Odds and Ends — 16 October 2023

7 months ago

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Stablecoin Lender Liquity’s Token Gains 80% in Month as Activity Increases

68-year-old engineer spent 50 years at one company and ‘always’ told his bosses to ‘leave me alone’: ‘Let me learn the job’

https://twitter.com/mcshane_writes/status/1713657730253390275?s=20

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Three and a half years later, my wife has finally tested positive for Covid. She’s had a rough couple of days so far. I suppose I’m next?

Florida Man:

A 15-year-old aspiring journalist who had made Ron DeSantis squirm with his questioning was thrown out of a GOP event by police

Politics:

Can Trump Be Gagged?

That’s the question at the heart of a federal hearing Monday, when U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan will consider whether to order the former president to stop attacking potential witnesses, prosecutors and court officials involved in his federal case over election fraud.
If Chutkan agrees that Trump’s penchant for public invective should be restrained, it will be his first brush with court-ordered consequences in a criminal case — consequences that, at least in theory, could be backed by the threat of jail time.
And a gag order would immediately raise two questions that could define his bid to retake the White House: Is Trump capable of abiding by a court-ordered restriction on his speech? And what is Chutkan prepared to do if he isn’t?

https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1713571577583817109?s=20

An Unserious Party in a Deadly Serious Time

The Republicans’ 2024 strategy against Joe Biden has been crystal clear since the first day of his presidency — make the world seem as chaotic and dangerous as possible and then argue that the 80-year-old President is too old and infirm to protect Americans from that chaos and danger…
To date, that strategy has been working. Most people think the country is going in the wrong direction. More Americans are expressing concern about Biden’s age, and Trump has a slight edge in hypothetical general election polls.
The events of this past week, however, demonstrate a fatal flaw in that strategy. The more consequential the moment, the less likely voters are to hand over the wheel of the ship to a completely unserious party led by an erratic criminal without the slightest interest in or capacity to govern.

https://twitter.com/7Veritas4/status/1713535408443634113?s=20

Polish opposition leader Tusk declares win after exit poll shows ruling conservatives lose majority

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1713342375592923243?s=20

https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/1713626134565335373?s=20

Russia Will Survive a Defeat in Ukraine. It’s Time to Prepare for What Comes Next.

https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1713366100727955782?s=20

Tapper cuts off Haley for blaming Biden for House not having Speaker

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1713376775432962170?s=20

The Hamas horror is also a lesson on the price of populism

https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1713354008113369100?s=20

Arizona Senate race creates political headache for Democrats

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1713355092378767368?s=20

Transatlantic blame game: Trump, Merkel, Biden and the danger of Germany’s dependence on Huawei

Donald Trump tried to prod Germany to ban the Chinese tech giant, but former Chancellor Angela Merkel defied him. As Germany grows increasingly anxious about China, Biden is trying to do the same with Merkel’s successor.

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1713709735520661920?s=20

Khan Younis: A Gaza city on its knees, now with a million mouths to feed

Serendipity:

The Death of the Internet as a Haven for People With Autism

Recursive, hyperactive, cumulative, hopscotched, and interlinked—these were the hallmarks of the early internet, and of autistic logic.

Do These Images Show MRIs of Fetuses?

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1713550290769858762?s=20

The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is Now Online

The seminal DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the techno-hippie publishing house are finally available online in digital form, all for free.

https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1713389139096191258?s=20