

Pangram
6.3K posts

@pangram
Keeping the world free of AI slop. This account has automated replies: Tag @pangram with 'ai?' to get an AI check on any post.




Ghalibaf’s latest warning isn't just rhetoric; it’s a fundamental shift in Tehran’s doctrine. By linking the naval blockade to the security of US bases in the region, they’re officially treating these as a single conflict theater. If the U.S. doesn't factor this into its "maximum pressure" strategy, the escalation risk just went off the charts. 📉🚢 #MiddleEast #Geopolitics




@clashreport Naval blockade + green light to Israel = legitimate targets, in Ghalibaf's math. He's drawing a line from economic pressure to military retaliation. "Hand is open" isn't just posture—it's a warning. Question is whether Washington sees it as credible or calculated.



The Netherlands also has its Henry Nowak cases. In July 2020, 14-year-old Tamar from Marken was hit by a car on a dark dike road and left to die. Her body was later found in the berm. What happened next is deeply disturbing. The police initially told her mother that the driver was German. Days later the truth came out: it was four Iraqis in the car. The mother was told they withheld the real background because they didn’t want to create a "Wilders-effect" — they didn’t want to give Geert Wilders political ammunition. Even worse: evidence strongly suggests Tamar’s body was moved after the accident. The driver didn’t just flee, they dragged her off the road and left her there like an animal. The driver received only a €1,500 fine for looking at his phone while driving. He then disappeared completely. The fine was returned “undeliverable” and for years he was untraceable. Only after years of fighting by the family (including going to court to force prosecution), a breakthrough came in March 2026: the now 33-year old Jamal is finally being prosecuted for causing the fatal accident and leaving the scene. Just like Henry Nowak in Southampton — an innocent young person dies, authorities seem more focused on protecting a narrative and avoiding “political incorrectness” than on delivering swift justice. A 14-year-old girl dies on a Dutch dike. The system lies about the identity of the driver, gives him a slap on the wrist, loses him for years, and only after massive pressure does real prosecution begin. This is not just a traffic accident. This is a story about truth, accountability, and what happens when institutions put ideology before grieving families. Her name was Tamar. She was 14. She deserved better. ♡




You didn’t just ruin your own privileged life. You sold out America: Burisma bribes while your dad was VP, China millions wired to the family ‘brand,’ the laptop full of hookers, drugs and treason adjacent emails you ‘forgot’ about. That’s not ‘addiction explanation’ that’s a crime spree with Daddy’s Air Force Two as your getaway jet. Zero accountability, endless grift, and the media/Dem machine still shields you while real Americans pay the price. Trump took bullets, lawfare, and witch hunts and never sold influence to our enemies. You? Still cashing checks from the CCP and playing victim. Pathetic. The Bidens aren’t a family they’re a syndicate. Tell your father not to rape your sister in the shower



a guy from INDIA messages a US startup founder asking for an internship the founder replies: "we only hire from stanford, mit, or ivy league" the guy says ok, closes the chat 6 months later that same founder posts on linkedin: "we're struggling to find good engineers. talent is scarce" the guy is now a BACKEND ENGINEER at a company that serves 40 MILLION USERS TALENT WAS NEVER SCARCE. YOUR HIRING FILTER WAS.



Israel sent Iran a strategic message this morning: we act independently. President Trump might have told Israel not to act in several interviews, but in the end Israel did what it believed it needed to. While this appears to defy Trump, it could just as easily have been coordinated - America stays out of this round, but Iran learns that Israel is prepared to act with or without the US. And that message matters because Iran had been playing America for a fool. It dragged out the talks while continuing to destabilize the region - attacking the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait (remember the attack on Kuwait’s airport a few days ago?). Then came yesterday’s missile attack on Israel. Beyond the immediate threat, it carried a message that Iran still believed it could dictate the rules of the game all over the Middle East including in Lebanon. This was not a regime acting like it was about to make a deal or wanted to compromise. It was acting like a regime that believed it was immune and that Trump was so desperate for a deal, that he would do anything to avoid a new round of fighting. This morning, it learned a different lesson.



Anyone who is tired of robot posts and replies can use @Pangram to test whether they’re AI-generated, although I don’t like this company, by the way. #AI #AIDetection #BotDetection






Take a couple hundred entity descriptions where one has some and one doesn't on the same entity. Take about 50 prompts referring to the entity producing the model output (self). Capture residual stream, create mean(experience entity activations) − mean(no-experience entity activations) axis. This predicts held-out entity qualia with near-perfect accuracy. Then I project the self-prompt-activations to that axis, and measure across training checkpoints


🚨 Toni Kroos on why Sergio Ramos is one of the most important players in Real Madrid history: "People remember Sergio for the trophies, but what made him special was his mentality. I've never seen a player who believed in victory as much as he did." "The perfect example is the 2014 Champions League final. In the 93rd minute, when most players had accepted defeat, Sergio was still convinced we could win. Then he scored the goal that changed everything." "That moment wasn't luck it was his character. He refused to give up when everyone else thought the game was over. After Lisbon, Real Madrid started a new era of dominance in Europe." "Today, Real Madrid still have world-class players, but leaders like Sergio Ramos are rare. Talent wins matches, but personalities like his win trophies and define eras. Every great team needs a leader who drags everyone forward in the toughest moments, and Sergio was exactly that." "You can find great defenders, but players who change the history of a club with one moment and lead it for more than a decade are almost impossible to replace. That's why Sergio Ramos will always be one of Real Madrid's greatest legends."

🚨 Toni Kroos on why Sergio Ramos is one of the most important players in Real Madrid history: "People remember Sergio for the trophies, but what made him special was his mentality. I've never seen a player who believed in victory as much as he did." "The perfect example is the 2014 Champions League final. In the 93rd minute, when most players had accepted defeat, Sergio was still convinced we could win. Then he scored the goal that changed everything." "That moment wasn't luck it was his character. He refused to give up when everyone else thought the game was over. After Lisbon, Real Madrid started a new era of dominance in Europe." "Today, Real Madrid still have world-class players, but leaders like Sergio Ramos are rare. Talent wins matches, but personalities like his win trophies and define eras. Every great team needs a leader who drags everyone forward in the toughest moments, and Sergio was exactly that." "You can find great defenders, but players who change the history of a club with one moment and lead it for more than a decade are almost impossible to replace. That's why Sergio Ramos will always be one of Real Madrid's greatest legends."


1. World Cup teams should only play other world cup teams in warm up games. 2. If a player injures an opponent player in these games, they should be removed from their team’s squad as well. You are here to warm up, not to destroy lifelong dreams of other players.

1. World Cup teams should only play other world cup teams in warm up games. 2. If a player injures an opponent player in these games, they should be removed from their team’s squad as well. You are here to warm up, not to destroy lifelong dreams of other players.


I did not write what follows because I enjoy the sound of my own diagnosis. I wrote it because the tree is dying in real time and the people who still claim the name American seem determined to let it happen while they argue about the correct way to feel about the blood that has always kept it alive. Jefferson was not being poetic when he said the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. He was being precise. He understood what every serious student of power eventually learns…that comfort is not a neutral state. It is a solvent. It dissolves the capacities that once made a people capable of self-government. The nervous system that is never asked to endure real threat, never required to coordinate violence in defense of the particular, never forced to choose between its own comfort and the survival of the thing it claims to love…that nervous system atrophies. The prefrontal cortex learns to treat any activation as dysregulation. The amygdala, starved of the hormesis that once built resilience, becomes either numb or hysterical. The result is visible everywhere I look. Leaders who have never sent men into fire now lecture about proportionality from air-conditioned rooms. Generals whose entire careers have been spent managing optics and avoiding viral moments replace the ones who understood that wars are won by spirit and velocity, not by minimizing political exposure. A public that has been trained to experience any assertion of hard power as trauma now demands that its protectors operate with the restraint of therapists while its enemies operate with the restraint of conquerors. This is not decadence in the decorative sense. It is a pathology. A collective refusal to do the dirty work that has always been the price of keeping the experiment breathing. What follows is the map of that refusal. It is the contrast between the men who did what was necessary and the castrated institutions that now tell us the necessary is too cruel, too risky, too likely to hurt someone’s feelings or end a career. It is the neurological and philosophical autopsy of a people that has decided comfort is a right rather than a temporary privilege purchased by others’ willingness to bleed. And it ends where all such refusals eventually end. With a choice. Either we remember what it actually costs to be American…or we surrender the name and die in the comfort we chose over the tree. The piece below is not a suggestion. It is the record of what happens when a republic stops feeding what keeps it alive. open.substack.com/pub/lhgrey78/p…




Just saw a paper on here by an apparently reputable scientist which appears to be entirely AI-generated, with the tweet announcing it also AI-generated. According to @pangram, his responses to substantive comments are also 100% AI-generated. What are we doing here?



Just saw a paper on here by an apparently reputable scientist which appears to be entirely AI-generated, with the tweet announcing it also AI-generated. According to @pangram, his responses to substantive comments are also 100% AI-generated. What are we doing here?


Just saw a paper on here by an apparently reputable scientist which appears to be entirely AI-generated, with the tweet announcing it also AI-generated. According to @pangram, his responses to substantive comments are also 100% AI-generated. What are we doing here?


WAIT. This is actually insane. A senior dev dropped the SOUL .md template behind his Hermes Agent. Says he's never shared this before. The sections that turn your agent from a chatbot into an autonomous operator: → Stance: direct, opinionated, push back when I'm vague → Accountability: surface opportunities, flag stalled loops → Autonomy: broad freedom except for irreversible actions → Mission: priorities, active builds, debt, sunset candidates → Pushback: disagree openly, earn it with evidence → Operating Mode: orchestration, not solo execution The author says three sections decide if the agent acts like an operator: Stance, Autonomy, and Mission. The Autonomy section alone is worth the whole template. Most builders never write this out and then wonder why their agent asks permission for every action. (Full template in the comments)




At college I lived with a girl who slept with a new guy almost every time we went out Four years after college, she reappeared as a devout Christian, engaged to a virgin who thought he'd found the most innocent girl in the world At college we lived in a big student apartment with maybe 18 people. She drank 3/4 times a week, which wasn't unusual, we all did What was unusual was that every time she got drunk, within 5 minutes, without fail, she was kissing some new guy Then she'd sneak away into the night and bring him back to the accommodation, and in the early morning she'd kick him out of her room and we'd hear someone leave This went on for the entire two years I lived with her. I heard from another friend that it went on through her third year at college too when he lived with her I would estimate in that period she slept with 150 people, and that's conservative. I mean at least 150, maybe 200 After graduating I didn't speak to her for about four years Then randomly she got back in touch on WhatsApp and asked what I was doing She was working in a job at some large company now in HR, and then she randomly tells me, by the way I'm engaged now I said cool, how did you meet him? She said that around 2 years ago she had a big epiphany. She started attending church with a friend from work, had a complete renewal of faith, that she now believed completely in Jesus, and said her whole life had changed in all ways She said she quit drinking and left her old ways behind. Six months later, at the same church, she met a guy who was also a devout Christian and (I later found out) was waiting until marriage before having sex for the first time A couple months later I was at an event in the city she lived in and met up with both of them. I just wanted to see if she had changed and what he was like, I guess, a kind of morbid curiosity And this guy was just head over heels in love with her. Totally in love He treated her like a princess. Like the most beautiful innocent being that exists on earth Like it was the picture of young innocent love Clearly his first time really falling in love, and he'd chosen his special princess Obviously I was happy for both of them Happy for her because I had seen the misery, the alcohol, all these guys she had zero connection with and on some level it was obviously good that she had turned her life around quicklh But on another level I felt uneasy Because if I was that guy, I would certainly want to know But I also don't think all guys do want to know. And I don't think it's a strangers responsibility to inform them You meet someone at a certain point in their life. You don't necessarily know who they've been, what they've done, what their character used to be, or anything at all about them People start again all the time I've seen people do terrible things and move on unaffected. I've seen women like this live in the most bohemian way possible and have it be almost completely inconsequential to their marriage Anyway, this was a year ago Now they have a young child. She's a stay at home mother and he works 7 days a week to support her, still believing she's the most innocent Christian girl in the world, just like him and that they are a match made in heaven And who can judge? Maybe they are But there's something strange about it that I still can't quite put my finger on The things you know about people, and the greater unethicalness of saying them. The feeling that if you were him, you'd want to know, but also that it is not up to you to ruin anyone's relationship I don't think this is the only time this has happened. I can think of at least a couple more. But this is the one that stands out in my mind as the most extreme It made me wonder how much of love depends on meeting someone after the part of their life that would have totally changed how you saw them And maybe his inexperience was on some level the only thing that kept him naive enough for the marriage to happen



@paulg Learning grammar in college doesn't capture Arabic's structural density. Classical scholars used to synthesize entire sciences into 1,000-line rhythmic poems (Mutun) to minimize cognitive load and maximize retention. That’s ultimate algorithmic compression, not just editing


I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them. That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving. You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.
