WalterBeenJammin

Masked bandit. Robin of Lox-ley.

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@bahradx @s8mb This is a quirk of Claude, I’ve noticed.

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@krugermacro @kenny83 And you’ll just change your tune again when Bitcoin inevitably reverses course. You’re a follower, not out front.

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@LinkofSunshine @transgendererer You prefer a high school coach to be satisfied with their lot in life. I respect that.

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@himbopresident Hard to watch basketball anymore. Everything just feels like slop tbh.

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@iycrtylph He actually defended reading Mark Twain (actual literature over "non fiction), which is...interesting.

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@BadFilmTakes1 Schindler's List is disqualifying imo. Crash and Bad Lieutenant ftw.

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@StatisticUrban The entire stock market is about to tokenized through crypto. You were catastrophically wrong there.

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@expatanon @useful_emetic @pangram Oof. I’ve fooled pangram with Claude Opus.

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@MaksimXBT @ARKInvest Legislation being passed now cannot easily be undone.

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@AstorAaron @brsgr4049 I encourage you to go to the highest tier of Claude and mess around with complex philosophical prompts. Everyone is cooked.

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@moultano This is something @BigMeanInternet needs to ponder especially. He's been having a bad war.

[Hamidreza Azizi @HamidRezaAz]

A non-aggression pact between #Iran and Saudi Arabia?

🔹The Financial Times report on Saudi Arabia’s proposal for a regional “non-aggression pact” between Iran and neighboring states is not merely a temporary diplomatic initiative. Rather, it signals Riyadh’s attempt to redefine the Middle East’s security architecture in the aftermath of the U.S./Israeli war on Iran.

🔹The significance of this idea lies less in the pact itself – after all, this is not the first time such an idea is being discussed – than in the strategic logic behind it. Saudi Arabia appears to have concluded that the perpetual cycle of deterrence, limited strikes, and proxy warfare can no longer be managed solely through reliance on the American security umbrella.

🔹The Saudis’ reference to the 1970s “Helsinki process” is also far from accidental. That model was designed precisely to manage competition between hostile blocs, not to fully resolve ideological and geopolitical disputes. In other words, the objective is not to eliminate tensions, but to contain them.

🔹In effect, Riyadh now seems to be moving toward a form of implicit acceptance of a new regional balance of power, in which Iran, despite the heavy costs of the recent war, remains an indispensable actor in the region’s security equations.

🔹This shift also reflects a broader change in the Saudi conception of “stability.” For years, many Arab states defined regional security in terms of containing or weakening Iran’s regional influence. Now, however, the primary priority appears to be preventing Iran-Israel conflict from escalating into a permanent regional war.

🔹From this perspective, the proposal for a non-aggression pact should be understood as part of the broader trend toward the “regionalization” of Persian Gulf security. This process began with the China-mediated Iran-Saudi rapprochement in 2023 and may now enter a more complex phase, i.e., the establishment of rules of conduct for crisis management.

🔹At the same time, comparisons between the Middle East and Cold War-era Europe have serious limitations. Unlike Europe, the region lacks durable institutional structures, clear deterrence lines, and even a minimal consensus over the foundations of a regional security order. Moreover, the role of non-state actors and multilayered conflicts makes the equation far more complex.

🔹More importantly, any such initiative would remain inherently fragile without some degree of mutual understanding between Iran and Israel regarding the acceptable limits of escalation. Any new direct confrontation could easily destroy the entire process of regional de-escalation.

🔹At the same time, the proposal itself demonstrates that the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are increasingly concerned about the spillover of Iran-Israel rivalry into their energy infrastructure, trade corridors, and economic development projects. This concern has now become a major driver of regional policy.

🔹For this reason, even if the idea of a “non-aggression pact” never materializes into a formal agreement, the very fact that it has been proposed carries an important message, that a significant part of the Arab world is no longer seeking to exclude Iran from the region’s security equations, but rather to make patterns of interaction with Tehran more predictable.

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@ForTheWynn_ How is a 15-9 vote "squeezed past"? Are you mental?

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@katpburke Central premise that the film’s message is that good art redeems a bad artist is just a bad reading imo. The film depicts that idea, sure, but it far from endorses it.

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@redroomrantings Outside of like a dozen critics, who's actually making money reviewing films?

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@The_Pequod_ I find it hard to believe anyone actually likes that Suicide album.

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@genzmoney97 @InvestingAddict Nah, Clarity Act is mainly a market structure bill — CFTC gets clear authority over digital commodities like BTC (spot, exchanges, custody, etc.). Stablecoin/banking drama is loud right now but it's a sideshow. Bitcoin benefits big from the regulatory clarity here. Not priced in.

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@alexntaylorx @joedhwu @MissSassbox They are unfortunately.

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@celinedionysus_ @w0rldmap It happened in 2024 dude

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@aarewethereyet You nailed it with that music grid 🤣