MJ

Software Engineer;
2x founding engineer;
Sr.Staff at Uber

[MJ @mjdarabi]

A Claude Code prompt:
"Read through ~/.claude/history.jsonl and list all the improvements that speeds up the development process of project XYZ"

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people in it

3 people are producing most of the toxic content

Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive

Engagement-based ranking amplifies the 3 provocative, high-reaction users.

The other 97 quiet voices disappear or self-censor.

And the loud minority thinks it's the majority: the more someone posts, the more they believe the public agrees with them!
https://t.co/EJ99qgdtQ6

[MJ @mjdarabi]

@Jason I'm in

[Arash ghafari @Arashghafari8]

واقعا نمیدونم چطوری :)
ولی من وصل شدم.
شاید از دستشون در رفته و دوباره قطع بشیم اما اینو بگم برم؛
با اینهمه بدبختی ما مردم قشنگی داریم.
مردم باهم مهربونتر شدن.
همه امیدوارن.
هوا تمیزه.
بیشتر بارون میاد.
ایران در طول تاریخش پیچ زیاد داشته، اما ایرانی از همش گذشته :)
#پاينده_ایران

[Alireza M @AlirezaMontaz14]

@alikarimi_ak8 این جنگ فقط درگیری نظامی نیست؛
نابودی زیرساختها، تهدید مستقیم حیات مردم ایران و تخریب محیط‌ زیست است.
هدف‌گیری انرژی و برق، یعنی قطع آب، نان و حداقل‌های بقا.
آغازی برای قحطی، بیماری، بی‌خانمانی و آوارگی گسترده.

#NoWarCrimesInIran

[MJ @mjdarabi]

@mdubowitz reading through the provided links, the Sharif university is not mentioned in the list of sanctioned entities. @mdubowitz maliciously wrote this tweet in a way that the university itself got sanctioned.

[Kaveh Madani @KavehMadani]

The reported strike on a desalination plant on Qeshm Island is deeply worrying. Millions depend on desalination across the Middle East.

Damage to water infrastructure, whether intentional or accidental, sets a dangerous precedent and risks depriving civilians of drinking water.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Wave of Iranian bots being filtered.

[Arash ghafari @Arashghafari8]

احتمالا اینترنت ما باز قطع میشه ولی اگر ما نتونستیم بنویسیم شما یادتون نره؛ ما ملت قشنگی هستیم، تا میتونید از امید بنویسید.
احیای هویت ایرانی و افزایش سرمایه‌ی اجتماعی ایرانیان مسئله‌ی بسیار مهمیه.
از امید بنویسید.
لطفا از امید بنویسید.
اینجوری که نمیمونه :)
#پاينده_ایران

[علی شریفی زارچی @SharifiZarchi]

Among the images of bodies massacred by the Iranian regime, some protesters clearly show signs of being hospitalized—such as having catheters or cardiac electrodes—yet they were killed by gunshots to the head.
Previously, raids by the regime’s security forces on hospitals to abduct protesters had been reported and documented. These are evidence of crimes against humanity.
#IranMassacre
#IranRevolution2026
#DigitalBlackoutIran

[Barry Rosen @brosen1501]

I was a hostage in Iran 47 years ago. I was held in Evin Prison—one of the most notorious prisons in the country—and moved through other miserable, isolated cells across Iran. Those memories never leave you. That is why what I am seeing today fills me with rage and dread. The same system that brutalized prisoners then is now turning its full machinery of repression against its own people.
Under a deliberate nationwide internet blackout, Iran’s deep state—the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regular military (Artesh), and the political apparatus embodied by figures such as Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf—has moved to crush dissent through mass killing.
Videos emerging despite the blackout show scenes that are almost unbearable: confused and screaming families standing beside bodies wrapped in black bags, piled in makeshift medical centers, scattered across courtyards in the south of Tehran. These are not isolated incidents. According to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRNA), this violence is systematic and verified.
The regime insists on its familiar language of dehumanization, warning Iranians not to join “rioters,” “terrorists,” or foreign-backed “mercenaries.”
Moreover, President Masoud Pezeshkian has publicly drawn a line between “peaceful protesters” and those he claims seek to “disrupt the entire society.”
History teaches us what comes next when a government uses such words. This is not chaos—it is strategy. It is a full-throated crackdown meant to terrorize a population into silence. I have seen this regime up close before.
The world must not look away now.

[Ahmad Beirami ✈️ ICML @abeirami]

- Iran is in a humanitarian crisis.
- Thousands are reported dead in 72 hours.
- We are past the point of solidarity. Empty words do not stop bullets. Action does.
- The world must intervene now.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Opening X it seems like Iran is by far the biggest story right now. Opening any media homepage and it seems to be a total non-story. Weird times we live in.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Our grasp on objective reality is currently losing ground on seemingly all fronts, not just image posts on social media. The problem is that when objective reality is gone, we will be fundamentally unable to make collective decisions about what kind of world we want to live in.

[MJ @mjdarabi]

As a product engineer, I've always wanted to understand the thought process and building blocks of product management—the fundamental axioms and core constructs. @shreyas's Product Sense course was exactly what I needed. Just one week in and I'm seeing the world differently.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Global life expectancy is ~73 years or 26,645 days. That means roughly 300,000 people are currently experiencing the #1 worst day of their life and 300,000 more are experiencing the #1 best.

As you read this, 200 people are in their very worst minute with 200 more in their best.

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

Distributed intelligence > super intelligence!

[MJ @mjdarabi]

@adamsilverman @AgentOpsAI wow! nice job on compiling the list! thanks

[MJ @mjdarabi]

@rauchg Configuration = Flexibility
Flexibility = root of all evil