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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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#GiorgiodeChirico - "Le Trouble du philosophe (In riva al mare)" 1925-27
#paintings #art
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Don Curren 🇺🇦@dbcurren.bsky.social |
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writer/blogger, ex WSJ, DJ, etc. economics/markets, music, philosophy, books, technology, photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. Blog at: doncurren.blogspot.com
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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#GiorgiodeChirico - "Le Trouble du philosophe (In riva al mare)" 1925-27
#paintings #art
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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😆😆
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Taniel
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The Telegraph reports that Keir Starmer, on his first day as Prime Minister, is scrapping the "Rwanda scheme,' the Tory plan to deport all asylum seekers & undocumented immigrants to Rwanda wherever they are from.
(This was a Starmer platform promise.)
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Andrew D Thaler
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Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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No, he’s pretty much bang on.
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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One of my all-time favourite Zappa tunes.
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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One of the many disadvantages of digital media …
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“ #America’s immense heritage of idealistic ability is squandered by a system which divides all #power between the prejudices of the ignorant many and the ruthlessness of the #plutocratic few.” - #BertrandRussell
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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✅✅🌹
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Just started reading Quantum Night by #RobertJSawyer (riveting so far). It was published in 2016 and set in the near future. In it, he has the US Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
#books #sciencefiction #scifi
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“ #Biden has a new line about #Trump, whose legal cases he had spent months avoiding speaking about in public. ‘He’s a one-man crime wave,’ Biden says now.” www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“President #Biden just wrapped a brief but animated and defiant speech at a campaign event in Wisconsin, asserting that he would continue in the race and describing former President Donald J. #Trump as a liar and threat to democracy.” www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“In his presidential campaign, Trump has been remarkably vague about his policy goals, but has openly and repeatedly declared his intention to use the justice department as a tool of personal vengeance. Now he can do so with impunity.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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I wish I could provide some comfort … just sympathy (and an inner feeling of relief that the Supreme Court of Canada functions rather differently)
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Kate Armstrong
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The tournament that matters - the #WarofTheRoses - Don has a lovely bush here for sure. I still saw some lively roses 🌹 on Edwin and on Wallace on the way to physio. And even the fading ones 🥀 have some beauty, @dbcurren.bsky.social , @heathermoandco.bsky.social , and @canadianerrant.bsky.social
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“What are we to make of the fact that the court has clearly perceived the risks posed by a rogue prosecutor to far outweigh those posed by a rogue president …” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #SCOTUS
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Thanks. Once again, I really didn’t do them justice, photographically speaking.
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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#Flowers (phone says Max #Chrysanthemums), East End, #Toronto
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Somebody deep in the Beaches stepped forward to provide reinforcements to the faltering East End in the #Toronto #WaroftheRoses.
@heathermoandco.bsky.social
@brainchain.bsky.social
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Over at the other place, economist #KateRaworth notes that her book " #DoughnutEconomics" opens with Yuan Yang challenging the outdated theory she was being taught as a student in '08. Yang was elected MP in the #UKelection. I wrote about the #book last fall. doncurren.blogspot.com/2023/10/on-s...
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Rasta
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"If you have ratings, you can be the meanest, most horrible human being in the world." Donald *Felon* #Trump
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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#Trump #TV #SocietyoftheSpectacle www.rawstory.com/trump-rating...
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“U.S. crude #oil production averaged 13.3 million barrels per day (b/d) in Dec 2023, following sustained productivity increases at new wells … U.S. crude oil production has increased to record highs since 2010 and has risen even more quickly in recent months” adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...
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Dr. Jeff Masters
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The intensity forecast is very uncertain, but the Gulf of Mexico is notorious for breeding rapidly intensifiers, and we should not be surprised if Beryl overachieves (again!) and makes landfall in Texas on Monday as a rapidly intensifying Cat 2+ hurricane.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/hurr...
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Jim Zub
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This photo is pure 2024.
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“She has also been deluged with public-information requests, sued for not responding to those requests promptly enough, and bombarded with disingenuous questions from hostile media outlets” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Michael Edward
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Mark
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Big decision on gerrymandering!
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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And dozens, if not scores, of gems among them.
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acerbic otter is HOT (NO not like THAT)
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I have a relative with ALZ and I have to mute folks who do too much joking about it because it breaks my heart, especially for their spouse who is having to do heavy duty caretaking, and their kids.
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Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com
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Portrayal of science, scientists, and scientific knowledge as 'elitist' is one of our major social problems; funded in part by petroleum wealth to slow rational policy; politically amplified
#WordHarm
#PoliticalLogic
#CausalityCrisis
#CollectiveBehavior
#SharedFacts
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“Biographical studies can calcify dynamic #artists, smoothing away unsightly wrinkles as stories become etched into stone. Travelling is a subtle counter to the idea that an artist’s public-facing story is a key to unlocking hidden #meanings within their work …” www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“Her childhood sickness from polio is nestled within an examination of a post-Nietzschean ‘cult of the child’ that gripped songwriters from Neil Young to Janis Ian.” www.theguardian.com/books/articl... #JoniMitchell #music #books #musicbooks
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Yes, we definitely have an abundance of both those things.
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Yes, we're very welcoming, but be forewarned that we have a parcel of problems of our own, maybe just not as dramatic ... at the moment ...
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Many #Canadians are watching events in the #US with concern. We are far from immune to the risks to #liberaldemocracy evident in #America and elsewhere. Read my piece on the "real danger" that we follow the US down the #rightwing rabbit hole. doncurren.blogspot.com/2024/07/cana... #Canada
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Dave Vetter
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As broken as the UK electoral system is, it has at least given us this.
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Desjardins: Hiring across the #Canadianeconomy stalled in June. Statistics Canada reported that 1.4K #jobs were lost during the month, pushing the #unemployment rate up two ticks to 6.4%. That’s was a materially weaker outcome than what was expected by economists. #cdnecon
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Thanks for that - I’ll check it out.
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Looking to be another #hot, hazy #summer day over #Toronto and #LakeOntario
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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"He was a hero to me. The first time I heard Echidna's I almost fell over when he played the big 5/16 lick on the bass! I had no idea that a clumsy bass could do such a thing!" www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general... #RIP #TomFowler #music #FrankZappa
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JL Kaufmann
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The most important thing being, will Larry like the new PM?
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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2 Bloomberg: “Other assets like #Ether, #XRP and #Cardano all dropped too. Waning demand for #Bitcoin #ETFs, signs governments are disposing of seized #tokens and #politicalrisk are all being blamed.” #crypto #cryptocurrencies
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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1 Bloomberg: “In stark contrast to the records being notched by #stocks, #Bitcoin has tumbled to the lowest level since February. The largest #digitalcoin slumped as much as 8% on Friday, a fourth-consecutive trading session of losses.” 🧵
#crypto #cryptocurrencies
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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2 Bloomberg’s Weisenthal: “But of course ultimately they are not entirely insulated. For that to change we’ll have to see clear signs of a broad economic slowdown.” #markets #stocks #stockmarkets
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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1 Bloomberg’s Weisenthal: “Higher-for-longer rates, as well as #AI, are fueling greater dispersion between winners and losers in the ( #stock) #market. A lot of the biggest names are moving on idiosyncratic, rather than #macro, stories.” 🧵
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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Bloomberg: The #pound and #UK #stocks are rallying following a landslide election victory for the Labour Party in the country’s general election
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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2 Bloomberg: A series of softer #economic readings has revived hopes that the #FederalReserve will cut rates, potentially as soon as September. The #dollar is slightly weaker and %Treasury #yields have dipped.
#Fed #markets
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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1 Bloomberg: Global #stocks are trading at record highs ahead of crucial #jobs market data due to be released today and US futures are flat following the Independence Day holiday. 🧵
#markets #stockmarket
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Steve Silberman
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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.
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