Cat9

Uses the power of a single lightbulb, and is completely safe for the eyes. Zero spectrum cost as its optical.

More like TOFU talking points from TACO.

More on Taara from PC Mag:

New Device From Starlink Rival Taara Promises 25Gbps Internet Using Light Taara, a startup that graduated from Alphabet’s moonshot factory, has slimmed down its technology, which uses near-infrared light to bring high-speed internet to remote areas.

$GOOGL spinoff

"A key challenge facing Taara is that inclement weather, such as fog, can disrupt an over-the-air fiber beam. But a week ago, the startup announced the “Lightbridge Pro” system, which promises to offer a “99.999%” uptime, even during bad weather. "

www.pcmag.com/news/new-dev...

#Anthropic #Claude

Musk courting Kegsbreath, Kegsbreath courting Musk, and this is the future we - and an AI company trying to do the right thing - must suffer.

Can you imagine the worst AI out there making life and death decisions for our military?

Grok Gets the Clearance: Pentagon Signs xAI Into Classified Systems as Anthropic Faces the Ultimatum of Its Existence The United States military has formally opened its most sensitive digital corridors to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, signing

#xAI #Pentagon #DOD #Xitter #Anthropic

So Anthropic must be punished, and the DOD is happy to use Grok.

This is most fucked up, but we saw this coming after Kegsbreath fluffed His Nibs at SpaceX in his cosplaying speech.

Must read for Anthropic implications:
discernreport.com/grok-gets-th...

$NVDA $SPX

Reuters reminds us: "AI chipmaker Nvidia which reports earnings after the bell on Wednesday, accounts for around 8% of the entire S&P 500."

Stocks dip, investors twitchy about AI disruption Global shares tumbled for a second day on Tuesday, as sentiment suffered on a range of factors, from uncertainty over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policy and geopolitical tensions to renewed w...

4) #FinBluesky

MSCI's All-World index eased for a second day. In Europe, the STOXX 600 but remained in sight of record highs.

Markets in Asia got a boost from China and Japan, where traders returned from holiday. U.S. stock futures , were up 0.2-0.3%.r

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

New (criminal) crypto use case just dropped.

3) $GOLD chart at the end of day yesterday shows it was up +2.59% ending on the session's high. (Gold futures currently at -.56%)

2) I will never tire using Paul Krugman's first headline on his Substack: "Crypto Is For Criming."

bsky.app/profile/jeno...

1) First sip of coffee this morning:

Bitcoin $BTC sailed through $64k and $63k overnight. Got down to a low for this session (ending at 7 PM EST tonight) to $62,706.40.

Damage seen here on the daily and weekly charts:

Anyone got the phone number to Robinhood's bookies?

I'd like a Robinhood prop bet - using 10x leveraged Bitcoin Magic Beans - that their bookies will steal Baggies' faces right off their skulls as they chase private placement AI deals erected by Sam Altman and Mr. 70s Pornstache here.

The "health influencer" to a constipated ex-podcasting CEO hath fallen.

3) $BTC #Bitcoin

Magic Beanie Baby shot and chaser:

bsky.app/profile/pppg...

Stephen Seagull and the Bird Turds coming to a dive bar near you.

South Korea asks Russian embassy to remove giant ‘victory’ banner as war date looms Seoul says banner should be removed as Moscow’s war on Ukraine is illegal

#SlavaUkraini

How long before the Trump Regime does the same embarrassing thing at one of our embassies overseas?

www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-as...

"Negative 27%" is the name of my punk band this week.

I do. But I don't think Michael Saylor ever read the Book of J Roc, Chapter 1, Verse 1 which you allude to.

bsky.app/profile/cat9...

$BTC

Meanwhile, back at the Strategy Ranch:

247wallst.com/investing/20...

Yo, @omerta22.bsky.social . . . you'll love this!

Bitcoin miners such as $IREN, $WULF, $RIOT, ad nauseum, are now bragging about a transition of their servers and warehouses to AI. Hell, $IREN just signed a deal to build more data centers for $MSFT AI.

Youtube filled with aliterate retail $BTC investors giving up the ghost and going broke.

I hope this comic strip thread runs all day.

Guy keubiko is responding to seems to think Berkshire is going to "invest" in digital beanie babies.

Charlie Munger is laughing in his grave.

$TSLAQ

The fraud that keeps on giving, Tesla "Autopilot":

Man, 23, Told Family He Was Going to Be ‘on the News.' He Then Slammed His Car Full of Explosives into a Power Substation Dawson Maloney referred to himself as his mother's "dead terrorist son" in a message sent to her before the incident, police said

#WhiteSupremacist #DomesticTerrorism

Took place Thursday, 19 Feb 26:

Investigators said they found books relating to “extremist ideologies” in the Nevada hotel room where Maloney was staying, including some pertaining to “white supremacy and anti-government ideology"

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

2) $GOLD

Gold closed at its daily high last Friday, which was $5,108.34 for a +2.21% gain.

Gold futures chart currently up +1.85%

1) $BTC #Bitcoin

5:20 AM EST, Monday, 23 Feb 26:

Overnight, Bitcoin traded below $65k again.

The low was $64,440.38.

'Fake as F-ck': The Wannabe Rock Star Accused of Scamming Streamers Inside the first case of music-streaming fraud in the U.S., where prosecutors say musician Mike Smith used bots to earn millions in fake royalties.

Between 2017 and 2024, prosecutors say, Smith had as many as 10,000 active bot accounts streaming his music. While Smith had a catalog of his own work, he also allegedly purchased and uploaded hundreds of thousands of songs generated with artificial intelligence.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

bsky.app/profile/mela...

He almost has this Kegsbreath imitation down.

C'mon, Ron, give him some props for the work he has put in to appear so manly.