⚡️👋 WATCH - This couple goes on a vacation & waves to their cat. On return, they see in the records that the cat waved back. Every creature understands kindness to some degree.

⚡️🚨 ALERT - NEW SOLO BLOCK FOUND!!! A home miner with only ~ 92 TH/s of total hashrate just mined a block for 3.146 BTC totaling $264,558. This time it appears to be someone mining with an Avalon Q.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - A free major update for the game Keep Digging, where you relentlessly dig holes with your friends, is scheduled for release in winter 2025! A new trailer showcasing the update content was revealed at INDIE Live Expo.

⚡️💬 WATCH - Elon Musk: The reason I wanted to create OpenAI was to serve as a counterweight to Google... They had all the AI, essentially." The tension was real: Elon recounts a heated exchange with Larry Page over AI safety, where Page allegedly called him a "specie-ist." Musk's retort: "Larry, what side are you on? We need to make sure that the AI doesn't destroy all the humans." This moment highlights his founding concern that a monopolistic power was not taking existential AI risks seriously.

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - Chinese startup founded by ex-Google engineer claims to have developed its own TPU-like chip for AI. The custom ASIC is reportedly 1.5 times faster than Nvidia's 2020 A100 GPU and 42% more efficient.

⚡️💬 NEW - Tom Lee's updated Bitcoin and Ethereum price predictions for Q1 2026:

⚡️🇯🇵 NEW - Japan unveils human washing machine, allowing you to be washed like laundry in 15 minutes. A "human washing machine" is all the rage in Japan. Users lie down in a capsule and are washed like laundry, but without the spin cycle and accompanied by relaxing music. The machine cleanses both body and soul, according to the Japanese company Science, which manufactures it.

⚡️🇯🇵 NEW - Incredible view of lightning from the ISS filmed by Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui.

⚡️💻 NEW - Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French influencer Alex Hitchens has been BANNED from TikTok after simply stating that he does not like the French government. "I love France, what I don't like is its government." This is the exact phrase that got him banned.

⚡️🇵🇸 FYI - Today is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. November 29 has been the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People since 1978, based on the appeal launched by the United Nations General Assembly.

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Russian Gambling Streamer Subo Pays MMA Fighter $30K to Show Up... Gets SMASHED for Ragebaiting Subo (aka Subhan Mamedov), the controversial Azerbaijani streamer exiled from Russia for scams and tax dodging, shells out $30,000 for Shovkhal Churchaev to appear on a Dubai gambling stream. Everything's chill... until Subo starts his classic troll game. He mocks Churchaev HARD: "Bro BEGGED Dana White on his KNEES for a UFC contract! 😂" Fighter snaps—slaps, knees, punches fly. Drags Subo off chair, grounds him like a wrestling clinic, then forces an on-camera APOLOGY while he’s on the floor crying.

⚡️💬 WATCH - Russell Brand just delivered one of the most chilling wake-up calls of 2025: “We still picture tyranny with moustaches, shiny jackboots, red-black flags and Nuremberg parades. But the new totalitarianism doesn’t goose-step. It arrives like gentle fog slipping under your door wearing a caring smile that whispers ‘We’re only here to help.’” Speaking as a man 15+ years sober, he says recovery taught him the deepest addiction isn’t drugs, alcohol or porn — it’s codependency. And the modern State — that unholy nexus of global bureaucracies, national governments and corporate giants — has mastered making entire populations codependent on IT instead of God, community or themselves. “They became wizards at centralizing information… Then YOU — yes, you reading this right now — helped crack their monopoly. Now watch them frantically rebuild the cage: smearing, de-platforming, ‘fact-checking’ into oblivion anyone who speaks unapproved truth.” His ice-cold conclusion: Once you realize their only goal is Control (because control = profit + power + the right to rewrite reality), suddenly everything clicks into place. Even rage and confirmation bias cut both ways, he admits. But when one side owns the referees, the stadium, the rulebook AND the cameras… is it still a fair fight? Love him or hate him, this 2-minute monologue is pure dynamite.

⚡️💬 WATCH - “Telegram is a money-losing operation for me personally,” says app founder Pavel Durov. “I’ve been able to fund my lifestyle from my #Bitcoin investment…I bought in 2013…I won’t sell…and I believe it will come to a point when Bitcoin is worth $1,000,000.”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Online US Black Friday sales reached a record $11.8 billion, up 9.1% from last year.

⚡️🎮 NEW - Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds! Linux won!

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - 90-year-old man driving a Volvo on Thanksgiving slams into a coffee shop in the Bay Area going ~90mph and survives. According to police, alcohol may have played a role in the crash, however the investigation is ongoing.

⚡️⛺️🇧🇬 NEW - Missing for 17 years and declared DEAD, he was living a solitary life in the mountains! The man was found in perfect health in a restricted area of Pirin National Park in Bulgaria, where he had been living cut off from all contact with the outside world. The tent was discovered by forest rangers on patrol. Once his papers are up to date, the camper will face a fine of up to €2,500 for illegal camping!

⚡️💬 WATCH - Sam Altman says OpenAI is making a “very aggressive infrastructure bet,” with new partnerships coming across energy, chips, and distribution. “If we’re right about where model capability is going, the economic value can go very, very far.”

⚡️🇯🇵 NEW - Japan has just DENIED the construction of Muslim cemeteries in the country: “The Muslim request for cemeteries is denied. In Japan, cremation is the tradition. The appropriate approach for Muslims is to return the remains to their own countries and bury them there!" What will native Japanese Muslims do?