Odds and Ends — 28 February 2023
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Why the Fed is increasingly flying blind on the economy
Crypto Con Artists Leave Trail of ‘Rip Deal’ Victims From Amsterdam to Rome
They invite you to a restaurant to ink an investment in your project, and then they vanish – with the contents of your crypto wallet. Scams have popped up over the last few years targeting crypto companies. European authorities are investigating.
Switzerland beat sky-high inflation. Here’s how
Americans ‘frustrated’ by financial system inequality, 20% own crypto: Survey
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Doctors who touted ivermectin as covid fix now pushing it for flu, RSV
Another Turn in the Covid Lab-Leak Story
The U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that the Covid-19 virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, doesn’t mean the case is definitive. But it is more evidence that the media and public-health groupthink about Covid was mistaken and destructive.
Politics:
Murdoch Admits Fox News Hosts Misled the Public
Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts for his networks promoted the false narrative that the election in 2020 was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
Drag-Banning Governor Dressed In Drag Himself
US to give $10 billion in aid for Ukraine, also plans Moldova aid
How is it that a train derailment caused by a major GOP-donating corporation, in a state run by a Republican governor, caused at least in part by regulations rolled back by Republican President Donald Trump … well, how exactly is that a story about Democrats not caring about people in ‘fly over country’? The Republican crackpot investigations complex is even now prepping to hold hearings about it.
Belarus activists say they blew up Russian military aircraft near Minsk
FBI Arrests Man Dubbed ‘Sedition Panda’
The FBI has arrested a Donald Trump supporter who allegedly stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 while wearing the head of a panda costume.
Generative AI could be an authoritarian breakthrough in brainwashing
Peru Runs Out of Space to Keep its Jailed Ex-Presidents
A Peruvian prison built specifically to host disgraced former presidents will soon run out of space if former leader Alejandro Toledo is extradited from the US as expected.
Norfolk Southern Accused of Trying to Destroy Evidence of Ohio Wreck
If you’re an American, your tax dollars at work: Doctor Describes and Denounces C.I.A. Practice of ‘Rectal Feeding’ of Prisoners
In a hearing at Guantánamo Bay, an expert gave a graphic public depiction of torture after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Serendipity:
The mission to save the biggest frog on earth
This is your brain on psychedelics
Minneapolis indie-rockers Run Westy Run finally complete their 28-year comeback
Back in the day, I went to a bunch of Run Westy Run shows, mostly at the (no longer extant) Uptown Bar. Lots of fun. Except for that time when one of them started a fire onstage. I left before the bouncer broke out a fire extinguisher. Disaster averted.
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