Odds and Ends — 16 April 2023


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

Elon Musk reportedly plans AI startup to rival ChatGPT-maker OpenAI

The lessons from America’s astonishing economic record

Crypto Market Maker DWF Labs’ More Than $200M in Deals Blur What ‘Investing’ Means

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

COVID-19 Strikes Again: Accelerating Dementia in the Most Vulnerable

COVID-19 vaccines didn’t cause injuries and disabilities that cost the economy billions of dollars; vaccines benefited the economy

Politics:

If your name happens to be Donald J. Trump, this is a really, really bad development: Trump Lawyer Recused Himself from Classified Docs Case

One of former president Donald Trump’s top lawyers on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is no longer working on the matter after he appeared before a federal grand jury last month.
Evan Corcoran is still representing Trump in other cases, such as special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Prosecutors investigating Trump’s taking classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago Club after leaving office won a court fight that allowed them to question Corcoran when judges ruled that he could not use attorney-client privilege to avoid disclosing information about his communications with Trump. Prosecutors cited an exception to the legal principle that lawyers must keep confidential what they are told by their clients when there is evidence that a client used the attorney’s legal services in furtherance of a crime.

Explosive thrown at Japan’s PM at campaign event

Washington Judge Tears Apart Right-Wing Texas Counterpart Amid Abortion Drug Legal Frenzy

House GOP Charts New Strategy to Pressure Biden

House Republicans will try to agree on a plan to lift the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and cut government spending when Congress returns this week, after being stymied for months by Democratic President Joe Biden’s demands they do so without conditions.

Biden’s got no incentive to acquiesce to blackmail (like Obama did to his regret in a similar debt ceiling battle), so continued stymieing would seem to be called for.

Sudan paramilitary group says it has seized presidential palace and Khartoum airport amid clashes with army

What Clarence Thomas calls hospitality looks a lot more like corruption

China Stalls Blinken’s Visit to Beijing

China is refusing to let US secretary of state Antony Blinken visit Beijing over concerns that the FBI will release the results of an investigation into the downed suspected Chinese spy balloon.

Israeli leaders rebuff Moody's outlook cut, protests persist

Trump Youth

The people in the online spaces where Airman First Class Jack Teixeira spent his time and allegedly leaked highly classified documents had many things in common. In obscure game forums and private online chat rooms, his friends posted violent slurs against Black, gay and trans people, Jews, Ukrainians and pretty much everyone else.
Everyone, that is, except Russians.

Trump, in His Second Deposition With the NY Attorney General, Is Fucked Either Way

Is there a worldwide run on the Bank of the United States of America?

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), addressing the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum, says her nearly 2-year-old granddaughter “already has a shotgun, and she already has a rifle.” pic.twitter.com/d7V4Kslmo3

— The Recount (@therecount) April 14, 2023

Serendipity:

Wind & Solar Power Now The Clear Champions On Cost

Scientists discovered a new ‘quasi-moon’ orbiting Earth

Senegal gas deal drives locals to desperation, prostitution

This Square-Wheeled Bicycle Works Like a Pedal-Powered Tank

Is it a practical design? Nope. Does it work? Absolutely.

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