Dark Seraphim

Chill guy, BB activo, O-, get on PrEP
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[Forbes @Forbes]

His style has been called "very unusual" and even "inappropriate." But Alex Bouzari's unique choices go beyond his tailored suits and 19th century pied-à-terre.

“I just love to design,” said Bouzari, the cofounder and CEO of data storage company DDN.

While tastes may vary, DDN is undeniably Bouzari’s finest work. For nearly three decades, Bouzari ran a data storage stalwart for research labs at the likes of NASA. Now the AI boom has transformed his workhorse into a juggernaut, with sales on track to reach ten figures—and made him a billionaire.
Read more: https://t.co/N2R15PEneq
Photo: Andrejs Zavadskis for Forbes

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

These 3 tiny dots are not just random stars in the sky.

That's Earth, Jupiter and Venus seen from Mars 🌌

That’s us… 225 million miles away 🤯

[Amazing Nature @AmazingNature00]

🔥Yosemite National Park showing off like only Yosemite can. 🔥🌕

This rare “firefall” effect happens when the light hits the waterfall at the perfect angle, making it look like molten lava pouring off the cliff. But catching it like this is not luck alone. It takes clear skies, the right season, the right water flow, the right position, and seriously perfect timing.

Miss it by a few minutes and the magic is gone.

Nature doesn’t perform on demand.
But when it does… the whole world stops scrolling. 🏔️

[MOON LOVER @M1ONLOVER]

Perfect Moon capture. (with 600–1200 mm)

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

Somewhere in Japan, a giant Game Boy stands in the middle of a bamboo forest.

📸 @enuenuenubi

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

📸 Nailed it. This extraordinary photo was captured by photographer Alex Trowski in Glencoe, Scotland.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦌🌙

[Circle @circle]

Circle has received final OCC approval to establish Circle National Trust, a federally chartered national trust bank.

On @NYSE, @ddisparte discusses what this milestone means for USDC infrastructure, institutional custody, and regulated stablecoins in the U.S.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

"Goatpro"

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

1930's stork embroidery scissors by french master scissor maker Jean Marie Roulot, Nogent.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.”

— Michael Jackson

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Finland, farmers use reflective paint on deer antlers to make wildlife more visible at night and reduce accidents

[Anas Alhajji @anasalhajji]

China’s oil imports have fallen by about 6 mb/d from pre-crisis levels, slashing global demand and driving prices back down. This is a historic shift.

The real issue is this: China can now dominate the oil market simply by raising imports by 4 mb/d (leaving them 2 mb/d below pre-crisis levels). It can achieve this effortlessly by withdrawing just 2 mb/d from inventories for 90 days — and still retain around 1 billion barrels onshore.

Mark this tweet. No one knows the details of the agreement Trump made with Xi during his China visit — yet it changed the game ever since. We’ll see it unfold before our eye in the coming months.

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Cuba’s president confirms the communist government has began negotiations with Trump.

[Onramp @OnrampBitcoin]

Most people think inflation is just "prices going up."

There's actually a hidden order to how new money moves through the economy. Your position in that order determines whether you win or lose.

It's called the Cantillon Effect.

Here's how it works...

When new money enters the system, it doesn't land equally in everyone's pocket. It flows from the source outward, losing purchasing power at every step.

Level 1 — Banks & Financial Institutions: They get the money first. Before prices adjust. Before anyone else even knows it exists. They deploy it immediately into assets.

Level 2 — Large Corporations & Contractors: They borrow cheap, expand fast, and lock in favorable terms before the market reprices.

Level 3 — Asset Prices Reprice: Real estate. Equities. Hard assets. The early recipients have already bought in. Now prices rise for everyone else.

Level 4 — Consumer Prices Catch Up: Your grocery bill. Your gas. Your rent. Costs climb while your paycheck holds still.

Level 5 — Wages Adjust Last: By the time wages catch up, the purchasing power is already gone. You're running a race where the finish line keeps moving.

This is the inflation tax most people never discuss. Structural, predictable, and baked into every fiat monetary system in history.

The Cantillon Effect requires two things: new money and a centralized party with the power to issue it. Bitcoin has neither. Its supply is fixed, its issuance is governed by protocol, and no institution gets preferential access. Every participant operates on the same terms.

Sound money neutralizes the Cantillon Effect.

Bitcoin is the soundest money ever created.

[Peter Raleigh @PetreRaleigh]

Decades of spasmodic military-industrial policy and a cultural groundwater completely flooded with unchallenged anti-Muslim bigotry have led to this, a "war" without even the barest pretense of a morally coherent aim, just sheer will to annihilate until the impulse is spent

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Scarface: El león legendario que gobernó su territorio durante más de una década, derrotó a machos rivales, sobrevivió a su manada e incluso expulsó a los cocodrilos de su tierra, entrando en el descanso final de su vida.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

After Minnie Cox, the first black female postmaster, was forced out of her post in Mississippi, President Theodore Roosevelt paid her salary and rerouted the town's mail 30 miles away until her position was restored.

In 1902, Minnie M. Cox was serving as postmaster of Indianola, Mississippi — one of the few Black women in the South holding a federal position during the Jim Crow era.

White residents in the town began organizing to have her removed. Petitions were circulated, threats were made, and pressure mounted against her solely because of her race.

As the hostility grew, Cox submitted her resignation.

President Theodore Roosevelt refused to accept it.

Instead of replacing her, Roosevelt ordered the Indianola post office closed. He continued paying Cox her federal salary, and mail for the town was redirected to Greenville, roughly 30 miles away.

For months, Indianola residents had to travel out of town to receive their mail. The closure became a national political issue, with Southern officials condemning Roosevelt’s decision while many Black Americans saw it as a rare instance of the federal government refusing to bow to racial pressure.

Eventually, the post office reopened under new arrangements, but the episode remained one of the most direct federal responses to racial intimidation in the early 20th century.

Minnie Cox later left Mississippi and went on to have a successful career in business and education.

Her case is still studied today as an example of how federal authority was sometimes used to confront local segregation during the Jim Crow era.