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Tweepcred

🤖📱 Between empty promises of a billionaire and a social credit system. The “secret” way your behaviour is ranked on X

What is Tweepcred? It’s a reputation system inherited from the days of Twitter, a social credit mechanism built into X, where every like, comment, retweet, or interaction feeds a hidden score. Post the wrong thing, and your reach is throttled, invisible to followers, blocked from the For You Page, and your voice is confined to a digital coffin. The worst part? X won’t even tell us what we’re doing wrong.

Tweepcred was open-sourced two years ago as part of Elon’s big push for “transparency.” The release confirmed what many suspected for over a decade: the system wasn’t neutral. It could be gamified, and it rewarded those who knew how to play it. Industry insiders and large organizations held a massive advantage over individuals, defeating the very purpose of the internet and the cultural revolution that once challenged mass media.

Content was no longer driven by ideas, but by reputation. Your feed was curated before you even had a chance to curate it yourself.

Think of Tweepcred as an illiterate bot tracking your every move, looking for typos, “wrong” speech, and behavior to silently upvote or downvote your posts in order to determine reach. It is a relic of algorithmic censorship from the 2010s and it prevents X from becoming a true global platform. The failure of the reputation system lies in the fact it suppresses the very people it was supposed to protect. Ordinary users pay the price for these safety measures, while scammers and bad-faith actors exploit the system and push the algorithm to its limits.

The problem with the algorithm is not just that it punishes behavior, it tries to predict it. Tweepcred decides which posts should be censored before they even go viral. This creates countless false positives that bury engaging and valuable accounts under a sea of predictable, advertiser-friendly content, often generated by AI slop farms. Content that could have sparked conversation, built communities, or influenced discourse is suppressed. The result is a sterile environment where only “corporate safe speech” survives, while human creators who aim for originality, nuance, or nonconformity are punished and forced to move to other platforms.

Algorithmic censorship is a digital extension of preexisting societal control. It wasn’t born on the internet. In real life, you don’t have lines of code following you around, but you do have people, networks of influence, institutions, and gatekeepers who police culture according to their own interests. The algorithm formalizes that same behavior at scale. It is the same mechanism that turned traditional media into a toxic institution, a system where reputation, not truth, determines who gets to speak and who becomes forgotten.

After 2016, the state and its corporate satellites moved to reassert control over the digital world they had lost. “Misinformation” became the new moral panic. Under that banner, media networks, NGOs, and intelligence agencies began coordinating with platforms to rebuild the hierarchy of information that the internet had overthrown. Tech companies were pressured to enforce safety online, which sounded like public service but functioned as narrative enforcement. It was during this period that social media algorithms, including Tweepcred, were built to counter the memetic revolution.

Measures like Digital ID are designed to chip away at our leverage over virality, creating a legal framework where users can easily be punished for their social media activity. Limiting internet access for minors will not be about protecting them from Skibidi Toilet or porn. It will be about preventing the rise of another frog generation, people who refuse to look to traditional authorities for guidance. This age segregation gives the establishment a blank slate with each generation, making knowledge harder to pass down, while algorithms subtly force us to self-censor and erase the identity of frog culture.

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December 25, 2025
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HERO!

🇺🇸 #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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Amnesty

For those who don’t know, Trump recently endorsed Maria Salazar for re-election (February, 2026) after she publicly called on him to provide mass amnesty for illegals more than 8 months ago.

But please keep telling me how Thomas Massie is the one who needs to go.

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Oil reserves

🇨🇳🛢 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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Rising Oil

🛢 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 ...

OIL INVENTORY

🛢⛽️ 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...

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