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On the geopolitics of splinternets View Article →

Centralised GAE accelerating, peripheral South American actors will no longer enjoy the little bit of autonomy they had in the old world. Simply aligning with Russia is not enough to be safe. Europe is no longer an "ally" but is seen as a troubled territory to be absorbed within the core to avoid civilisational collapse.

Must say Snow Crash is my favourite science fiction cyberpunk novel. The way Stephenson blends cryptography and memetics with anthropology and history is entertaining. Recommend.

The ring begins from the centre and expands to includes the periphery. Essentially serving as the framework. A framework made out of silicon, electromagnetic infrastructure. The framework expands through cognition relays (nostr technologies), exchaging the knowledge necessary to grow the framework to include all peripheries. Nostr is the management of data transmission in a splinternet ring system.

Loading 4 of the SAIF mag had me thinking about how civilisations are essentially deep operating systems. How the different nodes of Islamicate draw from local geography and history to form distinct methods of technology and engineering. Viewing STEM through the lens of cosmotechnics as Yuk Hui argues. Thinking about sharing my thoughts on how can this fit in within a wider Ummatic Splinternet framework, exploring the relationship between the centre and the peripheries.

Infiltrate X without being on X

As things stand with GAE's increasingly colonial objectives in MENA. The question isn't whether increased military spending is enough for the survival of the regimes in the region. The question is what does survival look like to different regional actors . UAE and others in the Gulf saw this in the 2010's and completely hedged their bets with rented sovereignty becoming a direct extension to GAE. Building a cyber state effective in lulling population and providing GaaS. Hence becoming an important component in GAE's machine. Gaining control of USCENTCOM as soon as possible will be the endpoint that Israel wants to actualise Greater Israel and beyond with regional partners such as UAE providing economic support. They realise time is running out, especially with powers such as Turkey, Syria and potentially Egypt eventually gaining the ability to contest Israeli aerial superiority. Given the internal political climates of the three nations above, survival becomes paramount

You can't speculate the future anymore without using the word 'accelerate'

The Helix is the best analogy of Time from an Islamic perspective. Not linear but directional. It is a spiral entropically descending into chaos. "The best people are those of my generation, then those who come after them, then those after them"

May your prayers be answered, your sins be forgiven, and your faith be strengthened. Jumma Mubarak 🕌