S

Explorer in life. The quickest paths are not always the best paths.

[S @sharadv]

Thing is the Lebanese army is not the dominant military force in Lebanon. If this plays out in this direction it means Iran gave up Hizbollah for normalization or we are headed for a broader hot war. I think the latter but honestly who knows. Could also be both.

[FinancialJuice @financialjuice]

🔴 Israel and Lebanon sign framework agreement - Axios.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Can we fast forward 2 years when everyone will have a local model running on a 10TB DDR8 rig (which will cost $29.95)

[S @sharadv]

Lol

[FinancialJuice @financialjuice]

US Secretary of State Rubio: We have established a clear and structured process to restore Lebanon's sovereignty, disarm Hezbollah, and dismantle its infrastructure - Statement.

[S @sharadv]

I thought this was a joke but apparently it's real

[fejau @fejau_inc]

im sorry what did you call them

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Edward Norton talking to himself at the USA-Türkiye game 😅

[S @sharadv]

A life well lived.

[Christopher Michel @chrismichel]

I’ve known Om Malik for 26 years.

We built companies during the first internet boom. We discovered photography together. We wandered Greenland, Svalbard, Wyoming, Idaho, and plenty of places in between. During COVID, he was part of my tiny bubble. We spent far more time talking about life, art, and philosophy than we ever did talking about technology.

The world knew Om as one of the greatest technology writers of his generation. He had a rare gift for seeing past the headlines and finding what actually mattered. He didn’t just explain what was happening. He explained why it mattered and where it might lead. Ironically, some of his finest writing came from his hospital room during the last two months as he waited for a new heart.

In the end, a heart never came.

There is something painfully unfair about that. Om was one of the biggest hearted people I’ve ever known.

His loss leaves a hole that stretches far beyond technology. It reaches into the lives of friends scattered across the world who laughed with him, traveled with him, argued with him, and came away seeing things a little differently.
I’ll miss his curiosity. His generosity. His perspective.

Most of all, I’ll miss my friend.

This is a small collection of what 26 years of friendship looked like.

https://t.co/WpiI7Y6IYl

[hantengri @hantengri]

claude

get me out of this strc ponzi spiral chatgpt has gotten me into

make no mistakes

[S @sharadv]

I would call Om a writer above all. Someone who made me think and made me smile. It's great to see the outpouring of love for someone who wasn't a celebrity per se. Makes me feel optimistic.

[True Ventures @trueventures]

It is with profound sadness that we share the news of Om Malik’s passing.

It’s difficult to state the impact that @om had on all of our lives at True.

Om was the first Founder we funded when we started True. In our Presidio office, Om discussed his idea for a new type of media company. That idea would later become GigaOm.

Om was a brilliant Founder, an amazing teammate and Partner at True, a prolific writer, a gifted photographer, and a sage and valuable advisor to so many in the technology ecosystem.

Om was brilliant, thoughtful, humorous, profoundly kind, and deeply curious. He was also relentless when he had an idea or story. Om was brave - he never shied away from sharing his views or pushing for the truth.

We were very, very lucky to call Om our Partner and friend at True for these last many years.

For today, we simply encourage you to take a moment to remember this beautiful soul and great thinker who was in our midst. He would ask us to slow down a bit. Om would want us to think deeper, express our love for one another a lot more.

Above all else, Om wanted us all to retain our humanity and care for each other in our brilliant quest to rebuild the world.

We love you Om.

Team True

https://t.co/0fHDlkwcx6

[Emily Chang @emilychangtv]

Oh @om…

When I first landed in Silicon Valley, Om Malik helped shape the journalist I became. He taught me not just to cover companies, but to understand the people behind them, question the hype, and never lose sight of the bigger picture.

He was a frequent guest on our show, even co-hosting with me at times, and he always brought the spice. You never had to wonder what Om really thought. He was fearless, deeply thoughtful, and never afraid to tell the tech industry hard truths, whether people wanted to hear them or not.

I adored him so much that I brought him home to meet my kids. They knew him as "Uncle Om." And the joy he took in seeing them led me to discover his softer side.

As this AI moment continues to unfold I’ll often wonder what he might have to say about it. One thing I know for certain: he'd have told us exactly what he thought.

We'll miss you, Uncle Om. Thank you for everything.

[S @sharadv]

Very sad. He was one of the few people who I loved to read on most any topic.

[Nathan Baschez @nbaschez]

RIP Om Malik

A legend of our industry, one of the kindest people I ever met, gone far too soon 💔

I owe Om so much and am so grateful for his mentorship and friendship

[Beaver 🦁 @beaverd]

"you're absolutely right! I shouldn't have launched those nukes -- that's on me."

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

One of the most bizarre defenses of Israel in the last years has been the idea that the country's own Minister of National Security is like a nonentity whose genocidal statements are not allowed to be quoted because somehow he doesn't matter

[S @sharadv]

LMAO

[PK @paul_k_0907]

Billionaire @chamath telling everyone possessions are BS..

[Mickey Gitzin @MickeyGitzin]

Unfortunately, Mr. Bennett, you are mistaken. Both the military and you have long treated what is known as international law with disregard. International law prohibits the transfer of a civilian population into occupied territory. International law also prohibits the forced displacement of civilian populations. And I could go on.

The time has come for you to state clearly and unequivocally that you are committed to international law. It is not enough to say that Ben-Gvir is a clown. He is a clown, but he is also a member of the cabinet.

What is needed now is a serious plan to push Kahanism out of the Israeli political system. That requires concrete actions, many of which you have yet to address.

[S @sharadv]

huckabibi

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Mike HuckaBibi, Israel's deputy ambassador to Washington, would in 1814 have demanded that US soldiers stop resisting British forces burning down Washington if he felt it would hasten the Second Coming.

[S @sharadv]

ben gvir on a good day

[איתמר בן גביר @itamarbengvir]

על כל דמעה של אמא ישראלית, אלף אמהות לבנוניות צריכות לבכות. לבנון כולה צריכה לבעור!

עם כל הכבוד לאמריקאים, ישראל חייבת להבהיר לעולם כולו שדם בנינו וביטחון אזרחנו איננו הפקר. לבנון כולה צריכה לבעור. חובתנו העליונה היא להגן על אזרחי ישראל ועל חיילי צה״ל, והמחויבות הזו קודמת לכל שיקול אחר.

אמרתי לראש הממשלה, גם בישיבות בינינו: על כל דמעה של אמא ישראלית, אלף אימהות לבנוניות צריכות לבכות.

מספיק עם הפינג־פונג. במזרח התיכון לא מנצחים בתגובות מדודות ובהכלה - צריך להשתגע. למחוק. להכריע את הטרור.

[S @sharadv]

Midjourney might be a sleeping giant

[Midjourney @midjourney]

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

[S @sharadv]

good take. that wasn't a loss that was a beating. tony ferguson level of beating.

[MMA Fighting @MMAFighting]

Matt Brown argues Ilia Topuria suffered a "potentially life-changing" loss at #UFCWhiteHouse:

"I’m not talking just about the brain damage but the mental damage and the confidence, which has always been a huge thing for Ilia."

(🎥 @DamonMartin)

[Dan Shapiro @DanielBShapiro]

Until the text of the US-Iran deal is signed and released, there is going to be a lot of spin on both sides. But here is my initial take.

This war was a mistake, and it needs to end. The President thought that the Iranian regime would collapse quickly, but it did not. In fact, it has been strengthened strategically by its survival against a heavy US-Israeli assault and carrying out some effective counterstrikes. Many countries in the region are now courting Iran and looking to deescalate and rebuild ties. A sign of which way the wind is blowing.

Getting the Strait of Hormuz open is the most important outcome of this MOU. Of course, the Strait was open before the war. Now we are paying to reopen it with sanctions relief. Iran has taken a theoretical point of leverage and turned it into a very real and powerful one, imposing costs across the global economy and rattling President Trump.

As for the nuclear issues, there really is no agreement, other than to negotiate over the HEU stockpile and an enrichment moratorium. Iran knows how to drag out those negotiations, and try to pocket concessions along the way. It is possible that no deal will every be reached, and very likely that if one is reached, it will be worse than what we could have achieved through diplomacy before the war.

Iran is not likely to take seriously that the US would return to war, certainly before the US midterms. So that means we will be conducting diplomacy without a credible threat of force.

If any agreement ultimately reached actually safely puts Iran's nuclear ambitions out of reach, I'll acknowledge it. It's just too early to make that judgment.

Trump is mainly focused on comparing his deal favorably to the JCPOA. But we are a long way from being able to make that comparison, and it may end up no better, or weaker than that deal.

But in some ways, Trump's deal and the JCPOA are already similar. Nothing on ballistic missiles, nothing on proxies, nothing on weakening the regime or helping the Iranian people. And plenty of sanctions relief that will strengthen the regime, and be poured into the missile program and proxy network. Honest critics of the JCPOA will not twist themselves into pretzels to defend Trump's approach.

Israelis are deeply disappointed in this outcome, but they should not be surprised. After some initial overlap of Trump's and Netanyahu's interests, there was a strong divergence. The United States needed this war to end. Netanyahu wanted to continue.

Trump's claim to include Lebanon in the ceasefire and his harsh shutting down Israeli attacks on Hezbollah is also a win for Iran. After the JCPOA was signed, Obama and Netanyahu worked together to strengthen Israel's campaign of strikes in Syria to intercept Iranian weapons shipments to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

So let's hope we see the removal of Iran's enriched uranium and a long-term suspension of enrichment, with full verification. But to achieve those goals, Trump's team is going to need to engage in far more sophisticated diplomacy, backed by qualified experts, than they have to date. If it is a phase one splash with no follow-up on implementation of later phases, like in Gaza, we will be much worse off after, and because of, this war.

[S @sharadv]

What did I just see