I’ve been playing around with DeepDreamGenerator’s newish “text prompt” artificial intelligence image creator. This image was generated from the prompt “A photorealistic hilly forest at sunset.”

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

Federal Reserve Lifts Interest Rates Another 25 Basis Points

Truss and Brexit have sunk Britain’s economy – and the right is in deep denial about both

British workers unite in largest strike in a generation

Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, train drivers and university lecturers have walked off their jobs to demand better pay and working conditions in the largest coordinated strike action in a generation as wages fail to keep pace with soaring inflation.

BonqDAO protocol suffers $120M loss after oracle hack

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

The next generation of coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide

For GOP base, battles over coronavirus vaccines, closures are still fiery

Politics:

Biden’s EV Surprise

The Biden administration’s plan to jump-start a domestic supply chain for electric vehicles is on track to shatter expectations.
Democrats offered carmakers new tax credits as an incentive to scale up domestic battery manufacturing — and they’re racing to take advantage.
Some experts say the value of those tax credits may be four times higher than Congress’ budget experts anticipated.

What The House GOP’s Targeting Of Ilhan Omar Is Really All About

Lindsey Graham has mastered the circular breathing techniques of jazz and classical musicians so he never has to stop kissing Donald Trump's ass. pic.twitter.com/V4SBD8lJwA

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) January 31, 2023

How US Marines are being reshaped for China threat

Putin’s Plot Against America

From Moscow’s vantage point, it isn’t simply the gross incompetence of its military and intelligence services that prevented Russia from seizing Ukraine in a flashy blitzkrieg last February. It was the fact that Ukraine was armed with NATO weaponry, its troops trained by NATO advisors, its intelligence services constantly fed information by Western intel agencies. Moscow has made no secret of this frustration or its assertion that the battle for Ukraine was a proxy war against the West, itself. This is why, from the very beginning, Moscow has framed this war as one not between Russia and Ukraine, but rather one between Russia and what Vladimir Putin and his coterie love to call ‘the collective West.’ And, according to this consensual ideology, it is this collective West—not the incompetence of any generals or advisors—that has thwarted Putin’s aims of swallowing Ukraine and fulfilling his dream of a pan-Slavic super state with Moscow at its capital.

A routine House Judiciary Committee meeting erupted into a nearly hourlong heated debate Wednesday over the Pledge of Allegiance.

Hunter Biden Asks for Probes Into Trump Allies

Lawyers for Hunter Biden sent letters Wednesday requesting investigations into allies of former President Donald Trump who they say trafficked in stolen information from his laptop — a dramatic shift in strategy for the president’s son after years of GOP attacks.
Information from the laptop has raised questions about Biden’s finances, which have been under investigation by federal prosecutors in Delaware since 2018. They’ve also been the source of several salacious stories from conservative media outlets, many focused on his drug use.

I helped balance the federal budget in the 1990s – here’s just how hard it will be for the GOP to achieve that same rare feat

Man Who Sprayed Capitol Police Sentenced

“You’re entitled to your political views but not to an insurrection," the judge said…
A Jan. 6 defendant who sprayed a chemical irritant at about 15 police officers — and later bragged about it in a video interview — was sentenced Wednesday to 68 months in prison.
This is one of the stiffest Jan. 6 sentences handed down to date.

Chinese corn mill in North Dakota deemed ‘significant threat’ by US Air Force

Can’t Even Set Up Their Bogus Subcommittee Right

Serendipity:

Western wildfires destroyed 246% more homes and buildings over the past decade – fire scientists explain what’s changing

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