Shadow fleet captain. Exclusive details of the Russian seaman’s correspondence – Dallas Exclusive: a Russian shadow fleet captain’s correspondence reveals sanction evasion tactics, maritime operations, and the role of seafarers in sustaining oil exports.

*A sanctioned "shadow oil tanker" is a normal oil tanker with even more flags and even more paperwork

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`*Cope cages for oil refineries. #drones #waronoil #Ukraine #Russia

*They won't work well, but cope-cages for basically anything worth blowing-up sounds like a trend. They're the new "Jersey Barriers"

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Claude Team is Shipping Like Crazy: 74 Releases in 52 Days Every product release from Feb 3 to Mar 24, tracked to the engineer and their X profile.

"Shipping velocity across every surface at once". #agentic #supplychainthreat #Anthropic

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Would I be objectively better-off or happier with all that "compute"? No, but nevertheless I feel an unseemly, anxious greed to have it. Like six whiskey-bottles ought to be six CASES of whiskey, ASAP #TwentyTwenties

*The "Linux-Centric Maker-Hacker One," the "Travel in Wartime Burner One" and the "Off-Grid Bomb-Shelter One" with huge terabyte independent backup-archives of the wisdom-of-the-ages

*This is not a conscious, rational decision on my part. It's some kind of contemporary social peer-pressure.

*That's clearly too many laptops. I'm not being financially "productive" with them, I don't "require them" to do anything much

*And yet three doesn't seem ENOUGH for me. I really feel that I could use six.

*Here in the AI Era, I suddenly find that I'm using three computers at once. I've never done that in my life

*The "Writing and Researching" One, the "Streaming Media Center One," and the "Experimental, Might Crash-and Burn" One

*Not to green-humblebrag here, but in point of fact the Ibizan apartment where I'm typing this does have solar power, and I even paid to install it

*And is mankind properly grateful to me, heck no, too busy bleedin'-for-oil

*Is Trump their "most recent" despot purchase? There must be other newer ones. And future ones, waiting in the wings. #bloodforoil #petrocracy

Epilogue - Foundation Labs Foundation Labs is a technology company building software for creativity, culture and commerce.

*NFT mavens. How many ways can you say "We were a fad" without saying we were a fad

www.foundation-labs.xyz/story/epilogue

*I'm with the Greenpeace guy here, but it's a bit silly to pretend that people won't fight over solar power. Just look at solar panels: there's trade-war, dirty legal tricks and even drone-bombing most every day

*The less filthy, the better, yes, but power is power

*Well, that's the USA, all right

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“Sgt. Augmento,” by Bruce Sterling, 2016 “As reported last month, Vice Media will no longer publish on its flagship website, Vice.com, resulting in many journalists furiously…

"Robots never get bored, robots never sleep, they need no wages or health care — I’m sure you’re heard that deep-learning, neural net, robotics pitch. Because it’s all true, you know." #sciencefiction #tenyearsago

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*A lifetime of reading Bruce Sterling at age 16. This prospect would alarm me if I myself hadn't read a lifetime of JG Ballard, Harlan Ellison and Wm Burroughs at age 16

Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan - Nature fMRI data from individuals of a wide range of ages (from a few days to 100 years old) are used to map the key organizational axes of functional connectivity in the human cortex throughout the lifespan...

*It's hard to figure what might upstage, out-hype and outperform "artificial intelligence" but some "artificialized natural intelligence" would probably do it

"You've got a clawbox on your desk, but I just ate the Singularity Pill"

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"We'll be seizing direct control of the money now, because we're better at it and we deserve it" #AI #agentic

*Man, Stewart is always ahead-of-the-curve. He's slowly perishing of some geriatric lung-ailment, and if I do the very same, some years in his wake, that timeline won't surprise me one bit

*I probably won't be as gracious about it

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*Oh, so the AI agent-hackers just casually appointed themselves as privateer cyberwar operators, did they

*Hope they're not getting all jittery down in Mom's basement

*It's incredible that they had a merciless shooting-war for four years and just left the huge gushing streams of flammable oil tenderly alone

*I wonder if undersea Internet cables will get a similar treatment soon. You could wreck the lot of 'em for pocket change

*It's the Nordstream Pipeline gambit, only much more so.

*Fantastic to see a world dominated by fossil-fuel interests that is violently blasting the fossil-fuel business about as hard as is humanly possible

*I blame pre-existing sci-fi persecutory delusions

"Supply chain attack via lobster-based worm" #AI #malware #hack #Big #agentworm

*This woman's very genuine expertise in 100+ year old silent film is serving her well here. #mediastudies #deadmedia #deadAI

*"Responsibly embracing." Sounds very Delvish. A mixed-metaphor that meets statistical verbal requirements when you lack a body

*Also, why is a "spokesperson" in embarrassing situations ever a "person" at all? Get Mickey to "constructively collaborate" as an AI-meme, he's in the public domain

*And you can do it out of your purse

*Graveyard tidal-wave of AI dead-media is on the way. All those mind-bending sense-of-wonder gimmicks that commanded public attention, too bad for them

*Runs "your" company while you're dead. #Agentic

*That was a fine presentation, and also this Bluesky list of yours is remarkably edifying

"Sober tool using humans" in their habitats.

"You're a cyberpunk, and you watch Spanish-language ethnographic videos of vanishing European peasant technology?!"

*About once a week, yeah. For years now. Hundreds of them

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"Sober tool using human," I've got some major personal issues with this formulation, by the way

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