Notes today

• France,  Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Belgium and Sweden have called on their nationals to leave Lebanon in 7 hrs.

• Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok. They never announced it. You can disable this using the web but it's hidden. You can't disable using the mobile app
• Direct link: https://x.com/settings/grok_/settings/grok_settings

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is escalating his rhetoric against Israel, suggesting Turkey could intervene on behalf of Palestinians.

• The US Federal Reserve may signal this week that interest rate cuts are on the way -- although it is widely expected to remain on pause until its next rate decision in September.

• Crypto Industry donors have poured more money into the 2024 election than in all prior cycles combined, according to tracker OpenSecrets ..
• Donald Trump will speak at a Bitcoin conference this month, according to the event’s organizers, an address that would highlight his growing embrace of the cryptocurrency industry.
• Trump calls for US to be 'crypto capital of the planet' in appeal to Nashville bitcoin conference.

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that.

Btw, humans can only think about 4 things at once – according to the research team led by University of Oregon psychology professors Edward Awh and Edward Vogel. So, to help, we limit notes. 😉

"Everything will be all right. And, even if it won't be, we'll have the consolation of having lived honest lives." Alexei Navalny