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Frantz Qanon retweeted
its becoming apparent most peoples idea of socialism is basically this
I mean isn't that just a description of what it means to not be able to think? An inability or unwillingness to take in multiple pieces of information, consider them against each other, and parse them into a meaningful conclusion?
very literally a completely legal act to target armed soldiers of illegal occupation. ah well, better dump some more city money into elbit.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
it'll be thrilling to see what divorced suicidal ex-special forces guys do with this after turning it into a VBIED
Frantz Qanon retweeted
I’m hearing rumors that OpenAI has an internal model dedicated specifically to Marxology. It’s already uncovered three new epistemological breaks and developed a radical new interpretation of Capital chapter 1. Watch this space
under-reported aspect: despite PPB having no Flock cams of their own the suspect was found using ALPR data, probably the Flock cams at a home depot two blocks from where he was killed. Seems PPB has a contract with flock for their data service or access to it through US Marshals
PPB does have five vehicle mounted ALPRs. Maybe its a total coincidence this all happened within a few hundred feet of some of the only Flocks in town, but itd be nice to get some clarity @portlandmercury @OPB any clues?
is anyone gonna ask what all this escorting is costing in SM-2s and 3s and how to keep it up when somebody's gotta go reload
Chaps, my data and my message below are very clear: Iran has lost control of Hormuz.
But careful with over-reading my message. I never said we have an oil bear market now. We are not there yet. For one, the Hormuz Shuttle needs to become more permanent and more efficient.
The Hormuz Shuttle creates enormous tanker inefficiencies, driving up landed costs for refineries, especially in Asia.
Just as importantly, product exports remain heavily disrupted because of Russia, the East–West pipeline, tanker inefficiencies and lower Chinese refinery runs.
That means cracks remain high — and diesel and gasoline prices remain high — even if crude falls below $100.
Next problem: the moment China starts buying nearer its 9–10mbpd seaborne import baseline, we still lack sufficient crude flows and face even greater tanker-rate stress, pushing both crude & product prices higher again.
Above all, Trump needs to stay the course if this regime is to break and flows are finally to normalise. If he goes for another Memorandum of Misunderstanding, all he does is hand the regime another lifeline and allow it to rinse and repeat the Q3 chapter.
Patience. This is not yet a deflationary signal for an equity rally. But we are making progress. Come Q1 2027, assuming Trump holds the line, this should get really interesting.
Once flows normalise and tanker inefficiencies ease, the market will front-run the balances and push crude significantly lower. The UAE will push production towards 5mbpd. What little remains of OPEC will produce flat out to regain market share. We may rediscover just how weak underlying Chinese crude consumption really is. Perhaps even an AI investment bust? All bearish.
Q2 2027? IDK.
But then we still need to refill some 1.5–2.0bn bbl of crude stocks lost globally. How quickly that happens — and at what price — will matter enormously.
Lots of moving parts. Let’s keep an open mind.
@LSREnergy
Frantz Qanon retweeted
We ought not to scoff at the sheer magnitude of our comfort just because our peers share it (which says more about socioeconomic assortation than it does about how common our salaries are). We literally cannot imagine how privileged we are relative to the average living human.
We really need to get rid of this "six figure salary" shock trope. It's 2026. 100k is not an eye-popping amount to make anymore. nitter.gq/noahsamsen_/status/210…
Frantz Qanon retweeted
Perhaps the breathless speculation that AI will automate away the analyst, or much of the analytic burden, is a bit premature?
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An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & @ZcohenCNN
cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…
not an interesting question. since we all have to talk about ai all the time now maybe we can start with the concrete ways it's already used to kill people at scale instead of imagining imaginary peoples' imaginary politics archive.is/2026.09.17-131901…
Frantz Qanon retweeted
It's funny how since the energy consumption of the humans is for them to live, the implicit counterfactual to "these guys spent weeks on the paper" sounds like "these guys don't exist", so the economical/ecological solution is to not only replace them by AI but kill them
Frantz Qanon retweeted
Gaia Mishima: I don't care what you stand for, if you destroy oil I support you
BREAKING: Ukrainian drones have just struck Russia's Syzran oil refinery, with multiple fires burning across the complex, hours after Trump claimed on Truth Social that Ukraine had agreed not to hit Russian energy targets, that Russia had agreed likewise, and that the world's diesel price rise "is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran."
Syzran runs about 170,000 barrels per day, roughly 3% of Russia's refining capacity. US diesel hit a record $6.23 a gallon today.
Frantz Qanon retweeted
9/13/1971: New York State massacres prisoners and hostages at Attica, then lies who had done it
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller ordered Attica retaken after four days of prisoner negotiations over medical care, food, censorship, prison labor, racial discrimination and basic living conditions. Helicopters dropped tear gas and State Police and corrections officers fired almost 2,000 rounds, killing 29 incarcerated men and 10 hostages; many more were wounded. State officials initially claimed prisoners had cut hostages’ throats, but autopsies showed all ten hostages killed in the assault died from law-enforcement gunfire.
gotta feel awesome to be so cognitively dead you have to use ai to tweet a summary of a report on the dangers of relying on ai for simple tasks
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.
Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.
The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
