Arslan Farooq @arslanone

中国の洋上ブースター回収、2024年に見かけたコンセプトがちゃんと動作してる。レール上を動くアンカーに張ったワイヤーが井桁状にロケットを保持するようになってる space.com/china-catch-re…

So this is why elon wanted to rush the IPO so bad... 🤔 China just did it cheaper on their first try. RIP 🔻

@bankertobuilder 🖐️

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

Pakistan’s salaried class has become the government’s ATM. (Image courtesy @AmerSharifOFCL

Pakistan is a country with the least forest cover in the world, with just 2.2% forest as per the UN. If we keep cutting trees, what are we going to leave behind for our future generations? A desert!

Phones Are a Need, not Luxury! End PTA TAX!

🚨 China attracts investors with lower taxes. Pakistan punishes investors with higher taxes. 👀 🇵🇰 PAKISTAN STCG Tax → 15% for filers, 30%+ for non-filers LTCG Tax → 15% | CGT on property up to 15% CVT 2-4% on property purchase Super Tax + Advance Tax + WHT on dividends Brokerage + SECP + CDC charges 🇨🇳 CHINA 0% capital gains tax for retail on A-shares Minimal transaction costs Government wants you to invest Result? 👇 Global money flows to China. Pakistani investor Dubai/UAE bhagta hai. Market grows when investing is attractive. Not when har profit pe govt pehle hissa leti hai. 📉 #PSX #KSE100 #Tax #pakistanmediagoesglobal

Retailer: 20 crore turnover, 40 lakh profit, tax = 25 hazar Mulazim: 40 lakh salary, tax = 5.85 lakh Ek mulk, do qanoon. This isn’t tax reform. It’s tax deform. #pakistanpivotofpeace #Budget2026

2016 میں جب پنجاب میں کوئلے اور LNG کے پاور پلانٹ لگائے جا رہے تھے تو اس وقت کے سیکرٹری پاور یونس ڈھاگا نے اس کی مخالفت کی اور کہا کہ ہم کیپسٹی چارجز کے گھن چکر میں پھنس جائیں گے ، 24 گھنٹے کے اندر یونس ڈھاگا کو کھڈے لائن لگا دیا گیا تھا آج اگر 2 ہزار ارب کیپسٹی چارجز ہیں تو 13 سو ارب کیپسٹی چارجز ان پاور پلانٹس کے ہیں ! ثناءاللہ خان ۔

Pakistanis are not tired because they lack hope. They are tired because every few years they are asked to sacrifice again while the elite remain untouched. A nation cannot keep taxing the patience of its people and call it reform.

Trigger alert! Footage circulating online shows Dutch police smashing a PREGNANT Palestinian woman into the ground, while posing no threat at all, in the Netherlands.

Pakistan doesn’t have a tax system. It has a punishment system. It punishes the salaried, the documented, the consumer, the electricity user and the petrol buyer; while privilege negotiates, litigates and escapes. That is not revenue mobilisation. That is fiscal injustice. 1/4

👀 میں مردہ باد 👀 آج فیروز پور روڈ لاہور پر مائیکل اپنے لوڈر رکشہ پر جاتا دکھا، اظہار راۓ کے لیے موجود گھٹیا ترین حالات میں بھی کیا شاندار طریقہ ڈھونڈا ہے مائیکل نے احتجاج کا۔مجھے سو فیصد یقین ہے کہ عام آدمی سے مکمل طور پر کٹا ہوا “بچہ جمہورا نظام” مائیکل کے یہ فلیکس بھی برداشت نہیں کر پاۓ گا۔ اللہ ہمارے سائکلیں کھینچتے، بوریاں لوڈ کرتے، مزدوری کرتے، کھیت سینچتے، اپنے خاندان کے لیے خواب دیکھتے مائیکلوں کی خیر رکھے، زندہ رہنے کے حالات تو نہیں رہے لیکن شام کے سب پروگراموں میں ملک اونچی اڑان بھرتا ہے ہر روز۔اسی لیے مائیکل نے لکھ دیا کہ سب زندہ باد بس میں مردہ باد۔

“I want to see Donald Trump hung by the neck till death according to the Constitution of the United States.” — Kenneth O’Keefe, former U.S. Marine and Gulf War veteran. After visiting the graves of 168 children killed in Minab, O’Keefe says he broke down crying “like a baby” for the first time since his mother died. What follows is one of the most furious anti-war condemnations you will hear from an American veteran. Stay tuned for the full interview on The Sanchez Effect.

Freelancers built the fastest growing export engine in Pakistan and contributed to Foreign Exchange. And the response is… tax them more? Data doesn’t lie: • Traditional IT exports → +18% YoY • Freelance / remote exports → +90% YoY When you can’t outgrow them, regulate them. Because the incumbents are Lazy... This proposed freelancer tax is basically an “Ambition Tax.” Pakistan should reward globally competitive talent not punish it. (What do you think?) Detailed article tomorrow. 🇵🇰

Heartbreaking: This is little Menna Abu Labda. She had previously been injured and would always tell anyone speaking to her, “My hand is broken.” Israel killed her today in her school tent inside a camp sheltering displaced families.

Hostility towards Islam breeds degeneracy.

这次美国访华晚宴坐在马斯克和库克中间C位最亮眼的，是蓝思科技创始人周群飞，从农村打工妹到中国女首富，完全没有任何背景全靠自己白手起家。她出生在湖南的一个小村庄，5岁时母亲去世，父亲也因工伤残疾双目失明，家徒四壁，16岁交不起学费被迫辍学去广东打工，在一家工厂流水线打磨玻璃，白天干活，晚上疯狂自学，考了会计证、电脑操作证等技能证书，就这样过了几年，她拿着靠打工攒的2万块，拉上哥哥姐姐、嫂子姐夫等8个亲戚，在深圳开了一家小作坊，做手表玻璃加工，她一个人修机器、跑销售，就这样又干了4年。 到了2000年后手机行业开始大规模发展，一次偶然的机会她的手表玻璃厂接到了TCL手机屏幕的订单，她看到了手机玻璃市场的巨大潜力，于是迅速成立了蓝思科技，专门负责手机玻璃的生产研发和销售，一开始只做国产手机和山寨机，但是直到有一次想谈下摩托罗拉的订单，但外企的质量要求非常严格，她赌上几乎全部的资源配合摩托罗拉，拿下了全球销售超过1亿台的V3订单，直接把蓝思科技推到了行业领先位置，随后顺利拿下诺基亚、三星等外企。 关键的转折点又一次出现在了2007年，当时乔布斯发布初代iPhone，彻底把手机往全玻璃触屏的方向变革，乔布斯那变态的工艺要求全球都找不到符合的厂商，周群飞敏锐的意识到这又是一个巨大的机会，于是带领团队和苹果工程师联合攻关了3个月，突破关键工艺，成功量产了第一代iPhone玻璃面板，从此拿下苹果长期合同，后续的iPad、MacBook等几乎所有苹果设备全部都交给了蓝思科技，也帮助蓝思科技在触摸玻璃面板领域成为全区最大公司。 这也是为什么她能坐在库克旁边，那为什么马斯克也坐在她旁边呢？ 蓝思科技在玻璃面板干到全球第一后，开始往更加多元的智能化设备发展，包括汽车座舱和机器人，其中汽车领域包括车窗、中控等已经拿下了特斯拉、宝马、奔驰、理想等30家车企，机器人领域则主要负责关节、传感器等部件，这些都和马斯克的业务有深度重合。 一个15岁辍学只有初中文凭的女生，从湖南农村出来白手起家成为中国女首富，40年后进入中美会谈，坐在了马斯克和库和中间，这就是周群飞的故事。