Odds and Ends — 7 October 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Academic paper suggests governments should attack public blockchains
https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1843050920189329726
America Is Lying to Itself About the Cost of Disasters
Exceptional circumstances, too often repeated, cease to be exceptions.
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Chicago area researchers studying long COVID make major discovery
Politics:
Florida’s Biggest Insurer Cuts Over 600K Policies After Hurricane Helene
The Charlotte Observer editorial board: Shame on Donald Trump for worsening NC’s Helene tragedy with political lies
After the deluge, the lies: Misinformation and hoaxes about Helene cloud the recovery
Six Days of Trump Lies About Hurricane Helene
Donald Trump has delivered a barrage of lies and distortions about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.
While various misinformation about the response has spread widely without Trump’s involvement, the Republican presidential nominee has been one of the country’s leading deceivers on the subject. Over a span of six days, in public comments and social media posts, Trump has used his powerful megaphone to endorse or invent false or unsubstantiated claims.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1842915446464323953
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.” — Hannah Arendt
https://twitter.com/keprettybird/status/1842102904641011850
Trump Hints at Violence Against Harris Supporters
https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1842233996115165606
Judge Receives Threats After Sentencing Election Denier
A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to nearly nine years behind bars and admonished her for her role in a data breach scheme catalyzed by the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/guelphgirlchris/status/1842179753484185975
Muslim faith leaders endorse Harris
https://twitter.com/caslernoel/status/1842306917538144639
Truth Social Users Are Getting Scammed
Donald Trump launched Truth Social in 2022 as a social media platform where the MAGA faithful could hang out without any liberals to spoil the fun. The biggest selling point? It was the only place where Trump was personally posting his unhinged screeds after getting banned from Twitter over that whole coup attempt.
But new documents obtained by Gizmodo reveal the site has also been flooded with scammers who are swindling users out of enormous sums of money. We’re talking about people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in a relatively short period of time.
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1842753352657981863
Trump Allies Threaten Deloitte Contracts
Republicans backing Donald Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one of the federal government’s largest business partners, with the loss of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared messages from 2020 in which GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance criticized the former president’s record.
https://twitter.com/7Veritas4/status/1842885791686524938
https://twitter.com/BrockBrockmann/status/1842758199880859679
Inside Israel’s Penetration of Hezbollah
The AR924 pager was slightly bulky but rugged, built to survive battlefield conditions. It boasted a waterproof Taiwanese design and an oversized battery that could operate for months without charging. Best of all, there was no risk that the pagers could ever be tracked by Israel’s intelligence services. Hezbollah’s leaders were so impressed they bought 5,000 of them and began handing them out to mid-level fighters and support personnel in February.
None of the users suspected they were wearing an ingeniously crafted Israeli bomb. And even after thousands of the devices exploded in Lebanon and Syria, few appreciated the pagers’ most sinister feature: a two-step de-encryption procedure that ensured most users would be holding the pager with both hands when it detonated.
As many as 3,000 Hezbollah officers and members — most of them rear-echelon figures — were killed or maimed, along with an unknown number of civilians, according to Israeli, U.S. and Middle Eastern officials, when Israel’s Mossad intelligence service triggered the devices remotely on Sept. 17.
https://twitter.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1842702112083333290
Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1842956208220913950
The only freedom that matters to today’s Republicans is the right to lie
JD Vance’s debate performance revealed how fighting “experts” over their right to spread disinformation is what drives the GOP.
https://twitter.com/Angry_Staffer/status/1842930942798659647
Partisan Split on Election Integrity Gets Even Wider
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/silentmoviegifs/status/1842075935660470607
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