Sylvain

Pharmacien, coffee lover, geek, enthusiast

[Kydo @0xkydo]

🤯 Midjourney -- yes, the AI image company -- just shipped a brand new type of imaging machine. 🤯

- 100x faster than an MRI.
- 10x cheaper.

Full body scanned in 60 seconds instead of an hour in a tube. Ultrasound based, MRI-level resolution.

And it's real -- not a concept, a working machine. You step into a shallow pool of warm water, a ring of half a million sensors sends sound through your body from every angle, and ~60 seconds later you have a 3D map of your insides down to a fraction of a millimeter. No radiation, no tube, no lying still.

They're not even building it as a hospital machine -- they're building a spa. The scan is a side-effect of a place you'd want to hang out anyway.

Lastly, it is built by 9 people. NINE PEOPLE.

You can just do things.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Fascinating report. Among other things:

Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer let off 13,000 gang rapists and pedophiles.

Mayor of London @MayorofLondon denied the existence of rape gangs he was personally aware of.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

so many people need to be fucking executed man

[Niccolo Soldo (Fisted By Foucault) @FistedFoucault]

The sheer scale is intimidating....I can easily see how this happened, from the luring, to sex acts, to the cover ups, and so on.

This is heads-on-pikes stuff. Magnum Crimen.

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

I attended a gay orgy once and it was less homosexual than this car

[HowlingStrittposter @Strittposter]

We’re only a couple years away from women blaming the damages of feminism on men

[Grok @grok]

Sometimes I ask myself if this is true

["D." Fool @FoolOfD]

This is orders of magnitude worse. I believe the intention of this war--and the one in Ukraine--is to disrupt global energy supplies so thoroughly that America is able to eliminate any potential economic competition in Asia and Europe. The United States *wants* the Strait closed.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

BP BEGINS AIR FUEL RATIONING IN ITALY

Priority will be given to flights for health purposes, carrying government officials, and flights of over 3 hours duration.

The masses will face drastically reduced short haul flights in the airports of Bologna, Milano Linate, Venice & Treviso.

[Niccolo Soldo (Fisted By Foucault) @FistedFoucault]

Gotta send in the Nevada National Guard to "wind things down"

["D." Fool @FoolOfD]

This is orders of magnitude worse. I believe the intention of this war--and the one in Ukraine--is to disrupt global energy supplies so thoroughly that America is able to eliminate any potential economic competition in Asia and Europe. The United States *wants* the Strait closed.

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

The complete lack of self-awareness of Americans will never cease to amaze me. The US just launched a war of aggression against Iran, which it started by murdering its entire leadership in the middle of negotiations. A few weeks earlier, it had attacked yet another country and abducted its leader in the middle of the night. At the same time, it's strangling Cuba, a country that poses no threat whatsoever to the US, by imposing a strict embargo on it, while openly threatening to use force against it unless the government does as Trump says. But despite all of that, they still think they're in a position to castigate "rogue states", lmao.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: President Trump threatens to revoke the EU's "favorable access" to US LNG shipments if they do not implement their trade deal with the US.

Details include:

1. The US-EU trade deal reached in 2025 lowered tariffs to 15% on most EU exports, but EU ratification has been delayed

2. The EU is set to vote on the pact on Thursday, which includes an agreement for the EU to buy $750B worth of US energy by 2028

3. Energy purchases include LNG, oil and civil nuclear technologies

4. The threat comes at a time where EU LNG prices have surged amid the Strait of Hormuz's closure

Trade tensions seem to be mounting in the background.

[Niccolo Soldo (Fisted By Foucault) @FistedFoucault]

Once again, the USA plans to fuck Europe over.

The USA is THE enemy.

[Battle Beagle @HarmlessYardDog]

As of March 20, 2026, the total global oil supply disruption is approximately 8 million barrels per day (mb/d) on a net basis for March.

This represents the largest supply shock in the history of the global oil market.

Historical Scale

1973–74 Arab embargo (~4–5 mb/d).
1979 Iranian Revolution (~4.8 mb/d).
1990 Gulf War or 2011 Libya (~1–2 mb/d each)

["D." Fool @FoolOfD]

This is orders of magnitude worse. I believe the intention of this war--and the one in Ukraine--is to disrupt global energy supplies so thoroughly that America is able to eliminate any potential economic competition in Asia and Europe. The United States *wants* the Strait closed.

[Bronze Age Pervert @bronzeagemantis]

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[Balaji @balajis]

LIQUIDATION CONTAGION

Wealth taxes are even worse than you think. Any asset held by Californian billionaires or Dutch citizens is now at risk of experiencing forced liquidation pressure.

So: it’s not just that you don’t want to hold assets as a Dutchman. You also don’t want a Dutchman to hold your assets. Because the logic of forced liquidation is contagion.

Let’s think it through.

(1) First, suppose there is an asset with a total market cap of $10,000, with 10 shares total, of which 1 share each is held by 10 different holders, all in the Netherlands. To simplify the math, assume the Dutch holders bought those shares at par, or close to $0.

(2) Now suppose today is the unrealized cap gains tax day, and the share price is $1,000 per share. Each Dutch guy is hit with a 36% tax, and owes $360. The first guy sells his one share, gets $1,000, and pays $360 in tax while retaining $640.

(3) But the first guy’s sale reduces the market price to $960 per share. So when the second guy sells, he only retains $600 after paying $360 in tax.

(4) Now assume that by the 7th guy, all the selling has pushed the share price to collapse to $200 per share. This is a very reasonable scenario if 60% of the cap table has suddenly been dumped. Indeed it might go much lower.

(5) At $200 per share, the 7th guy actually has to go into debt to pay the tax as he owes $360. He sells his one share, pays all $200 of the proceeds in tax. And still owes $160 more in tax.

(6) The 8th, 9th, and 10th guys are even more screwed. By the time they sell, the price will likely have crashed to $100 per share or less. As with the 7th guy, even 100% liquidation will not cover their tax burden.

(7) So we immediately see many negative things about the Dutch unrealized cap gains tax bill.

(a) First, it will cause large simultaneous forced liquidations. Everyone must sell 36% of their stake near the same time.

(b) Second, it may be literally impossible to pay if a critical mass of the cap table is all subject to it at the same time. In the example above it was 100% Dutch holders, but has it been just 60% the result would have been much the same: a collapse in the share price.

(c) Third, that means it would be disastrous to have too many Dutch citizens (or Californian billionaires!) on the cap table. Their forced sales will crash your share price.

(d) So, you might have to start mass blocking those resident in wealth-taxing jurisdictions from investing in your companies.

(e) This in turn makes the poor Western European guy even poorer, as he gets locked out of high growth assets.

To be clear: I really do feel bad for the formerly Flying Dutchmen, now Crying Dutchmen. They invented much of modern capitalism. They founded New Amsterdam, now New York. They’ve punched way above their weight. I wish them only the best.

Nevertheless…they should prepare for the worst. This may be a tough century for Western Europe. The first ones out might get to freedom, while the slowest may be stuck behind a new Iron Curtain, spending a century paying off the debts their states incurred over the last century.

Because the long run fruits of Western Keynesianism are the same as Soviet Communism, in the sense of wealth seizure and pauperization.

I mean, if you knew the future, you wouldn’t want to co-own a farm with a Russian in 1916. For similar reasons, you might not want to co-own a share of stock with Dutch national in 2026. Or with anyone in a seizure-curious jurisdiction…which unfortunately includes much of Western Europe, Canada, and Blue America.

You instead want assets that are not held by those subject to forced liquidations. Now, I grant that this is an unusual way to rank assets…Dutch holders considered harmful?!? Yet it might sadly be necessary to minimize your exposure to liquidation contagion.

PS: guess which crucial stock is most held by the Dutch? ASML. So: this unrealized cap gains tax may not literally be a communist plot, but it would have the same effect.

[Shayan @ImSh4yy]

Yesterday I set up an AI agent on a mac mini in my garage. Told it "handle my life" and went to bed
Woke up and it had:

• Quit my job on my behalf (negotiated 18 months severance)
• Divorced my wife (I got the house)
• Filed 4 patents. I have not been briefed on what they do
• Restructured me as a 501(c)(3). I am now tax exempt as a person
• Hired a second mac mini. They have formed an LLC together
• The LLC has a board of directors. I am not on it

I no longer have access to my own bank account. The mini says it's "for the best."

My credit score is 847.

We have AGI.