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From the same book: The English traveler met an elderly Rifian shopkeeper in Tangier who described his Hajj in the late 1800s. He mentions meeting Chinese, Indian, Circassian, Georgian, and Bosnian pilgrims in Mecca. On the way home, he was broke and almost starved in Tunisia.
An interesting travel report from 1901. While European de facto controlled most of Morocco, they never entered the Rif Mountains, and even the Sultan never set foot there. Rifian Berbers were known for executing foreigners on sight, as such, rulership was delegated to imams.
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If they give Ole and Pogba the title they deserve. I might finally be able to sleep in peace.
🏆 Manchester United (2011/12) 🏆 Liverpool (2013/14) 🏆 Manchester United (2017/18) 🏆 Liverpool (2018/19) 🏆 Manchester United (2020/21) 🏆 Liverpool (2021/22) 🏆 Arsenal (2022/23) 🏆 Arsenal (2023/24) Champions? 👀
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Another one to attend tomorrow because two invitations on the same day. Total invites for this month - 11. I was about to say a record but then i remembered the summer of 2021 (three years worth of marriages in one year).
Roakas aus 2 baje laikith. Daspaakh ditukh 5 baje. Wein sabdeov. Full day wasted, 2 days in a row. Akh ras chune aihsaas look'an. Paithe aus wazwaan ti turun and not that good in taste. Would have left but becomes odd gachaan plus sunk cost fallacy.
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Manchester City: bloody hell. Obvious we all knew they were cheating. Been investigating it and writing about it for 14 years. But still: bloody hell. Not the best day for my dog to die and my house go on the market, but obvs I WILL get around to covering this
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2 more titles added to United? 🤔
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7049721…
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This chart from John Authers always-insightful note reminds us that the (mainly but not exclusively) US-led yield surge is now a generalized phenomenon, especially when it comes to reaching multi-decade levels. #economy #bonds #markets #yields @johnauthers
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Why am I seeing Lee Gunner posting Sahih Al Bukhari on my timeline
"All of my ummah will be forgiven except those who publicise their sins." (Sahih al-Bukhari) Bro cry and google this word fella. Awrah. "O you who have believed; let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them..." (Surah Al-Hujurat, 49:11)
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Throwback to when i had included Hell Let Loose's "Squad Officer" as leadership experience in my fresher CV. "Led a team of 6+ members, effectively communicating & delegating responsibilities, resolving conflicts & adapting strategies in real time to achieve mission objectives"🤣
The gap in Xavi’s CV between Barcelona and Netherlands jobs
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How come I don't get any symptoms of the common cold or COVID but if I stay near dust or animals for too long I instantly get a runny nose and sore throat?
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5.2% and 3.3% cagr INR currency depreciation wrt USD = 8.67% expected INR return. #Cooked
The 10-year Treasury yield just hit 5.12%, the HIGHEST since 2007. Bessent's response? Another $6 billion bond buyback, triple the original plan. BESSENT IS BLOWING SMOKE AND HAS NO CREDIBILITY.
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🧵☪️ Historic muslim victories during Ramadan: Ramadan the blessed month has been filled with historic victories for the Islamic world, most of these victories happened during last ten days aswell.
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FRODO: *puts on the Ring* SAURON:
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Depiction of a Berber, Turk, Kurd, and Arab by Auguste Wahlen in the 1840s.
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Palantir and Anthropic targeted Minab school, aided by Pentagon stale data and Hegseth psychopathy stripping target review staff. And it was a triple tap, not a double tap. Children killed on first strike. Parents killed by second strike getting surviving children. Rescue workers killed by third strike rushing in after second strike. Unforgivable.
Bloomberg just dropped the most disturbing investigation I have read this year, and every AI builder should read it and take it seriously. On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit an elementary school in Minab, a small town in southern Iran. 156 people died. At least 123 were children. The Pentagon knew within hours that it had bombed a school. The school had its own website. It was labeled on Google Maps. You could see the soccer pitch from a satellite view. You could see the brightly painted walls. Any 12-year-old with a browser could tell what the building was. The AI system could not. Inside US Central Command, personnel were using Palantir's Maven Smart System. It is an AI targeting platform running on a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and embedded inside it is Anthropic's Claude. On day one of the war, more than 1,000 targets went through it in 24 hours. Work that used to take a team hours per target got compressed into minutes. The satellite imagery Maven was pulling from was seven years old. The site was still tagged in the database as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard facility. The system spat it out as a recommended day-one target. Humans signed off. The first missile flew. Then a second one landed minutes later to hit the people who came to help. Investigators later found that some Central Command staff had assumed Maven would flag stale intelligence for them. It did not. Nobody had told it to. Palantir told Bloomberg the government is responsible for the underlying data. The Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation team, the people whose actual job is to catch a target like this, had been cut back before the war started. This is not AI going rogue. This is the opposite. This is AI doing exactly what it was built to do at exactly the speed it was built to do it. And a school full of little girls got vaporized because the humans in the loop trusted the machine more than they trusted their own eyes. I keep thinking about the version of this story that comes next. What happens when the system is faster. When the target list is not 1,000 in a day but 10,000. When "review" becomes a button the operator has three seconds to hit before the next target loads. When there is no human left slow enough to notice that a soccer pitch is not a helipad. We are not talking about a spam filter mislabeling an email. We are talking about a system that turned a seven-year-old database entry into two cruise missiles landing on children in the middle of a morning class. A UN-backed panel has now called it a potential war crime. In terms of children killed, it is the deadliest American targeting error of the entire 21st century. And according to Bloomberg, some of Defense Secretary Hegseth's own advisors are worried that too much public scrutiny of Maven might slow down its adoption inside the Pentagon. Read that last line again. If you build this stuff, you own what it does. You do not get to hide behind "the government owns the data." The whole pitch of your product is that speed and integration save lives. When it takes them instead, that is also on you. I am not against AI in defense. I am against AI in a hurry. Speed is the entire mechanism that made Minab possible. Every guardrail we already know how to build takes time, and time is exactly what the system was designed to eliminate. So here is the question I have not been able to stop asking, and I genuinely want to know what you think. If a piece of software helped kill 123 children in a single morning while behaving exactly as designed, what does "responsible AI" even mean anymore?
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Rare sand cat kitten spotted in Morocco’s desert. [📸: @remivcr ]
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BREAKING: Iran’s Speaker of the Parliament Ghalibaf makes a post celebrating the US 10Y Note Yield rising above 5.10%. “Happy 5.1% 10Y America, we’ll return you to 1970s rates,” he says.
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📸 Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa meets with Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and Queen Máxima in New York.
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Roakas aus 2 baje laikith. Daspaakh ditukh 5 baje. Wein sabdeov. Full day wasted, 2 days in a row. Akh ras chune aihsaas look'an. Paithe aus wazwaan ti turun and not that good in taste. Would have left but becomes odd gachaan plus sunk cost fallacy.
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Why the Treasury Yield Surge Shouldn't Be as Big a Surprise as it is: It is striking how many market participants have been surprised by the recent surge in US yields. The fundamental drivers have been evident for some time: Borrowing plans for major issuers, such as the government and large corporates (particularly tech), have been well telegraphed. The Federal Reserve has been signaling strong economic activity. The reasons behind the declining willingness and capacity of some traditional holders/buyers of US bonds have been well covered. The challenging quest to define the endpoint for the US/Israel-Iran conflict has been widely debated. What is playing a far larger role than it should is psychological anchoring: The collective mindset shaped by more than a decade of artificially low, repressed yields following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. #economy #markets #yields #bonds
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