I’ve been playing around with DeepDreamGenerator’s newish “text prompt” artificial intelligence image creator. This image was generated from the prompt “A baseball game, focused on home plate, as a runner tries to slide into home, in the style of Gustave Doré and Pablo Picasso.”

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

For LEO Power Up Day, I staked 687.806 LEO.

Solana Foundation warns about security incident with Mailchimp

Hive not mentioned: Worldwide Grassroots Projects Can Lead Crypto Recovery

Crypto is not hurting lower income and marginalized communities, but instead providing them with new tools - through innovative governance models and tokenomics - to regain control from historically oppressive financial systems.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Take this statistic with a grain of salt, just a few days ago China was only admitting to a few dozen deaths over the last month: China coronavirus: 60,000 Covid-related deaths in just over a month

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

Politics:

Brazilians Divided on Who They Think Won Election

The depth of Brazil’s divisions were exposed by an opinion poll published by Atlas Intelligence this week. Some 38 percent of Brazilians said the storming of the government buildings was partly or wholly justified, almost 40 percent said they did not believe Lula had really won the presidential election and 36.8 per cent favoured military intervention to invalidate the result.

Bolsonarro’s Ex-Justice Minister Arrested

Brazil’s former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, who was in charge of public security in Brasilia during the invasion of government buildings a week ago, was arrested in Brasilia on Saturday on suspicion of “omission” and “connivance”.

Bolsonaro Under Investigation for Stoking Riots in Brazil

Trump claimed woman who accused him of sexual assault in a luxury department store said ‘rape was sexy’ and ‘indicated that she loved it’

Biden’s Document Blunder Is Nothing Like Trump’s Crime

As many people have very neutrally pointed out, the news that President Biden held on to classified documents is pure manna for Trump’s defenders. It gives them a set of facts to work with that, if examined without any of the important context, can be spun to the willfully credulous as evidence that these men have committed similar crimes.
But Trump is not potentially facing charges because he improperly took classified documents. It’s because when the government found out about the documents, he refused to give them back and — allegedly — took steps to hide them from the FBI. This is not a small twist on the same crime. It is the crime.

Idaho lawmaker ‘embarrassed,’ sorry for comparing women to dairy cows

Return of the Default Deniers

Amid the debt ceiling standoffs of 2011 and 2013, and warnings of global economic catastrophe, a novel proposal gained traction on the right: Rather than defaulting on bond obligations and sparking a broader calamity in the markets, the federal government could, once the ceiling is reached, simply pick and choose which bills to pay.
Such ‘debt prioritization’ schemes never went anywhere. Democrats branded their proponents ‘default deniers’ and firmly opposed their efforts. The standoffs were resolved, and the notion of favoring bondholders first was forgotten by all but a devoted band of conservative budget hawks.
Now what’s old is new again.

Serendipity:

Kafka Gone Wild

The author’s uncensored Diaries are finally translated into English, complete with unpolished story drafts, misspellings, and quite a few hot boys.

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