Grandpa who bought his house for a year’s salary: “Just work harder and you can buy a house like me.”

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Guess who is NOT in the Epstein Files

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This is an informal metric I use to track Bitcoin cycles. It counts the number of positive months out of the past 24.

This metric measures frequency, not magnitude. So Bitcoin could trend sideways for months and this metric could still go down. But it is still very useful for identifying inflection points.

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On the remote island of Golem Grad in Lake Prespa, North Macedonia, an extreme skew in the adult sex ratio of Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni) is driving a population toward collapse through intense sexual coercion by males.

A study published in Ecology Letters documents how males vastly outnumber females—reaching ratios as high as 19:1 in some areas of the island's plateau—creating conditions where sexually coercive behavior becomes relentless. Males pursue females aggressively, engaging in behaviors such as bumping, biting (sometimes causing blood loss), mounting in groups, and poking fleeing females with a sharp tail tip. These interactions often inflict severe injuries, including cloacal trauma from forced copulations, leading to emaciation, reduced body condition, lower reproductive output (fewer and smaller clutches), and markedly decreased annual survival rates compared to females in nearby mainland populations.

In desperate attempts to escape this persistent harassment, researchers have documented females walking off the island's sheer cliffs, resulting in fatal falls or debilitating injuries. The authors describe this dynamic as triggering an "extinction vortex" or "demographic suicide," where the combination of high population density and extreme male bias in a coercive mating system accelerates female mortality and suppresses recruitment, independent of external threats like predation or habitat degradation.

The research draws on 16 years of capture-recapture data, behavioral observations, and demographic modeling. Simulations incorporating observed survival and fecundity rates predict that, if trends continue, the last female tortoise on Golem Grad will die around 2083, leading to localized extinction of the population despite its once-high density (approximately 100 individuals per hectare).

Lead author Dragan Arsovski, from the Macedonian Ecological Society, and colleagues emphasize that this represents the first documented wild example of such a self-reinforcing extinction process driven by sex-ratio bias and coercive mating. Paradoxically, the apparent prosperity suggested by high overall numbers masks a severe imbalance that disproportionately harms females and dooms the population.

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Microsoft has pioneered a groundbreaking approach to long-term data preservation by encoding vast amounts of information directly into everyday borosilicate glass—the durable, heat-resistant material commonly found in ovenware and lab equipment—for potentially 10,000 years or more.

Under Project Silica, Microsoft researchers have demonstrated a sophisticated laser-based system that etches data using femtosecond pulses, creating nanoscale modifications (voxels) across hundreds of layers within a thin glass plate. In their latest breakthrough, detailed in a February 2026 Nature paper, the team achieved a capacity of 4.8 terabytes (equivalent to roughly 200 4K movies, millions of photos, or about 2 million printed books) on a single 120 mm × 120 mm × 2 mm square of borosilicate glass, utilizing 301 layers of densely packed data at a volumetric density exceeding 1.59 Gbit/mm³.

This represents a major advancement over earlier iterations, which relied on more expensive fused quartz. By switching to affordable, widely available borosilicate glass, the technology dramatically lowers material costs and simplifies manufacturing, while maintaining exceptional durability. The encoded data resists water, extreme heat (surviving 290°C for extended periods), dust, electromagnetic interference, and physical wear—far outlasting conventional hard drives, SSDs, or magnetic tapes, which degrade within years or decades without constant maintenance.

Although write speeds remain slower than everyday consumer storage (limited currently by laser repetition rates, though parallel multi-beam techniques have boosted throughput to around 25.6 Mbit/s per beam), the focus is archival longevity rather than high-performance access. Reading relies on automated optical microscopy and machine-learning algorithms to decode the patterns reliably. Accelerated aging tests confirm data integrity for at least 10,000 years at room temperature, with projections suggesting even longer lifespans under normal conditions.

This innovation addresses the exploding demand for sustainable, "cold" archival storage in the cloud era, where massive datasets (from scientific records to cultural heritage) need indefinite preservation without ongoing energy or hardware refreshes. Project Silica is already being explored for real-world applications, including partnerships like the Global Music Vault in Norway's Svalbard, where music masters are being secured in glass for future generations.

By turning ordinary glass into a near-permanent digital time capsule, Microsoft is redefining how humanity safeguards its collective knowledge against the ravages of time and technology obsolescence.

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The exact moment a highway crash triggers massive gas truck explosion in Renca district, Chile.

The crash involved a gas truck that exploded on February 19, 2026.

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It's official:

In one of the most anticipated rulings in decades, the US Supreme Court has ruled Trump's "emergency" tariffs ILLEGAL.

This exposes the Trump Admin to a potential $175+ BILLION in "tariff refunds."

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After 5+ months, the Supreme Court's ruling was released.

The Court ruled IEEPA does NOT authorize the President to impose tariffs.

IEEPA is the law Trump used to impose tariffs, which gives him "special economic powers" during a national emergency involving foreign threats.

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OMG. An 11-year-old child with special needs found MILES away from school after he was left behind during an anti-ICE walkout.

The boy ended up calling his mother, who was unaware that a walkout had occurred

Why do schools keep allowing these to happen?

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Someone better be in trouble for this. These students didn't plan walk out protests. It's the teachers

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Neurosurgeon in San Francisco says $32K a month isn’t cutting it… so she made a full spreadsheet to track it.

$6,500 mortgage

$420 utilities

$1,200 groceries

$900 eating out

$750 clothes

$1,100 on skincare

$10,000 invested

Almost $400K a year and still budgeting like it’s survival mode.

Is this struggle… or just elite spending?

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Hungary BLOCKS $105 BILLION loan for Ukraine

Budapest opposed the transfer of funds at the very last last minute, and for the loan to be approved, all 27 EU member states must have a consensus

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BREAKING: Every S&P 500 software stock is now trading below its 200-day moving average for the first time since the April 2025 bottom.

At the same time, ~89% of the Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment sector stocks are above this threshold.

This marks the biggest gap between the two sectors on record.

Both metrics moved in lockstep, hitting 0%, during the 2022 bear market.

As a result, the Software index has dropped -30% since November and is trading near its lowest since April 2025.

By contrast, the Semiconductor & Semiconductor Equipment index has been flat and sits near an all-time high.

Software stocks are more hated than ever.

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Senator John Cornyn, who has refused to support Trump in any meaningful way, has shared an article celebrating the “Indian Century.”

Notably, Texas, his state, is being overran with Indians.

He is facing a challenge from AG Ken Paxton.

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US aircraft carrier enters Mediterranean as Trump mulls Iran strikes

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