Odds and Ends — 16 November 2023

5 months ago

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

New York MoMA now has tokenized artworks in its permanent collection

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1724774500397633567?s=20

A Physical Dogecoin Could Reach the Moon in December

Dogecoin community plans to send a physical token to the moon in a December mission by space payload transporter Astrobotic…
The same mission is also scheduled to carry a physical bitcoin token in an initiative planned by crypto exchange BitMEX, which was announced in May. It will also carry a copy of the Genesis Block, the first block of bitcoin (BTC) to be mined, commissioned by Bitcoin Magazine.

HIVE to the moon?

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

With Covid, Is It Really Possible to Say We Went Too Far?

Florida Man:

https://twitter.com/lesleyabravanel/status/1724780715894509763?s=20

Politics:

The Least Productive Congress Since the Great Depression

With only 21 bills making it into law halfway into November, the 118th Congress, controlled by Republicans in the House and Democrats in the Senate, is on the most sluggish pace to make law since the Congress that met during 1931 and 1932.

https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1724964938899435642?s=20

Rishi Sunak Scrambles to Tame Tory Revolt

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he is not giving up on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda and suggested he would be willing to change British laws to make it happen, as he tried to stave off a furious backlash on the right of his Conservative Party after the Supreme Court ruled his plan was illegal.
Sunak is facing a moment of maximum political danger. The court’s decision to block the cornerstone of his pledge to ‘stop the boats’ — one of five he’s asked voters to judge him by ahead of a general election expected next year — plays directly into the febrile Tory mood since he fired Suella Braverman on Monday. The former home secretary, a darling among party populists, had raised the stakes ahead of the Rwanda ruling by unleashed a stream of invective against Sunak and warning he had no ‘credible Plan B’ if the government lost.

https://twitter.com/7Veritas4/status/1724556065608540491?s=20

Nevada attorney general is investigating false electors who aided Trump in 2020

https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1724578351271330165?s=20

French court issues arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad for complicity in war crimes

Each time I see this chart I ask myself what’s wrong with the US health system? pic.twitter.com/bqwsgymuYw
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) November 14, 2023

Argentina’s Conservatives Gamble for Survival

Javier Milei shot to prominence lambasting Argentina’s traditional political elite. Now the radical presidential election frontrunner is the mainstream conservatives’ best shot at clinging onto power.
Left without their own candidate in the contest, the center-right has made an uneasy alliance of sorts with Milei that could push the libertarian over the line in Sunday’s run-off vote against Peronist economy minister Sergio Massa.

https://twitter.com/SteveRattner/status/1724906560261153095?s=20

Trump Whistleblower Yevgeny Vindman Runs for House Seat

Speaker Johnson’s close ties to Christian right — both mainstream and fringe

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1723493774951952456?s=20

Why Older Socialists Are Quitting the DSA