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Reimagining Somali identity. We're told clans are fundamental truth (its what MAKES you Somali). But it really should be the opposite; Somali should be the base layer and clans follow, clans are systems WE created. This mentality shift means we can reinvent systems without threatening who fundamentally are. open.substack.com/pub/sheriffont…

@Adam20073132780 @JamalMOsman @HamzaAbdiBarre If DNA testing was done the whole clan system would fall 😂 nothing but an assimilation project all round.

Jamal Osman: PM Hamze Abdi Bare is not Ogaden Reporter @JamalMOsman says PM Hamze Abdi Barre (@HamzaAbdiBarre ) is not Ogaden by lineage. Should DNA test be conducted in the 4.5 power sharing system in Somalia before appointing someone for a position?

@HornChronicles The deal is horrible but as they say beggars cant be choosers. Some progress is better than no progress, Somalia isn’t in any position to make any “good” deal.

"We have 260 blocks" is not an argument. The question is whether this administration secured the best possible deal for Somalia’s resources. If the deal is strong, defend the terms. Defend the value. Defend the returns. Pointing to the number of blocks is not the same as justifying the deal. This reads as a concession that the deal is indefensible.

@mbacarella x.com/somalirev/stat…

@somalirev @karpathy grok please explain @karpathy's tweet to @somalirev

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along. So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions. TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

@JohnStrongHodl @karpathy yes

@somalirev @karpathy he literally wrote about in his post - did you read it?

@Dan83795675 @karpathy while the second point was more general around search, writing and advice: typical queries not have improved noticeably. The first was on simple queries, it was stated that the failure of the car wash challenge was due to free, old or deprecated models.

@somalirev @karpathy Well you’ve come to the right place. Read the tweet you replied to because it specifically address people who way this

@cleothemermaid0 There is only two real (and near impossible) options; 1. Every clan, sub clan, sub sub clan and so on has its mini state or 2. The clan needs to die - replaced by a state institution.

Somalia’s federal system isn’t working states make their own deals with foreign countries, and the central government is struggling.Centralism could work because Somalia is mostly homogeneous, but qabil make full central control tricky.

Somalis from the south eat seafood specifically in Mogadishu because of a large scale campaign to eat it during 70s/80s. And yes we do know the scale (or atleast estimate it): 1. We can deduce it by logic. If there was a literal campaign to push seafood to alleviate famine during kacaan era, then one would assume that a lot of Somalis did NOT eat seafood: There would be no need to push seafood if majority already ate Somalis ALREADY ate seafood. 2. By a well documented nomadic cushitic taboo on eating seafood. 3. Most Somalis lived inland. Also your attached proves nothing, nowhere on the attached images does it mention that these people were nomads nor does it prove any evidence of majority consuming seafood. Anyways if you have any evidence that goes against my original point - that “seafood was not majority part of Somalis cuisines” then feel free to post if not, I’m done here.

@somalirev @ih8ytchocolate "On a large scale basis" though this might be correct, the evidence suggests Somali nomads did really consume seafood along side camels on a scale we don't know yet. Interestingly, contemporary Somalis from the South exhibit similar traditions to these Nomads.

Just read this comment on tt discussing why Somalis don’t rlly eat sea food even though they have one of the longest coastline

What evidence is there that nomadic pastoralists consumed fish on a large scale basis. It is not part of their diet nor was it part of settled farmers (the second largest subsistence strategy albeit nomadic pastoralism counted for a large majority) diets. In fact there are also coastal clans who REFUSED to eat fish due to taboo, and here you are telling me that nomadic pastoralists who mostly are interior ate fish.

@somalirev @ih8ytchocolate We have evidence of nomadic Somalis consuming seafood going back to thousands years ago. Please fack-check your sources before you make such claims.

While that might be true that’s not the real reason Somalis do not eat seafood. Seafood was not part of majority Somalis cuisine as many Somalis were nomadic pastoralists that lived inland and not on the coast, there was of course some coastal Somalis who did eat but they were a minority. After the country was created and rapid urbanisation, the Kacaan regime actually pushed seafood to alleviate food shortages from famine which made it become somewhat mainstream.

Apparently they used to contain a lot of seafood however countries started dumping poison in our water. People were getting sick and started avoiding anything from the ocean. We’ve only recently started getting back into it. Crazy

@SomaliaWeapons you didn’t have to… hes being celebrated because he shares the same qabiil, not rocket science.

@somalirev When did I mention Qabiil?

Genuinely just nuke the country

Trump on Somalia: Somalia is a third-world—maybe even a fourth-world—nation.

Again, halal eggs were pelted at my restaurant last night. This cannot stop me from doing my job and feeding my family. I will clean this up and carry on with my usual business. 🙏

trump: the strait of hormuz is safe to cross the strait of hormuz:

@CaliBurcaawi @mindg0blin_ @FergieBallFan you literally denied your own genocide + calling for genocide? couldn’t make it up 🤣🤣🤣

@mindg0blin_ @somalirev @FergieBallFan This is what we are dealing with all those years. Genocide deniers that wont apologize that just want to restart it when they get theit shit together

I’m so happy the world can see what we’ve been putting up with

@CaliBurcaawi @mindg0blin_ @FergieBallFan Quote where I denied any atrocity. You seem to have the reading comprehension of a brick wall like your paid bot friend.

its 2018 in SoMa. you're a SWE. you pour yourself some kombucha from the tap and walk over to the company ballpit. you review a PR that renames ‘dummy var’ to ‘placeholder’ per the inclusive language policy. it absolutely bricks your CI/CD. you have no idea how good you have it

@GergelyOrosz You haven’t seen this movie before. The reason internal tools rotted because maintaining them WAS expensive and slow. AI fundamentally changes this, building is cheaper, iterating is faster, and maintenance gets easier as models improve.

Cannot wait for teams that build their custom JIRA/Workday replacement/custom CRM to one day turn around and ask: “Why do we have so much internal software that is buggy / has poor UX + we need to maitain?” Seen this movie well before AI, when Uber built uChat (custom Slack)

@mindg0blin_ @FergieBallFan troll