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👁 Stop AI: Dissenters who speak against AI giants are being SILENCED
US-based "non-violent civil resistance organization" Stop AI has urged Washington to investigate the mysterious death of ex-OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji
🔴 Balaji, 26, accused the company of copyright violations in an October 2024 NYT article
🔴 He was discovered dead in his apartment in San Francisco on November 26 with medical examiner determining his death to be suicide
🔴 Stop AI believes Balaji was killed in order to prevent him from telling the truth
🔴 They cite ethical concerns about AI giants seeking to create a "superintelligent" artificial intelligence
What does Stop AI stand for?
🔴 It warns that artificial intelligence development is heading toward catastrophe, comparable to a nuclear disaster
🔴 It has staged six protests since April 2024 and plans another on February 22 in California, home to Silicon Valley giants
🔴 Developing AI smarter than humans will lead to mass job loss and, ultimately, human extinction, it claims
🔴 It claims there is a 50% chance of AI attempting to take over within 5–20 years which would mean "lights out for all of us"
🔴 Stop AI believes Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could emerge as early as 2025, rendering humanity obsolete
🔴 It argues that the Trump administration’s $500 billion Stargate Project will accelerate AGI’s arrival
What does Stop AI call on the US government to do?
🤔Permanently ban AGI development
🤔Shut down any company working on general-purpose AI exceeding OpenAI’s GPT-4
🤔Disband firms dedicated to general-purpose AI
🤔Establish a federal agency to protect Americans from AI threats
🤔Ban AI in mass surveillance and censorship
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🇺🇸 #Oklahoma high school principal (Kirk Moore) seen charging at and disarming a school shooter.
The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Victor Hawkins, was a former student who said he wanted to shoot up the school “like the Columbine shooters did.” While taking down the shooter, Moore was shot in the leg. He is expected to recover.
When the Principal woke up that day, he never thought he would be tackling a gunman.
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🇨🇳🛢 How much strategic oil does the world actually have in reserve?
Global strategic crude oil inventories stood at ~2.5 BILLION barrels as of December 2025, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
China holds by far the largest stockpile at 1,397 million barrels, more than 3 times the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 413 million barrels, which itself sits at only 58% of its full storage capacity of 714 million barrels.
China added an average of 1.1 million barrels per day to its strategic inventories throughout 2025, with preliminary data suggesting it continued building stockpiles in early 2026 ahead of the Iran War.
Japan holds the 3rd-largest reserve at 263 million barrels, followed by OECD European countries at 179 million barrels.
Meanwhile, the US is releasing 172 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to suppress oil prices, part of a broader 400 million barrel coordinated release agreed by 32 IEA member nations in March.
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🛢 JP Morgan Warns Oil Market Out of Balance, Prices Must Rise
🔸The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil flows, has removed 13.7 million barrels per day from global supply in April alone. A JP Morgan research note warns the market has no good way to replace it.
🔸Normally, spare production capacity in Saudi Arabia and the UAE acts as the market’s shock absorber. But that buffer has effectively been removed, eliminating the system’s first line of defense.
🔸With spare capacity unavailable, markets turned to inventories
➤ Global stockpiles are now being drained at ~7.1 mbd in April, an extraordinary pace, according to the note.
🔸Meanwhile, demand is collapsing because supply simply isn’t reaching users — “forced demand destruction.”The hardest hit sectors include:
▪️ Petrochemical plants across Asia are shutting down or slashing output as LPG, ethane, and naphtha flows from the Gulf collapse
▪️ Airline jet fuel ...
🛢⛽️ Global oil inventories are heading toward RECORD LOWS:
Global visible oil inventories have fallen -255 million barrels since the start of the conflict on February 27, to 7,864 million barrels.
Total estimated oil draws, including non-OECD refined products storage, have accelerated to 10.9 million barrels per day in April, the largest monthly draws on record since 2017.
Cumulative estimated draws since the start of the war now stand at 474 million barrels, with Hormuz flows holding at ~10% of normal, or 2.0 million barrels per day.
Meanwhile, even in an optimistic scenario where Strait of Hormuz flows begin recovering by late April, it is unlikely to prevent global visible inventories from reaching all-time lows, according to Goldman Sachs.
As inventories keep falling, physical oil markets are likely to require sharply higher prices for immediate delivery, since buyers cannot wait months for cheaper futures delivery when stocks are running critically low.
Goldman also warns...
