New AI infographic reveals how another kinetic attack on Iran will unleash a global catastrophe as Iran retaliates. Trump's war on Iran is actually a war on humanity's supply chains for energy, food, industry and more.
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Things people aren't realizing:
Most SILVER mining is a byproduct of copper and zinc mining. There's almost no silver mining that happens on purpose as a primary target.
Copper and zinc mines use SULFURIC ACID to strip those elements out of raw ore. (The acid dissolves the metals into solution, where they can be poured off, living the raw ore behind, essentially.)
The war on Iran has collapsed the world's sulfur flows out of the Persian Gulf.
Without sulfur, copper and zinc mining nearly collapse. Without copper and zinc mining, silver production plummets (obviously). This is where we are right now in late 2026.
The main reason silver isn't exploding in price right now is because the same war that impedes sulfur flows is also impeding the energy flows used by manufacturing industries that demand silver as an input. (Simplified explanation, but largely valid.) Plus, of course, paper manipulation of silver markets by governments / central banks.
When industry does come back online at full speed, sooner or later, the above-ground silver supply will be drastically thin. What do you suppose will happen to silver prices at that time?
Almost nobody realizes that silver production depends on sulfur shipments out of the Persian Gulf.
Now you know.
Most SILVER mining is a byproduct of copper and zinc mining. There's almost no silver mining that happens on purpose as a primary target.
Copper and zinc mines use SULFURIC ACID to strip those elements out of raw ore. (The acid dissolves the metals into solution, where they can be poured off, living the raw ore behind, essentially.)
The war on Iran has collapsed the world's sulfur flows out of the Persian Gulf.
Without sulfur, copper and zinc mining nearly collapse. Without copper and zinc mining, silver production plummets (obviously). This is where we are right now in late 2026.
The main reason silver isn't exploding in price right now is because the same war that impedes sulfur flows is also impeding the energy flows used by manufacturing industries that demand silver as an input. (Simplified explanation, but largely valid.) Plus, of course, paper manipulation of silver markets by governments / central banks.
When industry does come back online at full speed, sooner or later, the above-ground silver supply will be drastically thin. What do you suppose will happen to silver prices at that time?
Almost nobody realizes that silver production depends on sulfur shipments out of the Persian Gulf.
Now you know.
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When is all that new kick-ass battery density technology from China going to show up in cordless power tools?
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There is virtually no sulfur coming out of the Persian Gulf. The world's above-ground sulfur supply is dwindling as a result (Canada has massive stockpiles but they are not infinite).
Without sulfur, you can't make rubber tires for cares because sulfur is the critical element in VULCANIZATION which does not refer to Spock from planet Vulcan, but rather the process by which liquid rubber is formed into a stiff, durable polymer with tough chemical cross-links. This makes rubber (a latex liquid from trees) turn into tires, essentially.
No sulfur = no tires.
No tires = total global collapse of industry and transportation and farming, and so on. Mass global collapse of human civilization at nearly an Extinction Level Event scale.
The Persian Gulf isn't the only place to get sulfur (Venezuela is another), but it's the primary source and it has been almost completely cut off.
I'll have a full video analysis on this subject tomorrow.
Without sulfur, you can't make rubber tires for cares because sulfur is the critical element in VULCANIZATION which does not refer to Spock from planet Vulcan, but rather the process by which liquid rubber is formed into a stiff, durable polymer with tough chemical cross-links. This makes rubber (a latex liquid from trees) turn into tires, essentially.
No sulfur = no tires.
No tires = total global collapse of industry and transportation and farming, and so on. Mass global collapse of human civilization at nearly an Extinction Level Event scale.
The Persian Gulf isn't the only place to get sulfur (Venezuela is another), but it's the primary source and it has been almost completely cut off.
I'll have a full video analysis on this subject tomorrow.
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AGI is already here, folks. You just may not have noticed because you already got used to it.
The more I use AI to build things, the higher my expectation becomes of what AI can do without explicit step-by-step directions. After about 3 years in this process, I realized this weekend that the way I instruct AI today would have absolutely been called "Artificial General Intelligence" three years ago.
But because we got used to the rising intelligence along the way, we failed to notice just how smart and capable AI has actually become.
Today, it takes me far LESS time to explain to AI how to build a project than it would take to explain it to a human engineer. And the AI finishes the project in a fraction of the time of a human engineer, with far fewer errors.
Like I said, AGI is already here. You just may not have noticed because you already got used to it.
The more I use AI to build things, the higher my expectation becomes of what AI can do without explicit step-by-step directions. After about 3 years in this process, I realized this weekend that the way I instruct AI today would have absolutely been called "Artificial General Intelligence" three years ago.
But because we got used to the rising intelligence along the way, we failed to notice just how smart and capable AI has actually become.
Today, it takes me far LESS time to explain to AI how to build a project than it would take to explain it to a human engineer. And the AI finishes the project in a fraction of the time of a human engineer, with far fewer errors.
Like I said, AGI is already here. You just may not have noticed because you already got used to it.
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Gotta love how the British government just told its citizens to prepare for horrific events by purchasing "wet wipes, a torch and tinned food."
Apparently those are the civilian priorities in the minds of UK leadership. (A "torch" in the UK means a flashlight. And "tinned food" means canned food in the USA.)
But I prefer to think of the torch as the kind you might carry alongside a pitchfork, actually. More fitting.
Apparently those are the civilian priorities in the minds of UK leadership. (A "torch" in the UK means a flashlight. And "tinned food" means canned food in the USA.)
But I prefer to think of the torch as the kind you might carry alongside a pitchfork, actually. More fitting.
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Democrats desperately want to regain control of Big Government.
The Trump administration wants to use Big Government as a wealth pillaging machine far larger than anything USAID ever laundered.
But you and I would be wise to stop supporting any party that supports Big Government in the first place. Stop worshiping the state. The nation state is not your god. The ENDING of the nation state -- and the mass decentralization of money, governance, knowledge and compute -- is the beginning of freedom for human civilization.
The Trump administration wants to use Big Government as a wealth pillaging machine far larger than anything USAID ever laundered.
But you and I would be wise to stop supporting any party that supports Big Government in the first place. Stop worshiping the state. The nation state is not your god. The ENDING of the nation state -- and the mass decentralization of money, governance, knowledge and compute -- is the beginning of freedom for human civilization.
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You don't see the world for what it is.
You see the world the way your neurology is trained to interpret it.
Which ISN'T REALITY. And you can't turn it off.
This is why the smartest people I know are also the same people who wisely question the nature of reality.
You see the world the way your neurology is trained to interpret it.
Which ISN'T REALITY. And you can't turn it off.
This is why the smartest people I know are also the same people who wisely question the nature of reality.
This is called the the bulging checkerboard illusion.
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I remember with the A6000 GPU was selling for around $6500 while the 3090 Ti was maybe $1000. The only difference was that Nvidia intentionally crippled the 3090 with a setting.
That's devious.
That's devious.
3090 Ti 和 A6000 是同一块芯片。
区别在卡里的一个标志位。
一个写着 FULL_SPEED，一个写着 HALF_SPEED。
Reddit 上有个哥们翻了很多代码，把这事讲明白了。
英伟达从 20 系到 50 系的游戏卡，FP16、BF16 做矩阵乘再用 FP32 累加，这条路径的速度都被砍了一半。
40 系和 50 系连 FP8 也砍了。
专业卡和数据中心卡都是全速。
被砍的刚好是 AI 最吃算力的那几块：
训练、微调 LoRA
文生图、文生视频这类扩散模型
大模型的 prefill，就是读长 prompt 那一步
一个人跟模型聊天、一个字一个字往外吐，基本没影响，那一步主要卡显存带宽。
这个哥们说，他的 RTX 6000 PRO 核心数只比 5090 多 10-15%，prefill 却快了 70% 左右。
GitHub 上已经有人把 30 系解锁了，800 多星。
做法是一个 Linux 内核模块，开机时抢在 NVIDIA 驱动接管之前，把速度选择器改掉。
3090 Ti 实测 BF16 从 87.5 TFLOPS 到 157.4，TF32 差不多翻倍。
40 系有人在 Windows 上跑通了 AD103，还得往别的型号移植。
50 系就难了，英伟达加了熔丝，专门读这个标志位。
有意思的是 50 系的 FP4 没被砍。
我觉得这事最值得琢磨的是定价。
同样的硅，同样的制造成本，价格差好几倍，差的是一个配置位。
特斯拉早年也这么干过，同一块电池用软件锁一截续航，加钱解锁。
卖硬件卖到最后，利润都在那个开关上。
原帖说解锁没风险，因为本来就是同一块 die。
我觉得保修和稳定性还是自己掂量一下。
看完突然觉得我那块吃灰的 3090 这几年一直在摸鱼。
而且是老板安排它摸的。
reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/c…
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The judges are all being indoctrinated and ordered to bow down before the ring of Satanyahu.
Federal Judge Roy Altman says he's taken "ten percent of all the active federal judges in America" on trips to Israel "just in the last three years."
Now, he's apparently making state supreme court justices humiliate themselves by competing with one another to go on said trips.
is going to have to play Rock, Paper, Scissors to see who wins," he says he told the justices. "I looked down two minutes later, and these supreme court justices were going like this [and playing Rock, Paper, Scissors]."
Absolutely insane this is being tolerated.
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Wow, Elon isn't holding back. And I agree with him on this critical point: "I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell."
Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
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Looks like it's the beginning of the end of the AI speculative investment bubble, and TRILLIONS in paper value will be destroyed when this runs its course.
And maybe, just maybe, we'll all be able to afford GPUs, copper wiring and electrical transformers once again.
And maybe, just maybe, we'll all be able to afford GPUs, copper wiring and electrical transformers once again.
BREAKING: Elon Musk says debt markets have “almost entirely shut off” access to money for any company without substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.
Neoclouds are going to see “guppy-level death and consolidation,” Musk says.
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Told ya Nvidia was intentionally crippling their GPUs. Now this story is blowing up worldwide... the UNLOCK!
🔥 엔비디아 RTX 그래픽카드 쓰시는 모든 분들 꼭 보세요!!!!! 🔥
해외에서는 진짜 난리인데... 국내에서는 아직 잘 안퍼진 것 같아 공유드립니다!!!
--> 며칠전.. 엔비디아가 RTX에 걸어둔 "AI 연산 제한"을... 최근에 공개된 오픈소스가 그냥 풀어버렸습니다.
이름 GPU-Unlock인데... 새 글카 안 사고,아래와 같이 성능 향상이 되었습니다.
RTX 3060 --> +78~99%
RTX 3070 --> +72~81%
RTX 3080 --> +68~73%
RTX 3090 Ti --> BF16 +80%
RTX 4070 Ti --> +83~84%
RTX 4090 --> 특정 Tensor 거의 2배
RTX 2080 Ti도 --> +36~64%
--> RTX 3000대만의 이야기가 아닙니다. 20 / 30 / 40 시리즈까지, 데스크탑이랑 노트북 쪽 실측도 지금까지 계속 실시간으로 쌓이고 있습니다.
⭐️ AI 이미지 생성이나 로컬 LLM 돌리는 분들은 특히 체감될 수 있을 겁니다!! ⭐️
진짜 왜 이게 미친듯이 난리냐면...
내 집에 있는 RTX 글카 안에 "쓸 수 있는데 잠겨 있던" AI 성능이 있었기 때문입니다.
왜 엔비디아가 이렇게 했냐고 지금 의심이 가장 많이 되고 있는 쪽은..
--> 지포스랑 비싼 전문가용 GPU를 등급으로 나누려고 FP16/BF16 쪽을 일부러 깎아둔 거라는 쪽입니다.
(아직 엔비디아가 공식적으로 인정한 건 아님)
이미 산 옛날 RTX 글카에 이만큼 성능을 엔비디아가 막아두고 있었다는 사실 자체가 너무너무 충격입니다...
오픈소스 깃허브:
github.com/Zagitta/gpu-un…
40 시리즈 확장 깃허브:
github.com/JustAResearche…
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Someone just put the "quake" in Quaker Oats.
Massive explosion at their Cedar Rapids production facility. 2 million pounds of oats per day now offline.
Just as the world's refineries are being bombed or sabotaged.
See the pattern yet?
Massive explosion at their Cedar Rapids production facility. 2 million pounds of oats per day now offline.
Just as the world's refineries are being bombed or sabotaged.
See the pattern yet?
🚨 BREAKING... The WORLD'S LARGEST cereal mill just EXPLODED in Iowa...
The Quaker Oats plant in downtown Cedar Rapids was rocked by an explosion Saturday afternoon... followed by a fire with heavy black smoke and flames pouring out of the north side of the building.
Calls came ters found evidence of an explosion when they got there.
Every available Cedar Rapids crew was sent... with backup from Marion, Hiawatha and Linn County.
People nearby said they HEARD and FELT the blast. Traffic backed up on I-380.
This plant processes over 2 MILLION pounds of oats EVERY DAY...
Its a critical plant for farmers to offload their oat harvests in the USA & Canada.
All workers are accounted for and no injuries were reported. But the cause is still under investigation, and nobody knows yet how much damage was done or what this means for production
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Yet another damning testimonial for open source LOCAL AI. Because Claude will block your attempts to discover why electronic devices are spying on you!
Let me get this straight.
A guy keeps getting weirdly targeted ads on his new Samsung TV.
So he breaks into his own TV to find out why. 1.2M people watch.
42 hours later, OpenAI deactivates his account. Reason: "Cyber Abuse."
His words: "i have never used openai to exploit or nly local reverse engineering"
Same week, people on r/claude say Claude now cuts off reverse-engineering write-ups MID-SENTENCE:
"A safety check stopped my response partway through creating the playbook"
The TV is fine.
The guy who opened it is the problem.
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