Faisal’s Web Site
Tuesday, 7 July 2026
Killing Khamenei
William “Chip” Usher, Lawfare: “Present ambiguity buys short-term operational flexibility and eats away at legal credibility everywhere else.”
Saturday, 4 July 2026
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ACCEPTANCE OF THE LIBERTY MEDAL OF THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER (USA)
The Holy See: “Though frequently understood as the ability to act as one would like, authentic freedom runs much deeper. It is founded upon the human person’s capacity to know the truth and adhere to what is good, even at great cost — a sacrifice well known to many who have labored to shape this country.”
James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Saturday, 6 June 2026
Agriculture
Apocalypse No
Scott Galloway: “When a resource becomes dramatically cheaper to use, we don’t use less of it — we find a million new uses for it. If that sounds painless, keep reading.”
Friday, 5 June 2026
A Screwworm Outbreak Is At Hand And It’s DOGE’s Fault It’s This Bad
Joohn Choe: “And at the most abstract level, I think we can identify a common failure mode: some obscure little program that nobody cared about …”
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data
Raphael Satter, Reuters: “Wyden said in a statement that it was time to ‘start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat.’”
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic: “Within the U.S. today, people are again moving because of disasters, and because of the slow-grind attrition of heat, flooding, and rising insurance rates. Earlier this year, the nonprofit Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre found that disasters had caused 11 million evacuations or relocations in the previous 12 months.” (published December, 2025)
The Eternal Sloptember
George Hotz: “Without even thinking about it, they assume the creator had a basically human state of mind. This assumption is no longer true. Things can be broken in ways that weren’t previously possible, and old proxies of underlying quality like syntax and grammar are useless.”