Zakaria Kortam

@zakaria

Founder @surf

Joined Aug 2026

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Back in San Diego again

Saudi Aramco has informed at least two European oil refining customers that they will not receive Saudi crude shipments next month. This follows an attack on the kingdom's key East-West pipeline, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday. These customers usually receive Saudi crude through long-term supply agreements that guarantee regular monthly deliveries. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that those scheduled allocations will not be supplied next month.

A screenshot of a news article about Saudi Aramco suspending European crude deliveries.

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16h

Using Surf in a Tesla lol. Based

Watch AI build a tank from scratch in Solidworks!

My whole feed in X is just pure slop. Surf is important.

The Tesla Roadster Launch Event is scheduled for October 1, 2026, to officially unveil the next-generation Tesla Roadster

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Rabbi's got a point lmaoo

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Pizza in Berkeley, pretty Fire

OpenAI CEO and Nvidia CEO plan to attend state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump, sources say

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Interesting seeing conservatives strongly defending Sydney Sweeny hyper sexualizing Women's sports Like bro, idk if you're actually a conservative, by definition

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Armageddon @the_real_arma·3d

20 millisecond reflexes at work

Codex's usage limits are really honestly quite sad

Went to Chick Fil A to try and skip traffic. That didn't work out so well... looks like there's no escaping it lol

The board of the Kennedy Center voted on Tuesday to close over financial issues and a dispute over putting President Donald Trump's name on the iconic performing arts venue, according to people familiar with the matter. The people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a private meeting.

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Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran's "The Loop Tour" after facing intense backlash for making pro-Palestinian speeches and projecting a Palestinian flag during his opening performances at MetLife Stadium. According to Macklemore, New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft organized a powerful venue boycott, giving Sheeran an ultimatum to either remove the rapper or lose access to multiple major stadiums.

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Just a reminder that there is no such thing as a "slowdown" in AI development. The federal government and the military industrial complex will never slow down. They may try to slow consumer development, but that doesnt mean the real technology is being hindered

What makes Surf truly special is that we're not only trying to curate a space for the free expression of ideas. But rather, this space is one for real human thought. We are doing everything in our power to keep out bots and automated systems in order to ensure that discussions on Surf are as real as possible.

There's a lot of strange doomsday hype surrounding AI nowadays. Yes, there is danger with how quickly AI is accelerating. However, do I think some of the PR stunts that Anthropic and OpenAI are pulling are simply to hype up how "dangerously powerful" AI is? Yes. We all know very well that the second the Department of War gets involved, it's full throttle, even if they try to slow the acceleration of consumer tech.

Islam is definitely the world's most misunderstood faith. Not because it is a difficult faith to understand, but it is a faith that many gain a lot from demonizing. There is nothing wrong with having theological disagreements. But it's a question of whether those disagreements are truly with the faith or a misperception of the faith. What saddens me more than the pure hatred I see spewed everyday is how easily people are fooled by slop, despite how many research tools exist today. If you see a claim about a verse or belief, it takes 2 seconds to paste it into Google or GPT and find out if it's legit or not. Too many people believe the stupidest slop simply because they don't check. I have seen 1000x more people concerned about the "Islamification" of America (Only 1.3% of the population) over the fact that our whole government and all the major industries are run by a satanic human trafficking cult.

What I've noticed with Steve Hilton is that his campaign has a lot more energy than recent Republican Gubernatorial Candidates The past few races were pretty dead. Hilton has a lot more momentum. California might possibly have a Republican governor next year.

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F in the chat for Google rn

Every bit of content on Surf is transparent in terms of where it came from. There are estimates that around 50% of people on social media are bots. There's a chance that half the people you interact with aren't even real. They're both accounts from foreign governments or bad actors that are trying to influence how you think. That's why I've put a lot of effort into maximizing content transparency and trying to get rid of opportunities for bots to make content or accounts.

The lone Black male juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial, who refused to acquit Clancy despite pressure from the media and the 11 other jurors, has been doxxed, had his home visited by hostile Clancy supporters, had his family contacted, and had past allegations against him dug up.

A images of two women with a caption below describing the harassment of a juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial.

Dario Amodei has called for a slowdown in AI progress, claiming that AI systems could soon break free from human control and wreak havoc. Amodei has long called for government regulation of AI and safety checks on newer systems.

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Wow. That looks so smooth. Holy moly

Revline.Visuals @Revline_Visuals·6d

There is so much disinformation being pushed about Islam and Muslims. I believe it's a psy-op. I hold no resentment or issue with people who theologically disagree with Islam. Alright, you believe Islam is false, you do you. But when people intentionally spread falsehood about the faith, when they know it's false, that's where I seriously start to have massive questions.

I agree that we are seeing a decline in the quality of K-12. Some educators simply suck. However, I also think there is a big systemic issue with the government. Some state governments are focused on everything but the actual education of students. Some actively try to push down students.

doghut @doghut·6d

The downfall of K-12 education is at the fault of the educators. Having been at my university for about a year now, it's difficult to grasp the sheer contrast between a proper high-quality education (where the professors are very clearly there to serve and help the student to the best of their ability) and my previous high school (which, given my current reference point, was unacceptable on so many levels). From my four years at Silver Creek High School, a public secondary educational institution based in multi-trillion dollar AI-driven Silicon Valley, it became abundantly clear to me that 50% of the educators were fully well-intentioned, capable, and very well deserving of high praise. The other half, however, were grossly incompetent and cognitively impaired. Many were emotionally unstable, incapable of teaching (correctly), power-tripping, and severely egotistic, seeing themselves as "higher" and "smarter" than their students by some delusional and nonexistent metric. Often, the "I've been doing this for X years" (yeah and you still suck at your job), "you will not do this in MY classroom" (it's not your classroom; it's the taxpayer's), denying mistakes during lectures and shoving the blame onto the student, or frequent use of "vulgar" language (I have nothing against swearing, but frequent cursing in an allegedly professional educational environment as a faculty member showcases, at minimum, some degree of instability and poor self control) are strong indicators of an educator being in the latter 50% group. Education, at least in large, is not declining due to increasing phone use or lower attention spans. Instead, we should shift our attention to the educators themselves. Perhaps students no longer pay attention because they found that The Organic Chemistry Tutor and modern LLMs are far better learning alternatives than incompetent morons who aren't worth allocating attention towards. Perhaps education is becoming worse simply because the people teaching are idiots. We desperately need mass-layoffs in K-12 public schools.