I wake up these days and open Claude and Muse. I sleep whilst reading and staring into Muse for the last time before waking up to it again. Working on some very interesting stuff.
Right up until the collapse of the USSR people were going with their lives as normal because it was impossible to think that the union could ever break apart. We presume continuity—we assume status quos will hold if we’ve seen them for long enough. But appointed times come.
Reading Ikenberry and it’s interesting to see how fears re: the collapse of liberal internationalism was there from much earlier within some circles as they saw fractures within the institutions holding the system together. But the masses will largely miss it as will journalists.
@2026myyearXD LOL it’s funny just how much times have changed. Even a few years ago it’d have been unimaginable to live without stack overflow and now that entire website is just a dataset to train off of
@YoungAzl4n People back home have an inferiority complex to those in the West. The West doesn’t have to be degenerate, but they’ll get the idea that it’s what “freedom” entails, and so when they come over they go to extremes that even degens born here here will raise an eyebrow at.
@2026myyearXD It’s a bit of a status marker to have been around these parts, whilst in the West that’s there, but what holds many back are thoughts that “we already have all this here, so why go that far?”
@2026myyearXD Damn they’ve been around quite a lot mashaAllah. I was also gonna mention “the phenomenon of the native” where folks in the subcon have a greater sense of urgency for going around the west (at least to get started) than us who are already settled here
Developing an alternative to Goodreads with (1) a better, more modern UI, (2) voice integration so notes may be taken on the fly whilst reading, (3) an in-house Obsidian/Zettelkasten so that connections may be drawn in the same place, and (4) LLM integration for easier search.
Only the obvious. The realization hit everyone that you cannot outsource your defense to another entity—one that is run by those who stand against your very identity. Issue is that now, it’s too late. There is no alternative to strength or process knowledge.
BREAKING: The U.S. is now preparing to completely abandon Gulf countries, as Trump envoy Tom Barrack directly warns Gulf allies that Washington can no longer guarantee their security indefinitely, telling regional officials in Doha that they must take responsibility for their own defense, signalling the end of the U.S. security umbrella in the Middle East, per the Wall Street Journal.
Barrack said the 80-year-old U.S. security-for-oil arrangement is no longer sustainable, pointing to regional defense partnerships as the way forward. The warning comes as Gulf states face Iranian strikes on U.S. military infrastructure and growing uncertainty over Washington’s future military commitment to the region.