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A viral video is teaching everyday TikTok users the surprisingly easy method to class up their recipes with balsamic pearls. These little vinegar balls can make any salad look fancy while giving it a burst of flavor.This same method could also work with other ingredients, if you're ready for adventure.How to make balsamic pearlsIn a TikTok video that currently has over 1.6 million views, user @platingqueen demonstrates how to make these delicate culinary gems. All you need is the vinegar, agar powder, and vegetable oil. @platingqueen Replying to @BelleMillerWill BALSAMIC PEARLS RECIPE ⬇️ Save this for your next dinner party— your guests won’t believe you made them yourself!! • Whisk about 1 cup of balsamic vinegar with 1 tablespoon of agar powder— eyeballing it is fine • Bring the mixture to a simmer to activate the agar • Let it simmer for 1–2 minutes, then remove from the heat Here’s where most people mess up: it’s all about the temp. Too hot and it’ll explode out of your squeeze bottle. Too cold and it sets into jelly! • Let it cool for 2–4 minutes until it’s warm and pourable, but not starting to set • Funnel into a squeeze bottle • Fill a glass with ice-cold vegetable oil— 30 minutes in the freezer is perfect • Drop it in slowly, one drop at a time, in a circular motion (from a little height!) • Strain over a bowl to save the oil, then rinse the pearls under running water • Serve with caprese, cheese, or whatever your heart desires ✨ ——— #foodstyling #prettyfood #moleculargastronomy #caviar #balsamic #foodpresentation ♬ sonido original - Vibes by Ley Then follow these steps:Whisk together a cup of balsamic vinegar with one tablespoon of agar powder.Bring the mixture to a simmer.Remove from the heat and let it cool for a few minutes.Pour the mixture into a squeeze bottle.Chill a glass of vegetable oil until it's ice cold.Squeeze drops of the vinegar into the cold oil and watch the balsamic pearls form instantly.Food stylist Bri Baker recommends adding these to summer salads, caprese, or "anything that you want to make extra special."Other potential options for these magical little spheres include pasta dishes, oyster platters, cheese plates, and any number of hors d'oeuvres you want to appear fancy. Take a decent cracker with a slice of cheese and pile a few of these on, and your friends will think you've gone to culinary school.What other pearls can you make with this method?Viewers drooled over this recipe as the video went viral, and commenters had a lot more ideas on the topic. TikTok user @chronic_thickness says that you can use cold vegetable oil and a squeeze bottle to make pearls out of more than just balsamic vinegar.@platingqueen/TikTok"Hey, so you can do this with just about any kind of liquid. I used to work in a kitchen and this was one of my favorite things to experiment with," she wrote, "my favorite was pineapple juice, I served them over mango sorbet and it was phenomenal.""Could you do this with soy or teriyaki sauce??" asked @inkiwitch. "I’m thinking this on top of sushi would be divine."Baker replied that you could definitely try that.@platingqueen/TikTokOther commenters dreamed of trying this on avocado toast, in a tomato martini, with deviled eggs, and one user even said they had it on a chocolate lava cake and loved it.Then the chaos agents arrived. User @kita_raito has already dreamed up an "insane boba prank idea." Be careful out there, food lovers. The internet is chaotic—but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter here to get the best (and worst) of the internet straight into your inbox.Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online.The post From salads to sushi, balsamic pearls are TikTok’s favorite food upgrade appeared first on The Daily Dot.
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The KGB Spy Who Predicted Our Future Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com,My dear friends, I think you are in very big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE AT WAR. And you may lose this war very soon together with all your affluence and freedoms unless you start defending yourselves.–Yuri Bezmenov, 1984In 1970, a Soviet KGB agent named Yuri Bezmenov defected to the West. His story is fascinating. Yuri shared key details on how USSR propaganda and subversion worked.But first we need to discover why Yuri came over to the West...Since the 1960s, Yuri had been stationed in India. His cover assignment was as a journalist for the Novosti Press Agency.But his real job as a KGB agent was to influence policymakers, academics, and journalists. Yuri’s mission was to infect these targets with Marxist-Leninist ideology.He planted stories about how benevolent and fair the USSR was. He charmed diplomats and politicians with vodka (and less tasteful means). He planted stories to discredit the United States.He built relationships with influential Indians with a goal of shaping the narrative around the Soviet Union. He worked with students, recruiting future Indian leaders to study in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.His job was to corrupt both individuals and institutions.Eventually Yuri became disillusioned with his work. He realized that his efforts were actively harming the Indian people, whom he had become quite attached to.So he decided to defect to the West. He disguised himself as an American hippie, and joined one of the wandering groups of backpackers which frequented India at the time.Yuri slipped his Soviet handlers and made his way to the American embassy. They granted him asylum, and he was debriefed by the CIA and FBI.Lessons in Ideological SubversionOnce in North America, Yuri Bezmenov changed his name to Tomas Schuman and worked as a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CGC). Ironically, part of his job was now to target Russian-speaking countries with Western views.Yuri wrote books and lectured all over North America, warning that if the United States didn’t guard its values closely, they would be overwhelmed by the same type of social warfare he used in India.Bezmenov described this process as “ideological subversion”. He claimed that 85% of the KGB counterintelligence budget was used to subvert countries. Less than 15% of KGB spending was on the cloak-and-dagger stuff we see in movies.The USSR ran the same playbook in countless countries, and Yuri warned Americans that we were now the primary target.He explained that ideological subversion generally has 4 stages.Demoralization (15-20 year process) – begin to undermine a society’s values, religion, and institutions.Destabilization (2-5 years) – encourage political polarization, unrest, inflation.Crisis (sudden but with lasting effects) – enacting change by taking advantage of a major destabilizing event such as war or economic crisis.Normalization (indefinite) – The now authoritarian and demoralized society becomes normal to citizens, and they barely notice its negative aspects.Yuri said that it takes 15-20 years to demoralize a nation because that’s how long it takes to propagandize one generation with socialist ideals.Bezmenov also said that once someone is subverted, it is extremely difficult to reverse the process. You can show them all the factual information you want, but it won’t change their views. They have become completely demoralized.I would argue that America’s crisis stage was 9/11. It was a war combined with an economic collapse. Interestingly, this date also coincides with America’s declining religiosity. In 2000, 68% of Americans reported belonging to a church, synagogue, temple, or mosque. Today it’s just 45%.Source: GallupAmericans of all religions have been losing faith. Yuri predicted this. Disrupting a country’s religious values is a key part of the subversion playbook. However, we’re beginning to see signs of a religious reawakening. Many of my kids’ friends have actually encouraged their parents to join a church, which is a positive sign.If you can’t guess, we are still in the midst of the normalization stage. However, Americans do finally appear to be waking up.The only thing that will wake fully demoralized people from their slumber is a “kick in the balls” as Yuri said. In other words, conditions have to get bad before the brainwashed population wakes up. We’re reaching that stage now and I suspect we’ll hit the tipping point over the next decade.Set in Motion Long AgoTo be clear, modern Russia is not actively subverting America. This plan was set in motion many decades ago during the peak of the cold war with the USSR.Subversion is a “set it and forget it” type of operation. Once you influence one generation, the effect is self-perpetuating (up to a point).It’s a disturbingly brilliant form of warfare. Silent, effective, and cheap.Fortunately, there is a way out of demoralization. Yuri encouraged Americans to vote conservative, and basically said the only way out is through strong right-wing leaders. We have that in Donald Trump, and his return to the Presidency is a good sign for the country.The left tried everything to prevent the re-election of Donald J. Trump. Fake criminal charges, lawsuits, slander, and more. Yet Americans saw through the lies. This is encouraging.Additionally, young Americans are increasingly conservative. The old demoralized political left is withering away. Their appeal amongst young voters has plummeted, and the DNC is rudderless.Our country will get out of this demoralized phase in time. We’ve already made good progress over the past decade and this should continue.For those who wish to learn more, here are my favorite interviews, books, and lectures featuring Yuri Bezmenov:Socialist Subversion Explained (Youtube)Full Interview with G. Edward Griffin (Youtube)A Love Letter to America (PDF)1983 Lecture on Subversion (Youtube) Tyler DurdenWed, 05/21/2025 - 22:35
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This time, investors are wary because President Donald Trump’s tax bill is projected to add $3 trillion to $5 trillion to the U.S. debt, reported Reuters, citing nonpartisan analysts.A fiscally challenged U.S. means investors will demand higher returns to hold the country’s debt. Indeed, Treasury yields jumped Wednesday. The 30-year Treasury bond yield crossed the 5% level for the second time this week and the 10-year traded at 4.61%, the highest since February. While rising yields mean bond prices drop, they also promise higher returns at potentially lower risks, dulling the allure of stocks.Under pressure from spiking Treasury yields — which mean elevated borrowing costs for companies and consumers — U.S. markets sold off Wednesday, a sharp reversal from the rally beginning May 12 which gave the S&P 500 a six-day win streak. 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If U.S. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending bill passes, there are concerns the U.S. deficit could widen even more and keep Treasury yields high.Bitcoin surpasses previous highBitcoin prices popped 3.2% during Asia trading hours to hit a new high of $111,416, according to Coin Metrics, breaking its January record. Elsewhere in markets, Asia-Pacific markets fell Thursday. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Tech index, which comprises the 30 largest Hong Kong-listed technology companies, declined around 1.4%. That’s despite shares of Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng surging roughly 6.6% Thursday following upbeat earnings and stronger-than-expected guidance for the second quarter, which prompted analysts to grow more optimistic on its stock.OpenAI snaps up Jony Ive’s startupOpenAI said in a blog post Wednesday that it’s buying former Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive’s artificial intelligence devices startup io for about $6.4 billion in an all-equity deal. 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A global bonds selloff is accelerating on the heels of a U.S. Treasurys rout. “Markets do not find Trump’s “big, beautiful tax bill” beautiful at all,” an analyst said. Unease with worsening fiscal trajectories is driving the global bond selloff, experts said.A sell-off in global bonds is accelerating as Moody’s downgrade of U.S. credit rating and President Donald Trump’s tax bill has brought to fore investors’ fiscal concerns globally.Events such as credit rating downgrades or budgets that risk expanding deficits tend to bring fiscal concerns front and center of investors’ minds, forcing them to reprice long-end risk, said Rong Ren Goh, Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income, Eastspring Investments.While Trump was unable to sway GOP dissenters to support his broad tax bill that could drive U.S. debt higher by a projected $3 trillion to $5 trillion, it appears to have triggered a global bond rout.“Markets do not find Trump’s “big, beautiful tax bill” beautiful at all,” said Vishnu Varathan, a managing director at Mizuho Securities. “USTs were beaten up in an ugly sell-off.”The U.S. 30-year Treasury yield broke above the key 5% mark for the second straight day, breaching the level last reached in November 2023. It is currently holding at 5.088%. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield has climbed over 15 basis points since the start of the week.The sell-off in Treasurys comes on the back of the exodus in American assets in April, and is largely owed to investors’ declining confidence in U.S. assets, said market watchers.When investors dumped U.S. Treasuries last month, they turned to bonds in Japan and Germany. This time, the Treasury sell-off is accompanied by investors exiting bonds across several major markets.Contagion effect — and moreThe sell-off in long-duration bonds in each market has been driven by distinct factors, with the common thread being a growing unease with worsening fiscal trajectories. “These concerns are prompting a reassessment of the term premium required to hold longer-dated bonds,” said Goh.Japan’s 40-year government bond yield hit a record high of 3.689% Thursday. The country’s 30-year government bond yield has also been hovering near all-time highs at 3.187%.The yield on Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond has climbed 9 basis points to 1.57% so far this week.The rapid steepening of Japan’s government bond yield curve is owed to several reasons, but the key one is structural. Japanese life insurance companies, who used to buy long-term bonds in droves to comply with certain solvency regulations are no longer doing that, as they have largely met the regulatory criteria, according to Bank of America.Additionally, the Bank of Japan’s inclination to tighten its monetary policy, which collides with the Asian nation’s fiscal woes, also have a hand in fueling the bond sell-off, said Varathan.The sell-off in Japanese government bonds poses a bigger problem for U.S. sovereign debt. “By making Japanese assets an attractive alternative for local investors, it encourages further divestment from the U.S.,” George Saravelos, Deutsche Bank’s global head of FX strategy wrote in a note.German government bonds — known as bunds — are also being dumped. Yield on 30-year German debt are up over 12 basis points, while the 10-year yield is up over 6 basis points.“The removal of the German debt brake in tandem with continental re-armament, alluding to an end of Europe’s pro-austerity bias and a revival of regional growth prospects were, arguably, the catalyst for the process [bond sell-off],” said Philip McNicholas, Asia strategist of the global macro fixed income team at Robeco.German bunds are also pressured by wider deficits, which are likely to be structural, Mizuho Securities’ Varathan said. The 30-year Europe government bond yields have climbed over 12 basis points this week, and the 10-year yields are up about 7 basis points.“Investors don’t really have much love for long duration bonds right now,” Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers told CNBC.Concerns about global inflation are also a “killer” for longer bonds, said Sosnick, adding that shorter duration bonds are typically influenced by central bank policy, while longer duration debt is influenced more by investor expectations about the future of the economy.Bonds in some emerging market have bucked the wider trend though, with their yields dropping.India and China’s 10-year bond yields have slipped, largely as they are more domestically-oriented markets, and in part because of their capital controls, said McNicholas.India’s 10-year government bond yield inched lower by about 2 basis points since Monday, while China’s 10-year yield also slipped marginally.“Foreign investors and global factors are far less relevant determinants for their respective yield curves,” he said.
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The new Dyson PencilVac looks nothing like any vacuum I've seen before – here are the 6 strangest things about it.
It's been almost ten years since Dyson first unveiled its Supersonic hair dryer, which put its signature bladeless fan technology into a styling product. For a company that was known primarily for its vacuums at the time, this was a surprising move. Since then, Dyson has released several beauty tools like its Airwrap curling iron that have spawned countless imitations. The company also expanded into other categories like audio with its OnTrac headphones and the controversial Zone headphones-with-built-in-purifying-mask while continuing to make some of our favorite cordless vacuums. Today, Dyson is going full circle by announcing the PencilVac, which it says is the "world's slimmest vacuum cleaner." The twist? It achieves that thinness by using a motor that's basically the same as the one in the Supersonic hair dryer. What makes the PencilVac different from existing vacuum cleaners is the fact that it's basically all shaft, with some attachment options for the head. That means there is no bulge unless you use the included conical brush bar cleaner head. All the parts that would normally take up space on a conventional vacuum (like a bin, filter and motor) all fit inside the long cylinder. At the very bottom, you can attach a variety of heads designed specifically for the PencilVac, including the main one that Dyson is calling a "Fluffycones" cleaner head. The company said it has four cones in two brush bars that rotate in opposite directions, and they were designed to "strip and eject even long hair, preventing hair tangling around the brush bar." The laser-like lights at both ends of this head also help illuminate where dust particles might be so you can better see what spots you missed. Dyson Altogether, the PencilVac weighs about 3.96 pounds (1.8kg) and is meant to be easy to use in all kinds of hard-to-reach areas. Since it's got the same roughly 1.5-inch (38mm) diameter throughout, you can grip it fairly easily along its body, wherever you choose to place your hands. This should make it easier to pick up for overhead cleaning. To get the entire PencilVac to look like, well, a pencil, Dyson had to redesign quite a lot of components. This includes the new Hyperdymium 140k motor, which the company says is its "smallest (at 28mm) and fastest vacuum motor. " There's also a new dust compressing system to "maximize the bin capacity." Speaking of, the bin fits inside the cylinder itself, and it has a transparent window that allows you to not only see how full it is but also watch as debris gets sucked up. In fact, at a recent demo, I watched with a mixture of satisfaction and sadness as bits of crushed up Lotus Biscoff cookies flew to the top of the bin. Despite its small size, the Hypderdymium 140k motor seemed plenty powerful in my brief time with it, as it sucked up Cheerios, cookies and other detritus with ease. I also found the entire device mostly easy to maneuver — it didn't feel too heavy and coasted over the bumpy food waste with ease. I was slightly confused by the locking system as I had to make sure to hold it precisely straight up (and wait for a click) after I was done to make sure the stick didn't just fall to the ground. Dyson also designed a new filtration system that the company said "effectively separates dust and debris from the airflow without causing filters to clog or cleaning performance to decline." It also made a new "two-stage linear dust separation system, which captures 99.99 percent of particles down to 0.3 microns so only cleaner air is expelled back into the home." More interestingly, the PencilVac has an "air-compressing bin design" that allows the bin to contain "five times more dust and debris than its 0.08L capacity." In the few rounds of cleaning that I witnessed, the PencilVac certainly appeared to be packing in the garbage quite tightly, though whether it can actually hold 0.4L of stuff is something I didn't get to measure. Dyson When it comes time to empty the container, you can use what Dyson calls its "new hygienic syringe bin ejection system" to empty it. I didn't try this out myself, but it basically involves removing the cleaner head, aiming the bottom of the PencilVac at your trash receptacle and sort of shucking the transparent housing up and down to get the debris out. I watched a Dyson engineer do this and the process seemed straightforward, though it did look like parts of the housing trapped some crumbs. The good news is, you can detach the shell and filters to more thoroughly clean them. The PencilVac also has a swappable battery pack that can last up to 60 minutes of suction, and you can charge the machine on its magnetic charging dock. This is also Dyson's first connected cordless vacuum, meaning it works with the MyDyson app so you can see battery levels, access more settings and get maintenance alerts (like when and how to clean the filter). There's also an LCD screen at the top of the handle that shows the selected power mode as well as remaining run time (while you're cleaning). You'll largely interact with the controls via the two physical buttons here, too. Dyson hasn't shared pricing details on the PencilVac, but there's plenty of time for the company to figure that out, since it's only going to be available in the US next year. That's 2026. Meanwhile, the device will retail in other regions. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/home/the-dyson-pencilvac-is-the-most-stick-like-stick-vacuum-ever-020109491.html?src=rss
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