Hello world I’m considering making this my final post. It feels as though we’ve become too heavy for everyone, and that the story we carry no longer has anyone left to hear it

Why do we often feel more empathy for animals than humans? Because we're not in intra-species competition with them for basically everything...

Emotional pain of any sufficient intensity always come along with a desperate need for someone else to see it, name it, acknowledge it too... The standard outcome is for us to fail each other in this.

The healthcare sector in Gaza is witnessing a complete collapse, and what I just saw inside the hospital was a scene beyond description. I saw a person whose foot had been amputated as a result of a direct targeting by the Israeli army, and he was screaming and crying in unbearable pain. He could no longer endure it, so he began pleading with the doctor to give him any painkiller or anesthetic that could ease his suffering. But the shock came in the doctor’s response; he told him that they no longer had any type of pain medication available. At that point, overwhelmed by pain and helplessness, the injured man began hitting himself because he could no longer bear what he was feeling, and he had no option except to wait until any pain relief became available to ease his suffering. What patients and the wounded in Gaza are experiencing is a harsh reality that goes beyond the limits of human endurance, amid Israel’s continued prevention of the entry of medicines and medical supplies into Gaza entirely.

They seemed to have reset weekly usage as a result of this too. Back to 100% free.

Kind of incredible really. Was just sitting down to ask Fable to do something.

BREAKING: Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled that the Filton 4 will be sentenced as terrorists – even though two juries refused to convict them of violence charges over their efforts to disable an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza. They were found guilty of a minor charge of criminal damage. Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It's a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain. Thousands of legal professionals complained about Johnson's clear abuses of legal procedures to help the government's case for proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Johnson has now proved this was always a show trial. I explain how he rigged the two trials here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/…

"This is the final farewell between P_alestinian prisoners and their loved ones moments before they are taken away forever. On March 30, 2026, thousands were condemned under “t*errorism” charges, a profound injustice. Nearly 11,000 lives—most of them young, now stand on the edge of silence. We live in a world where videos of lonely penguins and playful monkeys go viral in seconds… yet speaking about prisoners in P_alestine feels heavy, constrained, almost forbidden. And somewhere between our silence and our fear, their stories begin to fade…" ©aestheteofyoursoul

Just moments ago, I was looking up at the sky above me when I saw a brightly lit fighter jet speeding overhead. I paid little attention, as I have become accustomed to this sight. Moments later, the sky lit up with a massive fireball, followed by the deafening sound of a huge explosion. We are still being bombed without pause. Gaza’s sky is still ablaze with explosions and airstrikes, and the genocide is still ongoing. Will you save us before it is too late?

This stuff is powerful exactly because you know the guy has been through hell and back. You'll see similar inspo posts all over your timeline but there's a difference when it comes from someone *you can tell* has really suffered...

Monero ($XMR) has gone on a rampage the last two days. Dragged down by bitcoin. Now sprang right back up. My bot is seeing arbs galore on pairs involving it too.

Israel is bombing Gaza right now. Speak about Gaza; we die a hundred times every day between bombardment, hunger, and fear. Do not let our suffering be forgotten💔

I've felt a lethargy in last few days that is so wicked. It's not part of my usual symptoms. Mostly a new one. I can't tell you how depressing it is. Feels like being pulled down into the pit energetically. It's hell. Is this what my MECFS bro's & sis's experience regularly??

You would think when everyone has a couple of MCPs and frontier LLMs to-hand, consulting businesses like mine would be toast. Why pay Speedshop four figures a month to fix your app when "an LLM can just do it for me?" I've been running at 100% capacity for the past year despite all the advances on the model front. Why? 1. You've gotten more effective, but so have I. What _I_ can accomplish with an hour $50 of tokens is still 10x what _you_ can accomplish with that. 2. You still don't know what questions to ask. Consultants are _still_ more effective than LLMs at answering the unknown unknowns, whereas LLMs still require you to prompt them. The "analyze my entire codebase" skill you have is nowhere near as effective as what I can do. 3. Trust and blame-ability. Everyone is sitting on piles of now _hundreds_ of pull requests which are generated by agents but they are too nervous to merge without human review. I am that human review and accountability now, or I am the expert who helps you build the software factory which can automate this trust and verification process (which you cannot build yourself because you don't know how to verify software for performance). 4. Not all problems are LLM-shaped. Certain problems are a great fit for "token generator in a loop": fix all my N 1s, make my test suite faster. But others are very, very poorly shaped for LLMs: refactor my codebase to fit Russian Doll caching (it will generate an utter hackjob), prioritize 100 different possible things I could be doing, define the goals of performance work, etc. Drudgery is now automatable, yes, but not all the work we do is drudgery. 5. Not all useful knowledge is in the training data. I have ten years of experiences and knowledge from working on literally hundreds of applications which never made it to my blog or books and does not appear in the training set. I know things the LLMs do not. There are probably more reasons. And I'm not just sitting on my laurels either, I still feel the pressure to get better every day as the frontier capabilities continue to grow. But the business is still good.

"Poll after poll shows the UK and US publics have switched their support from the Israelis to the Palestinians. And the response from the pro-Israel people in power, having seen that they cannot win the argument on Palestine, is to now prevent the argument from happening."

Yeah Fable feels like a collaborator. It does what it wants. Zero f*cks given.

The best case explanation is you got carried away and allowed yourself to be played by a losing faction in an empirical argument. Not good but it happens. None of us are immune. Opinion differences are fine, if course but this article’s problems are way, way beyond that. This is extremely high stakes for some terribly ill people, and should motivate you to fix this as best you can and actually and fully step away unless you are willing to do a lot of work to understand the topic. But even if that’s not enough motivation, frankly, all that further doubling down on this framing for this issue will get you is give other people examples to use in their writing of empirically poor, biased and very harmful framings that made their way to articles and books as late as 2026. You decide how close to Andrew Wakefield you want your name. And I say this is someone who is very critical of the mind/body duality in medicine and who has written a lot about the problems with definition of Long Covid. I am not speaking lightly.

My little sister Siham asked me today if we could return to the sea again. Children in Gaza become attached to small moments of peace very quickly… because they know how quickly they disappear.

Beautiful Habiba Al-Askari is one of 6,000 amputation cases in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the genocide. Imagine that 4,000 of this total are children. You can also imagine that Gaza represents the highest rate of child amputees relative to its population, making it the largest concentration of child amputees in the world 💔

Come on then Fable, let's see what you got.