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"Expect Moderate Disruptions": Oil Tankers Avoid Strait Of Hormuz As Operation Fury Hits Iran
"Expect Moderate Disruptions": Oil Tankers Avoid Strait Of Hormuz As Operation Fury Hits Iran
Automatic Identification System (AIS) vessel-tracking data indicate that multiple tankers abruptly reversed course near the entrance to the critical maritime chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz early Saturday, following the U.S.-Israeli operation (Operation Epic Fury) targeting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command-and-control infrastructure in multiple Iranian cities.
Bloomberg reporter Stephen Stapczynski pulled data from the Terminal that shows shipowners of crude oil, crude products, and LNG tankers are avoiding the strait, even though the waterway remains open and...
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Apr 8, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Our Post-Truth, Post-Trust World
Our Post-Truth, Post-Trust World
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
A system that comes to depend on synthetic signaling for its "information" is doomed to Model Collapse, as its signaling has completely detached from the real world.
That we inhabit a post-truth world seems to accepted wisdom. But that's only half of it. We also live in a post-trust world. In a post-truth world, everything is shaped by the implicit goals of the entity claiming to state the "truth," as the entire point of claiming to state the "truth" is to persuade the target populace...
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Mar 23, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Ban Sports Betting Via Prediction Markets
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Ban Sports Betting Via Prediction Markets
Lawmakers have never met a market they didn't want to control. And when they can't do that, they try to crush them - sometimes after taking six-figure donations from competing lobbies. To wit; Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and John Curtis (R-UT), on Monday introduced legislation that would prohibit federally regulated prediction-market platforms from offering wagers on sports events, targeting what they call a regulatory backdoor that has let online betting proliferate beyond state control. Reading between the lines, prediction market betting is...
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Apr 23, 2026 / Tyler Durden
UK High Court Backs Facial Recognition Rollout
UK High Court Backs Facial Recognition Rollout
Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian.org,
Yesterday evening, the UK’s High Court ruled in favour of the Metropolitan Police in a legal challenge pertaining to the use of Live Facial Recognition Technology (LFR) across London’s transport network.
The case had been brought by Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch and Shaun Thompson, a youth worker who was previously misidentified by the technology, “over concerns it could be used arbitrarily or in a discriminatory way”.
Specifically, their lawyers argued that the current powers claimed by police governing the...
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