DA-Leclerc
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DA-Leclerc
@JB_Cartier
Guiding the responsible adoption of AI so that people and organizations can become more efficient, transparent, and abundant. ⚜ #Bitcoin ⚡- Nord Paradigm AI






I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…







Do you understand what this means? Are you aware how much the world just changed? You can now run frontier intelligence on a potato Your $600 Mac Mini can now run unlimited super intelligence for free. No authoritarian AI companies can cut you off Do this immediately, no matter what device you’re on: 1. Download LMstudio 2. Find these models in the search 3. Look for the MLX ones if you’re on Mac 4. Download and load them 5. Ask your OpenClaw to use them for most tasks I thought the future was a year away. Nah. It’s today



@EvanWritesOnX So Khomeini agreed to have his daughter and granddaughter go out with him? Sure bud


How are the ETFs creating the range, profiting from the #Bitcoin range, accumulating Bitcoin, as well as suppressing the price in the range. Bitcoin ETFs using market makers like Jane Street are indeed involved in a popular trading strategy known as the "basis trade" or "cash-and-carry trade." This strategy involves buying (accumulating) spot #Bitcoin and short-selling @CMEGroup #Bitcoin futures contracts, aiming to profit from the price discrepancy between the spot and futures markets. Here we see the Dealer shorts used to manipulate the price into the range 60-70k, accumulation of spot Bitcoin and profiting from the created spread. Is it moral? Who knows. Is it legal. Yes. The @SECGov allows this trade on all regulated ETFs with Futures contracts.


Quel texte de gauchiste. «La question se pose. Nos finances publiques sont-elles menacées à long terme par la montagne de fonds que les épargnants injectent dans leurs REER et leurs CELI chaque année à l’abri de l’impôt ?»













