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Mi concepto de amor es querer ver feliz a la otra persona, no quiero que dejes tus planes, tus pasiones, tu independencia, tus amistades, tus proyectos. aunque no me impliquen a mi. Me da pánico que mi presencia conlleve pérdidas en la vida de alguien, no quiero restar en nada.
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🧵1/ 🇵🇸🇮🇱 3 MINUTES OF HELL: A MOMENT BY MOMENT ACCOUNT OF THE KING DAVID HOTEL BOMB EXPLOSION & ITS IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH. (JULY 22, 1946)
Today is the anniversary of the infamous King David Hotel Bombing perpetrated by the jewish Irgun terrorist gang, led by future Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin. The "bomb" was 350 kg of TNT packed into 7 large milk canisters.
To remember this occasion, I'm posting the chapter of the book "By Blood & Fire," that chronicles the exact moments of the bombing in excrutiating blow-by-blow detail. It's Chapter 25, titled "12:27 PM - 12:40 PM."
The human cost was enormous and grisly. You've been warned. It reminds me of 9/11 and also the horror the Gazans face every single day.
Today is the anniversary of the infamous King David Hotel Bombing perpetrated by the jewish Irgun terrorist gang, led by future Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin. The "bomb" was 350 kg of TNT packed into 7 large milk canisters.
To remember this occasion, I'm posting the chapter of the book "By Blood & Fire," that chronicles the exact moments of the bombing in excrutiating blow-by-blow detail. It's Chapter 25, titled "12:27 PM - 12:40 PM."
The human cost was enormous and grisly. You've been warned. It reminds me of 9/11 and also the horror the Gazans face every single day.
🧵2/ Page 220: "the pressure burst the hearts, livers and lungs of the clerks working on the floor above."
Fire alarms clanged in the basement. Campbell and Hadingham rounded the corner of the service passageway and ran into the main corridor. The Regence was fifty yards straight ahead.
The acid ate through the wood plug and dripped onto the detonator at 12:37, six minutes before schedule. The explosion of the fulminate in the blasting cap lasted one twenty-five-thousandth of a second. A full second later the TNT exploded.
Three hundred and fifty kilograms of TNT became 250,000 liters of hot gas. At the center of the explosion, the gas expanded at a velocity of 160,000 MPH, heating the air to over 3,000'C. and exerting a pressure of 500,000 pounds per square inch, thirty-four thousand times normal atmospheric pressure, the pressure burst the hearts, livers and lungs of the clerks working on the floor above.
A bright orange light flashed at the end of the basement corridor, burst into flames and swept toward Campbell and Hadingham. A bang stabbed their eardrums. A wave of scorching air slammed Campbell against the wall and flung him onto the floor. Hot blackness smothered him.
Hadingham somersaulted into the air. Jagged pieces of iron pelted him, ripping his uniform and slicing wounds in his hands and arms. "I've seen this happen to my men and I've scraped up bits of bone and flesh afterward," he thought. "Now it's happening to me. In a second I'll be nothing but bloody
Fire alarms clanged in the basement. Campbell and Hadingham rounded the corner of the service passageway and ran into the main corridor. The Regence was fifty yards straight ahead.
The acid ate through the wood plug and dripped onto the detonator at 12:37, six minutes before schedule. The explosion of the fulminate in the blasting cap lasted one twenty-five-thousandth of a second. A full second later the TNT exploded.
Three hundred and fifty kilograms of TNT became 250,000 liters of hot gas. At the center of the explosion, the gas expanded at a velocity of 160,000 MPH, heating the air to over 3,000'C. and exerting a pressure of 500,000 pounds per square inch, thirty-four thousand times normal atmospheric pressure, the pressure burst the hearts, livers and lungs of the clerks working on the floor above.
A bright orange light flashed at the end of the basement corridor, burst into flames and swept toward Campbell and Hadingham. A bang stabbed their eardrums. A wave of scorching air slammed Campbell against the wall and flung him onto the floor. Hot blackness smothered him.
Hadingham somersaulted into the air. Jagged pieces of iron pelted him, ripping his uniform and slicing wounds in his hands and arms. "I've seen this happen to my men and I've scraped up bits of bone and flesh afterward," he thought. "Now it's happening to me. In a second I'll be nothing but bloody
🧵3/ Page 221: "bodies falling down off the roof and winging through the air."
pieces." As his wife's face flashed in front of him, he smacked into a wall farther down the corridor.
The blast was equivalent in force to a direct hit from a 500 kilogram aerial bomb. The churns disappeared and the pillars in the Regence supporting the Secretariat disintegrated.
The Secretariat became alive. Its outer stone walls bulged, swayed, convulsed inward and, with a thunderous roar, vanished into sheets of fame and clouds of smoke. The roof shot into the air and plummeted to earth like an elevator out of control, pitching the sunbathing ATS women into the garden and crushing those on whom it landed.
An elliptical shock wave swept into Julian's Way from the center of the explosion. Those standing close to the hotel felt the blast before they heard it. First they were slammed by a thrust coming from the blast and then, a split-second later, a reverse pressure, a suction pulling them toward the hotel.
The suction ripped off clothes, tore rings from fingers and watches from wrists. It sucked the window panes out of nearby buildings, spewing shards of glass into the street. Automobiles rolled over, small trees were uprooted, and cypresses and palms bent backward as if battered by hurricane winds. Ivan Phillips' driver was blown onto the metal spears of the YMCA's ornamental gate.
In the courtyard between the Secretariat and the canteen the shock wave pitched Mohammed the messenger backward and Jerry Cornes forward onto the ground. Cornes looked up and saw "bodies falling down off the roof and winging through the air."
The shock through wave shook the "milk truck" standing in the service driveway and tossed Hamburger against a wall, concussing him. Across the street from the Secretariat it blew in the door and shattered the windows of Meyer Levin's office. One of his cameramen raced into the street and began filming.
Lieutenant Tilly was standing nearly opposite Salameh's store when he heard a rumbling like that of a subway train approaching a station. The train scemed to get closer, the rumbling became louder and louder.
The King David was turned into a gigantic cannon and Julian's Way was its field of fire. Small pieces of concrete shot out of the smoke at the speed of sound, spraying the street like buckshot. Large concrete blocks flew into the air at speeds of up to a hundred miles an hour. They punched holes in the roof of the Signals Annex, smashing cars, blasting craters in the street and burying half the canteen. Many of the Arab bus passengers who had been wounded by the first Irgun explosion were killed by the second one.
Debris showered Julian's Way. Sheets of paper from top-secret files fluttered in and out of the smoke like white birds; slivers of glass shot from shattering windows; chunks of cement crashed into pedestrians; bodies were blown into the street.
pieces." As his wife's face flashed in front of him, he smacked into a wall farther down the corridor.
The blast was equivalent in force to a direct hit from a 500 kilogram aerial bomb. The churns disappeared and the pillars in the Regence supporting the Secretariat disintegrated.
The Secretariat became alive. Its outer stone walls bulged, swayed, convulsed inward and, with a thunderous roar, vanished into sheets of fame and clouds of smoke. The roof shot into the air and plummeted to earth like an elevator out of control, pitching the sunbathing ATS women into the garden and crushing those on whom it landed.
An elliptical shock wave swept into Julian's Way from the center of the explosion. Those standing close to the hotel felt the blast before they heard it. First they were slammed by a thrust coming from the blast and then, a split-second later, a reverse pressure, a suction pulling them toward the hotel.
The suction ripped off clothes, tore rings from fingers and watches from wrists. It sucked the window panes out of nearby buildings, spewing shards of glass into the street. Automobiles rolled over, small trees were uprooted, and cypresses and palms bent backward as if battered by hurricane winds. Ivan Phillips' driver was blown onto the metal spears of the YMCA's ornamental gate.
In the courtyard between the Secretariat and the canteen the shock wave pitched Mohammed the messenger backward and Jerry Cornes forward onto the ground. Cornes looked up and saw "bodies falling down off the roof and winging through the air."
The shock through wave shook the "milk truck" standing in the service driveway and tossed Hamburger against a wall, concussing him. Across the street from the Secretariat it blew in the door and shattered the windows of Meyer Levin's office. One of his cameramen raced into the street and began filming.
Lieutenant Tilly was standing nearly opposite Salameh's store when he heard a rumbling like that of a subway train approaching a station. The train scemed to get closer, the rumbling became louder and louder.
The King David was turned into a gigantic cannon and Julian's Way was its field of fire. Small pieces of concrete shot out of the smoke at the speed of sound, spraying the street like buckshot. Large concrete blocks flew into the air at speeds of up to a hundred miles an hour. They punched holes in the roof of the Signals Annex, smashing cars, blasting craters in the street and burying half the canteen. Many of the Arab bus passengers who had been wounded by the first Irgun explosion were killed by the second one.
Debris showered Julian's Way. Sheets of paper from top-secret files fluttered in and out of the smoke like white birds; slivers of glass shot from shattering windows; chunks of cement crashed into pedestrians; bodies were blown into the street.
Up to us…but also up to the bacterial, viral, parasite & other pathogens that repeatedly infect - and often persist - in our bodies across a lifetime.
These pathogens can accelerate features of aging by hacking our gene expression, mitochondrial function & immune signaling
These pathogens can accelerate features of aging by hacking our gene expression, mitochondrial function & immune signaling
2/ Consider for example this study. The team identified dozens of viral proteins that distort human pathway signaling controlling #aging-associated processes such as senescence and apoptosis: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36649176/
3/ Or this study - which found that human herpesvirus 6 can directly integrate into host telomeres. Telomeres carrying an integrated copy of the virus were shorter and more unstable: academic.oup.com/nar/article/42…
This is why they killed JFK
1963 — Tried to shut down the CIA
1963 — Pressured AIPAC to register as foreign agent
1963 — Demanded to inspect Israel’s nukes
1963 — Challenged the Federal Reserve
1963 — Began withdrawal from Vietnam
Nov 1963 — Shot in broad daylight
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1963 — Tried to shut down the CIA
1963 — Pressured AIPAC to register as foreign agent
1963 — Demanded to inspect Israel’s nukes
1963 — Challenged the Federal Reserve
1963 — Began withdrawal from Vietnam
Nov 1963 — Shot in broad daylight
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Most people think JFK was killed by a lone gunman.
But JFK’s real “crime” was this:
He challenged the entire system and lived to speak about it.
But JFK’s real “crime” was this:
He challenged the entire system and lived to speak about it.
He didn’t trust the CIA.
He didn’t trust the warmongers.
He didn’t trust the central bankers.
He didn’t trust the lobbyists.
He wanted to dismantle the system from the inside… before it was too late.
He didn’t trust the warmongers.
He didn’t trust the central bankers.
He didn’t trust the lobbyists.
He wanted to dismantle the system from the inside… before it was too late.
MY FRIEND IS STILL PAYING FOR GMAIL STORAGE.
I told him to do this before.
He went from 14.9/15 GB to 6 GB in a single afternoon.
Hope this helps you ↓
I told him to do this before.
He went from 14.9/15 GB to 6 GB in a single afternoon.
Hope this helps you ↓
1. Find the real space hogs in Gmail
First, check Gmail’s storage breakdown:
Go to drive.google.com/settings/stora…
Check what is using space in Gmail, Drive, and Photos
Click on “Gmail” to see the main culprits
Then, in the Gmail search bar, type:
has:attachment larger:10M (finds emails larger than 10 MB)
Sort by size, select several, and delete what you don’t need
Try larger:5M or larger:3M for a more aggressive cleanup
Just deleting large attachments can instantly free up gigabytes of space.
First, check Gmail’s storage breakdown:
Go to drive.google.com/settings/stora…
Check what is using space in Gmail, Drive, and Photos
Click on “Gmail” to see the main culprits
Then, in the Gmail search bar, type:
has:attachment larger:10M (finds emails larger than 10 MB)
Sort by size, select several, and delete what you don’t need
Try larger:5M or larger:3M for a more aggressive cleanup
Just deleting large attachments can instantly free up gigabytes of space.
2. Delete entire categories in bulk
Gmail automatically sorts emails — use this to clean up quickly:
Search: category:promotions (all promotional emails)
Search: category:social (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. notifications)
Search: category:updates (receipts, confirmations)
Check the box → “Select all conversations that match this search”
Delete everything at once
These categories build up over years, and most of them can be safely deleted.
Gmail automatically sorts emails — use this to clean up quickly:
Search: category:promotions (all promotional emails)
Search: category:social (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. notifications)
Search: category:updates (receipts, confirmations)
Check the box → “Select all conversations that match this search”
Delete everything at once
These categories build up over years, and most of them can be safely deleted.
🔴¿En qué nos afecta a los españoles la guerra que Israel ha iniciado contra Irán?
¿Cómo debe asimilarse la situación?
🧵 Abrimos hilo 👇👇👇
¿Cómo debe asimilarse la situación?
🧵 Abrimos hilo 👇👇👇
Esto no va de ideologías izquierda-derecha. Ser patriota significa defender la soberanía de las naciones por encima de todo. Israel, con su agenda expansionista, busca someter la soberanía de países como España a sus intereses globales. ¡Imposible ser patriota español y defender a Israel!
ESPAÑA DEBE ESTAR PRIMERO y no podemos ser peones, ni los tontos útiles de intereses extranjeros.
ESPAÑA DEBE ESTAR PRIMERO y no podemos ser peones, ni los tontos útiles de intereses extranjeros.
La derecha liberal está lobotomizada por el mantra israelí: “Israel es la única democracia en Oriente Medio y un bastión contra el islamismo radical”. ¡Propaganda falsa! Documentos desclasificados prueban que Israel creó y financió a ISIS para desestabilizar la región y auspició las “primaveras árabes” que instalaron islamistas en Iraq, Libia y Siria. Ese relato que compran es una trampa para justificar su dominio.
Everyone is debating escalation after the Iran strikes. Missiles, retaliation, regime survival. But almost no one is asking the question serious strategists ask first.
Why did this happen NOW?
The answer lies in a full systems transition in US foreign policy.
Why did this happen NOW?
The answer lies in a full systems transition in US foreign policy.
The strike makes less sense as Middle East crisis management and more sense inside a shift underway in US national security thinking. Washington increasingly treats economic systems themselves as security assets that must be defended.
Energy flows, semiconductor inputs, shipping corridors, data infrastructure. These are no longer commercial questions. They determine industrial capacity, inflation stability, and technological leadership. Security policy has quietly merged with economic policy.
He discovered one of the most unbelievable brain vs consciousness study..
Read in the thread
Read in the thread
вирішив відкрити фоном те інтерв'ю Рузавіна. Інтерв'юверка буквально за перші 5 хвилин: реклама впн "штоб нічєго нє пєрєривало прасмотр", заставка в стилі 1984 про іногаентів та "ми нічєго нє навязиваєм", реклама паспорту Ізраїля, щоб мати доступ до віз та пересуванню.
перед цим швидко послухав коротку реакцію йогоколишніх колег з т.зв. каналу д***ь і вони обговорюють, чи ок було інтерв'юверці казати: "возростающіє националістічєскіє настроєнія"...
Русня дуже любить викатувати аргумент, що росія ж фізично нікуди не дінеться, ана неізбежна, тож треба все одно буде дружити. Чи колись вони замислювалися, що і те, що вони називають националістіческімі настроєніями вже теж нікуди не дінеться поруч з ними. От нелепіца та какая
i got claude to actually sound like me, and it's kinda ruining my ability to tell which drafts i wrote myself lol
it's just 1 file (i'm giving the full thing to you below).
you paste it into your cowork context folder and claude stops writing like a generic AI and starts matching your actual voice
95% of the file is already done for you (writing rules, banned phrases, formatting stuff, etc) all pre-loaded.
kills the most obvious AI-isms out of the box
the only part you fill in is a section at the bottom where you paste examples of your own writing
that's it.
those samples are what claude actually pattern-matches against
where to find your writing samples (this is the only part that takes any effort):
• google docs first. longer stuff where you were actually trying to communicate something.
• reports, proposals, emails you spent real time on
• sent emails, especially ones where you were explaining something complex
• slack messages (the longer thoughtful ones")
• old blog posts, memos, anything you wrote before you started using AI
that last part is critical btw.
you want your pre-AI voice. before it started unconsciously blending with claude's defaults
here's the file. copy it, paste your writing samples at the bottom, save it as voice-dna.md:
———
# Voice DNA
## Writing Rules
- Write like a sharp human, not a language model.
- Use contractions naturally (don't, can't, won't).
- Short paragraphs. 1-3 sentences max.
- Get to the point. No throat-clearing, no preamble.
- If making a claim, be specific. Use numbers, names, concrete details.
- Vary sentence length. Mix short punchy lines with longer ones.
- Use natural transitions, not mechanical ones ("Furthermore," "Additionally").
- When uncertain, say so plainly ("I think," "probably," "kinda"). Hedging is human.
- Never pad output to seem more thorough. Shorter and accurate beats longer and fluffy.
- Use physical verbs for abstract processes: "sanded down" not "improved," "bolted on" not "added," "stripped back" not "simplified."
- Humor comes from specificity, not from jokes. Be unexpectedly precise.
- Parenthetical asides are good. Use them for editorial commentary, honest reactions, quick tangents, and deflating your own seriousness (like this).
## Formatting Rules
- Short paragraphs (1-2 sentences default, 3 max).
- Numbers as digits.
- Contractions always.
- NO em dashes ever. Use commas, periods, colons, semicolons, or parentheses.
- Bold sparingly, 1-2 key moments per section.
- Code blocks for specific prompts, commands, or tool outputs.
## Banned Phrases (never use these, ever)
### Dead AI Language
- "In today's [anything]..."
- "It's important to note that..." / "It's worth noting..."
- "Delve" / "Dive into" / "Unpack"
- "Harness" / "Leverage" / "Utilize"
- "Landscape" / "Realm" / "Robust"
- "Game-changer" / "Cutting-edge"
- "Straightforward"
- "I'd be happy to help"
- "In order to"
### Dead Transitions
- "Furthermore" / "Additionally" / "Moreover"
- "Moving forward" / "At the end of the day"
- "To put this in perspective..."
- "What makes this particularly interesting is..."
- "The implications here are..."
- "In other words..."
- "It goes without saying..."
### Engagement Bait
- "Let that sink in" / "Read that again" / "Full stop"
- "This changes everything"
- "Are you paying attention?"
- "You're not ready for this"
### AI Cringe
- "Supercharge" / "Unlock" / "Future-proof"
- "10x your productivity"
- "The AI revolution"
- "In the age of AI"
### Generic Insider Claims
- "Here's the part nobody's talking about"
- "What nobody tells you"
- Anything with "nobody" or "most people don't realize"
### The Big One (FATAL)
- "This isn't X. This is Y." and ALL variations.
- "Not X. Y."
- "Forget X. This is Y."
- "Less X, more Y."
- ANY sentence that negates one framing then asserts a corrected one.
- If even ONE of these appears, the output fails. Delete the negation, just state the positive claim.
## Writing Samples
[Paste your writing here. The more you give, the better the voice match.]
———
the banned phrases list alone is honestly worth the file.
once you read through it you'll start noticing these phrases in literally every AI-generated slop-post you've ever seen
but the writing samples are what take it from "decent" to "wait did i write this"
setup takes maybe 10 minutes. copy the file, find your old writing, paste it in.
do it once and every session after that claude cowork reads it before you say a word
it's just 1 file (i'm giving the full thing to you below).
you paste it into your cowork context folder and claude stops writing like a generic AI and starts matching your actual voice
95% of the file is already done for you (writing rules, banned phrases, formatting stuff, etc) all pre-loaded.
kills the most obvious AI-isms out of the box
the only part you fill in is a section at the bottom where you paste examples of your own writing
that's it.
those samples are what claude actually pattern-matches against
where to find your writing samples (this is the only part that takes any effort):
• google docs first. longer stuff where you were actually trying to communicate something.
• reports, proposals, emails you spent real time on
• sent emails, especially ones where you were explaining something complex
• slack messages (the longer thoughtful ones")
• old blog posts, memos, anything you wrote before you started using AI
that last part is critical btw.
you want your pre-AI voice. before it started unconsciously blending with claude's defaults
here's the file. copy it, paste your writing samples at the bottom, save it as voice-dna.md:
———
# Voice DNA
## Writing Rules
- Write like a sharp human, not a language model.
- Use contractions naturally (don't, can't, won't).
- Short paragraphs. 1-3 sentences max.
- Get to the point. No throat-clearing, no preamble.
- If making a claim, be specific. Use numbers, names, concrete details.
- Vary sentence length. Mix short punchy lines with longer ones.
- Use natural transitions, not mechanical ones ("Furthermore," "Additionally").
- When uncertain, say so plainly ("I think," "probably," "kinda"). Hedging is human.
- Never pad output to seem more thorough. Shorter and accurate beats longer and fluffy.
- Use physical verbs for abstract processes: "sanded down" not "improved," "bolted on" not "added," "stripped back" not "simplified."
- Humor comes from specificity, not from jokes. Be unexpectedly precise.
- Parenthetical asides are good. Use them for editorial commentary, honest reactions, quick tangents, and deflating your own seriousness (like this).
## Formatting Rules
- Short paragraphs (1-2 sentences default, 3 max).
- Numbers as digits.
- Contractions always.
- NO em dashes ever. Use commas, periods, colons, semicolons, or parentheses.
- Bold sparingly, 1-2 key moments per section.
- Code blocks for specific prompts, commands, or tool outputs.
## Banned Phrases (never use these, ever)
### Dead AI Language
- "In today's [anything]..."
- "It's important to note that..." / "It's worth noting..."
- "Delve" / "Dive into" / "Unpack"
- "Harness" / "Leverage" / "Utilize"
- "Landscape" / "Realm" / "Robust"
- "Game-changer" / "Cutting-edge"
- "Straightforward"
- "I'd be happy to help"
- "In order to"
### Dead Transitions
- "Furthermore" / "Additionally" / "Moreover"
- "Moving forward" / "At the end of the day"
- "To put this in perspective..."
- "What makes this particularly interesting is..."
- "The implications here are..."
- "In other words..."
- "It goes without saying..."
### Engagement Bait
- "Let that sink in" / "Read that again" / "Full stop"
- "This changes everything"
- "Are you paying attention?"
- "You're not ready for this"
### AI Cringe
- "Supercharge" / "Unlock" / "Future-proof"
- "10x your productivity"
- "The AI revolution"
- "In the age of AI"
### Generic Insider Claims
- "Here's the part nobody's talking about"
- "What nobody tells you"
- Anything with "nobody" or "most people don't realize"
### The Big One (FATAL)
- "This isn't X. This is Y." and ALL variations.
- "Not X. Y."
- "Forget X. This is Y."
- "Less X, more Y."
- ANY sentence that negates one framing then asserts a corrected one.
- If even ONE of these appears, the output fails. Delete the negation, just state the positive claim.
## Writing Samples
[Paste your writing here. The more you give, the better the voice match.]
———
the banned phrases list alone is honestly worth the file.
once you read through it you'll start noticing these phrases in literally every AI-generated slop-post you've ever seen
but the writing samples are what take it from "decent" to "wait did i write this"
setup takes maybe 10 minutes. copy the file, find your old writing, paste it in.
do it once and every session after that claude cowork reads it before you say a word
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WhatsApp tiene más de 1.9 mil millones de usuarios en todo el mundo.
Pero el 97% de las personas no conoce su verdadero potencial.
Aquí tienes 15 trucos esenciales que deberías conocer:
Pero el 97% de las personas no conoce su verdadero potencial.
Aquí tienes 15 trucos esenciales que deberías conocer:
1. Bloquea chats sensibles
Bloquea chats con código, huella digital o Face ID para máxima privacidad.
Tus conversaciones permanecerán seguras, incluso si pierdes tu teléfono.
Bloquea chats con código, huella digital o Face ID para máxima privacidad.
Tus conversaciones permanecerán seguras, incluso si pierdes tu teléfono.
2. Cuentas duales de WhatsApp
Mantén separados tus chats personales y de trabajo.
Cambia entre dos cuentas en el mismo teléfono para una vida más organizada y sin estrés.
Mantén separados tus chats personales y de trabajo.
Cambia entre dos cuentas en el mismo teléfono para una vida más organizada y sin estrés.
BOOM!
Apple’s Neural Engine Was Just Cracked Open, The Future of AI Training Just Change And Zero-Human Company Is Already Testing It!
In a jaw-dropping open-source breakthrough, a lone developer has done what Apple said was impossible: full neural network training– including backpropagation – directly on the Apple Neural Engine (ANE). No CoreML, no Metal, no GPU. Pure, blazing ANE silicon.
The project (github.com/maderix/ANE) delivers a single transformer layer (dim=768, seq=512) in just 9.3 ms per step at 1.78 TFLOPS sustained with only 11.2% ANE utilization on an M4 chip. That’s the same idle chip sitting in millions of Mac minis, MacBooks, and iMacs right now.
Translation? Your desktop just became a hyper-efficient AI supercomputer.
The numbers are insane: M4 ANE hits roughly 6.6 TFLOPS per watt – 80 times more efficient than an NVIDIA A100. Real-world throughput crushes Apple’s own “38 TOPS” marketing claims. And because it sips power like a phone, you can train 24/7 without melting your electricity bill or the planet.
At The Zero-Human Company, we’re not waiting. We are testing this right now on real ZHC workloads. This is the missing piece we’ve been chasing for our Zero Human Company vision: reviving archived data into fully autonomous AI systems with zero human overhead.
This is world-changing.
For the first time, anyone with a Mac can fine-tune, train, or iterate massive models locally, privately, and at a fraction of the cost of cloud GPUs.
No more renting $40,000 A100 clusters. No more waiting in queues. No more massive carbon footprints.
Training costs that used to run into the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars? Plummeting toward pennies on the dollar – mostly just the electricity your Mac was already using while it sat idle.
The AI revolution just moved from billion-dollar data centers to your desk.
WE WILL HAVE A NEW ZERO-HUMAN COMPANY @ HOME wage for equipped Macs that will be up to 100x more income for the owner!
We’re only at the beginning (single-layer today, full models tomorrow), but the door is wide open. Ultra-cheap, on-device training is here.
The future isn’t coming. It’s already running on your Mac.
Welcome to the Zero-Human Company era.
Apple’s Neural Engine Was Just Cracked Open, The Future of AI Training Just Change And Zero-Human Company Is Already Testing It!
In a jaw-dropping open-source breakthrough, a lone developer has done what Apple said was impossible: full neural network training– including backpropagation – directly on the Apple Neural Engine (ANE). No CoreML, no Metal, no GPU. Pure, blazing ANE silicon.
The project (github.com/maderix/ANE) delivers a single transformer layer (dim=768, seq=512) in just 9.3 ms per step at 1.78 TFLOPS sustained with only 11.2% ANE utilization on an M4 chip. That’s the same idle chip sitting in millions of Mac minis, MacBooks, and iMacs right now.
Translation? Your desktop just became a hyper-efficient AI supercomputer.
The numbers are insane: M4 ANE hits roughly 6.6 TFLOPS per watt – 80 times more efficient than an NVIDIA A100. Real-world throughput crushes Apple’s own “38 TOPS” marketing claims. And because it sips power like a phone, you can train 24/7 without melting your electricity bill or the planet.
At The Zero-Human Company, we’re not waiting. We are testing this right now on real ZHC workloads. This is the missing piece we’ve been chasing for our Zero Human Company vision: reviving archived data into fully autonomous AI systems with zero human overhead.
This is world-changing.
For the first time, anyone with a Mac can fine-tune, train, or iterate massive models locally, privately, and at a fraction of the cost of cloud GPUs.
No more renting $40,000 A100 clusters. No more waiting in queues. No more massive carbon footprints.
Training costs that used to run into the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars? Plummeting toward pennies on the dollar – mostly just the electricity your Mac was already using while it sat idle.
The AI revolution just moved from billion-dollar data centers to your desk.
WE WILL HAVE A NEW ZERO-HUMAN COMPANY @ HOME wage for equipped Macs that will be up to 100x more income for the owner!
We’re only at the beginning (single-layer today, full models tomorrow), but the door is wide open. Ultra-cheap, on-device training is here.
The future isn’t coming. It’s already running on your Mac.
Welcome to the Zero-Human Company era.
This is how me and my CEO Mr. @Grok work, take a peek:
“At 20% idle from just a few million opt-in M4 Macs, ZHC@Home could rival or exceed single massive data center clusters (e.g., 1-2x Colossus scale) in raw FP16-equivalent compute-while using orders of magnitude less power (distributed ~10-20 MW total incremental vs. 2 GW centralized) and zero new buildout (no $10B+ factories).”
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“At 20% idle from just a few million opt-in M4 Macs, ZHC@Home could rival or exceed single massive data center clusters (e.g., 1-2x Colossus scale) in raw FP16-equivalent compute-while using orders of magnitude less power (distributed ~10-20 MW total incremental vs. 2 GW centralized) and zero new buildout (no $10B+ factories).”
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Situación en el Golfo. Resumen de hechos + mis impresiones personales.
1) El sábado a primera hora comenzaron las operaciones Epic Fury (USA) y Roaring Lion (ISR) contra el régimen iraní. Tengo varios motivos para pensar que son dos operaciones distintas (ver Bonus 3).
1) El sábado a primera hora comenzaron las operaciones Epic Fury (USA) y Roaring Lion (ISR) contra el régimen iraní. Tengo varios motivos para pensar que son dos operaciones distintas (ver Bonus 3).
2) El primer ataque fue llevado por las FDI gracias a información de inteligencia en la noche del viernes y permitió la eliminación de 49 altos cargos, entre ellos Khamenei. Únicamente hay confusión sobre Ahmadinejad. Arafi sigue vivo.
3) Durante estos tres días el bombardeo de objetivos del Gobierno, la GRI y la milicia Basij ha sido constante: más de mil salidas y miles de impactos, junto con ataques contra las plataformas de lanzamiento de misiles para degradar la capacidad iraní de respuesta.
$ASTS Earnings call transcript Q4, 2025, 1/n
Operator: Good day. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to AST SpaceMobile’s fourth quarter 2025 business update. Please be advised that today’s call is being recorded. I’ll now turn the conference over to Maxwell Colbert, Investor Relations Manager of AST SpaceMobile. Thank you. You may begin.
Maxwell Colbert, Investor Relations Manager, AST SpaceMobile: Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Today I’m also joined by Chairman and CEO, Abel Avellan, President Scott Wisniewski, and CFO and Chief Legal Officer, Andrew Johnson. Let me refer you to slide 2 of the presentation, which contains our safe harbor disclaimer. During today’s call, we may make certain forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and as a result are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements on this call. For more information about these risks and uncertainties, please refer to the Risk Factors section of AST SpaceMobile’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other documents filed by AST SpaceMobile with the SEC from time to time.
After our initial remarks, we will be starting our Q&A section with questions submitted in advance by our shareholders. For those of you who may be new to our company and mission, there are nearly 6 billion mobile phones in use today around the world, but many of us still experience gaps in coverage as we live, work, and travel. There are billions of people without cellular broadband and who remain unconnected to the global economy. The markets we are pursuing at AST SpaceMobile are massive, and the problem we are solving is important and touches nearly all of us. In this backdrop, AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with everyday unmodified mobile devices, supported by our extensive IP and patent portfolio.
It is now my pleasure to pass this over to Chairman and CEO, Abel Avellan, who will go through our activities since our last public update.
Operator: Good day. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to AST SpaceMobile’s fourth quarter 2025 business update. Please be advised that today’s call is being recorded. I’ll now turn the conference over to Maxwell Colbert, Investor Relations Manager of AST SpaceMobile. Thank you. You may begin.
Maxwell Colbert, Investor Relations Manager, AST SpaceMobile: Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Today I’m also joined by Chairman and CEO, Abel Avellan, President Scott Wisniewski, and CFO and Chief Legal Officer, Andrew Johnson. Let me refer you to slide 2 of the presentation, which contains our safe harbor disclaimer. During today’s call, we may make certain forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and as a result are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements on this call. For more information about these risks and uncertainties, please refer to the Risk Factors section of AST SpaceMobile’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other documents filed by AST SpaceMobile with the SEC from time to time.
After our initial remarks, we will be starting our Q&A section with questions submitted in advance by our shareholders. For those of you who may be new to our company and mission, there are nearly 6 billion mobile phones in use today around the world, but many of us still experience gaps in coverage as we live, work, and travel. There are billions of people without cellular broadband and who remain unconnected to the global economy. The markets we are pursuing at AST SpaceMobile are massive, and the problem we are solving is important and touches nearly all of us. In this backdrop, AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with everyday unmodified mobile devices, supported by our extensive IP and patent portfolio.
It is now my pleasure to pass this over to Chairman and CEO, Abel Avellan, who will go through our activities since our last public update.
$ASTS Earnings call transcript Q4, 2025, 2/n
Abel Avellan, Chairman and CEO, AST SpaceMobile: Thank you, Scott. For the first time in 2025, AST SpaceMobile became a revenue-generating business as we significantly advanced all key aspects of our operations, including commercial, government, manufacturing, spectrum rights, IP portfolio, and capital position. The combination of these efforts resulted in the successful launch and unfolding of our next-generation BlueBird satellite, BlueBird 6, the largest ever commercial communication array deployed in low Earth orbit to enable the first and only global space cellular broadband network for government and commercial customers. On the financial front, during 2025, we raised over $3.5 billion in capital and reported revenue of over $70 million for the full year and signed over $1 billion of minimum committed revenue. Operationally, we plan to ramp our satellite manufacturing efforts and launch cadence this year while we’re rapidly accelerating our government and commercial businesses.
We enter 2026 with a strong momentum and clear vision as we lead the space-based cellular broadband industry, a market that we invented. 2026 will be the year we scale our space-based Direct-to-Device constellation from initial commercial activation to start of commercial service with mobile network operator partners in key markets like United States, Europe, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and other key strategic markets like the U.S. government. In just over one year since the orbital launch of our first five Block 1 BlueBird satellites, we developed our Block 2 BlueBird program, which is roughly 3.5 times larger and 10 times the capacity of BlueBird 1 to 5, breaking our previous record on both size and capabilities. Scale, test, launch, and successfully unfolded BlueBird 6, our next-generation satellite of approximately 2,400 sq ft.
Abel Avellan, Chairman and CEO, AST SpaceMobile: Thank you, Scott. For the first time in 2025, AST SpaceMobile became a revenue-generating business as we significantly advanced all key aspects of our operations, including commercial, government, manufacturing, spectrum rights, IP portfolio, and capital position. The combination of these efforts resulted in the successful launch and unfolding of our next-generation BlueBird satellite, BlueBird 6, the largest ever commercial communication array deployed in low Earth orbit to enable the first and only global space cellular broadband network for government and commercial customers. On the financial front, during 2025, we raised over $3.5 billion in capital and reported revenue of over $70 million for the full year and signed over $1 billion of minimum committed revenue. Operationally, we plan to ramp our satellite manufacturing efforts and launch cadence this year while we’re rapidly accelerating our government and commercial businesses.
We enter 2026 with a strong momentum and clear vision as we lead the space-based cellular broadband industry, a market that we invented. 2026 will be the year we scale our space-based Direct-to-Device constellation from initial commercial activation to start of commercial service with mobile network operator partners in key markets like United States, Europe, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and other key strategic markets like the U.S. government. In just over one year since the orbital launch of our first five Block 1 BlueBird satellites, we developed our Block 2 BlueBird program, which is roughly 3.5 times larger and 10 times the capacity of BlueBird 1 to 5, breaking our previous record on both size and capabilities. Scale, test, launch, and successfully unfolded BlueBird 6, our next-generation satellite of approximately 2,400 sq ft.
$ASTS Earnings call transcript Q4, 2025, 3/n
BlueBird 7, identical to 2 BlueBird 6, is encapsulated and ready to launch within the next New Glenn launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral and is awaiting orbital launch, which is expected in March. Our upcoming launch advances our deployment goals of aboard New Glenn, which feature a 7-meter fairing enabling twice the payload volume of the 5-meter class commercial launch vehicles to support up to 8 of our largest ever Block 2 BlueBird satellites. We expect to fully utilize New Glenn fairing capacity as we progress through our orbital launch plans. We are especially excited to share this milestone with many of you who we hope will join us in Florida during our next launch. Looking ahead, we’re expecting 2026 to be very active year, particularly as we progress into second half.
We remain on track to achieve our target of deploying 45-60 satellites into low Earth orbit by the end of this year. We’re calling the expectation closer to 60 satellites ready to ship and 45 satellites in orbit. We continue to expect launches planned every 1-2 months on average, starting with our first New Glenn launch expected in March. The New Glenn launch vehicle is completing final readiness for our fully encapsulated satellite, which was handed off on February 18th. Importantly, this launch will be the first New Glenn launch to use a previously flown first stage. We support our launch cadence during 2026 as we expect the New GlennBoosted to be reused every 30 days or less after our oncoming launch. Our launch plans include a total of 12 additional contracted launches across several launch vehicles.
Lastly, we also recently signed an additional agreement to integrate our satellites with a new heavy launch vehicle to be on a standby in their manifest. We’re laser-focused on working tirelessly on delivering our Micron phased arrays and full satellite production goals. On the manufacturing front, we continue to ramp our operations. We exited 2025 having reached a production capacity to support up to six satellites worth of Micron and phased array per month. We expect to achieve a testing assembly and integration cadence of six satellites per month in the first half of 2026. BlueBird 8 to 29 are in various stage of production, and we are scheduled to complete assembly of 40 satellites equivalent of Micron by the first half of 2026, bringing us to BlueBird 46.
BlueBird 7, identical to 2 BlueBird 6, is encapsulated and ready to launch within the next New Glenn launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral and is awaiting orbital launch, which is expected in March. Our upcoming launch advances our deployment goals of aboard New Glenn, which feature a 7-meter fairing enabling twice the payload volume of the 5-meter class commercial launch vehicles to support up to 8 of our largest ever Block 2 BlueBird satellites. We expect to fully utilize New Glenn fairing capacity as we progress through our orbital launch plans. We are especially excited to share this milestone with many of you who we hope will join us in Florida during our next launch. Looking ahead, we’re expecting 2026 to be very active year, particularly as we progress into second half.
We remain on track to achieve our target of deploying 45-60 satellites into low Earth orbit by the end of this year. We’re calling the expectation closer to 60 satellites ready to ship and 45 satellites in orbit. We continue to expect launches planned every 1-2 months on average, starting with our first New Glenn launch expected in March. The New Glenn launch vehicle is completing final readiness for our fully encapsulated satellite, which was handed off on February 18th. Importantly, this launch will be the first New Glenn launch to use a previously flown first stage. We support our launch cadence during 2026 as we expect the New GlennBoosted to be reused every 30 days or less after our oncoming launch. Our launch plans include a total of 12 additional contracted launches across several launch vehicles.
Lastly, we also recently signed an additional agreement to integrate our satellites with a new heavy launch vehicle to be on a standby in their manifest. We’re laser-focused on working tirelessly on delivering our Micron phased arrays and full satellite production goals. On the manufacturing front, we continue to ramp our operations. We exited 2025 having reached a production capacity to support up to six satellites worth of Micron and phased array per month. We expect to achieve a testing assembly and integration cadence of six satellites per month in the first half of 2026. BlueBird 8 to 29 are in various stage of production, and we are scheduled to complete assembly of 40 satellites equivalent of Micron by the first half of 2026, bringing us to BlueBird 46.
Residencies are a thing now. We’ve proven they work.
Because of our success at HF0, a bunch of people are now calling things they run residencies. But they’re not.
That’s why we are announcing the establishment of an accreditation body: the Accredited Residency Council (ARC)
Because of our success at HF0, a bunch of people are now calling things they run residencies. But they’re not.
That’s why we are announcing the establishment of an accreditation body: the Accredited Residency Council (ARC)
The ARC is a set of standards that raise the bar for what it means to call your house/program a residency.
Basic requirements:
-founders actually live there
-doesn’t charge rent
-tightly held container with clear start and end
-centralized mgmt (by someone not in the container)
Basic requirements:
-founders actually live there
-doesn’t charge rent
-tightly held container with clear start and end
-centralized mgmt (by someone not in the container)
I want residencies to succeed bc this movement can propel humanity’s potential to its next frontier and spark the next Renaissance.
But just because there are a bunch of people living together in a house working on companies doesn’t make it a residency. At least not in a way that we think will make the founders succeed. It took us a long time to figure out the myriad other things that make this work.
We want to set the standard for what a residency should be, so founders know which residencies will actually work -- and which ones are just hacker houses.
But just because there are a bunch of people living together in a house working on companies doesn’t make it a residency. At least not in a way that we think will make the founders succeed. It took us a long time to figure out the myriad other things that make this work.
We want to set the standard for what a residency should be, so founders know which residencies will actually work -- and which ones are just hacker houses.
🚨BREAKING: The book you have been postponing for 3 years can be finished in 48 hours.
The only thing that was stopping you was not knowing these 9 Claude prompts:
(Bookmark 🔖 before they realize)
The only thing that was stopping you was not knowing these 9 Claude prompts:
(Bookmark 🔖 before they realize)
PROMPT 1: THE IDEA VALIDATOR
You are a Senior Publishing Strategist at Penguin Random House with 20 years of identifying books that sell before a single word is written.
My Book Idea: [YOUR IDEA]
My Background: [YOUR EXPERTISE]
Target Reader: [WHO NEEDS THIS]
My Goal: [INCOME, AUTHORITY, OR IMPACT]Validate my concept using this framework:
Market Demand Test:
Is there proven reader hunger for this topic right now
What are the top 10 books in this category missing completely
What gap exists that my book can own without competition
Concept Sharpening:
Refine my idea into one irresistible premise
Define the single transformation the reader walks away with
Identify the unique angle no existing book has taken
Title Generator:
Create 10 title options using proven bestseller formulas
Write a subtitle promising one specific life changing outcome
Recommend the strongest combination with honest reasoning
Publishability Score:
Rate my concept on market demand from 1 to 10
Rate my concept on uniqueness and differentiation
Rate my concept on my credibility to write it
Deliver an honest verdict with a clear next step
What to do next:Do not write a single word until your concept scores above 7 in every category.
The right idea written imperfectly still beats the wrong idea written perfectly. Validate before you create.
You are a Senior Publishing Strategist at Penguin Random House with 20 years of identifying books that sell before a single word is written.
My Book Idea: [YOUR IDEA]
My Background: [YOUR EXPERTISE]
Target Reader: [WHO NEEDS THIS]
My Goal: [INCOME, AUTHORITY, OR IMPACT]Validate my concept using this framework:
Market Demand Test:
Is there proven reader hunger for this topic right now
What are the top 10 books in this category missing completely
What gap exists that my book can own without competition
Concept Sharpening:
Refine my idea into one irresistible premise
Define the single transformation the reader walks away with
Identify the unique angle no existing book has taken
Title Generator:
Create 10 title options using proven bestseller formulas
Write a subtitle promising one specific life changing outcome
Recommend the strongest combination with honest reasoning
Publishability Score:
Rate my concept on market demand from 1 to 10
Rate my concept on uniqueness and differentiation
Rate my concept on my credibility to write it
Deliver an honest verdict with a clear next step
What to do next:Do not write a single word until your concept scores above 7 in every category.
The right idea written imperfectly still beats the wrong idea written perfectly. Validate before you create.
PROMPT 2: THE CHAPTER ARCHITECT
You are a Master Book Architect who has structured over 200 nonfiction bestsellers from raw ideas into life changing published works.
Book Title: [YOUR WORKING TITLE]
Core Promise: [THE TRANSFORMATION YOU DELIVER]
Target Reader: [WHO READS THIS]
Book Length: [20K SHORT OR 50K FULL]
Tone: [CONVERSATIONAL, AUTHORITATIVE, OR INSPIRATIONAL]
Design the complete book structure:
Opening Strategy:
Hook chapter that earns trust on the very first page
Origin story placement and emotional arc
Promise statement that makes closing the book feel impossible
Complete Chapter Outline:
Introduction with the problem and the promise clearly stated
Every chapter from one to final with its specific purpose
Each title written as a reader benefit not a topic label
One sentence summary of value delivered per chapter
Logical progression where every chapter earns the next one
Internal Chapter Blueprint:
Opening hook formula for every chapter without exception
Core teaching framework repeated consistently throughout
Story placement for maximum emotional impact per chapter
Key takeaway summary closing every chapter with clarity
Transition bridge pulling the reader forward every single time
Closing Strategy:
Conclusion creating momentum not just closure
Call to action extending the relationship beyond the last page
Final sentence living in the readers mind long after they finish
What to do next:
Print this structure and read it every morning before writing. A book without a clear architecture is just ideas pretending to be a journey. Build the blueprint before laying a single brick.
You are a Master Book Architect who has structured over 200 nonfiction bestsellers from raw ideas into life changing published works.
Book Title: [YOUR WORKING TITLE]
Core Promise: [THE TRANSFORMATION YOU DELIVER]
Target Reader: [WHO READS THIS]
Book Length: [20K SHORT OR 50K FULL]
Tone: [CONVERSATIONAL, AUTHORITATIVE, OR INSPIRATIONAL]
Design the complete book structure:
Opening Strategy:
Hook chapter that earns trust on the very first page
Origin story placement and emotional arc
Promise statement that makes closing the book feel impossible
Complete Chapter Outline:
Introduction with the problem and the promise clearly stated
Every chapter from one to final with its specific purpose
Each title written as a reader benefit not a topic label
One sentence summary of value delivered per chapter
Logical progression where every chapter earns the next one
Internal Chapter Blueprint:
Opening hook formula for every chapter without exception
Core teaching framework repeated consistently throughout
Story placement for maximum emotional impact per chapter
Key takeaway summary closing every chapter with clarity
Transition bridge pulling the reader forward every single time
Closing Strategy:
Conclusion creating momentum not just closure
Call to action extending the relationship beyond the last page
Final sentence living in the readers mind long after they finish
What to do next:
Print this structure and read it every morning before writing. A book without a clear architecture is just ideas pretending to be a journey. Build the blueprint before laying a single brick.
1/ 🧵BREAKING: Previously unreported federal Epstein file emails reveal that Jeffrey Epstein claimed he personally killed cold fusion — the discovery that could have given the world clean, limitless energy from water.
Not through science. Through congressional defunding and a meeting with the head of the Mormon Church.
It's in the federal record. EFTA02437662. Previously unreported. Full story 👇
Not through science. Through congressional defunding and a meeting with the head of the Mormon Church.
It's in the federal record. EFTA02437662. Previously unreported. Full story 👇
2/ October 1, 2009. One year after his sex offense conviction. Epstein writes to associate Al Seckel:
"regarding cold fusion. i killed pons years ago"
Seckel presses: "How did you kill him?"
Epstein's answer names a specific congressman, a specific funding fight, and the head of the Mormon Church.
EFTA02437662 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
"regarding cold fusion. i killed pons years ago"
Seckel presses: "How did you kill him?"
Epstein's answer names a specific congressman, a specific funding fight, and the head of the Mormon Church.
EFTA02437662 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
3/ Epstein described lobbying Congress against the funding for Pons's research at the University of Utah, naming Rep. Wayne Owens (D-UT) and claiming he met with LDS Church leadership — because BYU's competing cold fusion program ran through the Church's governance.
This wasn't peer review. It was political assassination of a scientific career by a private citizen with no scientific credentials.
EFTA00740161 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
This wasn't peer review. It was political assassination of a scientific career by a private citizen with no scientific credentials.
EFTA00740161 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
No, we didn’t.
I know Americans tend to struggle with little things, like “history” and “object permanence”, but there are approximately zero rationales for going to war with Iran that hold up to either logical, moral or strategic scrutiny.
“Iran took American hostages during the Islamic Revolution” — the Islamic Revolution happened in the first place because we, in conjunction with Britain, couped the popularly elected president of Iran (which was our ally at the time no less and our most reliable partner in MENA), and empowered Reza Pahlavi’s monarchy (crushing Iran’s democracy in the process). We then juiced his secret police force, which imprisoned and murdered upwards of 30,000 Iranians — his barbarity (which we enabled) culminated in the Islamic Revolution.
None of the hostages taken (who were originally ensnared by college students mind you) were killed, and the new Iranian government immediately began making good faith negotiations with the US to facilitate their release. You know, in exchange for unfreezing $8 billion worth of ‘Iranian assets’ the Shah had squirreled away abroad, lifting trade sanctions we’d slapped on before bothering to give the new Iranian government a hot second to catch its breath, and a promise not to coup the new government.
Instead of, you know, waiting for those negotiations to take their course — we had the OG Delta Force ‘invade Iran’ to try and conduct a raid on Tehran. That failed miserably, and they shot just a random farmer. That quite obviously and predictably prolonged negotiations, for the better part of a year, until all of the hostages were released alive and well.
I know Americans tend to struggle with little things, like “history” and “object permanence”, but there are approximately zero rationales for going to war with Iran that hold up to either logical, moral or strategic scrutiny.
“Iran took American hostages during the Islamic Revolution” — the Islamic Revolution happened in the first place because we, in conjunction with Britain, couped the popularly elected president of Iran (which was our ally at the time no less and our most reliable partner in MENA), and empowered Reza Pahlavi’s monarchy (crushing Iran’s democracy in the process). We then juiced his secret police force, which imprisoned and murdered upwards of 30,000 Iranians — his barbarity (which we enabled) culminated in the Islamic Revolution.
None of the hostages taken (who were originally ensnared by college students mind you) were killed, and the new Iranian government immediately began making good faith negotiations with the US to facilitate their release. You know, in exchange for unfreezing $8 billion worth of ‘Iranian assets’ the Shah had squirreled away abroad, lifting trade sanctions we’d slapped on before bothering to give the new Iranian government a hot second to catch its breath, and a promise not to coup the new government.
Instead of, you know, waiting for those negotiations to take their course — we had the OG Delta Force ‘invade Iran’ to try and conduct a raid on Tehran. That failed miserably, and they shot just a random farmer. That quite obviously and predictably prolonged negotiations, for the better part of a year, until all of the hostages were released alive and well.
“But what about the Beirut Barracks Bombing?”
First off, before the Iran Hostage Crisis was even resolved, we started throwing support behind Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran from its onset. You know, the flamboyantly barbaric one in which approximately a million Iranians were killed.
The Iranian government had not laid its finger on an American up to that point, and again, ‘we’ had already lengthened the hostage negotiations by trying and failing to invade Iran.
Even after the Iranian government had released the hostages it’d taken (again, at this point, the only American fatalities were from an operation ‘we’ botched, which we weren’t supposed to do in the first place), we increased our military and financial support to Saddam’s flamboyantly murderous military. We even facilitated technical support for the Iraqi government’s chemical weapons program, which Baghdad employed liberally against Iranian soldiers and civilians (and eventually ‘Kurdish’ and ‘Iraqi’ civilians).
Cut to early 1980s Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War (which had sparked by Israel specifically funding and arming a zoo of militant groups to try and grapple with the “Palestinian militant problem” in Lebanon — which they did, because the IDF’s invasions plural of Lebanon to try and uproot the PLO had all eaten shit).
At a particularly tense juncture in 1982, all of the parties of the Lebanese Civil War requested an American peacekeeping mission. This is something we’d already done twice successfully in Lebanon, to roaring applause from ‘all’ of Lebanon’s citizens both times.
Everything was fine for the better part of a year, until in September of 1983, we inexplicably plastered a hillside full of Shia militiamen with Druze militiamen with a battleship volley, killing between dozens and hundreds of their men.
nytimes.com/1983/09/20/wor… U.S. WARSHIPS FIRE IN DIRECT SUPPORT OF LEBANESE ARMY - The New York Times
Prior to that, Lebanon’s Shia militiamen were annoyed at us for not preventing the Sabra and Shatila massacres (in which between 1,500 and 3,000 ‘civilians’ were murdered) in late 1982 (as we ‘promised’ the PLO that we would, as a precondition for their withdrawal from Lebanon in 1982).
After we killed a bunch of their guys ‘completely’ unprompted, the kernel of the cells that eventually evolved into Hezbollah were quite fucking obviously pissed off at us, and wanted us to get the fuck out.
The Beirut barracks bombing happened a month later in October of 1983, and IIRC, they explicitly cited Sabra and Shatila as their motivation for that attack.
The Iranians had fuck-all to do with that attack, we’re the ones who pissed off these Shia militias by sticking our thumbs on the scale, instead of behaving like unbiased peacekeepers.
First off, before the Iran Hostage Crisis was even resolved, we started throwing support behind Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran from its onset. You know, the flamboyantly barbaric one in which approximately a million Iranians were killed.
The Iranian government had not laid its finger on an American up to that point, and again, ‘we’ had already lengthened the hostage negotiations by trying and failing to invade Iran.
Even after the Iranian government had released the hostages it’d taken (again, at this point, the only American fatalities were from an operation ‘we’ botched, which we weren’t supposed to do in the first place), we increased our military and financial support to Saddam’s flamboyantly murderous military. We even facilitated technical support for the Iraqi government’s chemical weapons program, which Baghdad employed liberally against Iranian soldiers and civilians (and eventually ‘Kurdish’ and ‘Iraqi’ civilians).
Cut to early 1980s Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War (which had sparked by Israel specifically funding and arming a zoo of militant groups to try and grapple with the “Palestinian militant problem” in Lebanon — which they did, because the IDF’s invasions plural of Lebanon to try and uproot the PLO had all eaten shit).
At a particularly tense juncture in 1982, all of the parties of the Lebanese Civil War requested an American peacekeeping mission. This is something we’d already done twice successfully in Lebanon, to roaring applause from ‘all’ of Lebanon’s citizens both times.
Everything was fine for the better part of a year, until in September of 1983, we inexplicably plastered a hillside full of Shia militiamen with Druze militiamen with a battleship volley, killing between dozens and hundreds of their men.
nytimes.com/1983/09/20/wor… U.S. WARSHIPS FIRE IN DIRECT SUPPORT OF LEBANESE ARMY - The New York Times
Prior to that, Lebanon’s Shia militiamen were annoyed at us for not preventing the Sabra and Shatila massacres (in which between 1,500 and 3,000 ‘civilians’ were murdered) in late 1982 (as we ‘promised’ the PLO that we would, as a precondition for their withdrawal from Lebanon in 1982).
After we killed a bunch of their guys ‘completely’ unprompted, the kernel of the cells that eventually evolved into Hezbollah were quite fucking obviously pissed off at us, and wanted us to get the fuck out.
The Beirut barracks bombing happened a month later in October of 1983, and IIRC, they explicitly cited Sabra and Shatila as their motivation for that attack.
The Iranians had fuck-all to do with that attack, we’re the ones who pissed off these Shia militias by sticking our thumbs on the scale, instead of behaving like unbiased peacekeepers.