I can have a little self-promotion, as a treat? I’ve been working to relaunch my personal site and pull in / create a bunch of content for it.
samiare.net
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Samir Zahran
One small personal site on a large, vast web
samiare.net
July 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I can have a little self-promotion, as a treat? I’ve been working to relaunch my personal site and pull in / create a bunch of content for it.
samiare.net
samiare.net
Got myself a gym membership. I went and worked out. Now I’m very sore? Can I sue??
July 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Got myself a gym membership. I went and worked out. Now I’m very sore? Can I sue??
LLMs can pry the em dashes out of my cold dead hands.
July 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
LLMs can pry the em dashes out of my cold dead hands.
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This is how.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
June 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is how.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
“It was dogs to gorillas to hairy cups to hairy balls to turning balls inside out.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“It was dogs to gorillas to hairy cups to hairy balls to turning balls inside out.”
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Do not fall for the lies of c-suites. Not making enough money for endless growth goons is not “inherently unprofitable.” Media is very challenging, yes, but the vultures want you to believe these layoffs are inevitable and necessary.
May 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Do not fall for the lies of c-suites. Not making enough money for endless growth goons is not “inherently unprofitable.” Media is very challenging, yes, but the vultures want you to believe these layoffs are inevitable and necessary.
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Zionists in New York beat up a young girl while yelling "death to Arabs". Imagine being on this side. Utter scum.
April 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Zionists in New York beat up a young girl while yelling "death to Arabs". Imagine being on this side. Utter scum.
The problem with looking for a concise definition of recursion is that everyone thinks they’re fucking clever.
April 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The problem with looking for a concise definition of recursion is that everyone thinks they’re fucking clever.
This reminds me of so many of the responses from friends and colleagues following Oct 7 *insisting* they were sympathetic to Palestinians but that we were being really inappropriate sharing pro-Palestine content in that moment. I’m sure they feel no blame for the current state of affairs.
congrats to everyone who equated anti-genocide protest with supporting hamas
NEW—DHS claims, without citing proof, Rumeysa Ozturk "engaged in activities in support of Hamas."
Among "activity" Ozturk engaged in was co-writing an op-ed urging Tufts to heed student resolutions to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.
Among "activity" Ozturk engaged in was co-writing an op-ed urging Tufts to heed student resolutions to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.
March 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This reminds me of so many of the responses from friends and colleagues following Oct 7 *insisting* they were sympathetic to Palestinians but that we were being really inappropriate sharing pro-Palestine content in that moment. I’m sure they feel no blame for the current state of affairs.
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the very next post in this thread is "not even her lawyer knows where she is" and if you think they're gonna stop with non-citizens, I think in a year or two you're gonna be proven very wrong
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
the very next post in this thread is "not even her lawyer knows where she is" and if you think they're gonna stop with non-citizens, I think in a year or two you're gonna be proven very wrong
I got away with the ultimate scam. I didn’t wear any green yesterday and didn’t get pinched even once. It’s too late now. You can no longer legally pinch me. It would be assault.
March 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I got away with the ultimate scam. I didn’t wear any green yesterday and didn’t get pinched even once. It’s too late now. You can no longer legally pinch me. It would be assault.
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so much of the tech industry's right-wing turn has been because they believe that LLMs will free them from their employees, whom they hate.
I wonder how much of Elon’s fascism is driven by the fact that he fucking hates his employees. Like, SpaceX engineers might have some of the most liberal politics out of the industry, and I imagine it drives him mad.
February 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
so much of the tech industry's right-wing turn has been because they believe that LLMs will free them from their employees, whom they hate.
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I just read a piece from Noah Smith stating that Elon must be a godlike genius because on his second SAT try he scored a 1400 and …
February 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I just read a piece from Noah Smith stating that Elon must be a godlike genius because on his second SAT try he scored a 1400 and …
My body is a machine that turns coffee into lines of code.
February 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My body is a machine that turns coffee into lines of code.
I keep seeing this sentiment online: “You performatively didn’t vote for Harris and now see what you’ve gotten”, completely ignoring the fact that it was the Democrats who’ve been behind this for the last year and a half.
February 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I keep seeing this sentiment online: “You performatively didn’t vote for Harris and now see what you’ve gotten”, completely ignoring the fact that it was the Democrats who’ve been behind this for the last year and a half.
Getting my hand stuck in the box of seltzer in the fridge like one of those raccoon traps
February 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Getting my hand stuck in the box of seltzer in the fridge like one of those raccoon traps
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This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.
February 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.
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Furthermore, what's truly disgusting is you're yelling at people who had their homeland FLATTENED.
CHILDREN being gunned down.
People in hospital beds being set on fire.
And you're MAD AT THEM for having the balls to set a boundary.
Disgusting.
CHILDREN being gunned down.
People in hospital beds being set on fire.
And you're MAD AT THEM for having the balls to set a boundary.
Disgusting.
February 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Furthermore, what's truly disgusting is you're yelling at people who had their homeland FLATTENED.
CHILDREN being gunned down.
People in hospital beds being set on fire.
And you're MAD AT THEM for having the balls to set a boundary.
Disgusting.
CHILDREN being gunned down.
People in hospital beds being set on fire.
And you're MAD AT THEM for having the balls to set a boundary.
Disgusting.
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They told Kamala over and over again that if she didn't stop supporting Israel, they would not vote for her.
She refused to stop supporting Israel, and they didn't vote for her.
Somehow, the people who love to say "FAFO" can't imagine the fucking around and finding out would happen to their fave.
She refused to stop supporting Israel, and they didn't vote for her.
Somehow, the people who love to say "FAFO" can't imagine the fucking around and finding out would happen to their fave.
February 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
They told Kamala over and over again that if she didn't stop supporting Israel, they would not vote for her.
She refused to stop supporting Israel, and they didn't vote for her.
Somehow, the people who love to say "FAFO" can't imagine the fucking around and finding out would happen to their fave.
She refused to stop supporting Israel, and they didn't vote for her.
Somehow, the people who love to say "FAFO" can't imagine the fucking around and finding out would happen to their fave.
I think my biggest issue with Bluesky and it not scratching the same itch as classic Twitter has more to do with me changing and less to do with the service itself.
February 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I think my biggest issue with Bluesky and it not scratching the same itch as classic Twitter has more to do with me changing and less to do with the service itself.
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I'm old enough to remember when they tried to steal the Kuffiyeh...but when that didn't work out it became a terror scarf 😅
February 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I'm old enough to remember when they tried to steal the Kuffiyeh...but when that didn't work out it became a terror scarf 😅
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I don't think that new massive hasbara budget is paying off to be honest...
February 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I don't think that new massive hasbara budget is paying off to be honest...
When I get older I wanna be one of those guys that comments “Beautiful woman!” on obviously AI videos. That seems like a peaceful existence.
February 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
When I get older I wanna be one of those guys that comments “Beautiful woman!” on obviously AI videos. That seems like a peaceful existence.
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Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man
The responsibility for resisting and correcting this behavior shouldn’t fall solely on a specific gender. If you’re a man of conscience and you see another man mimicking Nick Fuentes, fuck him up on sight before the women even get a chance. I mean that.
November 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”