Finding Firdaus
760 posts
Singapore's Foreign Minister published the architecture for his "second brain for a diplomat" yesterday. Architecture diagrams, design rationale, the works. A developer-style writeup of his own system. It runs on a Raspberry Pi. It connects to his WhatsApp and Gmail, transcribes voice notes locally, ingests speeches and articles, and builds up a knowledge graph over time. It answers questions, drafts speeches, condenses information. He says he doesn't dare switch it off. What @VivianBala built is one-of-one. There's no other setup like it. But what he built it from isn't. He composed four open-source pieces: - @NanoClaw_AI , the agent framework: github.com/qwibitai/nanoc… - Mnemon, the persistent memory layer: github.com/mnemon-dev/mne… - OneCLI, the credential proxy that keeps API keys out of the containers: github.com/onecli/onecli - The LLM Wiki pattern by Andrej Karpathy, the synthesis approach: x.com/karpathy/statu… None of them are his. The composition is his. And then he published the composition: gist.github.com/VivianBalakris… He didn't keep it internal as Singapore's edge. He didn't spin it into a product. He didn't gatekeep. He wrote it up and put it on GitHub. There are tens of thousands of doctors, lawyers, researchers, investors, and operators building one-of-one setups for themselves right now. Some simpler than Vivian's, some more elaborate. The impulse will be to sit on it. Treat it as your edge. Think about what product or company you could spin out of it. Resist that impulse. Vivian put it directly: "The diplomat who learns to work with AI will have a meaningful edge. I think that edge is now." The specific thing Vivian composed will be obsolete in months. His real edge isn't the system. It's his ability to build it. Being plugged in, up to speed, able to cut through the noise and connect the right pieces into something that brings real value. Sharing the blueprint doesn't give that away. It amplifies it. You become a beacon. Other people working on the same things find you. They share what they're building, suggest improvements, point at things you didn't know existed. You learn faster. You stay in the center of where things are happening. Publishing isn't giving away your edge. It's doubling down on it.
'Marijuana' is the only English word in which the 'j' is silent.
再用中文发一遍：这条推文关于所谓“酥油搅拌舞”的介绍是错误的。这个舞蹈并不是藏人的传统舞蹈。藏人日常生活中确实有打酥油茶的劳动，但并没有把这一动作发展为舞蹈的传统，更不存在所谓“节庆表演”的形式。 这种打酥油茶的夸张舞蹈，实际上是这些年来由文工团、歌舞团、餐厅和旅游娱乐场所编排出来的“藏族风情表演”。而且最早的编舞者并不是藏人。这个舞蹈并不源于民间传统舞蹈，也不属于藏人的文化传承。更值得批评的是，这类表演往往刻意夸张身体动作，将原本日常、朴素的劳动过程，转化为带有明显性暗示的舞蹈语言，以迎合游客的观看趣味。 这种做法不仅是对藏人文化的误读，更是一种消费化、表演化的再造。它把藏人的生活经验剥离语境，变成可供观看和消费的奇观。同时制造出一种“看似传统”的假象。将其称为“传统藏族舞蹈”，既不准确，也不负责任。真的是很庸俗化，请你也不要以讹传讹了。 另外，在Tibet的历史上，除了从中国运来的茶叶，也有从印度运来的茶叶。
BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrives in China today just after Trump announcement that he will cut off all trade with Spain for refusing to support Israel
Since February 28: * At least 22 ships have been attacked * 10 crew members have been killed * Around 20,000 seafarers are unable to transit safely * An estimated 800 commercial vessels are stranded, including almost 400 tankers The Strait of Hormuz has never been Iran’s to close or restrict. Any attempt to do so is not a regional issue; it is the disruption of a global economic lifeline and a direct threat to the energy, food and health security of every nation. Setting such a precedent is illegal, dangerous, and unacceptable. The world simply cannot afford it and must not allow it.
Today, during an exchange with a witness at the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology, I asked questions that inadvertently came across as dismissive of the serious issue of forced labour. To be clear, my line of questioning referred to auto manufacturing in Shenzhen, China, and not in Xinjiang. I regret this mistake and apologise to Ms. McCuaig-Johnston and my fellow committee members. I condemn forced labour, in all its forms. Canada has amongst the most rigorous forced-labour import laws in the world, and I am proud to support the government’s work to eradicate forced labour from supply chains and enforce Canada’s import prohibition.
Before modern multinational banks reached Southeast Asia, merchants from 75 villages in Tamil Nadu had already built a transnational financial system. They financed rice in Burma, rubber in Malaya, retail in Singapore, plantations in Ceylon — connected not by contracts but by kinship and reputation. This is the story of the Chettiars.🧵
