Andy Mark Mann

Dear America 👶❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

🔥🥵The West is getting torched right now… and the snowpack is collapsing. This weekend I was in Park City, UT, & it was 72°F at 7,000' at 5:30 pm... On Thursday, I was at Alta, UT, and it was 62°F at 3:01 pm at 8,530'. In my 48 years in the West, this has never happened before. This isn’t just a warm spell. This is historic March heat across the Western U.S. 🌡️A weather station near Martinez Lake, Arizona, hit 110°F on March 20, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. in the month of March. 📏The previous record? 108°F set in Texas in 1954… and tied in California just one day earlier. 🌵Phoenix hit 101°F on March 19 (the earliest 100° day ever), then jumped to 105°F on March 20, its hottest March temperature on record. 🎲 Las Vegas hit 99°F, its hottest March day ever. Palm Springs hit 104°F, tying its March record. Thermal and Indio hit 108°F. 🌴 Los Angeles set records for most March days ≥90°F and longest March heat streak. Much of the West is running 15–30°F above normal right now. And while that’s happening… ❄️ The snowpack is getting hammered. We’re approaching peak snowpack season (April 1), and conditions are already near record lows in many places: • Oregon: 29% of median statewide (2nd lowest on record), Klamath Basin: 23%, Willamette: 24% • Washington: most Cascades sites <50% of median • California: ~35% of April 1 average • Utah: lowest snowpack on record, peak came 3 weeks early • Colorado: record-low statewide snowpack • Nevada basins: some at record-low SWE This is a full-blown snow drought. ⚠️ Why it matters Peak snowpack usually hits around April 1. Instead: • Snow is melting early • Runoff will be reduced • Fire season risk is rising • Ski resorts are closing early Winter isn’t over… But in a lot of places, it’s already slipping away Fingers crossed 🤞 for a cool down and some snow in April It's important we recognize that this isn't normal.

The goal is not just to reach the Moon, but to stay. 🌘

If you are IT at an oil and gas company that's building AI, you need to read this: LiteLLM just had a massive security breach where malware has been injected into their packages that steals all of your credentials and keys. This is the same week where it was discovered that Delve has been issuing fraudulent SOC 2 certifications. Delve did the SOC 2 compliance for LiteLLM—you can't make this up. AI has the same exact problem that crypto did: There aren't any adults in the room. LiteLLM has 95m monthly PyPi donwloads, making it one of the largest supply chain attacks in the AI industry. And now oil companies are giving their employees access to Claude code and openclaw with free reign and unlimited exposure to whatever technologies their employees desire to use and leverage. This will end up being catastrophic. You need enterprise grade AI systems.

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🚨🇺🇸 The Valero Port Arthur refinery is one of the largest in the United States The facility processes roughly 395,000 barrels of crude oil per day, making it a critical piece of America's fuel supply chain. Port Arthur sits along the Gulf Coast refining corridor that handles nearly half of all U.S. refining capacity. This comes at the worst possible time. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. Iraq declared force majeure on its oil production. Qatar's LNG hub is damaged. Global crude is above $100. And the U.S. just authorized sales of Iranian and Russian oil to keep markets from spiraling further. Even a temporary shutdown of a facility this size tightens domestic fuel supply at a moment when Americans are already paying $3.90+ at the pump. If repairs take weeks, gas prices in the Gulf Coast region could spike ahead of the rest of the country. Source: KHOU / Reuters