Odds and Ends — 2 June 2021
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Gorsuch denies Colorado churches’ petition challenging Covid-related restrictions
West Virginia Offers Guns for Vaccinations
Brazil Covid: Deaths plunge after town’s adults vaccinated
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
2nd bounce off the lower band of S2F model. Will S2F break? Or will this turn out to be an excellent buy signal? I know multiple hedge funds that actually trade this BTC-S2F "cointegration" (despite that we can't formally use cointegration tests because S2F ratio isn't random). https://t.co/lnnN6H7OL6 pic.twitter.com/qC3ULXlSlI
— PlanB (@100trillionUSD) June 1, 2021
All of JBS’s U.S. Beef Plants Were Forced Shut by Cyberattack
A cyberattack on JBS SA, the largest meat producer globally, forced the shutdown of all its U.S. beef plants, wiping out output from facilities that supply almost a quarter of American supplies.
“The cyberattack comes from a criminal organization likely based in Russia.” — Taegan Goddard
One way companies are concealing higher prices: Smaller packages
Politics:
From the annals of delusional thinking: Trump Says He’ll Be ‘Reinstated’ as President Soon
After Senate Republicans blocked the Jan. 6 commission, @JohnAvlon explores filibuster reform to “put the pressure on the obstructionists rather than the senators trying to ... cross partisan lines.” #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/d3wpZtgjjD
— New Day (@NewDay) June 1, 2021
What Chuck Schumer can learn from Harry Reid
Barack Obama on Why Winning Over Rural Voters is So Hard for Democrats
I could go to the fish fry, or the V.F.W. hall, or all these other venues, and just talk to people. And they didn’t have any preconceptions about what I believed. They could just take me at face value. If I went into those same places now — or if any Democratic who’s campaigning goes in those places now — almost all news is from either Fox News, Sinclair news stations, talk radio, or some Facebook page. And trying to penetrate that is really difficult.
It’s not that the people in these communities have changed. It’s that if that’s what you are being fed, day in and day out, then you’re going to come to every conversation with a certain set of predispositions that are really hard to break through. And that is one of the biggest challenges I think we face.
U.S. is the top target of disinformation campaigns
4 More Oath Keepers Indicted In Insurrection Conspiracy
In related news, Feds Keep Pointing Finger At Oath Keepers Leader In Jan. 6 Case But Haven’t Charged Him
Russian Agent Says Giuliani Was ‘Very Useful’
Serendipity:
How 3 prior pandemics triggered massive societal shifts
Meme credit: LucasVitoli (source)