Odds and Ends — 19 May 2023


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Ever-Hungry Skull is often a useless monster but can be a formidable tank with the Lost Magic rule set.

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

‘One of the greatest’ Bitcoin metrics says BTC price bull run is here

Bitcoin Mining Rig Maker MicroBT Unveils Most Powerful Machine Yet

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

WHO recommends new COVID shots should target only XBB variants

Florida Man:

Disney Cancels Plans to Move 2,000 Jobs to Florida

Walt Disney Co. has canceled its plan to open a new Florida campus that would’ve relocated some 2,000 employees to the state, a change that comes as the company is engaged in a long brawl with the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.

My dog is so obsessed with where other dogs go to the bathroom she could be the governor of Florida.

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) May 17, 2023

Politics:

The National Archives Is Set to Hand Over Damning Evidence in Trump’s Classified-Docs Case

US signals to allies it won’t block their export of F-16 jets to Ukraine

A lot of countries have these. To date, more than 4,600 have been built, in many configurations. Sure, some have been lost in combat in various parts of the world and some have crashed for various reasons, but there are still thousands operational.

Wicked game: Kevin McCarthy’s debt-ceiling “crisis” is political theater at its worst

At least Mitch McConnell admits the obvious: There will be no default, and everyone knows it. So WTF is going on?

Barr Says Trump’s Biggest Legal Risk Is Classified Docs

Conspiracy theorists to address US House subcommittee, watchdog warned

Witnesses set to testify to Congress about the “weaponisation” of the US government on Thursday have links to far-right groups and a history of supporting conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines and the January 6 insurrection, a congressional watchdog has warned.

Unless they are OSU wrestlers. pic.twitter.com/9rW7qyYx4K

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 18, 2023

Rudy Giuliani has always been a complete piece of shit

Trump’s Dominance in the GOP Isn’t What It Seems

For years, political scientists have judged presidents on their strength as party leaders — how they’ve been able to grow a coalition and cement a majority — but Trump is changing the way we think about politics.
Instead, it now seems that Trump is not so much a party leader, but a movement figure. This might seem like the kind of distinction that only academics care about. But it’s key to understanding the current state of American politics, and the dilemmas now facing GOP leaders as the MAGA movement threatens to completely overtake the Republican Party itself.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is introducing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden.

Good luck with that.

Antiabortion Group Used Cell Data to Target Ads

A Midwest antiabortion group used cellphone location data to target online content to visitors of certain Planned Parenthood clinics.
The campaign used a common digital-advertising technology called geofencing to extract the unique device identifiers of phones carried into Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers… It then used those device IDs to target those people on popular social-networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat with antiabortion messaging.
All three social networks said the ads violated their policies and said future such campaigns would be rejected.

Jim Jordan Freaks Out When Dem Confronts Him With House Rules

University of California considers hiring undocumented students despite federal ban

Serendipity:

Silicon Valley Says AI Could Be Apocalyptic. It’s Not Acting That Way.

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