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ECP NetHappenings covers Education, Bitcoin, Politics, Privacy, Essays

EDUCATION

New study of 300,000 children shows COVID vaccine reduces risk of Long COVID by preventing further infections. We should have offered non-mandatory vaxx to children 3y ago. Given ongoing prevalence + COVID circulation we should offer routine vaccination.

BITCOIN

What if you had invested $100 in these assets 10 years ago?

Michael Saylor: I know wealthy people they own 16 estates on the eastern shore. Why did they buy them ? They are land banking.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/thOrywpokVc Meanwhile you can’t buy a house.

Give them something else instead of property.

What a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve could look like.
Did Saylor just lay out America’s plan to rug pull BRICS by adopting Bitcoin and dumping gold?
@saylor’s speculative attack on the $20 trillion global Gold market has a very high probability of success.
$MSFT leveraging the $200 trillion global fixed income market to ‘Rug pull’ Gold is happening‼️

Gold is an approximation of an uncheatable distributed ledger using atoms.
But gold has a broken scarcity model.
Gold tried to be Bitcoin but the tech allows money for the internet.
Bitcoin actually IS an uncheatable distributed ledger.

Bitcoin, Gold & The Death Of The Dollar with Michael Saylor

“If you want to change the world, don’t protest. Write code!” #Bitcoin  - Hal Finney, 1994
8/28/14 Hal Finney – the 1st #Bitcoin user, passed away.
The software’s 1st defender from when it was worth $0, he’s known for his countless crypto inventions, and his $10 million BTC price prediction.
Gone but not forgotten

10/3/24 willy woo I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
#Bitcoin will reach 500 million holders next month.
6/2024 #Bitcoin has the same number of users as the Internet had in 1999.
We are just getting started!

Or as Arthur C. Clarke would say: “Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: It’s completely impossible. It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. I said it was a good idea all along.”

Amazon Shareholders Push for Minimum 5% Bitcoin Allocation
Bitcoin price targets $120K as Amazon shareholders file petition to invest $88B in BTC

Microsoft shareholders to decide on Bitcoin investment could be made on Tuesday, Dec. 10.

POLITICS

UnitedHealth executives pressed the company’s rank-and-file employees to pressure lawmakers to block a public health insurance option. Video shows UnitedHealth exec slamming Connecticut proposal’s “artificially low premiums” and pushing employees to lobby against the bill.

These rich guys are not backing Trump because they think it will make _your_ life better. They want license to take more of your money. The super rich are backing Trump like never before. More than five dozen billionaires are supporting his campaign for the presidency.
“In all the years that I knew him,… I don’t think I ever once saw Rudy Giuliani when he wasn’t drunk.” – Michael Cohen
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1813634006396834097.html

Pam Bondi has been working as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners, which represents companies like United Healthcare and TikTok, which the DOJ is investigating. That will raise ethics issues if she is confirmed as attorney general.

Trump called TikTok a threat. Now he’s all for it. Why?
The biggest institutional investor in the Truth Social SPAC was Susquehanna Int’l Group.
It was co-founded by GOP billionaire Jeffrey Yass Montgomery PA, who is also a major investor in the parent of TikTok.
Always follow the money.
Elon Musk, and other right-leaning Silicon Valley investors are all in on Trump adding J.D. Vance, a former venture capitalist, to the ticket.

She’s there, like Gensler, to rig markets.
Crypto industry frustrated over possibility of SEC commissioner Caroline Crenshaw’s renomination
Coinbase COO Emilie Choi called Caroline Crenshaw, one of two SEC commissioners to oppose Bitcoin ETFs, ‘anti-crypto.’

60 minutes did do a SBF episode that tried to make him look like an innocent prodigy.. I wonder if Ripple #XRP will drastically drop in price right after the 60 minutes interview aires, mirroring Elon on SNL when DOGE reached an ATH and plummeted right after the SNL special with the “Doge-Father” aired. THe minute the 60 minutes interview aired it began doing down, not up like all the XRP influencers promised. It didn’t “plummet”… but it didn’t pump either.

‘A Corporate CEO’s Dream’: Labor Unions Blast Trump-Vance Ticket | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/unions-trump-vance
Rich people fund polls – the same rich people who want access to the criminally immune Oval Office. Get it yet?

‘If Two Or More Persons Conspire To Overthrow, Put Down, Or To Destroy By Force The Government Of The United States They Shall Each Be Fined Under This Title Or Imprisoned Not More Than Twenty Years, Or Both.’
18 U.S.C. § 2384 – Seditious Conspiracy
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim
Andrew A. Weissmann

Remember when we found out Clarence Thomas took a yacht trip to Russia and then flew in a private chopper to Putin’s favorite palace?

Bill browder
The $300 billion of frozen Russian central bank reserves in the West is Trump/Vance insurance if they get elected and cut off Ukraine from further US military aid. Now that their intentions are explicit, the EU should get up off of their rear ends and confiscate this money.

Russia’s Military Buying US Chips From Texas Instruments Despite Sanctions

Trump’s Nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel, Has Businesses Financially
Intertwined with Trump
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/12/trumps-nominee-for-fbi-director-kash-patel-has-businesses-financially-intertwined-with-trump/

The Fed Rings a Warning Bell: Hedge Funds and Life Insurers Are Reporting Historic Leverage A CEO Assassination; a Billionaire Heiress/NYPD Commissioner; a Secret Wall Street Spy Center – Here’s How They’re Connected

PRIVACY – Lauren Weinstein

FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THE THE SIGNAL APP FOR PROTECTION The real purposes of generative AI Judging from the ad campaigns from Google and other AI firms, apparently the real purpose of generative AI is to get “slackers” to pay the AI firms to try fool real workers into believing the slackers aren’t slackers. In other words, trying to profit from the fools and the fooled. Utterly unethical and totally expected. Oh yes, and convincing people who don’t know better to converse with AIs as if they were people, not knowing that those error-prone AIs are actually far stupider than any human being these users actually know — and that the AIs don’t care about them at all. Not even one teeny weeny bit. Generative AI is the absolute nadir to date of Big Tech immorality. Fun with Google Search AI Overviews The U.S. government radio station used for setting “atomic” clocks and watches is WWVB. It broadcasts a 60Hz carrier that encodes the time data. Oh my. When we ask Google Search about WWVB, it confuses WWV, claiming WWVB broadcasts on the five WWV frequencies. This is — how can I put it? — simply DEAD WRONG. Google is however correct when they say you should NEVER TRUST AI OVERVIEWS TO GIVE YOU ACCURATE ANSWERS! More on WWVB If one wonders why Google AI overviews would confuse WWV and WWVB that way (the former on five shortwave frequences 2.5 5 10 15 20 Mhz, the latter on a very longwave frequency 60 Khz, the answer most likely is that Gemini has no understanding of the terms it’s using, and considers a “carrier” and a “frequency” to be interchangeable. Of course, a carrier is at a specific frequency. But Gemini doesn’t know this. Gemini doesn’t actually know anything, in the manner of knowledge in which we’d usually use the term conventionally. Booking.com says typos giving strangers access to private trip info is not a bug Popular trip site confirmed it can’t stop typos after user flagged privacy issue. There are clearly ways to improve this privacy situation. Apparently booking.com just doesn’t care. Here is an example of the unethical behavior Apple is promoting as a use case for their AI — in their own ad!

ESSAYS

Immigration and the macroeconomy in the second Trump administration
Overall, immigration policy under the new Trump administration could reduce 2025 GDP growth by between 0.1 (“high” scenario) and 0.4 percentage points (“low” scenario), or by $30 to $110 billion.”

There’s Nothing More Corrupting Than Flying Private elderly golfer is an incoherent mess on Meet the Press promises are easy. policies are hard. the NY Times is now sanewashing the greedy billionaires who are ripping us off Why Liechtenstein Works: Self-Determination and Market Governance 12/24/2018 Before we jump in, let’s have a show of hands. How many of you have ever been told that your conception of liberty sounds good in theory, on paper, but could never work in practice? How many of you have ever been called utopians? Good, I see this is most of you. Well I am here to dispel this notion and to show all of you that you are nothing if not realists. After all the word utopia comes from the Greek words Ou and Topos. Ou means Not and Topos means Place. Utopia therefore literally means, “not a place.” In other words, those who call us utopians believe that our ideas have not been and cannot be implemented in any physical space in the real world. I am about to tell you about a place where fundamental libertarian pillars of self-ownership and private property are never violated, a place of almost absolute, maximum individual liberty. A place where state coercion is nonexistent, or actually, as I will later argue, a place where there might be no state at all. The strange story of Einstein’s brain Pathologist Thomas Harvey held a jar containing part of Albert Einstein’s brain for over 40 years, from 1955 to 1998. Harvey conducted the autopsy on Einstein at Princeton Hospital and, without permission from Einstein’s family, removed and preserved the brain. ▓▓▓—▓▓▓—▓▓▓—▓▓▓—▓▓▓