Shamir Islam

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[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

Shoot your shot.

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

Oh no, don't they have any respect for GDPR?

Surely it must be all right because they're the "good guys"

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ BREAKING: Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message.

Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice.

A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata inside prompts. This is a serious breach of user trust.

[Hebh Jamal @hebh_jamal]

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha

Of course when Germany and Netherlands are kicked out this would be the headline.

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

Amazing job, Paraguay! So long, germany

#worldcup

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

We are, unfortunately, surrounded by morons

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It says an awful lot about France - and not in a good way - that there is "political divide" on using air conditioning when temperatures literally exceed those of the Sahara desert, and when France has one of the greenest energy mixes in the world (thanks to nuclear).

And it says even more that those who oppose AC are often the same as those who oppose nuclear: the view - presumably - is that you should neither adapt to climate change (AC) nor prevent it (nuclear).

Also the same people, incidentally, who oppose pesticides and fertilizers - basically modern farming - and push for all-organic: a prescription that, if universally applied, would literally starve billions of people (and, ironically, would require so much additional farmland it would devastate the world's remaining forests).

It's all part of the same logical fallacy, the notion that if something causes a problem, then that thing is the problem.

Yes progress and technology caused and continue to cause plenty of environmental issues. And there is indeed something seductive in saying "we've gone too far, let's change tracks, let's head towards a simpler, slower life, we used to be like that."

But not only is this just not feasible without causing far greater harm to ourselves, it's also a fundamentally nihilistic and mortiferous ideology. One that rests on a profound discomfort with what's arguably the single most defining feature of humanity: our ability to shape our environment to suit us, to fight our circumstances rather than surrender to them. That's been the case ever since we discovered fire and invented farming.

It is, at the end of the day, the transformation of humanity's genius - our need to create and improve our condition - into a vice. They make it sound like a humanistic project but how could it be since the core premise is fear of humans and contempt for our very nature?

Conclusion: yes, 100 times yes, use AC. You'd need to be a complete moron to let yourself boil under 43C heat in order to "save the planet." If climate change is to be solved, it will be by getting the ideologues out of the way of the people who actually fix things.

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

thanks europe 🌡️

[Explosive Media @ExplosiveMediaa]

"This time for Palestine🇵🇸"

Who knows what 72 means?
Our new Lego music video🎵🎬

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

Another interesting trend across WC history is that on avg, group stage matches generally have only 2-3 goals per match but the variance gets wilder as the tournament progresses.

Finals basically have no pattern - anything can happen, lol

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

World cups back in the day used to have higher avg goals per match. Modern football has become tighter with better defensive strategy

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

Does anyone else feel like these american pitches are less than subpar? The ball seems to bounce weirdly off the pitch and it feels like the players sometimes struggle to control the ball like they normally would otherwise on better grass pitches

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

Peak efficiency

[3four3 @3four3]

It's not that he doesn't run.
He doesn't even walk.
He just stands there. 😂

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

@ChineseEmbinUS @RnaudBertrand looking forward to your analysis of this

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW.

AlJazeera just dropped a ONE HOUR documentary about ISRAEL’s CRIMES against the PALESTINIANS.

This is very HARD TO WATCH.

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

What a tremendous victory by Bangladesh 🇧🇩 against Australia!

Won the series 2-0 🙌🏼

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

By the way, public service announcement: if you're one of the numerous people posting about Anthropic's dystopian ways and you're thinking about getting Claude to help you write that post... don't!

Another one of their terms is that you may not use Claude to do anything that "exposes [Anthropic to] reputational harms" 👇

And, if you do, under the - extremely unusual - clause 13 of their terms (https://t.co/z43rJNkvZu), you have PRE-AGREED, by using Anthropic (and accepted their terms), that the harm you've done is irreparable, that you won't oppose Anthropic injunction, and they don't need to prove actual damage.

They can simply go to a judge in a friendly jurisdiction (and of course, their terms precise that any dispute "will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California") and:
a) file an injunction that shuts you down
b) make you pay for everything since under section 11 of their terms you agree to indemnify Anthropic for "any and all liabilities, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs), and other losses arising out of or related to your breach or alleged breach of these Terms."

In other words, if you use Claude to help you talk shit about Anthropic publicly, their terms say you pay their lawyers to go after you and you've already pre-agreed you've lost the case.

Oh, and cherry on the cake: in the odd case the judge were like "are you crazy, this is insanely abusive, you Anthropic are the ones at fault here," according to their terms Anthropic's maximum liability is... $100.

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

If you think about it, states were the first subscription service ever. You pay a subscription fee (taxes) to enjoy benefits provided by the state.

You could go back even further to feudal systems and monarchies.

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

Lol the referee seems a bit partial

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

It's really sad how @evernote is pricing their oldest and most loyal customer base away

The new pricing is honestly ridiculous! $300/yr for personal use is just not worth it anymore

Even @NotionHQ with all that it does way better than EN is half the price

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Revolut is the best fintech product I’ve ever used and nothing comes close

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

My @raycast wrapped 2025

[Shamir Islam @ShamirIslam]

@blvckledge tracking