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The British govt advice to prep is officially to prepare for a war against Russia.
Others say it to prepare for a civil war which I think is tenuous, as by definition the last people the govt want to stay fit and healthy during a civil war are the civilians.
A more likely scenario, almost guaranteed really, is Patchmageddon:
TLDR; A patch is issued to fix a bug. AI takes the patch and works out the problem so quickly that it exploits the problem days or weeks before the patch can be installed.
Here’s how it works in practice. After a software vendor releases a security patch, AI can now reverse-engineer that patch, identify the underlying vulnerability and build a working weaponized exploit in minutes. Attacks can begin spreading worldwide within hours. Attackers share everything: exploit kits are open source, offensive AItools are forked and improved on GitHub, and attack techniques are documented by thousands of contributors operating as a decentralized R&D lab. Defenders tend to operate in the opposite model: enterprise AI defense is often locked behind vendor contracts and threat intelligence may be safeguarded as a competitive advantage.
What happens TLDR;
The big picture:
• The principal tail risk would be disruption of a single systemically important provider such as a major grid operator, financial-clearing utility or telecommunications backbone. Previously only state-sponsored actors could target these providers and have been effectively deterred but a failure at this level could cascade across dependent sectors
• For example, a sustained attack on regional energy grids could disrupt critical services like banks, internet hosting providers and cell phone towers. This disruption could eventually exhaust generator supply chains and data centers could begin shutting down
• An attack that takes a major cloud services provider offline for 30 days might disable operational backbones of institutions across multiple sectors. This disruption could degrade networks on which hospital systems, emergency services and financial services all rely and it could also impact Federal Aviation Administration flight operations facilities
• Municipal water systems rely on synchronized pump networks to maintain consistent pressure across distribution lines. A loss of synchronization can cause pressure drops that render water undeliverable or pressure surges that rupture pipes and mains, which can take weeks to remediate
o The safety consequences would be immediate: fire suppression systems lose minimum operating pressure and healthcare and nuclear facilities face acute disruption. Public health risks compound quickly: low pressure allows ground contaminants and bacteria to infiltrate distribution pipes, desynchronized flow rates cause under- or over-dosing of treatment chemicals such as chlorine and fluoride and failed wastewater lift stations can drive sewage backflow into the drinking supply. Eventually, industrial cooling systems serving data centers and power plants as well as agricultural irrigation systems are taken offline.
For me, if the patch is the source for the hack it’s inconceivable that this won’t happen sometime, and probably soon. A real reason to have a supply of food, water and power for a week or two. And of course it could still be a Russia issue – or China, or Iran who have already attacked utilities in the US.
Silver deficit
I’ve been doing a little more question and answers on AI looking for some understandable reason for this madness…. I find Between 40 and $45 is the breakpoint with solar panel manufacturers where they started to find a substitute for silver paste in the manufacturing… Before the run-up silver was between five and 15% of the cost of a panel and when it got to $120, it became 30% cost of the panel… So now they are using copper paste and or copper coated with silver plate…. I asked between a scale of one to 10 how much of that compromise the panel and it said two… And then I asked if the manufacture compensated for the compromise panel in its price and they said no.. lol… I’m assuming there’s a lot of people connected more than we are that knew how much the demand side was gonna be hit by the solar industry and took actions accordingly…. I haven’t checked to see what percentage of manufacturers made the change, but I’m assuming like many things prices everything so probably most of them … We may have to wait a while for these panels to begin failing to read their rewards of their renewed interest in silver…
Buygold
They’re doin too good! It’s the kiss of death! 
Ipso – Ha
and for their efforts, NEM is down another $1.28 for their efforts.
Here’s why:
**Attributable gold production decreased 1 % from the prior quarter, driven by lower production at…
Think about that. Gold production dropped 1% Q over Q and they still beat earnings by $.11.
If you’re a miner, you better beat on all fronts, otherwise your stock gets hit. Period.
Mr. Copper
I’m with you. This was the dumbest thing he could have done and will destroy any legacy he hoped to have. He absolutely should have waited until his last year and planned it out during the first three years as he restored the economy. He would’ve been an American icon. The inflation is destroying the very people that elected him. He’s done a decent job on immigration, but that’s it and it’s too late anyway. The Muslims now have a foothold in several states, and he’s opened the floodgates for H1-B Visas as a gift to the tech oligarchs that hated him. Make it make sense for me.
I’m not sure what happened to Trump. I suspect they threatened him and his family. Probably something along the lines of “you have two choices, you can do everything we tell you and we’ll make you and your family billions, or we’ll kill all of you, and BTW we own the secret service, that was us in Butler.” Then they proceeded to murder Charlie Kirk.
Between him and Congress, they’ve handed the country over to literal demons.
Maddog
I wonder if the ones in the know are expecting a SM correction.
Silver Bullet
Just saw your post. I’m pulling for your AI then. I don’t know anything about the forced liquidation at Shanghai, but these last 5 months have been pretty depressing.
Not sure how we’ll finish
and I know the metals look like crap today, but I’m not crying too much about the shares. Usually we’d give back all the gains of the last two days on a day like this, but not so far.
Maybe the shares are about done? Or will they make it up on us tomorrow? At some point they’ll bottom, right?
LOL Who could have predicted it!
Polymarket
@Polymarket
BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi votes against House bill banning members of Congress from purchasing individual stocks.
Israel coming in?
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
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BREAKING: Israel has entered a state of full alert, with anti-missile shelters opened in central Israel including Tel Aviv suburbs, per Channel 14.
This comes as the US plans to escalate strikes on Iran in the coming days.
Iran Observer
@IranObserver0
⚡️JUST IN: Yemen’s Houthis are allowing Chinese Oil Tankers loaded with Saudi Oil to transit the Bab Al Mandab Strait
Meanwhile European and American Oil Tankers loaded with Saudi Oil are getting hit
High Oil and Higher Rates From That War Is The Problem
I don’t understand why the rush, Trump should have waited until the end of his term, after the mid term elections.
Maybe TPTB or the deep state “pushed him” some how to do it earlier just to screw him up, would not surprise me at all. We’ve seen all the under handed crap they pulled on him already going back years.
Check out Oil and Diesel fuel. re Heating oil.
https://finviz.com/futures_charts?t=ENERGY&p=d
Check out the general stocks, looks like coming off highs.
https://finviz.com/futures_charts?t=INDICES&p=d
Gold and Silver probably coming off lows.
Will the SM finally correct?
Seems like it’s sort of the last pillar left. Every time it has a day like this though, it seems to snap right back.
If pm’s went in the opposite direction I’d be cheering for it to crash, but there’s no sign we will do anything but keep crashing with it.
Tough game.
Is it possible that a lot of the pressure on prices over the last few months Has been because of the forced liquidation of paper contracts in Shanghai? At least that’s what the AI source I inquired from told me… The ban will start at the end of business today, but the liquidation has already taken place so it should be a non-event.. The all knowing AI also Said it will lead the way for a new bull run medals by establishing a more solid base to start from…. Cheer up Buygold.. My AI sources help is on the way…John
goldielocks
Little privacy in this world!
Buygold
Right, same here, they can hunt and fish. Salmon a good source of omega 3. You did make me think about all the wild turkeys around here. They’d even walk down streets in neighborhoods. Why I don’t know, maybe people feed them. I haven’t seen any lately.
Ipso
Ha good one. But desquize themselves heat to feet don’t bring cell phones and ride disguises bikes or a untraced licence plate. Problem now if they can use drones and even pick up on conversations. Maybe even satellites.
maddog, Goldie
maddog – let’s hope we can pop back above that retracement point. The shares aren’t doing great, but not nearly as bad as I would have thought, (except for the ones I own) so maybe that’s a clue we’ll hold the retrace. NEM earnings after the bell today.
Goldie – yes, they’ll have to get creative, start buying rice as a filler. It’s the people in the cities that will suffer the most. The people in the country can hunt, people here can fish, but I have no doubt they’ll move to outlaw that as well. It is just disgusting how evil a small group of people in this world really are. I know they have demonic supernatural power behind them, but it is just amazing to me that people haven’t taken up arms and gone after them.
maddog – course, just as I say the shares don’t look that bad, they take a dive. With anything pm, all you have to do is give them some time and they’ll always disappoint.
An analogy?
Cutting down Flock surveillance cameras
Throwing chests of tea into Boston Harbor