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2026-01-10 05:27:53 GMT

""If I could say anything to the ICE agent, it's that you're a murderer. You stole my cousin from me. You stole their father from them," said Jsane' Tyler, Porter's cousin. "You stole a Black man off the planet that God ordained to live and thrive. You stole a human life, and you need to pay for it.""
https://abc7.com/post/keith-porter-death-community-demands-accountability-vigil-father-2-killed-off-duty-ice-agent-northridge/18353797/

2026-01-05 23:13:32 GMT

Feature to control replies can't come soon enough.

2026-01-04 22:21:48 GMT

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Terms that focus on what one's own feelings on the matter are ("contemptible", "hateful") or consequences of the matter ("dangerous") would seem to better get at the offense one seeks to emphasize, than those that characterize the actor, even metaphorically ("brainless", like "thoughtless", is still an indictment of cognition, heartless likewise is an indictment of empathy, which is a whole other trope of saneist slurs).
Something was done or is being done. We have strong feelings about how those actions impact ourselves and others. We can center those harmed and our righteous emotions about same, or we can center the bad actor, by painting them in vivid caricature.

2025-11-18 17:59:49 GMT

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You are generating an ongoing refinement and finer resolution of my own clarity, for the benefit of not only myself, but of anyone else who may happen upon this or other such public correspondence between ourselves.
That you remember these things yet nonetheless draw out further their meanings can only benefit those who have never had the opportunity to remember same.
Moreover, that you associate these points, whatever our previous discussions of same, with references to other models and discourses... affords opportunity to articulate those same points, however familiar you may find them, with new language and new guideposts. You may know the gemstone, yet even myself appreciate it anew when it is lifted from its setting so to be viewed unobstructed from a different angle.
Your partial capacity, however much of it you choose to offer, serves to open a space that others might subsequently find a moment respite within.

2025-11-18 17:15:17 GMT

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The Protean aspect is essential, for is the divine shape-changing fortune teller, Proteus, who represents the unspecified entitlements of the social contract. Faust represents the price, Proteus the promise.
You did begin defining the task as to "restate parts of this in terms of older theories (not because i think it should be restated, but because this helps to differentiate it…" In the spirit of same, my role here has been to elucidate the differentiation.
Thus, your "perquisitive estate seems to me to be like a social class" myself have received as a door to further so distinguish. Hence my Doctor Who illustrated "Seems like, yes." And what followed.
Importantly, lumpentheory doesn't so much modify earlier ideas as differentiate distinct maps.
Ways of holding oneself & being held in relation to society, yes, or more properly tensegrity (as posture is always a play of tensions), rather than culture. Not a thing done, but the contortion of the person in the doing.

2025-11-18 15:49:12 GMT

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The eugenics of it all being what keeps the tensegrity structure aloft. Eugenics as gravity.
The classposture is not formed of eugenics, so much as held (as again, it is a postural relation) in floating compression by it. Eugenics is what keeps the whole structure standing.

2025-11-18 15:45:54 GMT

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Seems like, yes. (Cue Matt Smith's Doctor talking about soap bubble universes: "Yeah. No. But if it helps, yes.")
Only perquisitive classposture (one of five classpostures) is not categorical class. Classposture does not inhere in the body, but rather is how the body is held. The same body may be held otherwise in other moments. One may code-switch classpostures just as one may code-switch spoken languages or even just jargons as a function of context and present company.
Quisitiarchy, the third estate, encompasses not a social class, but a classposture, more or less embodied by the metropole majority at some points if not others, and consistently manifest in a plurality of metropole polity at any given snapshot moment.
Here, "work and education" manifest as choices afforded through wealth; not merely individually controlled wealth, but hoarded colonial wealth that is the societal context providing for such affordances. Thus, for instance, paper paupers are a thing.

2025-11-18 00:41:26 GMT

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In any event, that the example you give is one of not jumping off the proverbial bridge when all your friends were doing it... would seem to put it in a category other than choices redeemed under social contract.
(This tying us back to Kant's Foundations.)

2025-11-18 00:30:18 GMT

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Which is all to say, to address your example, making right choices for moral or ethical reasons (interestingly, have a mentee who is currently reading Kant's Foundations) may or may not result in goods, thus persist as vested ego-value.
Such goods, however, do not qualify as perquisitive ego-value, perquisitive receipts, absent a redemption through Frostean bargain. Not merely that a choice made all the difference, but that a choice made all the difference of delivering subsequent choice among all the perks.
This is the Protean and Faustian aspects of the Frostean bargain. A promised future that cannot be tied down to any one thing (Proteus) that is contingent on a deal with the devil (per Faust) that defines good choices, as good, retrospectively (Frost).
Importantly, a choice made on ethical or moral grounds isn't one that tends to be adjudicated retrospectively. One has a sense or justification, leading up to and in moment of moral/ethical choice, that it is good.

2025-11-18 00:24:00 GMT

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No rush. Dealing with real world urgent matters myself.
So, again, ego-value is not, in and of itself, good or bad. Perquisitive ego-value, per Frostean bargain, is specific target of critique under lumpentheory, but that's about how that ego-value is underwritten.
To be clear, the construction "ego-value" is meant to be thought of in context of use-value and exchange-value. To wit, ego-value is an material relation, not merely egoic, but rather something that inheres in produced goods (here, what lumpentheory terms "receipts"), physical and otherwise, as a social process. Thus, all ego-value is sunk cost, all ego-value is opportunity cost, because all production is about choices about doing one thing as opposed to any number of other things. And all choices have a temporality to them.
Perquisitive ego-value, in this context, specifically, is about goods attributed to terms of social contract. Not just good choices, but choices redeemed for compliance with contract.

2025-11-17 03:18:20 GMT

Reading latest article on aphantasia in The New Yorker, am realizing that only an aphant could have come up with anything comparable to lumpentheory.
To wit, lumpentheory is an outsider critique of the unreflective (as in non-introspective) attachment to mental time travel as currency of social contract. Lumpentheory operates from no such attachment, as said theory itself is creature of one without any mental time travel to be attached to. Mental time travel instead appears as an object: an object of concern to the observed other.
The concept of ego-value, thus, might be mistaken for common notions of social hierarchy, the feeling one has of being better than another in the present. This is not it at all.
Ego-value is sunk cost, as revisited through mental time travel, episodic memory, in all its sensory and affective richness, banked for withdrawal on demand. To visit the past as if it were another room is to render the present always a retrofuture in relation.
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2025-11-05 01:08:34 GMT

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Yes, exactly. That's what makes the few sacrifices that are made so significant. They stand out against a desolate background of dispossession.
The sacrifices are made, far more often than one might appreciate, but they're paltry and disconnected from any real human connection. A few dollars to a homeless person once in a decade. A credit card charge to a charitable cause.
Worse, they can be manufactured out of whole cloth. The whole discourse of harm reduction is a discourse of sacrifice. Yes, we don't like this candidate either, but we have to grit our teeth and vote for them, and in doing so, we sacrifice, we are good people.
Meanwhile, quisitiarchy invests a great deal of energy and wealth, in ensuring that said background of dispossession is maintained.
We pay a premium to keep folk unhoused. Those of perquistive classposture will fight tooth and nail to externalize housing to someplace else, knowing full well that doing so externalizes housing to nowhere.

2025-11-04 23:35:34 GMT

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Quite the contrary. Autohagiography wants good deeds to have transactional difficulty, to involve the transfer of perks from those who have to those who have not (a perk only being legible if there are have nots with regard to said perk).
Because such transactional difficulty is how one redeems vested ego-value, and thus is redeemed. It has to be transactionally difficult, it has to be a sacrifice, to justify why it is so uncommon as to be autohagiographically notable.
The problem of everyone being housed is not that it is more difficult than handing money to someone. We've far too much discourse about how it would cost less to house everyone than to keep so many unhoused.
Problem of everyone being housed is that it would eviscerate one's own housing of perquisitive ego-value. That one is housed is a receipt of one's goodness, only legible if others are unhoused, dispossessed. Housing everyone would render it meaningless in assessment of one's goodness as a person.

2025-11-04 22:59:37 GMT

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Okay, having had a few hours sleep.
Another way to approach this might be to speak of autohagiography as a moral economics of externalities. Air pollution of the soul. "There is no ethical consumption..." as a license to idle one's ethical engine while parked.
Only, with autohagiography, the bad deeds, the externalities, aren't merely costs suffered by a third party. Rather, those bad deeds ensure that there is dispossession of third parties. For, without such dispossession, the vested ego-value inherent to autohagiography could not be underwritten.
To individualize the good deeds, to redeem and be redeemed by the vouchers that are good deeds, those deeds must be done against a background pollution that makes said deeds legible as good.
Society didn't just make one do bad things. Society cannot function unless those bad things are done. And without society, all the perquisitive ego-value one has vested would be rendered invalid, non-redeemable, thus non-redemptive.

2025-11-02 06:52:57 GMT

"You don't pause a genocide. You end it!"
Indeed.

2025-10-28 00:39:32 GMT

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They're talking about the entire technology infrastructure, not just backend storage:
https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115445707420096286
"the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players"
How many users of fedi are not dependent on Apple, Google or Microsoft to read and post on a fedi client?
AWS, per this argument, is a symptom of a much broader problem, that one doesn't escape by crowing about individual instances doing as they choose, because to access those instances, one still has to go through access providers.
Now, one can argue that they're conflating AWS (backend) with device/OS (frontend) providers in a disingenuous manner. And there is some validity in that counter-argument.
But that's why they're lumping Mastodon in there with everyone else. Because in the end, if you're using one of three device architectures as your access point, you're still dealing with hyperscaled (industrial monopoly) providers for that access.

2025-10-25 10:15:46 GMT

It's not a ceasefire if the ones who were doing all the firing are still firing.

2025-10-20 10:34:03 GMT

"Serving in the army is forbidden by the Torah for multiple reasons. First and foremost, the Torah forbids creating a sovereign state before the coming of the Messiah. Secondly, the Torah forbids waging war against other nations. And because it is simply impossible to keep our faith within the Israeli Defense Force's anti-religious environment.
"For decades, the Israeli government…recognized that Torah-observant Jews cannot serve in the army. But now the Israeli government has launched a new wave of persecution against Torah-observant Jews. It includes night raids in…Orthodox neighborhoods, planned checkpoints at our community entrances, young men arrested in the street, families living in fear.
"We also express shock and outrage at the police and their brutality taking place in the streets of Israeli cities…with esteemed rabbis and young children alike being beaten with clubs and attacked by horses and skunk-water cannons simply for exercising their rights…"
https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/115404915740240345

2025-10-11 00:28:29 GMT

The notion that the future of Usia will be determined by states, as if administrative provinces—no less ruled by quisitiarchy, no less beholden to fifth estate interests and no less doped up on kayfabe panto cocktails—are somehow the mecha that will duke it out in an imagined battle for the moral conscience of whiteness…
*smh*
Elliot Sang, in recent livestream discussing Usians thinking of becoming migrants:
"You don't just pick countries like it's a video game where you can measure attributes.…
"They think it is, oh, I like this country. It has plus five in this and plus two in this. It's minus one in this, but I'll take that. No, you're not measuring attributes of characters in a video game. You're measuring where you are going to practically live.…
Usian states, likewise, ain't video game characters with attributes. There is no promised land—and if there were it wouldn't be evident from an electoral map.
Our VBNMW neighbors tilled the soil for fascism. Tis all white supremacy.

2025-10-06 21:36:50 GMT

"Collapse" is whitespeak for "we'll experience what everyone else already is, always have been, experiencing".
Not a falling down but coming in of the tide, inundating those who thought themselves on high ground.
Not a breakdown but an intensification.

2025-10-02 06:25:09 GMT

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You must be choosing to not have heard me criticizing the romanticization of just-so narratives.
Deflection doesn't have to be false to be deflection.
You came into my mentions, concerning a discussion between myself and Puchalsky, on the subject of leftist assumptions about the past, to make it about something other than leftism, despite Rich very explicitly saying he was commenting on "anarchism more broadly".
And when myself then echoed the experience of hearing this within leftist spaces, you moved the focus of your critique further right, from liberalism (as opposed to leftism) to "until the big bad nanny state comes" which is clearly snark at overt right-wing talking points.
Then when myself again tried to move the discussion back to the critique of tropes within leftism, your response was to talk about the importance of making friends.
Which again, was not the discussion at hand. But you don't want to have that discussion.
So why even in my mentions?

2025-10-01 21:16:41 GMT

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Your deflection from the point with some saccharin comment about the power of friendship notwithstanding, this is a common theme in my mentions:
A knee-jerk attribution of conservatism to those other, more ardent, conservatives, rather than acknowledging the conservatism in Leftist spaces as home-cultivated.

2025-10-01 01:52:00 GMT

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Yeah, the trope as myself heard it was not a conservative rugged individualism critique of the so-called nanny state, but rather a love not bombs rejection of patriarchy and the military industrial complex.
So, yeah, mostly white folk, but 1960s college anthropology romanticization of the native and the prehistorical just so, before the post-colonial turn to critique of that discipline's own origins, not 1700s.

2025-10-01 01:33:13 GMT

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Like Puchalsky, myself am familiar with the trope, within anarchist discourse, that people were typically cooperative until bad social structures. Ideology of the noble savage.
It is perhaps a generational thing.

2025-09-29 19:34:49 GMT

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The notion that kindness is not also a matter of socialization is, of course, romanticism. Changing social structures and living differently as a subculture is inescapably a matter of socialization.
This goes to my critique of Leftist theory as commonly ahistorical. There's always new generations being born and being socialized, even as there are prior generations with decades even many decades of prior calcified socialization.
If anything, the assertion that anger takes work but kindness is a default ignores the frequency with which hate turns up, if anything suggesting that hate takes less work than kindness, it being so often the path of least resistance.

2025-09-29 03:56:44 GMT

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Indeed.
This is all by way of subtoot. There's been a post making the rounds where someone argues that hate takes work but "Kindness is free."
There's a utopianist undercurrent to such discussions, as if the natural state of human existence is kindness and we wouldn't have to work at maintaining a society of kindness in the same manner as so many work at societies of hatred.
(Which triggers the question: If the default condition is kindness, what need one for the moralizing aphorism?)

2025-09-29 02:16:49 GMT

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"Kindness is when you do something you don't have to do," says Aaron. "Kindness is when, all of a sudden, I just walk up to your car and start washing it. I don't owe you anything. You've never done anything for me that I need to reciprocate for. I just feel like washing your car."
And so we tie back to the 19th century theological sense of God's kindness being free. Gratuitous. Freely given.
For God, that may be the end of the story. For anyone else, that giving is not without cost. It's labor. "Kindness is when you do something you don't have to do."
In 2002, the elision of labor we're familiar with today is more pronounced, in Steve Rhode's The Path to Happiness and Wealth:
"Kindness is free to give and receive. To be kind you don't need to spend any money."
Also in 2002, this strange essay title in a high-school published memorial collection of essays for 9/11 victims: "Kindness is Free: Take Advantage".
*head scratching emoji*
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2025-09-29 01:58:50 GMT

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By 1991, the phrase is common enough to be commented upon:
"Mexicans are compassionate people. They don't understand families that don't take care of their elderly. Kindness is free, but it is not cheap. Even the poorest of them showers amistad (friendship) on those who can get it nowhere else."
Then, in 1999, in Aspen Health Care Quality Review, we again see kindness as a labor issue:
"In response, I often tell people an open-chart policy is free; kindness is free. There are a lot of things you can do that will add nothing to your budget."
In 2000, we get receipt of kindness as qualified:
"appreciating someone's kindness is free of disturbing emotions and attitudes…"
In 2001, we get kindness as gratuitous again, that is as freely given, here in Aaron's Seeing God: Ten Life Lessons of the Kabbalah.
After the passage below, the author goes on to discuss _hesed_ the way folk today might use the hashtag "blessed"—to be fortunate in good things one could not deserve nor merit.
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2025-09-29 01:27:34 GMT

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We encounter the qualified variety of our phrase again in 1942, here in an issue of the Independent Film Journal:
"…kindness is free from watered sentimentality".
And in 1960, in theological context:
"God's kindness is free to us."
And again qualified in 1969:
"Loving kindness is free from desire or passion." [In a paragraph that again introduces term as "loving-kindness" hyphenated.]
Theological again in 1977:
"God is not indebted to any man and his kindness is free to bestow where he pleases."
Qualified in 1980:
"The kindness is free of condescension…"
As late as 1983, our current idiomatic usage appears, in the satirical Punch magazine, where the author, seeking "to make sure he wasn't subletting this unfashionable address to several immigrant families," only to discover that:
"No, he lives there by himself, as confirmed by his coat of arms and family motto: ("Give and forgive; kindness is free.") on the door, one of the few doors in the area to be thus decorated."
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2025-09-29 00:49:53 GMT

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Note especially how Davis undermines their own idiomatic conclusion:
"their continued generosity to all those travelling"
To wit, they were giving something.
"I seldom find trainmen as kind, sociable and considerate as I, myself, tried to be when handling the public."
Which is to say, being sociable and considerate is something one tries to do when handling others. It's work.
Even the preamble "am not accustomed to handing out bouquets…"—which foreshadows "…I thought it not out of order to hand a compliment to them"—indicates that Davis, themself, is going out of their way to do a thing.
Volume 10 of the Baltimore and Ohio Employees' Magazine includes the word "kindness" 33 times, typically complimenting the labor of employees of said railroad.
This, presented in the original text as a quotation, stands out:
'"If you see a kindness done, pass it on."
An early formulation of serial reciprocity—commonly expressed today as "Pay it forward."
Kindness costs nothing, my foot.
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2025-09-29 00:34:54 GMT

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In 1850, we again see kindness of God:
"God's loving-kindness is free, therefore we may enjoy it; it is great, therefore we may be satisfied with it; it is immutable, therefore we may rejoice in it."
Same year:
"God's kindness if free and undeserved"
Then, in 1856 (reprinted 1890), we again get a qualified free:
"A good woman is a comfort, like a man. She lacks of him nothing but heat. Thence is her sweetnesse of disposition, which meets his stoutnesse more pleasingly; so wooll meets iron easier than iron; and turnes resisting into embracing.…She leaves the neat youth, telling his lushious tales, and puts back the serving-mans putting forward, with a frown: yet her kindness is free enough to be seen, for it hath no guilt about it…"
https://books.google.com/books?id=MNjtTqS4msEC&pg=PA47&dq=%22kindness+is+free%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwii07G71_yPAxUWvokEHa3lEA4Q6AF6BAgIEAM
Then, in 1922, in the "employees' magazine" of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, reproduced here in full, because of how eloquently it speaks to "kindness is free" as characterizing the affective labor of others.
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2025-09-29 00:06:12 GMT

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Other use in 1849 appears in a short-lived journal in support of the candidacy of "Great Compromiser" Henry Clay. In a piece authored by "J" (presumably the journal's then editor, James Davenport Whelpley):
"American hands are ever open, American hearts are always warm; let the industrious victim of bad legislation come to and pitch his tent with us. Our kindness is free, in all proper freedom, as the winds that flow over the fertile prairies to whose occupancy we admit him."
https://books.google.com/books?id=o95PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA567&dq=%22kindness+is+free%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRvdTCyvyPAxVGD1kFHSMHEjgQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=%22kindness%20is%20free%22&f=false
In addition to qualifier ("in all proper freedom") echoing "kindness is free of…" of earlier decades, sit with the settler mentality of this statement ("whose occupancy we admit him").
This comes in a critique of application of communist analysis ("proletariat") to the American working class: "The broad shoulders of our laborers are bent to other burdens," thus "If a foreign laborer is crushed by hopeless poverty…let him take counsel of those heroes of our [1776] revolution".
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2025-09-28 23:30:28 GMT

Evolution of an idiom:
Formulation "kindness is free of…" appears in a few sources in the early 19th century, as critiques of solicited mercy, affectation, alloy (impurities).
Then, in 1849, an apologetic on mercy of "the Lord": "he is a debtor to none of mankind, and that whatever he gives is a gratuitous benefit, and then that his kindness is free, so that he can confer in on who he pleases".
https://books.google.com/books?id=R6kGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA356&dq=%22kindness+is+free%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRvdTCyvyPAxVGD1kFHSMHEjgQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=%22kindness%20is%20free%22&f=false
Here, kindness is free of obligation (debt), given freely (gratuitously). Not that it costs nothing, but that it is not transactional. Note this is kindness of God, not of man.
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2025-09-17 23:17:00 GMT

The complaint, that some folk saw private consequences for public speech, comes from a place of conservatism.
Insofar as it was conservatives who cemented the grievance in our discourse.
But also, insofar as anyone who believes that they ought not expect consequences for standing against fascism are living a fantasy in which the world they believed in can be conserved.

2025-09-10 21:20:33 GMT

Tensegrity is the system falling all the further into stability.
Harnessing gravity to hold itself ever more robustly aloft.
This is our politics.
The purpose of the system, the system doing itself, is its own intensification.

2025-08-17 21:19:07 GMT

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Well, those are separate vids.
One in which he does media critique, centering on one figure as exemplar, and references his own choices by matter of comparison.
The other, a while after, where he merely announces that he won't be doing further video essays for the time being.
To be clear, Sang's critique was speaking to the fact that some ostensibly "good" channels do well, but that they do so by not being quite so choosy about their ad revenue.
To wit, FD doing adverts for Ground News, where we now know that Ground News is largely repackaging the liberal bias of some guy named Dave. (Of course, FD himself asserts that his own politics are rather vanilla, so that tracks.)
That said, FD is very clear enough of the time that his commentary is addressed to Black audiences (despite the number of white folk that follow his channel) that he's likely evaluated as a niche: the cost of shadowbanning is likely weighed against his draw of particular audiences to the platform.

2025-08-17 08:40:38 GMT

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Elliot recently stopped doing formal video essays, for reasons of not being able to find sponsors (that he ethically would be willing to shill for) to pay for the work that goes into such productions.
Yet his livestream discussions, despite the lack of intensive research and production that a video essay might involve, nonetheless are proving quite fruitful.
In particular, he's been returning regularly to the theme of lack of control (esp. disability and chronic illness, nodding to Long Covid without ever naming it) and the valuation of choices, which comes dangerously close to talking about ego-value, even if his background in antiquated theory doesn't quite let him get there.

2025-08-16 13:18:55 GMT

"Because it is too hard to accept the fact that most shit is out of your control.…too hard to accept the fact that ultimately just because you invested in something that was beneficial to you does not mean it's superior or inferior and does not mean that your needs got met. People don't want to accept that. So people always just shadow box. They shadow box, and this is what creates fascism. This is…what Beatrice Adler Bolton is saying & what Crutches and Spice Imani Barbarin is saying. This creates fascism because you want to hold hard on to superiority. You want to hold hard on to better people…want to hold on to I'm a better person. You want to hold so hard on to that. And you don't want to accept that you can't control everything."
~ Elliot Sang, "Cardi B, and the fatphobia-to-fascism pipeline"
Autohagiography. Frostean bargain. Health supremacism.
Sang would attribute this to capitalism, but this is Marx's disdain of the lumpen, having roots documented as far back as the Bible.
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2025-08-01 10:51:24 GMT

"Israeli protesters holding pictures of starving Palestinian children and calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza clashed with police on Thursday in Tel Aviv."
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/8/1/israeli-protesters-clash-with-police-over-gaza-genocide#flips-6376430053112:0

2025-07-24 22:41:44 GMT

"'In keeping with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognise the State of Palestine,' Macron wrote.
"'I will solemnly announce this at the United Nations General Assembly in September this year,' he added.
"The move makes France the largest and arguably most influential country in Europe to move to recognise a Palestinian state, after European Union members Norway, Ireland and Spain indicated they would also begin the same process."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/24/macron-says-france-will-recognise-palestinian-state-in-september

2025-07-23 02:57:49 GMT

"The student activist group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which has called for the school to cut all financial ties with Israel, said in a statement that nearly 80 students have now been either expelled or suspended for up to three years over their involvement in antiwar protests.
"On Tuesday, Columbia said in a statement that its latest punishment of students relates to 'disruption of Butler Library in May 2025 and the encampment during Alumni Weekend in spring 2024'."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/23/columbia-university-suspends-expels-nearly-80-students-over-gaza-protests?traffic_source=rss

2025-07-22 23:32:18 GMT

"'I’m here in Washington, DC, today to meet with lawmakers, with members of Congress, to demand the end of the US-funded genocide in Gaza, and also to demand accountability from Columbia University, from the Trump administration for their retaliation against my speech,' said Khalil in a video interview with the news agency Reuters.
"'To be honest, I feel that this is my duty to continue advocating for Palestinians. This is what the Trump administration tried to do. They tried to silence me. But I’m here to say that we will continue to resist. We are not backing down.'"
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/my-duty-columbia-protester-mahmoud-khalil-meets-lawmakers-at-us-capitol

2025-07-22 20:13:50 GMT

"Of the dozens of policy proposals in Zohran Mamdani’s platform, few have generated as much debate as the Democratic mayoral nominee’s call for city-owned grocery stores.
"Progressives, food policy professors, and left-leaning publications have lauded the idea. Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams characterized the plan as a “false promise,” while Mamdani’s opponent Andrew Cuomo dismissed the idea as a “slogan” that couldn’t come true. Gristedes owner and major Republican donor John Catsimatidis has threatened to close his stores rather than compete with subsidized city grocers.
"Both sides have largely missed a crucial point: New York already has a version of city-owned grocery stores. Namely, the six markets overseen by the city’s Economic Development Corporation, a nonprofit that manages city-owned property to boost economic development. These grocers include Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side, Moore Street Market in East Williamsburg, and others…"
https://gothamist.com/news/zohran-mamdani-is-calling-for-city-owned-grocery-stores-nyc-already-has-them

2025-07-17 04:29:07 GMT

From the Intercept today:
"Four adjunct professors at the City University of New York say the university fired them because of their activism for Palestine. The administration’s decision to cut ties came as a surprise to both the faculty and their department heads, who had already recommended their reappointment and assigned them classes in fall — some of which had student waitlists. The affected professors, and faculty in support of them, said they remained in good standing with their academic departments and had great reviews from students."
Not linking because fuck no you don't get to demand an email address and then say "This is not a paywall."

2025-07-11 02:33:51 GMT

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This.
That premium paid has a point.
The cruelty is the point.

2025-07-02 06:30:30 GMT

Getting word of folk in one midwest rural town using their own vehicles to form roadblocks to interfere with ICE activity.
Not everything that is happening makes it to the news nor even social media. Which is encouraging.

2025-06-28 19:21:34 GMT

Reminder not to cross the 🍌 picket line:
"Updated 9:37 PM EDT, May 22, 2025
"PANAMA CITY (AP) — Banana giant Chiquita Brands has fired its workers in Panama who have been out on strike for more than three weeks as part of nationwide protests against reforms to the social security system, the company said Thursday."
https://apnews.com/article/panama-protests-chiquita-bananas-0c95a19e3186caeb8fa617be999ca485

2025-06-21 02:28:44 GMT

The arc of history does not bend.
It flexes as a matter of the continuity of force applied to it.

2025-06-20 23:57:16 GMT

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This being what radicalization is.
The gradual realization that the roots (the radices) of all this run much deeper than the world as it is today or we imagine it to be tomorrow.
The recognition that disciplined hope is more about the actions we take now than any promises of better.

2025-06-15 01:35:06 GMT

TFW you run back to your device to confirm you didn't just use an apostrophe for a plural.
Because grammar.

2025-06-15 01:05:45 GMT

Just you wait, "Don't split" is gonna become synonymous with "Unity". Liberals co-opting the term to suit their feel good agenda.
Because solidarity is incomprehensible to those who are unprepared to feel bad.
Solidarity is not unity. But something profoundly harder to comprehend, and still more difficult to enact.
#JustVibes

2025-06-12 22:45:42 GMT

A reminder that the agreement established between Rubio and Bukele, to house "dangerous American [convicted] criminals" at CECOT "for a fee", began in March with the deportation of 261 people without trial.
They're focusing on immigrants now because you always go after low hanging fruit… first.
Once the precedent has been firmly established, has become standard practice—that people deemed unwelcome can be exported to foreign concentration camps, without society at large putting a stop to it—they'll turn to other groups.
Caught using a bathroom where relieving yourself has been banned. One-way ticket to CECOT.
Caught being homeless where sleeping rough has been banned. One-way ticket to CECOT.
Caught wearing a respirator where masks have been banned. One-way ticket to CECOT.
ICE is the tip of the sword. Your citizenship will not protect you. Your privilege will not protect you. Your whiteness will not protect you.
They're coming for all of us. Since well before 100,000 more cops.

2025-06-10 00:18:25 GMT

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This is not to say these aren't viable choices.
Only that doing anything other than what one is accustomed to doing is not easy.
Folk are accustomed to uninstalling apps. It's part of having a phone.
Thus advice that suggest that one can avoid the surveillance repercussions of carrying a phone to a protest makes avoiding surveillance sound easy.
But the non-easy answer is that one must learn to move through the world differently than they are accustomed to. And showing up at a protest, perhaps for the first time in one's life or at least in recent decades, is not necessarily the time to start doing that.
Rather, one must commit to changing how they move through the world as practice. Where protest is just one facet of that world and that practice. So that one is prepared to make choices about burner phones and alternative modes of payment & transport when the need arises, rather than as an afterthought the day of.
Changing how one moves through the world is not easy.

2025-06-10 00:07:09 GMT

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So, two options.
First, a chocolate bar style burner with no apps, which includes payment and transport. For someone who relies on those things to get home safely, not easy. Requires, at very least, confirming that one's social ties are prepared to help by way of a phone call without resort to apps. That's not always the case.
Second, a smart phone burner with all the very same tracking apps, perhaps even more deeply entrenched & uninstallable because poor people ain't allowed to have nice things, which presumably one gets to use an app to pay for things or get oneself home.
And anyway you have to log in (to the phone AND apps) to access accounts you want to use for those purposes anyway, which means guess what, you're being tracked. Again, not easy.
Speaking from experience, trying to navigate a world increasingly antagonistic to *not* using a smart phone is hard work.
Trying to do that in a perhaps unfamiliar place, during potentially chaotic events, all the more so.

2025-06-09 23:49:40 GMT

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As a white person, who passes as a man, who grew up in the age of pay phones, and who pointedly does not own a cell phone today, am only gonna say that, for safety reasons (which are not limited to safety from police) and logistical reasons regarding access to transportation and payment methods for emergency purchases, this advice ain't necessarily the best answer for everyone.
Hence:
"You want to avoid being surveilled by your phone at a protest? None of the answers are easy."

2025-06-09 21:06:38 GMT

So, there's a toot, supposedly from an employee of a company, recommending that folk delete that company's phone apps before going to protest.
First, that company is not the only source of software on your phone that is being used to surveil your participation in civil disobedience. Toot gives impression that by uninstalling that company's products your phone is somehow safe.
Second, that company, in particular, has hooks in the Web pages you visit, and thus tracking you even if you don't have an account (let alone apps) on any of their platforms.
Third, if folk are using apps from that company, they very likely learned of the protest through one of those apps, which means the company already knows they are likely enough "people who want to protest".
You want to avoid being surveilled by your phone at a protest? None of the answers are easy.
But any advice that suggests uninstalling a handful of apps (which may be bloat that can't be removed without tech knowledge) is misleading.

2025-03-10 18:53:27 GMT

Imagine being so white as to declare people beaten to death by private security and meeting police violence with violence in turn as "cringe".
Imagine being so white as to equate being mocked—for performative outrage, in lieu of substantive collective action—with staring down violent repression.
Imagine being so white as to make standing up to mockery of whiteness your rallying cry: "Rise up! Be cringe! Like those who put their lives on the line before you! Don't let those mean words stop you!"

2025-03-10 18:41:18 GMT

Re-listening to Dr. Abdurrahman following up on her prior discussion of feedback on her work, and in particular, four minutes of addressing multiple objections to her humor at the expense of white people and white men, including the complaint "If it hurts, and you know that, why would you do it?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mz41x_nc0o&t=4093s
Here's the thing. It should not be the responsibility of "a visibly Arab" woman, asking for feedback on how to improve as a public communicator, to justify mockery of white men. It should not be the responsibility of BIPOC folk to explain mockery of white folk.
Whiteness deserves to be mocked. It hurts because of the pain of whiteness, the trauma of white supremacy, the mourning withheld for sake of white centering.
Is something that we have to talk about. Humor is a way to open the door to that discussion. Slamming it shut with complaints that the fresh air hurts… is cowardice.
But it ought not be on non-white folk—let alone non-white women—to hold that door open.

2025-02-27 17:34:13 GMT

We're gonna reach a point where clusters of nice, college-educated, liberal families, they and their kids fully current on their measles vaccinations, their immune systems severely compromised by dozens of "just a cold" covid infections, lose all their immunity to everything, to measles infections.
And folk are still gonna be yapping about how vaccines protect against infection, the implicit message being that so long as you, yourself, get vaccinated, you're a good person, even if you take no other precautions, unlike those bad people who don't get vaccinated.
Vaccines are only as effective as the immune systems that carry that immunological memory. A vaccine-only policy is akin to an annual fire safety program of teaching people where the exits are and then year-by-year slowly disabling those exits, making them harder to access and traverse. Sure, knowing where the exits are reduces your risk, but if you can no longer rely on them in an actual emergency, that knowledge is jack shit.

2025-02-11 22:19:54 GMT

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No, there is no evidence that Jackson ever made the quip our public school history books attribute to him.
The Trail of Tears still happened. Marshall couldn't have stopped it. Three decisions authored by one man couldn't have stopped it.
One man, no matter how fancy a robe, cannot stop a society from doing what it set on doing. Only the society can stop itself.
A society that is committed to waiting for men in robes to stop it from doing the thing… is a society committed to doing the thing.

2025-02-11 21:57:54 GMT

Agencies have until tonight, do they?
And when midnight happens, what, we get a new pumpkin patch?
The next court date is on the docket when?
The next distributed flashmob when?
Quick check in: Where is the balance of power, as the hours, the days, the weeks tick by?

2025-01-24 08:56:02 GMT

"Health supremacism is at root a fascist doctrine. Strictly speaking, fascism is a specific historical movement. It began in the early part of the 20th century in Italy, and later on got fused into Nazism in Germany. It was the movement that led all the way to the Holocaust, a mass slaughter exactly in line with the way fascism views the world: violently intolerant of anyone deemed to be ‘inferior’."
"The fascistic core of health supremacism is the idea that those who are healthy are somehow ‘better’ people, and that society may and must protect their interests and flourishing (rather than the interests and flourishing of members of society at large)."
https://msteenhagen.medium.com/loathe-fascism-then-dont-be-a-health-supremacist-c8841acdf69

2024-12-20 03:40:27 GMT

So, yeah, that perp walk by the NYPD, with cop mayor presiding?
Spectacle, to divert attention from this:
"At the DBK4 delivery station in Queens, New York, cops swarmed and arrested an Amazon driver who stopped his van in support of the strike. Then they forcibly broke the picket line. In anticipation of a possible strike at JFK8, police had camped out by the facility in advance."
https://www.labornotes.org/2024/12/cops-bust-picket-line-teamsters-strike-seven-amazon-warehouses
#FifthEstate

2024-10-26 20:37:34 GMT

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In Apr 2023, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid. Feb 2024 WHO & Economist estimates reflect same trend globally.
On annualized basis, U.S. was approaching one acute covid death every nine minutes in mid-July—implying nine excess deaths an hour.
Acute covid deaths frequency rose in July & August…
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
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2024-10-25 22:13:05 GMT

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[It's possible that #CDC likewise uploaded corrupted dataset for mid-October's estimates.
Unfortunately, myself missed that Friday's download, only picking up the data a week after the fact.
Would be easy enough to confirm if there was a Friday upload followed by a Monday upload last time round, if it were not for the fact that, with recent redesign of data.cdc.gov, the agency has removed the ability to view historical version history of the dataset.]

2024-10-25 22:00:38 GMT

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#CDC has posted a corrupted public data file again, so there's no variants data to analyze for this fortnight.
Same pattern as we saw in late September:
https://hcommons.social/@beadsland/113218011404434343
So, have to wait until Monday, when presumably they'll fix the bad dataset, before will be able to run latest reskin of same.
Visual inspection, however, does indicate that FLiRT/FLuQE recombinant XEC's growth in share has brought growth of current majority variant, KP.3.1.1, to a standstill.
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2024-10-22 02:53:38 GMT

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2024-10-22 02:43:40 GMT

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GISAID data for early October shows FluQE31 KP.3.1.1 / MC and children near three fifths of all sequences.
FLiRT KS.1.1 / FLuQE KP.3.3 hybrid XEC has already carved out one in ten, mirroring CDC estimate for the period.
LB.1 and FDA's vaccine target KP.2 both losing ground.
Per previous analysis, common mutations mean that LB.1 & KP.3 both closer to KP.2 than WHO vaccine target JN.1:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112738436725849215
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne
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2024-10-21 23:42:49 GMT

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After reporting estimates for over half of HHS regions previous cycle, #CDC now down to reporting for only three. Another surge, sparse data.
KP.3.1.1 / MC holds over half share in reported regions, while newcomer XEC has just shy of 10% estimated share on the east coast, nearly 15% on the west.
KP.2.3 and LB.1 jockey for third place.
[For color key, see: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
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2024-10-20 21:09:26 GMT

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[Suffered a computer failure, recovery from which took up much of this weekend.
Expecting to have further alt-text annotated charts posted by Monday.
That said, also began stepping away from fedi this week. As there's only so many times can retread the same contentions.
Still have multiple dataviz projects on a whole kitchen-appliance warehouse of backburners, which will be posted here when and if ever get to work on them.]

2024-10-20 21:05:29 GMT

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#CDC this week broke out MC.1 and LB.1.3.1. Meanwhile, MC.16 shows significant share in GISAID data available today, as does XDY—delS31 spawn of FLiRT LB.1.2.1 and FLuQE KP.3.2.
Meanwhile, XEC—spawn of FLiRT KS.1.1 & FLuQE KP.3.3—now estimated by CDC over one in ten share.
As historical estimates revised further down, FLuQE31 wave appears only five weeks old, following two-week FLuQE wavelet.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #dataviz #datavis
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2024-10-13 23:42:38 GMT

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Here's hoping—as CDC launches obfuscated "snapshot", free tests are short shelf life, Milton dropped 50 mbars in 10 hrs, Waffle House index red pre-landfall, Clearwater under water, Canada would triage primary care, IDF attacks UN peacekeepers, more H5N1 in CA, national IV fluid shortage postpones procedures, and FDA issues 126 pg chicken recall—that all those reading this are having a week wherein they & theirs are putting health & welfare of those they love—and share air with—first & foremost.

2024-10-12 21:46:43 GMT

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2024-10-11 23:33:55 GMT

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Updated GISAID data for late Sept shows FluQE31 KP.3.1.1 / MC and children now just over half of sequences.
FDA's vaccine target, FLiRT KP.2 & kids, represented by near one eighth of sequences. LB.1 holds over one in nine.
Per previous analysis, common mutations mean that LB.1 & KP.3 both closer to KP.2 than WHO vaccine target JN.1:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112738436725849215
Recombinant XEC gains in share—to 1 in 16 sequences.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne
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2024-10-11 21:42:26 GMT

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#CDC last week broke out XEC—spawn of FLiRT KS.1.1 & FLuQE KP.3.3—previously notable in GISAID.
CDC estimates reflect trend from fortnight prior, with us ending fifth week of FLuQE31 wave, following a one-week FLuQE wavelet.
GISAID data last updated Sunday. XEC now has child variants.
KP.3.1.1 / MC has busily diversified, though none of these subvariants—as of yet—stand out from their peers.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #dataviz #datavis
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2024-10-07 00:52:56 GMT

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[*breath*]
…FIFA again punts on ban vote, unconnected bird flu cases in California, IDF destroys road out of Lebanon, F15 parts clean room contaminated, Marburg outbreak tops 40 cases, North Carolina/Appalachia death toll still being tallied, storm damage closes IV fluid factory, activists break fare readers, and Motley Coffeehouse closed—that all those reading this are having a week wherein they & theirs are putting health & welfare of those they love—and share air with—first & foremost.
2/2

2024-10-07 00:51:56 GMT

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Here's hoping—as ham radio operators are doing the work, near hundred thousand sheltered from chemical fire, CNN launches covid wastewater map, police bar access to drinking water during emergency, curfew wielded against folk wanting to buy essential supplies, mobile phones go SOS, Israel invades Lebanon, port workers struck, NYT passes off bird flu cluster as disease that's purportedly over, Ashiq dead in police custody, IDF bombs evacuees on escape routes (or, another day ending in Y), …
1/2

2024-10-06 21:55:50 GMT

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In Apr 2023, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid. Feb 2024 WHO & Economist estimates reflect same trend globally.
On annualized basis, U.S. was approaching one acute covid death every nine minutes in mid-July—implying nine excess deaths an hour.
Acute covid deaths are now increasing in frequency…
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
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2024-10-05 10:06:25 GMT

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GISAID data late Sept shows FLuQE KP.3 clan over half of samples, with now more differentiated FLuQE31 KP.3.1.1 / MC all but half.
FDA's vaccine target, FLiRT KP.2 & kids, represented by less than eighth of samples. LB.1 continues to hold out.
Per previous analysis, common mutations mean that LB.1 & KP.3 both closer to KP.2 than WHO vaccine target JN.1:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112738436725849215
XEC now over 1 in 18 sequences.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne
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2024-10-05 05:55:40 GMT

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New GISAID data today. LB.1.7 again significant.
GISAID also shows KP.3.1.1 / MC has busily diversified, though none of these subvariants—as of yet—stand out from their peers.
#CDC has broken out XEC—spawn of FLiRT KS.1.1 & FLuQE KP.3.3—previously notable in GISAID.
CDC estimates reflect trend from fortnight ago, with us ending fourth week of FLuQE31 wave, following a one-week FLuQE wavelet.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #dataviz #datavis
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2024-10-04 21:45:14 GMT

NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey.
Weighted response rate lowest since Oct 2022.
Next release date unknown. Presumably Nov.
Chart now reflects Long Covid rates in children equal to those in adults.
Lower "Living with" figure follows changed question format.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of periodically refreshed thread, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://hcommons.social/@beadsland/113127006354380762
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