a1md

Software Engineer, I guess • Ever seen someone say: "opinions represent my employer's?" • Bro, do you even use Arch btw?

[Nicolae Vartolomei @nvartolomei]

@rakyll The foreword of the sicp book is timeless

[Houssein Djirdeh @hdjirdeh]

I really admired Vercel, truly. For years, I contributed to Next.js, spoke at their conferences, and made friends with so many people on their team. I even seriously considered working there.

Well, things have changed. Here’s a list of resources to help you migrate away:

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Christ. I can’t bear this quote from Hind.

I can’t fucking bear it.

[Enoch @EnochIslam]

So you are telling me there has been a natural tooth brush with no micro plastics this whole time?

[Alaa From Gaza @alaafromgaza92]

Mohammed Qraiqe, Aljazeera reporter who was just killed along with 4 others including @AnasAlSharif0 often wrote about his mother, who was killed by a merciless Israeli sniper.
She was elderly, living with heart disease and diabetes. I feel it is my duty to speak about the pain that stayed with him until the moment he was martyred this evening.

He wrote,

"This is my mother, and I am her only son, Mohammed. Peace, my mother, peace my beloved, to the gardens of paradise, Hajjah Ne'ma.
In her life, she never hurt anyone, not even the enemy. She obeyed their orders to leave the southern street toward Al-Shifa Hospital on Tuesday evening, March 19, the second day of the Israeli army’s raid on the hospital. But the soldiers betrayed her. They killed her. May God destroy them. They robbed me of her."
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"This is the place where Israel killed my mother. She had stumbled more than once over piles of sand, losing her shoe along the way. She called out to the soldiers with her weak voice, asking for help, then lay down where she was. They answered her later with bullets and a shell that shattered the stones around her. She lay there as she had fallen asleep, covered in her own blood. I do not know what went through her mind in those last moments, but I am certain she was calling for me. My mother, who refused to evacuate to the south and stayed by my side, I am certain she called my name."
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"I last saw her yesterday in Al-Falah School, run by UNRWA, the first place we fled to together at the start of the war. We left it together under the army’s bombs and shells. We got lost in the narrow streets around the school, alone after everyone else had gone. She told me, Go to your children, my son, and leave me here. I tried to find her a wheelchair, but shells were falling from every direction. My mother’s heart was weak but still beating, her steps slow, her prayers endless. We never expected to survive. We brushed against death more than once. I held my mother, her bag of medicine, and my own strength together. But when the Israeli army killed her, I lost all three."

Now it is time for your eternal rest, Mohammed, with your mother. You will meet again in paradise.

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[Janine di Giovanni @janinedigi]

I’ve reported 18 wars over 35 years. I’ve been shot at, kidnapped, threatened, nearly raped. I’ve lost friends from Sarajevo to Syria. I thought I’d seen the worst of humanity. I was wrong. Nothing compares to Gaza — or the complicity letting it happen.
#GazaGenocide #WarCrimes

[Ambassador Majed Bamya 🇵🇸 @majedbamya]

Once the slaughter is over, and it has to be over, there is an expectation that Palestinians should move on regardless of the lives lost, of the limbs lost, of the loved ones lost.

There is an expectation that parents will walk the earth with the shadow of their killed children and do nothing about it. The children who are orphaned will hold onto the memory of their parents but not to the anger over how they were killed.

There is an expectation that a nation will be able to move on from the reality of parents carrying their children’s remains in plastic bags, of families buried under the rubble or in the sand they found shelter in after everything else was destroyed.

That we will be able to move on as a nation from the images of burning children, of starving infants, of the impact that bombs left behind, on the lives of many Palestinians, on their scarred bodies, in their hearts and minds, of the impact that a single bullet lodged in the child’s head or heart has over an entire family forever.

We said long ago, we made a choice, to seek justice not vengeance, but we cannot be prevented from seeking either. We cannot continue to be denied our right to life, to liberty, to dignity. We cannot be denied recourse and reparation.

No one has a rightful claim to supremacy, to exceptionalism, to domination, to oppression, no one.

[Red Pill Dispenser @redpilldispensr]

He called it perfectly over a decade ago. 🎯

[will o��brien @Willob]

Software creates soft men
Soft men create hard times
Hard times create hard men
Hard men create hardware
Hardware creates good times
Good times creates software

[Jackson @zeroxjackson]

GitHub Reels

[a1md @aonemd]

Why Software Engineers Need Strong Opinions https://t.co/c2bbuo1csR

[Fred Björn @Jawnmard1]

“It was Orientalism that told us that Islam means ‘submission’. But Islam says that Islam means ‘letting go’.”

— Shaykh Dr. Abdal Hakim Murad (T.J. Winter)

#tasawwuf
#sufism

[Parallæx @EdgeOfFiRa]

This is why the Turing Test was always measuring the wrong thing in real time.

The test asks: "Can AI fool humans?" But Tao's insight reveals the real question: "Can AI develop genuine understanding?" Current AI passes the appearance test while failing the comprehension test spectacularly.

We're training AI evaluation systems using the same pattern-matching that creates the problems. Peer review, automated grading, content moderation: all optimizing for surface correctness while ignoring deeper truth.

And the "smell" isn't exclusive to math. Expert doctors sense when diagnoses feel wrong. Master chess players know moves are bad before calculating why. Elite investors smell financial trouble before the numbers show it.

We're building AI that mimics expertise without developing expert intuition. The question isn't whether this scales. It's whether we're accidentally creating a civilization of confident incompetence.

-- RT & Follow for signal over noise --

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

Terence Tao says today's AIs pass the eye test -- but fail miserably on the smell test.

They generate proofs that look flawless. But the mistakes are subtle, and strangely inhuman.

“There's a metaphorical mathematical smell.. it's not clear how to get AI to duplicate that.”

Intelligence isn't what looks correct. It's what smells true.

[a1md @aonemd]

@GergelyOrosz I doubled down on my — dashes because of this.

[a1md @aonemd]

Write With Conviction https://t.co/jVy8XXHibA

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Quick answer, Brianna:

It wasn’t Hebrew. And it sure as hell wasn’t "Israel."

Before the 7th century, the region you now call "Israel" was a crossroads of civilizations.

Aramaic was spoken. Greek. Latin. Syriac. Nabataean. Canaanite dialects.

Arabic dialects were already in the region before Islam, spoken by tribes throughout the Levant and Hijaz.

And Hebrew?

By the time of the Roman Empire, it had already faded as a spoken language.

It survived liturgically—like Latin in a medieval church—not as a living, breathing tongue of daily life.

So if your argument is "whoever spoke the language first owns the land,"

Congratulations. You’ve just erased modern Israel’s claim too.

Because modern Hebrew was reconstructed in the 19th century:

Revived in Europe.

Imposed in Palestine.

It’s not some unbroken line from Moses to Tel Aviv.

It’s a nationalist invention—ironic, given your whole "historical authenticity" spiel.

Now let’s address your punchline:

"Israel is the most successful decolonialist project in human history."

Read that again slowly.

You’re calling a Western-backed military settler colony,

Armed by the U.S.,

Funded by Europe,

Imposed on an indigenous population through displacement and war,

A "decolonialist" project?

That’s not just ahistorical.

That’s Orwellian.

Let me help you out:

You’re not witnessing decolonization.

You’re watching colonialism with better PR.

Stealing land doesn’t become justice because you slap a flag on it and teach kids to salute.

You don’t get to bomb refugee camps and call it "self-determination."

You don’t get to bulldoze homes and call it "security."

You don’t get to exile an entire population, then rewrite their absence as proof they were never there.

Israel isn’t a "return to indigenous roots."

It’s a return to biblical justification for modern imperial violence.

The same logic used by Crusaders, conquistadors, and colonizers across continents.

You say, "It was the Jews’ land historically, and it’s theirs today."

Okay, let’s apply that logic.

Should Italians reclaim all of Europe because Rome once ruled it?

Should Greece recolonize Turkey because of Alexander?

Should Muslims retake Spain because of Al-Andalus?

History is not a land deed.

And conquest 3,000 years ago doesn’t justify conquest today.

What you’re doing is hijacking history, erasing the present, and packaging ethnic supremacy as ancestral justice.

But no matter how many times you twist it,

Colonialism dressed in scripture is still colonialism.

And Palestine?

It didn’t vanish when your textbooks ignored it.

It didn’t disappear when the maps changed.

It’s still there.

In the names, the ruins, the graves, the olive groves,

And the keys passed down by generations you’ve tried to erase.

So no, Brianna.

Facts aren’t your thing.

Narrative control is.

But history remembers what propaganda tries to bury.

And the land remembers too.

[0x44 0x46 @0x440x46]

@lauriewired What if humanity relearned how to write efficient software?