🇺🇸🇮🇷 The last time shipping broke this badly the Suez Canal stayed shut for EIGHT YEARS, and insurers now price Hormuz like a war zone from the 1980s
Everyone's watching the deal.
Sal Mercogliano, maritime historian and the voice behind What is Going on With Shipping, explains why the deal may not matter.
War-risk insurance through Hormuz is running at levels the world hasn't paid since the Tanker War, and in his words "shipping is kind of like a fainting goat": it locks up first and asks questions later.
His warning cuts deep, because when the Houthis stopped shooting after the Gaza ceasefire, the ships never came back, and he expects the same hesitation no matter what gets signed this week.
Then it widens.
Why a single tanker run to the Black Sea now costs triple what the biggest ship on earth charges.
How China quietly refilled its reserves during the pause while Japan drained its own dry.
The real mechanism behind Beijing's quiet win at the Panama Canal.
And the shortage he says nobody is tracking, the one that ends with gaps on American grocery shelves within a year.
The war taught every shipper on earth one lesson: the ocean is no longer safe by default.
Unlearning that will take far longer than any signing ceremony.
@mercoglianos@WeTheBrandon
Adam Shelton just put the spotlight on $STAG. 🦌
The Robinhood Chain is starting to get noticed, and this is only the beginning.
Big creators are paying attention. The community keeps growing. The vision is getting louder.
Watch the coverage and decide for yourself:
https://t.co/Do6e4PTslt
$STAG @StagWifHood@HoodXChange@AdamEShelton
You can use a non-custodial wallet and still have zero privacy.
Your keys may be protected, but your real name, phone number, address, old accounts, and public wallet connections can still expose you.
So I spent 12 hours deleting myself from the internet with Claude:
47 data broker listings removed.
12 dead accounts deleted.
3 unwanted search results buried.
Here is the exact step-by-step process:
Step 1: Map your digital footprint
Search your:
→ Full name
→ Email addresses
→ Phone number
→ Old usernames
→ Wallet-linked usernames
Take screenshots of every result.
Prompt:
“Categorize these results into data brokers, social media, dead accounts, public records, articles, and potential security risks. Rank them by deletion priority.”
Step 2: Remove data broker listings
Check sites like:
✦ Spokeo
✦ BeenVerified
✦ Whitepages
✦ MyLife
✦ PeopleFinder
These listings can connect your name, phone number, address, relatives, and previous locations.
That becomes much more dangerous when your public identity is connected to crypto.
Prompt:
“Write a GDPR or CCPA data deletion request for [data broker]. My information is: [details]. Include the relevant legal basis, identity-verification language, and a professional request for complete deletion.”
Step 3: Delete dead accounts
Every old forum, app, exchange, newsletter, and unused platform may still hold your personal data.
Use JustDeleteMe to find the deletion process.
Prompt:
“I want to permanently delete my [service] account. Explain the full deletion process and how to confirm that my personal data is deleted rather than the account only being deactivated.”
Step 4: Use privacy laws properly
Depending on your location, use:
✦ GDPR in Europe
✦ CCPA in California
✦ KVKK in Turkey
Prompt:
“Write a personal data deletion request under [GDPR/CCPA/KVKK] for [company]. Request deletion of my account, personal information, tracking data, marketing profile, and data shared with third parties. Include the required response period.”
Companies may ignore casual emails.
They take formal privacy requests much more seriously.
Step 5: Check whether your wallet is linked to your identity
Search for connections between your wallet and:
→ Your real name
→ ENS or SNS domains
→ Public donation pages
→ Old screenshots
→ Discord or Telegram usernames
→ GitHub profiles
→ NFT accounts
→ Public transaction posts
Prompt:
“Review these profiles and identify any information that could connect my wallet address to my real identity. Create a prioritized OPSEC cleanup checklist.”
Non-custodial does not mean anonymous.
Do not reuse the same username, profile picture, email, and wallet identity everywhere.
Step 6: Bury results that cannot be removed
Some articles, forum posts, and archived pages will not disappear.
In that case, create better content that outranks them.
Prompt:
“Generate five SEO content ideas using my name and profession. Analyze the keywords in this unwanted search result: [URL], and create content designed to rank above it.”
It can take a few months, but it can push unwanted results away from page one.
Step 7: Check breach exposure
Go to Have I Been Pwned and check your main email addresses.
Prompt:
“Analyze this breach list. Rank each breach by current risk and tell me whether I should change the password, enable 2FA, delete the account, rotate the email address, or take another action.”
For crypto users, prioritize:
→ Email security
→ SIM-swap protection
→ Hardware security keys
→ Unique passwords
→ Removal of exposed phone numbers
Step 8: Prevent future leaks
Use email aliases for new accounts.
Stop using one email address everywhere.
Separate personal and crypto identities.
Avoid posting wallet balances or transaction screenshots.
Never reuse the same username across personal, work, and trading accounts.
Remove metadata before uploading sensitive files or images.
Use stronger browser privacy settings.
Without AI, this can take weeks of finding opt-out forms, reviewing accounts, and writing repetitive legal requests.
With Claude, I did most of it in 12 hours.
Self-custody protects your assets.
Digital privacy protects the person holding them.
I’ve been saying this for a while now…
I think we’re much closer to a bull market than people think.
The problem is most people won’t believe it until prices are a lot higher.
🦌 $STAG – The Stag Who Stole Robin Hood’s Hood.
First token launched on @HoodXchange and one of the earliest memes on the brand-new Robinhood Chain
Looking pretty bullish!
Great Potential
Always DYOR
CA: 0xcC142366735c882F7885d3c747db99e45E13E453
Website: https://t.co/yOgFpf2thI
@StagWifHood
#STAG #RobinhoodChain #HoodXchange #Memecoin #Crypto
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at 1:16am i asked a recruiter how to verify he was real.
he said, i can send message from official account. or maybe just follow you?
he offered to prove himself using the account i was asking about. he followed me, i followed back, nothing was verified, and it felt like something had been.
he had come into my x dms that night, recruiting for content and marketing at a podcast company. min-ji, head of scouting at a vc called theforms. i don't open links in x dms, a shortened calendly link caught me once and i only worked out where it went afterwards, so i moved him to telegram where i can read a full url before i touch it.
theforms[dot]ventures has a real site. team page, headshot, lee min-ji, navy suit, bio about spotting founders long before the market catches up, previously at okx ventures. under the photo, two icons, x and telegram, both pointing back at the account messaging me. the loop closes on itself and never touches anything outside it.
the bio never names one company he found. in venture, deals are the entire cv.
then i scrolled, and the firm had two heads of scouting. one woman, one man, same title, same page. nobody writes that by hand. you get a duplicate like that when profiles are generated in bulk and dropped on a template without anyone reading the output, which is also how a man ends up carrying a woman's name.
i kept going because i wanted to see the link.
he took my details, then said once i join the workspace we can discuss compensation. that's the lever. the money sits behind one more door, and the door needs you to walk through it.
then it came. sites[dot]google[dot]com/view/zbo-iyji-hex/workspace, an access code, hak-hjak-80hk-9j1k, a contact address at web3blockwave[dot]info.
i didn't open it, and i didn't need to. google workspace does not live at sites[dot]google[dot]com/view/. that's the free site builder anyone can spin up in two minutes, and the google in front buys trust the page never earned. no real invite is gated behind a code you type into a page. the code is theatre, it makes an empty room feel locked. even the slug is working, zbo-iyji-hex reads as a meet code at a glance.
pages like that run clickfix. an invented error, session expired, certificate expired, then instructions to fix it, open your terminal and paste this. the page already wrote the command into your clipboard while the error held your eyes. nothing downloads, so nothing gets scanned, you type it in yourself, and when it asks for your password that's not your wallet, that's keychain, session cookies, ssh keys, everything. north korean crews built a version of this aimed specifically at people who work in crypto.
fake vc firms aren't new, fortune documented two of them running this exact play in 2016. what's new is the price. domain, thirty dollars. bios, free and generated, which is why there are two of the same job. headshots, free. team page, one afternoon. the first thing in that chain that costs real money is a workspace that actually works, and they never had one.
so stop asking whether something looks real. looking real is free now, it tells you nothing. ask what the first expensive thing is, and go check whether it exists.
and don't memorise my version. mine came as a job. yours might come as a podcast booking, a partnership, a grant, a bug bounty, an airdrop, an investor intro. the story is whatever gets you to move. the link never changes.
three things worth keeping.
- no site needs your terminal. not google, not microsoft, not your bank, there is no legitimate version of that instruction.
- verification only counts through a channel they didn't hand you.
- if the money sits behind a link, the link is the product.
it will keep getting better than this. we'll keep hunting them down. it could be any account that messages you next, so stay safe out there.