Jesús Enrique Rosas

Everyone is watching to see if Mohammed bin Salman signs a deal with Israel, but that is the wrong thing to watch. For years MBS sold the world a modernizing Saudi Arabia, women driving, cities rising out of the desert, Western money pouring in. That MBS wants the deal. It fits the brochure perfectly. But MBS built that modern Saudi Arabia as a one man show. No elections, no real opposition, no safety valve when people get angry. So the whole thing rests on one trade. He hands his people prosperity and pride, and in return they let him hold every lever. That is the bargain MBS made. Signing with Israel right after a war, with those people almost entirely against it, spends the pride he was selling them. So forget yes or no. Watch which MBS shows up to answer: The one who wants to open Saudi Arabia to the world, or the one who knows his own people will turn on him if he goes too far. Trump put the ball in MBS’s court on purpose. Now everyone gets to see who is holding it.

@andyben Matters of taste I guess. For me it has the perfect proportion of angles to curves

@Knesix Which, ironically, was really not well received when first released

Ferrari peaked with the Enzo. Best Ferrari design ever.

@wonder_villas Fascinating, thanks! industrial design enthusiast here

I can't understand how one of the most prestigious designers of the world made a Ferrari look like a cheap Chinese EV. Even the color they used to present the car is heinous. I'm sure there are many, many better ways to spend $640,000

@Marco_OnTheMoon Holy Mother of God

@Knesix It was quite easy to imagine that just by looking how the "prestigious designer" dress...

@PeterPrinciple9 You nailed it

@Knesix Actually looks like it was inspired by a cell phone

@violeteyesrn your reminds me of something reminds me of something

@Knesix Yeah, that color reminds me of something.

@nikitabier @Rainmaker1973 @ViralRushX Nikita won't miss 👌

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"You aren't getting one", well, certainly not, and I'm thankful for that

@TheKhalidSA You were the one who said the words 'started wars', as if it was a distinction between Japan and the UAE I replied to your argument with precision. That you don't like the reply, is another thing

Trying to draw parallels between the events of World War II and current challenges is merely a way to evade discussing present-day actions. If you believe the UAE respects itself, then you should be able to refute the criticisms leveled at its regional policies, rather than resorting to historical comparisons that are completely irrelevant and serve no purpose

How come when you say you love Japan, everyone nods, but when you say you love the UAE, everyone loses their minds?

@TheKhalidSA Don't know what the two things have to do with each other, but I'm pretty sure that the UAE respects itself. 'Caused wars in the region' is a bit of a stretch, but you might have forgotten about... World War II?

@Knesix Japan is a country that respects itself, but the UAE is a country that has caused wars in the region by supporting militias and separatists.

@VoxAllie You will hang out with both styles at the Dubai Mall without anyone batting an eye

@Knesix 🇯🇵 🇦🇪

Two American Ospreys landed in Caracas this weekend, right in the same city where the Marines straight up bagged Maduro back in January. And the regime that spent twenty consecutive years screaming about an imminent gringo invasion did not fire a single goddamn shot. They just stood there and watched, and they had even signed the permission slip like a kid going on a middle school field trip. The regime’s own foreign minister announced the drill and officially called it practice for emergencies. So the Marines 𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚋̶𝚊̶𝚐̶𝚐̶𝚎̶𝚍̶ flew low over the capital, casually dropped two multi million dollar Ospreys right into the embassy parking lot, walked around, and left on their own schedule like the entire backyard was theirs the whole time. And that tells you exactly what all that noise was really about. All that anti imperialist resistance, twenty years of military parades and surplus missiles and sweaty speeches about the big bad empire to the north, it was never actually built to stop the gringos. The guns were always pointed inwards, aimed square at the regular Venezuelans the regime needed to keep terrified. That is how a stupid ideology dies from the inside. You smash it with a vulgar display of power, to borrow a phrase from Pantera. You let the people watch the ultimate boogeyman land in the parking lot, maybe eat a couple reina pepiadas and then leave whenever it pleases while the strongman stands there looking like a complete idiot. The fear cracks, and a regime that runs entirely on fear does not survive the exact day it stops being scary.

Let's talk about Cuba. Take away the Soviet checks, the Venezuelan oil, the Chinese rescue boats and the Iranian friends. What is actually left? An island with nothing to sell and nobody left to pay the bill. No oil worth seizing. No industry worth taking. No strategic mineral buried under the sugarcane. By every material measure that a normal country is judged on, Cuba leads nowhere. It is a sixty year money sink that bled every patron foolish enough to adopt it, and then outlived them. So you might be asking, why has Trump set his sights on it? Why is Marco Rubio counting the minutes like a man watching the last grains run out of an hourglass he flipped over himself? Why are they even bothering? Not for what's under the ground, for sure. There's nothing under the ground. They're going after what's above it. Because Cuba was never a country to the people who ran it. It was a billboard. The single surviving advertisement that filthy communism could plant itself ninety miles from the most powerful nation on earth and refuse to die. That was the whole product. Not sugar. Not rum. Not nickel. The export *was* the communism. Cuba sold the world a story that communism could outlast America, and for sixty years it kept that story on life support so every campus radical and every jungle guerrilla and every tin pot revolutionary had a poster to point at, while the island was crumbling under the weight of the Castro regime. That propaganda abomination is about to die and I, for one, couldn't be happier about it. You cannot sell the dream of the worker's paradise while the workers cook on firewood in the street and the hospitals run on flashlights. What is collapsing on Cuba, besides the buildings and the barely functioning cars, is the last functioning piece of evidence that the filthiest idea of the last century ever worked anywhere. Cuba's only real export was communism, and it's about to be permanently discontinued. And the world will be lighter for it.

This is the biggest PR coup Anthropic could ever have imagined. And I mean that seriously. Let me explain. Aside from the fact that Anthropic is very good at presenting itself as a corporation, the recent hiring of Andrej Karpathy marked a new high point. Anthropic is showing the world that it not only employs the best researchers, but also, and especially, those who are popular within the community. However, Anthropic also thrives on its self-imposed moral standards, some of which literally come at a price that Anthropic has repeatedly paid. As is well known, Anthropic recently had serious problems with the Department of War regarding the use of Claude for autonomous weapons. Anthropic refused, and OpenAI and Google were awarded the contract; Anthropic was designated a supply chain risk. This moral standing, however, is something Anthropic has always emphasized. Whether it's Dario Amodei repeatedly warning of the dangers of the massive wave of unemployment (which they themselves are causing), or the potential for AI to be instrumentalized for wars. This moral stance is now paying off handsomely. The head of the Catholic Church, with its 1.4 billion members, has thanked Anthropic and announced an ethical collaboration. Church members are, by definition, moral people who live according to the ethical principles of their faith. The Pope has now consecrated a single AI company as ethically legitimate, thus essentially granting his followers sacred legitimacy to use Claude as the only morally correct model. I mean this seriously; let this thought sink in. The Pope says Anthropic is ethically and morally on the right side and is working with them. Who do you think the billions of Catholic believers now prefer? OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic? The answer is clear. Therefore, today was the biggest victory Anthropic could have hoped for. And I believe that their moral stance will literally pay off.

@VoxAllie The word 'introspection' when referring so something that you cannot understand how can it come out of thinking sand is concerning

@Knesix Chris Olah is very very bad news.

Pope Leo just dropped the absolute blockbuster movie of his papacy. He had the entire infinite canvas of human misery to choose from: war, poverty, the literal Creator of the universe, you name it. Instead? He went full James Cameron and wrote it about AI. Leo claims the tech bros building AI currently wield more raw power than most sovereign nations. So the Church, he says, has to step in and name these nerds, because Babel part II ain't happening under his watch. For one second I felt like he was actually doing marketing for our AI overlords. Then he said, and I kid you not because I actually had to google this, he calls data "the new rare earths of power", which makes me think that he opened his laptop, loaded ChatGPT and prompted "Give me the most AI thing I can say about AI in the most AI way", and hit enter. But the cherry on top is saying that the old-school concept of a "just war" is outdated because we no longer fight riding horses but piloting drones. He calls cold political realism the truly irresponsible move, to which I'd suggest His Holiness to stand up from his desk, open up a window and pay attention to what's really happening out here. That would be nice of him, at the risk of the ghost of Hobbes betch-slapping some common sense into him. So, to recap: the Pope wrote like two dozen terabytes on technology, only to spend the entire finale on a Shyamalan-grade plot twist to grade a president's foreign policy. He just never explicitly said the guy's name. But you know who he was talking about, right?

@Rainovertrees @Tuwa1q Would be a big W for Saudi Arabia in terms of clout and leverage, that's why they are treating it as non negotiable (they already rejected the Abraham Accords)

@Tuwa1q @Knesix The establishment of a Palestinian state will not end polarization and conflict, either.

Everyone is watching to see if Mohammed bin Salman signs a deal with Israel, but that is the wrong thing to watch. For years MBS sold the world a modernizing Saudi Arabia, women driving, cities rising out of the desert, Western money pouring in. That MBS wants the deal. It fits the brochure perfectly. But MBS built that modern Saudi Arabia as a one man show. No elections, no real opposition, no safety valve when people get angry. So the whole thing rests on one trade. He hands his people prosperity and pride, and in return they let him hold every lever. That is the bargain MBS made. Signing with Israel right after a war, with those people almost entirely against it, spends the pride he was selling them. So forget yes or no. Watch which MBS shows up to answer: The one who wants to open Saudi Arabia to the world, or the one who knows his own people will turn on him if he goes too far. Trump put the ball in MBS’s court on purpose. Now everyone gets to see who is holding it.

@OtherSide61 Yep, and Trump is factoring it into the negotiation. But goodwill can take you only so far

@Knesix MBS and leadership of the Arab world has unfathomable respect for Donald Trump. That is the key

@IntelCube Saudi Arabia already said no, which was expected

@Knesix In response to Trump’s demand for mandatory Abraham Accords membership, Saudi leaders should play it smart: say nothing, or if necessary, give him the middle finger.