Jack Burton

@elonmusk You get a Hoffie smoothie, and you get a Hoffie smoothie, EVERYONE GETS A HOFFIE SMOOTHIE!

We still don’t know what kind of ice cream Reid Hoffman told Epstein he was “bringing for the girls”. I guess some things will always remain a mystery 🤷‍♂️

@unusual_whales Transformer t!ts on the White House lawn was peak morality and solidified America’s global credibility.

"The world is watching America lose its moral compass and its global credibility," per the Hill. Do you agree?

@mazemoore he spit out Xi’s 🐓long enough to say that

Gavin Newsom just said in an interview that Elon Musk is a huge disappointment for "ceding the EV space to China." Newsom called China's expansion in the EV market a national security issue and said that he really fears it. Newsom is such a fraud. During the pandemic Newsom awarded a one billion dollar, no bid contract to China EV manufacturer BYD to make masks, even though the company had never manufactured masks or any health care supplies before. Newsom even paid them $500 million up front to help them get started before ultimately extending the contract past a billion dollars. In 2023 Newsom flew to China and met with BYD to discuss bringing their cars into the states. Newsom: "We've got to get these in the states."

Wow.

@TwinsightPro market could use a lil fireproofing these days

@SenFettermanPA @HarmeetKDhillon I believe those are Democrats

Here in Philadelphia. Truly appalling. These assholes chanting for the death of our servicemembers. Where’s the Dem outrage and condemnation?

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February. Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance. The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible. 1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork. The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40. Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT. Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD. 2nd was Syria. The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed. This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next. 3rd was Venezuela. In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily. The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone. Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to.. 4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled. The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States. If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil. This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system. The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency. The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves. But the US grand strategy goes deeper.. Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths. By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale. The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas. On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls.. Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy. Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal. Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass. Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years. Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost. Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first. The US is seizing all 3.

@agenturban Is housing market even turning?

Massachusetts is running out of people to tax

High-dose nattokinase (10,800 FU daily) reversed arterial plaque in 95% of patients over 12 months and had zero side effects. Statins only suppress cholesterol while causing muscle pain and liver damage. But you'll never hear about nattokinase because it can't be patented.

@spencmar @BuckSexton There’s be no car-jackings in New Orleans if only those Tulane frat boys would simmer down.

@BuckSexton Last season when someone stole the ambulance from in front of the hospital and led police on a high speed chance that ended in an accident? Yeah, the perps turned out to be white frat boys pulling a college prank. Because this is always the case.

Picking up a lot of medical jargon from watching The Pitt on HBO, also learning that all drug addicts and violent criminals are white

@CBSNews How about capping fraud first

Some of America's wealthiest couples are collecting $100,000 in Social Security benefits — a six-figure payout that a new proposal says should be capped to help the retirement program avoid insolvency in 2032. cbsn.ws/47l2FNj

@unusual_whales They will try to make fully local AI illegal - if they cannot control & monitor it, you can’t have it

BREAKING: AOC and Bernie Sanders are introducing a ban on AI data centers and other hyperscale data centers, per MorePerfectUnion. The ban would remain until Congress passes new AI legislation.

Why does it cost less to build a base on the moon than high speed rail from sf to la

Almost impossible to tell, at 1st glance, whether a woke or a racist wrote something.

🚨Shocking: Microsoft just open sourced a Python tool that converts any file into Markdown for LLMs. It's called MarkItDown. And it's not a document formatter. It's a lightweight conversion utility built specifically for AI pipelines - takes any file you throw at it and outputs clean Markdown that LLMs can actually read and reason about. Here's what it converts: → PDF - full text extraction with structure preserved → PowerPoint - slides, headings, bullet points → Word - full document with lists, tables, links → Excel - tabular data as Markdown tables → Images - EXIF metadata + OCR text extraction → Audio - EXIF metadata + speech transcription → YouTube URLs - fetches transcription automatically → HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, EPubs, ZIP files - all supported Here's the wildest part: LLMs natively speak Markdown. They've been trained on vast amounts of it. When you convert your PDF or Excel file to Markdown before feeding it to an LLM, you get better extraction, better reasoning, and more token-efficient output than raw text or HTML. One command: `markitdown path-to-file.pdf > document.md` Also ships as an MCP server for Claude Desktop integration. 87K GitHub stars. Used by 2,200+ projects. Built by the AutoGen team at Microsoft. 100% Open Source. MIT License. (Link in the comments)

Also heard this described as “Intuitive Leaps”, ability to synthesize a sound hypothesis from minimal necessary information

@DiscussingFilm Colbert’s Gandalf

A sequel movie to the ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’ trilogy is officially in the works. Plot synopsis — 14 years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began. Stephen Colbert is co-writing the script.

@Cjpearson Talking head about to be replaced by AI bitter about plumbers

Jimmy Kimmel: "Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was plumber. That's right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now." The elitism of Hollywood summarized in one moment. 👇

Philly DA Larry Krasner threatens ICE agents working at the airport with arrest: "The president cannot pardon you. I will put you in handcuffs. And if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell." Krasner was promising to hunt down ICE agents like Nazis a couple of months ago.

Democrats all