Carlson said that according to the Bible, the descendants of Abraham would receive land that today would include essentially the entire Middle East, and asked Huckabee if Israel had a right to that land.

Huckabee responded: “It would be fine if they took it all.” Huckabee added, however, that Israel was not looking to expand its territory and has a right to security in the land it legitimately holds.

Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has not had fully recognized borders. Its frontiers with Arab neighbors have shifted as a result of wars, annexations, ceasefires and peace agreements.

During the six-day 1967 Mideast war, Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem from Jordan, Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt and the Golan Heights from Syria. Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula as part of a peace deal with Egypt following the 1973 Mideast war. It also unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005.

Israel has attempted to deepen control of the occupied West Bank in recent months. It has greatly expanded construction in Jewish settlements, legalized outposts and made significant bureaucratic changes to its policies in the territory. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank and has offered strong assurances that he’d block any move to do so.

Palestinians have for decades called for an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza with east Jerusalem its capital, a claim backed by much of the international community.

Huckabee, an evangelical Christian and strong supporter of Israel and the West Bank settlement movement, has long opposed the idea of a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinian people. In an interview last year, he said he does not believe in referring to the Arab descendants of people who had lived in British-controlled Palestine as “Palestinians.”

Israel has encroached on more land since the start of its war with Hamas in Gaza, which was sparked by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Under the current ceasefire, Israel withdrew its troops to a buffer zone but still controls more than half the territory. Israeli forces are supposed to withdraw further, though the ceasefire deal doesn’t give a timeline.

After Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted at the end of 2024, Israel’s military seized control of a demilitarized buffer zone in Syria created as part of a 1974 ceasefire between the countries. Israel said the move was temporary and meant to secure its border.

And Israel still occupies five hilltop posts on Lebanese territory following its brief war with Hezbollah in 2024.

Gorsuch, the first Supreme Court justice Trump appointed when he first took office, joined the principal opinion in full but, in a separate concurring opinion, urged Americans to put their faith back into the legislative system.  It was a message that seemed directed toward one person in particular: Trump.  The conservative justice acknowledged that the court’s decision would be “disappointing” for some. He said major decisions affecting Americans are “funneled through the legislative process for a reason.”  “Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises,” Gorsuch wrote. “But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design.”   “Through that process, the Nation can tap the combined wisdom of the people’s elected representatives, not just that of one faction or man,” he continued.  Since returning to the White House, Trump has sought to circumvent the legislative process and consolidate the executive branch’s power across the board.   “In all, the legislative process helps ensure each of us has a stake in the laws that govern us and in the Nation’s future,” Gorsuch said. “For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent. For others, it may not seem so obvious.   “But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today’s result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is,” he added.

ramblefeed-web-app: v0.14.4

Bug Fixes

• add timeouts to unfurl service and log backfill progress (a74dfc7)

@activescott/posthog-react-router: v0.1.0

Features

• extract PostHog integration into reusable package (03c25ad)

ramblefeed-web-app: v0.14.3

Bug Fixes

• add verbose progress and anti-buffering headers to backfill-og (40263a2)
• capture $pageview events for PostHog SPA tracking (69e8a77)

ramblefeed-web-app: v0.14.2

Bug Fixes

• add top-level error handling to backfill-og stream (154badf)

ramblefeed-web-app: v0.14.1

Bug Fixes

• stream backfill-og response to avoid Cloudflare 524 timeout (2b2034e)

AI is great. However, I also just read a report from Morgan Stanley wrote "Promises are big, but adoption is only 15-20%." And "Productivity gains not yet in evidence, concentrated among tech companies themselves."

Can this level of spending be justified?

In just over a decade, investment in AI has surpassed the cost of developing the first atomic bomb, landing humans on the moon and the decades-long effort to build the 75,440km (46,876-mile) US interstate highway network.

Unlike these landmark projects, AI funding has not been driven by a single government or wartime urgency. It has flowed through private markets, venture capital, corporate research and development, and global investors, making it one of the largest privately financed technological waves in history.

Global private investment in AI by country, 2013-24:

US: $471bn, supporting 6,956 newly funded AI companies
China: $119bn, 1,605 startups
UK: $28bn, 885 startups
Canada: $15bn, 481 startups
Israel: $15bn, 492 startups
Germany: $13bn, 394 startups
India: $11bn, 434 startups
France: $11bn, 468 startups
South Korea: $9bn, 270 startups
Singapore: $7bn, 239 startups
Others: $58bn

Very interesting interview-style talk filled with wise advice that will benefit anyone regardless if religious persuasion.

Shoaib Shahid speaks to chair of Cambridge Central Mosque, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, about the complexities of distraction in our lives, seeking clarity and practical insights to navigate this modern malaise.

ramblefeed-web-app: v0.14.0

Features

• populate OG metadata from bookmarked sites (0cf91ab)

Introduction

LangExtract is a Python library that uses LLMs to extract structured information from unstructured text documents based on user-defined instructions. It processes materials such as clinical notes or reports, identifying and organizing key details while ensuring the extracted data corresponds to the source text. Why LangExtract?

Precise Source Grounding: Maps every extraction to its exact location in the source text, enabling visual highlighting for easy traceability and verification.
Reliable Structured Outputs: Enforces a consistent output schema based on your few-shot examples, leveraging controlled generation in supported models like Gemini to guarantee robust, structured results.
Optimized for Long Documents: Overcomes the "needle-in-a-haystack" challenge of large document extraction by using an optimized strategy of text chunking, parallel processing, and multiple passes for higher recall.
Interactive Visualization: Instantly generates a self-contained, interactive HTML file to visualize and review thousands of extracted entities in their original context.
Flexible LLM Support: Supports your preferred models, from cloud-based LLMs like the Google Gemini family to local open-source models via the built-in Ollama interface.
Adaptable to Any Domain: Define extraction tasks for any domain using just a few examples. LangExtract adapts to your needs without requiring any model fine-tuning.
Leverages LLM World Knowledge: Utilize precise prompt wording and few-shot examples to influence how the extraction task may utilize LLM knowledge. The accuracy of any inferred information and its adherence to the task specification are contingent upon the selected LLM, the complexity of the task, the clarity of the prompt instructions, and the nature of the prompt examples.

1. Define the prompt and extraction rules

prompt = textwrap.dedent("""
Extract characters, emotions, and relationships in order of appearance. Use exact text for extractions. Do not paraphrase or overlap entities. Provide meaningful attributes for each entity to add context.""")

2. Provide a high-quality example to guide the model

examples = [ lx.data.ExampleData( text="ROMEO. But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", extractions=[ lx.data.Extraction( extraction_class="character", extraction_text="ROMEO", attributes={"emotional_state": "wonder"} ), lx.data.Extraction( extraction_class="emotion", extraction_text="But soft!", attributes={"feeling": "gentle awe"} ), lx.data.Extraction( extraction_class="relationship", extraction_text="Juliet is the sun", attributes={"type": "metaphor"} ), ] ) ]

It’s results like these that are exactly why we need ranked choice voting. A glass half full verdict of the results are that the candidates deemed not pro-Israel enough got almost 60% of the vote.

Neat. I spent a night with it and here are my impressions:

• Similar to Claude Code in all the good ways. Very pleasent experience overall.
• It seemed to search through and understand it rapidly maybe even faster than CC.
• It was very aggressive at deciding what to do. I spend a lot of time planning with CC and I often interrupt CC when it explains what it is about to do and guide it. I had no time at all to do that with Amp it was done making changes before I can figure out what it was trying to do. It's efforts were at least as good as CC, but still in some cases there are multiple ways to solve or troubleshoot a problem and I would like to give it more direction. I couldn't figure out how to interject and have it work with me more. CC seems to give me more info or more opportunity to interact.
• EXPENSIVE. It cost me ~~>$20~~ >$30 to work with it for maybe 2hrs with plenty of my own testing and debugging in between usage. It seems like it was a few bucks just to turn it on and ask it to start investigating.

Overall very interesting and credible alternative to CC, but my biggest show stopper is I can't afford to keep playing with it right now. I'll check back in a month or two.

Amp is the frontier coding agent for your terminal and editor.

Multi-Model: Opus 4.6, GPT-5.2 Codex, fast models—Amp uses them all, for what each model is best at.
Opinionated: You’re always using the good parts of Amp. If we don’t use and love a feature, we kill it.
On the Frontier: Amp goes where the models take it. No backcompat, no legacy features.
Threads: You can save and share your interactions with Amp. You wouldn’t code without version control, would you?

For proprietary agents that don’t want to join in, good old symlinks do the job:

Fix A Broken AGENTS.md With This Prompt

If you're starting to get nervous about the AGENTS.md file in your repo, and you want to refactor it to use progressive disclosure, try copy-pasting this prompt into your coding agent:

I want you to refactor my AGENTS.md file to follow progressive disclosure principles.

Follow these steps:

1. Find contradictions: Identify any instructions that conflict with each other. For each contradiction, ask me which version I want to keep.

2. Identify the essentials: Extract only what belongs in the root AGENTS.md:

   • One-sentence project description
   • Package manager (if not npm)
   • Non-standard build/typecheck commands
   • Anything truly relevant to every single task

3. Group the rest: Organize remaining instructions into logical categories (e.g., TypeScript conventions, testing patterns, API design, Git workflow). For each group, create a separate markdown file.

4. Create the file structure: Output:

   • A minimal root AGENTS.md with markdown links to the separate files
   • Each separate file with its relevant instructions
   • A suggested docs/ folder structure

5. Flag for deletion: Identify any instructions that are:

   • Redundant (the agent already knows this)
   • Too vague to be actionable
   • Overly obvious (like "write clean code")

MicroZig is a toolbox for building embedded applications in Zig.

MicroZig is a toolbox for building embedded applications in Zig.