Odds and Ends — 27 January 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF First to Reach $2B in AUM
The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be On the Verge of Collapse
US Department of Defense predicts ‘AI vs counter-AI battle’
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Politics:
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1750853662849544243
Jury orders Trump to pay $83 million for defaming columnist E. Jean Carroll
https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1751024486495699067
After $80 Million Verdict, Trump Has a Jury Problem Ahead of Criminal Trial
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1750904480139452679
Trump Was Secretly Behind RNC Plan to Coronate Him
Donald Trump was secretly behind the Republican National Committee’s plan to name him the presumptive GOP nominee for president, even though he publicly renounced it after it faced widespread backlash.
Of course he was.
https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_/status/1751096917289840866
GOP Lawmaker Wants to Bring Back Duels
Bitter divisions between Republicans in the Missouri Senate culminated in a proposed rule change that would allow senators to settle their differences by challenging each other to a duel.
The proposal was drafted by state Sen. Nick Schroer, a Republican in the Missouri Freedom Caucus. The group’s members have been at odds with the Senate’s GOP leadership in recent weeks and have used procedural tactics to put the brakes on routine work. The caucus wants the Senate to immediately debate measures to make initiative petitions more difficult to pass, including one in support of abortion rights.
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1750892281408921988
DOJ Probe Finds Cuomo Created ‘Sexually Hostile’ Workplace
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1751025391865585756
Ohio attorney general rejects voting-rights coalition's ballot petition for a 2nd time
Trump Is a Combination of Every Threat We Have Ever Faced in Our History
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1751022752880849297
Serendipity:
'Hot droughts' are becoming more common in the arid West, new study finds
Billions of cicadas are set to appear in a rare ‘double brood emergence
In a matter of months, they will dig their way out from underground, red eyes shining, deafening song filling the air. It will be a confluence of creatures the likes of which hasn’t been seen in the United States since Thomas Jefferson was president — and won’t happen again until 2245. It’s a rare emergence of insects some are referring to as cicadapocalypse.
Billions of cicadas are expected to surface this spring as two different broods — one that appears every 13 years, and another every 17 years — emerge simultaneously. The 13-year group, known as Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, is the largest periodical cicada brood, stretching across the southeastern United States. The Northern Illinois Brood, or Brood XIII, emerges every 17 years.
https://twitter.com/horrormuseum/status/1750997315257815050
The Human Face of American Decline
Alex Kotlowitz recommends books that manage to operate at a human scale while arriving at bigger truths.
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