Month: October 2026

Crude is flowing again, but the diesel shortage is still unsolved, and Iran is nowhere near its ceiling:

“30 drones and ten missiles a week is nothing compared to their capabilities.”

Every week of escorts burns interceptors, fuel and sailor hours that taxpayers are covering on a tab Washington hasn’t published, and that bill grows whether or not Iran ever turns the dial up.

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  Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇦🇪🇮🇱 The co-pilot accused of attacking the captain on the Dubai to Tel Aviv flight had reportedly been flagged by Oman over extremist views, and flydubai hired him anyway and put him on that route

The Wall Street Journal reports Oman had banned him from flying over radical ideological views, and CNN reports Oman’s national airline removed him from pilot training last year over alleged extremist views and moved him to another role.

Eight months ago flydubai took him on, after a stint at Royal Air Maroc, and assigned him to the UAE-Israel route in the middle of a regional war.

He was born in the UAE to an Omani father and a Syrian mother.

Whether Muscat warned anyone is unknown.

Netanyahu now says the attacker was radicalized and came to crash the plane with everyone aboard, that Israel is investigating whether someone sent him, and that whoever did will pay a very heavy price.

The question that line skips is how a man one Gulf airline wouldn’t let fly ended up in the cockpit of another’s most sensitive route, and who signed off.

If the vetting failed this badly in Dubai, the next round of this war starts with a personnel file.

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The company says a trial participant hit a record 11.32 bits per second controlling a cursor, while its users have now spent more than 50,000 combined hours using the implants.

Some participants even need just 10 minutes of calibration per WEEK instead of every day.

Your mouse and keyboard just got put on notice😳

Source:  @Neuralink / Writer: Val
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The capacity check was due at the end of September and has slipped to mid-November, because war-damaged projects make it impossible to say how much oil some members can really pump, and not every country has even sent in its numbers.

The UAE already quit the group in May over its quota, and Iraq has weighed leaving too.

Quotas only work when every member trusts the math, and with the numbers missing, the UAE gone and Iraq eyeing the door, this war could end up breaking OPEC’s grip on oil prices long after the strait reopens.

Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniel

The U.S just put the future of warfare in the hands of Elon Musk.

The Pentagon appointed the tech billionaire to co-lead ”Project Meridian,” which will map out the future of AI and autonomous military warfare in the country.

Experts say the move is deeply problematic, as Musk has significant conflicts of interest. SpaceX holds a plethora of Pentagon contracts.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth officially launched “Project Meridian” during his State of the Force address, appointing SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to co-lead the 120-day task force.

Under the oversight of Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael, the group is tasked with determining how emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence, autonomy, directed energy, robotics, and biotechnology—will redefine global conflict. The initiative is designed to bypass traditional “creative limitations” to discover and field cutting-edge weapons systems that will shape U.S. combat readiness decades from now, culminating in a public report and a classified annex.

However, the high-profile appointments have immediately ignited intense scrutiny regarding potential conflicts of interest.

Both Musk and Luckey command private tech empires that hold multibillion-dollar active contracts with the federal government, raising ethical questions about defense contractors influencing the Pentagon’s future spending priorities.

Critics argue that placing major political donors and tech monopolists at the helm of military AI research blurs the line between public interest and corporate profit, reinforcing the influence of the modern military-industrial complex.

source: Roston, A. (2026). Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors. The Guardian.

— @SmartScience Oct 3, 2026