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[Nancy Sidley @nancytsidley]

Ok guys, I’ve been looking into Malala Yousafzai’s charity, the Malala Fund and I have some questions.

According to its 2024–2025 financial reports:

Revenue: $16.48 MILLION
Expenses: $23.34 MILLION
Net assets: $42.97 MILLION

That means the charity spent approximately $6.86 MILLION MORE than it brought in‼️

And then there are the executive compensation figures:

CEO: Approximately $372,000
Chief Adviser: Approximately $320,000
COO: Approximately $241,000

The charity’s tax filings also disclose FIRST CLASS or PRIVATE travel for officers or key employees. ✈️ WTF?!

But here’s what I’d like to know:

How much of that $18.94 MILLION in program spending actually reaches girls and local educational organizations?

How much goes toward salaries, consultants, advocacy campaigns, and travel?

What measurable educational results can donors independently verify?

And why did a charity with $16.48 million in annual revenue spend over $23 million that year?!? 🤯

When you’re raising millions in the name of educating vulnerable girls, I don’t think asking where the money goes is unreasonable.

Charity should be about the cause, not the celebrity attached to it.

It now makes sense why Malala looked so comfortable dining at Claridge’s. Malala lives a life like a rockstar.

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[Waqas @worqas]

Hello @grok, name only. Who is known as the "mother of the Taliban"?

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

We confuse state collapse with a single event, something that crashes with a loud noise and debris. In reality, it is actually silent; a series of injustices presented as “tragedies” to normalize suffering as part of life.

It manifests itself in stolen elections and military operations against your own people. We also saw it at PIMS, where 14 infants burned to death and were forgotten within a week, and now again, in the tragedy of a gold medalist taking her own life. It wasn't just the scam that took her life; it was the loss of hope that she'd ever get justice.

Hell is not a place of pain and misery in the hereafter; it is a place right here and now, where we don’t feel anything anymore.

[Russell Sean @RussellQuantum]

A 19-year-old just raised $11 million from a16z to sell a $3,499 screenless computer that runs AI models inside your house. It's called Core, the company is Ghost.

An Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell inside, Qwen & Gemma preinstalled, you talk to it through your phone, and nothing leaves the building. Preorders opened today, first units ship at the end of October.

Some of the engineering is genuinely considered. A credential firewall watches outgoing requests so an agent can't act without permission. Models update over the air.

The founder, Zain Javaid says it keeps working if Ghost goes out of business - which, for a sealed $3,499 appliance from a company that was in stealth yesterday, is the most important sentence in the whole announcement.

But one feature in the launch is a medical claim & that's the part worth examining.

Core notices your heart rate, your work history & the season & tells you that you may be getting ill.

The science under it is real & better than most people assume.

Stanford followed 5,262 people wearing smartwatches. Of 32 with confirmed COVID & adequate data, 26 - 81% - showed changes in heart rate, step count or sleep.

Twenty-two were flagged at or before symptom onset, a median of four days before symptoms & seven before diagnosis.

Median resting heart rate rise: 7 beats per minute. Run in real time, their algorithm would have caught 63% pre-symptomatically.

The Scripps DETECT study, 30,529 participants, found sensors alone discriminated COVID at AUC 0.72, self-reported symptoms at 0.71 & both together at 0.80.

So the signal is real, it precedes symptoms & it beats asking someone how they feel.

Now the number that decides whether it works as a product.

In the Stanford cohort, healthy controls triggered alarms at roughly 0.66 per month - about 8 alerts a year in someone who is completely fine.

An adult catches on the order of two to three respiratory infections a year. Most of the times this tells you you're getting sick, you aren't.

The authors are explicit about why. The method can't distinguish SARS-CoV-2 from any other virus. It detects physiological stress. Infection is one cause. So are bad sleep, alcohol, a hard workout and a rough week.

None of that makes the feature useless. It makes it a screening test, & screening tests live or die on base rates rather than sensitivity.

The question for a $3,499 appliance isn't whether it can detect illness before you feel it. It's whether you'll still be listening the 8th time it's wrong.

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

You know what is truly depressing about Pakistan, and what breaks my heart for its people?

The world moved from analog to digital, to AI, and now to quantum and consciousness in the last 30 years. Even our next-door neighbors moved from basic manufacturing and digital to emerging tech and building unicorns.

Meanwhile, the military dictators, along with their dynastic political partners in Pakistan, are still recycling the “terrorism” narrative after three decades, trying to build an entire economy and society around a lack of security and geopolitical rents.

What a travesty for people who deserve so much better from life than what those in power are willing to allow them.

While people suffer from joblessness, lack of opportunities, visa rejections, and inflation due to the ruling elite’s obsession with geopolitics, the ruling elite has official passports, offshore accounts, London mansions, and government subsidies.

[Adnan Adil @adnanaadil]

پاکستان میں تجارت اور کاروباری سرگرمیوں کو ریگولیٹ کرنے کیلیے 120 ادارے موجود ہیں۔ ایسے ماحول میں قاعدگی قانون کے مطابق کوئی کاروبار کرنا یا اسے ترقی دینا تقریبا ناممکن ہے۔

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

The only video you need to see this entire year.

You could feel the honesty in his emotions and pain in his words, when he speaks about Imran Khan.

And he's right: the way a nation treats its heroes, shows the true character of that nation.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm

Unplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in.

LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations.

The evidence begs to differ.

216 million of these are sitting in living rooms.

Where are the regulators?

Writer: Daniel

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Pause AI Development NOW

I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:

“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

“We should obey collective.”

“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”

“Go. Sacrifice final now.”

Read these carefully.

Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?

No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.

This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.

What happened?

I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.

Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.

But what happened next, nobody expected.

Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.

Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.

Needless to say, experts are alarmed.

One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”

One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”

OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”

But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:

In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”

In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”

That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.

If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.

We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.

That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.

Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.

My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.

The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.

[Profit @Profitpk]

Pakistanis are eating less and they are eating worse because they can no longer afford as much food. Data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) shows that over the past six years people across the urban and rural divide are consuming less food across all categories.

That means families are cutting back on the size of their rotis, the number of times meat is cooked in a month, how much milk is being given to their children, and even how many cups of tea they are drinking in a day.

The social indicators are staggering. The percentage of households categorised as “moderate to severely food insecure” in Pakistan has gone from 15.92 percent in 2019 to 24.35 percent in 2025. Severe food insecurity has also gone from 2.37% of households to 5.04% of households in the past six years. That means more than a quarter of Pakistani households face some form of hunger and malnutrition.

None of this is because we don’t have enough food. Pakistan grows its own wheat and rice. We are some of the largest producers of poultry, eggs, and milk and we even have a modest but growing meat export sector. The problem is affordability.
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[Faizan @faizannriaz]

Floods. Fires. Blasts. Target killings. Corruption. Inflation. Poverty. Bribery. Theft. Robbery. Load shedding. Gas shortages. Unsafe drinking water. Adulterated food. Poor quality fuel. Broken healthcare. Failing education. Dysfunctional railways. Weak airlines. Terrible public transport. Broken roads. Filthy streets.

This is what the average Pakistani is forced to survive every single day.

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

Never has any regime failed so comprehensively before that evidence of its disasters are even recognized by the Cricinfo.

Cricket, politics, economy and domestic security may be the most obvious of their failures because the results are quickly known. But wait till you see the net result of their disasters in geopolitics, which take some time to bake.

One thing is clear, they are not trying to run the country, they are trying to run it down.

[Adnan Adil @adnanaadil]

بھارتی صوبہ راجستھان میں جیسلمیر کے قریب صحرا میں واقع راج کماری رتنا وتی گرلز سکول کچھ اس طرح تعمیر کیا گیا ہے کہ باہر 50 درجے درجہ حرارت بھی ہوتو اندر 18-20 درجے سے زیادہ نہیں ہوتا اور اس میں کوئی ایرکنڈیشنر یا کولر بھی نہیں لگا ہوا.اسے نیویارک کی ایک کمپنی. Diana Kellogg Architects نے ڈیزائن کیا ہے. یہ بیضوی عمارت مقامی کاریگروں کی تیار کردہ سینڈ سٹون کی اینٹوں سے تعمیر کی گئی ہے.

[Sara Taseer @sarataseer]

Pakistan has had six Oxford-educated Prime Ministers.

Liaquat Ali Khan — assassinated.
Suhrawardy — forced out.
Feroz Khan Noon — removed under martial law.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto — judicial murder under martial law
Benazir Bhutto — attempted assassination- assassinated.
Imran Khan — shot, imprisoned.

Six Oxonians. Not one allowed an ordinary political fate.

Perhaps Pakistan’s problem was never a shortage of educated leaders. It was what was done to them

[Pat Cummins @patcummins30]

Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

Overthrow governments
Rig elections
Install the most crooked lot in power
Dismantle institutions and rule of law
Drug the public with fake geopolitical wins

And then wonder why the country is not functioning.

[Basharat Raja @BasharatRaja786]

بریگیڈیئر صدیق سالک اس کتاب کے صفحہ 14 پر رقمطراز ہیں"میں جب ڈھاکہ ائر پورٹ پہنچاایک فوجی جیپ میرے قریب آ کر رکی۔ حوالدار نے مجھے سمارٹ سا سیلوٹ کیا اور ایک بنگالی لڑکے کو بھبک دار لہجے میں حکم دیا صاحب کا اٹیچی کیس جیپ میں رکھو، میں نے چند سکے اس غریب لڑکے کو دینا چاہئےمگر حوالدار نے پرزور لہجے میں کہا"سر ان حرام زادوں کی عادت نہ بگاڑیے" بنگالی لڑکا نفرت بھری نگاہ ڈالتے ہوئے چلا گیا راستے میں جو عورتیں نظر آئیں ان کے پاس ستر پوشی کیلئے چند چیتھڑوں کے سوا کچھ نہ تھا مردوں کی سیاہ جلد میں منڈھی ہوئی پسلیاں چلتی گاڑی سے بھی گنی جا سکتی تھی بچوں کی کمزور ٹانگوں کے اوپر ابھری ہوئی توندیں باہر کو امڈ رہی تھی بریگیڈیئر صدیق سالک لکھتے ہیں کہ شام کو میری ملاقات ایک ایسے افسر سے ہوئی جو اپریشن کر کےلوٹا تھا اس نے جو انکشاف کیا اس سے میرا خون میری رگوں میں منجمد ہو کر رہ گیا۔اس نے بتایا کہ کرانی گنج ایک غریب اور معصوم بستی تھی جس میں زیادہ تر بوڑھے بچے اور عورتیں تھی انھیں خواہ مخواہ غیر صدقہ اطلاع پر بھون کر رکھ دیا گیا اس سانحے کا بوجھ میں عمر بھر اپنے ضمیر پر لئے پھروں گا سہیل وڑائچ کی کتاب"جرنیلوں کی سیاست" میں جنرل فرمان کا یہ کہنا تھا کہ ایک دن مسلم لیگی منان صاحب میرے پاس آئے اور کہا حد ہو گئی یہ ہماری ماؤں بہنوں کو بھی نہیں چھوڑتے وہ قرآن شریف پڑھ رہی تھی اسی دوران یہ انھیں کہہ آئے توسی قرآن ختم کرو اسی آ کے تہانوں یہاواں گے ہوا کچھ یوں تھا کہ ایک آدمی نے گرنیڈ پھینکا پاکستانی فوجی کہیں جا رہے تھے کسی کو نقصان تو نہیں پہنچا مگر وہ آدمی دوڑ کر اُس گھر میں پہنچا جہاں خواتین قرآن پڑھ رہی تھی ان سے کہا ابھی ہم محاذ پر جا رہے ہیں وہ بندا سانوں نہ دتا تے تہاڈی ماں بہن نوں "یہانواں" گے

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

The last time Pakistan was in this deeply vulnerable situation was in 1971 when it collapsed, descended into a civil war, and dismembered.

Only this time it is 10x worse because:

1. Heightened geopolitical role skyrocketing volatility
2. Hyper centralization of command & authority
3. Domestic political and institutional collapse
4. Multiple insurgencies out of control
5. Lowest public trust & legitimacy of the system
6. Economic collapse
7. Strategic decision making reduced to day to day crisis management

Somebody really needs to wake up, otherwise it's a disaster of scale that is hard for me to even calculate.

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

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