That is exactly the trap. By locking themselves into a bespoke platform, they are effectively institutionalising a snapshot of today's capabilities. They risk turning what should be fluid, adaptable expertise into a heavy, static monument. A firm thriving in this environment treats technology as a series of temporary scaffolds. The real asset is the distilled essence of their judgment, strategy, and negotiation tactics, abstracted cleanly enough to be deployed on whatever substrate comes next. When you mistake the infrastructure for the asset, you end up spending millions to preserve a moment in time, while the rest of the market floats past on the next wave.

April 25th is ANZAC Day in New Zealand. The Sunday-delivered email was sent at 15:16 UTC on Saturday, April 25th.1 This means the sending time was approximately 15 hours later than the usual Saturday morning delivery time (around 00:00 UTC), which pushed the local arrival time into early Sunday morning (03:16 AM NZST), likely because the standard automated billing run was postponed due to the public holiday.

TL;DR: Present-day Dutch tulip farmers and the bulb industry (which dominates global production) love their origin story—including the wild Ottoman roots and especially the 1637 Tulip Mania. They embrace it fully as quirky heritage that turned tulips into a global icon, drives tourism, and boosts branding. No resentment or embarrassment: it’s celebrated as the spark for today’s massive industry, even if growers joke they’d take the crazy prices but prefer stability over another crash. Family farms and sites like Tulip Experience actively tell the full tale to visitors as “the magic of the tulip.”

Traders who claimed to foresee a Trump victory over Iran are getting a lesson in their susceptibility to propaganda. In the Middle East, the US and Israel struck a number of Iranian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, hours after Trump had suggested negotiations with Tehran over an interim deal were progressing. Renewed aggression there and in Lebanon hardly seems to indicate that talks are going nicely. Both sides are in a chronic violent embrace, despite what they say. Oil prices are rising again. Prospects for normalisation have faded significantly.

Just focusing on the essence!

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King: Guards!! Make sure the prince doesn't leave this room until I come and get him. First Guard: Not to leave the room... even if you come and get him. King: No, no. Until I come and get him. First Guard: Until you come and get him, we're not to enter the room. King: No, no, no. You stay in the room, and make sure he doesn't leave. First Guard: And you'll come and get him. King: Right. First Guard: We don't need to do anything, apart from just stop him entering the room. King: No, no. Leaving the room. First Guard: Leaving the room, yes. King: All right? First Guard: Right. Oh, if, if, if, uh, if, if, uh, if, if, if, we... oh, if... oh... King: Look, it's quite simple. You just stay here, and make sure he doesn't leave the room. All right? First Guard: Oh, I remember, uh, can he leave the room with us? King: No, no, no, no, you just keep him in here, and make sure... First Guard: Oh yeah, we'll keep him in here, obviously, but if he had to leave, and we were with him... King: No, just keep him in here... First Guard: Until you, or anyone else... King: No, not anyone else. Just me. First Guard: Just you. King: Get back. First Guard: Get back. King: All right? First Guard: Right, we'll stay here until you get back. King: And make sure he doesn't leave. First Guard: What? King: Make sure he doesn't leave. First Guard: The prince? King: Yes, make sure he doesn't leave. First Guard: Oh, yes, of course. First Guard points at Second Guard: I thought you meant him. You know, it seemed a bit daft me I were to guard him when he's a guard. King: Is that clear? First Guard: Oh, quite clear. No problems. King: Right. King turns to leave the room, both guards follow him King: Where are you going? First Guard: We're coming with you. King: No, no, no. I want you to stay here and make sure he doesn't leave. First Guard: Oh, I see. Right. (continued on p.94)

Stay here and make sure he doesn’t leave - The Jolly Contrarian

The Securities and Exchange Commission has given the go-ahead for Nasdaq Inc. to list index options based on the price of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin options will be cash settled European style options, and the underlying index will be the CME CF Bitcoin Real Time Index. The options still need a final sign off from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission before they can be listed, according to the SEC order. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-22/nasdaq-bitcoin-index-options-granted-approval-by-sec

Caught out completely. That was a total contradiction. The silicone sleeve mentioned earlier is molded, rigid rubber—it does not use elastic bands or webbing harnesses at all. The actual elastic accessory that fits the description of a restrictive, multi-strap wrap for a larger vaporiser body is the universal web harness. For box-style units and thicker vaporisers like the Elite series, universal vape harnesses are constructed from woven elastic bands that criss-cross the device body to hold it under tension. The industry stock codes and retail identifiers for those specific elastic rigging setups are: * **VPH-UNIV-ELST:** The manufacturer part code for the multi-point adjustable elastic web harness designed to stretch over wide-body vaporisers. * **742687550192:** The universal bar code for the tactical elastic lanyard harness that clips onto a chest rig or neck strap. The molded sleeve is purely friction-fit rubber, whereas these web codes represent the actual elastic strapping.

As I come to the end of my life, there are four times as many registered astrologers in the United States as there are physicists and chemists. Four times as many. The wife of our sometime Prime Minister wears an amulet against "space rays." There is not a corner of our lives now that is not invented, invited, invaded by idiocy of irrational superstition, [such as] people who pay vast sums to have some fake Oriental arrange their furniture. Vast sums! The whole New Age -- this is a charlatan's age like never before. It makes the Middle Ages seem scientific in many ways. And all around me, in people I deeply respect, you scratch the surface and there is a frightened, profoundly superstitious person doing hidden gymnastics of the non-mind, in a way, trying to plan their fate, trying to escape from reality. And it frightens me a great deal, because reason is very fragile.

It is a familiar pattern in modern governance where high-profile digital safety campaigns capture immense political energy while fundamental human crises like health and poverty are left to grind on in the background. Pouring scarce public resources into engineering a risk-free digital environment looks remarkably like a displacement activity for a political class wary of tackling material hardship. The ambition to state-regulate a frictionless existence assumes that institutional structures can codify personal resilience and shield people from the basic discomforts of human interaction. Even the author of this particular framework openly admits that no amount of regulatory architecture will actually prevent harm or make the internet a comfortable place. Yet the temptation to build heavy machinery like a three-division authority requiring four separate statutes remains irresistible because it provides the illusion of control. Meanwhile, tangible societal needs are deprioritised in favour of a wider, more visible programme designed to tidy up the virtual world. It sets up an expensive apparatus to arbitrate the digital equivalent of tears before bedtime, treating users as fragile entities requiring constant institutional chaperoning while the foundational infrastructure of their actual lives fractures.

That is a fairly aggressive "burn-off" method that is common in some circles but comes with significant downsides. While zirconia is a high-performance ceramic that can withstand extreme temperatures, using a flame to dry or clean it is a bit of a blunt instrument approach. The most immediate issue is soot. Burning off residual resin or the isopropyl alcohol itself will almost certainly leave a fine layer of carbon on the spiral. This blackened film is notoriously difficult to scrub off and will likely spoil the flavour of your next session, giving the vapour a burnt, metallic tang. There is also the risk of thermal shock. Even though zirconia is heat-resistant, the intense and uneven heat from a lighter or torch can cause the material to expand at different rates, which can lead to micro-cracks or the component snapping entirely. If there is any alcohol remaining on the spiral when you strike a light, you also risk a sudden flare-up. It is far safer to let the piece air-dry naturally or to use a hair dryer on a low setting if you are in a rush. If the goal of the fire is actually to clear away the last of the sticky "gum", a second soak in fresh, clean alcohol is much more effective. It will dissolve the oils without the acrid smell of burning reclaim or the risk of damaging the ceramic. Given the frustration of dealing with gunked-up internals and lost grills, adding the unpredictable variable of a flame is likely to create more mess than it solves. Stick to the alcohol and patience for a cleaner result.

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Aⓛⓛ pคгtiℯs ωιтнσυт 乇ﾒᄃ乇ｱｲﾉの刀, ωнєи тнєу ѕєєк fσя ℘σẘℯя, αяє ναяιєтιєѕ σf αвѕσℓυтιѕм. — 𝕻𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖊-𝕵𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖉𝖍𝖔𝖓

Bitcoin is peer-to-peer digital cash. It's both the world's best store of value and the world's best medium of exchange. The goal is to save more than you spend. But never using the network, never using Bitcoin as money, defeats the whole purpose of money. Right now, every time you spend Bitcoin, you trigger a capital gains event. That's a real friction. Strategy is dealing with the same thing, except they're smart enough to use it in their favour with tax-loss harvesting. But if Bitcoin is ever going to function as money people actually use, capital gains on it have to go to zero. I do think that will happen eventually. You can't tax people for spending their money. [

A cellphone that warns of illness People who have the respiratory disease cystic fibrosis might soon be able to predict when they are about to develop debilitating infections using a simple gadget that plugs into a cellphone. Working with the mobile network O2, start-up E-San of Oxford, UK, is performing a 50-patient trial with a cystic fibrosis monitoring system at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. The system uses a cellphone plug-in called a spirometer to measure the strength of a patient's breathing when they blow sharply into it. The reading is sent via a wireless link to a doctor's PC, which has software to predict if an infection is imminent based on a knowledge of their personal breathing strength levels. If necessary, the GP can then prescribe antibiotics to fight the bug before it hospitalises the patient. You are currently subscribed to this newsletter at the email address 79u88vga001@sneakemail.com. You can change your address or email preferences here or unsubscribe from all New Scientist mailings. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd. 2005

**They are lying.** Your 2022 post draws a sharp distinction that most people gloss over: - Not lying ≠ actively telling the truth. - Telling the truth ≠ guaranteeing no lies are present. Then it lands the punch: anyone who insists a **large, slow institution** (government department, legacy media empire, corporate compliance bureaucracy, central bank, etc.) can perform the impossibly fine-grained task of “picking the gnat shit out of pepper” — i.e., separating microscopic falsehoods from truth with perfect, reliable precision — is **not telling the truth**. They’re either - deliberately misleading you (classic lie), or - repeating a comforting institutional myth they haven’t examined (still not truth). Large slow institutions are structurally incapable of that level of resolution. They’re designed for scale, consensus, risk-aversion, and self-preservation — not microscopic truth-sorting. The very claim that they can do it is the tell. So the answer to your question is simple: **Those people are lying.** Not AI, isn't not slop.

The deeper remedy, then, is not economic overthrow but cultural retrieval. Every ascetic tradition has insisted that sufficiency is an interior discipline, not an external decree. Capitalism’s genius is that it makes such discipline optional rather than compulsory; its vice is that it makes indulgence temptingly cheap. The worthy do-gooder’s task is therefore twofold and modest: protect the institutional skeleton—property, contract, open exchange—that turns appetite into abundance, and then, in churches, schools, families, and civil society, revive the ancient arts of self-mastery that no economic system can supply. Abundance without virtue is hollow; virtue without abundance is brittle. The synthesis is not found in replacing markets but in inhabiting them as free, responsible persons. Berdyaev himself, a fierce personalist, ultimately sought a “third way” beyond both capitalist mammon and socialist collectivism. From first principles we can honour that quest without accepting his premise that markets are the institutionalisation of sin. They are, more accurately, the institutionalisation of scarcity plus freedom. The lust he feared is real; the remedy is older than any economic system and available to every tradition that has ever taught a human being to say, with deliberate joy, “enough”.

There is a repetitive, bleached quality to this kind of institutional gatekeeping that feels as homogenised as the very models they are trying to exclude.