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Did you know that at the height of the Cold War in the '50s, the USAF secretly funded a 40 ft flying saucer to rain nuclear weapons on the USSR from orbit. Conceived by North American Aviation, the Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (LRV) was designed to operate from 300 miles in space, reenter at hypersonic speed, and maneuver within the atmosphere to nuke its target. 1/2
The more I look into Chen Zhi the more my head spins. This guy was CRAZY
I would have to write a MASSIVE document on this guy to explain everything.
- Owned a BANK
- Owned a series of hotels and apartments
- Owned a series of casinos
- Owned a series of supermarkets
- Owned cryptomining facilities
- Owned a bunch of cigar stuff
- Owned a water purification company
- Had offices in the United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, China, Cambodia
- Thousands of employees
All of this was fueled by him doing HUMAN TRAFFICKING of women (including minors) to perform sextortion and scamming for cryptocurrency. The United States asserts he had as many as 100,000 SLAVES. His scamming was making (at its peak) $30,000,000 a day ($10,000,000,000 a year).
He won numerous awards for his businesses. He was friends with political elite in China and Cambodia. He was named a "Lord" in Cambodia. He was praised for his philanthropy.
The United States government tied his organization to torture and other violent crimes. He was responsible for a "cartel execution and brutal murder" of a 25 year old man. He worked with "14K Triad" to manage casinos and slaves where he worked (in some capacity) with their leader "Broken Tooth" for stuff surrounding prostitution, murder for hire, human trafficking, drug smuggling, etc.
His bank had assets of over $1,000,000,000. He had a series of apartment complexes and resorts that invested over $10,000,000,000 into. He purchased a large portion of cigar stocks, investing over $1,500,000,000. He donated over $2,000,000,000 to various places in Cambodia.
In 2025 the United States seized his BTC worth $15,000,000,0000. The estimation of all of his assets, crime, employees, etc. passes $75,000,000,000, possibly higher.
He had a collection of super cars, yachts, mansions....
BREAKING:
The UAE announces it will cuts funds for citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear of Emirati students being radicalized by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on British campuses.
An Arab state now views a European state as a dangerous Islamist radicalization hotspot
🚨 Cisco switches are entering reboot loops due to a fatal DNS client bug.
Multiple CBS, SG, and Catalyst models are affected, with devices crashing after DNS lookup failures.
Admins report disabling DNS stops the reboots.
Full details 👇
https://t.co/04SuCLO8KC
❗️A black-hat hacker named Davy de Valk, who studied computer science but was officially on welfare, installed a remote access tool on Port of Antwerp systems to facilitate undetected drug smuggling.
He was selling intelligence to narcos.
He has been sentenced in Amsterdam to 7 years in prison.
China Tightens AI Controls to Protect Party Rule
China sees AI as vital to its economic and military future—but also as a political risk. Worried that chatbots could challenge Communist Party rule, Beijing is imposing strict controls to keep AI in line while still trying to stay competitive with the U.S.
New rules require chatbots to be trained on politically filtered data, pass ideological tests before launch, and label all AI-generated content so it can be traced. Authorities say they removed nearly 1 million pieces of “illegal or harmful” AI content in a recent crackdown and now list AI as a national security risk alongside disasters like earthquakes.
Source: WSJ
@AndrewPerpetua When I bought a new computer (with the goal of putting linux on it), I tried once to boot into windows. I saw that the process does not work AT ALL (!!) without connecting to the internet and phoning home to Microsoft servers.
This is dystopian.
So here’s what’s happening :
In the Trust Wallet browser extension code 4482.js
a recent update added hidden code that silently sends wallet data outside
It pretends to be analytics, but it tracks wallet activity and triggers when a seed phrase is imported
The data was sent to metrics-trustwallet[.]com a domain registered days ago and now down
This is what I worry Europe will get negatively polarized into: an ideology taking pride in a neat, sanitized online environment free of evil corporate and fascist pathogens.
I hope European govs do not go this way, and instead take a Pirate Party approach of user empowerment.
First, what's wrong with the tweet I'm quoting:
The idea that there should be "no space" for something you dislike is fundamentally a totalitarian and anti-pluralistic impulse. It's incompatible with being in an environment that you do not fully control.
This is especially true for categories that are subjective and controversial, because you end up trying to fully remove things you think are pathogens, when other people have good faith disagreements, and because you give yourself the maximalist goal of not even giving them breathing room, you create conflict and end up building the machinery of technocratic authoritarianism to impose your victory in the conflict.
So sorry, if you want to be a free society, you have to bite the bullet that some people, somewhere, will be selling things that you consider dangerous and saying things you consider disinformation and vicious lies.
What is the goal to shoot for?
You want to create an environment where those things don't dominate. This is the problem with twitter today: not that it's a safe space where 1000 people talk to each other in a corner about how heritage americans are the master race and putin is good or whatever, but that that crap gets shoved in our face on a mass scale, and the algorithms actively favor it.
The right metaphor is not castles and walls, but biological - think, why European forests don't have tropical lizards.
Having incentives for social media platforms to have less of those things instead of more is fundamentally reasonable, @audreyt has talked about how Taiwan has done something similar.
You also want to do this in a way where it's clear what the underlying principle is, so it's not a vehicle for imposing arbitrary and frequently changing expert-consensus agendas.
You also want to empower users, rather than working against them. People want to see and buy good things instead of bad things. Often the problem is that competition is too difficult in the current market. I actually supported the USB-C standardization mandate; it created more interoperability and thus improved competition and convenience. I would support incentivizing social platforms to be more open, and to be more transparent (eg. my proposal to require algorithms to be continuously published with a 1-2 year delay, with zk-proofs to ensure that the algorithm being used in real time exactly equals the one that gets published later)
Being able to better identify what messages are coming from what communities is also good, though I don't support the direction of banning anonymity of individual posters, rather I would want to see more macro-scale analytics, eg. seeing what communities are most strongly saying and amplifying content that semantically matches a particular idea; this can be done in privacy-preserving ways.
There is a real opportunity to reaffirm freedom of speech in a unique and different way, that emphasizes pluralism and pushes against unbalanced attempts to manipulate the discourse by individual powerful actors. We want to do this, not go down the dark path of having something that claims to support fundamental rights but actually is not trusted by anyone to be anything other than the fundamental right to follow the footsteps of a few technocratic experts.