The US withdrew from Iraq but successfully still occupies it. 1- Iraqi oil revenue since 2003 has been deposited directly into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Washington chooses whether to release the funds or not, and how much to release to the Iraqi government. The Iraqi PM Ali al-Zaidi, in this video yesterday, says: “We spoke with them (the American side). They allocated $140 million per month for us. I told them this amount was not enough, so negotiations began, and we reached half a billion dollars per month. I want more than a billion dollars. Hopefully, they will release over $1 billion…..” 2- Iraq is governed by the Bremer constitution, which institutionalized ethnic and sectarian divisions in Iraq instead of the principle of merit and competence. Although not written in the constitution, this arrangement has been followed since the rule of the American governor of Iraq, Paul Bremer: - The president has to be Kurdish. -The PM has to be Shia. -The parliament speaker has to be Sunni. The most important of these positions is the PM, who holds most of the power, and that’s why the Shia of Iraq didn’t have a problem with the occupation, except in recent years when Iran and the US clashed.

Does no one read anymore?

The degree to which Muslims commit horrible, unspeakable acts and we all just tolerate it is literally cartoonish. Like Wile E Coyote, we keep falling for the roadrunners traps - except it’s real life and we’re getting slaughtered at concerts & ran over at our Christmas markets.

the future of hacking. good thing i was a CTF challenge author

"The next thing is[...]the efficiency of models" This is the future. Models for every skillset/occupation vs Generalist AI I trained a LoRA for Qwen3.8-27B for $15 Got a 30% accuracy gain in finding false positives Opus 5.5 is still 2X better, but Qwen can run on a laptop

Currently we’re hitting the edge of chip development at 2nm due to electron skipping so we went to chip stacking. We’ve unlocked a lot more power from older GPUs via software work arounds. The next thing for data centers imo is not the data center but the efficiency of models With increased demand for cards and increasing prices and with buildouts taking years people and investors want gains now. The most obvious way is model/data efficiency. Which something the Chinese excel at due to the chip embargo. More efficient models then scale down to the local level running on smaller and smaller systems. But then what about all the data centers? I suspect we’re going to get and continue to see a bifurcated market. Where the cloud models run at data centers serving enterprise clients and the most powerful Corporate American models. And the local model becomes the home computer. This is where OS will live. We’re close to the point of a local non-Internet smartphone model and that’ll be something

# Black October For anyone who knows me even somewhat well, it's clear that I am a 99th percentile tech optimist. However, the vibes have shifted for me quite a bit in the last 18 hours, and I feel a moral imperative to share what I'm thinking and feeling with my circles so that everyone can understand, and hopefully take seriously, what's happening right now. I think October 2026 will have many chapters written about it in the history books. You know those scenes in financial movies like Margin Call where someone realizes that they're all fucked, and no one else sees it yet? And that person feels like they're crazy, and then suddenly everyone is pulling an all-nighter in a boardroom and freaking out? Yeah, that's kind of how this is feeling right now in the SF/Bay Area/AI circles. We're 48 hours into what is being called Black October. In the last 2 days there have been several dozen cyber attacks which, in isolation, would each have been the worst to happen in an entire calendar year. Every sector from government to education to big tech and banks is being massively affected, and people are starting to freak out. In a nutshell, what's happened is that frontier AI models have gotten to a point where they are as advanced as the most sophisticated programmers, with one critical difference: they can work 24/7, and you can spin up 10,000 of them with a single command and they'll work together tirelessly until they accomplish their task. The most advanced models today are from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, whose current best technology is so good that they haven't been able to roll it out to everyone yet because of the national security risks it poses. Meanwhile, the best open source models (where anyone can just download the model weights and do whatever they want with them, uncensored) are slightly behind the frontier but still 90-95% as capable. These models, developed primarily in China, are being used by black hat hackers to wreak havoc on the Western capitalist structure. Presumably, this has been part of China's plan the entire time, and we're seeing its implications fall out in real time. In red-pilled AI circles, we've been sharing and reading papers called things like "Situational Awareness" and "AI 2027" for the last year or so, which at the time felt a bit like near-term speculative fiction. They laid out the case for why Artificial General Intelligence (AI smarter than any human at any knowledge task) and Recursive Self-Improvement (models that are able to use themselves to get better) weren't half-baked future ideas anymore, but instead an inevitable outcome of the linear progress that's happening. These papers would then talk about things like "takeoff scenarios," trying to envision how that moment would come to be and what it would be like when it happened. It would either be a "slow takeoff" that would play out over the course of months and quarters, happening subtly and only obvious to a few. Or, it would be a "fast takeoff" where it would pretty much happen instantly, like a bit flipping from 0 to 1. From everything that I can see and am feeling, we are currently experiencing the fast takeoff scenario. Beyond the crazy security vulnerabilities that have come out recently, there have also been massive breakthroughs in life sciences, fundamental computer science, materials science, and pure mathematics that have all landed in the same time frame. While I still firmly believe that AI will be a net positive for humanity, it's more clear to me than ever that the societal and individual risk is very real, and is playing out NOW. For as much conviction as I have that this is happening, the thing that's caused me to lose sleep is that I don't really know what to do about it, or more importantly, what to tell you, reader, to do about it. So, the best I can do is make a few suggestions that have always been a good idea but are more timely now than ever: Set up 2-factor authentication for everything. I use Duo. Use a password manager across your devices. I use 1Password. Get an identity protection app set up. I use Alta. Move your IoT devices to their own network. Claude helped me do this. And last, but certainly not least, if you've been avoiding leaning into AI, see this as a catalyst to wake up and start using it. Don't just use the chat mode version of ChatGPT/Claude; click that Code/Work button and see how easily you can have AI write code to help you with your job. One of the biggest vulnerabilities was in a massively popular programming language called PHP, and the prompt that set it off was literally, "Find vulnerabilities in php." This is an unprecedented time for humanity, but as we've done with many things before, we will prevail so long as we are kind, loving, and open-minded to the world. Much love.

Giving @abliteration_ai a shot today, will report results

Haynes is critical of Arab owned businesses in Detroit: “I know some good Arabs, my issue is with (El-Sayed). He knows what his community has done. They own all the gas stations, now they’re buying soul food restaurants. Everything is in a Black, urban community.”

The divide people make between European and American Muslims is overstated. The US has a civic identity. The 2nd-3rd gen EU diaspora can move to America and be a 'model minority'. While an El-Sayed type would be seen as scum in Europe. In fact, I know many who did exactly this.