@StewartalsopIII 2015 was a phase transition of critical saturation of cheap web phone devices. The hyper connection of humanity created for the first time a visible collective consciousnesses and just like the individual one with neurons; awareness, shame and censorship started to emerge.
@StewartalsopIII The relevant llm dark forest is US vs China. Looks to me that US plan is to do centralized llm for innovation hyperinflation again but this time China is successfully disrupting it with open source to counter the potential valuation. Regulation is now the only risky out for US.
@StraubHart@StewartalsopIII@rfuzzlemuzz@Laneless_@hugolowell@WIRED Following logical consequence from perception others should also be regulated. However, futile activity within competition for capabilities and useful only in performance to communicate to others you still exist.
@SeekerNano45042@luo_yuehan Makes sense for categorizing specific diplomatic actions but looks reductive for a nation, even for China or US. There is strong global US state authority. I don't believe capital can actually govern, a mean, not an end. Used in a more efficient way in China but similar to US.
Venezuela's crude exports just hit 1,300,000 barrels per day.
The Hormuz crisis made this possible.
January 2026: exports collapsed to 450 kbd as the Iran war broke out.
June 2026: exports surged to 1,300 kbd nearly tripling in 6 months.
๐ฐ3 buyers drove the surge:
๐บ๐ธ US: the dominant buyer. Gulf Coast refiners need heavy crude to replace lost Middle East supply. Venezuela has it.
๐ฎ๐ณ India: barely present in 2025. Now a major buyer โ hunting every non-Gulf heavy barrel available.
๐จ๐ณChina: stepped in when US buying dipped, now sharing the market.
The logic is simple.
Iranian heavy crude is off the market.
Middle East sour grades can't transit Hormuz.
US and Asian refiners built for heavy feedstock need replacement barrels urgently.
Venezuela has 1.3 mb/d of heavy crude, Atlantic access, and no Hormuz exposure.
A year ago this was a sanctions story.
Today it's a supply security story.
The Hormuz crisis didn't just disrupt the Middle East.
It rehabilitated Venezuela as a strategic supplier to 3 of the world's largest oil buyers simultaneously.
@StewartalsopIII All that hard work from the neoplatonists for the enlightenment of Descartes and Leibniz to fail to categorize the soul as indivisible substance and the latter perception of the soul as the harmonic manifestation and collaboration of the neural components emergent in the same way
@StewartalsopIII No matter the topic, the answer for the collective is always starve it, for the individual, it depends, what's your objective? About feelings, the funniest is below imagine. But you can add reactive style.md behaviors.
@StewartalsopIII Looking for that behavioral effect? Feelings as reactions steering the generation in relation of words towards simulated taste. I couldn't stop laughing when first read claw's default soul.md
My bullish/bearish take on bitcoin is that we shouldnโt blame any entity for buying too much of it, because if bitcoin can be killed by an entity buying it, then it wasnโt meant to be.
If all it takes to kill bitcoin is a bullish entity that likes it enough to buy, then go home.