@mobiusdisk

“Indeed, I am nothing but a wanderer and pilgrim on this earth. And what more are you?”

Joined September 2023
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A child asked me about my favorite season. I said Fall. He asked, “The colors?” I said, “No. It’s a reminder of the world we have left behind—one that has shed its goodness like the leaves you see. Everyone you know will weep and suffer as they are stepped upon as these leaves.”
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Finished writing an article on Meccan (and by extension Saudi) urbanism and ended up creating an urban planning tool as an afterthought. Still improving this heavily to see where I can take it.
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Ignore my atrociously designed building.
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Bear witness—Cairo has this effect on any normal person, not just me.
papa buri@papaburi8h
penultimate day in egypt— cairo is by far the most insane place i've visited
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Interesting tweet to come across when you’re the one everyone comes to for pirated PDFs.
Khrom@Khrom3ium18h
I should remind people in Islam piracy is technically haram as its considered stealing
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Reading Ikenberry and it’s interesting to see how fears re: the collapse of liberal internationalism was there from much earlier within some circles as they saw fractures within the institutions holding the system together. But the masses will largely miss it as will journalists.
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Right up until the collapse of the USSR people were going with their lives as normal because it was impossible to think that the union could ever break apart. We presume continuity—we assume status quos will hold if we’ve seen them for long enough. But appointed times come.
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I wake up these days and open Claude and Muse. I sleep whilst reading and staring into Muse for the last time before waking up to it again. Working on some very interesting stuff.
Nafalis@mobiusdiskOct 21
Love Opus 5.5. Society will be objectively worse off for it but I’ll maximize it while there’s time.
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@TsunalystOct 21
Acquisitions.
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@TsunalystOct 21
A quick afternoon drive to the bookstore to get some old works.
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Love Opus 5.5. Society will be objectively worse off for it but I’ll maximize it while there’s time.
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Developing an alternative to Goodreads with (1) a better, more modern UI, (2) voice integration so notes may be taken on the fly whilst reading, (3) an in-house Obsidian/Zettelkasten so that connections may be drawn in the same place, and (4) LLM integration for easier search.
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Only the obvious. The realization hit everyone that you cannot outsource your defense to another entity—one that is run by those who stand against your very identity. Issue is that now, it’s too late. There is no alternative to strength or process knowledge.
The Hormuz Report
@HormuzReportOct 20
BREAKING: The U.S. is now preparing to completely abandon Gulf countries, as Trump envoy Tom Barrack directly warns Gulf allies that Washington can no longer guarantee their security indefinitely, telling regional officials in Doha that they must take responsibility for their own defense, signalling the end of the U.S. security umbrella in the Middle East, per the Wall Street Journal. Barrack said the 80-year-old U.S. security-for-oil arrangement is no longer sustainable, pointing to regional defense partnerships as the way forward. The warning comes as Gulf states face Iranian strikes on U.S. military infrastructure and growing uncertainty over Washington’s future military commitment to the region.
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I want a full-fledged surveillance state ready by 2028 and Trump’s presence in the White House till he dies sometime in the 2030s. There’s only one way to change the status quo, and it’s to wreak havoc and burn everything in this planet down.
Disclose.tv
@disclosetvOct 20
NEW - A group of U.S. national security officials are working behind the scenes with states and Congress on how to prepare for Trump interference in the midterm elections.
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“We need Muslim creatives to contribute to the culture-creation.” “Say no more.”
Zlar@R3bellionR3loadOct 19
Nasheed Edition - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
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There’s nothing left in Yemen to bomb, along with the fact that the Saudi military is incompetent. As a rule, there’ll be escalation horizontal and vertical escalation if this isn’t fixed—we see that again today with the UK/Egypt joining in and the US sending an aircraft carrier.
MenchOsint
@MenchOsintOct 19
Three months since MbS decided to intervene in Yemen by bombing Sana'a airport. Result: - Saudi Oil tankers banned from Bab el Mandeb - Main Saudi airport (Riyadh) closed - Saudi-backed forces losing ground in Yemen - Several Oil installations damaged - Several global events cancelled *bearing in mind that things can still escalate further..
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Results as expected. Boomers are naturally idiots, but the 18-29 range and its steep decline from 1972 is fun to witness. Note that it’s also capped at 2024—almost two full years for further frustration on Gaza and with Iran, it inevitably went even lower.
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Accidentally ordered 37 books.
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He’s right and he knows that this is human nature—you want to see your creative agency in play and feel productive when you make work happen with your hands. AI-pessimism doesn’t arise only b/c of joblessness or whatnot, but that an entire society will be rendered post-human.
Shaun
@shaundevan_Oct 17
Sam Altman has access to every model OpenAI makes and he still works the way he did 20 years ago He still scrolls his inbox hunting for the email that's "least painful" to open. He knows it makes no sense When David Senra asked him why, he gave the most honest answer I've heard about AI adoption: In his words: "there's something in my mind that is encoded that doing this kind of stuff is what it means to work" Look at what "this kind of stuff" is for him: pasting from one messaging app to another, digging through email, working a to-do list Now look at how work is done in your company. Most of the day is the same stuff. Copying, pasting, chasing updates, moving information from one place to another And every person doing it has the same AI he does If the best tools in the world can't break the habit for Altman, handing your team one more tool won't break it either The habit only breaks when the work itself gets redesigned around AI The companies that redesign their work around AI are already pulling ahead.
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It’s fascinating what you can build with LLMs these days, but knowledge is fundamentally a human endeavor, and those who carried it are dying off by the day. What motivated them is that they knew their talent was their own and they could strive for unique ends.
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But as Tao laments similarly, that’s dying off. It will in a sense produce a unique circumstance where the counter-culture will be defined by those who can “think” because I don’t think the next generation will by any means be human. They’ll more likely resemble orangutans.
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