“We believe there is a legitimate supply-demand imbalance and that the associated price signal is the catalyst to begin to grow production. Because of our positioning, our preparation and this price signal, we are bringing incremental barrels to the market immediately.”
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Ford Sales Post Sharp 14.4% Decline In April As EV & Hybrid Sales Plunge
Ford’s weakness was broad-based... (Elon Musk offered to buy Ford's EV unit.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ford-sales-post-sharp-144-decline-april-ev-and-hybrid-sales-plunge-248-and-325
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UK Gilt (Bonds) Yields Near 30-Year Highs As Political/Geopolitical Fears Spark Trussian Chaos
...due to its messy political landscape, feeble economy, faster inflation, and strained government finances.
(England is toast. Civil War possible.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/uk-gilt-yields-near-30-year-highs-politicalgeopolitical-fears-spark-trussian-chaos
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Southern Co. Electricity Sales Soar On 42% Data Center Growth
"We continue to see incredible momentum and tangible interest for power from large load customers..."
(California already has the most expensive electricity in America.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/southern-co-electricity-sales-soar-42-data-center-growth
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"Moderate" Democrat Abigail Spanberger Considers Tax On Gym Memberships And Streaming Services, Among Other Ideas
"I think there are worthy conversations to be had about what revenue generation looks like into the future as our economy changes in so many ways."
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/moderate-democrat-abigail-spanberger-considers-tax-gym-memberships-streaming-services-and
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Trump's Project Freedom Likely Triggered By Oil Market's One-Month Countdown To Chaos
"The tipping point clearly begins on ..."
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/trumps-project-freedom-likely-triggered-oil-markets-one-month-countdown-chaos
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Brutal New Spencer Pratt Campaign Ad: “Business as Usual is a Death Sentence for Los Angeles, California”
“Business as usual is a death sentence for Los Angeles, California”
Los Angeles desperately needs change, vote for Spencer Pratt for Mayor
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Florida AG Demands House Impeach Judge Who Freed Convicted Pedophile, Allowing Him to Murder 5-Year-Old Stepdaughter Missy Mogle Just Weeks Later
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/florida-ag-demands-house-impeach-judge-who-freed/
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With Over 300,000 Signatures Collected, Alberta Separatists Call on Premier To Trigger Referendum, as Oil-Rich Province Moves To Leave Woke Canada
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/300000-signatures-collected-alberta-separatists-call-premier-trigger/
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Worldwide crackdown on VPNs begins
The “great firewalling” of the global internet is moving from a theory into a messy, technical reality this month. While democratic countries are focusing on targeted rules for kids or piracy, authoritarian regimes have launched a “scorched earth” campaign to kill VPN functionality once and for all.
The vibe is no longer about just “banning” an app, it’s about breaking the underlying protocols that make the internet private.
This is surely Owrellian, they want everyone trackable and to have ID checks on the Internet. Source: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2050538017530470882
Major tech platforms (Yandex, Sberbank) were ordered to block all VPN users by May 1.
See also If they revalued gold too high ($10,000 or more), war would break out worldwide.
Using a VPN now locks you out of your own banking and shopping apps, not just western news.
https://united24media.com/latest-news/russia-forces-tech-giants-into-nationwide-vpn-crackdown-amid-rising-digital-repression-17549
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The Iron Bank Always Wins
'Absolute collapse': Trump loses GOP support in key demographic
#1: Horse To: Horse (#0)
And now you know why I do not use Chrome.
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device
Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user’s installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched.
This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users’ machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google’s on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.
The legal analysis is the same one I gave for the Anthropic case. The environmental analysis is new. At Chrome’s scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples’ default browser will mass-distribute a 4 GB binary they did not request.
This is, in my professional opinion, a direct breach of Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC (the ePrivacy Directive) [2], a breach of the Article 5(1) GDPR principles of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency [3], a breach of Article 25 GDPR’s data-protection-by-design obligation [3], and an environmental harm of a magnitude that would be a notifiable event under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) for any in-scope undertaking [4].
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
Horse posted on 2026-05-05 15:07:40 Reply Private Reply