"The whole region is now aflame, with US troops pulling out of bases, Arab oil economies being shut down, and no one seemingly able to figure out how to stop the Iranian juggernaut. All internal rumors point to neither the Israeli or US side having anticipated the Iranian “regime” surviving so intact."
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/iran-cows-us-navy-into-submission#:~:text=The%20whole%20region,surviving%20so%20intact.

NYT Claims U.S. Hit Iranian Elementary School — But Close-Up Photos of the Projectile Tell a Very Different Story. It is a Russian missile, so friendly fire.

Interesting take. Fractal has been pushing for systems like the Nvidia Spark to replace data centers. Reasonable argument why? War.

https://fractalcomputing.substack.com/p/the-cloud-dies-first-in-a-fight-distributed

⭕️Iran has shipped about 11.7–12 million barrels of crude oil to China through the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on Feb

28, despite attacks and heavy disruption in the key waterway.Many tankers have turned off tracking systems to avoid detection.Iran is also using the Jask terminal on the Gulf of Oman as an alternative export route, though it is slower and less...
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🇺🇸🇮🇳 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau in the middle of New Delhi told Indians that India will not be allowed to develop to the point where it can compete with the US.

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Ducal Castle of Corigliano Calabro, Italy

"Let that sink in: the supposedly most powerful navy in history is admitting they cannot retain freedom of navigation through one of the most important maritime choke points in the world."
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/iran-cows-us-navy-into-submission#:~:text=Let%20that%20sink%20in%3A%20the%20supposedly%20most%20powerful%20navy%20in%20history%20is%20admitting%20they%20cannot%20retain%20freedom%20of%20navigation%20through%20one%20of%20the%20most%20important%20maritime%20choke%20points%20in%20the%20world.

Grok is a term coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. In the story, the word comes from a fictional Martian language and describes a form of understanding so complete that the boundary between observer and observed dissolves. The term later entered broader English usage, especially in technical and countercultural communities, to describe deep, intuitive comprehension rather than surface-level knowledge.

If to grok is to collapse the distance between knower and known, then understanding is not passive. Immersion reshapes perception and gradually alters the one who participates. What we repeatedly enter, we begin to internalize.

Philosophically, this echoes Martin Heidegger’s claim that we are not detached spectators but always already “being-in-the-world.” Neurologically, it parallels Donald Hebb’s theory that repeated activation strengthens synaptic connections. Participation forms structure.

Food for thought.

Heinlein, R. A. (1961). Stranger in a strange land. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

Grok. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and time (J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, Trans.). Harper & Row. (Original work published 1927)

Hebb, D. O. (1949). The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory. Wiley.

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