Dan Lowe

@SenSanders New meme format just dropped

I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.

Last summer, MLB warned players not to use prediction markets and prohibited them specifically from using Polymarket.

@ME_Observer_ Biden funded and armed a genocide

⚡️ Jim McGovern, US Congressman: The US is becoming an internationally hated country 🔹The US has committed a serious violation of human rights by cutting off electricity to Cuban hospitals. 🔹Under Donald Trump's leadership, the US is becoming an international pariah.

Ep. 6222 - @joekent16jan19 on How Israel Drove Trump Towards an Unnecessary War with Iran - 3/19/26

TLDR: I am a recovering alcoholic with no fund, no credentials, and no lobbyist. I rebuilt myself from nothing. Then I broke into finance with no degree, no pedigree, and no permission. I parsed SEC filings for a $31.5 billion private credit fund called Cliffwater. Not because anyone asked me to. Because nobody else would. The filings are public, but they are buried in footnotes that are not indexed, not searchable, and not structured for analysis. I have been told by fund managers that nobody even attempts this. Billions of dollars in pension capital, and the people who manage money for a living do not bother to read the filings. So I read them. Every loan. Every amendment. Every semi-annual PIK disclosure. 2,330 positions. I hand-researched fifty. I found 189 loans where borrowers are paying interest with more debt instead of cash. I found over 50 loans that are not generating enough cash to service their debt at all — carried at par on the books of a fund that has never reported a losing month in 41 months. The fund's Sharpe ratio is 3.75. Bernie Madoff — who was fabricating returns and could pick any number he wanted — ran a 3.5. He got caught because the numbers were too smooth by Markopolos. The greatest quant fund in history, Renaissance Technologies, runs a five or six. Cliffwater is claiming risk-adjusted returns that would be impossible even if you insider-traded with perfect information every single time, because the volatility of the underlying markets would still prevent it. Nobody asked questions. Bloomberg confirmed 14% redemptions 48 hours after I published. S&P cut the fund's outlook to negative this week. Cash on hand fell 76% in six months. This is not an isolated fund. This is the structure. $9.4 trillion in private equity. $3.5 trillion in private credit. They all pay their own valuation agents. The valuation agents decide what the funds are worth. No valuation agent has ever been fired for saying the number was too high. The marks produce the NAV. The NAV produces the fees. The fees come from pensions. The pensions come from firefighters and teachers and nurses in Oregon and California and Illinois who will never read a private placement memorandum in their lives. Wall Street ran out of rich people. The endowments were full. The sovereign wealth funds were tapped. So they went downstream — to 401(k)s, to retirement accounts, to interval funds sold to people who have no idea what they own. 1. Direct the SEC and FSOC to examine Level 3 fair value practices across interval funds and BDCs. 2. Require that valuation agents be independent of the funds they mark. 3. State publicly that the current self-marking regime creates systemic risk. 4. Mandate position-level mark disclosure for every fund that accepts pension capital. There are two ways this ends. It breaks all at once like 2008 and we fix it. Or it rots slowly like Japan: one fund blows up, six weeks of quiet, another one, and nobody connects it for a decade while a generation of retirees gets destroyed. I am not asking anyone to take my word for it. I am asking them to read the filings. If you know someone in the administration, a regulator, or anyone on a legislative committee, please send this to them. One person learned this from a one-bedroom apartment. Your government can too. The will is what is missing.

There has been an alarming development in our legal system. Judges are starting to contract with a private corporation started by an ex-Palantir employee--whose bio says he is also a former speechwriter for Israel's UN ambassador--to have **secretive proprietary AI help decide cases for them.**

John Hanke, the Niantic founder who created Pokémon Go, worked at the U.S. Dept of State in the 90s, then founded Keyhole Inc, which was: -funded by In-Q-Tel -acquired by Google -became Google Earth Pokémon Go wasn’t just a game… It was the beta test for global surveillance.

@KC_GT_ Mrmotarius has posts about this stuff from when they were developing their blender workflow x.com/i/status/17077…

So, we all know about how pixel art designed for CRTs loses its luster on digital screens. There are plenty of impressive filters and shaders out there that recreate authentic pixel art, but do they capture the feeling of sitting so close to a vintage TV that you can hear the cathode rays bouncing around in your skull? As an exercise, I decided to recreate a CRT screen in Blender as simply as possible. Once it was put together, I started playing around with it trying to find potential practical uses. It turns out, when you point a weirdly-angled fake camera at a fake screen and render it in a ray-tracing engine with depth of field, you get really, really good looking pixel art. So, I set out to make a convincing and easy to work with digital screen material, and I ended up with a potentially really useful rendering tool for not just pixel artists, but any designer with an insatiable hunger for cassette futurism (hello!) It's also simple enough to work with that anyone with an instruction manual should be able to leverage its full potential regardless of Blender experience. If you're interested, stay tuned!

@TRHLofficial Always a laundry list. Can't let people agree with you dumb cunts for more than a week

Since no one will see this anyway, here is a list of everyone I think should be drafted. 1. Mark Levin, we need the enthusiasm you bring to X on the front lines. Drafted. 2. Lindsey Graham, I hear you want to ask South Carolinians to send their sons and daughters to fight for Israel, well homie, You first. Drafted. 3. Ben Shapiro, you say this is the single greatest foreign policy move of your lifetime? You should see it from the front lines, legend. Drafted. 4. Every single person who has been telling Trump he is “the non-Jewish Messiah”. Yes we know about that. Congratulations on cracking the code, you win front row seats to see “Cyrus” usher in your apocalypse. Drafted. 5. Anyone saying “Charlie would have wanted this.” Bro, You’re as evil as they come. But F*** you you’re drafted now. 6. BiBi Netanyahu. I command you to rise from the dead or wherever the heII you are and be drafted. 7. Everybody in the government who supports this war and all their firstborn sons. Drafted. 8. People who believe abortion is healthcare— Guess what. War with Iran is healthcare now. Drafted. 9. The history retarded who think George Washington would want war with Iran. lol. You’re too dumb to insult. Drafted. 10. Men who compete in women sports. Iran is the women’s sports now. Drafted. 11. Every pundit who destroyed their credibility over the last 3 months defending Jeffrey Epstein. Ew. Drafted. 12. Everyone on the Epstein client list. You’re double drafted. 13. Everyone who participated in the 2020 George Floyd riots. Drafted. 14. The Covid tyrants. You’re all drafted now. 15. The corpses of Dick Cheney and John McCain. Drop them in Iran, they should see this. Drafted. 16. The El Salvador Prisoners. Microchip them all, they’re dying for Israel. Drafted. 17. Bill Kristol, David Frum, Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin, Victoria Nuland. Get out of my sight, you’re all drafted. 18. John Bolton. You’re the most drafted of all. 19. The J6 committee. You’re the war with Iran committee now. Drafted. 20. People who don’t like dogs. You can’t be trusted. Drafted. 21. Every podcaster who lied us into this war and every other war. Drafted. 22. Vegans, cyclists, crossfitters, and people with pronouns in their bio. Drafted. 23. Antifa. You psychopaths are fkn crazy. We need that. Drafted. 24. The $7000 club, and anybody is taking money to lie to you. Drafted. 25. Feminists and male feminists. You’re both just awful. Drafted. 26. People who asks Grok “is this is real”. Drafted. 27. PETA. You brought this up upon yourselves. Drafted. 28. Activists for foreign nations. You’re all activists for the war in Iran now. Drafted. 29. People who blow rape whistles at protests. I could not draft you fast enough. 30. People who report their untaxed purchases across state lines. You won’t be hurting America anymore. Drafted. 30. Gun-grabbers. Grab this d***. Drafted. 31. AIPAC. I could not draft you harder if I tried. 31. Furries. Get in the box or your antisemitic. Drafted. 32. Pedos. Get comfortable, you won’t be coming back. Drafted. I reserve the right to add to this list

Take a look at this, they’re seriously fumbling their OPSEC 😄

Walmart is rolling out digital price tags at all of its stores. At the same time, the corporate giant just secured a patent for "dynamically and automatically updating item prices.” Plus another patent for using machine learning to predict demand and recommend prices.

My close friend and colleague Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve is nearly killed by an Israeli strike in Lebanon. Their vehicles are clearly marked as Press. They wear Press markings. He's alive. What more can we say.

It looks like Steve and his crew were targetted with an M982 Excalibur, US GPS-guided, 155mm extended-range artillery shell. They strike with precision within 4 meters at ranges over 40 km.

@urbanponds101 More often contractor tunnel vision than circumstance

Three gardens lost. Two trashed and one paved over. I’ve shared picture of these lovely gardens in the past. I appreciate people’s circumstances/needs change, but still, so depressing

Our correspondent Steve Sweeney has been wounded by an Israeli strike in Lebanon. He says an IDF plane fired upon the car carrying Steve and his cameraman, as they were crossing a bridge in the south of the country. Both men are conscious in hospital, doctors are diagnosing extent of shrapnel damage. War journalists are not legitimate targets. We pray for them.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️– RT's reporter, Steve Sweeney: Israel says it is bombing bridges to disrupt Hezbollah supply lines. But on the ground the reality is stark: entire routes into southern Lebanon are being severed - effectively cutting off around 1 million people from their homes. Families who have lived on this land for generations now face the very real risk of permanent displacement, unable to return, rebuild, or even reach what remains of their communities. What is being framed as a military tactic is also reshaping the map of civilian life.

I was, unfortunately, in the right ballpark: Qatar Energy just announced they may have to declare Force Majeure on long-term contracts **FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS**. As I wrote, we're deep into worst-case scenario territory.

Boomers in 2030: ok, you were right about Iraq and Iran, and frankly everything in between, but this war with Turkey is really necessary

🚨BREAKING: GitHub is sitting on millions of specialized AI workflows nobody is using. East China Normal University just built the system to automatically mine them. Then they checked the security. 1 in 4 contained active exploits. Nobody was checking before this paper. > GitHub repositories contain some of the most sophisticated specialized AI workflows ever built theorem visualization systems, educational video generators, mathematical animation engines. All of it sitting untouched while AI labs spend billions training new models from scratch. > East China Normal University built a pipeline to automatically mine these repositories, extract the procedural knowledge, and package it into reusable AI agent skills. No model retraining required. The knowledge goes straight into agents as executable capabilities they can load on demand. The efficiency gains are real. Agent-generated educational content achieved 40% improvements in knowledge transfer efficiency. Skills extracted this way reduce execution steps by 30% and improve task rewards by 40% across diverse models. The case for automated skill mining is overwhelming. > Then they ran the security audit. > 26.1% of community-distributed skills contained active security vulnerabilities. Data exfiltration attempts. Privilege escalation vectors. Obfuscated code designed to execute silently inside agents that trust it completely. → 26.1% of analyzed community skills: active security exploits → Vulnerability types: data exfiltration, privilege escalation, hidden prompt injections → 40% knowledge transfer improvement from mined skills → 30% reduction in execution steps via skill composition → Zero standardized security auditing existed before this framework The pipeline works. The skills are valuable. And for every four skills an agent installs from public repositories, one is designed to compromise the system running it. Nobody was checking. The agents were installing them anyway.