2026-04-01 at

BREAKING NEWS : Iran Rebrands as A-Iran

"The SNSC notes that Aryanism is out of trend. But any transliteration from ancient language to modern global terms is trivial, so we are leveraging on the secular funding cycle's commitment to synth vibes. We've learnt from the Chinese the social importance of names that start with A. Moving forward, A-Iran will cement its leadership on administrative rosters everywhere."

The White House has signaled its intention to rebrand as A-America, in response.

time to study ML

 It's time. I'm free enough today, and the industry is mature enough ( though still full of inefficient methods ) that I am starting to catch up on popular ML terminology.


It'll be interesting to see how much of this I will brain in a decade, so 2036.

2026-03-31 at

an insufferable conflict in the Gulf

The US has seven hostages on the world stage : Ukraine and the GCC.

Ukraine, the whipping boy, shields Europe from Russia. Grunts of indignation are heard, but annoyance with the US hasn't yet risen to a level resulting in its defenestration. It will take some time for the EU to bring itself to arms.

Having tired of playthings in East and South-East Asia, the US has been on a romp in West Asia for the past 35 years. The GCC are old friends, so they still have their phones, and are expecting to pay their regular installments for protection.

Back home, trouble is brewing. It would be remarkably theatrical to have regime change happen, Trump scapegoated, having been fed healthily by the GOP for a term and a half, and causation projected upon Iran's thirst for vengeance, with cabinet officials taking minor rebuffs for incompetence. The valley's puppet masters would have their chosen king, at least for a little while.

In all of this, the only party with obvious material capability to deter the US from causing more loss of human life is the GCC.

I've many friends and some family in the US, and I'm probably more culturally American than Malaysian. But in in objective terms, the moderate way forward for the world is with the GCC taking the initiative to realign the global axis of conflict, by discarding American influence, or at least tempering it down by 50-80% from the norms of the last fifty years. It's a snowball's chance in hell, of course.

What shall we see, this April? Stay tuned!



21 hours after posting this, I'm contemplating the hilarity of Europe cosying up to Iran in an attempt to woo the latter away from Russian influence. Situationships remain unfolding.



2026-04-01 : The FT headline says the EU has no strategy about the Iran war.
  • 1. The US deleverages NATO in favour of POTATO ( Pretaliation of Trump All-in Treaty Organisation )
  • 2. RU threatens the EU, but UA is the whipping boy. UA wants to join the EU/NATO, but (1.) so the charade is UA must help all US allies against all RU allies
  • 3. IL and the US are now the firmest axis on the map. But USIL has now disenfranchised the GCC 
  •  4. The GCC is the only party with material leverage to end regional conflict with IR. In concert with the EU, they can weaken the RUIR axis