The biggest news of the day:
🇸🇦🇺🇸 Saudi Arabia ditches US dollar and will NOT renew the 50 year 'petro-dollar' agreement with the United States.
Saudi Arabia will now sell oil in multiple currencies, including the Chinese RMB, Euros, Yen, and Yuan, instead of exclusively in US dollars.
The GTA5 source code was leaked out of spite; here’s why:
The GTA5 source code was allegedly bought for $2000 USD (LTC) in a group buy amongst a group in the modding community. (I'm not entirely sure which modding group to join; I’m being told several different things.)
Allegedly, one of the members of the group buy: Kieron Austin, (also goes by Austinator Modz, XBL Dragonfly, TMP, TickleMePickles, and SecretSauce.). "TMP" is short for "TickleMePickles," his original account that got banned (as you can see in one of the screenshots).
He allegedly contributed no money during that group purchase. Which resulted in him getting the source for free. He allegedly then tried to sell the code for $6k ($4000 USD profit) and scam another individual (he failed).
Kieron then attempted several times to sell the source code for $199–500 USD to individuals on Discord, which is way cheaper than the initial $2000 group buy. That doesn’t matter for Kieron, as he paid nothing to get it to begin with; this was all profit for him.
Kieron continued to try and sell it but was making no profit. As a result of this, he leaked it out of spite. If he wasn’t able to make a profit, he was going to make sure no one else could.
There’s a lot of detail left out of this story, as I am reporting on what I was told by two credible people. It seems a lot of the other information I won’t report on is either personal information or stuff I'm not 100% sure about reporting on. I’m also being told different things by different people. If anything else comes up, I’ll be sure to report on what I’m told. #GTA5
I recently pointed out how @CommunityNotes are gamed by bad actors who form online groups to coordinate placements of notes against targeted authors on X. I’m one of those targets.
This note below was written by someone who dedicates most of his notes to Ukraine/Russia content clearly in favor of Ukraine. https://t.co/3ckhNXGf25
This note author has previously submitted notes to defend Zelenskyy with statements like this and without providing any evidence:
“The tweet seems to be written under the influence of cocaine, each sentence is a lie and has no relation to each other.”
This note author has claimed that the sales agreements for the 2 yachts that Zelenskyy allegedly bought via proxies (people he has used as straw-men in other deals in the past as revealed by the Panama papers) have been edited without providing any evidence. The only edits are redactions that would otherwise reveal the details of the parties to the agreements.
Then the note author claims that the yachts are still for sale. But on review of the 2 links he provided those listings are several months old. The sale occurred very recently based on the leaked agreements. Yachts are usually brokered by several agents and when a sale takes place most listings are not updated frequently, especially when a competing agent made the sale.
This note is clear evidence that @CommunityNotes are not trustworthy, that the system is being gamed by bad actors, and that notes are becoming a detriment to the stated mission of X to be a place for truth.
Serious allegations of corruption have been made against Zelenskyy numerous times. Most of them corroborated by damning evidence like the Panama papers.
In fact a poll I posted yesterday found that 89% of 39,000 voters think that Zelenskyy is corrupt. X users deserve better than the current @CommunityNotes system. It has no credibility because it’s so easy to game and abuse.
If any real evidence should surface that the yacht purchases were not made by Zelenskyy’s longtime proxies I will of course update you.