Fabulous Machinery for the Curious: An anthology of six qissas in my translation from @ucpress. ORDER ONLINE AND SAVE 30% (Use source code SAVE30 at checkout) ucpress.edu/book/97805203882…

This is the new frontier of imperialism and colonisation: knowledge, information, and rare minerals!

Taj Mahal- Not a Monument of Love, but Afterlife | Decode the Calligraphic Secrets with Rana Safvi piped.video/hzaxJtB5dww

This is certainly the most immediate risk from AI: Superhackers. This article talks about humans using AI to hack at unimaginable scales, but there’s also a real danger of RSI-driven AI agents becoming autonomous superhackers. As I keep saying, we must never forget that AI agents are cyberspace-native. They may still be dumb and limited, but they can see and do things in cyberspace that we can’t. A shark too is dumb and limited in our world, but not in its native space. joshuasaxe181906.substack.co…

I don’t quite understand why Merz and Macron who so applauded the Iran war are now talking of an energy emergency. Was it not part of the plan?

Women who sold #books door to door — 3 19th-century memoirs reveal the risks and rewards of life on the road as a traveling bookseller. #Women @goodreads #ستمبر27_فیصلہ_کن_مارچ daily.jstor.org/the-women-wh…

RT @MashoodAmin: "At the publishers Modern Library, my manuscript landed on the desk of its classics editor, Judy Sternlight, who had seen…

A social experiment in European freedoms (in Amsterdam)

ستم ظریفی دیکھیے کہ چینل 41 کی خبر میں بھی املا کی دو غلطیاں ہیں۔ "املاء" اور "نا" لکھا ہے درست "املا" اور "نہ" ہے۔

The world moved heaven & earth to rescue the Oceangate sub & the team in the Tham Luang cave But nobody is moving a muscle to save 100 souls trapped beneath a collapsed building in Gaza. Gazans are literally digging through the rubble with their bare hands. The bare minimum is to press Israel to allow excavators, trucks & fuel. There’s no reason why Israel is still banning those life-saving equipment from entering Gaza!

They are fabricating a myth of “we didn’t know what was being done in our names!” We’re watching these monsters try to rewrite the history of their proud tiktoked genocide in real time.

‘خاک ہو جانے تک’ — ایک تبصرہ Translation of Between Clay and Dust by @microMAF manihammad.substack.com/p/6a…

📖 Grateful for an evening with novelist Musharraf Ali Farooqi @microMAF, discussing Between Clay and Dust & The Story of a Widow — plots, process, and the stories behind the stories. Hosted with @readingspk & The Aleph Review. Thank you @Daftarkhwan for the hospitality! 🤍

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On book publishers' use of AI and the resultant dilution of author's copyright protections.

A new review of The Story of a Widow to mark the Pakistan publication of the novel by Readings/Ilqa Editions.

Volkswagen once produced weapons for the Nazis. Now it will produce them for Israel. cnn.com/2026/09/07/business/…

Khursheed sahib is equally remarkable for his engagement with Arabic and Urdu poetry. One of his recent scholarly works is devoted to the Arabic poetry of Altaf Hussain Hali, which had previously received little attention The past has more to say thenews.pk/tns/detail/143562…

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