Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

‘Evolved Apes’ NFT creator allegedly absconds with $2.7 million

A dinosaur speaks! Gensler’s Crypto Testimony: 6 Key Takeaways

‘Large pump’ coming to Bitcoin, hints BTC price metric — But maybe not until December

Just what we need, more confusion about our name: Hive is a new & potentially devastating type of ransomware.

This new type of ransomware — which was linked to a cyberattack against an Ohio-based health system in August — employs a multi-pronged approach, focusing not only on encrypting sensitive data but also on terminating backup processes to make it harder for organizations to recover from the attack.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Robots Take Over Italy’s Vineyards as Wineries Struggle With Covid-19 Worker Shortages

Maryland man allegedly fatally shot his pharmacist brother for ‘killing people’ with the COVID vaccine

As he steps down as the head of NIH, he has a warning about future pandemics

Politics:

Midnight In Washington

It was not always like this, it must be said, because the Republican Party has also not always been like this. The four years of the Trump presidency destroyed many friendships, and not a few marriages.
But it also destroyed the Republican Party—once devoted to robust alliances, a healthy mistrust of executive power, and the expansion of democracy around the world—and turned it into something else: a party willing to tear down the institutions of its own government, a party willing to give aid and comfort to a malign foreign power that wishes to destroy us, a party hostile to the truth.

Norm Ornstein on the crisis of democracy: “This is the same roadmap we saw in Germany”

Mitch McConnell Blinks

Can we all ignore subpoenas, or is that just for traitors and insurrectionists?

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) October 6, 2021

The Supreme Court confronts the CIA’s worst-kept secret: Can America’s legacy of torture be a “state secret” if it isn’t even a secret?

Cry me a river: A Capitol riot suspect is being ’shunned’ by people in her small Indiana town and ‘chastised on the street,’ lawyer says

The Legal Architects of Trump’s Failed Coup May Finally Face Real Consequences

Yellen Defends IRS Rule Tracking Tranactions

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is defending a Biden administration proposal that would require banks to report data to the Internal Revenue Service on transactions over $600, calling the collection of information ‘routine,’ after taking heat for the idea that is widely seen as an unprecedented invasion of privacy.

Not all that long ago, the reporting threshold was $10,000. A few years back, it dropped to $4,000. Now $600? WTF?

Minnesota GOP’s lone secretary of state candidate leaves party

Today, Donald Trump claimed, "the real insurrection...took place on November 3rd, not on January 6th." pic.twitter.com/A9QDnE9GSs

— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) October 5, 2021

Wyoming GOP Official Sends Obscene Email to Lawmaker

Serendipity:

Climate Change Is Melting Russia’s Permafrost

Thawing earth once thought to be permanently frozen is springing to life and threatening a crucial chunk of Russia’s economy. The melting of the thick layer of the earth known as permafrost is a result of climate change, according to scientists and Russia government research. Two-thirds of the country sits on such soil, including much of its oil and gas infrastructure.

The Entirety of Twitch has Reportedly Been Leaked

So many people are watching ‘Squid Game’ that a Korean internet provider is suing Netflix

WHO Endorses ‘Breakthrough’ Childhood Vaccine For Malaria

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