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JUST IN: Iran’s new supreme leader apparently approved the ceasefire from a hospital bed in Qom where US-Israeli intelligence says he is unconscious and unable to participate in any decision-making. Few hours later, IRGC cluster warheads were still detonating over Israeli and gulf cities. Not many in the Western press have connected these two facts, and the connection rewrites everything the market just priced. The system that accepted the ceasefire and the system that violated it are not the same system. That is the point of Mosaic Defence. Twenty years ago, the IRGC restructured itself into 31 independent provincial commands, each with its own missile arsenal, drone fleet, Basij militia integration, and pre-delegated launch authority. The doctrine was designed for exactly this scenario: supreme leader incapacitated, central communications degraded, conventional military infrastructure destroyed. Every provincial commander can execute offensive operations without a phone call to Tehran. The architecture was tested in war games, refined after watching Saddam’s centralised command collapse in 48 hours in 2003, and activated the moment Ali Khamenei was killed on February 28th. The senior IRGC military council that approved the ceasefire through the Supreme National Security Council, citing Mojtaba’s name for domestic legitimacy, does not control the launch decisions of every provincial unit. It cannot. That is by design. The field commanders who fired at Israel and the UAE after the announcement were not violating orders. They were following standing pre-delegated authority that exists precisely so that operations continue when the centre cannot communicate, or chooses not to. The ceasefire was a political act by the council in Tehran. The missile launches were a military act by autonomous field units in the provinces. Both happened simultaneously because the architecture permits it. This is what the market failed to price when WTI crashed nine percent. The nine percent drop assumed a unified Iranian state that accepted a ceasefire and would enforce it across all domains. What exists instead is a fragmented command structure where political leadership in Tehran can sign agreements that provincial military commanders are neither required nor expected to follow in real time. The Mosaic Defence that kept the regime alive through 39 days of the most intense bombing campaign since 2003 is the same architecture that makes ceasefire enforcement structurally unreliable. Israel understood this immediately. The IDF did not pause. It continued eliminating Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, struck a weapons crossing south of the Litani River, and cited Iranian violations as justification for ongoing raids on Iranian targets. Netanyahu’s calculus is transparent: if the adversary’s own military architecture cannot enforce a ceasefire, then the ceasefire does not constrain the defender. The molecule thesis absorbs this development without modification. If the ceasefire holds, the crackers are still rubble and reconstruction takes years. If the ceasefire fragments because autonomous IRGC units continue launching, the war resumes and the deficit deepens. Both branches produce the same terminal condition for petrochemical supply. The human-chain game theory from yesterday and the Mosaic Defence autonomy from tonight converge on the same conclusion: the crisis duration is structurally guaranteed by the adversary’s own defensive architecture, regardless of what any council signs in Tehran or any diplomat negotiates in Islamabad. The supreme leader is unconscious. The missiles are not. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

I 3D printed my own suitcase to try and make traveling a little more tolerable.

too real

"He found out his daughter was bullying others… and chose to take responsibility instead of making excuses ❤️🫶❤️🫶❤️"

Sis done changed the mf game now

This September, experience the adventure of a lifetime. @DreamWorks Forgotten Island is only in theaters September 25!

It was an emotional postgame presser for @HUMensBB as Bryce Harris and Ose Okojie shared their final thoughts about Howard HC Kenny Blakeney and how's changed their lives. Their answers are almost ten mins long (which obvs speaks to KB), but here's a little snippet:

Corporate translator I've been in many corporate meetings and I felt like I needed a corporate translator. This translation is very accurate. I don't know why companies just can't come out and say what's going on in plain language. 🙄

This Irish folk cover of Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” had no business going this hard 😂🍀 One minute I’m sitting there, next minute I’m ready to jump up, clap along, and dance like I’m in a pub in Dublin. Absolute vibe 🔥 Hit that repost button and spread the cheer. 🍻

7 days ago: “Apart from worrying about their safety, many sailors fear that water and food will run out soon. “On Seo-jun's ship they have enough fresh food for 15 days, but drinking water has become a worry. ‘The ship can produce fresh water by desalinating seawater, but that becomes difficult if we are not sailing,’ he says. “ ‘It's already been two months since we got the provisions on board,’ a Pakistani sailor, Masood, says. “Before the war, Hein says his ship offered buffet meals and the crew could get fresh food like eggs, and water whenever they wanted. “But now a quota system is in place on Hein's ship and they only get one meal of four small pieces of meat and one bowl of fried vegetables daily. Their supplies will only last for a month. " ‘Our life is very humiliating here and we have very little fuel and food,’ says another Pakistani sailor, Zeeshan.” bbc.com/news/articles/… #ReleasetheUnredactedEpsteinFiles

Good morning, travelers. Here is a 4:30 am view of the general security line for Checkpoint 1. We’re expecting a record-breaking volume of people — there are about 38k of you flying out today. Please arrive at least 2.5 hours prior to your flight’s departure for domestic.

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.@SenSchumer: "The last thing the American people want or need is another war in the Middle East. But if you listened to Secretary Pete Hegseth's press conference this morning one thing is crystal clear; America is at war."

WORTH THE WATCH: his name is Azeem Banatwalla and this is one of the most creative and hilarious comedy bits you will ever hear. someone's definitely going to try and replicate it. 😭

A dynamic storm system brings all types of precipitation starting this afternoon. The good news is temps have been trending warmer limiting the accumulations of snow (<1" for most) & ice (spotty glaze); however, impacts to travel (slick roads and bridges) are still possible.

WATCH: University of Nebraska-Omaha Public Safety security cameras show the moment two vehicles fell into a sinkhole on Tuesday — and how the drivers were able to get out. Details: on.wowt6.com/3MOv07F

Amazing “Snow Mannequin” created by Colette Komm in Central Park, New York City

A massive 18 million square foot data center is being planned north of Amarillo Texas along with a nuclear power plant to power it Cotton farmer says the Texas panhandle is the largest US cotton producing region and the water needs of the data center will wipe out the industry Many residents in the area rely on well water too which will be likely wiped out The initial agreement with the City of Amarillo supplies 2.5 million gallons per day from municipal sources under a 20-year contract They can use 912.5 million gallons of water per year This will be devastating to the people who live there and rely on this water

i watched a flight go from $483 to $547 in 24 hours WITHOUT a single seat selling searched london to new york on a tuesday $483 checked again 2 hours later $512 next morning: $547 panicked and booked it the guy sitting next to me paid $391 same seat, date + airline $156 less he searched once i searched 3 times the algorithm saw me come back and charged me until i broke the seat doesnt have a price you have a price and it goes up EVERY time you show interest couldnt stop thinking about it so i tracked down someone who actually built pricing algorithms for a european carrier asked him what happened to me "you got profiled. the system assigned you an intent score after your second search and raised your ceiling every time you came back" asked how to beat it "most people think a VPN fixes it. thats 2015 advice. the algorithm fingerprints more than your IP now. it reads your device your browser your screen resolution your timezone. VPN to bucharest but your clock says london and your language is english? the algo knows youre faking and sometimes charges you more for trying" "so what actually works?" "you have to poison the entire profile. not just the location. the identity" the protocol he gave me: VPN AND match your timezone and language to the spoofed location. mismatched signals flag you and can trigger a price increase use a fully clean browser. no history no saved passwords no google account. the algorithm fingerprints your session not just your cookies one search one booking. the intent score activates on the second search. there is no safe way to look twice book tuesday or wednesday 1-5am. lowest traffic means the least demand data for the algorithm to inflate against if the price already spiked go dark for 72 hours minimum. not 24. the intent score on most carriers decays on a 3 day cycle. come back on a different device from a different network "we spent $4 billion building these systems. theyre not going to lose to someone who opened an incognito tab" $900 billion industry the gap between what you pay and what the person next to you pays is not a bug its the entire business model stop letting an algorithm charge you for being predictable

For Everyone wondering what happened between SEAblings and Korean 1. Korean fansites ignored Malaysian Day6 concert (01/31/26) rules about cameras, leading to a wave of racist comments 🇲🇾 vs 🇰🇷 2. Some K-netizens have turned defensive, launching racist attacks against Southeast Asians (SEA). Instead of addressing the rule violations, they are resorting to body shaming, mocking economic statuses, and questioning IQ levels. They’ve even gone as far as telling SEA fans to 'stop listening to K-pop' if they can't be 'appreciative,' while circulating edited photos to insult the region (1) - a thread - #SEAblings #ASEANFor