⚡️🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 - The US has burned through "years" worth of munitions since start of the Iran war, just 13 days ago, per FT.

Details include:

1. Concerns are reportedly mounting around rising costs and the US’ ability to replenish stockpiles

2. The rapid depletion of weaponry includes advanced long-range Tomahawk missiles, sources say

3. The Pentagon is set to request $50 billion in additional spending for the military

4. Pentagon officials told Senators that the war had cost more than $11 billion in the first 6 days of strikes

Costs of the Iran war are rapidly mounting.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

This is a fascinating story. Check it out.

Hundreds of animal species famously died out during the last Ice Age. The reasons behind the Ice Age, Pleistocene, or Quaternary, megafaunal extinctions have been puzzled over for more than a century without any clear resolution. The problem has been called the ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem of paleobiology’. These extinctions took place over thousands of years and around the world, but there was a strange specificity about which animals could stay and which had to go. There are two accredited narratives about what caused this, the human-hunting narrative and the climate-change narrative. Both, in curious ways, are wrong.

https://open.substack.com/pub/forrestbishop/p/the-pleistocene-murders-part-1?r=lp6h7

How to Slay a Wizard

THE SECRET GUIDE TO WORD MAGIC

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/how-to-slay-a-wizard

🧠 Scientists Ran a Real Fly Brain Inside a Virtual Body
@science

📝 A team of researchers has recreated the entire brain of a fruit fly neuron-by-neuron and launched it inside a simulated body.

This isn’t a neural network trained to imitate a fly.
It’s something far stranger: a structural copy of the real biological brain.

The system includes roughly:

▪️ ~125,000 neurons
▪️ ~50 million synapses
▪️ The original wiring diagram reconstructed from connectomics data

Virtual sensory signals enter the model, neural activity propagates through the network exactly as it would in the real insect, and the simulated body moves in response.

In other words: the fly’s brain is effectively running inside a digital organism.

🔬 Researchers built the system using detailed neural mapping and simulation tools developed in the emerging field of whole-brain emulation.

The long-term goal is even more ambitious:
👉 the same approach could eventually be applied to mouse brains, which are several orders of magnitude more complex.

If that succeeds, it would represent a major step toward true digital organisms — simulated bodies driven by real biological neural architectures.

🤖 Anime fans of Pantheon may feel a sense of déjà vu.

🔗 More details: https://eon.systems

💬 Discussion:
If a brain’s wiring and signals can be perfectly reproduced in software, where exactly does the organism “exist”?

#neuroscience #connectomics #simulation #digitalbiology #AI #science

⁣The 31st MEU is heading toward the Persian Gulf.

There’s a lot of talk about the Marines taking Kharg Island.

But the truth is the USS Tripoli, an America-class amphibious assault ship that carries the embarked 31st MEU, can’t get anywhere near the island—the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

To even try and enter the Persian Gulf is the kind of suicidal venture former Marine Commandant, General David Berger, warned about in his 2019 Commandants Planning Guidance, where he noted that “our Nation’s ability to project power and influence beyond its shores is increasingly challenged by long-range precision fires; expanding air, surface, and sub-surface threats; and the continued degradation of our amphibious and auxiliary ship readiness. The ability to project and maneuver from strategic distances will likely be detected and contested from the point of embarkation during a major contingency…it would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships. The adversary will quickly recognize that striking while concentrated (aboard ship) is the preferred option.”

And yet here we are, seven years later, a prisoner of legacy doctrine and systems.

If Marines are to attempt to take Kharg Island, it will have to be an assault launched from ashore, not from the sea. Marines and their Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft will need to deploy to Kuwait or Bahrain, both of which are currently under attack from Iranian missiles and drones, and from their attempt an air assault.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because in May 1975, US Marines carried out a similar vertical envelopment on Koh Tang island in the Gulf of Thailand. Conceived as a rescue mission to free US merchant marine sailors taken prisoner by the Khmer Rouge, the Marines instead found no prisoners, but lots of dug in Khmer Rouge fighters who ended up shooting down three of the eleven helicopters used in the initial landing, and heavily damaging five others. In the end, 38 Marines and US Air Force personnel were killed, and another 50 killed before the Marines had to be extracted under heavy fire. In the confusion of the final evacuation, three Marines were left on the island, and were subsequently captured and executed by the Khmer Rouge.

Any attempt to land Marines on Kharg Island will end in a disaster that would make Koh Tang island look like child’s play.

General David Berger knew this.

I wonder what the current Commandant, General Eric Smith, has to say about this?

Back in 1990 the Marine Corps Commandant, General Al Gray, formed an ad hoc planning cell to challenge the plans being put together by General Norman Schwarzkopf to liberate Kuwait.

Does General Smith possess the kind of intelligence and courage that General Gray had in standing up to bad ideas, or will he stand by silently as history repeats itself in the Persian Gulf, where the 31st MEU may find itself in a repeat of the Koh Tang debacle so Donald Trump can falsely declare victory over Iran.

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Is Netanyahu Dead?

It’s too soon to be certain one way or the other, but it does raise the question: will Israel surrender if their head of state is killed in an air strike? I mean, both the US and the Israelis keep going on and on about killing Khamenei as if that was somehow significant with regards […]

https://voxday.net/2026/03/14/is-netanyahu-dead/

🇺🇸🐊⚡️- After hosting James Fishback at an event at the University of Florida, the University of Florida College Republicans (UFCR) has been terminated by the university.

UF cited antisemitism and harassment as reasons for their decision, alongside the UFCR being affiliated with a different College Republicans organization.

UFCR has responded in a post on X.

In the late 1970s, the Hunt brothers leveraged their oil fortune to corner one-third of the global silver supply, driving prices from $6 to nearly $50 by systematically "standing for physical delivery" on thousands of contracts to drain the exchange vaults. To prevent a total inventory default, the COMEX board—composed of many traders holding losing short positions—abruptly changed the rules to "Liquidation Only," making it illegal to buy new contracts and effectively crashing the market by mid-game decree. On March 27, 1980, the resulting "Silver Thursday" plunge forced a $1.1 billion private bank bailout to save the financial system, ending in the Hunts' bankruptcy and a permanent ban from commodity trading.

Where is Netanyahu?

— Ben Swann