“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away,” Leland Val Van De Wall.
A flying fish spreads its enlarged pectoral fins like wings, using rapid tail beats to build speed before lifting clear of the surface and gliding up to 50 m.
📷 Jay Papa
🚨🇪🇺REMEMBER : Elon Musk just put the EU chief back in her place!
Von der Leyen was preaching about "democracy" until Musk hit her with a truth bomb:
"If democracy is the foundation of freedom, surely your position as leader of the EU should be elected directly by the people?"
Tim Draper: Quantum Computers Will Crack Banks Before Bitcoin
Billionaire investor Tim Draper said in an interview with Benzinga that his Bitcoin holdings are safer than fiat deposits held in banks, arguing that quantum computers will “crack banks faster than blockchains.” He added that even if Bitcoin were subjected to a quantum attack, the community could fork the network and roll back to a secure block. However, Casa CSO Jameson Lopp previously said Bitcoin’s transition to quantum-resistant cryptography could take about a decade, while banks may adapt to quantum threats much faster.
The Prime Minister is facing pressure to sack Housing Minister Clare O'Neil after a fresh report revealed Labor's 1.2 million homes target was almost impossible to achieve.
https://t.co/3O1oGQXZnQ
‼️Dana White CONFIRMS Sean Strickland is NOT banned from the UFC White House event
"He made it very clear he didn't want to be apart of this event, and now apparently he's banned. Nobody is banned”
via @DianaBelbita
ETH/BTC at 0.026 for the first time since march 2016. ratio is pricing ethereum the same relative to bitcoin as when it had zero DeFi, zero NFTs, zero L2s, and a $1.2b market cap. meanwhile 32.4% of ETH supply is staked at all-time highs with 1,261x more ETH waiting to enter staking than exit. BitMine holds 5.42m ETH (4.5% of supply) at a $3,476 cost basis, down roughly $9b, and just filed to raise $300m in 9.5% preferred stock to buy more. on the same day BitMine bought 26,497 ETH, BlackRock deposited 17,511 ETH to coinbase. the sellable float is compressing into a smaller and smaller window while $2.4b in ETF money walks out the door over 5 months. daily RSI lower than COVID, lower than FTX collapse, lower than the tariff crash. either a decade of infrastructure development added zero value relative to bitcoin or this is the most asymmetric long setup ETH has printed since its existence. stop trading the ratio. start deciding which side of the BitMine bet you're on.
🇩🇪 Google held 34 meetings with top German government officials to discuss suppressing "hate speech" and "disinformation" online.
Most were confidential and some were deemed "not suitable for public knowledge."
The meetings, revealed through a parliamentary question filed by the opposition AfD, included then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who attended 4 personally.
The implications go beyond Germany. Under the EU's Digital Services Act, content removed or algorithmically downranked applies globally, not just within EU borders.
If the secret meetings between a government and Google to shape what people can find online aren't information control, what is?
Source: Daily Sceptic, ZeroHedge / Writer: Julie
Climate alarmists incessantly hype extreme weather
But relative global climate-related disaster costs declined 1990-2025
This decline is not just evident globally but also for rich and poor countries, and for flood, flash flood, coastal flood, cold, drought, wind, and all damage
Why don't we hear this?
“Climate scientists and environmentalists hold out hope that each new hurricane and hailstorm could nudge Americans toward action”.
New York Times, 10 July 2023, https://t.co/EE71SdGgyx
Notice, damage is measured in % GDP, as even the UN insists on measuring it (e.g. SDG 11.5.2, https://t.co/m7aer7F5w3)
This is because the same flood or storm will create much more damage in a much richer world: If there are twice as many houses, a flood will tend to damage twice as many houses
Despite the low losses of 2025, Munich Re announced: “Climate Change Presses On.”
Unrelated, Munich Re expects to report €6.0 billion in profit for 2025 and projects profits of €6.3 billion for 2026.
Update of academic paper: https://t.co/wSisIhU4R0
From the always excellent @RogerPielkeJr, https://t.co/JQwozS7tNF
Relative disaster cost reductions in almost all categories, for both poor and rich countries, https://t.co/lnZcOVESQ6
@vonderleyen History shows this from Thucydides to today: spheres of influence, energy corridors, supply chains, and naval chokepoints are secured by capabilities, not resolutions.
You are an actor.