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Well, he's running a business. That's how it's done, losers.
from jensen's biographer (@stephenwitt) in today's NYT
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Makes total sense that congressman leading the inquiry into Jensen’s alleged foreign ties is the same guy who showed up at the Capitol wearing a foreign army uniform. He’s an expert at foreign ties!
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My Experience With the Leaders of the Jensen Coup At the start of 2025, numerous Washington, D.C. based NGOs began spreading the false rumor that DeepSeek smuggled 50,000 H100 GPUs. Speaking from firsthand experience, organized think tanks, PR firms, and lobbyists aggressively personally attacked anyone merely asking them to provide evidence. Call them the Export Controls Deep State, or if that’s too right-coded for you, use the Obama-administration term “Foreign Policy Blob”. The same charlatans are attempting a coup on Jensen Huang, the most indispensable CEO to America’s AI success. If we lost Sam, we have Dario. If we lost Dario, we have Demis. Nvidia is singular. The gap between Nvidia and AMD would be wider than the gap between OpenAI and Mistral, Europe’s top AI company whose models don’t rank in the top 40. This is an attempt to derail the most important company for the American AI industry. The entire coup against Jensen Huang can be halted by asking a single question. What evidence is there that Alice Huang is actually a Chinese spy? The answer, unsurprisingly, is absolutely zero. There is not even the pretense of a factual basis for the claim. “We made it the fuck up, and if you have a problem with that, what are you, pro-China?” Taking away this obvious falsehood, the coup against Jensen boils down to a celebrity tabloid headline. Moreover, without the entirely fabricated ‘national security relevance’, these tabloid headlines would be at best a weekend story in the New York Post. Another basic question: if there is evidence of ‘national security relevance’, why not charge Jensen? The basic answer: they lack even the evidence to justify a warrant. During my time in DC, I was advised repeatedly to stay on the good side of the Export Controls Deep State. I was added to many groups for boosting content spreading the 50,000 H100s conspiracy theory. In several groups, I asked whether there was any evidence behind this claim. One group administrator, who was and still is affiliated with Georgetown, explicitly told me to “focus on bolstering the narrative”. I later posted Patel’s pseudo-correction and was subsequently removed from all of these groups. What you need to understand about the Export Controls Deep State is that they have no incentive to be remotely honest, because they are entirely unaccountable. To this day, they provided zero evidence for their claim. Internet historians later traced the origin of this claim to a tweet by Dylan Patel of Semianalysis. Patel later said they lied about his tweet and that his claim counted legally obtained hardware. Affiliates of universities and think tanks promote these baseless claims and are taken seriously by the national press. In reality, their theories about Nvidia are as kooky as the guy who shot up Comet Pizza. The reason they succeed is not only because they are unaccountable, but because they constantly use their unaccountability to attack others. There are broader foreign policy implications to these observations about political power, but I will stick to what I witnessed firsthand. After Trump’s election, his administration began lifting the export control cap. Surprising no one informed about this policy, America widened our lead. Deepseek was closest to catching up to American models in January 2025, literally the moment of peak export controls. Based on communication with members of the administration, the evidence that a) the export controls were net negative and b) the export controls deep state was acting in bad faith, that as soon as the situation was described accurately, the administration began rolling them back. Part of this is because many of these NGOs are funded by foundations like Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving, who explicitly intend to harm American AI companies because they believe American AI will “cause human extinction”. As a result, the BIS under the Biden administration was used as an informal cudgel against AI companies, both to censor in favor of their worldview, as seen in the Gemini scandal, as well as to backdoor regulation to slow down American AI broadly. While they love to accuse everyone else of being traitors, the Export Controls Deep State makes Americans poorer and the American military, to the extent they use AI, weaker. Most of the time, the best you can do is ignore them. They really are unaccountable and the personal retribution isn’t worth the cost. But now, they are leading a coup against the AI industry’s most indispensable man based on lies and tabloid gossip. Everyone should understand that the Export Controls Deep State has never provided any evidence for their claims nor any reason for their word to be trusted.
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You think @OgeroTelecom is horrible when it comes to how they treat local connectivity. Wait until you experience @telecomegypt 😅
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أمثلة بيت حبيش وامتثال القضاء لهم وتبرئة زوجته دليل على نهاية لبنان وأم الشرائع. والأحلى أنه يهدد بالقضاء في الخارج. أنت يا عزيزي وزوجتك ووالدك قبلكم يجب أن تكونوا في السجن منذ زمن طويل.
منصة درج ….سنقاضيكم امام القضاء في لبنان والخارج طالعتنا منصة درج Daraj Media ، منصة الحقد المتخصصة في مواجهة العلم والتطور ، بتقرير يتناول مشاركة العقيد الدكتور سوزان الحاج في مؤتمر متخصص بالذكاء الاصطناعي، مستعيدةً اتهامات حُسمت قضائياً، ومتجاهلةً الحكم القضائي المبرم الذي قضى ببراءتها من التهم التي زُجّ اسمها فيها. عشر سنوات من الافتراء لا تصنع حقيقة، وعشر سنوات من التشهير لا تمحو حكماً قضائياً. وكان الأجدر بالمنصة الاعتذار عن التضليل، لا الاستمرار في محاولة الاغتيال المعنوي. المفارقة أن العقد الذي أمضاه البعض في إعادة تدوير الاتهامات، أمضته العقيد سوزان الحاج في العلم والبحث والتطور، وصولاً إلى الدكتوراه والمشاركة في محافل علمية ومهنية دولية. واللافت أن مؤتمرات ومحاضرات عديدة عن الذكاء الاصطناعي لم تحظَ باهتمام المنصة، حتى المؤتمر الأخير لم تنقل أعماله ولم تناقش مضمونه العلمي، بل اختارت تسليط الضوء عليه حصراً من زاوية الهجوم الشخصي. فهل أصبح العلم مهماً فقط عندما يشكّل فرصة للتشهير؟ إن ما تتعرض له العقيد سوزان الحاج يتجاوز حدود النقد الإعلامي إلى حملة ممنهجة من التشهير والمساس بالسمعة والاعتبار، وهي أضرار قد تبلغ حد الاغتيال المعنوي، فالاغتيال المعنوي قد يدمّر سمعة الإنسان وكرامته ومسيرته، تماماً كما يدمّر القتل حياة صاحبه. ولن يُترك هذا الأمر دون مساءلة قضائية. وعليه، تقرر اللجوء إلى القضاء واتخاذ الإجراءات القانونية اللازمة بحق المنصة والمسؤولين عن المحتوى المنشور، أمام المراجع القضائية المختصة في لبنان وخارجه، وملاحقة كل من تثبت مسؤوليته عن هذه الأفعال. كما ستتم مخاطبة الجهات الدولية المانحة والداعمة، ووضعها أمام الوقائع والأحكام والمستندات، ومطالبتها بمراجعة مدى توافق دعمها مع معايير النزاهة والمهنية التي تعلن التزامها بها. ومن بين هذه الجهات: * European Endowment for Democracy (EED). * International Media Support (IMS). * International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM). * National Endowment for Democracy (NED). * Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. إضافة إلى جمعيات اخرى تقوم بدعم هذه المنصة، فالتمويل لا يعفي من المساءلة، وحرية الإعلام لا تعني حرية التشهير. أما العقيد الدكتور سوزان الحاج، فستواصل مسيرتها العلمية والمهنية ومشاركاتها في مؤتمرات الذكاء الاصطناعي والأمن السيبراني في لبنان والعالم.
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لحظة، لحظة، يعني قطعها عن موسسات الدولة و خلاها بالمخيمات؟
لضرورة سداد المخيمات الفلسطينية للمستحقات الكهربائية وإلا القطع إستقبلت مديرة شؤون وكالة الأمم المتحدة لإغاثة وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين "الأونروا" في لبنان دوروثي كلاوس (Dorothy Klaus) برفقة رئيس مكتب الشؤون القانونية في الوكالة جوليان إلديرفيلد (Julian Elderfield). فطالبت يإيجاد آلية لضمان تسديد الفواتير المستقبلية للمخيمات الفلسطينية لمصلحة مؤسسة كهرباء لبنان بشكل منتظم. كما طالب بأن تلتزم المخيمات بتسديد المستحقات المترتبة عليها لمصلحة مؤسسة الكهرباء، وإلا سيتم قطع "التيار" كما تقرر في اجتماع مجلس الإدارة.
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التحليل والنقد الذاتي عظيم، وفي أقل من ٢٤ ساعة من الخسارة. هذا دفعني للتفكير: مرت سنتان على اغتيال حسن نصرالله، وحتى اليوم لم يقم الحزب بنقد ذاتي عن أسباب الويلات التي تعيشها البلاد والعباد. المشكلة مشكلة يا تربية، يا ثقافة، يا عن جد متكلين على الله وبس.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up. So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us." Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026. There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true. But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: 1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.) In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there. I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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إنترنت دولي وما بيدفعوا. كهرباء وما بيدفعوا. وآخر شي بيقولولك أوجيرو حققت أرباح وإيرادات.
تُعلم هيئة أوجيرو المشتركين أنّ التغذية الكهربائية من مؤسسة كهرباء لبنان قد انقطعت عن عدد من مراكزها الهاتفية في المناطق التالية: أنطلياس، بكفيا، مزرعة يشوع، العرابنية، سن الفيل، الدورة، بسكنتا، بتغرين، صيدا، صوفر، حمانا، عاليه، الزوق، جونية، البترون، عبرين وكفرحلدا.
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At this stage, I’m sure tired of patching!
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للمرّة الأولى في التاريخ… التفاح اللبناني في بريطانيا! 🍎🍏🇱🇧🇬🇧 من خلال مشروع "صدّر"، المموّل من مملكة هولندا، تفتح مؤسسة رينه معوض أسواقاً جديدة أمام الإنتاج اللبناني، وتعمل على تأمين مردود أفضل لمزارعينا. بعد العنب والأفوكادو والكرز، حان دور التفاح ليسجّل إنجازاً جديداً! واليوم، نعمل على توسيع هذه التجربة، من تحسين الجودة واستيفاء المعايير الدولية إلى تطوير البنية التحتية للتصدير. نحمل خيرات أرضنا إلى العالم… #تيبقى_اللبناني_بأرضه! وما هذه إلّا البداية! @RMFLebanon
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I’m moving to Finland!
It's becoming nightmarish... for the Finns. Happy Halloween from the Embassy of Finland! 🎃
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فستان أخضر لم يصل غزة، وبطيخة هُدد راسمها بالمصادرة! قيود الاحتلال لا تتوقف عند ما يرفعه الفلسطيني، بل تمتد إلى ما يرتديه ويأكله.
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مخابرات الجيش و كل عكار (خزان الجيش حسب وصفهم) و مش قادرين يامنوا ميتين شب يرحبوا بالرئيس! ولو! دقوا لسيمون درغام 😅
بالفيديو: الرئيس عون يلقي التحية على أهالي طرابلس خلال جولته في المدينة
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In 2024, over 7,000 balloons filled with trash came floating down on South Korea from North Korea. Few people knew this, but three months before the first trash balloon arrived, the South Korean army had begun sending balloons across the border. The North Korean balloons consisted of two white balloons tied to a plastic bag filled with manure, cigarette butts, or waste paper. A timer heated a filament until it cut the bag loose over South Korea. President Yoon Suk Yeol's administration called the campaign a provocation. North Korea said it was retaliating for the leaflets South Korean activists kept sending into North Korea. That much was public until late 2025, when a former soldier spoke to the Korean magazine Hankyoreh 21. "No. The army's leaflets came first," he replied when asked whether North Korea had started it. The man was a former member of the army's psychological operations unit. His job was to figure out how much hydrogen a balloon needed, and how much paper it could carry on that night's wind. The army's balloons were huge, two or three stories high. About a hundred were launched at a time, between 9 and 11 p.m., only on nights when the wind was blowing north. One leaflet mentioned that when South Korean soldiers get sick, they can see a doctor, and they get plenty of warm rice to eat. Another listed the price of a luxury handbag owned by Kim Jong Un's sister. Some balloons carried USB drives containing copies of Crash Landing on You, a television drama about a South Korean woman who is blown into the North by the wind. His unit, he said, went to such lengths that it didn't even tell the South Korean units next to it. When their guard posts saw balloons heading north and called up to ask what they were, his unit said it didn't know. South Korea's defense ministry subsequently investigated the program and confirmed its existence. The army, it found, had conducted 23 missions, targeting areas that included Pyongyang, with the first taking place in February 2024, three months before the first bag of trash came south. For much of 2024, balloons were flying in both directions: pictures of the good life going north, North Korean garbage on the way south. And the army's involvement was being kept secret. The government that got to decide what constituted a provocation was the one keeping that secret. So the only balloons it called an attack were the ones coming from the North.
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🚀 Introducing DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now fully open source! Powering DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale with high throughput and low latency. We’re sharing our production stack to help the community lower compute costs, reduce energy use, and make AI more affordable. 🔗 github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepI… 1/4
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كان بدي أقول لو في عشرة مثل بسام، كان وضع البلد الاقتصادي أفضل بمئة مرة، بس لاحظت إنو عم أظلمه، هو لحاله كافي، المشكل بس إنو يا ريت بسام هو عم يدير أو influence من يدير إقصاد البلد.
قالولنا في كتير ناس بتفضّل تقعد بالقهوة تشتغل وتجتمع وتحكي بدل ما تقعد عالسكت جوّا بالcoworking space فقرّرنا نعمل قهوة كمان. عصفورين بحجر. بس مش هون القصة. الجزء الحلو انو قدرنا نخلق فرصة لشخصين يتشاركون مع بعض لاستثمار وتشغيل هالجزء من المشروع. كيف؟ الأوّل مغترب قرر يرجع مع عيلته علبنان. حابب يعمل استثمار مالي زغير ويبني حياة جديدة هون. عنده معرفة بالمجال بس ضعيفة. الثاني عنده الknow-how وكل سلسلة التوريد وجزء من الاستثمار بس مش كافي. فبعكس ما معوّدين بلبنان، وعكس نظريّة انو اللبناني ما بيتقبّل الشراكة، قرّرنا نجمع الطرفين وهيك بيجتمع الknow-how والcapital بمطرح واحد مع توجيه صحيح لتنظيم علاقة الشراكة. وعالهامش، teaser عالخفيف، مش رح تكون مجرّد قهوة بس، في قصص تانية كمان سنعلن عنها في حينه. وانشالله بوقت قريب هالمكان رح يكون جاهز يستقبل الجميع ☕️
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Nearly every phone and computer on Earth relies on one plain-text file to know what time it is. When a country changes its clocks with a few weeks’ notice, or Morocco pauses daylight saving for Ramadan, someone has to update that file. Since 02005, that someone has been Paul Eggert, a computer science professor at UCLA, who does it as a volunteer.  Take a look at this great data visualization to see the full story:  na2.hubs.ly/H08qtQC0
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التهمة: حيازة GoPro و Ray-Ban Meta Glasses من بعد البايجر و كل الاغتيالات، امن المقاومة لا يصلح اكثر من bouncer على باب البارومتر.
أوقف أمن المقاومة، قبل أيام، في الضاحية الجنوبية لبيروت، مواطنَين أميركيَّين من ذوي الملامح الآسيوية، كانا يتجولان في محيط منطقة بئر العبد. وبعد تفتيش مقتنياتهما، تبيّن أنهما يحملان نظّارات شمسية ذكية مزوّدة بكاميرات تصوير من نوع “GoPro”، يمكن ربطها بالهاتف الذكي، وتتيح التقاط صور فوتوغرافية بجودة مناسبة، مع خاصية تحديد الموقع الجغرافي للصور. وتبيّن أيضاً أن بحوزتهما خاتماً يحتوي على جهاز تسجيل صوتي وخاصية تحديد المواقع. وبحسب مصدر مطّلع، فإن الموقوفَين استغلّا ملامحهما الآسيوية وأصولهما الصينية في التجوّل داخل الضاحية الجنوبية بحرية، مستفيدَين من غياب الحساسية عموماً لدى بيئة المقاومة تجاه الصينيين. غير أن تكرار تجوّلهما في المنطقة نفسها أثار ريبة أحد عناصر الحزب الموجودين في المنطقة، فعمد إلى إبلاغ مسؤوليه وطلب جوازَي سفرهما، ليتبيّن أنهما أميركيان وليسا صينيَّين.
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من القصص الكتير بشعة بالبلد هو لما وسيلتين إعلاميتين يبلشوا يقوصوا على بعض. يمكن تعكس لحد أبشع صفات البلد.
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