تَمّام فرحات Tammam Farhat

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world -Schopenhauer ▪︎ كل رَجُل يأخذ حدودَ نظره كحدود للعالم -شوبنهاور "وَأَن لَّيْسَ لِلْإِنسَانِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ" "لُعِنتَ زماناً خِصى العقلِ فيه يَقودُ فُحولَ العُقول" Al-Hamra, Granada

Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Mike Bloomberg, and Elon Musk pay a lower tax rate than the average nurse in America. @EWarren and I are reintroducing the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act because that's bullshit.

On the same day Larry Ellison fired 30,000 Oracle workers he got $9.6 billion richer. After Mark Zuckerberg fired 10,000 Meta workers he got $4.6 billion richer. Two men, Zuckerberg & Ellison, are now worth $400 billion. 40,000 jobs destroyed. And that’s just the warm up act.

Wow, LinkedIn just got caught in a huge scandal. Here's what's going on: > Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. > The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. It gets worse: > The scan doesn’t just look for LinkedIn-related tools. > It identifies whether you use an Islamic content filter (PordaAI — “Blur Haram objects, real-time AI for Islamic values”) > whether you’ve installed an anti-Zionist political tagger (Anti-Zionist Tag), or a tool designed for neurodivergent users Huge L after L

@nntaleb "This means the large system is fragile. It lacks "skin in the game" at the right levels and is over-leveraged against a single, rare, but devastating event."

Asymmetric warfare is similar to tail risk. You hit 100 targets; they hit just one and you've lost.

I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn. Every time you log in, we search your computer. Not metaphorically. We run code that scans your installed software. Every browser extension. Every application. We catalog it. We transmit it to our servers. We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of. The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide. We hid it off-screen. You never consented. We never asked. Our privacy policy doesn't mention it. That's networking. We call the program Project Handshake internally. The Slack channel is handshake-telem. In 2024 we scanned for 461 products. By February this year we scan for over 6,000. I don't know what all of them are. Nobody does. Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims. Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users. Someone added 509 job search tools. That last one is my favorite. We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs. On the platform where their current boss checks their profile. That's networking. We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools. Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo. We know each user's real name, employer, and job title. We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products. We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers. Without anyone knowing. Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught. The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools. We published two restricted APIs. They handle 0.07 calls per second. Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second. In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times. That's networking. I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter. The conference room is called The Fishbowl. Glass walls. Appropriate. There's a plaque on the wall. Q3 Competitive Landscape Award. I won it for the extension scanning initiative. Someone asked if users had a way to opt out. I said they can close their browser. The room laughed. I wasn't sure why. I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions. Most of the team does. The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit. We know your name. We know your employer. We know your religion. Your disabilities. Your politics. Whether you're looking to leave. That's networking. The system works exactly as designed. I designed it.

Nietzsche on how to actually read: “A reader who has not learned to read slowly will never understand my books. One must learn to see, one must learn to think, one must learn to speak and write: the goal in all three is a noble culture. To read well, that is to read slowly, deeply, looking cautiously before and aft, with reservations, with doors left open, with delicate eyes and fingers.”

كل ما تظنه فوضى اليوم، هو ترتيب لم تره بعد. فالطائر لا يفهم حكمة الريح، لكنه يطير بها، ويصل. وهكذا أنت… لا تُطالِب الله بفهم الخطة، بل اطلب منه قلبًا يثبت بينما تتبدل الخُطا. — جلال الدين الرومي

Today's Anne Frank is a Lebanese Muslim girl hiding in the attic of a Lebanese Christian family, terrified of Israeli Jewish soldiers finding her and killing her.

THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE…. BUT ISRAEL IS BOMBING IT BACK TO THE STONE-AGES. Muslims and Christians in Lebanon stood side by side lifting their voices together in a powerful expression of peace and solidarity. This gathering reflected Lebanon's deep-rooted tradition of interfaith coexistence, where shared values often rise above religious differences.

Oh dear, when a world leader threatens to, or boasts of, bringing an enemy 'back to the Stone Ages where they belong', I feel that we are all drawn back a little towards the Stone Age (if that's not an insult to the Stone Age).

Schopenhauer explains what happens when you read too much: “When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is like a pupil learning to write, who traces over with his pen the lines that have already been written by the teacher. Accordingly, when we read, the greater part of the work of thinking is done for us. This is why it relieves us so much to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts.”

Breaking good news: The Gold Helmet of Coțofenești — a key historical artifact for the people of #Romania, stolen in 2025 from the Drents Museum — has just been recovered in the #Netherlands, together with two of its three Dacian Gold Bracelets. The helmet and the bracelets had been featured since September 2025  in the @UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects to raise awareness about the illicit trafficking of cultural property. With its return to the people of Romania, the Virtual Museum is losing its first objects and hoping more will follow soon. The search for the third bracelet is still ongoing. #UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Objects was created as the only global museum in the world whose ambition is to be empty. We hope one day its collections will be returned to their rightful owners. Today marks a meaningful first step toward that vision. For more information: museum.unesco.org/stolen-objects…

@sharghzadeh What was the wisdom of bombing Gaza hospitals & medics? What was the wisdom of bombing South Lebanon's hospitals & medics? We sometimes don't notice & speak up until it is close to home 😞

Why are they bombing Iran’s medical infrastructure?

Emir Abd al-Qādir, the great Sufi master, was a Hasani sharif, and a descendant of Imam Hasan, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). He led the fight against the French occupation forces in Algeria for seventeen years in the 19th century. (1/)

“Those of the Fire attract those of the Fire, those of the Light seek those of the Light.” — Rumi (may Allāh sanctify his secret) 📚 Mawlānā Ḥusayn Wā‘iẓ-e Kāshifi, Lubb-e Lubāb-e Mathnawī #rumi #sufism #tasawwuf #sufis

So it appears that the US Army Chief of Staff, General Randy George, has apparently been fired. One must fear that the general has contradicted Hegseth, and that Hegseth wants someone who follows orders - even when those orders are war crimes. And yes, I am afraid I cannot help but think that Trump is not capable of ending this without looking like a complete loser, and that he will therefore simply make it more and more extreme. One can only imagine where that might lead.

"سامحه، فهو يعتقد أن عادات قبيلته هي قوانين الطبيعة"

The beauty of Sufism — Dr. Shems Friedlander (رَحِمَهُ ٱللَّٰهُ) #sufism #tasawwuf #sufis

I need this soon! Our heritage that everyone is trying to steal from our identity especially some gulf Arabs and Algeria hahaha. MOROCCAN ZELLIJE. Worldwide recognition. Trademark ✅. Like the size of a banner. Feast your eyes upon this beauty. Moroccan identity.

@AliElfughi_1 نعم، لكن كما بشار اعتقد انه اذا جاراهم (أسْدى لهم عملا يطلبونه)، يجد حلا لبلده، لم يتصور كم كانوا يبغضونه؟ وطبعا كان الاتحاد السوفيتي في مرحلة انهيار في تلك السنة...

@tfarhat هو كان يتحدث بواقع لا يستطيع تغيره بمفرده ، لانه حكم جماعي علي الجموع لا احد يستطيع ان يمضي فيه لوحده ، والفخ ليس فخ اكثر من انه نقطة ألتقاء سياسته بالاصطدام العالمي وحينها عرف ان شي غير المواجهه لا يجدي ولا ينقذ الموقف وبالتالي قرر شرف المواجهه والموت في ساحة المعركة بثمن باهض .

المحميات العربية هكذا وصف القذافي الدويلات العربية في القمة العربية بالعاصمة دمشق 2008 ولكن الان في حرب ايران فقط بات هذه الكلمات مفهومة جيدا للشعوب والشارع العام العربي .