Haji 2003

Day 1 since Mamdani got elected, public schools in NYC are already teaching schoolchildren Arabic numerals

If he wants to wheel out his half-dressed wife to win votes and his mayoralty does good for the Ummah, then it's another use case for this:

Leader of Britain First - an anti-Muslim fascist party Wholesome picture of him with his grandfather. But who is the doctor looking after grandad? Check the wallchart on the top left.

Oil discovered in hell Cheney's dead.

Vance poses immigration as ‘greatest threat’ to US and Europe in CPAC speech https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/jd-vance-cpac-trump

Yazd

If you click through to reddit you can see an enlarged and readable version of this

Arak

The link below will take you to a post on Linkedin and then additional links to courses at Berkeley and Stanford etc. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/basiakubicka_stanford-berkeley-mit-deepmind-top-ai-activity-7384936232759259136-8KrK?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEK1pgB676nEZDH6HONEl5SQ5k3HXIS5FA

I have just looked on the amazon.com website (United States) and they do have halal / vegetarian options. Prices shown are in GBP, because it assumes I'll want the product shipped here.

Yeah it’s me.

Accusing Israel of stoking Islamophobia could have been labelled anti-semitic, but it's out in the open now https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/05/uk-jewish-groups-condemn-israeli-minister-invite-tommy-robinson-israel

Word is spreading This person does not usually write about architecture.

Top-level trolling by the Iranians Wind up the Wahhahbis, Israelis and MAGA evangelicals.

Related "US politicians hate China’s success because it makes them look stupid"

This point keeps coming up

That statement, can co-exist with this one: All it requires is for one society to make advances. reach a certain level of comfort and then hand over the reins to another society. That process of renewal can also co-exist with the following. All it needs is a belief system that not so culturally bound that it can migrate over space and time.

Given the recent rise, gold is now £2900 per oz. I think the annual return (since 2012) has gone closer to 10%, which is actually not bad at all. At times like this people come up with reasons why the rise will continue and here's a good (optimistic) one: https://www.ft.com/content/54dc2b76-8c24-4dd7-a01a-7d1f38b5ea6d