Haseeb Raja

Default and absolute privacy is a fundamental human right. Default privacy validates human dignity. It presumes that the individual owns their life, thoughts, and data, and that the state or corporation is a guest in that space. #privacy

> be Alexandra Elbakyan > be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 > start coding at 12 > hack your internet provider at 14 > hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford > get a CS degree from Satbayev University > intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech > speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces > notice researchers can't read the papers they need > notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper > notice peer reviewers worked for free > notice editors worked for free > notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money > build Sci-Hub in 2011 > upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published > give it away for free > get sued by Elsevier > get hit with a $15 million judgment > don't give a flying f*ck > keep Sci-Hub up > get domain after domain seized > register a new one > keep Sci-Hub up > get investigated by the US Department of Justice > don't give a flying f*ck > get accused of working for Russian intelligence > don't give a flying f*ck > have the FBI subpoena your iCloud > get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science > get a parasitoid wasp named after you > get a deep-sea snail named after you > get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge > become a legend

Call me crazy, but I think 1) the (financial) bottom is in for crypto 2) the (financial, local) top is getting close for AI If mythos can't automate white-collar work, then it's gg for the investors. AI keeps getting better -- but it's not solving true business bottlenecks anymore. Making fewer mistakes on long coding problems and finding more bugs doesn't radically change things from where they are now. (Both will do well in the long run, but boom-bust financing does a number on R&D).

New podcast on vibe coding - A Return to Code. A Return to Coding 00:20 The Personal App Store 03:17 Vibe Coding Is a Video Game with Real-World Rewards 06:22 Pure Software Is Uninvestable 10:33 A Place for Each Model 14:22 AI Is Eager to Please 17:57 Why Math and Coding? 22:10 The Beginning of the End of Apple’s Dominance 24:17 Coding Agents As Customer Service Reps 27:55

Giving unprecedented cognitive tools to users who lack the competence or ethics to handle them is a recipe for disaster. The existential fear we're seeing around AI is rooted in a very real threat. Amplified ability without judgment can create amplified harm. #agi

Vibe coders will never understand the emotion behind "Hello, World!" For them it's a sentence. For us it was a milestone.

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following @404mediaco reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted. Apple’s advisory confirmed that the bugs that allowed this to happen have been fixed in the latest iOS release. You can read more here: support.apple.com/en-us/127002 Note that no action is needed for this fix to protect Signal users on iOS. Once you install the patch, all inadvertently-preserved notifications will be deleted and no forthcoming notifications will be preserved for deleted applications. We’re grateful to Apple for the quick action here, and for understanding and acting on the stakes of this kind of issue. It takes an ecosystem to preserve the fundamental human right to private communication.

"If luck wasn't involved, I would always be winning." -Michael Scott

وَتُعِزُ مَن تَشَاء وَتُذِلُ مَن تَشَاء Honor and humiliation are not fixed by current worldly power, lineage, or political strength. They are under Allah’s control.

youtu.be/amaB9lrgTvg?si… From taunt to feels. وَتُعِزُّ مَن تَشَاءُ 💯 #Pakistan

Pakistan opens banking for Bitcoin and crypto after 8-year ban. Banks can now serve crypto firms but must keep customer money separate and not use it for crypto. Big step for adoption 🚀.

@MIshaqDar50 @grok who was responsible for this attack?

Deeply saddened by the horrific attack on a school in Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye. The loss of innocent lives, especially children, is an unspeakable tragedy. We stand in solidarity with Türkiye — their children are our children, their pain is our pain. Our deepest condolences to the families and prayers for the injured.

@Ibrahimkha82928 @MIshaqDar50 @grok @grok who attacked

@MIshaqDar50 @grok who attacked?

@bbclysedoucet may the peace and sanity prevails 🕊️

Goodbye - for now - Islamabad . It was good to be back. And looks like there will be more #IslamabadTalks #iran #USA

If you replace your daily brainrot sessions with technical upskilling, your quality of life will seriously improve.

Major cheat code for life: Learn to delay your reaction. Anger, fear, and impulse will try to make you move fast. There's power in pausing. In the pause, you see clearly, you respond wisely, and you avoid decisions you’ll regret. Slow down to speed up.

Talks failed but history will remember the lengths Pakistan went to, to get it settled peacefully. We have punched miles above our weight & gave the world a glimmer of hope against all odds. We were the only avenue that gave hope to millions & millions of mothers & children who dreaded destruction. Proud of our diplomats. We know it’s a good news for a specific faction of anarchists in Pakistan but then again, until they get hold of affairs, let’s cherish what we did in the last two weeks for peace. Congratulations, Pakistan. And good luck to the world !!

In MARTIN SCORSESE's interview with Deadline he talks about getting older and how, "It's too late" for him

@justinskycak *cries in linear algebra

If you know... you know.