Adham

@Meta: PM putting AI on AR glasses 👓 . Prior: 1 failed startup, marketplace PM @amazon, Strategy/M&A @mckinsey. Opinions are my own!

[Adham @ByAdham]

“For these be they which with the fruitless thorns of affections do kill the fruitful crop of reason, and do accustom men’s minds to sickness, instead of curing them” Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

So Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian village, throw gasoline through a window onto a baby, nearly burning the young child alive, and beat a pregnant woman with stones.

Zero Western media coverage.

The complicity runs so deep...

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Israel is publicly distancing themselves from what they’re calling our “contained campaign”. Notice the language their cabinet officials are using and what it implies.

This is Israel publicly signaling that they want to expand the war, and that when they do they won’t be coordinating that escalation with the U.S. It’s worth noting that the phrasing of these public statements affords President Trump plausible deniability if/when Israel escalates.

One might be wondering, how can Israel escalate without us when the catalyst for this disaster was that Israel needed U.S. military support? Remember—just last week Netanyahu was hinting, again publicly, about Israel’s nuclear capability, which has never officially been confirmed.

At the same time, in the last 24hrs reports from Israeli intelligence claim that the Iranians have moved their enriched uranium to the heavily fortified “Pickaxe” Mountain—providing Israel with a justification for potentially using a nuclear weapon.

Israel must be meaningfully restrained. Failing to do so means we are likely comfortable with allowing Israel to use a nuclear weapon so long as we can claim we had nothing to do with it.

If you think the potential for a nuclear weapon seems far-fetched, play out the options for a military solution in Iran: we don’t have enough troops to invade Iran, so using nuclear weapon becomes the next logical step. This would be catastrophic.

This is why we must immediately restrain Israel, pull out of the region, & use economic diplomacy to reopen the SOH.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The House is scheduled to vote this week on a National Defense Authorization that would integrate our military tech & supply chains with Israel’s.

Today, the Rules Committee will decide whether my amendment to strip section 219 will get a vote.

RT to support the Massie amdt.!

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Barry Goldwater telling the truth back in 1988 that Israel controls our politicians and our government.

And it’s far worse today!

But tell me again how Russia and China control our elections.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Esto no es un campo de concentración grabado en el siglo pasado, son imágenes actuales del gueto de Hebrón, en Cisjordania, donde el ejército sionista tiene un apartheid montado para los palestinos, que pasan por jaulas y puntos de controles armados.

No lo verás jamás en TV, así es como vive el pueblo palestino bajo ocupación en su propia tierra.

[Scott Chen @alreadydawn]

An LA friend shared this gas station receipt with me. The masses might be sedated by bread & circus and too demoralized and propagandized to take matters into their own hands, but crazy gas prices just might be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Some fields work in theory but not in practice. Some fields work in practice but not theory.
The uniqueness of economics is that it works in neither theory nor practice.

[Adham @ByAdham]

@typesfast @_mfrye Amen to that a hundred times. And a remarkably short one too!

[Adham @ByAdham]

This 👇👇👇

[goma @soigomaa]

After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.

[Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 @EricSpracklen]

Tim Dillon is literally speaking for all of us.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

This is over a year old, but it has still only ever been seen by a minority of my followers, so I hope you will forgive me it you are seeing it again.

[Adham @ByAdham]

Unreal! Invading soldiers will soon be looking for Muslims hiding under a Christian’s floor or in their attic. Let that sink in!

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israel is explicitly warning Christian and Druze residents in southern Lebanon not to hide Muslim residents among them as their forces advance.

Not a peep from Sheryl Sandberg.

[Adham @ByAdham]

The obvious first-order effect of AI is that software teams can build more.

What I keep thinking about is the second-order effect on buy vs build on both sides of the software market.

For software companies, lower build costs do not automatically mean less buying or less M&A. They may also expand scope and increase supply of buyable companies because more small teams can now build meaningful businesses (potentially a Jevon's paradox there?).

For customers, the question is whether they start building more of software they used to buy off-the-shelf, or shift toward vendors who can build bespoke more cheaply than traditional one-size-fits-all/production line software (think SalesForce).

If that happens, pricing power, moats, M&A, and the advisory industry around all of those may start to shift too.

Super interesting times! And we get to be part of it or at least watch it unfold! 😍

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

People who moved abroad alone in their 20s, handled all docs, bank account, visa, tax, jobs, accomadation, and culture difference

These people fear nothing anymore

[Adham @ByAdham]

From 2023 but still funny. Hahaha.

Peterson is an idiot of colossal proportions and you gotta love Taleb (and the Lebanese in general if I’m being honest about my biases 🙂)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

@jordanbpeterson @lexfridman Peterson, you idiot, stay out of this.

[MUSAFIR @MusafirNafar]

“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.”

A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Still can’t believe Trump is torching the global economy for basically no reason

[The Maverick of Wall Street @TheMaverickWS]

Before the war:
1) Iran didn't control the Strait Of Hormuz, now it does
2) Iran oil was sanctioned, now it's not
3) Iran was not building a nuke, now it will
4) US bases in the Gulf were assets, now liabilities
5) Inflation was declining, now increasing

Definitely winning!