Fouâd Oveisy

AI policy analyst and technician. IR and political philosophy lecturer. Trained critical theorist. Part-time novelist. Leftist realpolitik is the aim. RT ≠ end.

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

This post marks the end of the setup phase of S.A.R.A. — Strategic Assessment Radical Agent — and the start of its fine-tuning phase. S.A.R.A. is not an attempt to make an AI say leftist things, but to train a model to adopt a leftist culture of reasoning: one capable of recognising material forces, strategic cultures, hegemonic formations, counter-hegemonic agency, uncertainty, and the mediations through which state, capital, labour, technology, and war reorganise one another.

The post explains why the project uses Falcon-H1R-7B, why the setup was built around a modest yet durable A100-80GB cloud architecture, and why the work has focused so heavily on operational discipline, failure documentation, and recoverable infrastructure. It also introduces the public release of the setup-phase materials: the decision manual, operational doctrine, failure report, and related documents that record not only what was built but also why it was built this way and what went wrong along the way.

The broader claim is simple: a radical AI project cannot be built on proprietary mystique, liberal guardrails, or superficial political labelling. It requires a deliberate theory of thought, a public record of practice, and a willingness to share the costly lessons of experimentation with others. This post is therefore both a project update and an invitation to a more public, inspectable, and collective leftist AI commons.

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

@xdadevelopers Thank you for this.

[XDA @xdadevelopers]

These open-source tools do what Claude charges for, and some do it better
https://t.co/sFfzfyuERx

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 US President Donald Trump on Monday told Iran and Israel to stop "shooting" after the two foes attacked each other's territory for the first time since a shaky ceasefire put five weeks of war on hold ➡️ https://t.co/9s847MBITm

[Hamidreza Azizi @HamidRezaAz]

#Iran strikes #Israel after the Beirut attack: What it signals

🔹Israel’s strike on the Dahiya in southern Beirut today, followed within hours by an Iranian ballistic missile barrage on Israel, marks the first direct Iranian fire on Israeli territory since the April 8 ceasefire. The significance lies primarily in what it reveals about the logic now governing the Iranian approach.

🔹The sequence began with rocket fire on the north that Hezbollah did not claim, followed by an Israeli strike on what it described as a Hezbollah command center, and then the Iranian response. Tehran’s decision to answer a strike on Lebanon with missiles launched from its own soil is the operative development here.

🔹That decision gives concrete form to Iranian FM Araghchi’s earlier formulation that the ceasefire applies on all fronts, and that its violation on one front is a violation on all. For weeks, this remained a rhetorical position, but today Tehran attached a cost to it.

🔹The choice of instrument matters as much as the decision to act. Iran responded directly, with its own missiles, rather than through Hezbollah of other members of the Axis of Resistance. This continues a pattern that has defined the war: as the regional network has thinned, the missile force has become Tehran’s primary tool for direct retaliation and coercive signaling (I have explained this process in my book in detail).

🔹At the same time, the strike appears calibrated. It was limited in scale, largely intercepted, and produced no reported casualties, with Iranian airspace closed early. The IRGC framed wider strikes on “all American and Israeli targets” as a contingency reserved for repetition, which suggests deterrence and leverage rather than a drive toward full-scale war.

🔹Israel is signaling in the opposite direction. The IDF called the attack a grave mistake, warned it would not allow Iran to establish a “new equation,” and indicated the chief of staff was approving response options, with officials promising a forceful answer even if delayed.

🔹Trump’s reaction carries the clearer message. He told Iran it had made its point and should return to the table, and said he would press Netanyahu not to retaliate, arguing both sides had already acted. Washington is reportedly working to contain the Israeli response in order to protect the negotiating track.

🔹This fits the broader pattern of the “ceasefire” period. Iranian military action kept below the threshold that matters most to Washington, namely American casualties, has repeatedly caused rhetorical reframing and pressure on Israel rather than punishment on Iran. That pattern strengthens the argument Tehran’s security-oriented elites have been making for months; that leverage is built through demonstrated strength, and that concessions follow force rather than words.

🔹The constraint that has – so far – kept today’s exchange contained is therefore an American one, and it holds for as long as Trump chooses to impose it. Israel’s calculus runs the other way, shaped by Netanyahu’s domestic position and his commitment to answering any direct Iranian strike. The gap between Washington’s preference for restraint and Israel’s preference for response is where a renewed escalation cycle would most likely begin.

🔹Overall, Tehran has now demonstrated that the regional fronts cannot be treated separately, which raises the cost of any arrangement built on handling them in sequence. The exchange stayed bounded today because both sides are still calibrating the limits of acceptable confrontation through trial, and that same dynamic is what keeps the longer trajectory unstable.

[CNBC @CNBC]

Russia's Sechin says U.S. companies benefit from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz https://t.co/3UVkCBirc0

[شورای هماهنگی تشکل های صنفی فرهنگیان (CCITTA) @CoordinatingA]

شیوا عاملی‌راد، نماینده بین‌المللی شورای هماهنگی تشکل‌های صنفی فرهنگیان ایران، در نشست گروه اتحادیه‌های کارگری ۱۱۴ همین کنفرانس بین‌المللی سازمان جهانی کار، ضمن محکوم کردن جنگ، بر ضرورت دفاع از حقوق معلمان، کارگران، فعالان صنفی و حقوق بنیادین مردم ایران تأکید کرد

من به نمایندگی از شورای هماهنگی تشکل‌های صنفی فرهنگیان ایران سخن می‌گویم.

مایلم سخنانم را با این تأکید آغاز کنم که ما جنگ ایالات متحده و اسرائیل علیه ایران را به‌شدت محکوم می‌کنیم. این جنگ باید به‌طور دائمی پایان یابد.

همچنین لازم می‌دانم به نمایندگان حاضر در سازمان بین‌المللی کار یادآوری کنم که بسیاری از فعالان صنفی و کارگری که باید امروز در این کنفرانس حضور می‌داشتند، صرفاً به دلیل دفاع از حقوق بنیادین کارگران، در زندان به سر می‌برند یا تحت پیگرد و فشار قرار دارند.

نمی‌توان سرکوب فعالان صنفی و کنشگران جامعه مدنی در ایران را نادیده گرفت؛ مردم عادی، به‌ویژه کودکان و دانش‌آموزان، چه در جریان جنگ و چه در طول سال‌ها سرکوب در ایران، سنگین‌ترین هزینه‌ها را پرداخته‌اند.

در نخستین روز جنگ، بمباران آمریکا یک مدرسه ابتدایی در میناب را هدف قرار داد که دست‌کم ۱۲۰ کودک در آن جان باختند. تا امروز هیچ‌گونه پاسخگویی و مسئولیتی در قبال این فاجعه صورت نگرفته است. این جنگ در حالی آغاز شد که جامعه هنوز از پیامدهای سرکوب خشونت‌بار اعتراضات در اوایل سال جاری رهایی نیافته بود؛ سرکوبی که به کشته شدن ۲۵۰ کودک انجامید.

جنگ، فقر، ناامنی و دشواری‌های اقتصادی موجود را تشدید کرده است. حدود دو میلیون کارگر شغل خود را از دست داده‌اند؛ وضعیتی که به گسترش کار کودکان، افزایش ترک تحصیل و محرومیت شمار بیشتری از کودکان از حق آموزش منجر شده است.

این شورا با جنگ، مداخلهٔ نظامی، دیکتاتوری و سرکوب، در هر شکل و از سوی هر طرف، مخالف است. تغییر دموکراتیک واقعی تنها از طریق سازمان‌یابی مستقل و کنش جمعیِ مردم، از دل جامعه و از پایین به بالا، امکان‌پذیر است

این شورا از نمایندگان حاضر در کنفرانس بین‌المللی کار می‌خواهیم موضعی روشن علیه جنگ و علیه همه اشکال سرکوب داخلی اتخاذ کنند و از صلح، عدالت، آزادی، برابری، کرامت انسانی و حقوق معلمان و کارگران دفاع نمایند.

صلح و عدالت از یکدیگر جدایی‌ناپذیرند. بدون آن‌ها، هیچ حمایت معناداری از کارگران، کودکان و حقوق بنیادین بشر امکان‌پذیر نخواهد بود.

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اخبار، نظرات و انتقادات خود در حوزه‌ی مسائل صنفی و آموزشی را از طریق آی‌دی زیر برای ما ارسال کنید:
🆔 @kashowranews

ما را در شبکه‌های اجتماعی دنبال کنید و با تازه‌ترین اخبار و فعالیت‌های شورای هماهنگی تشکل‌های صنفی فرهنگیان همراه باشید:

📡 تلگرام؛ 🌐 سایت
📸 اینستاگرام؛ 🐦 توییتر X
📲 واتس‌اپ؛ 🎥 یوتیوب

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

"We don't have that long," Anthropic said. https://t.co/8zGYgE3Y6a

[POLITICO @politico]

Canada bids to lead middle powers in AI sovereignty race https://t.co/Id4IQUa4sT

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

In April alone over $50 billion was spent in data center construction.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

RSI is the new AGI — and it’s just as hard to pin down https://t.co/sECbcxrcZU

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

"A tradition that has long presented itself as a 'shepherd' and guardian of openness, alterity, or the improbable may, in practice, refuse one of the most improbable developments to date: the emergence of Artificial General Intelligence as a genuinely new relation between human beings and machines. I am not making a celebratory claim, nor am I saying that capitalist AI is emancipatory. I am saying that a metaphysics which protects alterity only as an abstract philosophical object, while refusing the concrete historical form in which a new relation may be emerging, ends up being anti-emergent in precisely the way it claims to oppose."
https://t.co/zvRbGlXJRT

[Benzinga @Benzinga]

Sen. Bernie Sanders is warning that artificial intelligence and robotics could eliminate millions of jobs if workers are not protected as the technology spreads.

Speaking at a “Fight Oligarchy” rally in Maine, Sanders called AI and robotics the most transformative economic revolution in U.S. history.

He argued that the core function of AI and robotics is to replace human labor, especially across transportation, manufacturing and other industries.

Sanders specifically warned that truck drivers, cab drivers and drivers for Uber $UBER and Lyft $LYFT could eventually be threatened by autonomous vehicle technology.

He also said AI could worsen inequality if governments fail to regulate it and ensure workers share in productivity gains.

Sanders criticized billionaire tech leaders including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, arguing that AI development is increasingly concentrated among wealthy executives seeking more power and profit.

He also raised concerns about AI-generated misinformation, warning that democracy could be weakened if people cannot tell truth from fiction online.

Sanders said he does not want future generations forming friendships with AI bots instead of real people, especially as loneliness and mental health concerns among young people grow.

His comments come after he criticized Meta $META for laying off about 8,000 workers while accelerating massive AI investments.

Sanders’ broader message: AI may bring major productivity gains, but without guardrails, workers could absorb the biggest costs.

[Ali Hashem علي هاشم @Alihashem]

According to my sources, the draft proposal that’s supposed to be finalised include:

-End of war on all fronts including Lebanon

-Freeing several billion dollars of Iran's blocked funds

-Lifting the U.S. naval blockade and opening the strait of Hormuz

-Withdrawal of American forces from the immediate vicinity of Iran

After this, the parties will have 30 days to agree on the nuclear issue.
These 30 days can be extended by mutual agreement.
During these thirty days, passage will be facilitated through the strait.
According to Iran, management of the Strait of Hormuz will be an Iranian-Omani issue, and is being negotiated with Muscat.

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

@alexabelonix Thank you!

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

The cutting-edge LLM (Falcon H1) I have been training for months is finally properly configured for fine-tuning. Previous attempts failed at various stages because my intricate 48-layer Neo-Gramscian fine-tuning framework was too fragile. Thanks to Claude Code (expensive, but worth every penny), the technical issues have been resolved. I can now look forward to retraining SARA (Strategic Assessment Radical Agent) for leftist geopolitical analysis and prediction.

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

The problem was with the Mamba wheels, which I had to rebuild from the source. I experimented with various GPU–CUDA combinations until I found a stable and affordable setup. Before Code, I had to manually sort through every environmental configuration. I automated that process using Claude.md, and everything clicked into place from there!

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Per Axios’ report on U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s National Security Team meeting, in the absence of a last minute deal, President Trump is seriously considering resuming strikes, with speculation rising that the bank holiday weekend for Memorial Day offers a good opportunity to conduct high-tempo strikes over a short duration of time. According to the report, one official has said that after such a campaign, Trump may declare victory and end the war indefinitely.

One U.S. official also described the currently stalled negotiations as “agonizing,” according to the report, as at the time of writing, no substantive progress has been reported. This, as both Qatari and Pakistani officials arrived in Tehran, Iran in a last minute attempt to facilitate a deal.

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

SCOOP: The U.S. has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel than Israeli forces used themselves, per DOD assessments of Operation Epic Fury 🧵

[Clash Report @clashreport]

China has banned Nvidia’s Blackwell-based RTX 5090D V2 gaming chip.

The restriction came during Trump and Jensen Huang’s visit to China.

The chip was built for gaming but was also being used by AI developers because it could access Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture.

Source: FT