Odds and Ends — 7 March 2026

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

Kazakhstan's Central Bank Will Invest Up to $350 Million in Crypto Assets

Manhattan office tower values plummet below COVID-era slump amid fears AI will wreak a white-collar bloodbath

Flash Fiction:

”If we frame it as a revolutionary change to their lives, people won’t see a contradiction with the shortages they’re facing. We can tap into a whole range of their emotions.”

”I can’t conceive a scenario where that will play out the way you’re expecting. Won’t they just see our brand as a manufacturer of lies?”

”You’re new to this, aren’t you? You’re giving the general public far too much credit. Why do you think they’re called sheep?”

Written for this prompt.

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal

Iran:

Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis of a Zero-Flow Strait of Hormuz Closure

The modern world order, having organized itself around efficiency, cost minimization, and logistical precision, has created a machinery of dependence so extreme that the interruption of one narrow corridor can propagate outward into a general crisis of civilization.
What appears at first as a maritime blockade is in fact the exposure of the entire global system as a hierarchy of brittle interdependencies.
Oil and LNG fail as inputs into electricity, fertilizer, shipping, chemicals, mining, manufacturing, and state finance.

Cancellation of Army exercise fuels speculation about Mideast troop deployments

The Army in recent days abruptly canceled a major training exercise for the headquarters element of an elite paratrooper unit, officials said, fueling speculation within the Defense Department that soldiers specializing in ground combat and a range of other missions may be sent to the Middle East as the conflict with Iran widens.
The 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg in North Carolina includes a brigade combat team of about 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers ready to deploy on 18 hours notice for missions as varied as seizing airfields and other critical infrastructure, reinforcing U.S. embassies and enabling emergency evacuations. Its headquarters element is responsible for coordinating how those operations are planned and executed.

The War He's Always Wanted

A moment of triumph for Benjamin Netanyahu; and of democratic collapse in the US.

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Trump Is Betraying His Base By Waging War on Iran

Voters were promised America First, not Bush-era interventions.

Politics:

White House blocks intelligence report warning of rising US homeland terror threat linked to Iran war

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

———— Autocracy R Us ————

———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————

———— Putin&Krasnov ————

———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————

———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————

———— Mors Imperii ————

‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’

Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.

Serendipity:

Tinnitus Is Somehow Connected to a Crucial Bodily Function

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