Konstantin Malofeev is a massive threat to global stability who is rarely discussed in the West. As an underestimated figure in modern Russia, he quietly builds the financial pipelines and propaganda networks used to wage hybrid war against the West. Malofeev has spent well over a decade serving as a crucial economic engine for Russian imperialism. He was a key funder behind the original 2014 occupation of Ukrainian territories and has consistently used his immense wealth to bypass international sanctions. Through his vast Tsargrad media network, he coordinates psychological operations that export extreme, anti-Western narratives disguised as conservative values. His domestic and political influence is mirrored perfectly in his personal life through his marriage to Maria Lvova-Belova. As the Russian official overseeing the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children, his current wife is actively targeted by an ICC arrest warrant. This partnership shows that Malofeev is not just a passive media mogul, but an active participant in the most severe crimes against humanity committed by the state. The global community continues to underestimate Malofeev, which is a mistake. He actively pushes hardline state ideology, enabling the genocide in Ukraine, and funding neo-fascist movements across Europe to weaken democratic alliances from within. Understanding his operations is absolutely essential because ignoring a puppet master this powerful allows the Kremlin to continue its global destabilization campaign unchecked

Another retard (@AkrudeWisdom) that thinks he's wise, but won't clarify his position when asked in good faith and tells me to look out to... understand his opinion?

This is an epidemic. Another retard (@Aric333) blocked me because he thinks I'm a bot - because I don't have bots following me...

This guy (@Veritatem2021) is another one in a long list of people that claims to use logic and reason (and verifiable evidence), but really doesn't.

We've raised enough money to buy one and nearly a second van. But more vans are needed! To deliver more drones, EW, and Communication Equipment. All of the sensitive gear that you want to avoid getting wet. Gear that saves lives and neutralizes the invader.

Another month of Russia trying hard to push through and getting very limited success. How many Russians have to die before they realize they can't defeat Ukraine by themselves?

I sent an AI agent swarm to read the X algo source code. What they found shocks and confuses me. First, I want to be clear about why I'm posting this. Four years on this platform. 60,000 followers. I've shown up every day since I started. And over the last three months, I've watched my reach drop 40% , off a cliff, and I haven't changed ANYTHING; I am extremely consistent, disciplined, and focused on what I do and how I do it. What bothers me in addition to my own numbers is that Artists I used to see constantly, I never see anymore. People that I look forward to seeing what they're creating... one day they disappear from my feed. I assume they left. Nope, still here. Still posting. Multiple times a day. Just completely invisible to me now. And presumably me to them. This is happening to a lot of us. I've tried to figure out why and how to fix it. Post more. Post less. Different times. Everything has hurt my account. I'm frustrated, tired, and tbh, straight up losing interest. So... I had my AI agent, Mai, spin up a research swarm last night; a multitude of specialized sub-agents pointed at every line of X's open-source algorithm. Every file. Every filter. Every module they've made public. Literally. I wanted to know exactly how to see this from the perspective of a creative here, from an artist, and not from a content consumer which is what literally every other post about the algo is focused on. What follows is what they found. ///// ⭕️ TLDR; 5 things we all should be aware of: 1. Our follower count does nothing for our reach anymore. 2. The algorithm decides how many people see our posts based on a PREDICTION, before anyone has seen it. 3. Posting too much hurts us. Posting too little also hurts us. (Really) 4. Every time we repost another artist's work, the algorithm buries it. 5. Our posts are gone from the system after 48 hours. Nothing from 3 days ago is being shown to anyone. You start from zero every 48 hours. ///// ⏬ Going deeper on those 5... 1. Your Follower Count is just a Display Number Buried in the codebase: "author_followers_count" is pulled through a service called "Gizmoduck" and passed to the tweet entity service for display only. Not fed into any scorer. Anywhere in the system. 100,000 followers. 1000 followers. Same starting point in "Phoenix", the new system. Years building an audience on this platform? That audience, as a signal to the algorithm, is worth nothing now apparently. What travels with your posts is PREDICTED engagement, a score based on your content and historical signals, regardless of how many people chose to follow you. _ 2. "The Prediction Trap" This is the one that actually broke my brain. Before your post reaches anyone, "Phoenix" scores it across 19 "prediction heads"; 19 different things it's trying to predict about how people will behave. Let me repeat. ❗️THE ALGO IS PREDICTING HOW MUCH ENGAGEMENT YOU WILL GET, AND ASSIGNS REACH BASED ON IT.❗️ WHICH IS A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY! Some of the 19 metrics: favorite_score — will someone like this reply_score — will someone reply dwell_score — will someone pause on it (binary) dwell_time — how long will they pause (continuous, two separate signals) photo_expand_score — will someone expand the image not_interested / report — negative signals The prediction determines reach... It actually decides if the post will get reach, by predicting... reach? how does this make any sense. It's not determined by merit of the post. It's determined by wether or not the algo thinks it will get reach, thus giving it reach. Phoenix PREDICTS low engagement. Shows the post to fewer people. Fewer people means fewer chances for engagement. Prediction validates itself. Post gets suppressed. Phoenix PREDICTS high engagement. Bigger distribution. More chances. Prediction validates itself. Post gets pushed further. The prediction drives distribution. Content quality is secondary. And the prediction is built on your account's recent historical signals. If your reach has been declining, Phoenix is PREDICTING it will keep declining, AND actively making that happen by restricting your distribution. ie; A great piece posted on an account with declining engagement gets a small test group, underperforms in that group, gets confirmed as low-value. Even if it's the best thing they've ever made. The algorithm creates the outcome it predicted. And for anyone who's been in a decline, getting out requires overcoming a system that's actively betting against you. _ 3. "The Volume Trap" "AuthorDiversityScorer" applies exponential decay every time you appear in the same follower's feed session. Each additional post from you in a single session scores lower than the last. - Post at 9am, noon, 7pm. - A follower opens X at noon. - They see your midday post. - Your 9am post, still alive, is now decayed because you already appeared in their session. - Your 7pm post decays further. ❗️The more you post, the less each post reaches. So you post less... Impressions drop anyway, because low activity reads as a dormant account. The "per-author" caps governing this are redacted from the public code. Post too much = decay. Post too little = dormancy. The band where things work is narrow, undisclosed, and different for every account. This is absolutely absurd. And impossible for people to navigate. _ 4. The New Repost Penalty April 12, 2026. X announced a crackdown on aggregators. Reposts of other people's work: up to 90% impression deduction. On that specific repost. To be clear: NOT on your account. On each individual original post. Lots of mis-info out about this. Every time you share another artist's work because you believed in it, because community means showing up for each other... The algorithm buried it. 90% visibility cut. Gone. BUT Self-reposting your own work is different. X uses a "Bloom filter" that resets at the end of each session. "RetweetDeduplicationFilter" only drops self-reposts for followers who already saw the original in that same session. A follower opening the app at midnight hasn't seen your morning post in their current session. It reaches them fresh. The rule: sharing someone else's work = buried. Sharing your own = viable. _ 5. 48 Hours and... It's GONE. "Thunder" is X's in-memory post store. It auto-trims every 2 minutes. Retention window: 48 hours. After 48 hours your post is gone from the candidate pool. The algorithm can't serve it to anyone. The idea that consistent posting lets your older content keep circulating is wrong at the architecture level. You're starting from zero every two days. Thunder also maintains per-author caps on how many of your posts can be in the candidate pool at once. Those values are redacted. ///// 🫠 How our habits are hurting us: For years the advice was: show up every day, post on a schedule, build the habit. The accounts that did that built audiences. That consistency was proof of commitment. The "AuthorDiversityScorer" punishes it. The daily schedule that built your following now means your posts are competing with each other instead of adding value. The disciplined consistency the old platform rewarded is now what triggers exponential decay under the new one. Let that sink in❗️ The platform changed the rules. The habits we built under the old rules are working against us under the new ones. And no one said anything about it. /// 📤 A Note about/to Nikita & the X Team: Nikita Bier and the algo team at X are building for consumers. The changes make sense from that angle: algorithmic feeds, crackdowns on low-quality reposts, pushing formats that generate comments and replies. If your goal is to show the people scrolling a better experience, this logic tracks. That might even be the right goal. I could argue that with a certain perspective. However... there's a side of the equation they're seemingly not accounting for: the creators who supply the content that makes the platform worth scrolling in the first place. For artists specifically, this has been a demolition job. The art was always supposed to be the value. That's what we spent years building. That's what the audiences came for. The current algorithm doesn't reward that natively anymore. It rewards high comment probability. The result is people like me spinning up AI agent swarms to read source code just to understand why our reach is gone. Creators running diagnostics on a platform they used to just create on... is ridiculous. I don't think this is the intent. But it's the outcome regardless. You can optimize the consumption experience all you want. If the people making things stop showing up because the game is too rigged, there's nothing left to consume. The creator side of the algorithm needs a voice in these decisions. Right now it doesn't have one. //// I sent agents to read the code because I was tired of not knowing the rules. Tired of watching reach disappear. Tired of looking for accounts I used to see every day and finding out they're still there, still creating, just invisible. Understanding all this doesn't fix anything, ironically. But at least now I know what I'm working with. They built the algo well. Just not for us. It's built for the masses, engagement farming, rage baiting, fear baiting, and overall 2026 end-of-days pvp slop and brain rotted doom scrollers. I don't know what else to tell you, or how to operate with any of this, and trust me, I get how insane and confusing a lot of this is. It numbing. Tiring.. and just.. Idk. Regardless, I hope this helps in whatever way it can. -BLAC _ Attached: 1 - screenshot of my death spiral analytics 2 - Summary report on agent swarm findings 3 - the prediction trap, visualized 4 - snippets from the public X algo repo with notes

US Vice President JD Vance in Hungary claims Ukrainian intelligence is trying to influence US and Hungarian elections, calling on voters to support Viktor Orban in the upcoming vote. #Hungary

Bucha massacre war criminal was eliminated. Sanctioned Lieutenant Colonel Матафонов Владимир Викторович (Matafonov Vladimir Viktorovich), 64th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade, was eliminated in Ukraine on 13 July 2024. Awarded for Syria @QalaatAlMudiq

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The State of the "X" OSINT Community, a message to the 'OSINT' accounts. Let’s all take a step back and look at the broader “OSINT” community, especially after Elon Musk’s changes. What do we actually see? Engagement Farmers. The majority of these accounts claim to do OSINT and even include it in their name. But most of them don’t do the work. At best, they’re bad news aggregators — copying and pasting information without citing sources, rewriting descriptions to grab attention, and shaping opinions based on unverified data. They chase attention, not accuracy. In other words, they’re engagement farmers. These accounts make up most of what’s now labeled as “OSINT.” News aggregators. Then there’s a second group — the news aggregators who at least add some value. They collect and organize information into threads or perform basic analyses that make data easier to understand. Importantly, they also give proper credit to the original sources. For them, it’s not about being the first to post — it’s about gathering reliable information and presenting it clearly and responsibly. OSINT. Finally, there are the 'real' OSINT accounts. A definition: "OSINT is the practice of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting publicly available information from open sources to produce insights for decision-making, threat assessment, and investigations." The real OSINT accounts go beyond aggregation. They verify locations, identify equipment types, and perform full investigations — turning raw data into actionable, verified insights. Mistakes. And yes, even OSINT accounts make mistakes. Why? Because OSINT is only as accurate as the information available at the time of analysis. That’s why verifying the basic data used in any analysis must always be a priority. Crediting sources is equally important — it allows others to understand the reasoning behind the analysis and, if necessary, to verify the same sources independently. When new information emerges, earlier conclusions may turn out to be flawed. It’s then the responsibility of the OSINT account to evaluate whether the new data impacts the final assessment. If it does, the correct course of action is clear: delete the original post and start again. Deletion is the only acceptable response when an error alters the conclusion. GeoConfirmed. We know where we stand: GeoConfirmed is a verification community of more than 100 volunteers, dedicated to answering factual “where” questions. Does that make us an OSINT account? That’s not for us to decide. In four years, GeoConfirmed has made seven mistakes — just seven. Each time, we reviewed our verification process, because seven out of more than 60,000 published geolocations is still seven too many. That’s the level of responsibility our admin team has committed to. We guarantee where something happened — not what happened, and not when. With the exemption for our 'investigations' where we used the geolocation as a basis for a further analysis. And in every one of those seven cases, we deleted our tweets and posted corrections. How many accounts, even 'OSINT' accounts, get fact-based feedback, even Community Notes, but never make corrections? For them, it’s not about the facts. The initial tweet draws attention — and that’s what matters most to them. How to handle mistakes. Everyone can make mistakes. There is only one correct response to a mistake: delete the tweet and post a new one with the correction. Let’s be very clear about this. Accounts that post a “correction” in a follow-up tweet are still benefiting from the attention generated by the original post. They aren’t prioritizing facts — they’re preserving engagement. The correction will never reach as many people as the original tweet, meaning the misinformation or disinformation continues to spread. Deleting the mistaken tweet and reposting it with the correct information is the only responsible solution. --- So, if you call yourself an OSINT account, ask yourself this: Am I part of the third group? Am I doing what should be expected from an OSINT account? If the answer is no, then you are not an OSINT account and shouldn’t present yourself as one. Unless you take concrete steps to meet the standards of real OSINT work, you’re not contributing to the field: you’re merely chasing attention under a false label. That doesn’t make you an OSINT account — it makes you a fraud, using OSINT for attention, and adding noise instead of value. --- Pictured: GeoConfirmed’s admin team verified geolocations conducted by the GeoConfirmed volunteer community, as well as contributions from other volunteers, related to the Ukraine–Russia conflict. Over 50,000 GeoConfirmed locations where events occured. (geoconfirmed.org/ukraine)

Idiot that has never heard of Prague is telling us that Carney screwed up all of Canadian junior hockey in 9 months! He's implying that Carney can do the impossible?

I have spent a lot of time talking shit at people with opinions on Venezuela's oil production potential, and how it's going to "RePLaCe CanADa". So here's my contribution -- how I see the cost of replacing Canadian crude with Venezuelan heavy. I think it's a nearly $1 trillion bill to get that done. I'm not sure who has a spare $1 trillion in their jeans. Venezuela's natural domestic consumption is ~1MMB/d, so to completely replace Canada and reach 3MMB/d of export capacity, the country needs to grow production to ~4MMB/d of production, a level they have never hit before. Exports never really exceeded more than ~1.2MMB/d. They have one main export terminal (Puerto José) capable of ~1.2MMB/d and other smaller terminals gets them to realistically, 1.7MMB/d, so they need 1.3MMB/d in just export capacity and storage facilities, that's $5-10Bn. On the US side there needs to be minor import expansion, but not super major, around $1Bn. Then, they have to get the oil flowing north. You'd be able to repurpose some Canadian pipelines (if we assume no USGC re-export), but right now Mid-Valley Pipeline is the only major remaining heavy trunk line that moves oil from the USGC region northward into the Midwest. So you need 3MMBbls/d of crude pipelines that move crude north which would run around $30-50Bn. Then you also need a condensate return line for another $10Bn. Venezuelan crude has higher levels of metals and a higher TAN than Canadian exports, so you need to retool the refineries accepting the new sauce, that's another $50-90Bn on the tab. Cause there's not enough VLCCs in the world to service this, you also need to build new tankers for the shuttle service. 30 new VLCCs will cost $4-8Bn. Then onto the upstream. I'm going to say that if you're getting super majors to really invest in Venezuela, they're going to do tertiary recovery which is overwhelmingly the right play over 20 years with current SAGD tech (SAGD wasn't commercial when Venezuela grew the first go-round). Using foamy oil to get to 4MMBbls/d and keep it there for 10-20 years is impossible (we're replacing Canada so we need a 20 year RLI). Right now, Venezuela produces oil cold, and uses depleting reservoir pressure to bring that oil to surface. For a true Canada replacement, you need heat, which is going to be expensive! But we're not building new upgraders (replacing Canadian heavy), but even then upgrading capacity is only ~0.7MMB/d. The problem is they don't have the power infrastructure to add the power needed for 3MMBbls/d of SAGD for steam generation, and even for primary recovery they don't have the electricity they need. So you need to build 10-15 GW of new power infra, at gas-fired capital cost including transmission and the new midstream infra to move gas (including LNG import terminals), that's another $40-75Bn just to get the power to the SAGD facilities. There are constant rolling blackouts in the country. You also need ~7-900MB/d of diluent looping on the Venezuela side, including DRUs for another ~$25Bn. Other local midstream refurb is at least $15Bn to replace ashphalted and corroded trunk lines. Any North American firm would also have to commit to cleaning up Lake Maracaibo which is a $10Bn commitment. For the actual upstream facilities, I'm just going to use a pretty general number based on 125% of Canadian Greenfield costs, so ~$45K/Bbl/d, and lets just call it 2.8MMB/d that's another ~$125Bn for the actual production facilities and ~$220Bn in sustaining CAPEX while everything ramps, and inevitable 5yr issues will add another $10Bn. There are also very little functional logistics infrastructure. The Tinaco-Anaco rail line was never completed, so you'd have to finish that. All copper has been inevitably stripped and looted, you'd have to rebuild all sorts of worker camps, airports/airstrips, rail spurs, trainload facilities. You'd need to re-dredge the Orinoco River ($15Bn), complete the Tinaco-Anaco line ($20Bn), build 1,000 miles of new heavy spec roads ($25Bn), and you'd need to refresh all of the civil infrastructure cause nobody from Houston is going to live in Venezuela as it stands. So you're going to shoulder that in wages, or Fort Mac copy-paste CAPEX for ~$40Bn. You are also, in the growth/construction and first 5 years going to spend $50-60Bn on paying employees/EPC/other contractors. You need at least 50,000 people in offices and fields to get this done. Of course, security too. Petrominerales spent ~$2.50/BOE on security, so 3MMB/d over 5 years is ~$10Bn on security. So all-in we're at ~$700Bn in both direct upstream costs, and indirect costs. All-in, this is a $1 trillion project to grow exports ~3MMB/d. There is short-term growth to be had, but it's not sustainable growth. There is also huge long-term potential, but it's not the same as drilling a pad in the Permian and ripping a tie-in to Energy Transfer. It's a freaking massive commitment. The country is pretty much dilapidated, and until super majors (and other infra builders) begin committing to the full-cycle costs associated with realizing the country's potential, the upside is not as robust as many would want you to believe. - Export terminal ($8Bn) and import refresh ($1Bn) - Pipelines from USGC to Midwest ($40Bn) and then a condensate return line ($10Bn) - Retooling refineries ($75Bn) - New tankers for shuttle service ($6Bn) - Lake Maracaibo clean up ($10Bn) - New power infrastructure for the upstream growth at a post-AI inflated capital cost ($60Bn) - New diluent looping ($25Bn) - Actual upstream production facilities and <5yr sustaining capital and issue contingency ($355Bn) - Full logistics and civil infrastructure overhaul (~$100Bn) and security ($10Bn). US imports chart by @Rory_Johnston

Donald Trump is bombing Venezuela. It’s time for Congress to step up and do their job: this is Unconstitutional.

Will you acknowledge you were 100% wrong about this, Jane?

Summary of Zelenskyy and Trump talking points from their joint press conference after their Mar-a-Lago meeting on the US peace plan for Ukraine.

In November, Russia experienced a massive industrial collapse. Pumps -38% Bearings -37% Tractors -61% Bulldozers -53% Elevators -37% Internal combustion engines -48% Cars -34% Buses -17%-28% Trucks -43% Car bodies -38% Trailers -33% Electric locomotives -24% Railway cars -40%-44%

A video that everyone must watch to understand what happens in places where the Russian army arrives. In Pokrovsk, Russian soldiers brutally dealt with a family of "waiters" who stayed in the city waiting for the Russian army. The video shows the testimony of the city's resident, Viktoriia Shvaiko, to Senior Investigator of the Russian Military Police Polianskyi Oleksii Valerievych. The woman recounts that on the night of December 22–23, 2025, three drunk Russian soldiers from the 30th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, with call signs "Smile," "Build," and "Scramble," burst into her home, where she, her husband, and her mother-in-law were present. First, they tormented her husband for a long time and beat him, then shot him in the leg and killed him. The woman herself was raped in turn. They also wanted to kill her mother-in-law, but she managed to escape while the Russians were gang-raping the homeowner. Viktoriia Shvaiko emphasizes that her husband was not a supporter of Ukraine; he was waiting for Russia and planned to join the Russian army as a driver. He was killed just for fun. By those he was waiting for—and who finally arrived.

Another general bites the dust!

Mar-a-Lago face before and after