Trading volumes across major centralized platforms fell down to $1.05 trillion, marking the quietest stretch of activity for the digital asset market in over two years. The early freewheeling era of crypto trading took a final blow as BitMEX announced it would permanently shut down its operations in September. The platform, famous for inventing the perpetual…
The 20-year-old is known for a slick pony or bun, so the soft, textured waves cascading past her shoulders were a first. She kept her middle part and skipped the blow-out, showing up looking like she’d spent the day at the beach. The new look landed August 4 at a dinner for authorities that Leonor…
I really don’t understand the tremendous apathy that I am witnessing right now. Everyone can see that commercial oil inventories are rapidly being depleted. As I discussed yesterday, the global oil market had about 400 million barrels of excess inventory before the war, and now we have “close to nothing”. But at least we still have the…
Screengrab Social Media/X The blue Danube is showing its secrets. We have been reporting on Europe’s summer from hell, where they are battling high temperatures, wildfires, and droughts. One of the most dramatic cases if the mythical Danube river that is so low that the Nuclear Power Plants in Hungary and Romania had to be…
By this point of the summer, there’s almost always corn in my fridge and a variety of stone fruit ripening a little too quickly on the counter. And that’s exactly how this salad was born. I tossed a few of those ears of corn on the grill, sliced up some nectarines, then piled it all…
For a long time, the classic 18th-century song “Rule, Britannia!” by English composer Thomas Arne, with lyrics by Scottish poets James Thomson and David Mollett, effectively served as the United Kingdom’s second national anthem. Its refrain, “Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves,” powerfully captured the essence of the concept of “Mistress of the Seas,” a…
A disastrous Belgrade comeback show became Amy Winehouse’s last, weeks before her death at 27. She’d just come out of rehab and begged to perform. On stage in Belgrade she forgot where she was, handed her songs to the backing singers, and stood there holding herself as 20,000 people turned on her. Belgrade, June 18,…
Claressa Shields appears to be on a roll this week, clocking the girls! Most recently, she kept it 100% when former Crime Mob rapper Diamond reached out. After Diamond shared evidence of their interactions, social media users began cuttin’ up with reactions to the exchange between the ladies. RELATED: Claressa Shields Tweets About A “Clout Chaser” & Feeling…
Screencap of YouTube video. The city of Los Angeles spent a million dollars building a public restroom and six months after its completion, it’s still not open to the public. This is a perfect example of government mismanagement. It also explains why it has been so difficult to rebuild there after the wildfires that happened…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is sounding the alarm about NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, saying his policies will make the city’s problems like housing and energy costs even worse. Ackman has been somewhat red-pilled in recent years. He used to vote Democrat but he became a Trump supporter during the 2024 election….
