Odds and Ends — 9 November 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
A fool and his money are soon parted: AI Robot Artist’s Turing Portrait Fetches $1.1 Million at Sotheby’s
Norway supports MiCA, considers CBDC for financial stability
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
MIS-C much more common in kids not vaccinated against COVID-19, data reveal
A Haiku for Writers:
Writer’s block just sucks
why won’t the words come to me?
Affix ass to chair.
Politics:
https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1854984989525279211
Trump adviser says Ukraine focus must be peace, not territory
“I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” — Neville Chamberlain
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1854958957929824299
Trump’s Plan to Use Local Cops to Get the Mass Deportation Machine Going
I can see a lot of jurisdictions flat out refusing to cooperate or simply dragging their feet and slowly doing the bare minimum.
https://twitter.com/BlackKnight10k/status/1854945097710026861
As it happens, I was sitting in a coffee house in Hopkins when I read this:
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1854919748452040992
What a shocker: Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Head Trump’s Environmental Team
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1854853573953138939
Pentagon Officials Anxious Trump May Fire Top General
https://twitter.com/BlackKnight10k/status/1854748284381712415
Trump Didn’t Deserve to Win, But We Deserved to Lose
https://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/1855068932446584981
Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1854928847919013936
Bomb Threats Targeted Mainly Democratic Counties
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1854936547369373944
Qatar Tells Hamas Leaders To Leave
https://twitter.com/KellyScaletta/status/1854965697425948764
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/bearwiitch/status/1853480317287354756
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