Odds and Ends — 21 November 2022
I’ve been playing around with DeepDreamGenerator’s newish “text prompt” artificial intelligence image creator. Usually it does quite well, sometimes with surprisingly interesting results. But occasionally, the A.I. has a spectacular fail. Based on the prompt “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” (from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice), DDG came up with this.
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Coinbase, MicroStrategy Bonds Tank as FTX Collapse Dents Institutional Confidence in Crypto
Salesforce adjusted its HR policies to make firing workers easier
GBTC next BTC price black swan?
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
RSV, flu, covid and staffing shortages push some hospitals to capacity
China COVID cases rise, hard-hit Beijing tightens entry rules
Politics:
Recently elected Arizona legislator has delusional brain syndrome.
Harry Reid’s Machine Is Very Much Alive
The lessons of Election ’22 in Nevada are multifarious —candidates and campaigns have never mattered more, independents are not who we thought they were and the Republicans blew a chance that may not come again soon. In a state where the president was under 40 percent in even some Democratic polls, gas prices were some of the highest in the country and inflation was soaring, the real, underlying story about this cycle is that deniers were denied. Oh, I don’t mean election deniers, although the three most dangerous (Laxalt, Michele Fiore and Jim Marchant) all lost. I refer to Reid machine deniers, who were the authors of and sources for many election prebuttals — and who were proved wrong. Again.
Arizona County Lawyer Contacted Sheriff About Threat From Kari Lake Campaign
Nixon wasn't going to try it again, pornstache Sean Hannity. pic.twitter.com/ZMx7aZjvh5
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) November 19, 2022
How the Pelosi Attack Suspect Plunged Into Online Hatred
Inside the Saudi Plan to Keep the World Hooked on Oil
The kingdom’s plan for keeping oil at the center of the global economy is playing out around the world in Saudi financial and diplomatic activities, as well as in the realms of research, technology and even education. It is a strategy at odds with the scientific consensus that the world must swiftly move away from fossil fuels, including oil and gas, to avoid the worst consequences of global warming.
Maricopa County Chairman moved to ‘undisclosed location’ for safety after midterm elections
Manhattan Prosecutors Revive Case Against Trump
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has moved to jump-start its criminal investigation into Donald Trump, seeking to breathe new life into an inquiry that once seemed to have reached a dead end.
Serendipity:
The road to low-carbon concrete
Night sky advocates worry Minneapolis’ ambitious street lighting program will further dim the stars
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