Odds and Ends — 3 February 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
The U.S. Government Seems to Be Closing in on Bitcoin Mining
How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
US employers added surprisingly robust 353,000 jobs in January
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1753566515322835403
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Oklahoma has the highest rate of long COVID in the nation, study shows
Politics:
Jack Smith Defends Trump Classified Documents Case
Special counsel Jack Smith used a routine legal filing Friday to offer a forceful public rebuttal against Donald Trump’s claims that his criminal prosecution for allegedly hoarding classified documents has been infected by politics and legal impropriety.
The 68-page document began with what Smith’s team described as an effort to correct false assertions the former president had made about the nature of the case against him.
What followed was a lengthy recitation of the events that led prosecutors to suspect Trump had been squirreling reams of classified records at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1753564871722148244
Trump Thinks He’ll Be Convicted
Anti-Abortion Activists Hope Kacsmaryk Will Help Get Rid Of Planned Parenthood For Good
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1753096995915595894
“Certainly Intimidation”: Louisiana Sues EPA For Emails With Journalists And Cancer Alley Residents
An expert view on Trump’s Hitlerian rhetoric
What concerns me most when I hear Trump’s use of terms like ‘vermin’ and ‘poisoning the blood of the country’ is the lack of reaction to it. The fact that both voters and the establishment — most importantly Republicans themselves — all just shrug. That worries the hell out of me.
https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1753424477717737628
Public’s View of the Economy on the Rise
The public’s long-held pessimism about the economy shows signs of easing since last year, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. But even with the uptick, many Americans’ views of the economy – and the nation as a whole – remain bleak.
Only 35% of Americans say that things in the country today are going well, but that’s an improvement from the 28% who felt positively about the state of affairs last fall. And while just 26% of Americans say they feel the economy is starting to recover from the problems it faced in the past few years, that’s also up from 20% last summer and 17% in December 2022.
Even though Presidents generally have little real control over the economy, they tend to get either credit or blame. Typically with a lag time of two or three quarters. If that holds true, by late summer or early fall, Biden will likely be getting credit, just in time for the election.
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1753422147748528329
Trump’s Tariffs Hurt U.S. Jobs but Swayed American Voters, Study Says
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1753222948536635416
One Detroit man’s ride with Joe Biden in the presidential motorcade
https://twitter.com/BlisterPearl/status/1753161777016439283
Ukraine’s victory is a bulwark for Canada and NATO against future Russian aggression
Trump PAC Paid to Investigate His Own Lawyers
Serendipity:
The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down
Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process.
https://twitter.com/annethegnome/status/1753200642976591924
The Crime Novelist Who Was Also a Great American Novelist
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