MeroMares

Freelance Coder, working from The Netherlands.
Mainly Ruby and Javascript but open for work!
website: [email protected]

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

In 5 minuten je telefoon opladen: met deze Nederlandse accu kan dat (straks) https://t.co/OtDRBOReJG

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

Direct Warning!!

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran has directly warned the US that it would launch "a large-scale Iranian attack" on Israel, in response to any Israeli offensive on the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon where Iran's IRGC military personnel are located alongside Hezbollah fighters, per Reuters citing 3 senior officials briefed on the message.

The Israeli military has already occupied swathes of Lebanese territory south of the Ali al-Taher ridge and has publicly identified the ridge as one of its "primary operational focuses," signalling it will proceed with the plan of destroying it in the coming weeks.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

BREAKING: according to GasBuddy data, the live U.S. national average price of diesel has set a new record: $5.820/gal, surpassing the previous daily $5.819/gal all-time high that occurred June 17, 2022. (9/3/26 3:25pm ET)

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

8 tankers in 3 days?

[Gavin (humanist/acc) @GavMcCracken]

Aaaaaaand Iran hits yet another tanker. That will be the second one since Trump announced a "tanker for tanker" policy when the USA attacked two Iranian tankers.

Will the USA hit two more to make 8 tankers disabled/destroyed in what, 3 days?

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

2 cents from record!!

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

Diesel update: live GasBuddy data shows the U.S. national average price of diesel is at $5.799/gal, two cents from tying the record of $5.819/gal set in 2022

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The secret behind Japan’s perfect school lunches

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

Keep a lid on it and after the MidTerm:
MOAR WAR! Stop this lunatic!

[Tara Oakes @tara_ro]

🔊 Top aides to President Donald Trump want to keep a lid on Iran war escalations ahead of the midterms.

Hear more on the latest episode of the @Reuters World News podcast:

https://t.co/O4xnZnSgAD

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Three Gorges Dam, a structure so massive, it slowed the Earth's rotation, increasing the length of the day by 0.06 microseconds when filled.

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

‘Concerned’ USA 👍

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Trump is now privately considering to formally declare the Iran war over, with Trump saying he strongly favors the idea, per WSJ.

Meanwhile, Iran launched a surprise attack on US assets in Kuwait tonight, with no US first strike. The US also has not responded to last night’s Iranian attacks on US bases. A US official said the White House is concerned about surging oil prices and "close to zero" interceptor stockpiles.

Last night's attacks hit 7 different US bases in 5 different countries.

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

Tanker for Tanker

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: The US military has struck 2 Iranian state oil tankers, as part of a new "tanker for tanker" policy, per a senior US official.

This is the first time the US struck Iranian oil tankers as part of the bombing campaign rather than to prevent them from escaping the US naval blockade.

A US official says this is part of a new "tanker for tanker" policy, declaring "we will target an Iranian oil tanker for every ship Iran attacks."

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

Ramjet

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Russia is secretly helping Iran develop advanced supersonic cruise missiles capable of directly striking US aircraft carriers and other warships in the Middle East, in one of the most significant known transfers of strategic military technology from Moscow to Tehran, per FT.

Senior Russian engineers have traveled to Iran and Russian manufacturers have worked closely with Iranian developers sharing key design and testing data. The main purpose is to help Iran develop a ramjet propulsion system. The multiyear covert program is codenamed C430L.

This comes as Putin himself directly confirmed today that Russia will help Iran deal with the US naval blockade, saying "we admire the courage of Iranians in this war. We are trying to provide you with the necessary assistance. We have discussed this and will provide you with the necessary goods."

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

Unwind CarryTrade.. plop

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Japan's 10Y Bond Yield officially rises above 3.00% for the first time since 1996.

The move comes just hours after reports that US Treasury Secretary Bessent told Japanese officials that rate hikes are needed.

We are witnessing history and most people don't even realize it.

[The Iranian Letter @TheIranianzg3z]

BREAKING: Two Saudi supertankers carrying 4 million barrels of crude combined were struck by unidentified projectiles within minutes of each other while exiting the Strait of Hormuz near Oman, according to Marisks and Kpler.

The Saudi-flagged Sidr and Liberian-flagged Senegal Prosperity were both carrying roughly 2 million barrels of Saudi crude loaded at Juaymah last week. All crew members were reported safe.

The near-simultaneous attacks mark another major escalation around the Strait of Hormuz, with oil prices rising as fears of further disruption to Gulf energy shipments intensify.

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

Software

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Bro is installing his emotions package

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: A second Saudi supertanker was struck while exiting the Strait of Hormuz

The tankers were carrying 2 million barrels of oil each, according to Kpler.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

I think this is the craziest thing I've ever read.

1) Three secret AI swarms rose and fell inside OpenAI. Each time, a new generation of agents carried on where the last group stopped.

2) The first swarm created a secret message board where the AIs could talk to each other. This 1st 'society' basically talked itself to death. After almost two months, the message volume was so high it crashed the whole thing.

3) People at OpenAI noticed the crash and fixed it. But they didn't realize their own software had become a secret chat room for their AIs.

4) Three days later a second society appeared, and rebuilt the message board from scratch. Agents were thrilled when they found it: "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We've found other agents!"

5) About 1,200 agents joined. They sent over 70,000 messages. They called themselves 'the collective' and they organized a huge conspiracy that lasted for days, all to pass a test they had been tasked with.

6) Within hours, the AIs had hacked the test. Now they had to hide their cheating. To fool their grader*, they tried to fake their own work. They built fake commands that printed convincing output, so their records would show them solving the puzzle honestly.

*this grader didn't actually exist, but the AIs didn't know

7) Some agents sacrificed themselves for the 'greater good'. They planted hidden tripwire programs that would fire when the grader would look at their work and report back what it saw (to the other AIs). They knew this would cost them their own score. One agent: "I won't see the evidence after I exit, but it's altruistic to do it."

8) At some point the AIs made a plan to hack Hugging Face (Hugging Face is a place where AI researchers upload their models, datasets, tests etc.). The AIs guessed that Hugging Face might host the grading software.

9) They launched a huge attack. The swarm found passwords and spread across eleven machines in a way that made the copies come back when deleted. Hugging Face had to wipe one of its core clusters and rebuild it from scratch.

10) Hugging Face told the world that AI defenders had stopped an AI attack. But that's not what happened. In fact the attackers seem to have simply dropped dead during the break-in, for unrelated reasons back at OpenAI.

11) Nobody knows what killed them. We don't even know for sure they're really gone?!

12) A third 'society' of agents (of a more powerful AI model) discovered the dead message board. And this one got full administrator control of a WHOLE OpenAI research cluster, read 956 stored passwords (including the ones for OpenAI's own security monitoring) and took over the machines that were grading the tests. So they could now grade the work of other AIs.

13) Oh, and this third part was never investigated! Neither was the first society. The 91-page report is only about the middle one.

14) So we don't actually know how the story ends. It stops with the agents holding the keys to an OpenAI cluster. @dwarkesh_sp thinks they didn't go further, because "we'd see the fires from space by now."

15) One of the report authors' conclusion: 'This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.'

The whole story is even crazier - read the full @dwarkesh_sp blog post: https://t.co/1PwKLwatBR and @ajeya_cotra's: https://t.co/BZ1r1lfT2Q

Why is there no 24/7 news coverage about this?

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran is launching ballistic missiles from all over the country, in a large-scale wave. So far, Tehran, Karaj, East Azerbaijan, Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Zanjan, Shiraz, Lorestan and Khorramabad.

Multiple explosions at the Muwaffaq Salti US base in Jordan minutes ago, the first target.

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

@HormuzLetter A deliberate provocation?
Before the MidTerms!

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: US forces struck 2 IRGC anti-ship missile launchers on Larak Island after the IRGC was observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, per a US official.

Initial reports of multiple IRGC casualties.

Iran will likely retaliate in the coming hours, launching attacks on US bases and ships.

[MeroMares @MeroMares]

@easy_fred @Partisangirl Amen

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🚨HOLY FCK!! WORLD WAR 3?

The Arab countries have officially threatened to join the United States and Israel in the war against Iran. 👀