⚡🇩🇪 NEW - Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: It is an illusion to believe that trade automatically prevents war. Capitalism has expanded historically through wars. Sometimes wars happen precisely because someone wants oil.

⚡🇩🇪 NEW - Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: The entire dilemma in Iran came about because the British and the American governments overthrew the democratic government of Iran and replaced it with the dictator, the Shah, who was later overthrown in turn by today’s rulers, who then established a brutal dictatorship — unlike what many people had hoped for at the time. Had it not been for the overthrow of Iran’s democratic government at the beginning, carried out for oil interests, Iran would today be a very successful Western country

⚡🖥️ ARCHIVE - For some, this means nothing. For others, a lot. The whirring of the hard drive, the simple "beep" - two sounds forever etched into my brain; 12 seconds of time travel.

⚡🇨🇳 WATCH - A camera trap captured a family of Pallas’s cats (manuls) in the steppes of China’s Qinghai Province These cats are extremely cautious and secretive, which is why getting footage this close is exceptionally rare.

⚡️🇦🇺 NEW - Police in Australia ATTACKS protesters and praying muslims. Police assaults protesters in Australia who were protesting against Israeli president Herzog’s visit and Israel’s warcrimes against the Palestinians. Footage shows police assaulting a man with his hands raised, using force against protesters including women, and brutally attacking Muslims while they were praying.

⚡🏈🇺🇸 NEW - Microsoft just paid ~$8 Million for a Super Bowl commercial to show off that Excel now has AI powered by Copilot

⚡🏈🇺🇸 NEW - The boos and disappointment when the crowd realized it was Coinbase behind this Super Bowl ad were not accidental. They were the direct result of five years spent promoting worthless altcoins, NFTs, and memecoins...

⚡💬 NEW - There’s only one conspiracy theory left for me to validate: the one claiming you can make a living from Nostr. For now… unverified.

⚡🤖🇺🇸 NEW - Cardi B gets knocked over after trying to pose with a robot and the machine suddenly tips onto her. Ridiculous...

⚡👀 WATCH - Man spends over 3 years doodling on every surface in his house. Sam Cox (Mr Doodle) actually had a pretty rough time mentally during/after the project—ended up with a psychotic episode, hospital stay, schizophrenia diagnosis, meds until early 2024. The house basically pushed him to the edge, blurring where "art" ended and reality began. He bounced back though—still active, did Red Nose Day designs this year, even planning (or trying to plan) a new doodle-covered seaside place in Dungeness that locals are fighting.

⚡️🚨 ALERT - Epstein files contain codeword for human meat

⚡️🚀 NEW - Elon Musk Says Moon City Comes First, Mars Can Wait SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months, whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days. This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city … but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

⚡️👀 NEW - This girl is going absolutely viral for calling a bunch of blacks the n word on the subway and then stepping out of the door right before they could catch her

⚡️🇹🇷 CUTE - In Turkey, lambs surrounded the kid and were playing with him. The kid said, "lambs are eating me."

⚡️💬 ARCHIVE - John McAfee: "What is propaganda? Propaganda is installing into the mind of the populace ideas, images and concepts which assist the state." "How's it done? Well by couching it in terminology and images which you're unwilling or unable to analyze but which sound believable." "There's only two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe propaganda—they're sheep. And those who think for themselves. And if those people have a heart at all, you then must become the shepherds and save these sheep from themselves and from wolves."

⚡️🇻🇪 NEW - Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado says her close ally Juan Pablo Guanipa was kidnapped in Caracas just hours after being freed from prison. Machado says heavily armed men in civilian clothes seized him around midnight.

⚡️🎥 ARCHIVE - John McAfee: "The government computer system was under my control. I found out that the Minister of National Defence was the largest drug trafficker in Central America, and Minister of Immigration the largest human trafficker”

⚡️💬 GM - Have a good week, and good luck to those who are working — and to those who, like me… simply, good luck.

⚡️🎬🍿 NEW - The first trailer for David Fincher’s ‘THE ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH’ has been released. Coming soon to Netflix.

⚡️🚨🔎 NEW - When the DOJ released the Epstein files, no one expected to see Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies mentioned. And yet, between the lines, repeated references to projects, protocols, and key players in the ecosystem paint a picture of Jeffrey Epstein's early, discreet, and methodical involvement in crypto, long before it exploded in the media. The documents reveal that Jeffrey Epstein was one of Coinbase's earliest investors. According to several email exchanges, he reportedly injected $3 million in 2014, at a time when the company was valued at around $400 million. Co-founder Fred Ehrsam was personally informed of this investment. In 2018, Epstein reportedly sold about half of his stake to the Blockchain Capital fund. Today, Coinbase has a valuation of nearly $44 billion. The files also show repeated exchanges between Epstein and Brock Pierce, co-founder of Tether. The discussions cover both cryptocurrency and much more sensitive topics, with all of this correspondence taking place after Epstein's conviction in 2008. Epstein also appears as an investor in Blockstream, the company founded by Adam Back, a historic figure in the cypherpunk movement. In 2014, Epstein exchanged messages with Peter Thiel about Bitcoin's narrative and ideological positioning, at a time when Bitcoin was trading at around $691. The documents also contain particularly harsh private comments about Michael Saylor, whom Epstein describes as a "creep" with "no personality, kind of like a zombie on drugs." Saylor nevertheless reportedly paid $25,000 for a spring gala mentioned in the exchanges. Finally, the name of Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, does appear in the files, but no direct link or correspondence has been established.