Muslim contribution to FOSS in a period where there is no anchor state and the need is some degree of independence from GAE and CCP (unavoidable to ignore entirely though) splinternts is the fix here. Building on already excellent protocols the key - Notesnook an example of Muslim excellence in encrypted notetaking that has become universalist. It is a good product because it is excellent not because it is "Islamic", banking on affinity scamming SAIF has been spreading the need for FOSS development not just as a technical challenge but one of cultural formation and attitudes. We must reconfigure the everyday cultural relationship Muslims have with Big Tech and in doing so we will find like minded allies Data is spice - taking this one step further - data and money are increasingly becoming one and the same thing. Important to engage culturally and technically with BTC but also XMR to a lesser extent and avoid the rest of GAE crypto

The previous GAE policy of allowing reasonable autonomy to the central provinces (Canada et al) is no longer felt to be in the interest of American primacy - many of the provinces if allowed to exercise sovereignty in a multipolar world would no longer automatically choose the US In a multipolar world where choosing the US is no longer the default option - protectionism is a way of bolting the doors, locking in allies against their will and holding them hostage. The pain this will cause in the provinces will of course incite the flames of rebellion and will force many to ask "What is the point of being a GAE vassal anymore?" - when that gains momentum there will be new populisms potentially - GAExit on the cards? Unlike the EU for all its faults there is no constitutional or political identity here that is being shaped by Trumpism outside of accelerating sovcorp/megacartel raiding of state assets Populism with oligarchic/plutocratic characteristics by cynically deploying protectionism to keep the USD based Wall Street ponzi scheme going, will unsurprisingly not save the West - it accelerates its death

As written recently in the excellent paper by Hornby, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics After ChatGPT" we are at the start of a process where the dialogical interactions between the reader, text and author will become radically altered Hornby discusses how LLM models when deployed in chatbots or even agents can be thought of as large meta-texts rather than mega-texts per se. The future of literary engagement in an agentic world will be meta-textual - summaries often distilled into more concise summaries The reader will now have the scope of their literary engagement shaped by various meta-texts offered by competing models - there will be Deepseek meta-texts about Nietzsche and Anthroopic, OpenAI and Alibaba ones. Recent research of deploying LLMs in pedagogical settings have shown remarkable results particularly a small scale study done in Nigeria in an underprivileged setting. Meta-textual summaries seems to distill understanding?