Odds and Ends — 20 July 2021


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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

A rare occurrence on the Internet, somebody changing their mind—in a decade old thread, Satoshi Nakamoto convincingly explains that 𝙣𝙤𝙩 having #Bitcoin would be the net energy waste.https://t.co/eHb4OsB2Ml pic.twitter.com/mtzP81LDUY

— Documenting Bitcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) July 19, 2021

Grayscale Unveils DeFi Fund Linked to New CoinDesk Index (but it’s only available to “eligible individual and institutional accredited investors”).

Traders are withdrawing 2,000 BTC from centralized exchanges daily

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Federal Judge Upholds College Vaccine Mandate

In what appeared to be the first ruling upholding a coronavirus vaccine mandate by a university, a federal judge affirmed on Monday that Indiana University could require that its students be vaccinated against the virus.

One In Five Think Vaccines Contain Microchips

Fox News Implements Vaccine Passports for Staff

Fox Corporation, the right-wing talk channel’s parent company, has quietly implemented the concept of a vaccine passport as workers slowly return back to the company’s offices.
The system allows for employees to self-report to Fox the dates their shots were administered and which vaccines were used. Employees who report their status are allowed to bypass the otherwise required daily health screening.

The U.S. is backsliding on covid-19. Republicans seem to have decided that’s acceptable.

Politics:

“We weren’t there to steal things. We weren’t there to do damage. We were just there to overthrow the government.” — Capitol rioter Saundra Kiczenski

Capitol rioter who breached Senate gets 8 months for felony

Ex-Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen: ‘Incredibly disturbing’ that military leadership reportedly feared Trump coup

‘It’s ceding a lot of terrain to us’: Biden goes populist with little pushback

Ten years ago, Republicans would have howled at the executive orders the president just issued. Now, there’s little reaction at all.

Proud Boys Leader Pleads Guilty To Burning Church’s Black Lives Matter Banner

Pro-Democracy Republicans Emerge as Swing Voters

We asked voters (in a Tennessee district Trump won easily) a battery of questions to see if there were any disqualifying issues. For example, 15% of voters said that there was no chance that they would consider a candidate who supported mandatory background checks.
But the most surprising result was that 45% of poll respondents said that there was no chance that they would consider a candidate who voted to block the certification of the presidential election after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Pedro Castillo declared president-elect of Peru

Serendipity:

Quarantine or corn teen? The most misspelled word in each state

More people have searched how to spell quarantine than any other word from March 2020 to 2021

Not a bribe offer: U.S. investor Calvey tells court: Find me innocent and Russia will get billions in investment

Snippet of a conversation overheard last night while taking a walk downtown, a woman speaking to a man, both in their mid- to late-twenties:
“Since you’ve got me and Pilates, you don’t need a third project…”

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Badge thanks to @arcange

Image credit: the “art” (or whatever you want to call it) at the start of this post began as a photo I took last week while on a walk in the woods at Gooseberry Falls State Park, then digitally altered with DeepDreamGenerator.



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