LATEST: 📊 Bitcoin rebounded to more than $80,000 after sliding to a seven-week low of $75,618 when Democrats won Congress, with traders treating the outcome as an already priced-in risk.

Later today, I'm delivering a remote guest lecture in a doctoral seminar at @OleMissBusiness. The course title is Theoretical Foundations in Marketing. I'll be discussing the epistemology of using the evolutionary lens in consumer research. Looking forward to it despite suffering from a very bad cold/cough! @umdeclaration @OleMiss

LATEST: @StanChart launches tokenized deposits in Hong Kong, the first market in its global network enabling real-time 24/7 inter-bank settlement in central bank money for corporate clients, with China AMC, Fireblocks and HashKey among early partners.

LATEST: @Circle expands CCTP to support third-party ERC-20 tokens on its @arc blockchain, letting token issuers move assets cross-chain using Circle’s burn-and-mint infrastructure without relying on separate bridges or wrapped tokens.

lately, it feels like people’s hearts keep getting a little colder. in all the rush, it starts to feel a little like winter. then i wondered. how do clothes actually keep us warm? they don’t create heat. they slow down the ways we lose it. conduction, when warmth moves into something colder we touch. convection, when moving air carries warmth away. radiation, when our bodies release heat into the space around us. evaporation, when moisture leaves the skin and takes heat with it. clothes slow those losses down, so the warmth already there can stay a little longer. they don’t create warmth. they protect what was already there. so... what does the heart wear? ˖⁺‧₊˚

LATEST: 🇮🇷 Iranian mountaineer Ali-Sina Mostafavi, 38, was executed by Iran’s ruling clerical regime in Kerman on October 14 after being convicted of moharebeh (“enmity against God”). Authorities accused him of armed attacks, while human-rights groups raised concerns over alleged forced confessions and due-process violations. Mostafavi had climbed Island Peak and attempted Ama Dablam.