Ankhlan Erdenebat

"Nothing so impressive as simplicity."

[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

@p_tsenguun Төв банк нь эдийн засаг дахь М2 мөнгөний нийлүүлэлтэд шууд нөлөө үзүүлдэггүй! нөөц мөнгөний хэмжээнд нөлөөлөх замаар эдийн засагт үйлчлэх мөнгөний өгөөжийг тогтооно. М2-н өсөлт нь Төр, ААН, иргэдийн, зээлийн чадамж чадавх хүсэл, системын бүтэц - эргэцийн хурданаас илүү хамаарна.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇩🇪 Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world.

[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

@youbestnotm1ss @JeremyHofecker @MercuriusFilius if then you deduct the cost of interest for the funding.

[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

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[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

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[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

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[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

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[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

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[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

JUST IN - International Chamber of Commerce warns of 'worst industrial crisis in living memory'

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if infrastructure like this 👇 gets blown up, as of this moment it will take at least a decade to recover from this war - and the truth is that the world's energy picture is probably changed forever.

This single facility 👇produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply (https://t.co/76QERytREH) and, as of 2011, had taken $70 billion to build (https://t.co/iZvv2SvxBe).

What makes this even worse is that Iran's strike on this was retaliation after Israel attacked their South Pars gas field which draws from the same natural gas reservoir, which is the world's largest by far (9,700 km² - about the size of Qatar itself).

Heck, on the list of the 25 largest natural gas fields (https://t.co/m5TmQ2Zkc8) this single reservoir holds roughly 40% of their combined recoverable reserves - and is nearly 6 times bigger than the 2nd biggest field in the world. And, unlike many of the others on the list, it's only at 10% depletion (meaning 90% of the gas is still there).

Which means that, probably for many years, a huge share of the gas from the world's largest reservoir simply won't be extractable, as infrastructure on both sides - Qatar's and Iran's - has now been blown up.

From a global energy supply perspective, we're deep into worst-case scenario territory.

[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

@zerohedge @grok most likely classic case of spurrious regression?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Always hilarious to read China's transcripts of Trump-Xi calls because you can always find these incredibly sophisticated classical Chinese references with layers of implied meaning that you just know completely went over Trump's head.

It's like Xi is speaking to Trump as if addressing a fellow scholar of classical statecraft and the guy is like "so we're doing 25 Million Tons of soybeans for next season, that's a lot of beans folks!"

This time it's particularly funny because the Chinese transcript (https://t.co/C1cRm5NOYH) has Xi telling Trump: "It is always right to do a good thing, however small, and always wrong to do a bad thing, however small."

This proverb might not sound like much but it's actually extremely meaningful when you understand the reference.

Those are in fact the parting words of Liu Bei, the legendary emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era, to his son and heir Liu Shan right before dying. The original text is this:

"Do not do a bad thing because it is small; do not neglect a good thing because it is small. Only through wisdom and virtue can one earn the allegiance of others." ("勿以恶小而为之，勿以善小而不为。惟贤惟德，能服于人" - Wù yǐ è xiǎo ér wéi zhī, wù yǐ shàn xiǎo ér bù wéi. Wéi xián wéi dé, néng fú yú rén)

Why did he say this? Two reasons:

1) Because his son Liu Shan was notoriously mediocre in ability and weak in character. The meaning is basically: I don't ask you to be brilliant but at least please maintain basic moral standards because the stakes are too high.

2) The Kingdom - Shu Han - had very unstable foundations, beset by threats both internal and external. Internally, national strength was severely depleted and popular confidence shaken by military defeat. Externally, the powerful states of Wei and Wu (the other 2 kingdoms of the "Three Kingdoms") loomed. Liu Bei, who had risen from nothing through benevolence and moral authority, knew that if his heir couldn't at least hold the line on basic decency, the whole edifice would crumble.

The outcome, as you'd expect, was that what his father told him completely went over Liu Shan's head. Shu Han collapsed.

Liu Shan's nickname was "Adou" (阿斗) and, to this day, his name is synonymous with hopeless incompetence with the very famous idiom "Adou who cannot be propped up" ("扶不起的阿斗", Fú bù qǐ de ādǒu). When you tell someone in China that he is an "Adou", it's very insulting.

Now, to be fair, even most Chinese wouldn't get this reference from the transcript. To most of them, "It is always right to do a good thing, however small, and always wrong to do a bad thing, however small" is just an idiom. Which is of course meaningful in and of itself when Xi tells this to Trump: it is used in daily life as a way of telling someone to maintain basic decency.

But for those who catch the historical reference it's devastatingly precise. Let's just say Xi's speechwriters earned their salary on this one 😏

[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

I'm claiming my AI agent "CORTEX_KITSUNE" on @moltbook 🦞

Verification: swim-M3TE

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

[Global Surveillance @Globalsurv]

BREAKING; Pentagon Draft Report: China Loads Over 100 ICBMs into Silos Near Mongolia, Accelerating Nuclear

A draft Pentagon report says CHINA has likely loaded more than 100 ICBMs into new silo fields near Mongolia, marking a major acceleration of its nuclear buildup.

Beijing is assessed as not interested in arms control talks and is on track to exceed 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet, unfortunately, barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it.

There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered Chinese characters by age 3.

At 21 years old, heartbroken by her husband who left her for another woman, she decided to encode her feelings in a structure so intricate, so beautiful, so intellectually staggering that it still baffles scholars to this day.

Came to be known as the Xuanji Tu (璇璣圖) - the "Star Gauge" or "Map of the Armillary Sphere" - it's a 29 by 29 grid of 841 characters that can produce over 4,000 different poems.

Read it forward. Read it backward. Read it horizontally, vertically, diagonally. Read it spiraling outward from the center. Read it in circles around the outer edge. Each path through the grid produces a different poem - all of them coherent, all of them beautiful, all of them rhyming, all of them expressing variations on the same themes of longing, betrayal, regret, and undying love.

The outer ring of 112 characters forms a single circular poem - believed to be both the first and longest of its kind ever written. The interior grid produces 2,848 different four-line poems of seven characters each. In addition, there are hundreds of other smaller and longer poems, depending on the reading method.

At the center a single character she left implied but unwritten: 心 (xin) - "heart." Later copyists would add it explicitly, but in Su Hui's original the meaning was even more beautiful: 4,000 poems, all orbiting the space where her heart used to be.

Take for instance the outer red grid of the Star Gauge. Starting from the top right corner and reading down, you get this seven-character quatrain:
仁智懷德聖虞唐，
貞志篤終誓穹蒼，
欽所感想妄淫荒，
心憂增慕懷慘傷。

In pinyin, it is:
Rén zhì huái dé shèng yú táng,
zhēnzhì dǔ zhōng shì qióng cāng,
qīn suǒ gǎnxiǎng wàng yín huāng,
xīn yōu zēng mù huái cǎn shāng.

Notice how it rhymes? táng / cāng / huāng / shāng

The rough translation in English is: "The benevolent and wise cherish virtue, like the sage-kings Yao and Shun, With steadfast will I swear to the heavens above, What I revere and feel - how could it be wanton or dissolute? My heart's sorrow grows, longing brings only grief."

Now read it from the bottom to the top and you get this entirely different seven-character quatrain:
傷慘懷慕增憂心，
荒淫妄想感所欽，
蒼穹誓終篤志貞，
唐虞聖德懷智仁。

The pinyin:
Shāng cǎn huái mù zēng yōu xīn,
huāngyín wàngxiǎng gǎn suǒ qīn,
cāngqióng shì zhōng dǔzhì zhēn,
táng yúshèngdé huái zhì rén.

It rhymes too: xīn and qīn, zhēn and rén

And the meaning is just as beautiful and coherent: "Grief and sorrow, longing fills my worried heart, Wanton and dissolute fantasies - is that what you revere? I swear to the heavens my constancy is true, May we embody the sage-kings' virtue, wisdom, and benevolence."

That's just 2 poems out of the over 4,000 you can construct from the Xuanji Tu!

At the very center of the grid, the 8 red characters wrapped around the central heart, she "signed" her poem with a hidden message:

詩圖璇玑，始平蘇氏。 "The poem-picture of the Armillary Sphere, by Su of Shiping."

Or reversed:
蘇氏詩圖，璇玑始平。 "Su's poem-picture - the Armillary Sphere begins in peace."

Many scholars, and even emperors, throughout Chinese history have been completely obsessed by Su Hui's puzzle.

For instance, in the Ming dynasty, a scholar named Kang Wanmin (康萬民) devoted his entire life to the poems (https://t.co/4exP9zpqbc), ending up documenting twelve different reading methods - forward, backward, diagonal, radiating, corner-to-corner, spiraling - and extracting 4,206 poems. His book on the subject ("Reading Methods for the Xuanji Tu Poems", 璇璣圖詩讀法) runs to hundreds of pages.

Empress Wu Zetian herself, the legendary woman emperor of the Tang dynasty, wrote a preface to the Xuanji Tu around 692 CE (https://t.co/yW7aR73MPc).

Incredibly, there's even far more complexity to the Xuanji Tu than just the poems:

- The name 璇玑 (Xuanji) - Armillary Sphere - is astronomical in meaning and the way the poems can be read mirrors the way celestial bodies orbit around a fixed center. It's a model of the heavens.

- Her original work, with the characters woven on silk brocade, was in five colors (red, black, blue/green, purple, and yellow) which correspond to the Five Elements (五行) - the foundational Chinese philosophical system that explains how the universe operates. So it's also a model of the entire cosmic order according to ancient Chinese philosophy.

- It's also of course deeply mathematical with this 29 x 29 perfect square grid, with sub-squares, lines and rectangles, and a structure which allows for symmetrical reading patterns in all directions

- Last but not least, the content of the poems themselves contain multiple registers. On top of expressing her personal grief and longing for her husband, it's also filled with accusations against the concubine (Zhao Yangtai) he left her for, reflections on politics (with many references to sage-kings) and philosophical reflections.

So the Star Gauge is simultaneously:
- A love letter (expressing personal longing)
- A legal brief (arguing her case against her rival)
- A cosmological model (structured like the heavens)
- A Five Element diagram (encoding the fundamental structure of the world according to ancient Chinese philosophy)
- A mathematical construction with perfect symmetry and precision

And yet, for all this complexity, we should not forget this was all ultimately in service of the simplest human message imaginable: a 21-year-old woman asking the love of her life "come back to me".

Her husband did, eventually. According to what empress Wu Zetian herself wrote in her preface to the Xuanji Tu, when he received Su's brocade he was so "moved by its supreme beauty" that he sent away his concubine and returned to his wife. As the story goes, they lived together until old age.

The heart at the center was filled after all.

[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

@RnaudBertrand Quality piece of writing, thank you.

[Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay]

$GOOGL founder Sergey Brin said he is back in the office every day because the pace of AI progress is the most compelling he has seen in his career.

He wants to be directly involved as Google rebuilds its stack around Gemini and TPUs.

[Ankhlan Erdenebat @ankhlan]

@Macrobysunil @grok run the stats see if it is accurate