They have chosen the weekend not to disturb the stock markets. They may pull that off when they get inside support as the corruption of the regime has made it unpopular with business class and the middle class. Trump may achieve another 'Venezuela' short war.
I think cutting off money is like an emergency wound that needs a bandage right now to keep the school alive. AI is more like a difficult puzzle—universities can solve it eventually, but only if they are stable and have the budget. There are some lame attempts at taming the AI shrew:
In reality a far more serious threat is the loss of academic freedom. This guy must deal with that issue, and onslaught on academic freedom and that is the real question because in 2025, billions of dollars in federal research grants were frozen for institutions, including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern, and UPenn.
The US federal government remains the single largest funder of university research, accounting for approximately 55% of all higher education R&D expenditures (this is a capitalist country btw).
Which professions are similar on mileage here? I think Chappelle was spot on, when he used the book ‘The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim’ to confront the entertainment industry highlighting a concept from the book regarding "mileage on a hoe" (prostitute). He explains that a pimp understands there is a finite amount of "bad things" or work a person can endure before they "lose it" or break down.
I am not saying 'Muslims bad, I am Muslim and my English is not bad as AI slop. I am showing language manipulation examples, I am not familiar with examples from your side. The idea of the article is what I am talking about, we
value how something looks or sounds more than pondering what it actually means.I think it is also focusing on the idea that the form overpowers the message. But what you and I are saying are copies of the main idea of the article.
The so-called Arab spring has shown us how manipulation works by using favored slogan words that bypass our logic. Islamists often repeat a hilarious slogan: ‘Islam is the solution’. Don’t worry about questioning ‘solution to what’, or ‘how’. Illiterate or lesser educated people will support that identity factor that may also attract educated folks.
This way language could also be seen as a tool for reduction. Complex realities are messy, but language allows us to "package" them into neat little boxes as with politicians and preachers as great examples. They come up with slogans as solutions: A weak idea can be turned into a catchy three-word slogan. It feels powerful because it’s easy to remember, even if it doesn't actually solve the problem. Language also uses metaphors and "loaded" words to bypass our logic and go straight to our feelings. Once you're emotionally invested, you stop checking if the idea actually makes sense, it sounds like common sense.
Now which one for of language is the most effective: Spoken, Printed, digital?
The same case was in Italy, and calendars of Vespa were awesome back in the 70s ''Piaggio (maker of Vespa) had had its Pontedera (Italy) factory (where they used to make bomber planes) bombed during the conflict.
Italy had it’s aircraft industry restricted to a great extent as part of the ceasefire agreement with the allies. Enrico Piaggio, son of the founder of the company Rinaldo Piaggio, decided to leave the aeronautical field behind and address the people’s need for an economic mode of transport.
The idea was to make a scooter utilitarian and appealing enough to the masses. Till that time, scooters were mainly used by the military for quick on-ground transportation (you might have seen this in some Call of Duty games).
So, two Piaggio engineers, Renzo Spolti and Vittorio Casini, took to their whiteboard and designed the first-ever Vespa, or maybe not quite. Mr. Piaggio was disappointed with the initial scooter. The scooter was named Paperino, and looking at the photo, you can understand Mr. Piaggios disappointment.' https://www.vespalicious.com/gallery/
As an Arabic speaker I enjoyed learning Russian because we share verbless sentences, and you could just put the words together in any order and you get your idea across and you could be spot on too. So 'what is the time?'(Kotoryy chas) is 2 words as in Arabic for asking the time and other questions in conversation. And some Russian words have lovely music to my ears, as with ice cream and of-course, мороженое и, конечно.
I think the general idea is sound, although I have changed my mind with our current economic system where one needs to fend for his own with no safety net. I mean upon seeing Chris Rock say in an interview saying that he would be willing to kill to become famous, I am reconsidering this issue.I refused once an opportunity to act with some big shot crew saying that I would not tolerate people and the way they deal with well-known, famouse people. I could not imagine how I could deal with the pressure. Now after 60 I am just looking back at missed opportunities but still content that 'I did it my way', and hope my children would have better future.
I would like to rewrite it, replacing desires with hormones, since they are the drivers for desires, when young one could jump a wall, risking his/her life to see the one we desire, then in their fifties on a nude beach everybody looks and feels mundane.
The defining experience of our age seems to be biochemical hunger.
We're flooded with hormones that tell us to crave more, even when we already have more than we need.
We're starved for balance while stimuli multiply around us.
Our dopamine peaks and crashes without reason; our cortisol hums in the background like faulty wiring.
We live with a near-universal imbalance: the reign of thin hormones.
These thin hormones promise satisfaction but never deliver. They spike and vanish, leaving behind only the impulse to chase the next hit.
Philosophers once spoke of desires that change the self; today, our neurochemistry is being short-circuited before the self even enters the conversation.
A thick hormone is slower, steadier. It reshapes you in the process of living it—like the oxytocin that comes from trust, or the endorphins that build with persistence.
But thin hormones—those dopamine flickers from notifications, likes, and swipes—do nothing but reproduce themselves.
They deliver sensation without transformation, stimulation without growth.
Modern systems have perfected the art of hijacking our endocrine circuitry.
Social media fires the neurons of connection without the chemistry of friendship.
Porn delivers the hormonal spike of intimacy without the vulnerability that generates oxytocin.
Productivity apps grant the dopamine signature of accomplishment with nothing actually achieved.
We’ve built an economy not of meaning, but of molecules.
And none of it seems to be making us more alive.
It is likely linked to increased HEVC licensing costs starting January 2026. The increased HEVC licensing costs starting January 2026 are due to a 25% rate adjustment announced by Access Advance LLC, which manages the HEVC Advance patent pool. https://accessadvance.com/2025/07/21/access-advance-announce...
In some occasion, when I was a student as native speakers, we came across people who would say words that would be hilarious to hear. They would drop a hidden vowel and say some words that made us laugh because they would allow two consonants clusters which is not used in Arabic. Such as Kamouj al bahr,instead of Kamouji elbahr (as sea wave).'The principle that two vowelless consonants (saakin letters) cannot meet is a fundamental rule in Arabic pronunciation, often referred to as التقاء الساكنين the meeting of two saakin letters).This is why English spoken by some Arabs, Egyptian in particular, has a distinctive accent that reflect that, so James sounds Jamsi, Street becomes Istreet.
I drowned once in a swimming pool, the clear water tricked me that it was not that deep, 3 meters, then I was 7 and in my memory flashback, I was scared that I ran away from school, it warned me that I would be punished soon for it, it was my final thought until I regained consciousness after getting rescued by Badr the lifeguard there, and the nightmare of fear of punishment returned. It was a very hot summer day in 1968.That flashback was annoying the way it summarized everything in seconds.
'inferior-quality products' is something companies resort to to keep their profits higher, saying the purchasing power, and local nutrition standards differ between different markets.I bought instant coffee from a shop and later regret it that because the taste was very bad, and noticed that the label displayed an Eastern European language.The same happened before with children foods and many other products.Now there is a very interesting thing happening in Turkey with their dire financial situation, you could be any digital product cheaper than anywhere else, from ms office to Netflix subscription to even iPhone. That is surely readjustments for purchasing power.
This is How Larry Elisson beat Musk for a short while although Oracle was struggling.' The deals among Oracle, Nvidia, and OpenAI have raised concerns about their circular and potentially risky nature. Oracle is reportedly spending tens of billions on Nvidia's advanced chips, Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, and OpenAI uses Oracle's cloud infrastructure through Microsoft's Azure, creating a closed loop of financing and business. Some analysts warn this creates a reflexive loop or "dangerous bubble" where valuations may be inflated artificially by the circular flow of capital and resources, reminiscent of past booms that ended in sharp market corrections.
Politics is a messy business.Angela Merkel’s 2015 open-door policy faced harsh criticism, but the refugees it welcomed have proven their value. Two-thirds of Syrian refugees are now employed, many reducing public reliance and boosting the economy. Beyond jobs, some have become entrepreneurs—founding startups that create new employment and bring innovation. One Syrian-founded tech company alone employs 15 people. With over 83,000 granted citizenship last year, these contributions anchor refugees as vital to Germany’s future, turning initial fears into success stories. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/syrian-im...
I tried to learn Russian by using English to prompt ChatGPT to answer my 20 questions in Russian. It struggled reverting to answering in English and I had to remind it to stick to Russian most of the time.
perplexity is being used to bypass paywalls, I noticed this when I pasted into it a text and it was captured as a hyperlinked text. I will try other websites with paywalls to see if it is a go.
As with magic mushroom and bipolar disorder, I think there are high-risk people,and we are at an early stage,ChatGPT psychosis is not an official diagnosis but describes cases where AI interactions contribute to delusional thinking and there are high-risk groups, people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or paranoid tendencies.Maybe there will be AI warning labels, mental health filter.
Most articles to credible sources have been made into dead links
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/15/1074185/ai-chatb...
Dr. John Torous (Harvard Psychiatry)warns that AI chatbots lack the ability to assess mental state and may inadvertently validate delusions.
Dr. Lisa Rinna (Stanford Bioethics):argues for ethical safeguards to prevent AI from exacerbating mental health issues.
In Roman times, teaching focused on wrestling to prepare young people for life. Now, in the AI age, what to teach, and why, have once again become major questions, especially when AI can pass the bar exams and a Ph.D. is no longer a significant achievement. Critical thinking, and life experiences could be the target but would they do it?
I was wondering if this helps in detecting current spots from old aerial videos, say San Francisco in 2002, how cool would it be to juxtapose both in a new video, San Francisco in 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTR6iftL7yE
Countries may go through developmental trajectories similar to startups—progressively striving for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideals in the beginning, only to later regress to traditional ways.
The surprising 2 aspect to me are: first, how the healthcare community mute down the causes of diseases such as hypertension. A former colleague told me how his doctor whispered to him that his stay in that big city is not long enough to have cause
hypertension, which can be caused or exacerbated by air pollution. Studies have demonstrated a link between exposure to air pollutants and elevated blood pressure, which is a key risk factor for hypertension. Long-term exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) was associated with increased blood pressure and a higher prevalence of hypertension. For every 1 μg/m³ increase in these pollutants, the odds of hypertension rose significantly, with NO2 showing the strongest association.
Second,the big role of tires in air pollution. Tyres shed particles as they wear down during braking, acceleration, and cornering, contributing approximately 6.1 million metric tons of tire dust annually to the atmosphere and waterways
Google, I suspect, would do the same, if you were in Texas coffee's origin would not get you the result that mentions Yemen, Ethiopia would be the first result. This is how I won a $100 bet with a Texan who insisted that google gave him Ethiopia. The trouble is, we were in the Middle East when asking google for the bet.
Long time ago I discovered a similar google error, accessing youtube got me in other people accounts. I mean just going to a youtube will show me signed in into another user's account. It turned out there was a caching/database issue, and the isp/googlr mingled accounts. Here is the old report:"The issue has been replicated by the editorial teams of both itp.net and Windows Arabic magazine. In testing, the user profiles that were visible were for users that had logged into YouTube only a few hours previously, suggesting that the pages have been cached by either Google or Etisalat’s own servers, and were somehow being accessed in error through the cache.
Neither Google nor Etisalat have responded to request for comment at the time of writing.
The issue appears to be very similar to a problem which was reported by users of Kuwaiti ISP FASTtelco , who said that they were able to see other users Gmail accounts and other personal details, although this was later denied by the ISP'
On a slightly related issue, I noticed that my nose gets bigger,in my photos, it turned out it was mostly irritation swelling due to pollution, while in a Nordic country with cleaner air quality, I noticed that is back to normal. And now I am always checking iqair.com- and it says:"PM2.5 concentration is currently 3.6 times the World Health Organization annual PM2.5 guideline value.
Exposure to Diverse Perspectives: Diverse classrooms can expose students to different viewpoints, problem-solving approaches, and ways of thinking. 1 This can broaden their understanding and enhance their critical thinking skills. 2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262420245_Effects_o... Gurin (1999,college is significantly linked to
There are many ways of reading, the selection and the diversity (old and contemporary writers) of what you read helps you see how you could appreciate a more critical view of what you are reading.
Reading a novel before watching someone's rendering of the same novel into, say Netflix, may expand your imagination and possibly show you how limited the director's version of the same story. I felt that with Stephen King's thrillers, Pet Sematary and Thinner, then watching them as movies.