreads vis airborne aerosols predominantly. Cease with droplet misinformation @ashishkjha Now we have an H5N1 flu pandemic on our doorstep. Sufficient. https://t.co/zYRUcvyUDb@kprather88 pic.twitter.com/DsJALpEsUP
— Alex (@mocoband) June 4, 2024
[3] Ultimately! I suppose on the intense aspect, Jha has given others license to say the identical.
[4] “As soon as we knew” is doing a number of work. The Newton Public Faculties, the place each Jha and (bless her coronary heart) Walensky each despatched their youngsters, was spending thousands and thousands on air flow in September 2020, whereas CDC was nonetheless preventing aerosol transmission tooth and nail. So what “we” “knew” in personal was fairly totally different from what “we” stated in public.
[5] lol no.
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Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m going to should rethink this fantastically formatted desk. Biobot knowledge is gone, CDC variant knowledge features, ER visits are useless, CDC stopped necessary hospital knowledge assortment, New York Occasions demise knowledge has stopped. (Be aware that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each gone darkish). Ideally I might substitute hospitalization and demise knowledge, however I’m undecided how. I may additionally increase the wastewater part to incorporate (yech) Verily knowledge, H5N1 if I can get it. Strategies and sources welcome. UPDATE I changed the Occasions demise knowledge with CDC knowledge. Amusingly, the URL doesn’t embrace parameters to assemble the tables; one should reconstruct then manually every time. Caltrops abound.
TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new immediately; all others will not be up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Useless.
[2] (Biobot) Useless.
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, provided that the mannequin fully missed KP.2.
[4] (ER) That is the most effective I can do for now. Not less than knowledge for your entire pandemic is introduced.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Slight leveling out? (The NY city space has type; in 2020, as the house of two worldwide airports (JFK and EWR) it was an necessary entry level for the virus into the nation (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, because the wealthy sought to flee, after which across the nation via air journey.)
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). That is the most effective I can do for now. Be aware the belief that Covid is seasonal is constructed into the presentation. Not less than knowledge for your entire pandemic is introduced.
[7] (Walgreens) 4.3%; large soar. (As a result of there may be knowledge in “present view” tab, I believe white states right here have skilled “no change,” versus don’t have any knowledge.)
[8] (Cleveland) Going up.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Flattening.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) KP.2 enters the chat, as does B.1.1.529.
[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.
[12] Deaths low, ED not up.
Stats Watch
Employment Scenario: “United States Job Quits” [Trading Economics]. “The variety of job quits within the US edged as much as 3.5 million in April 2024 from an upwardly revised 3.4 million in April. The quits charge, a metric that measures voluntary job leavers as a proportion of whole employment, was 2.2% for the sixth month in a row. The variety of quits decreased in skilled and enterprise providers (-131,000), however elevated in different providers (+67,000), sturdy items manufacturing (+39,000), and state and native authorities training (+32,000).” • Attaboy PMC!
Manufacturing: “United States Manufacturing facility Orders” [Trading Economics]. “New orders for US manufactured items rose by 0.7% from the earlier month to $588.2 billion in April of 2024, the identical as in March, and marginally above market expectations of a 0.6% enhance.”
Provide Chain: “United States LMI Logistics Managers Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Logistics Supervisor’s Index within the US jumped to 55.6 in Might 2024, from a four-month low of 52.9 in April. With this studying, the index has now expanded in 9 of the final 10 months and for the final six months in a row. The most important change was recorded for the transportation costs which soared to the very best stage since June 2022 (57.8 vs 44.1), resulting from larger demand and as diesel gasoline costs dropped once more within the final week of Might. Transportation costs are actually barely larger than transportation capability (57.3 vs 61.4).
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Manufacturing: “Jury finds Boeing stole know-how from electrical airplane startup Zunum” [Seattle Times]. “A federal court docket jury in Seattle on Thursday dominated in opposition to Boeing in a lawsuit introduced by failed electrical airplane startup Zunum and awarded $81 million in damages — which the decide has the choice to triple. Zunum alleged that Boeing, whereas ostensibly investing seed cash to get the startup off the bottom, stole Zunum’s know-how and actively undermined its makes an attempt to construct a enterprise. It accused Boeing of “a focused and coordinated marketing campaign” to achieve entry to its ‘marketing strategy, market and technological evaluation, and different commerce secrets and techniques and proprietary info,’ then utilizing that to develop its personal hybrid-electric aircraft design. Zunum additionally accused Boeing of sabotaging its efforts to draw funding from aerospace suppliers Safran and United Applied sciences.” • Wowers, Boeing simply can’t catch a break. I ponder if the executives who carried out this scheme earned large bonuses?
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Right this moment’s Worry & Greed Index: 40 Worry (earlier shut: 51 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 54 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jun 4 at 1:31:28 PM ET. Sudden swing to concern. Biden’s interview?
Ebook Nook
“Don’t be scared of Pale Hearth Nabokov’s masterpiece has a posh however big coronary heart” [Unherd]. “After I first learn [Pale Fire] I used to be an ignorant 24-year-old with a barely satisfactory undergraduate training. As a result of I had not majored in English (I used to be involved about what sort of job I’d get after graduating and an English diploma didn’t look promising), I had not taken many literature programs. I had learn little or no poetry and virtually no Shakespeare. I recognised the names of the poets talked about in Pale Hearth however I couldn’t probably register the extra refined meanings evoked by the adjoining language as a result of I didn’t know their work in any depth or actually in any respect. That didn’t matter. I beloved Pale Hearth. I may really feel its mental energy within the intense perceptual contrasts of its characters, within the descriptions of faces and objects and, for instance, the swift evocation of an alternate world in John Shade’s picture of himself mirrored within the window glass, ‘above the grass’ together with his furnishings and an apple on a plate. I may really feel it within the patterning I noticed and sensed, viscerally, as if I used to be not solely seeing a griffin touchdown earlier than me however feeling the vibration of its wings come up via the bottom into the soles of my ft.” • Me too, however my response was to the “meta”, the equipment (indexes, notes, annotation, criticism) reather than to notion. However then I solely 14….
Zeitgeist Watch
“Emputation”:
I’m leery of generalizations about “individuals” (or, utilizing our indoor phrases, “on the inhabitants stage”), not less than for cultural/socio-political issues, regardless that I’m responsible of utilizing them myself; I’m certain they’r not true for everyone. Nonetheless, I believe the poster has put their finger on an actual phenomenon. Readers, have you ever skilled comparable?
Class Warfare
“Poets’ Odd Jobs” [Poets.org]. “”There’s no cash in poetry, however then there’s no poetry in cash both,” Robert Graves famously stated. Whereas there have actually been quite a few poets all through historical past who’ve been “skilled poets” (poets supported by patrons or sponsors in classical instances or poets whose most important earnings comes from their books, readings, and so on., in additional up to date instances), nonetheless bigger is the variety of poets who had stunning or unorthodox occupations outdoors of their literary careers. Learn this checklist of well-known poets and their odd or distinctive jobs….. At simply sixteen, [Maya] Angelou made historical past along with her first job: She was the primary black feminine streetcar conductor in San Francisco. When she first utilized for the job, the workplace wouldn’t give her an utility, however she protested till she received the job.” • Fairly an inventory!
“Hacking Away on the Counter-culture” [Andrew Ross , Postmodern Culture (September 1990)]. “What occurs, then, within the course of by which info, gathered up by knowledge scavenging within the transactional sphere, is systematically transformed into intelligence? A surplus worth is created to be used elsewhere. This surplus info worth is greater than is required for public surveillance; it’s usually info, or intelligence, culled from client polling or statistical evaluation of tran sactional conduct, that has no speedy use within the technique of routine public surveillance. Certainly, it’s this surplus, bureaucratic capital that’s used for the aim of forecasting social futures, and consequently utilized to the duty of managing the conduct of mass or mixture models inside these social futures. This surplus intelligence turns into the idea of a complete new trade of futures analysis which depends upon laptop know-how to simulate and forecast the form, exercise, and conduct of complicated social programs. The result’s a attainable system of social administration that far transcends the questions on surveillance which have been on the discursive heart of the privateness debate.” • 1990!
“Seeing Like a Knowledge Construction” [Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier, Belfer Center]. “Engineers are reworking knowledge in regards to the world round us into knowledge buildings, at large scale…. Persons are already working to take advantage of the information buildings and algorithms that govern our world. Amazon drivers cling smartphones in timber to trick the system. Songwriters put their catchy choruses close to the start to take advantage of Spotify’s algorithms. And podcasters intentionally mispronounce phrases as a result of individuals remark with corrections and people feedback depend as ‘engagement’ to the algorithms. These hacks are basically in regards to the breakdown of “the system.” (We’re not suggesting that there’s a single system that governs society however quite a multitude of programs that work together and overlap in our lives and are kind of related specifically contexts.) Techniques work in keeping with guidelines, both ones made consciously by individuals or, more and more, mechanically decided by knowledge buildings and algorithms. However programs of guidelines are, by their nature, making an attempt to create a map for a messy territory, and guidelines will at all times have loopholes that may be taken benefit of.” • Stimulating; value a learn, particularly along side the snippet simply above. Much less systematic, I believe, than it appears, though the play on James Scott’s Seeing Like a State is basically intelligent.
“The Ethical Economic system of the Shire” [Nathan Goldwag]. ” The implication in each books and flicks is that the majority Hobbits spent their time both farming or having fun with leisure time, however this makes little sense, when one considers what we find out about premodern agriculture and what little of life and tradition within the Shire. This might describe a pure subsistence financial system, primarily based round producing simply sufficient meals to make sure survival, and among the textual content appears to counsel that, however it’s clear that that may’t be true. The Shire has a well-developed financial system, with mills, full-time craftsmen, inns, and the large-scale cultivation of luxurious crops, regardless of having virtually no international commerce (Southfarthing pipe-weed being discovered as distant as Isengard is taken as proof of Saruman’s meddling) or trade. Premodern agriculture was characterised primarily as being low-surplus and high-labor, it takes lots of people a number of time to supply sufficient meals for everybody to eat, and there’s hardly ever a lot left over. How does this jibe with the leisurely lives of easy pleasure that our Hobbit heroes appear to get pleasure from? There’s truly a really apparent reply, which is that our protagonists aren’t typical Hobbits. Bilbo, Frodo, Merry, and Pippin are all very clearly members of the landed gentry, the landowning class that controls most technique of financial manufacturing and maintains social dominance over the Shire. This isn’t actually extrapolation or interpretation, it’s more-or-less textual content, and I think the one motive it’s not spelled out is as a result of Tolkien assumed any reader would perceive that intuitively. Bilbo and Frodo are each gents of leisure as a result of the Baggins household is independently rich, and that wealth virtually has to return from land possession, as a result of there isn’t sufficient trade or commerce to maintain it. They’ll afford to go on adventures and examine Elven poetry as a result of they draw their earnings from tenant farmers renting their land. Merry and Pippin are from an excellent larger social tier; each are the heirs to highly effective households that maintain quasi-feudal workplaces (the Grasp of Buckland, for the Brandybucks, and the Thain, for the Tooks).” • Hardly ever acknowledged so clearly!
Information of the Wired
“New concept suggests time is an phantasm created by quantum entanglement” [BGR]. • Perhaps some physics maven can disentangle this, as a result of I certain can’t.
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