Texas and New York are likely to take very different approaches to the bitcoin mining industry. Who would’ve guessed? In New York, environmental activist organizations have spearheaded an effort to shut down plans to build energy projects in concert with bitcoin mining operations. The state has lagged behind other regions in economic recovery, and continues...
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DIMON’S DOUBTS EARN TWITTER RIDICULE
Jamie Dimon, billionaire CEO of JPMorgan Chase, tried moonlighting as a coder on Twitter and it didn’t go well. As Bitcoin climbed back near its all-time highs this past week, Dimon tweeted out fresh reason to doubt it, include this one: “I’ll just challenge the group to one other thing: how do you know it...
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WHEN NON-VIOLENCE AND PASSIVITY ARE EVIL
Years ago we had a fine student who at the time was a detective and SWAT officer with the Washington State Patrol. He has since left that Service and works for the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Protection Service. A fine athlete and swimmer, he made Brown Belt before relocating to his new job. One incident...
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ETHIOPIA CIVIL WAR = MASS MURDER, MASS STARVATION
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the former Nobel Peace Prize winner who was recently sworn in for another term, called on federal troops in the country to conduct a new offensive in Tigray, raising new fears of an even worsening humanitarian crisis in the region. The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the war in Tigray and...
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JOKER’S WILD: NATO TO CHALLENGE CHINA
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, said in an interview published Monday that the organization will work to figure out the best way to counter China’s new military technologies and cyber capabilities while insisting that Beijing is no “adversary.” He told the Financial Times that the region faces a wide range of issues over the next decade, but said...
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IDIOT’S DELIGHT: U.S./CANADA WARSHIPS SAIL THROUGH TAIWAN
China condemned the U.S. and Canada for sailing two warships through the Taiwan Strait last week, accusing the countries of colluding to “stir up trouble” and jeopardize peace in the region. The People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command said that its forces “stood guard” during the passage on Thursday and Friday, according to Al Jazeera. “Taiwan...
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INDIA AND CHINA: BORDER TENSIONS MOUNTING. WAR NEXT?
Chinese and Indian forces continue to amass in eastern Ladakh inside the disputed Line of Actual Control that borders the two countries. Both sides blamed the other for the missed opportunity during a meeting last Monday intended to diffuse the situation. Indian officials say China has tried to “alter the status quo” in the region,...
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‘POLEXIT’ PROTESTS IN POLAND: “EXIT THE EU” TREND GROWING
Will Poland stay in the European Union or will it go? Protests broke out in the Republic of Poland over the weekend over rumors that the Central European country is planning to ditch the European Union over a court ruling that found an EU legal standard “incompatible” with Warsaw’s constitution. The tension with the EU...
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QUANTUM COMPUTING COMES TO THE DESKTOP
Quantum computers (“Quantum Computing Makes a Quantum Leap,” 20 July, 2021) are the stuff of scientists’ dreams: machines that can solve a problem in minutes that would take a conventional computer years to work through. The difference: conventional computers process bits of information sequentially—one at a time—as a series of digital ones and zeroes. In...
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HUNDREDS OF UNKNOWN CHEMICALS FOUND IN VAPE LIQUIDS
E-cigarettes don’t contain most of the 400 contaminants and ingredients found in regular tobacco cigarettes, studies have shown. However, the vape liquids that fuel e-cigarettes contain almost 2,000 chemicals that science doesn’t even recognize, according to a new investigation by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the first study to look so broadly at vape products’...