Mohamed Iqbal

The “Comet of the Century” quite clearly visible in the Western sky this evening. Alhamdullilah. C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas. The last time it was visible from earth was 80,000 years ago, during the age of the Neanderthals.

Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City. These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today. 🧵

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually. One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired. Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be. You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner. The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage. And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about. To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game. You didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own. Enjoy.

🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundreds of thousands of refugees ended up homeless in Gaza

I’ve been saying this for years, Malaysia is quietly becoming the regional hub for regional and global business due to Malaysias lower cost of talent that is equally competitive to Singapore Malaysia Boleh 😬

@syahir Not good for local banks who need these instruments to hold as Tier-1 HQLA for liquidity reserves. Alternative HQLA classes including cash will increase their cost.

Who would have thought Malaysia’s government bonds would become a safe haven for foreign central banks? A 12% return on government bonds over the past year, outperforming everyone else in the region. A 14% gain in the Ringgit, the best-performing currency in Asia entering its third straight year of gains since 2024. One of the least volatile assets among emerging market peers in Asia amid heightened volatility and uncertainty stemming from the conflict in West Asia.

There is a serious policy contradiction that ordinary Malaysians can see immediately. We are told to reduce petrol consumption to ease the nation’s subsidy burden, yet at the same time the transition pathway away from petrol is being made more expensive. A serious energy transition cannot succeed by moral persuasion alone. People do not shift because they are told to “save fuel”. They shift when the alternative becomes practical, affordable and reliable. The real challenge for policymakers is not choosing between fuel subsidies or EVs. It is designing a transition that protects rakyat purchasing power while gradually reducing fiscal leakage and carbon dependency.

A Muslim and two Jews were stabbed in Golders Green, but the Muslim was erased from media coverage. A mosque that was previously a synagogue was targeted in an arson attack, but the fact that it is a mosque is being erased from media coverage with outlets still insisting on referring to it as a synagogue. Muslims have been on the frontline of protecting Jews for centuries from before even the Spanish Inquisition, and continue to be on that frontline by order of Allah Himself. The renowned Jewish historian Avi Shlaim told @jalalayn's @thinking_muslim that "it cannot be said there was systematic anti-semitism during the centuries Muslims lived with Jews". European attempts to erase the Jews entirely were thwarted consistently by Muslim communities who felt compelled by the teachings of Islam to intervene to rescue the Jews; be it the Ottomans under Bayezid II who sent ships to evacuate them from Spain, or the Muslims of Sarajevo who saved and preserved the Haggadah, or the Muslims of Palestine who lived for centuries in peace with the Jews until Zionism emerged to corrupt the harmony and co-existence. Muslims do not have an anti-semitism problem and refer to Jews (and Christians) as Allah Himself referred to them: "the People of the Book". So, what are media outlets trying to insinuate by correctly recognising the diminished cognitive faculties of a criminal on the one hand, but selectively referencing his victims on the other? What is the aim here in round-the-clock coverage of one heinous crime, and a poorly covered second crime, but no mention of other heinous hate crimes that are no different save that the victims are of a different faith? As a Muslim, my traditions are clear. Jews are safe in every area they find Muslims as they have been throughout history by order of Allah the Almighty and his beloved messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him, and his predecessors Jesus Christ, and Moses), irrespective of the narratives that advocates of hate, genocide, and selective journalism are pushing. Crime has no faith. Crime has no race. Bless the Christians hiding the Muslims from Israeli soldiers in Lebanon. Bless the Muslims who saved the Jews from persecution. Bless the Jews who stand tall and proud in solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians. Let us be advocates of good against those of hate, and let every individual criminal face justice for their individual crimes.

If you are fortunate to be with elderly parents, then this is golden advice

‘They massacred Arab babies’ Headline in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, 1948. This passage stands out: Jews saw their opportunity. Men of the army of Zion attacked Deir Yassin at 10 a.m. that day. They easily overcame the opposition. They killed 20 Arab defenders, and entered the village, tossing grenades into houses. They killed old men, women, and children with bayonets. For three hours the slaughter went on. Babies were killed in front of their mothers. Mothers’ throats were slit. Some were beheaded. A group of men and women—some of the women obviously pregnant—were lined up and shot. The bloodlusting Jewish soldiery desecrated the bodies of pregnant mothers with knives. When they had murdered 264 villagers, the Jews called a halt. They rounded up four truckloads of survivors of all ages and both sexes, tossed the bodies of the dead into the village well, and drove off with the survivors. The victorious Jews drove the survivors through Jewish areas as exhibits of victory while Jews spat upon them. The parade continued, with breaks, for two days. ——————- Every Zionist accusation is a confession. Zionism is Jewish supremacism. The bloodlust is baked in. #EndJewishSupremacy #DismantleZionism

✨You’ve seen this in every math class: sin(a ± b) = sin a cos b ± cos a sin b sin(2a) = 2 sin a cos a cos(2a) = 1 − 2 sin²(a) 🚨But did you know these formulae came from a Muslim scholar 1000 years ago? Meet Abū al-Wafā al-Būzjānī, the genius who shaped Trigonometry. 📐 Abū al-Wafā Būzhjānī (d. 998) was a Persian Muslim mathematician and astronomer from Khorasan. Born in Būzjān (near Nishapur, Iran), Būzhjānī showed early brilliance in mathematics and geometry. He later moved to Baghdad, then the heart of the Islamic Golden Age, a city of scholars, libraries, and observatories. In Baghdad, he became one of the leading scientists of the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Ḥikmah). Here, he studied Greek works like Euclid and Ptolemy, and expanded them far beyond their original limits. 📐 His Contributions to Mathematics: He established several trigonometric identities such as [sin(a±b)] in their modern form: {sin(α ± β)= Sinα Cosβ ± Cosα Sinβ} {sin(a + b) = Sin(a)Cos(b) + Cos(a)Sin(b)} {Cos(2a) = 1-2sin²(a)} {Sin(2a) = 2Sin(a) Cos(a)} He compiled tables of sines and tangents at 15° intervals, introduced secant and cosecant, and explored the relationships between all six trigonometric lines. His work made both mathematics and astronomy quantitatively precise. He also studied geometry, arithmetic, and number theory, writing detailed commentaries on al-Khwārizmī and Diophantus. Some sources suggest that he introduced the tangent function, although other sources give the credit for this innovation to al-Marwazi. 🌌 His Work in Astronomy: Abū al-Wafā designed and built a wall quadrant, a large, fixed instrument used to measure celestial altitudes with remarkable accuracy. This invention influenced later observatories across the Islamic world. His masterpiece, Kitāb al-Majisṭī (“The Almagest”), improved upon Ptolemy’s astronomy, described planetary motion, and developed mathematical methods for finding the Qibla direction, the direction of prayer. 🕌 In 997, he participated in an experiment to determine the difference in local time between his location, Baghdad, and that of al-Biruni (who was living in Kath, Uzbekistan). Their result was astonishingly accurate, within about 1 hour of modern calculations. ⏱️

The longest ayah in the Qur’an isn’t about Jannah. Not about Hellfire or the grave Not about Dajjal. It’s about… A LOAN

@FIFAcom’s In-fink-tino.

Momentazo vivido en la noche europea en Vallecas. La afición antifascista del Rayo le entrega la bandera de Palestina al jugador Ilias Akhomach y los futbolistas le dedican la histórica victoria en la ida de semifinales al pueblo palestino. Grandes.

@Casemiro One more year!

Incredible atmosphere at Old Trafford. We're very close to reach our goal !!!! Come on Reds !!! 🔴

On a desk somewhere in Singapore, a small computer not much bigger than a deck of cards has been running continuously for the past several weeks. It is connected to its owner's WhatsApp, Gmail, calendar, and a personal library of saved speeches and articles. It transcribes voice notes locally. It runs vector embeddings (the technique that lets an AI find what is relevant in a great big stack of stuff) locally. It maintains a knowledge graph of every fact, every counterpart, and every piece of negotiating history its owner has ever recorded into it. It is, in short, a perfect mind-out-of-mind. Its owner calls it "NanoClaw, a second brain for a diplomat." The owner is Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, and he is the Foreign Minister of Singapore. He is a trained ophthalmologist, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and one of the very few sitting cabinet ministers anywhere in the world who writes his own computer code. My kind of guy. And, I think, everyone's kind of guy. On 21 April he published the entire architecture to a public GitHub gist. He did not announce it through his ministry. He did not spin it into a productivity-tool startup. He wrote it up the way a working software engineer writes up a side project, and put it in the open. The hardware cost is approximately £80; the running costs are between £5 and £20 a month. I would invite the reader, gently, to attempt the exercise of imagining a single member of the present British cabinet doing the equivalent. Imagine Yvette Cooper publishing the architecture of a system that tracks her foreign counterparts' priors and negotiating history, on a personal GitHub account, with API keys segregated through a credential proxy because she takes her department's data sovereignty very, very seriously. Imagine David Lammy shipping a working tool that drafts his speeches against the record of his own past statements - haha, no, no, stop! I know, it's beyond the absurd. Then consider the gap. This is what your public servants ought to be able to do for themselves. This is the class of governing official Britain could have, being not at all absent the talent capital needed. But Dr B's excellence shows that, while we don't lack the talent, we have been getting recruitment all wrong. Britain has been recruiting senior public servants for two political generations on the basis of who can speak well at a Tuesday lunch club, not on the basis of who can deliver a working result when everyone's back to work. The country that built the institutions everybody else copies built them with people who could think, and write, and do. We optimised on the first two and stopped caring about the third. The third turns out to have been the one that mattered most. But that's the golden triptych - people who can think, write, and do. Imagine how much better our national fortunes will be when it is people of that calibre at the helm? It is coming. It Can Be Done.

@AlmasriHaifa الف مبروك 🌹

Guess who got a perfect score on the psychology exam at medical school despite all the suffering in Gaza?

@nmraziz Bangunan AIA! 😁

Gambar Kuala Lumpur bertarikh 1972 dari bangunan setinggi 22 tingkat... siapa tahu bangunan apakah itu ada 9 gambar semuanya gambar kepunyaan James Bauchert

To food manufacturers, please stop fooling consumers with “zero added sugar”, “sugar free” bullshit if the primary ingredient is glucose syrup! Please lah. Imagine if diabetic ppl buy these thinking it’s truly sugar free. Ur basically killing them!

78 years of killing children