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Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-…

Moltbook was peak AI theater
The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

Moltbook was peak AI theater
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/

Moltbook was peak AI theater
The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

Nuclear CONFRONTATION reaches its PEAK! ☢️ New START treaty expires TODAY #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/nuclear-confrontation-reaches-its-peak.html

Peak Podcast With Ben Sanford
Diving into the journeys and mindsets of those who have achieved incredible things in their respective fields...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/peak-podcast/

Math people: If I have a bunch of sampled data that I've found a local maximum on, and I want to interpolate the peak location to sub-sample precision, what's a good way to do that?
I know how to interpolate a zero crossing linearly but this is a bit more complex, I feel like I'll probably want to fit a sinc or gaussian or something to the data somehow?

Guardian repeats story that Venezuela's oil production low due to corruption and lack of investment.
Actually, the Maracaibo basin is beyond peak extraction so costs rising. And Orinoco oil is heavy, tarry, and hard to get (deep under the rainforest).
Of course the blockade is also part of the reason, and maybe flight of technical staff.
Oil prices fall after Trump says Venezuela will send up to 50m barrels to US | Oil | The Guardian

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Tutara Peak:
🎵 elisana's lullaby
#TutaraPeak
https://tutarapeak.bandcamp.com/track/elisanas-lullaby

Peak UI, btw: Windows 7.
@… https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122

"India may need 230 GWh of energy storage by 2030 as peak demand rises"
#India #Energy #Renewables

India may need 230 GWh of energy storage by 2030 as peak demand rises
India could require nearly 230 GWh of energy storage capacity by 2030 as peak power demand approaches 300 GW and electricity consumption grows at 6% to 7% annually, according to a former government official.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

The "#Mastodon #Peak #Loop" delivers
desert scrubland, summit views stretching to the Salton Sea, and mine ruins perched on a ridgeline
-- across a short 2.6-mile trail in Joshua Tree's southern region
Age is …

Mastodon Peak, Joshua Tree CA
Search Trailspotting

Home batteries are quietly becoming a game-changer for grid stability. As installations surge, utilities are tapping residential storage to manage peak demand during extreme weather—deferring costly upgrades while boosting resilience.
The key to scaling? Treat it like market development, not just tech deployment. Simple enrollment, risk-sharing models, and coordinated action between utilities and manufacturers can unlock massive participation.

Programmatic alignment is key to scaling residential battery demand response
Utilities, battery manufacturers, technology providers and customers all operate under different incentive structures, writes Uplight’s Sneha Vasudevan.

Have we Reached Peak Fossil Fuels? Wind & Solar met all New Energy Demand in Q1-Q3 '25
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/reached-fossil-energy.html

I’m sorry but Horse_ebooks is peak @… https://mastodon.social/@Horse_ebooks/100563207846419230

Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Fleet of UPS planes grounded after deadly crash expected to miss peak delivery season
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fleet-ups-planes-grounded-deadly-crash-expected-miss-peak-delivery-sea-rcna246296
With 9% of it's planes out if service UPS has a major problem to solve in the busiest time of the year...

"Retrocomputing emerges not only as a fun, recreational activity, but also as one with widely applicable skills, particularly for those working in sustainable computing, and those spreading its use in regions of the world where it has not yet reached peak maturity, and where refurbishing old hardware is an effective way to raise standards of living through computer tech. In this age of rising temperatures and rising oceans, reusing old computers is a very valuable skill."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

Interesting article on fertility in Ireland
https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2026/01/29/the-economic-forces-behind-older-motherhood-and-what-makes-ireland-different/
Since I have the data to h…

Peak time for crampon walkers, splinte appliers, and panel beaters.

Kyle Hamilton: Ravens-Steelers rivalry 'the purest form of football that you'll get' https://www.nfl.com/news/kyle-hamilton-ravens-steelers-rivalry-the-purest-form-of-football-that-you-ll-get

@… Wow, these Covid stats for Orkney are not looking good 😬
Is it the cruise ships?

Spectral peak picking improves tactile speech perception https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28930-6 "The algorithm is suitable for real-time use in wearable sensory substitution devices and could aid the development of effective haptic hearing aids."

While I'm settling now at home and think about having a walk in the dark to prevent just falling asleep right now - I enjoy the memories from a recent hike.
As you can see at the frosty cross, it was a bit chill. -- Actually .. I'm quite undecicive whether I like summer or winter more? Summer is green and all, but in winter I like the chill and the cold ...
Maybe I don't have to prefer a season? Yes, I guess I just call myself lucky that I can enjoy every season.

That's a peak 2025 product

Finally, a more modest increase in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the December average was 427.5 ppm, that's 2.1 ppm more than last year
#emissions #co2 #climatechange…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#CarolsAcrossTheCountryASeasonalJourney
- Live from the Peak District in Staffordshire
Mark Forrest starts the day at Peak Wildlife Park in Staffordshire. With live music, sounds of the natural world and the voices of people bringing the area's rich history to life.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mk1k

A dishwasher that can switch to off-peak times? These French companies have created a dishwasher that can be linked to the French smart meter to receive the off-peak price signal. It's a good move (but it's not Europe's first, as they claim).
https://symphonics.fr/symphonics-et-ar

Partenariat Symphonics et Arthur Martin : Optimisation énergétique
Découvrez la synergie entre Symphonics et Arthur Martin pour développer des solutions innovantes de pilotage de la consommation énergétique.

Last evening of Christmas vacation before getting back to work for the new year.
Aiming to make it a good one. Working on GPU acceleration of the TIE filter and maybe the histogram block so I can do jitter analysis faster.
The peak at T=0 in the jitter histogram is related to use of the GPU CDR block and doesn't show up in the CPU implementation. It's likely caused by transients of some sort at thread block boundaries and I need to spend more time chasing it, I wouldn'…

First attempt to super charge with Nissan leaf starting at 64%. 32 degrees out. Forgot to turn battery heater on and only charged at 22kw. Ouch. Turned heater on and after 30 minutes seemed to peak at 28kw.
The leaf is supposed to be able to hit 150kw. But no luck this time.
#ev #cars

Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

While the pictures of Trump flanked by underage girls are hard to look at,
it’s disturbing in another way to see how women who want to earn power from him feel they must look now.
In 2025,
💥“Mar-a-Lago face”
entered the lexicon,
a term used to describe the combination of plastered-on makeup and aggressive plastic surgery
that makes women look like inflatable sex dolls,
as Trump’s apparent sexual tastes have morphed MAGA aesthetics into something inh…

The right hit peak incel in 2025
From Mar-a-Lago face to Elon Musk, MAGA's sexual dysfunction exposed itself

Veteran Becomes First Double-Amputee to Climb Highest Peak on Every Continent: Conquering the 7 Summits https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/veteran-is-first-double-amputee-to-climb-highest-peak-on-every-continent…

Veteran Becomes First Double-Amputee to Climb Highest Peak on Every Continent: Conquering a 7-Summit Challenge
A veteran who lost both his legs became the first double amputee to reach the summit of the highest peaks on every continent in the world.

🍗 Is gen Z’s love of fried chicken pushing Britain to ‘peak pizza’?
... as a🦊I approve!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/is-gen-zs-love-of-fried-chicken-pushing-britain-to-peak-pizza

Is gen Z’s love of fried chicken pushing Britain to ‘peak pizza’?
Competition intensifies as former chief of Domino’s says days of ‘massive growth’ are over

Bitcoin fell below $70,000, its lowest level since President Trump's election in November 2024 and down 44% from its October 2025 peak, as global markets fall (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

NBCU says some brands are paying a record $10M for 30-second Super Bowl ad slots this year, with advertisers paying an average of $8M, matching 2025's peak (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/44e59e86-cd65-447f-86b9-93d564276d4c

🔥PEAK TENSION EARLY 2026🔥 Ukraine strikes deep into Russian rear, Abu Dhabi talks at risk?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/peak-tension-early-ukraine-strikes.html

Well. This is an interesting paper about "supraglacial lakes" in Dronning Maud Land Vestfjella, but not the lakes you're thinking of. . "Lake" Suvivesi they talk about is our water source here at Wasa station.
Here's a photo of it yesterday (peak melt season)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/physics-and-geochemistry-of-lakes-in-vestfjella-dronning-maud-land/1CA27CBAD2EEA910EA325481577D4ABA

phil lesh, brent mydland, & jerry garcia pitch the grateful dead’s new year’s ’85-’86 simulcast on the USA network, 40 years ago tonight, with a sneak peak of the in-progress “so far” video. (only the 2nd set airs.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVmZBBTHi6k [1/8]

watching bf play Elden Ring, it strikes me that we're close to peak graphics. the realism dial can still be turned up a bit, but games are generally better when they're a step away from reality.
what's missing though is physicality. when characters swing weapons at enemies, it's clearly just sprites doing canned animation, and there's no actual contact happening.
a couple decades from now, perhaps average 3d games will have processing budget for procedural ani…

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Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV
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Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV…
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Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV
Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: November 30, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: June 30, 2026 Around the late 1990s/early 2000s …

An open admirer of Adolf Hitler,
#Nick #Fuentes preaches to his 1.2 million X followers that the MAGA movement’s biggest problem is that it’s not racist enough.
Since the death of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA,
Fuentes has been attempting to take his place as a major MAGA leader.
F…

The right hit peak incel in 2025
From Mar-a-Lago face to Elon Musk, MAGA's sexual dysfunction exposed itself

🤩 the beats and scratching in this live version 🤩
I still think this is their peak period and that Extricate is one of the most under-appreciated Fall albums. 
#music #PostPunk #Fall

Peak Karlsruhe: wenn Dir auf dem Uni-Campus ein Typ auf einem Einrad entgegen kommt. In Dunkeln. Im Regen. Mit Helm und Stirnlampe.

Kunst, die man wollen muss und Peak Weirdness - aber ich finds toll. Noch komplett unter dem Radar, wenn man die Aufrufe anschaut.
#Piya

Today was peak cyberpunk - the good one: with raves, a whole lotta punk, and cyber, with a myriad of colorful creatures dancing in the lights, lasers and fog against technocracy, fascism and all the dystopia that is there rest of the year around us. But tonight we all were the future from long ago, tonight we were #39c3

From 8 years ago.
The limits of the best of the reformist approaches, exhausted capitalism and ecosystem crisis, societal collapse and a localist, ecosocialist resurgence. England's northern postindustrial towns as the backdrop.
After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version | Uncommontater

After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version
Here is the revised version of my working paper, “After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge”.  I’m grateful to those who have offered encouragement and constructively critic…

"IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned - Carbon Brief
The world’s fossil-fuel use is still on track to peak before 2030, despite a surge...

Looking forward to #FOSDEM this weekend but I doubt it will be a recurring event for me, with it being in peak flu and COVID season. :blobcateyes: May my stack of FFP2 masks protect me well.

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns #Alps

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns
Glaciers are melting worldwide. In some regions, they could even disappear completely. Looking at the number of glaciers disappearing, the Alps could reach their peak loss rate as early as 2033 to 2041. Depending on how sharply the planet warms, this period may mark a time when more glaciers vanish than ever before. Worldwide, the peak glacier loss rate will occur about ten years later and could rise from 2,000 to 4,000 glaciers lost each year.

So according to initial measurements, this month so far I've generated... five percent of my total house/lab energy demand (I'm 100% electric, no gas) from solar lol.
That's honestly not half bad considering it's winter with the sun low in the sky the few hours it's up at all, and we've had pretty much 100% cloud cover. I actually got up to 47% of my instantaneous usage from the array at peak.
Far from grid independent but it's a step in the right dire…

I tried the Peak Design Form Rope (neck length) and Cuff Rope over the weekend. They’re nice, and both are comfy! However, I think the Slide Lite and original Cuff are the better, more functional products. #photography

bots have finally knocked a grebedoc runner offline (one bar per 10s, so this was 71 uncached req/s at its peak)

(€) Nahe #Ellen plant die Enverio GmbH einen neuen #Solarpark auf einer rekultivierten #Deponiefläche.
Die Anlage mit rund 5800 Modulen und über 3600 Kilowatt-Peak soll künftig Strom fü…

TFW a volcano on your island erupts but you're stuck at 4,200m (13,800 ft) on another volcano full of space nerds. :(

#Mercedes unveiled U.S. pricing/range for its 2026 #allelectric #CLA 250
Price: $47,250 RWD, $49,800 AWD
Range: 374mi RWD, 312mi AWD
Battery: 85 kWh, Charge: 320 kW peak (100mi/5min, 2…

The peak of web design. From that point on, everything has gone downhill.
https://skavenger.byethost8.com/homerswebpage/?i=2

Hey, at least we’ll still have billionaires. https://aus.social/@jhaue/115725409869759980

Once i hit peak motion imma move to the bottom of SNOLAB

Different Corners ▶️
不同的角落 ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Pretty useful summary of European train delays in 2025. Grim reading for German trains, but chuu chuu looks like useful for finding more reliable routes https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

The #roundhouse, now, at last, with electric lights (from its own solar panels).

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down
The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative projects in 2024, but will now close.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmbientFocus
claire rousay:
🎵 peak chroma
#clairerousay
https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/track/peak-chroma-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gilVyIpVQJ8FnF0kPBN7B

A data visualization collection of train delays and punctuality in 2025. Why is Germany so incredibly bad at this? Like, more delays than all other European countries combined?
https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

chuuchuu - find reliable train journeys
Explore the 2025 rankings of European train punctuality by country. See which countries performed best, discover peak chaos hours, and find out which trains and stations had the most delays.

Report suggests datacentre firms embrace flexible connection agreements, allowing grid operators to temporarily curtail their loads during peak demand or emergencies.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/datacentres-hoarding-power-capacity-ai-demand

Datacentres accused of hoarding power capacity as AI demand surges
Report suggests datacentre firms embrace flexible connection agreements, allowing grid operators to temporarily curtail their loads during peak demand or emergencies.

A Golden Morning At Piz Beverin.
(Luckily, the dense fog was just starting to lift when we arrived, revealing the silent spectacle beyond and the majestic peak...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV
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Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV…
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Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV
Extended Call for Papers: Religion and Peak TV Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: November 30, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: June 30, 2026 Around the late 1990s/early 2000s …

Hmm, I can imagine a few extra non-technical issues with this scheme for the next 3 years or so...
#EU

On A Wind, Solar EU-US Transatlantic Interconnector (2017)
10%+ of European peak generation capacity interconnect with the US? Smooth demand, share PV, and catch Atlantic weather fronts! #INTUS #superGrid

Have We Reached Peak Legacy Sequel? by Patrick (H) Willems
#movies

Kunst, die man wollen muss und Peak Weirdness - aber ich finds toll. Noch komplett unter dem Radar, wenn man die Aufrufe anschaut.
#Piya

An NFL player breaks down his goal sheet for the 2025 season, plus this week's best Peak nuggets https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6974400/2026/01/15/alec-ingold-nfl-dolphins-goals-2025/

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

S-cones (which respond to short wavelengths) are very few in the fovea center
so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot
(Williams et al., 1981)
but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the population
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11515/

S-Cone Pathways by Helga Kolb
There are differences in the genetic structure and locus of the S-cone visual pigment compared with the L- and M-cone pigments (Nathans et al., 1986), yet the S-cones are common to all vertebrate retinas and always form a consistent 8-10% of the cone photoreceptor population (Marc, 1982; Kolb and Lipetz, 1991).The S-cones are however, very few in the fovea center so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot (Williams et al., 1981) but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the popu…

Memeorandum data: WaPo's presence on the news aggregator plunged since a peak in Trump's first term, while the NYT recovered from a drop to grow in his second (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-sad-and-self-inflicted-decline

The sad and self-inflicted decline of the Washington Post, in one chart
Under Jeff Bezos, the paper retreated from the adversarial, anti-Trump posture that helped fuel its growth. And now its influence has fallen sharply.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Natasha Kmeto:
🎵 Peak
#NatashaKmeto
https://natashakmeto.bandcamp.com/track/peak
https://open.spotify.com/track/5eG0ePnYMcm9TocM4UPZx5

Solar install done! 41x 440W (peak) panels, commissioned a whopping nine hours before midnight when the tax credits expire lol. The installer definitely cut things close.
I wonder how much juice I'll get out of it this time of year. 100W total? Lol.
We won't find out how well it's really performing until the summer.

Measuring the consequences of plastic contamination #environment

Measuring the consequences of plastic contamination
Plastic pollution is everywhere—including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, scientists are working to measure the consequences of this contamination. There's the pollution you can see—on the beach, on the roadside and in open-air landfills. And then there's the pollution you can't—on the peak of Mount Everest, deep inside the Mariana Trench, in clouds, in buildings, and in our water supply, food, blood and brain.

🥵 Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-efficient.html

Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the largest share of data center energy use, cooling systems come in second—but a new study by researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known as NREL, offers a potential solution to reduce peak energy consumption.

'Dinge die mit "R" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag 'Things starting with "R" or look like one...'
To me, this is the #Rofan mountain range in #tyrol

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The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…

Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.

Early morning view from the supermarket carpark...
(Imst, October 2025)
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Mountains

"Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows"
#HeatPumps #Energy

Scantily clad young women dancing in tall revolving martini glasses greeted the guests
as they entered Mar-a-Lago.
Models dressed as flappers with huge white feathers pretended spontaneous gaiety.
On Halloween, nine months, 40 weeks, and three days into Donald Trump’s second administration,
he celebrated the apex of his image as an almighty ruler
by staging a dress-up Great Gatsby party for select club members, Cabinet officials, friends, and family,
in …

The Mar-a-Lago Party That Future Historians Will Never Forget
The Halloween Gatsby party, just as millions were about to lose food benefits, will go down as Trump’s moment of peak obliviousness. So far.

Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/unac

Unacademy's founder says startup is now worth less than $500M, confirms M&A talks | TechCrunch
Unacademy's valuation has dropped by over 85% from its pandemic-era peak price tag of $3.5 billion, its founder said.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

⭐️Silver hit $79 (£58) an ounce for the first time last Friday,
a new peak, up from $56 at the start of December, and just $29 an ounce at the start of 2025.
Analysts have attributed the jump in the price of silver to expectations of US interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve in 2026,
leading to increased demand for hard assets that protect against inflation and currency debasement.
New restrictions on silver exports from China, which begin on 1 January,
have c…

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Elliptic: ruble-backed stablecoin A7A5 surpassed $100B in transactions in under a year, but demand cooled and daily volume fell from a peak of $1.5B to ~$500M (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Missed the first peak of tonight's show because I was busy showing my wife from the front steps and didn't get my camera set up, lol.
Got a few nice shots from the park before it slowed down too much but got cold and didn't want to be out too late. If it picks up again I might pop outside.

Israeli startup DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M to $700M valuation (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-financial-planning-co-datarails…

Israeli financial planning co Datarails raises $70m
Datarails has developed a software for Excel users, which it claims, transforms the CFO’s office.

A couple of months ago Bali experienced its worst floods in more than a decade.
-- They came at the peak of the dry season.
Instead of the empty wells farmers faced last year,
this time their crops were washed away;
roads turned into brown, swirling rivers;
houses collapsed in the torrents;
and 17 people were killed.
⭐️Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous country, faces a paradox.
Sometimes described as a sleeping giant, it is one of the …

Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/352fc0e3-0f0d-4e72-abe6-dd992b040caa

Chile's new Cape Froward national park is a wild expanse of wind-torn coastline and forested valleys that harbours unrivalled biodiversity and has played host to millennia of human history.
“I have been to many exceptional places, and I can tell you that the Cape Froward project is the wildest place I have walked through,”
said Kristine Tompkins, the renowned US conservationist at the heart of the project.
“It’s one of the few truly wild forest and peak territories lef…

A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
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Michael Saylor’s Creative Bitcoin Strategy Isn’t Working
Michael Saylor’s financial alchemy thrust an ordinary software company, Strategy, into the center of the crypto frenzy. It all worked spectacularly, until now.