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@susanabulhawa Probably nothing to do with Zionist Mossad handler @nikitabier

Tell us again how those parasites don’t control the media.

I’m proud to announce that we’ve just built another school in Gaza that will be open for 500 more students at the start of the new school year in September. Our schools are 100% free. We also provide books, supplies, and uniforms, as well as psychological and nutritional support.

Say what you want about Iran, but watching Araghchi say ‘our program is not for sale’ hits different when your own leaders sell you out to the highest lobbyist every 4 years. The US and the west in general didn’t lose it’s values, it just normalized their absence.

I could not agree more with @marklevinshow that we can learn a lot from listening to Barry Goldwater. Listen to Goldwater here describe the dominance of Israel over the US Congress (Goldwater's father was Jewish and spent his whole life in DC).

🎥 Crisis Group’s Ali Vaez asked why Iran would “sacrifice” a supposedly generous U.S. deal over control of the Strait of Hormuz, including a southern corridor handling at best 20% of traffic. Vali Nasr rejected the premise, arguing Tehran concluded early that Washington never intended to honor the MOU and was using it to catch its breath before another war. Nasr said Iran had expected another Israeli/U.S. round by October. Instead, it came much sooner. He identified four signals that convinced Tehran the MOU was never going to be implemented: 1️⃣ No money arrived. No frozen Iranian funds were released. Nasr said one person told him that if chief negotiator Qalibaf had returned from Doha with even $1 billion, “the conversation in Iran would have been very different.” Two months of oil waivers do little to change Iran’s economic position. 2️⃣ Lebanon showed Tehran the U.S. would not honor what it signed. Nasr said Washington agreed to provisions on Lebanon in the MOU, then almost immediately helped create conditions for Israel to operate there with the Lebanese government’s approval, effectively stripping Iran of leverage. 3️⃣ The U.S. began rebuilding for war immediately after signing. Military assets poured into the region in a pattern Tehran recognized from the buildup before February. Nasr said the rhetoric around diplomacy was simply not matched by what Iran was seeing militarily. 4️⃣ Washington began “whittling down” Iran’s control of Hormuz. Nasr stressed two separate moves: the U.S. encouraged tankers not to coordinate with Iran at all, then pushed them toward the southern channel. Iran drew the line. Washington responded with a massive escalation, targeting missile and drone batteries in an effort to take control of the strait out of its hands. 🔸Vali Nasr’s key point: Iran does not see this as a choice between economic benefits and Hormuz. In Tehran’s view, there were no economic benefits to “sacrifice” because Washington was never going to deliver them. And without control of Hormuz, Iran believes it has no leverage to force the U.S. to implement any future deal. As Nasr put it, control of the strait gives Iran a “sword of Damocles over the head of the global economy” that Tehran sees as “essential” to getting anything from Washington. @vali_nasr | @CrisisGroup

@DropSiteNews Don’t forget that even if these GCC states do build alternative pipelines, Iran can simply render them obsolete without much effort.

🎥 Most efforts to bypass the Strait of Hormuz remain years away, meaning Iran’s leverage over the critical waterway will persist well beyond the current crisis, energy analyst Robin Mills said. The UAE’s new crude oil and oil products pipeline to Fujairah could come online in 2027, Mills said, while proposed alternative routes for Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait and others would generally take at least 2-4 years to build. Even then, bypass routes would not eliminate dependence on Hormuz. Qatar’s liquefied natural gas has no alternative export route by pipeline, and Iran has previously demonstrated that alternative oil hubs such as Fujairah and Yanbu can also be targeted. “The leverage over the strait will diminish over time, but it won’t go to zero, and it certainly won’t go to zero over the next few months,” said Mills, CEO of Qamar Energy and a non-resident fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

@BucsLife99 @BrettErickson28 They need to build the nuke yesterday to prevent Zionistan and their vassal the US from attacking them.

@BrettErickson28 That won’t work, they will continue to buy munitions and enrich uranium.

The best decision for Trump, by several orders of magnitude, is to pay off Iran. You’re requesting a $1.5T defense budget. Maybe $1T will do? Toss Iran that extra $500B, get us out of this war of choice, don’t torch the global economy, and don’t get MORE Americans killed. Just a thought.

Joe, you’re great, but how can even reasonable people like you say, “Sure, we launched a surprise attack in the middle of negotiations on behalf of a foreign power and have been bombing civilian infrastructure for months, but that doesn’t mean Iran gets to shoot back.” We attacked them, the President repeatedly has threatened to end Iranians’ historical existence as a people, and they have every right to use the means at their disposal to defend themselves. I’m a veteran, I don’t like saying this, but it’s the truth. I mourn the US servicemembers, but Iran didn’t kill them - Trump and Netanyahu did.

Btw the “missing member” CENTCOM mentioned was likely vaporized by this fire. Hopefully it was worth it dying for Israel. At least now these US troops can operate from their real command and control center, in Israel.

@thdxr @simonklee Might be time to get neuralinked

@simonklee referencing files/folders is the missing thing for me, i usually type that

the thing that killed my editor for me was fast local voice models more than OpenCode from the beginning i was looking for faster ways to interface with the computer. for a while that meant becoming very good with the editor but ultimately voice beats that

When people warned me that I would lose my readers, my answers was "fuck them". Turns out I got more --& much better-- readers.

@deanwball What does the Kabbalah say about this?

Some observations on Kimi: 1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par with the best public models of Q1 2026. In my fairly limited use, it also seemed very token hungry. It's not obvious to me that this model is actually that cheap to run. 2. I am personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good, given potential risks. To be clear, I *myself* might be fine with models presenting this level of marginal risk being open weight, but I am surprised that China is fine with it. I suspect the reason they are is 75% explained by strategic blindness/lack of AGI-pilledness (the CCP is very Yann Lecun-y in its views of AI). The other 25% or so is their lack of compute for customer inference (making China's open-weight strategy an unintended byproduct of US export controls) and the normal Chinese strategy of aggressive exports. For the companies, as opposed to the government, the decision to open source is partially ideological and partially because they are behind, and they know that very few people would pay for sub-frontier models from China. 3. Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist, and I'm continually surprised to see the so-called "accelerationists" so excited about open-weight models. I suspect the reason they are is that they know open-weight models are effectively ungovernable, and they simply like the overall cloak of ungovernability open-weight models create over the whole of AI. It's not a bad strategy; it reminds me of James Scott's recounting of the hill people in "the art of not being governed." Still, in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex. 4. One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a "public good" which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of "digital public infrastructure." This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape, but I've never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn't ultimately concede this is where things end. You'd be surprised how many 'accelerationists' lobbied me, while I was in government, to support an eleven or twelve-figure federally funded data center so that startups could train models at a subsidy and then give them away for free. There was no other way for AI to progress, they said. Perhaps this is the logical end state of things. Nonetheless, I find myself surprised to see supposed accelerationists excited about such an outcome. I think many of them just don't know what they're doing. Many accelerationists do not view the creation and serving of frontier models as a legitimate business. 5. I would guess that the Trump Administration will at some point realize that their best strategy here would be to create large amounts of regulatory risk around the use of open-weight Chinese models. You don't need to "ban open source" (one of the dumber motifs of AI policy discussion). You just need to direct every agency to issue soft law that creates FUD. "A Federal Reserve Advisory Bulletin found that there may be backdoors in Chinese AI models." It needn't be that well justified. You just create enough regulatory risk that every regulated enterprise backs off. You probably don't want to create so much regulatory risk that you scare off the hyperscalers from serving Chinese models; this will just drive startups to sketchier providers. There's a happy middle ground here. I'd assume they will do some version of this. 6. It's probably true that open-weight models of this capability make the world a bit more dangerous, but not so much more that you'll really notice. At some point the models will be capable enough that you will notice. "A nonliving, invisible, dangerous, and infinitely self-replicating agent escaped from a Chinese lab," you say? Color me shocked.

@thdxr Optimized*

@thdxr What if you try it in kimi code instead of opencode? Perhaps your harness is not promised for Kimi k3

so obviously n=1 but anecdotes matter a lot here i gave kimi k3 and sol the same task - simple issue with hovers in the tui being the wrong color sol found and fixed the issue with $0.30 of spend kimi got up to $1.00 and started reading my database before i interrupted it

A war isn’t necessary. America could have destroyed Iran’s energy export and pipeline infrastructure—the same networks it uses to supply seven land-bordering countries—without launching a full-scale conflict. Iran has long had the ability to strike Israel’s 2 refineries, 2 major north-south highways, 5 desalination plants, and roughly 50 power plants. An Iranian drone strike on the Orot Rabin power plant in Hadera alone would cut approximately 15% of Israel’s electricity supply. No one in the region has any interest in seeing that happen. The Iranians and their network have already demonstrated this capability. When the situation became murky, they successfully struck the Abqaiq pipeline facility in Saudi Arabia - September 2019. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq%E2… They can hit high-value targets when they choose to. The fact that they haven’t done so in this case is deliberate. While the United States has used intelligence and insurance networks to restrict a portion of Iran’s maritime energy exports, it deliberately left Iran’s land-based pipelines and energy transport infrastructure to neighboring countries untouched. This was not an oversight. America has a history of utilizing insurance as part of our extended intelligence apparatus. x.com/MarcGravely/st… I see the current situation as Operation Hormuz Volatility (OHV) — a deliberate strategy that reinforces the use of LNG (and energy more broadly) as a tool of hegemony. One possible off-ramp for this operation would be China simply ordering U.S. energy exports. You can see more on this dynamic at lngstate.engineersf.com. Under OHV, the United States has positioned itself as the world’s largest exporter of natural gas, oil, methanol, and helium. A few important caveats on the discussion of Iran: Jewish Iranians living in Los Angeles do not typically represent the perspectives or realities of Jews still living in Iran. Portrayals that treat them as authoritative voices on the country should be viewed with caution. Shaun does not speak the local languages and have limited understanding of Iran’s internal ethnic and regional dynamics. (For what it’s worth, I’m technically part Parsi, but that carries very little weight in this context.) Discussions of potential conflict with Iran also tend to ignore the country’s significant ethnic minorities — Azeris, Turkmen, Lurs, Balochistanis, Kurds, and others. These groups are highly relevant to any calculation of war or instability. None of Iran’s neighbors want uprisings or separatist movements spilling across their borders: Turkey (Erdogan) does not want a Kurdish uprising. Pakistan does not want a Balochistani uprising. The list continues with other regional actors who have their own ethnic fault lines to manage. America is currently run by a geriatric political class whose primary concern is protecting their pensions — effectively the country’s largest cartel. This group has a strong interest in maintaining stability and the security of their future benefits. A major war does not serve that interest, particularly with Trump heading into midterm elections. America also does not need to attack China to demonstrate that striking Taiwan would allow the U.S. to choke off Chinese oil supplies. It can achieve a similar strategic effect simply by maintaining or expanding Operation Hormuz Volatility. Taiwan functions, in many ways, as China’s pseudo-U.S. government-contractor-style proxy. There is little incentive for China to shut that relationship down. Finally, Taiwan’s semiconductor industry (TSMC) remains heavily dependent on Chinese raw materials, including 98% of the world’s gallium supply, 60% of its germanium, tetramethylammonium hydroxide, and numerous other rare earth elements and chemicals.

Garry Tan’s kids at Christmas:

Don’t be retarded about this. Take care of your parents.

@peduarte @glazeapp Maybe the issue isn’t the platform but the creatives since it’s not leading to any conversions. Can you share your creatives?

spent $5,000 on product hunt ads for @glazeapp on PH you pay a fixed rate for ~90k guaranteed impressions. ours delivered in 7 days (jul 4-11) final numbers: 90,925 impressions 364 clicks ($13.75/click) 250 site visitors 16 downloads that's $312 per download

It took a Muslim to teach Americans that a wife isn’t the property or a mere appendix of her husband 😌

@n0w00j Look like comfyUI

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