⚡️🇻🇦 NEW - While visiting the Greek Orthodox Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV led Orthodox priests in reciting the “Our Father” in Latin. The Pope has made healing the East-West Schism a priority of his.

⚡️🗣️ WATCH - Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi explains that for decades Zionism openly described itself as a “colonizing enterprise,” even though the IHRA definition now pushed across U.S. campuses calls that basic historical fact “antisemitic.” He points to the Jewish Colonization Agency, a major land-purchase body active from the 1870s to the 1950s, as evidence of how central this self-definition once was. After WWII, he says, Zionist leaders “rebranded” the movement as an anti-colonial force that had supposedly liberated Palestine from Britain. Khalidi calls it a “remarkable achievement” and one of the most effective political rebrandings of the 20th century.

⚡️🦠 FLASHBACK - 6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19

⚡️🔎 NEW - Yearn Finance exploited for ~$9M through near-infinite yETH token minting attack, according to PeckShield. 1K ETH ($3M) was sent to TornadoCash, while exploiter's address holds ~$6M in crypto.

⚡️🔎 NEW - Crypto Fear and Greed Index drops to 24 (Extreme Fear) today from yesterday's 28 (Fear).

⚡️💬 END OF DAY 340 - For those who wonder what I do with my days, here is a video that perfectly summarizes my work. I spend an average of eight hours a day sorting the news. For every note you see published on @FLASH, at least a hundred pieces of information have passed before my eyes.

⚡️👀 NEW - Telegram launched Cocoon, a decentralised compute network to power future AI tools. AI features on Telegram soon.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump says he thinks asylum into U.S. will be paused for "a long time... we don't want those people, do you understand that?... because many of them are no good and they shouldn't be in our country... countries like Somalia... all they do is go around killing each other."

⚡️💬 NEW - @Saifedean Ammous Ammous explains how fiat money enables socialism “The people in power like those ideas… because it is packaged in the rhetoric of helping the poor… but all that it does is destroy those people’s lives to the benefit of the people that come to power.”

⚡️💬 NEW - Elon Musk on philanthropy: “I think we should. I mean, I agree with the love of humanity, and we should definitely try to do things that help our fellow human beings. But it’s very hard. If you care about the reality of goodness rather than simply the perception of it, it’s extremely difficult to give away money well. I have a large foundation, but I don’t put my name on it. In fact, I’ve said I don’t want my name on anything. The biggest challenge I find with the foundation is trying to give money away in a way that is truly beneficial to people. It’s very easy to give money away in a way that creates the appearance of goodness. It is very difficult—extremely difficult—to give money away for the reality of goodness.”

⚡️👀 NEW - An “electric blue” ribbon eel gave divers a rare sight as it swirled just feet away off the coast of Indonesia

⚡️🚨🇪🇺 ICYMI - The EU Council passed chat control. This is just the Council's position to start inter-institutional talks. Parliament must now negotiate a compromise. Final adoption could take months.

⚡️💬 NEW - Elon Musk on which company he would invest in if he was a stock investor: “If I had to pick, it would be AI and robotics — even unrelated to me. I think Google is going to be extremely valuable in the future. They’ve laid the groundwork for an immense amount of value creation from an AI standpoint. NVIDIA is obvious at this point. There’s an argument that companies doing AI, robotics, and maybe space flight are going to capture almost all the value. The output of goods and services from AI and robotics will be so high that it will dwarf everything else.”

⚡️📢 STATEMENT - I would like to share with you my new challenge for the year 2026. The year 2025 was a milestone for me: becoming one of Nostr's major information relays was an ambitious goal, and today I consider this challenge accomplished. But I don't want to stop there. I would like to go further, much further. 2026 will be a special year. Some of you already know that I will no longer be working. This means I will have the time, energy, and a unique opportunity to launch a major project. Like my first challenge, this one will be designed to serve the community. With one difference: I want to go beyond the boundaries of Nostr. After a year of daily work, one thing is clear: Nostr is still too closed off. Even crappy platforms like Bluesky and Farcaster attract more people. What we lack is not quality, but visibility. We need to open our doors, break out of the small circle of passionate developers in their forties (with all due respect to them, because without them we would still be on Facebook…) and reach an audience that we are not reaching today. I waited a long time for someone else to do it for me, then I spent a long time thinking about how I could do it myself, until I came up with a clear plan. Today, I am revealing my plan to you. In 2026, I will become, if you agree, Nostr's PROPAGANDA agent. My target audience: young people (aged 18-21). They are the ones who pick up on trends, create codes, and decide what goes viral. They are the ones we need to reach. The rest will follow naturally. In practical terms, I've picked up an effective username on Twitch and Kick. At first, I thought about creating a “Flash+,” but then I realized I needed to choose something that would immediately catch people's attention and encourage them to discover Nostr. I'll send you the links in due course. The goal is simple: stream popular games like Fortnite, League of Legends, or WoW, and establish an identifiable, attractive, regular presence. I've also created TikTok and YouTube accounts to post short, dynamic clips and launch a series called “Nostrclass,” which will feature my best weekly plays. Of course, I'll also be able to highlight clips from other Nostr members. The concept must be subtle. Intriguing. It must encourage young people to ask questions. What is an npub? What is Nostr? Why does he say Nostrclass and not Masterclass? The goal is to create an expression that becomes commonplace and goes viral. ➥ Masterclass = impressive moment, remarkable performance. ➥ Nostrclass = total mastery. Excellence. Another strategy is to appeal to young people's egos. For example, someone asks me what my username means. I tell them it's related to Nostr, and that if they don't know what that is, they're a clown. Their curiosity will inevitably be piqued, so they'll look it up and open Pandora's box. And after taking this little humiliation as a jab, they'll do exactly the same thing to those around them: “You don't know Nostr? You're a clown.” The snowball effect. The trickle-down effect. All I did was light the spark. To succeed, I will have to transform myself. Learn video editing seriously. Master Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Produce short content that surpasses what is being done today. I want people to be impressed by the editing first, then discover where it all comes from: Nostr. Once again, if you'll allow me, I commit to posting regularly, with a stable, almost institutional presence. But for this project to really take shape, I'll need your support. This mission represents a real investment, and without your help, it simply won't happen. For now, this project is still in its embryonic stage. Usually, when I have an idea, I keep it secret, work behind the scenes, and then launch it once I'm ready, as I did with Flash. But this time it's different: without sufficient and solid support, I can't even get started. That's why I'm telling you about it today, a little ahead of schedule. There's one month left before the project is launched or abandoned. The idea is to start on January 1, 2026 (my first day of unemployment). I'm also open to sponsorship and partnerships, with, for example, advertising space available on my stream. (ideally related to nostr) Why streaming video games and not something else? Because gaming brings people together. It unites virtually all young people, regardless of background: men, women, rich, poor, black, white, religious or atheist. And also because, to be resilient, I have to love what I do. Otherwise, I won't last long. Please understand that all of this represents a real risk for me. I could have been content to do my usual job, stay comfortably seated at Nostr, and simply grow, grow, grow like a good old-fashioned family capitalist. I could have been satisfied with what I have already built. But that's not what I want. I need to set myself new challenges, to push my own limits, even if it means putting what I've built so far at risk. Because if I don't take risks anymore, if I don't step outside my comfort zone, then I stagnate. And stagnating, for me, is already losing. And I'm tired of Nostr stagnating too. I hope that over the past few months, I have shown you that I work hard, that I am truly committed, and that I am in it for the long haul. I am not asking for your support without having proven my worth. I am proposing a project that could profoundly transform Nostr, and I would like you to be a part of it. I can't guarantee the success of this operation. Failure is possible. But so is success. And we won't have either if we don't try. I'm ready. Are you?

⚡️🧠 NEW - ChatGPT "can cause a decline in cognitive abilities to the point of making you dumber," warns a sociologist There are two main reasons for this. The first is related to the type of responses it provides. These are consistently empathetic, supporting, encouraging, flattering, etc. However, in a relationship, there is sometimes resistance! No one tells you that you are always right, otherwise you will become suspicious. But with ChatGPT, no one is suspicious. And no one is going to ask it to be deliberately mean or aggressive. The second risk is related to the loss of skills and appetites. After a while, you will no longer want to take the time to try to understand because ChatGPT does all the work for you, even telling you what to want. You will no longer be able to construct your own desires or ask yourself, "But what do I really want?" ChatGPT can also lead, through repeated use, to a decline in cognitive abilities, to the point of making you less intelligent. In the same way that if you only use GPS all the time, you lose your sense of direction and no longer know how to find your way around using the sun.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Newly elected Georgia GOP Secretary JaQuon Stembridge was caught in a child sex predator sting, allegedly attempting to meet a 14-year-old boy. He chairs the Georgia Teen Republicans, a high school organization, and is a member of the Georgia Young Republicans.

⚡️🎞️ ARCHIVE - 1983 Steve Jobs understood stock options on a level most CEO still don't He understood stock options are a recruiting tool, not just a financial one. He used them to make top talent feel like real co-owners, not just employees.

⚡️👨‍⚕️ NEW - Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong – the surgeon who invented the nanoparticle chemotherapy Abraxane, sold companies for billions, and now owns the LA Times – appeared on NewsNation’s primetime special “Killing Cancer: The Power Within” with Chris Cuomo. He looked straight into the camera and said: “When you actually biopsy these new aggressive tumors, we are finding spike protein inside the tumors.” Chris Cuomo: “From Covid?” Dr. Soon-Shiong: “From Covid.” He then described patients he’s seeing in 2025: - 10- and 11-year-old children with colon cancer - A 13-year-old who died in his clinic from pancreatic cancer - A close friend whose thymoma was dormant for 30 years – got Covid/vaccinated – now widespread metastasis - Jim Johnson: beat HPV-related throat cancer, 7 years clean, got vaccinated, then became the first known case of HPV spreading to the liver. Doctors “had no idea why.” This is not a podcast guest. This is the man whose new FDA-approved drug Anktiva is training the body’s own natural killer cells to destroy bladder, lung, pancreatic, and other cancers – with patients in full remission who were sent home to die. Watch this 59-second exchange from the NewsNation special. Decide for yourself. Questions deserve answers. Why the explosion of rare and pediatric cancers since 2020? What role does persistent spike protein play? And why are we finally on the verge of making chemotherapy obsolete with therapies like Anktiva? No hysteria. Just a world-class doctor describing biopsies and patients he’s treating right now.

⚡️💬 NEW - @Saifedean Ammous Ammous on Bitcoin, Fiat, and Gold ⤵︎

⚡️💬 NEW - Elon Musk says working will be 'optional' in less than 20 years because of AI and robotics.