Odds and Ends — 3 December 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Microsoft’s Bitcoin dilemma: Ride $5 trillion BTC wave or avoid risk
Musk’s Multibillion-Dollar Pay Package Rejected Again
A Delaware judge upheld her earlier ruling striking down Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package, plunging Tesla’s board into more uncertainty over how to compensate its superstar chief executive for a decade of work.
The ruling marks another setback for Tesla’s directors, who have said the record stock-option deal was necessary to ensure Musk stayed focused on the carmaker at a time when it is facing slower growth in its automotive business.
Coinbase Cuts Ties with Law Firms Hiring “Anti-Crypto” SEC Officials
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Republican-Led Committee Backs COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory
Politics:
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1863658550804828565
South Korea's president declares emergency martial law
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in an unannounced late-night TV address Tuesday, accusing the country’s main opposition party of sympathizing with North Korea and of anti-state activities.
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1863990542830281157
https://twitter.com/harrylitman/status/1863598817825747188
French government teeters after PM Barnier forces through budget
https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1863320885786268025
Donald Trump Reportedly Takes Menacing Jab At Justin Trudeau In Mar-a-Lago Meeting
The president-elect dismissed the Canadian prime minister’s tariff concerns with a confrontational “joke.”
https://twitter.com/7Veritas4/status/1863601426221383778
https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1863575619956785388
https://twitter.com/JenResistedAGN/status/1863710837023613410
Unions Score Major Win in Wisconsin
Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions scored a major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law that sparked weeks of protests and made the state the center of the national battle over union rights.
That law, known as Act 10, effectively ended the ability of most public employees to bargain for wage increases and other issues, and forced them to pay more for health insurance and retirement benefits.
https://twitter.com/EastEndJoe/status/1862687237118296186
https://twitter.com/JonBowzerBauman/status/1863040423473926514
Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it
Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence
Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud
In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1863634487789125646
https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1863620081873244259
The Kremlin Celebrates Trump’s Cabinet Picks
Russian state TV propagandists are ecstatic about Donald Trump’s Cabinet selections, especially Kash Patel who the incoming president has appointed to be FBI director.
https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/1863588372565967152
Germany’s next chancellor likely to be its weakest
https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1863639596405301506
Serendipity:
Malaria vaccine rolled out in world's worst-affected country
https://twitter.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1863651555079037141
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