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@OberousGirdwood @Noumenon72 @nosilverv Meanwhile on your account > joined 2026 Gonna be tough to beat the allegations re: not thinking, with this much self-awareness

@eden__space @Noumenon72 @nosilverv Please go back to Reddit

Friend recently telling me tattoos are just the latest elite differentiator rugpull: look at Pete Davidson removing all of his 200 tattoos — he can afford it. The poor people who tried to mimic him cannot.

@OberousGirdwood @Noumenon72 @nosilverv Pretty funny to see a profile picture-less wonder try this gayass comeback in the year 2026. Take the L and have a seat my guy

@Noumenon72 @nosilverv Maybe have a rethink about your profile picture before dishing it out yes?

@rethaiard @SKodeeDog @zriboua Rights don’t exist except when granted, and no nation on earth supports the right to unilaterally secede under external encouragement (except when it’s another country’s territory) You keep asserting horseshit with the confidence of someone too dumb to know better. Waste of time

@eden__space @SKodeeDog @zriboua Because it is. How do you think it’s not? Go ahead, show me the international law that says regions don’t have a right to self determination, or that nations don’t have a right to individually recognize these regions as independent states, or once recognized can’t provide aid!

This post will cost China dearly. Access to contracts they had with GCC countries going to vanish. Not condemning Iran’s attacks on Gulf countries will not be forgotten. Everyone can play a long game in Middle East.

@rethaiard @SKodeeDog @zriboua I love how you just drop a few rapid-fire retarded assertions and try to quickly move on 🤣🤣🤣 that’s not a “convoluted way of following international law”, that’s pissing all over it. How tf do you think it’s legal?

@eden__space @SKodeeDog @zriboua Russia (after years of trying to have Donbas reunited with Ukraine) decided to recognize their claim of independence (legal under international law) and then respond to their call for military support (also legal.) What do you think Iran did that violated international law?

@KhalidProton1 @CardilloSamuel @Haveadayoffucun I like him even more now

@CardilloSamuel @Haveadayoffucun The same cunt who said this

i've been exchanging with a friend of mine who live in iran. he hasn't left his apartment since the beginning of the war. i asked him if he feels the west is winning or loosing. he told me something interesting. he said: i don't know who's winning but i know iran has already lost. i asked him what does it mean. he said "they're now using their women in our streets, they're doing rallies of cars filled by women and children only, going allover the city with the islamic republic flags, reciting their quoran interpretation through speaker. [...] the regular army is fully disarmed because else they will stage a coup' i then asked him if he feels like topling the regime is out of reach or not. he told me that yes, it still is but with a caveat. "if it was just them it wouldn't have been out of reach, but they have imported mercenaries from iraq. and under each bridge there are search stops, each with 3 people tops. afraid, very paranoid - but at the end, it's three people. [...] for the people to march and take control, yes, it is still definitely out of reach. but with any tiny amount of weapon distribution it's gonna happen. [...] people are behaving different, not like people under missiles. they are planning and they a sitting ready. people on the street talk about their list of government employees that they are gonna attack." finally, i asked him what is the general opinion about the coalition operation, if the overall population is still supporting the united states & israel which is literally bombing their country. his answer was VERY interesting: "the irgc are trying very hard to change the narrative, they did the same last time Israel attacked, after the 12 days war, and it worked with a lot of people. not all but there were too many people (for my liking). they try to touch the nationalist in people. insinuating that the united states and israel are attacking iran and not the irgc. but, tt worked last time, but not this time. no one is buying the narrative, especially after the way they handled the protests. [...] mainly, don't believe most of the iranians on twitter or the internet. lot of them are regime members who got a white sim card, not regular people"

What Europe gets wrong: Nearly every major international organization and multilateral body has been captured by China and its CCP proxies. Trump is responding by building a parallel system to bypass them altogether. Many Europeans interpret this as destabilization, when it is better understood as adaptation to institutional failure.

This is deliberate misinformation. It's a tell that you can't argue these points honestly. 1) Enrichment is the most important step for developing nuclear weapons. Always has been. The focus on enrichment has/had nothing to do with Israel. Even the Obama nuclear deal was centered on enrichment levels. No one actually believes that the fatwa, which no one has seen, was anything but a public misinformation tool from a regime that lies about almost everything. While they moved the program underground in 2004, there has been overwhelming evidence since 2004, including published documents, that the regime has an active nuclear weapons program, so you would have to pretend like all of these regime officials and scientists were actively ignoring the fatwa to seriously cite it. Specifically on the enrichment point: It was an IAEA report, hardly a pro-Israel entity, last February, that determined the regime had increased its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium by 50% in a period of 4-6 months. Enough highly enriched uranium to make 7 nuclear bombs. There is no civilian purpose for enriching uranium at that level, and they are the only non-nuclear state in the world to be doing so. It doesn't take a genius to connect the dots. That's what led to the strikes last year. Neither the regime nor you can explain why they were developing highly enriched uranium clearly meant for a bomb if they weren't planning to or allowed to build a bomb. 2) Nuclear weapons, while the biggest issue, were never the only concern for Trump or his administration. Trump didn't take out Soleimani because of nuclear weapons, but because he had organized a massive terror proxy network that was consistently destabilizing the region, and encouraging terror attacks in the Gulf, the United States, and Europe. It's a tell that you guys continually leave out how the Gulf states also view the Islamic Republic as the key threat and actively are supporting efforts to degrade the regime because it's inconvenient to the "this is all about Israel" narrative. It's the UAE, more than anyone, that wants the war to continue until there is regime change. Yet no one claims that Trump is being controlled by them or the Saudis (because he is not). Trump has also seen the evidence that the Islamic Republic has actively planned to assassinate him since Soleimani. And while you can push conspiracies about that, it doesn't change the facts that they have an active assassination program that has repeatedly targeted Americans. Or that they are responsible for thousands of American troop deaths, which many Americans have never forgotten. Their ballistic missile and terror proxy programs are also major threats. The big knock on JCPOA, which is why Trump left it, was that it didn't address those issues, so it let the Islamic Republic terrorize everyone without consequences. They refused to put those on the table in the recent negotiation. The "Death to America" Islamic Republic has been fighting a proxy war targeting Americans since 1979. We have been focused on responding to the proxies and simply playing defense the whole time. They built up terror proxies and an extensive ballistic missile program as protection to allow them to continue the covert and one-sided war, but those protections have been severely degraded since 10/7, thanks to Israel. Trump made the call that now was the time to stop playing defense and take on the head of the snake to permanently put an end to that war. You might disagree with the timing or his decision, but that doesn't change the context or that he himself made it.

@darekgusto @anishmoonka I pay for SoundCloud for this very reason, but it’s rather genre-specific

@anishmoonka I'm totally in favor of discovering new music by aspiring artists. If Spotify can't guarantee that, there's a space on the market for other streaming services.

Wall Street has spent $20.4 billion buying your favorite old songs since 2019. BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo, KKR. They own the music you grew up on, and Spotify is built to keep playing it. Sony paid over $1 billion for Queen's song collection in 2024. Biggest single-artist deal ever. Warner Music and Bain Capital (a major investment firm) put up $1.2 billion in mid-2025 to buy more old song rights. Concord packaged 1.3 million song rights (Beatles, Beyonce, Pink Floyd, Rihanna) into investment products, like bonds, and raised $1.76 billion. Pophouse raised $1.3 billion for the rights to KISS, Cyndi Lauper, and Avicii. When you spend that kind of money on old songs, you need returns. Spotify delivers. Your $12.99 monthly subscription goes into one big pot with everyone else's. That pot gets split based on which songs got the most plays. A play of "Bohemian Rhapsody" pays the same rate as a play from someone who dropped their first song yesterday. The top 1% of artists collect over 90% of all plays. The money flows to whoever owns the biggest song collections. That's Wall Street now. The system that picks what plays next makes this worse. Spotify retooled it in 2024 and 2025 to favor songs you already know over songs you haven't heard. Autoplay, AI DJ, and Radio loop you back to familiar tracks instead of showing you new artists. Familiar music keeps people on the app longer, which means more ad money and fewer cancellations. New music is a financial risk the system won't take. In April 2024, Spotify stopped paying royalties on any song with fewer than 1,000 plays in a year. That wiped out about 175 million songs, roughly 87% of everything on the platform. Disc Makers CEO Tony van Veen estimated the lost royalties at $47 million for 2024. That money got rerouted to the biggest hits, owned by major labels and the investment firms behind them. An AI company called Suno now cranks out 7 million songs every day, enough to recreate Spotify's entire library every two weeks. Deezer, another streaming service, says 28-39% of daily uploads are now AI-generated. A new human artist isn't just competing with Taylor Swift. They're buried under millions of machine-made tracks. In 2014, older music (anything over 18 months old) accounted for 35.8% of what Americans listened to. By 2024, it hit 73.3%, per Luminate, the firm that tracks this stuff. Fleetwood Mac didn't suddenly get better. Investment firms bought the catalog, the algorithm feeds you what's familiar, the platform stopped paying small artists, and AI is flooding the pipe. Every piece of this machine has a financial reason to play you something old.

I think we should seriously start referring to the demographic transformation of South-West Sydney over the past 50 years as a form of ethnic cleansing. The story of the Bankstown Synagogue is a case in point. Built in 1913, the Bankstown Synagogue was the first Jewish synagogue in suburban Sydney. It was firebombed and destroyed in 1991 as the suburb of Bankstown rapidly filled up with Islamist migrants escaping the Lebanese Civil War. I was only dimly aware of the story before I decided to try look up the location of the Bankstown Synagogue today on Google Streetview. I was just curious to see what the street looked like today. And then it hit me. My jaw literally dropped to the floor. The destroyed Bankstown Synagogue stood just a few doors down from the site of the Al Madinah Dawah Center today - the extremist ISIS linked mosque in Bankstown that radicalised the Bondi shooter Naveed Akram. So Naveed Akram was radicalised on a street where Australian Jews once prayed before being driven out essentially by ethnic cleansing. Within living memory, Bankstown moved from being a majority Anglo-Christian suburb with a functioning Jewish congregation to a plurality-Muslim suburb dominated by harsh and extreme forms of Islam. It really is Australia's Molenbeek. If you compare known ISIS foreign fighter recruitment rates from South-West Sydney with census data from the mid-2010s you quickly come to the shocking conclusion that roughly 1 in every 100 young Muslim men in this part of Sydney fought for ISIS in the mid-2010s - or were stopped by Australian authorities right as they were leaving the country to do so. Naveed Akram was radicalised to mass murder Jewish Australians at a mosque located just a few doors down from a destroyed synagogue. Yes, this is ethnic cleansing.

@aksunder @omriceren @davereaboi Why would I bother doing anything other than name calling against someone who thinks this stuff is “facts and logic” 🤣 would be like teaching math to a goat I’m fine carrying Israel’s water. IDF is barbaric, but unfortunately they do get things done where no one else has or can

@eden__space @omriceren @davereaboi Can’t respond to actual facts and logic so you resort to name calling. Same thing happened in Iraq. Remember freedom fries? Must be tiring carrying Israel’s water.

That's a lie. It's not what happened. It's not how it ever could have happened. The nuclear deal was structured so that when it expired Iran would be able to build a nuclear weapons arsenal while being immune from American pressure. Trump's absolute minimum for a deal has always been that Iran can never have a nuclear weapons capability. The gap was unbridgeable. That's easy to see even at the broadest level. At that level, the Iran debate is divided into two issues: sanctions and nuclear. In the JCPOA, that meant - 1. Sanctions relief. The JCPOA required the US to lock up our most powerful sanctions, including and especially oil sanctions, which had been built against the full range of Iran's malign activities. Iran would get to reap hundreds of billions of dollars annually to build up its navy, missile arsenal, and terrorist proxies, in exchange for concessions just on nuclear issues. 2. Nuclear sunsets. Even those concessions were just temporary. The deal legalized Iran's nuclear program, eventually allowing it to enrich uranium in unlimited amounts to unlimited levels. According to Obama, after a decade under the deal, Iran's nuclear breakout time would shrink to almost zero. In Trump 45, US negotiators spent a year trying to get the Europeans to agree to a "Fix" that would have abolished sunsets and addressed Iran's malign activities. The Europeans said, correctly, that the sunsets were the whole point of the deal, and talks stalled. In Trump 47, US negotiators repeatedly offered the Iranians deals in which Iran's nuclear capabilities would be permanently curtailed. Each time, the Iranians came back with counteroffers that were only temporary, and so here we are.

Hasan: "What do you call Crimea? I call it a part of Russian territory, bitch. That's what I call Crimea. I call it cry me a river. A Russian river."

@siang75910 @zriboua You wumao are hilarious. I assume you are too socially retarded to do something else with your life, and that is why you’re also too socially retarded to realize how insane you look in the eyes of normal people

@eden__space @zriboua To be fair I don't give a flying fck about you or the exchange of words that we have here. People are gonna read our posts and they will decide for themselves who are the real evil. Clearly it's the Child rapist and baby eaters in the white house :).

@rethaiard @SKodeeDog @zriboua There is no rational person who could even begin to believe something so delusional

@eden__space @SKodeeDog @zriboua That's bullshit ... in fact both take great care to follow International law. They might find convoluted ways to do so, but the USA & Israel don't even attempt to follow International law, in fact they literally say it doesn't apply to them!

@siang75910 @zriboua lol I would actually love to know wtf is wrong with you 🤣🤣🤣 seems like a fascinating affliction

@eden__space @zriboua That the most evil regime right now are bunch of Pedophiles, baby eaters, baal worshippers, school bombers and genocide and coup enablers in White House and Wall Street. Thats your pie and your blueberry or whatever da f you like. You're child rapist and cannibal supporter too?

LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So: Data ingest: I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki includes summaries of all the data in raw/, backlinks, and then it categorizes data into concepts, writes articles for them, and links them all. To convert web articles into .md files I like to use the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, and then I also use a hotkey to download all the related images to local so that my LLM can easily reference them. IDE: I use Obsidian as the IDE "frontend" where I can view the raw data, the the compiled wiki, and the derived visualizations. Important to note that the LLM writes and maintains all of the data of the wiki, I rarely touch it directly. I've played with a few Obsidian plugins to render and view data in other ways (e.g. Marp for slides). Q&A: Where things get interesting is that once your wiki is big enough (e.g. mine on some recent research is ~100 articles and ~400K words), you can ask your LLM agent all kinds of complex questions against the wiki, and it will go off, research the answers, etc. I thought I had to reach for fancy RAG, but the LLM has been pretty good about auto-maintaining index files and brief summaries of all the documents and it reads all the important related data fairly easily at this ~small scale. Output: Instead of getting answers in text/terminal, I like to have it render markdown files for me, or slide shows (Marp format), or matplotlib images, all of which I then view again in Obsidian. You can imagine many other visual output formats depending on the query. Often, I end up "filing" the outputs back into the wiki to enhance it for further queries. So my own explorations and queries always "add up" in the knowledge base. Linting: I've run some LLM "health checks" over the wiki to e.g. find inconsistent data, impute missing data (with web searchers), find interesting connections for new article candidates, etc., to incrementally clean up the wiki and enhance its overall data integrity. The LLMs are quite good at suggesting further questions to ask and look into. Extra tools: I find myself developing additional tools to process the data, e.g. I vibe coded a small and naive search engine over the wiki, which I both use directly (in a web ui), but more often I want to hand it off to an LLM via CLI as a tool for larger queries. Further explorations: As the repo grows, the natural desire is to also think about synthetic data generation + finetuning to have your LLM "know" the data in its weights instead of just context windows. TLDR: raw data from a given number of sources is collected, then compiled by an LLM into a .md wiki, then operated on by various CLIs by the LLM to do Q&A and to incrementally enhance the wiki, and all of it viewable in Obsidian. You rarely ever write or edit the wiki manually, it's the domain of the LLM. I think there is room here for an incredible new product instead of a hacky collection of scripts.

@siang75910 @zriboua Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for blueberry pie

@eden__space @zriboua No regime is more evil than Pedophiles, baby eaters, baal worshippers and school bombers. Big part of American wealth is built on evil doings instead of morals. Iran is thousands miles away you will nvr care for their well being and livelihood. Ure either paid or brainwashed

@SKodeeDog @zriboua The Islamic Republic has no credible claim to international law, same as Russia. Or at least, any framework of international law which accepts such malign entities under its umbrella is extremely retarded for allowing foxes into the chicken coop.

@zriboua Hudson Institute? When will you give credible assessment of geopolitical situations? Have you condemned US Israel terrorist act against Iran... against international law? You think GCC wants ineffective overpriced US military in the future? Go back to your 'think tank' & think!

@siang75910 @zriboua These delusional takes are non-existent in the real world except among far left creeps and Muslims. Yes, the IRGC is far more evil. Only a liar or a moron could say otherwise, and no matter how many times you say it still no one with a brain will believe you.

@eden__space @zriboua Lol far more evil? No one will be more evil then the country run by Pedophiles, baby eaters and Baal worshippers who bomb schools and allow mass genocide in Gaza and started coups after coups Worldwide Iran is thousands miles away n nvr bother you. should have leave them alone.

@aksunder @omriceren @davereaboi lol what’s stupid is repeating the same lines that all the dumbass Islamist parrots say and thinking it’s something profound. Go waste your time with someone who’s as historically illiterate as you are. Shits boring af after the 20th time seeing these exact same talking points

@eden__space @omriceren @davereaboi I’m sure you thought Saddam has WMDs too. Iran has never been a threat to the US. They’ve been two week away from a bomb for 40 years - yet no bomb. Don’t be stupid.