Odds and Ends — 9 November 2024

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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

A fool and his money are soon parted: AI Robot Artist’s Turing Portrait Fetches $1.1 Million at Sotheby’s

Norway supports MiCA, considers CBDC for financial stability

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

MIS-C much more common in kids not vaccinated against COVID-19, data reveal

A Haiku for Writers:

Writer’s block just sucks
why won’t the words come to me?
Affix ass to chair.

Politics:

Trump adviser says Ukraine focus must be peace, not territory

“I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” — Neville Chamberlain

Trump’s Plan to Use Local Cops to Get the Mass Deportation Machine Going

I can see a lot of jurisdictions flat out refusing to cooperate or simply dragging their feet and slowly doing the bare minimum.

As it happens, I was sitting in a coffee house in Hopkins when I read this:

Serendipity: