Odds and Ends — 19 December 2025
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Coinbase borrows Kalshi’s playbook, sues three states over prediction markets
https://twitter.com/BlisterPearl/status/2001776426849308912
Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 30 Years
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/2001796496438563299
https://twitter.com/StealthQE4/status/2001717176986681356
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Workplace exposures tied to higher risk of long COVID
Politics:
https://twitter.com/OurShallowState/status/2001778038854537337
“Perhaps the board isn’t aware that the Kennedy Center is the memorial to the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Would they rename the Lincoln memorial? The Jefferson? That would be an insult to great presidents. This too is an insult to a great president. Notwithstanding their short-sighted action, it is and will remain the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.” — Tim Shriver, nephew of President John F. Kennedy
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/2001746348123586700
https://twitter.com/RepJackKimble/status/2001680566257938648
Pope Leo replaces New York's Cardinal Dolan in shake-up of US Church
https://twitter.com/PeterTwinklage/status/2001714200222273792
———— Venezuela ————
https://twitter.com/NotAvgLiberal/status/2001599221489652127
———— The Epstein Coverup ————
Frustration Mounts at Justice Department Over Epstein
Frustration is mounting inside the Justice Department as it races to redact thousands of pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein before they must be released Friday.
A substantial number of redactions are needed, one of the sources said, and the documents each attorney is processing since Thanksgiving week can number more than 1,000 — a time-consuming task that likely will come down to the wire.
Oh, cry me a river. The ONLY things that need to be redacted are the names of the victims. Not the powerful men who abused them.
https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/2001733939707453821
https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/2001745633363771832
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
https://twitter.com/theliamnissan/status/2001741740600951151
———— Autocracy R Us ————
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2001780068452810753
https://twitter.com/Uebey/status/2001784768883814639
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2001704229505990856
———— Connect the Dots? ————
https://twitter.com/sfoguj/status/2001793956624118239
https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2001843984067629352
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/2001863727843545517
———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2001691186504044816
https://twitter.com/mikercarpenter/status/2001675001242480698
https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/2001706276531630267
Europe to Lend $105 Billion to Ukraine
European leaders agreed early on Friday morning to keep Ukraine funded for two years with a loan of 90 billion euros, or about $105 billion, though they failed to agree on their first-choice option of using Russian state assets frozen on the continent as backing for the loan.
https://twitter.com/fellaraktar/status/2001770988854227417
https://twitter.com/ruthbenghiat/status/2001787623598432683
https://twitter.com/AceTheCat21/status/2001485191987237029
———— Mors Imperii ————
Coast Guard Deletes Swastika Entry From Policy Manual
The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday deleted language from its new workplace harassment policy that had downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to ‘potentially divisive,’ an abrupt turnaround after the more lenient interpretation of those items was allowed to take effect this week despite objections from Congress.
https://twitter.com/DittiePE/status/2001757164482773150
Lies, Damned Lies and Trump Speeches
To paraphrase Thomas Hobbes, Trump’s speech was nasty, brutish, but, mercifully, short. Apparently it was short because the networks told him that they would only give him 15 minutes (although they didn’t cut away when he went over). It was a blizzard of lies. I can’t find a single factual assertion Trump made that was true.
https://twitter.com/theliamnissan/status/2001825199981789394
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/zunguzungu/status/2001663630887260346
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You archive links alot, now you can do it on hive.
https://dhenz14.github.io/archive/
Just drag the button to your bookmark bar.
You have to let the script shield down on the page you want to archive, but it works just fine when you do.
https://peakd.com/@theycallmedan/ostakbzx
The account I used to test it is @bravetest, if you want to check it out.
Btw, taking rewards 50/50 is shorting hive.
You trade hive for hbd at the daily price, I don't think it's going down too much from here, but it might.
Other than 1 HBD a week to @combination, the HBD I get from 50/50 is sold on the internal market and mostly powered up for #hpud but some accrues as liquid HIVE.
So, if you are going to power it up, why take it liquid and the chance of getting less because the price went up?
I know you here to stay, at least for now.
I haven't tried arcive on a paywalled post, yet.
I look forward to you posting one.
I use the internal market at least once a week. Price may bounce a round a bit but it’s basically “HIVE cost averaging” rather than “dollar cost averaging.”