elia ahmadi

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[elia ahmadi @_eliaahmadi]

I recently had the opportunity to talk about The Petition Co at a @dctechmeetup event themed around building Smart Cities

Nothing makes me more optimistic about the future than sharing the stage with brilliant founders like Sherrod Davis of EcoMap (centralizing business ecosystems), Nanbo Liu of OpenGrid (accessible fast EV charging stations) and Levern Currie (drive-thru communication tech for non-verbal people).

[MJay 🇪🇸🇧🇷🇺🇸🇨🇦 @SinhaleseSavage]

the whole "rigged for Argentina" online discourse is a great case study on how the general population is frighteningly easy to manipulate with simple propaganda. and how it's especially effective on the less educated, or "casuals"/"larpers"

[elia ahmadi @_eliaahmadi]

both world cup finalists failed to defeat Cabo Verde in regular time

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The “dystopian portrait” that’s been painted of America is not accurate, @yairlapid argues. He reflects on what his travels to and through the U.S. have shown about the source of America’s success—and struggle. https://t.co/Ht9mhYTayg

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

Last month, I went to Manifest, a conference about prediction markets.

But it’s really where America’s rising tech elite learn to genetically engineer their offspring, seduce strangers, do lots of drugs, and more: https://t.co/iiMiL0JKg7

[Antonia Juelich @AntoniaJuelich]

9/9 As one commander put it, "God has helped us, and so will AI."

Full report, short summary and key excerpts: https://t.co/5RM35G5hTr

NYT story: https://t.co/l0Ov2Jd731

[elia ahmadi @_eliaahmadi]

Seems every Iran analyst on X has obtained a PhD in offside detection technology over the last two days

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan https://t.co/W3UhBerdH0

[[email protected] @alisonkilling]

NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.

[Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @HariPrasad91]

Really interesting article from @newlinesmag providing a deep dive on the "Idlib-ization" of power in Syria, and how Syria will need to move beyond regional biases to succeed
https://t.co/Jxrh6LGASR

[Yeganeh Torbati @yjtorbati]

We talked to over 70 people and examined thousands of pages of documents and emails to uncover how the Iranian state seized the tech sector from the entrepreneurs who made it. An excerpt of our new book, in @TheAtlantic today https://t.co/IprUrOXagu

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Nearly half of the founders of billion-dollar tech startups are immigrants

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

"#Syria’s New Investment Law and the Return of State-Mediated Market Access"

- Great & important analysis here, by @HaddonBarth for @MiddleEastInst.

https://t.co/duWTwcgUgP

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

The Syrian president just fired the only Druze minister in the government, replacing him with Bassel Sweidan. Sweidan is a former HTS official who ran the War Spoils Committee for HTS. The Committee was later converted into a private company called Iktifaa'. After Assad's fall, the Iktifaa' company took over state enterprises from Assad's era and properties of former regime officials and financiers/war criminals like the Qaterji brothers.
Iktifaa' has also taken over the management of farmland owned by Alawis who were ethnically cleansed by forces of the current government from villages and towns in Hama after Assad's fall. See STJ report https://t.co/Mk8QZS8JUK
For more, see this segment by the Syrian John Oliver, Manar Haj Kassem https://t.co/JzZ9zJL4Yl

There are many reasons to be optimistic about post-Assad Syria, but there are also negative signs; ignoring either of those gives readers/followers the wrong picture.
Pictured: the presidential decree appointing Sweidan.

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

May we present to you 5,000 words on Casey Handmer and Terraform Industries reported over several months.

If you would like to read about a team trying to make fuel from water, air and sunlight while working inside of a castle, we have what you need right here https://t.co/HaOPIFf7Bo

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

This was fun to write

[سینا جهانی @sina_jahaani]

آخرین آمار از خسارت قطع اینترنت به استارت‌آپ‌ها و تعداد نیروهای تعدیل‌شده:

دیجی‌کالا: ۲۰۰ نفر
اسنپ‌فود: ۱۶۵
تکنولایف: ۱۰۵
خانمی: ۴۸
آپارات: ۳۴
فیلیمو: ۲۴
اسنپ‌پی: ۲۰

این اعداد، سند اندوهی است که گریبان چندصد خانواده را گرفته و با ادامه این وضعیت، سهمگین‌تر خواهد شد…

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

New reporting from Bloomberg shows Iran has 22 more days of available storage.

“The Islamic Republic has enough unused storage capacity to last another 12 to 22 days, Kpler analysts wrote in a report Monday.”

But even more importantly, they highlighted the time horizon until Iran would feel that economic pain.

“Still, the blockade won't hit Iran's profits quite as fast, with the impact to revenues not due for about three to four months, Kpler said.”

https://t.co/QMU5p7CzlR

[Bogáta Timár @BogataTimar]

Magyar was harrassed and provoked constantly. His phone was tapped with military spy software. His girlfriend turned out to be a Fidesz agent. AI slop was generated about him and fed to voters on the daily. Russian agents helped create smear campaigns against him.

[Faytuks News @Faytuks]

No oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire began, according to Kpler, a global ship-tracking firm -NYT

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

HOW TRUMP TOOK THE US TO WAR WITH IRAN: @jonathanvswan and report for our forthcoming book, out June 23 with excerpt here https://t.co/BfsdoMJWSS