Compiled: Feb 18, 2026 | Sources: Substack digests, Twitter/X monitoring, Daily Shot, email alerts
Japan is +13.8% YTD, leading all major markets. S&P 500 is flat. This isn't a blip — it's the convergence of a political regime shift, a monetary policy trap, a structural reallocation story, and a US-Japan strategic realignment.
Deep-dive analysis of every source of overhead in a Twilio → Pipecat → LLM voice pipeline.
Stack: Twilio Media Streams · Pipecat · OpenAI Whisper STT · Kimi K2.5 (Fireworks) LLM · ElevenLabs TTS
Repo:
voice— an OpenClaw skill providing caller-aware phone calls with tool calling and tiered access control.
| name: CI | |
| on: | |
| push: | |
| branches: | |
| - master | |
| pull_request: | |
| jobs: | |
| run-ci: | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest |
| class EnumDirectValueMeta(EnumMeta): | |
| def __getattribute__(cls, name): | |
| value = super().__getattribute__(name) | |
| if isinstance(value, cls): | |
| value = value.value | |
| return value | |
| def __iter__(self): | |
| for item in super().__iter__(): | |
| yield item |
| version: "3.7" | |
| services: | |
| traefik: | |
| image: traefik:v2.4 | |
| container_name: traefik | |
| networks: | |
| - web | |
| ports: |
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # sudo crontab -e | |
| # insert at top of crontab: SHELL=/bin/bash | |
| # */1 * * * * /bin/check-net >> /var/log/check-net.log 2>&1 | |
| if ! (/usr/bin/dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com > /dev/null) ; then | |
| echo $(date) - check-net failed. restarting... | |
| killall wpa_supplicant | |
| sleep 2 | |
| /usr/sbin/netplan apply |
| if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then | |
| local hostname="%{$fg_bold[black]%}%m " | |
| else | |
| local hostname="" | |
| fi | |
| local ret_status="%(?:%{$fg_bold[green]%}➜ :%{$fg_bold[red]%}➜ %s)" | |
| PROMPT='${hostname}${ret_status}%{$fg_bold[green]%}%p %{$fg[cyan]%}%c %{$fg_bold[blue]%}$(git_prompt_info)%{$fg_bold[blue]%} % %{$reset_color%}' | |
| ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_PREFIX="git:(%{$fg[red]%}" | |
| ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SUFFIX="%{$reset_color%}" |
| version: "3.8" | |
| services: | |
| lighthouse-base: | |
| image: sigp/lighthouse | |
| volumes: | |
| - .lighthouse:/root/.lighthouse | |
| - ./validator_keys:/root/validator_keys | |
| command: echo ok | |
| beacon: | |
| extends: lighthouse-base |
| # place in ./Docker in project folder with other resources (ie steamclient.so) / start scripts | |
| FROM nvidia/opengl:1.0-glvnd-devel-ubuntu18.04 | |
| # Add a sentinel label so we can easily identify all derived images, including intermediate images | |
| LABEL com.clifton.ue4.sentinel="1" | |
| # Disable interactive prompts during package installation | |
| ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive | |
| # Install our build prerequisites |
