Odds and Ends — 5 August 2024
The raised beds in our back yard are doing well. We’ve been harvesting and eating lots of lettuce, kale, and other greens. The strawberries are well-established now and we’re buried in zucchini (two more loaves of zucchini bread just went in the freezer). Other parts of our garden (not pictured) are also mostly thriving. But every year, something doesn’t do well. For whatever reason, this year it’s carrots.
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Crypto Futures Record $1B in Liquidations as Bitcoin Nosedives, Ether Slumps Most Since 2021
Stocks plunge as weak jobs report, tech woes rattle Wall Street
Argentina plans to adopt AI to predict and prevent ‘future crimes’
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Risky driving led to deadly crash spike during pandemic, research finds
Speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol and not using seatbelts led to an increase in deadly crashes
Politics:
The way in which the Democratic Party has coalesced around Harris has been nothing short of extraordinary.
Elon Musk PAC being investigated by Michigan secretary of state for potential violations
https://twitter.com/Will_Bunch/status/1820132300606337186
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1820126453146722366
U.K. Police Brace for More Unrest After Southport Stabbing
The police in cities across the country have braced for continued far-right and anti-immigration protests spurred by a deadly stabbing attack last week in the northern English town of Southport. Disinformation spread rapidly that erroneously claimed the suspect in the knife attack was an immigrant. On Saturday, dozens of people were arrested as demonstrations from Liverpool to Belfast descended into violence.
Sunday saw a new wave of clashes, with groups gathering in Rotherham, Bolton, Hull, Southport, Middlesbrough and other towns and cities scattered across the country that devolved into varying degrees of violence.
https://twitter.com/KSlatteryResist/status/1820176669287882943
What’s Rattling Trump: The Size of Harris’s Crowds
https://twitter.com/MaxFlugrath/status/1820156257094799617
Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina resigns, flees country as protesters storm her official residence
https://twitter.com/VeryBadLlama/status/1818856094116040925
What Will Become of American Civilization?
Conspiracism and hyper-partisanship in the nation’s fastest-growing city
https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1820179465907102178
Climate Change Deniers Make Up a Quarter of Congress
U.S. politics is an outlier bastion of climate denial with nearly one in four members of Congress dismissing the reality of climate change, even as alarm has grown among the American public over dangerous global heating.
A total of 123 elected federal representatives – 100 in the House of Representatives and 23 US senators – deny the existence of human-caused climate change, all of them Republicans.
https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1820317396617277621
Serendipity:
Stuck bridges, buckling roads − extreme heat is wreaking havoc on America’s aging infrastructure
https://twitter.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1820256264154185742
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