Odds and Ends — 14 May 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1790072133642563653
Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Sentenced to 64 Months in Prison by Dutch Court
Let’s hope that this is fake news:
https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1789911727863210085
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Chinese COVID whistleblower due for release after 4 years in jail
Politics:
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1790361135981436991
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1790147403766452232
Trump Takes In Michael Cohen’s Testimony
On Monday, after initially — briefly — shifting in his chair and rolling his eyes as Cohen took the stand, the former president promptly restrained himself. For hours, Trump took in the testimony with his eyes shut, nearly reactionless, moving only occasionally to scratch an itch, whisper or pass a note to his attorney, read a document or glance at the computer monitor in front of him before going back to his shut-eye pose.
Across the room, Cohen, the state’s top witness, was seeking to make the case against the former president, calmly delivering his testimony as the district attorney’s office, but not yet Trump’s lawyers, questioned him extensively about his years-long role as a personal attorney and fixer for Trump.
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1790172461918511531
Trump Was Incredibly Bad At Presidenting
I was one of the political scientists who participated in a ‘rank the presidents’ survey and it was easy to place Trump dead last, given everything. But the truth is that even if Trump had followed and accepted the law, including the Constitutional “emoluments” provision, and even if he didn’t provoke an insurrection in support of his bid to overturn an election he lost, and even if he didn’t have a history of sexual assault, and even if he didn’t regularly make bigoted remarks and encourage bigotry…he was still quite a bit worse at the regular parts of presidenting than any of the modern presidents, at least.
It’s hard to know where to begin, and I’m obviously not going to convince anyone in a few short paragraphs or even a full item, but even given how important all that other stuff is his gross incompetency at the job is worth remembering.
https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1790043392031801790
Prosecutors’ Clever Strategy With Michael Cohen’s Testimony
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1790122209190580518
US bans China crypto-miner from nuclear base area
US President Joe Biden has ordered a Chinese-owned cryptocurrency miner and its partners to sell land they own near a US nuclear missile base, citing spying concerns.
MineOne Partners, which the White House says is majority-owned by Chinese citizens, has been given 120 days to sell the property, where it runs a crypto-mining operation.
The land is less than a mile (1.6km) away from an air force base in Wyoming, where intercontinental ballistic missiles are stored.
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1790089629577662735
Peru Learns to Read the Fine Print in China Deals
A mistaken provision has given Beijing control of a key port.
I’ve not seen confirmation of this elsewhere but FWIW:
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1790140347584070043
Prosecutors Want Steve Bannon Jailed Immediately
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday requested the judge overseeing ex-Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt of Congress case to order that he begin his four-month prison sentence, after an appeals court last week upheld his conviction.
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1789888279065559384
The Hottest Ticket in New York Is Trump’s Trial
The lines to get into court today were crazy long, and tensions were running high in the public line. People started queuing Monday night, hoping to get one of the coveted spots in the courtroom. One woman outside said she paid $750 for a line sitter… Trouble started early though, when a few people butted into line, sparking some tense exchanges. Then a man at the front of the line sold his spot to two people, purportedly for $2,000, causing further consternation.
Said one woman: “It’s better than a Broadway show.”
Serendipity:
‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families
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