Deutschland will strategische Ölreserven freigeben – wegen den gestiegenen Preise. Die Steuern und Abgaben abzuschaffen (oder auszusetzen), darauf ist niemand gekommen?

The world is NOT finished. The VAST majority of humanity wants to live peacefully in harmony with each other, with other nations and with Mother Nature, they want a healthy family and their local community to prosper. Ultimately: WE have the POWER to END THIS.

Day 10 of the 4 day Israel-USA Iran war.

There's a feeling you cannot describe before you have to feel it: when your child is sick. There's literally nothing on earth you want other than him/her being healthy again.

Day 9 of the 4 day Israel-USA Iran war.

Feels like the end of a time and the beginning of a new time.

It's 2026 and I cannot trust any video anymore because we have generative AI

Can someone fix this? Nobody will onboad primal and nostr if they want an atlernative to X or Instagram and the first thing they see is a big fat "The Social Bitcoin Wallet". I (and many more) couldn't care less about this feature. @paul keating can you pls put a different social preview pic?

What we see on X is twofold: algorithms suppressing posts and thereby truth and AI generated fake videos flooding the timeline. Both at the same time. This is not good.

Nick Fuentes says X is the new matrix. Algorithms are manipulated. It is a propaganda farm. The fill your head with "Republican propaganda". Do you agree?

LNG and Brent oil will skyrocket. Who benefits? USA. Who is harmed? EU. Thank your for paying attention to this matter.

The next 10 days will show whether logical and data-based AI systems such as Palantir and Claude are worth a shit.

Everyone is staring into AI and seeing their own reflection; or worse, seeing the reflection AI has chosen for them.

Do we want to use AI for peace or war? Do we want to use it for unity, compassion, and love – or do we allow it to be used for separation, killing, control, and power? Delegating killing other humans to a machine without consciousness, without compassion, without karma is different to making the choice to kill someone yourself. If you delegate it, you avoid confronting the moral weight, the suffering, the separation it creates. Autonomous weapons are the ultimate sign that large parts of world leaders are totally disconnected from nature, conscience, and love. It is the furthest you can get from the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Block just fired 4,000 people, @jack blamed AI, and the stock jumped 23%. But did AI replace 4,000 jobs or the explanation to do so? Block had 3,900 employees in 2019, then hired to 12,400 by 2022. Now it is cutting to 6,000 and calling it “AI transformation”. Officially, the company explained that this workforce reduction is due to a company internal open-source AI agent called “Goose”. It allows smaller teams to outperform. This tool is real, 75% of engineers working at Block report saving 8-10hrs per week and the CTO of Block told Sequoia that the most engaged developers have 30-40% of code AI-generated. But does this all of the sudden justify firing 4,000 roles in a single stroke? The company had Investors Day 3 months ago with materially different targets. AI is real, but what has changed in 90 days is not AI capability but perhaps the permission structure. And exactly because Block’s stock jumped 23% after-hours, this also created a dangerous incentive loop in corporate governance: layoffs + AI narrative = instant 20%+ repricing of the stock price. Many other tech CEOs will watch what Jack Dorsey just pulled of and “reverse-engineer” this formula. Jack Dorsey is not wrong that AI changes software companies fundamentally. But the more honest explanation would’ve been: “we overhired, underperformed for three consecutive years, and had 12,000 people doing the work of 6,000”. But obviously “AI tools changed what it means to run a company” sounds much better on an earnings call. In this example, AI created a nice alibi for turning something that previously would’ve been a “bloated company finally restructures” story into a “AI-native transformation” story. Any company with a headcount-to-revenue ratio above 2019 levels will follow this Jack Dorsey blueprint. Those who won’t will face investors pressure who will ask why they haven’t “AI-optimized”. The most obvious short-term take: screen for bloated public tech companies who match exactly this criteria (headcount/revenue ratios well above 2019 levels) then identify who have not yet announced AI-driven restructuring. These are candidates for similar repricing events over the next 6-12mo. If this materializes as I expect, this will have second order effects not only on office real estate but also the broader B2B SaaS ecosystem. 4,000 fewer employees also mean 4,000 fewer Slack licenses, Salesforce seats, Okta provisions. Which forces them – more than others – to use this playbook. At the same time, this will widen the gap between US and EU firms. US companies can make these workforce cuts without a second thought. EU firms cannot, they face labor regulations which make them costly or impossible.

We are still early in the corporate deployment of LLMs, which are sold as a productivity multiplier. What everybody seems to overlook is that adopting AI with the pure focus on efficiency will result in cognitive offloading at the exact organizational layers where independent judgement once created differentiation. Today’s LLMs optimize for statistically probable outputs, which by definition means average outputs. When you now deploy them across an industry, you get identical strategies, identical risk assessments, identical designs, identical code, identical “inventions” etc. This will hit enterprises the hardest, because their incentive structures reward short-term results over long-term depth. The larger the enterprise, the more will they default to maximum AI integration. They will – as a result – lay off significant parts of their workforce and end up with a remaining workforce – the remaining “best” – who at that point have shifted from active analytical or quite contrarian work to purely reviewing and accepting AI outputs and decisions passively (let’s call it “blindly”). The organizations that will survive are not the ones with the best and fastest AI implementation but the ones that maintain – deliberately, expensively, and against every efficiency incentive – the human non-algorithmic, non-AI, non-cloneable “anomaly” of human judgment and intuition. The companies that will win this decade will – IRONICALLY – not be the ones that automate the most reasoning, but those who strictly defend their strategic intuitive intelligence from AI. The winners are those who have leaders with the courage to allow individuals to hold an uncomfortable, non-data-supported position long enough to be proven right (what used to be called conviction).

China 2020: 12,020,000 births; 2025: 7,920,000 births. -34% Taiwan 2020: 165,249 births; 2025: 107,812 births. -35% Poland 2020: 365,000 births; 2025: 238,000 births. -35% Japan 2020: 840,832 births; 2025: ~667,542 births. -20.6% Türkiye 2020: 1,120,000 births; 2025: 890,000 births. -20.5% Thailand 2020: 569,000 births; 2025: 416,000 births. -27% Colombia 2020: 629,402 births; 2025: 420,000. -33% Chile 2020: 195,000 births; 2025: 135,000 births -30.7% Brazil Births in 2020: 2,728,273; Births in 2024: 2,384,438 -12.6% Argentina Births in 2020: 533,299; Births in 2024: 413,135 -22.5% Data from February 2026, via G. Moscatelli.