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Today's odd news is that a woman was charged this week with possessing Drivers* in Cadillac, MI.
Is it odd? Well I found it resonant, perhaps, or oddly dislocatedālike possessing Parrot in Deadhorse.
In November, a man was charged in Cadillac with possessing anything 'cept Cadillac** or Drivers.
Following a traffic stop in Cadillac on Nov. 2, over 243 grams of narcotics were seized from a vehicle traveling for delivery in Northern Mi
And in October, a man was charged with delivery of Go-fast.***
It's evidently a place where traffic stops are fruitful.
At least two members of Congress wore the lapel pins, and a third had taken credit for their distribution.
Odd news, odd choices.
Do they also have an elephant stamp, like the grenades, or is that just implied?
A Victoria man was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guards Friday from a yacht he allegedly stolen, after he left a fish at the Goonies house.
āApparently sometime yesterday he stole a boat valued at $160,000 USD called The Sandpiper. He stole it from the Port of Astoria and made it out to the pacific ocean,ā said Astoria Police Chief Stacy Kelly in a phone interview with CBC.
I'm not quite sure, having read the report, how the "leaving fish" thing fits in with the thief-in-peril narrative but, hey, it's definitely odd news.
Robert Barron column: Letās keep our āWorldās Biggest Hockey Stickā title A moose is not just a moose
Robert Barron column: Letās keep our āWorldās Biggest Hockey Stickā title - Cowichan Valley Citizen
I tell you, thisĀ āworldās biggest stickā thing is going to run and run...

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The news is that sentiment on the MAN token is bullish right now and prices have risen almost 25% in the past week... so some people, at least, are convinced. But I'd like to see fewer diamond emojis and more references to peer-reviewed articles on neuroscience.
Very Bullish-Rated Matrix AI Network (MAN) Rises Saturday to $0.03109400992
In fact, I'm going to say that talking about "realizing the vision of the MATRIX films" without emphasising proof of neuroscientific engagement on your corporate social media account makes this distinctly odd news.
Here's the website. The crypto highlights are hyperlinked to further information about staking by acquiring a Matrix wallet but references to "brain wave data" are not hyperlinked to further information.... which is a shame, because I was interested to find out what that meant.
Here's a background article from 2018:
Matrix AI Network Blockchain 3.0 - a new generation. What is the Matrix AI Network blockchain and what is the MAN token used for? Check our
Who is behind this?
Some of the best programmers, Chinese cryptographers previously working forĀ Samsung, Amd, Microsoft, NvidiaĀ orĀ FacebookĀ in senior positions (eg senior Microsoft developer), designers of the first wifi in China, communication and command systems of a Chinese aircraft carrier, authors of official programming textbooks at universities, participating in many governmental projects headed byĀ Steve DengĀ - professorĀ Tsinghua UniversityĀ (competitorĀ Harvard). The proof of the good team of programmers at their disposal is e.g. winning the prestigious PASCAL2 and VSOCO AI competitions in 2017. They beat the teams from Microsoft, Facebook, UC Berkeley and Intel.
Make of that what you will....perhaps you'll wait to see if the company is backed by "some of the best Chinese neuroscientists", too.
Four people were arrested in Northwest Houston Monday after authorities found large amounts of drugs and stolen firearms in a warehouse.
Inside the small warehouse on Sussex Lane, DPS CID Special Agents located three pill press machines, two kilos of cocaine, 44 pounds of marijuana, several stolen guns, a stolen car, a kilo of counterfeit Xanax pills with suspected fentanyl, and 17 pounds of fentanyl precursors.
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"Iāve seen kids getting off of school buses nearby," said Michele Chambers. "Iād never guess anything like that was going on."
That not odd news. I doubt itās an odd coincidence either.Ā But it might be an example of some very "oddā marketing.
A school bus is, you might think, the convergence of everything delightful: kids chattering away to their friends, safely on their way to school to receive the privilege of education....
Unfortunately, drugs gangs donāt see it that way at all.Ā You already know, even if you havenāt thought about it, that organised crime sees a school bus as part-consumer base, part-recruitment opportunity and part-shield (ie, protection from a shoot-out with law enforcement) but what you may not know is that it is often by using symbolic slang like School Bus or Teenagers that drug traffickers advertise their wares locally.
Among many other similar references: a School Bus is a yellow Xanax pill, a Schoolboy is Snow, Young Girls and Baby are MJ (but Baby can also be Snow), a Teenager is a small dose of Snow or TinaĀ and Friends are Fenty pills.Ā Starting up a distribution point near a school bus stop might simply seem like a kind of sick irony but itās likely to have many more concrete benefits for dealers, including the opportunity for coded conversations about (for example): āthe volume of local traffic and the constant coming and going of school busesā.
So, you wonāt find me saying āIād never guess...ā because I tend less to naivetĆ© and more to paranoia these days.Ā And, although I hate to say itābecause a trusting soul is a wonderful thingāitād probably be a safer world if we were all a little more watchful and sceptical.
Sad but true.
Multiple police forces have confirmed there is no one with that name missing in their areas.
Seriously People,....donāt do that.
The Curious Interconnectedness of (Almost) Everything.
Officials from the Bank of Lithuania uncovered āserious infringementsā of anti-money-laundering laws and ābreaches and shortcomingsā in controls at Transactiveās local subsidiary, according to a Jan. 20 statement. Because of the "scale and significanceā of the problems, the business must stop taking on new customers and cease providing services to clients in the finance and cryptocurrency sectors pending a review, the central bankĀ said.
Among Transactiveās digital asset customers was Singapore-based Crypto.com, which responded to the loss of service by informing its customers that Euro deposits and withdrawals had been ātemporarily disabled.āĀ ...
The Lithuanian crackdown may help explain theĀ BinanceĀ exchangeās well-publicized issues with Euro- and GBP-based withdrawals last week... multiple Binance customers in Europe reported the sudden unexplained absence of a āwithdrawā button on both the Binance website and app last week.
....the Lithuanian crackdown came just days after a global law enforcement effort toĀ bring down the Bitzlato exchange. While a relatively small player, Bitzlato was notorious for its dealings with RussiaāsĀ HydraĀ ādarknetā market and its largely criminal customer base.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) singled out Binance as Bitzlatoās top receiving counterparty. Reuters subsequently reported that BinanceĀ processed over 200,000 transactions for Bitzlato customersĀ involving nearly $346 million worth ofĀ BTC. ...
Getting back to Crypto.com, at the same time it was rejigging its European financial dealings, the exchange also appears to have made changes to its American banking connections...
In November 2021, Crypto.com announced an āintegrationā withĀ Silvergate Bank, the crypto-friendly U.S. bank that formerly counted Binance and FTX/Alameda ResearchĀ among its clients. The integration offered Crypto.comās institutional clients the use of Silvergateās controversial Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN) for real-time, 24/7 U.S. dollar transfers to and from Crypto.com.
Singapore-based Crypto.com responded to the loss of service by informing its customers that Euro deposits and withdrawals had been ātemporar
Illuvials are creatures that live in the world of Illuvium. Players who defeat them in combat can capture them and heal them.
āThereās a chance that the gameās popularity will decline, which might cause the IIIvium tokenās value to dropā
āAll ILV incentives from the yield farm are frozen for a year before they can be withdrawnā
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Speaking of value, Illuvium experienced one helluva crazy price spike at the end of May 2021, when it shot up to an ATH of $2868.95, and another at the end of November 2021, achieving a high of $1848.46.Ā From there it declined consistently over 12 months and was fluctuating around $40 a year later.
ILV has been rallying of late. That may be a response to the launch of Illuvium: Zero last month. $94.42M of ILV has been traded in 24h and the price has risen by 56.47% in just the past 7 days. The current price is $92.20 per ILV. Still, thatās a long way off the ATH, though, right?
So, I guess my āodd newsā point is that gaming trends, crypto market volatility, currency risk and credit risk are all separate dimensions of the financial risks you take on with play-to-earn games, if you decide to donate your time/labour to a game by way of investment (rather than hobbying). Personally, I find it a little odd that crypto journalism doesnāt try to sketch out these risks the way that TradFi journalists would feel bound to do but I get that the sentiment around crypto is entirely different.
Anyway.... dodging round the ice hero pillars to capture dangerous beasts in the overworld with those shards sounds awesome. And the value of processing IRL stress by chillaxing with a good capture game...? Priceless.
Last year, Illuvium sold 20,000 lands to 5,000 players, raising a total of $72 million.

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Ukrainian officials say modern jets are needed to help it win control of its skies but allies have so far been reluctant, fearing it could p
That's an odd headline and I don't really know where to start:
There are no UK F-16s and no plans to invest in them. š¤·š»āāļø
The nearest British jet is a Typhoon (which is arguably better in some respects).
The impracticability consideration relates primarily to the super-sophisticated F-35s, not to F-16s, which have been built under licence in, eg, Turkey, and bought and flown all around the world.
The US is (obviously) not being led by UK on this and would not enjoy the implication of coordination here.
There is a grand history of countries saying they will not supply a certain type of equipment to Ukraine only to do a u-turn in short order and so the lede here is probably "the US may possibly be thinking about supplying Vipers to Ukraine".
Drives me crazy!
Trump suggested that he trusts Russian President Vladimir Putin more than U.S. intelligence officials as he complained he needs more lawyers than infamous gangster boss Al Capone.
Trump rambles incoherently on social media in a self-pitying vein about Alphonse āAlā Capone and calls the FBIĀ āintelligence lowlifesā and āthese Misfitsā (presumably in reference to the 2021Ā film about a gold heist rather than the 1961 Marilyn Monroe/Clark Gable film about a mustang rancher, but ...š¤·š»āāļø)
The fact that this guy was once POTUS means it qualifies as odd news, no?
Mask Network (CRYPTO: MASK), is up 27% on Monday late evening, outperforming Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) gains.
Mask Network enables users of Twitter to send cryptocurrency, interact with decentralized applications, and share encrypted content.Ā
Mask Network is up with news that Elon might be incorporating crypto payments into Twitter.
Nothing odd about that but, since you ask, hereās something from a couple of years ago....
Mask Network, founded in 2017, launched $MASK in February 2021 via Mask's Initial Twitter Offering (ITO) feature. Ā
If you take the stocks of companies like 3M and Honeywell International to be very rough proxies for public sentiment about the strength of PPE manufacturers (cf face masks), then you can say that MASK token launched when public confidence levels were at their highest. This is particularly true in the case of Honeywell which went on something of a tear from March 2020 (as one would expect) to hit an all-time high of $228.06 on August 16, 2021, with a sharp little rally occurring in late February 2021.Ā What is interesting about that, perhaps, is that the vaccine roll-out in January/February 2021āwhich might arguably have portended a diminution in demand for face masksādidnāt dim the āpro-PPEā sentiment but seemed to spur it on to new highs.
In this same period, Mask Network raised $47,000,000 from investors in three roundsāone in November 2020, which included a venture capital investment from Alameda Research, and two in February 2021, the second of which raised corporate funding of $42,000,000 on February 28th. One could, then, paint a bold sweep with a very broad brush, I suppose, and say that positive sentiment about Mask Network roughly tracked positive sentiment about Mask manufacturing in 2020-2021āand Iāve certainly heard sillier market theories in my timeābut, honestly, why would one want to?
Subsegment: Old News, (slightly) Odd Coincidences
One of the long-running geopolitical gordian knots of our time is the question of whether Iran is poised to cross the "nuclear threshold" and what (if anything) can be done by way of intervention to prevent it becoming a nuclear power.
In 2017 for example, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace held a panel event entitled "Beyond the Nuclear Threshold" which focused on the Iran Deal.
And in July 2020, the NY Times reported that a critical threshold had been passed because Iran's stockpile of nuclear fuel was sufficiently large to make a bomb.
There are many such examples.
My interest in this story has been piqued by three or four convergent factors besides than the obvious imperative that we should all be interested in the preservation of humankind and the avoidance of mutual destruction. First, the story was of professional interest because I was involved at one stage in trying to interpret both the Iranian sanctions regime as it applied to banking and finance and assess the impact of the JCPOA on emerging regulation; second it was of personal interest, because I'm certain that "nuclear" is one of those "code words" that people use to achieve a subtextual meaning that I've never fully understood; and, third, my curiosity was piqued because I once heard someone say "Jo knows all about Israeli intelligence on Iran's nuclear programme" which was both startling and utterly perplexing to meājust at it would be to you, mutatis mutandisābut also vaguely threatening and anxiety-producing.
As to the second of these, I've given up the game of trying to interpret subtexts from an alphabetical perspective, but I will mentionābecause it's relevant hereāthat my long and deep involvement in that exercise left me with a perennial interest in the letters "NU" as they appear in the word "nuclear".
So there we have itāa variety of "nuclear" threads which have to do largely with words, not weapons, which converge only for me and which don't mean anything to anyone else at all.
But here's the (mildly) odd coincidence. On 23 January, the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel presented a strategic assessment to President Isaac Herzog which warned that Iran would soon become a "nuclear threshold state", and the term "threshold" suddenly zipped to the top of the news cycle again.
Following the presentation of the assessment, the former commander of Israelās navy, Eliezer Marom, was reported as having said that, in light of the fact that Iran is on the threshold of obtaining nuclear weapons, it would be better to attack ānow than later.ā
"In my understanding, I think Israel has to attack, because the situation right now is that Iran is a threshold country - 100 percent," he replied.
That had exactly the effect one would supposeāinflamed tensions and more than a frisson of geopolitical anxiety.
Meanwhile, a cryptocurrency token named "Threshold" also hit the crypto news on 23 January when Coinbase listed it as a new asset on its roadmap:
Threshold (T), which nearly doubled in price following the listing, is the umbrella token under which two other companies and their tokens are in the process of merging (following a proposal that was adopted at the end of 2021 and initiated in February last year). Those tokens are produced by Keep Network (KEEP), and NuCypher (NU). KEEP and NU will be delisted on 6th February. Transfers of assets to Threshold from KEEP and NU have been possible from 25th January.
And that, it seems to meāthe convergence of news on 23 January about Iran's IRL status as a "nuclear threshold country" and about Threshold's virtual status as a repository of value following the merger of KEEP and NUāis a mildly odd coincidence.
Another sort-of coincidence (I put it no higher) is the way in which news about developments in nuclear power vaguely track along with price trends for the Cosmos Hub/Platform and its native token ATOM.
The price of ATOM spiked from January to May 2021 and then again in August-September of that year, when it hit an all-time high, during periods which saw positive news reported about advances towards nuclear fusion as well as growing support for nuclear power as a green-ish alternative to fossil fuels.
Last year, however, the price of the token fell in the run up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the seizure of the Chernobyl power plant and then collapsed precipitously at the beginning in Aprilāa wipeout which coincided with Russia relinquishing control Chernobyl and reports emerging of serious damage to the plant. The price hit rock bottom on June 17th.
Today, one of the leading news items for Cosmos Hub is the planned launch in March of a new consumer chain incorporating smart contracts functionality called Neutron.* I thought of that when I saw this today:
A reactor at the Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast was automatically halted on Monday following an emerge
A reactor at the Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast was automatically halted on Monday following an emerge
Seriously, though? What do you expect me to do with your unwanted, unnecessary and condescending IRL feedback?
You say I'm the CEO (or is that Chair? Major shareholder?) š¤Ŗ... well, let me be the one to figure out when feedback is required (how are our people feeling?) and when it's not (you're out on an unjustified limb with your crazy conspiracy theories, Perks).
In so far as we have anything at all in this, my contribution to it has been to throw myself over the wall of respectable public opinion and into the hinterland of crazy. To do that takes...a lot of something or other. It's like putting creative writing out there, only not nearly as much fun. It means I get plenty of strange looks and carry an extraordinary amount of baggageāthe baggage of IRL failure and ostracisation. What I don't need to add to that is a raft of my own agents and editors telling me, after self-publication, that the things I write are "wrong" and need...what? tweaking? deleting? reprinting? disowning? (Just think for a moment about the fact that the only way I knew for years that there was anything to this was a constant raft of thinly veiled death threats.) What I'm saying is that what I do is a vaguely creative, largely isolated, deeply personal activity which can't adapt to some kind of bizarre corporatist measurability moneyball schtick. That might work for your bit of itāthe money, the strategy, the deliveries, the tips, the kilos...the god knows whatābut it won't work in a world of patterns, of light and shade, of ephemeral connections, things whispered on the winds of public interest, flotsam in the wash of social mediaāa world of dancing words. All you will achieve is withdrawal.

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Subsegment: Old News, (slightly) Odd Coincidences
On 28th October last year, the US air force announced plans to replace its entire fleet of F-15 fighter jetsāofficially named the "Eagle" but affectionately nicknamed "Big Bird"*ābased in Okinawa, Japan, with a ārotationalā force. It was a move widely (tho' not necessarily correctly) interpreted as being a lessening of commitment to the US military bases on the island, chief among which is Kadena Air Base.
In a mildly odd coincidence, that week was also a newsworthy week for the Kadena coin (KDA), a token native to the Kadena blockchain, which achieved a temporary gain in value when UK-based start-up Database of Native Assets (DNA) launched its tech enterprise "creating unique digital passports which prove authenticity and ownership of jewellery, collectibles, art, rarities and luxury goods" on the Kadena platform.Ā
KDA also spiked on March 11, when it was listed by Binance. That was a day after a Japanese court awarded over $11million to residents of Okinawa seeking compensation for US air operations in the context of parallel legal claims which also sought to bring an end to US air operations altogether.
In fact, the history of Kadena runs broadly inverse to the fortunes of US military operations in Okinawa.
Kadena was initiated in June 2016, a couple of months after an article appeared in the Japan Times on 27 April outlining and substantiating concerns expressed by US veterans that they were victims of exposure to Agent Orange and/or Agent Pink while stationed on the island.
The initial successful seed funding round for Kadena took place within two months of an award of $265 million to residents of Okinawa in 2017, one month after a US sailor was arrested for exposing himself and masturbating in front of Japanese women in Kitanakagusuku Village, one day before demonstrations in Henoko and at the end of a period of unexplained difficulty in retaining and deploying Japanese security guards to the bases.
And on 11 April 2018, Kardena closed another funding round on the same day that a court in Okinawa sentenced a U.S. Marine based there to four years in prison for killing a 61-year-old man in a car crash while driving under the influence of alcohol.**
Does that qualify as a mildly odd coincidence? Perhaps not... but, just maybe.
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Or...
Perhaps that's all just a way of saying that I found this article from The National Interest last month strange, discombobulating and vaguely hyperbolic:
Americaās forward base strategy is enshrined but becoming outdated by advancing military technologies.
Subsegment: Old News, (slightly) Odd Coincidences
One of the long-running geopolitical gordian knots of our time is the question of whether Iran is poised to cross the "nuclear threshold" and what (if anything) can be done by way of intervention to prevent it becoming a nuclear power.
In 2017 for example, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace held a panel event entitled "Beyond the Nuclear Threshold" which focused on the Iran Deal.
And in July 2020, the NY Times reported that a critical threshold had been passed because Iran's stockpile of nuclear fuel was sufficiently large to make a bomb.
There are many such examples.
My interest in this story has been piqued by three or four convergent factors besides than the obvious imperative that we should all be interested in the preservation of humankind and the avoidance of mutual destruction. First, the story was of professional interest because I was involved at one stage in trying to interpret both the Iranian sanctions regime as it applied to banking and finance and assess the impact of the JCPOA on emerging regulation; second it was of personal interest, because I'm certain that "nuclear" is one of those "code words" that people use to achieve a subtextual meaning that I've never fully understood; and, third, my curiosity was piqued because I once heard someone say "Jo knows all about Israeli intelligence on Iran's nuclear programme" which was both startling and utterly perplexing to meājust at it would be to you, mutatis mutandisābut also vaguely threatening and anxiety-producing.
As to the second of these, I've given up the game of trying to interpret subtexts from an alphabetical perspective, but I will mentionābecause it's relevant hereāthat my long and deep involvement in that exercise left me with a perennial interest in the letters "NU" as they appear in the word "nuclear".
So there we have itāa variety of "nuclear" threads which have to do largely with words, not weapons, which converge only for me and which don't mean anything to anyone else at all.
But here's the (mildly) odd coincidence. On 23 January, the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel presented a strategic assessment to President Isaac Herzog which warned that Iran would soon become a "nuclear threshold state", and the term "threshold" suddenly zipped to the top of the news cycle again.
Following the presentation of the assessment, the former commander of Israelās navy, Eliezer Marom, was reported as having said that, in light of the fact that Iran is on the threshold of obtaining nuclear weapons, it would be better to attack ānow than later.ā
"In my understanding, I think Israel has to attack, because the situation right now is that Iran is a threshold country - 100 percent," he replied.
That had exactly the effect one would supposeāinflamed tensions and more than a frisson of geopolitical anxiety.
Meanwhile, a cryptocurrency token named "Threshold" also hit the crypto news on 23 January when Coinbase listed it as a new asset on its roadmap:
Threshold (T), which nearly doubled in price following the listing, is the umbrella token under which two other companies and their tokens are in the process of merging (following a proposal that was adopted at the end of 2021 and initiated in February last year). Those tokens are produced by Keep Network (KEEP), and NuCypher (NU). KEEP and NU will be delisted on 6th February. Transfers of assets to Threshold from KEEP and NU have been possible from 25th January.
And that, it seems to meāthe convergence of news on 23 January about Iran's IRL status as a "nuclear threshold country" and about Threshold's virtual status as a repository of value following the merger of KEEP and NUāis a mildly odd coincidence.