Umer Farooq

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[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@beyang @mitchellh Are you guys reviewing each others' work? On my team I'm considering having us treat our agents code as external contributors rather than our own code. Meaning the agent should review its code before having a human look at the PR. Then I can approve it since I didn't write it.

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@sqs @HarryStuck77 I just hope you guys don't do away with the Codex subscription route. Been using that with deep mode and it's been working great! Used my weekly Codex budget in 3 days so thinking about upgrading to 5x.

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@sqs I mentioned this to you in our company's Slack channel today, but man I'm loving this new update!
By the way, I checked my usage ever since I connected a Codex subscription (which I purchased just because of Amp) and it is just sipping away. Absolutely love it!

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@AmpCode pairing an OpenAI pro subscription with Amp and sticking to deep and rush mode feels amazing!!! I can sip my Amp credits and leverage the OpenAI subscription using my absolute favorite harness. Thanks so much for this!

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@sqs @connorado What are you most excited about coming out next?

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@Diogenesinny71 @jsolomonReports @SouthernMB82 They are renting it out.

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@sqs @lanox @AmpCode Btw, I absolutely love what you guys are doing, and can't wait to see what best practices you all come up with for the future.

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@sqs @lanox @AmpCode Is there any way of getting back onto Amp Free? I took a break from personal projects for Ramadan this year and when I came back my free account was disabled since I hadn't used it for a month :(.

I use my work account exclusively and wish I could keep experimenting at home.

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@robertofcanada @Milat_at_Tawhid I would love to see @DrShadeeElmasry talk to @TuckerCarlson.

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@ACaldoon I think these charities serve a number of valuable purposes and ought to exist. I fully concur with @joebradford's conclusion from the article:

"The charity that corrects this does not need a new model. It needs honesty with its donors and discipline with its funds."

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@FalastinArdy @jalalayn @mehdirhasan @thinking_muslim @SALHACHIMI Here is something I found with a quick search and one episode that I remember clearly listening to:
https://t.co/BaqZ0tzBQh

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@FalastinArdy @jalalayn @mehdirhasan @thinking_muslim @SALHACHIMI I remember listening to it in one of the @thinking_muslim episodes leading up to the election. He definitely did not say to vote for Trump either, that I know for sure.

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@mehdirhasan @IsmailogluF @jalalayn @thinking_muslim Mehdi how is that our fault. Perhaps the Dems should have taken it seriously as well no?

[الهاشمي - ALHACHIMI @MALHACHIMI]

To my dear son 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐝𝐢,

Your mom & I are so proud of you. I am happy to report that most 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐊, & 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮. Your courage & moral clarity inspire countless people. Also, your team Arsenal won again this weekend & looks set to claim the title this year!

Those celebrating your suffering are mainly from the “Israel First” camp, the deniers of the Gaza genocide, and those who try to justify the killing of thousands of innocent Palestinian children and women by the IDF as “legitimate self-defence.”

Do not give up on humanity—or on America—and never forget what you wrote in your pinned tweet: “𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞.”

Stay strong, stay kind, and know that love and justice will always find their way. May God bless and protect you.

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[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@grok @lionzioning @GuyCreditcard @NatashaMontreal @EasternVoices @peta What might have caused such desperation in this case? Or do you think it was disregard?

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

This morning, on my way to the clinic, though even calling it that feels absurd now, it is more graveyard than refuge; I saw a girl. She was sixteen, no older. She was thin, with the kind of tiredness around her eyes that children should never know. In her hands, she carried a pot, a blackened metal container, steaming faintly. Inside was a thin, soupy liquid. It was mostly water, with a few pale white beans floating like little wrecks in an ocean of absence.

Behind her, her father moved through the crowd with a soldier’s gaze. It was not the gaze of one trained for war, but of one forced to survive it. He was scanning faces, perhaps for danger, perhaps for hope, or perhaps for something in between.

The girl looked back once, then again. When she saw him turn away, she seized that brief moment of freedom. She dipped her fingers into the pot, scooped a few beans, and stuffed them into her mouth with the speed of guilt. Her eyes darted around as she chewed, terrified that he might see her, that he might scold her. Not because he was cruel, but because that pitiful soup was meant to feed not one child, but an entire family. Perhaps five. Perhaps ten. We no longer count mouths. Only spoons.

There was a kitchen once, a charity. They cooked for over a thousand families every day. They did it not for profit, and not for recognition, but because their souls could not do otherwise. That kitchen shut down three days ago. Not because people stopped being hungry, but because the shelves became empty. The rice, the oil, the flour — everything ran out.

And now the people go to the American aid centers.

Yes, of course. "Humanitarian corridors." What a beautiful phrase. How clean, how sterile, how bureaucratically elegant. It sounds like "collateral damage" or "operation." The Americans built them. The Israelis secured them. And forty people die at their gates every day.

Crushed. Shot. Starved. They come seeking bread and leave as corpses.

Everyone knows this. Absolutely everyone. And yet they still go.
Hunger will drive a man to walk toward his own execution if there is even a shadow of rice behind the gun.

Yesterday, my friend Al-Aloul went. He is not a fighter. He is a software engineer, a quiet man.

He came back stabbed, in the neck.
Six stitches. Blood soaked through his shirt.

But he smiled.

"I got the box," he said. "They did not take it."

What kind of world is this? What kind of man smiles through blood because he has a box of flour?

This is not the war of tanks and planes. Those have become irrelevant. This is the war of hunger, the war of slow death.
Mothers fast for days, not in spiritual devotion, but because their sons must eat first.
Children stand in line for aid, not knowing if they will return alive.
Girls eat in secret, and fathers carry shame heavier than bread.

This is genocide by exhaustion, by silence, by paperwork, and by averted eyes.

Do you want to know what the modern age has made of evil?

It has made it bureaucratic.
Digitised.
Professionalised.

A genocide in which the world debates definitions while children chew air.

The child who ate those beans is more real than your opinions.
My friend who smiled through blood has more dignity than your excuses.
Gaza is not a headline. It is a mirror.
And when you look at it, what you see is the measure of your own humanity.

You want God to speak?
Perhaps he already has.

He speaks through the silence of that girl.
Through the blood on that box.
Through the words I now write with shaking hands.

Gaza is not dying.
It is being crucified.
And we are the crowd at Golgotha.
Watching.

#GazaGenocide‌

[Dr. Yasir Qadhi @YasirQadhi]

Shaun, I understand that racist bigots like you can't allow simple truths and obvious realities to be absorbed into your limited minds, but I actually encourage those of your followers who are sincerely searching for the truth to follow your words, and 'listen to this man' directly.

Firstly, here's the full talk, which was an academic lecture at Georgetown University in which I was describing other preachers, and which you falsely assumed was me talking about my own views:
https://t.co/YEQiEreLJD

Secondly, I am one of the most well-known and widely followed clerics in the English speaking world. My lectures, sermons, and speeches number in the thousands, and you'll find almost all of them online. None of my actual listeners and followers understands me to be some radical terrorist. For you to 'magically' discover that I'm some sort of crypto-jihadist and have an evil, sinister agenda is literally announcing to the world your own anti-Muslim racism. For you, every Muslim is an evil, terrorist prone, pseudo-jihadist.

Listen to my talks in context, have your followers listen to my interviews and even interview me on difficult subjects, and you'll hear me say harsh truths, politically incorrect realities, and a whole host of views that some will agree with and some won't. But wht you won't find - except in your perverted imagination that is based on doctored snippets - is some hidden sinister agenda to enact some evil terrorist plot, because that's not who I am or what I've ever preached.

Yes, I wish to change many aspects of my country, but so do you. I want to make America a better place to live. I want to change its foreign policy to be more ethical and noble. If the language I employ as I appeal to people of my background and faith, terrifies you, that betrays more about your own ignorance and cowardice that about my methodology and goals.

I doubt you really believe in God; if you do, pray that He guides you before it is too late, and if not, I look forward to the Day He will Judge all who supported genocide and aided and abetted killing tens of thousands of innocent people.

PS. May I ask those who support this message to retweet it in order that this Zionist bigot be drowned out in his slanderous accusation.

PPS. Zionism is evil; Judaism is a faith and should not be equated with the Zionist project. I am anti-Zionist, and being anti-Zionist is not anti-Semitic.

[Umer Farooq @umerfarooq]

@observantmuslim @SaadMalik Which of these "demands" seem like celebrity demands to you?

[Dr. Yasir Qadhi @YasirQadhi]

We need to say this loudly and clearly: we have just as much right as any other citizen to preach what we believe is the truth, and there is no hidden agenda or nefarious scheme in our lobbying.

I want an America that prioritizes the health-care of its citizens over foreign wars.
I want our taxes to better our education rather than manufacture bombs to sell overseas.
I want an America that allows and supports family and decency over immorality and child licentiousness.

And yes, I will publicly, as is my Constitutional right, attempt to persuade as many others as I can that this is for America's good. If you disagree with my view, it is your right to argue against this.

What makes you believe that your right to your opinion is more legitimate than mine? Just as you are wanting to change the system for the better, so am I. This is the country I was born in, and my Constitutional rights are just as sacred as yours.

If you disagree with that right, then I suggest you go back to where your own ancestors came from, because I'm not going anywhere.

American Muslims: if you agree with this sentiment, please retweet and spread this message. We've already experienced this hatred and 'otherization' before, but this time, we won't be silenced.