Martin Glažar

[il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo]

MAKE EL CUBA GREAT AGAINO!!!🇨🇺🥳🥳🥳

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

Scientists just copied a Fruit Fly's biological brain and trapped it inside of a computer.
Not an AI model trained to act like a fly... A total digital copy of a fly !! This is some sick sci-fi stuff:

- They scanned and copied the brain, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse, from electron microscopy data.
- Then dropped that brain into a simulated body in a video game like environment.

The fly walked. It groomed. It fed. Nobody taught it anything. The behavior was already in the wiring.

The entire premise of modern AI is that intelligence is something you train into a system. This is proof it's something you can transfer out of one. Wild times

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: A petri dish of human brain cells just learned to play DOOM

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone talks about Iranian oil in barrels. Nobody talks about what is inside them. That difference is why Western refineries have been running shadow networks through Dubai for twenty years to get it despite the sanctions.

Crude oil is not a uniform commodity. It is a spectrum of hydrocarbons with different molecular weights, and the composition of a given crude determines how easily it converts into the products refineries actually want to sell: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil. The measurement that captures this is API gravity. Higher API gravity means lighter crude with shorter carbon chains, which means lower energy cost to crack, lower processing cost to refine, and higher yield of the light distillates that carry premium pricing. Lower API gravity means heavier crude requiring more energy, more processing steps, more capital equipment, and producing a higher share of lower-value residuals.

Iranian Light crude runs at 33 to 36 degrees API gravity with sulfur content between 1.36 and 1.5 percent. That is the refinery sweet spot. It is light enough to yield high fractions of gasoline and middle distillates without excessive processing costs, but heavy enough to produce the full range of products that complex refineries are designed to process. It is what petroleum engineers call an optimal blend crude.

Now compare the alternatives.

Venezuelan Merey heavy crude runs at approximately 16 degrees API gravity with sulfur between 3 and 5 percent. Refining it profitably requires a coking unit, a hydrocracker, and an extensive desulfurization train. The equipment exists. The economics work for refineries purpose-built around Venezuelan feedstock. It is not a substitute for Iranian crude. It is a different product requiring different industrial infrastructure.

US West Texas Intermediate runs at 39 to 40 degrees API with sulfur below 0.25 percent. In theory, the cleanest and easiest crude to process. In practice, it is so light that it does not yield the heavier middle distillates a complex refinery needs to run at full capacity. European and Asian refineries built around medium crudes cannot switch to WTI without blending it with heavier crudes to achieve the molecular weight distribution their process units require. WTI is not a drop-in replacement for Iranian medium.

Iranian oil fits where both US shale and Venezuelan heavy do not. It is the liquid that flows through the middle of the global refining system without requiring either the coking infrastructure for heavy crudes or the blending operations for ultra-light shale. That molecular fit is why it commands a persistent premium above comparable grades. It is why Indian refineries maintained Iranian crude purchases through every round of sanctions and negotiated the logistics to keep that flow moving. It is why the Dubai shadow banking and trading network that the UAE is now considering dismantling existed in the first place.

The Strait of Hormuz does not just carry oil. It carries the specific category of oil that the global refining system was built to process most efficiently. Closing it does not just reduce supply. It removes the grade of crude that the system runs best on and forces every refinery in the world to run less efficiently on whatever it can find as a substitute.

That is the premium embedded in the $82 oil price. Not just volume. Molecular weight.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

BYD built their own fleet of ships.

9 ships in total. Full high-end logistics.

Self-driving ”ro-ro” shipping, 1 million cars capacity.

Time to load up on BYD

[Alexander Stoyanov @Al_Stoyanov]

GDP per region in #Austria-#Hungary, 1880

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Macron: Russian energy stopped in 2022. There is no way back.

China as a supermarket for our export is over, and during the past 2 years we were overwhelmed by the Chinese export.

The US is imposing tariffs on us and a series of economic coercion mechanisms. 1/

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

This is how people can start understanding what's happening‼️

[Oliver Prompts @oliviscusAI]

this is scary.. GeoSpy AI can track your exact location using social media photos in 2 secs and show it in 3D.

upload photo -> get coordinates.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The 'knight’s tour' is a sequence of a knight's moves on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square only once.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

The growth of Paris from 250 AD to the present day in 3 minutes.

[Martin Glažar @marthing22]

@mhp_guy What do they do in the “bed room”? They sell beds there?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

AI glasses can now recognize anyone, anywhere.

A Dutch journalist just tested a pair of AI-powered glasses that can instantly identify strangers on the street.

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

John McAfee: "Let me give you some clues. In Satoshi's white paper, every word that has dual spellings for American and British English is British. It is all British. Every sentence is followed by two spaces. Now that's a minority choice in most, but two spaces. There are only two that can be accused who were British, and only one of those has two spaces in every one of his papers. Figure it out, people."

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

''If we leave NATO, Ukraine joins it, and then Europe and Canada have a united force that exceeds ours ... and they don't have to fly 7 hours across the Atlantic to defend their territory. We'd have to, on limited resources, no place to land and nothing to gain.''

- Malcolm Nance 🇺🇸
Former 36 Year United States Intelligence Veteran specializing in MENA/SWA terrorism.
@MalcolmNance

[HTX Studio @HTX_Studio]

To actually see music, we built a real magic piano! This is our DIY video of the Year, hope you guys like it!
@redmagicgaming #REDMAGIC11Pro #GamingPhone

[Gentle Man @Gentle_masc]

Most people chase success with the wrong playbook.

They work harder, not smarter.

Here are 10 laws that separate winners from everyone else:

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

China's electricity is now 30% more than Europe's — PER CAPITA.

More than double in total.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Carl Jung is amongst the wisest men who’s ever lived.