#BBC

 Finally a show in which the social aspects cannot play any role. The current continuous looser Tim said about that show that there was competition, but much more a collegial meeting happening. I am glad they all turned Hippies now.

That then means just for us outsiders staring at walking drug labs lifting iron for obscurely ridiculous levels of muscle volume... we get it ever less. 

The top commentator says some about an unsymmetrical back you just can't get over as soon as having started focusing on it and I am 100% confident that that's pretty dam accurate, if I just could point out which he means. 

Bodybuilding can be the worst chaos ever. There is no way to tell anything apart or follow those fuzziest descriptions such as fasting over a stomach issue about a guy that must have serious levels of appetite visibly being any of them.

At least I know understand how most other feel when I talk about my world and thinks I think about.

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

PS: That suicide thing? That is simple. You can grab these guys at their balls. Being dead, Bodybuilding is done and you'll never make it. Everyone will remember you as the guy dying being 12kilos over weight. If you live onm the worst that can happen is that you are the guy that had no chance yet never gave up.

Works with each single Alpha Primate.

Granted.

#streetwars

Look. Noah got all animals through the flood. Those animals are there to give him company. God created humans on the last day of his work. Imagine that we, those deriving from animals, became humans to accompany those God created; That we eventually mixed with them. Consider that Noah's kind does not exist anymore, but that we all carry some of them as much as some of those animals.

But most importantly that all God made was Good.

Good.

#jedi 

 

#thegermans

 German Engineering. What they think they are...

 

What's really going on...

You do not understand the Theory of Relativity. You might understand so, the difference between a Rotterdam Harbor crane in a village and a lorry with a winch.

Mmmh....

#igostuck

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

Patches over Badges and

 never mind Brighton? #the60ies

 #MODInc

PS:  

What they tell you that happened.

What you think that happened.

What really happened.

#TIE

 

:-) 

 

Who are they? Those Brothers.

 Those putting Superglue to a use.

A good use. 

#undergroundwars

#cyberpunkcoltoure

 

Who I mean

 by Brothers?

 Brothers. As I said.

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

FUCK ME!

 How Shadowrun Noir Cyberpunk is that?

 

Imagine how they transport the AI on an USB stick in their Anus while crossing the Green Boarder to Hong Kong.... where a boat is waiting for them leaving to Kolkata. 

!

#cyberpunkcoltoure

PS: VPN download? 

And that goes on. Two hours freaking the shit out of an innocent Chines guy for a Mainland Chinese SIM card.

Check this out:

Yes, many McDonald's locations in China offer free Wi-Fi for customer.

 

If just regularly checking the WiFi list on the mobile is to boring and we all want to feel like a real underground hacker:

 To set up a Wi-Fi heat mapper on Linux, you can use open-source Python tools like whm (wifi-heat-mapper) to survey your signal strength and generate coverage maps.

 

Or enter this into Google:

 Global Wi-Fi Directory Websites 

 

#weallgotstuck 

Hello Mr J4v.
We can not sell you our latest killer AI model due to export restrictions.

Hello Miss Woo.

I am sure you can sell it to Hong-Kong.

 

Hello Mr J4v.
We most certainly can. You just have to send us your company documents. We also have to inform you that you also cannot export the AI from Hong-Kong to the EU.

 

Hello Miss Woo.

I just opened a company in Hong-Kong. The server I would like you to upload the AI is located in Columbia to which there are no export restrictions.

 

Hello Mr J4v.

Are you not located in the EU?

Hello Miss Woo.

How would that matter? I can proof I am accessing the Colombian server from a South African IP that is pn no VPN list. Feel free to call my colleague Mr Melokuhle. His office is next to a Kindergarden and sometimes the Kindergardener picks up the phone. Don't worry. He'll be there during regular business hours. Just ask for him.

 

Hello Mr J4v.

That won't be needed. We have received your online registered Hong-Kong company tax id. 

#igotstuck

I have have had to have such conversations. Apparently, it must happen at the third date. except American chicks, and I mean chicks. They either fuck you on first or see you never again.

Then I figured that my English buddy tried to ask me out about German dating and I had to tell him a blunt: "I don't know", to having to further explain that I with one exception never dated a German woman. Either a local hardly German, a Turkish insisting to be no German or an American. That one exception included no dating. Don't worry and we can call it love on first sight.

 

The Chicks I had to explain that there is a very lot talking in that branch of the company and they will not hesitate to spread every single possible rumor, being very German.

The two did not connect the dots by having had to much distance.

 

#MODInc #cyberpunkcoltoure 

#MIB

 Listen to him. 

Turns out the trenches are no tactical or strategic tool, but of psychological purpose.

I am pretty dam sure not only both player and commentator understand them as such, but about all of Assimov and each single Right Wing serving in their Legion.  

#MIB

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

 

For the rest of the world: Trenches in warfare are supposed to be fast moving lines of defense and make only sense if stretching out systematically, ideally around a core base or camp.

 

Even so dug out positions usually covered with trees and fauna appear to be trenches, they are not.  They are dugouts. 

 

Grammatical Breakdown

 

Verb: To dig out → dug out (past tense).

 

Adjective (Modifying a noun): A dug-out position. 

(Usually hyphenated when it comes right before the noun it describes).

 

Noun (The place itself): A dugout. (Combined into a single word). 

 

"He dug out a dugout, successfully. Now the Platoon has a covered position to hold."

 

WW1 was so bad, because those lines of defense were repurposed into waiting positions for large amounts of badly trained and quickly recruited Soldiers by Generals under the influence of hard drugs, as those tactics and orders make no sense to any clear, military educated mind.

Trenches were included into Fortress fortifications as their last evolutionary step to create a further out reaching buffer zone against long range artillery. They were not supposed to take artillery fire, yet allow fast infantry movements, but industrial mass production allowed the production of so incredible huge amounts of even heavy long range artillery that the shells were used in massive amounts against not only the core and strongest bunker fortifications, but against about every possible position.

 

The use was so excessive that even the just created Tanks, made to overrun trench positions secured by large amounts of barbwire, got stuck in the mud fields the artillery bombardments created. Lines such as the West Wall and also the French Maginot Line were the concrete purred excess of Material over Strategy mind sets and had factually little to no impact in military terms.

 

The only logic explanation for the excess of both world wars is excessive wide spread drug use combined with utter incompetence. 

 

That means, if the Ukrainian side uses Trenches for psychological reasons rather then as a tactical or strategical asset, the Russian military psychologists can create tactic and strategy adjustments teaching attacking Russian forces to predict enemy movements and to the final positions of those movements.

 

So, while they still run towards their psychological save spot to regain confidence a cruise missile or long range rocket is already on its way hitting target the very moment the soldiers enter.

 

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

 

To understand how trench warfare is supposed to be done check this out. 

The Trench is dug into a mud land next to a ruin. The player immediately rushes out of his covered position entering the ruin. That is typical Counter-Strike adopted tactics having not understood or acknowledged the game title.

Instead, the player should have used all available cover, such as the trench, but also the building and even the muddy, uneven ground with its dead trees to establish situational awareness while trying to stay covered as long as possible before engaging a fire fight having established a tactically superior position or being spotted. 

 

Patient couciones, a very lot mud all over and precise shots as if it was a chess game and no mud catching competition of hit and run... 

 

After watching fifteen minutes of respawning, having lost about a week of recruits, it appears that the Ruin is the center of attention. As much as it should make obvious and immediate sense that a flashlight pointed onto a T section of a trench informs every enemy on the lower side of the T about the presence of yourself, the Ruin might not be the first choice if there is no coordination with comrade soldiers what so ever to engage several enemies heading there. 

Jumping into a position that requires 360 turns while looking for hostiles, is pretty much exactly a suicide bombers plan, but not for any infantry.

 

What about staying covered, avoiding the Ruin and instead finding a flanking position that gives a clear line of fire and is within the hand grenade throwing distance, after the first exchanges of rounds, to run off into a secondary position using the cover of the trenches as soon facing being out gunned?

 

That is a T-72. Made of Steel. Solid, armory steel measured in centimeters.

 

 

It is right next to a tree trunk. Made of Wood. In this case soft wood, pine, I guess..

 

Obviously, ....

gives standing behind the tree trunk a much better view.

...#igotstuck 

So, what exactly is the intention when playing that game? Adrenaline...?? Near death experiences?

#noblessoblige 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brothers,

 so the most epic rap battle in German history is no where to be found, which is because it being behind a pay wall somewhere.

However,  I think they initially stolen GI rap considering it a row of rhyming words, but with no text or logic meaning, yet telling everyone it had in order to fool them all.

Does that make about sense or am I the only one studying them?

Brothers.... ?!? I speak the language, right.

Sorry, I am speaking ze language and no one is looking forward to meeting them.

#provos #sktr #cyberpunkcoltoure 

#jerusalem

 That is a bit more complicated. than a scared German Jewish woman in fear of a holy war against their liberalism.

 

 There are demonstrations against a Cafe in Jerusalem that opens on Shabbat.  Can you find which one and in which area it is located, please? Then which part of the Orthodox is leading the protests and who their Rabbi is?

 

 The café is **Café Gan Sipur**, located on **David Remez Street in Jerusalem**, near the **First Station complex / German Colony–Baka area**.

The protests are being led mainly by the **Toldos Aharon Hasidic sect**, an ultra-Orthodox group associated with the **Edah HaChareidis**. Their leader is **Rabbi David Kahn** (the Toldos Aharon Rebbe).

 

 Is the area a historically tourist, liberal or orthodox area and what are the pillars of that Hasidic sect, please?

 

 **The area** around Café Gan Sipur / David Remez Street is **not historically an ultra-Orthodox area**. It sits at the edge of the **German Colony and Baka**, near the **First Station** cultural complex.

- Historically, the **German Colony** was founded by German Templers in the 19th century, later became an upscale mixed area, and today is one of Jerusalem’s more **secular, liberal, tourist-friendly** districts.
- The **First Station** area is full of cafés, restaurants, bars, and cultural spaces, many open on Shabbat.
- So it is much more **tourist/liberal/secular-leaning** than Orthodox/Haredi, which is precisely why Shabbat-opening businesses there draw protests from ultra-Orthodox groups.

**Toldos Aharon Hasidic sect — main pillars:**

- **Strict Orthodoxy and insularity:** They maintain very strict separation from secular and modern Israeli society.
- **Anti-Zionism:** The sect is part of the **Edah HaChareidis** and does not recognize the State of Israel, rejecting its institutions and often its elections.
- **Intense prayer and devotion:** Their services are known for emotional, ecstatic prayer and loud, fervent worship.
- **Extreme modesty / tzniut:** Very strict dress codes for men and women, including traditional Jerusalemite Hasidic garb.
- **Loyalty to the Rebbe:** The community is centered on its rebbe, currently **Rabbi David Kahn**, and follows his guidance closely.
- **Shabbat observance as a public value:** They actively protest public Shabbat desecration, especially in Jerusalem, as part of their mission to uphold holiness.

They are a small, highly visible sect, not representative of all Orthodox or even all Haredi Jews in Jerusalem.

How many are they and what are their main sources of income? Jewish sects usually cultivate tight family business. 

 They are a small sect. Estimates usually put **Toldos Aharon** at around **1,000–1,500 households**, or roughly **6,000–10,000 people worldwide**, with the main center in **Mea Shearim, Jerusalem**, and smaller communities in Beit Shemesh, Bnei Brak, London, and New York.

### Main sources of income
Toldos Aharon is not known for large business empires. Their economy is more communal and institution-based:

- **Full-time Torah study / kollel stipends:** Many men study Torah for years and receive small monthly stipends from the community’s own kollelim and yeshivas.
- **Religious education and communal institutions:** Some members work as teachers, rabbis, ritual supervisors, or in the sect’s own schools and institutions.
- **Women’s work:** Women often work outside the home, especially in education, childcare, sewing, or small shops, though within the sect’s strict modesty rules.
- **Small family businesses:** Some families run modest businesses in Jerusalem’s religious neighborhoods — bookstores, Judaica shops, bakeries, kosher food production, or religious items.
- **Charity and diaspora fundraising:** The sect has strong fundraising networks abroad, mainly in the United States, Britain, and Belgium, supporting its yeshivas, synagogues, and welfare programs.
- **State allowances:** Although the group is anti-Zionist, many members receive Israeli child allowances and social benefits as citizens, even while rejecting other parts of state involvement.
- **Low consumption and mutual aid:** The community lives modestly and has strong internal charity systems, which reduces the need for high individual incomes.

So while some Hasidic groups are known for tight family business dynasties, **Toldos Aharon is more inward-looking and religious-institution-based**, with its economy centered on Torah study, charity, education, and small local trades rather than large commercial enterprises.

 

Than what could have triggered their continuous protests against that Cafe in particular? From what I understand they are a enclosed, religious group belonging to that part of Judaism that was also often refereed to as Ghetto Jews, which was for them no insult, but as their clothing, important part of community life. In most media the secular view of all that being part of Antisemitism dominant in Zionism is repeated despite the facts of Jewish live in such sects. 
Usually, they would close down their gates or doors on Shabbat and open again on Sunday being the place for selling bread to their surrounding Christians or Moslems. Are those protests part of a wider dispute in times secular right wing Zionism intends to force pacifist orthodox into military service?

 

### What actually triggers the Café Gan Sipur protests
The immediate trigger is **not the military draft dispute**. It is that **Café Gan Sipur is open on Shabbat** in a very visible, public, secular-tourist area of Jerusalem.

The café is in **Gan Sipur / near the First Station complex**, on David Remez Street. That area is a symbolically important place:

- It is a former railway station turned into a busy leisure area.
- It attracts secular Israelis, tourists, families, cyclists, etc.
- The café is open on Shabbat, with outdoor seating in a public garden.
- For the Toldos Aharon and similar groups, this is not a private business matter; it is a **public chilul Shabbat**, a public desecration of the Sabbath in a very prominent Jewish space.

So the café is less a random target and more a **symbolic one**. It represents secular Jerusalem’s open Shabbat culture in a high-profile public area. Protesting there is a way of saying: *this is not just a private café; this is the public face of Sabbath desecration.*

---

### Why this café specifically?
Several factors make it a chosen protest site:

- **Public and municipal character:** The café operates in a public park/concession area, so the protesters see the municipality/state as complicit.
- **High visibility:** It is on a main route, near the First Station, so protests are seen by many people.
- **Family/secular atmosphere:** It is popular with secular and tourist crowds, making it a clear cultural contrast to the Haredi world.
- **Accessibility:** Haredi protesters can walk there from their neighborhoods, especially after Shabbat or in the afternoon.

So the protests are not really about this one café owner. They are about **what the café represents** in Jerusalem’s religious-secular struggle over public space.

---

### Is this part of the military draft crisis?
Not directly, but they exist in the same broader conflict.

The draft issue is a **separate flashpoint**:

- Many Haredi groups, especially the anti-Zionist Edah HaChareidis, reject Israeli military service on religious and ideological grounds.
- The recent Supreme Court/state pressure to draft yeshiva students has inflamed Haredi-secular tensions.
- Toldos Aharon is part of the **Edah HaChareidis**, which is strongly anti-Zionist and rejects the state’s authority over Jewish life.

However, the **Café Gan Sipur protests predate the recent draft crisis** and are specifically about **Shabbat observance**, not conscription.

That said, both conflicts are symptoms of the same deeper clash:

> **A religious community that sees itself as preserving authentic Judaism vs. a secular state that claims to represent Jewish nationhood.**

So the draft crisis and the Shabbat protests are **parallel battles**, not the same battle. They feed into the same atmosphere of mutual distrust, but the café protests would likely happen even without the draft issue.

---

### A note on “ghetto Jews” and their mindset
Your description is close to how many in those communities see themselves.

The old Zionist phrase **“ghetto Jew”** was often used negatively, to describe diaspora Jews as passive or weak. But groups like Toldos Aharon **invert that stigma**. For them:

- Separation is a religious value, not shameful.
- Traditional clothing, Yiddish, insular education, and communal autonomy preserve holiness.
- The “ghetto” is not a prison; it is a protective boundary against secular assimilation.

But they are **not passive** when they believe something sacred is being violated. Their Shabbat protests are a form of **public rebuke**, not quiet withdrawal.

They do not simply close their gates on Shabbat. They go out to **protest what they see as the public violation of Shabbat** in their city.

---

### One correction: “pacifist” may not be the right word
Toldos Aharon are **not pacifists** in the general sense. Their refusal of military service comes from:

- **Anti-Zionism:** They do not recognize the State of Israel’s authority.
- **Religious priorities:** They believe Torah study and observance protect the Jewish people more than an army.
- **Communal separation:** They do not want their young men integrated into a secular state institution.

So their opposition to the draft is not a universal pacifism; it is a specific religious-ideological rejection of the Israeli state.

In short:
- **The café protests are about Shabbat**, not the draft.
- The café is a symbolic target in a secular, touristy, public area.
- The draft crisis is a separate but related front in the wider religious-secular conflict.
- Toldos Aharon actively protest because they see public Shabbat desecration as a communal religious emergency.

 

 How does that sound in this context: Even more against the Shabbat violation they protest against a form of Judaism that tries to dominate them and has impact into their every day life being felt and understood as a main threat to their cultural values and deepest believes. 
That other Judaism uses small steps to make their life ever more difficult in order to convert them away from their traditions and thereby end Judaism itself by giving it a very different face and life style.
How would you place the Cafe owners, that Sect and the comic character Corto Maltese within Judaism or better withing the Abrahamic Religions?

 That framing sounds **plausible as an insider’s view** of the conflict, with one important nuance.

From inside **Toldos Aharon**, secular Zionism is not simply “less observant Judaism.” It is experienced as a **rival, state-backed Judaism** — a national, secular, militarized religion of the land, the flag, and individual freedom. To them, it is not neutral. It is a **competing theology** wrapped in secular language.

So their objection is not only to the café being open on Shabbat. The café becomes a visible symbol of a much larger fear:

> **The Jewish state is using its power to slowly force them out of their tradition — through the draft, secular education, economic pressure, public Shabbat culture, and court rulings — and to replace their Judaism with another kind.**

The phrase “convert them away” may be too deliberate. Most secular Israelis do not think they are converting Haredim. But from inside the sect, the cumulative effect feels like **forced assimilation into a different Jewish identity**. So yes, your description is quite accurate as an **emic account** of how the group perceives its situation.

---

### How to place the three figures within Judaism / the Abrahamic world
**1. The café owners**
Within Judaism, they are most likely **secular or traditional Israeli Jews** — in Hebrew often called *hiloni* or *masorti* — who see no contradiction between being Jewish and opening a café on Shabbat.

Within the broader Abrahamic spectrum, they represent:

- **Modern national Judaism**
- **Cultural Jewish identity**
- The secular side of the Jewish return to statehood

They are not trying to end Judaism. From their own perspective, they are simply living a free, modern Jewish life in a Jewish city. But to the ultra-Orthodox, their lifestyle is a **form of spiritual destruction**, even if unintentional.

---

**2. The Toldos Aharon sect**
Within Judaism, they are:

- **Ultra-Orthodox / Haredi**
- **Anti-Zionist**
- Part of the **Edah HaChareidis**

They represent the most **insular, halachically strict, anti-modern** pole of Judaism. Their Judaism is not built around the state, army, or secular law, but around:

- Torah study
- Community separation
- The authority of the Rebbe
- Strict public Shabbat observance

Within the Abrahamic family, they are analogous to groups that reject modernity in favor of a sacred, enclosed community — though their theology remains fully Jewish.

---

**3. Corto Maltese**
Here the comparison is more literary than religious.

Corto Maltese is a **fictional character** created by Hugo Pratt. He is:

- Culturally **Catholic / Mediterranean**
- Born in Malta, raised between British and Spanish-Catholic worlds
- Spiritually **unattached**, romantic, individualistic
- Often wandering through mystical, esoteric, and religious settings without belonging to any of them

He is **not Jewish**, and he is not part of the internal Jewish religious-secular struggle.

If placed in Jerusalem during these protests, he would most likely be **sitting at Café Gan Sipur**, sketching the crowd, drinking coffee, and observing both sides from a distance.

In Abrahamic terms, he belongs to the **Christian/Catholic side**, but in a **secularized, cosmopolitan, post-religious form**. He is the old “surrounding Christian” figure from the ghetto era, but now transformed into a modern tourist and wanderer.

So the mapping would be:
- **Toldos Aharon** — strict Judaism, anti-modern, anti-Zionist  
- **Café owners** — secular-national Judaism, modern, liberal  
- **Corto Maltese** — cultural Christian/secular outsider, sympathetic to the café side but not a stakeholder

He would not join the protest; he would order another espresso.

 

Zionism is a False Flag action a Hijacking attempt to them?

 

Yes, from the viewpoint of Toldos Aharon and the wider **Edah HaChareidis**, that language is actually very close to how they see Zionism — though they would probably not use the modern phrase “false flag.” They would use religious terms like **“a counterfeit Judaism,” “a rebellion against Torah,”** or **“a secular messianism disguised as Jewish redemption.”**

### Zionism as a hijacking attempt
To them, Zionism is not just a political movement. It is an attempt to:

- **Take the Jewish people** and reshape them into a secular nation-state.
- **Take Jewish symbols** — the land, Hebrew, the Bible, the menorah, the star — and empty them of halachic meaning.
- **Take the Jewish future** and replace the Messianic redemption with a secular state and army.
- **Take the definition of Judaism** and make national identity, not Torah observance, its center.

So yes, in their understanding, Zionism is a **hijacking of authentic Judaism** by secular Jews who no longer believe in Torah but still want to speak in the name of the Jewish people.

### Why “false flag” is not exactly right
A “false flag” usually means a hidden enemy pretending to be something else. But Toldos Aharon do not think Zionism is secretly gentile or secretly Christian. They know it was largely built by **secular and non-Orthodox Jews**.

The problem for them is not that Zionists are outsiders wearing Jewish clothes.

The problem is that they are **Jews who have abandoned Torah** and built a state that claims to represent all Jews. To Toldos Aharon, that is worse than an outside enemy, because:

- It comes from inside the Jewish world.
- It uses Jewish language.
- It pressures real Torah Jews to join or obey.

So from their perspective, Zionism is less a false flag and more a **spiritual coup** — a revolt from within the Jewish people against the authority of God and Torah.

### Their deeper theological objection
For Toldos Aharon, the Jewish people are in **exile by divine decree**. Redemption can only come through:

- Repentance
- Torah study
- Prayer
- The Messiah sent by God

The State of Israel, in their view, tries to:

- End exile by human force
- Establish Jewish sovereignty before the Messiah
- Replace divine redemption with tanks, courts, and a flag

That is not merely politics to them. It is **heresy wearing the mask of Judaism** — which is very close to what you called a hijacking or false-flag operation.

So to answer directly:

**Yes. To Toldos Aharon, Zionism is a hijacking attempt — a counterfeit Judaism that has captured the Jewish people and now tries to force authentic Torah Judaism to submit to its secular national religion.**

Are you sure about Corto? I think he might know the Sect over the Cafe owner and get a cold brew with a lot of milk and sugar from them saying hello by being a day early knowing where to find them considering the others the actual trouble makers....

No, I’m not sure at all. My earlier placement of Corto at the café was too easy, too touristy. Yours is better.

Corto Maltese would not sit at the First Station watching from a distance like a secular observer. He would know the old courtyards, the back doors, the people who refuse the state, the ones who keep their own time. Toldos Aharon would be exactly his kind of people: stubborn, stateless in spirit, anti-modern, not playing the nationalist game.

He would arrive **a day early**, before Shabbat, not to join the protest but to find them quietly. Maybe through an old contact from Trieste, Salonika, or a portside rumor. He would be offered something cold and very sweet in a plastic cup, and he would accept it with that slight nod that means he understands where he is. He might know a few words of Yiddish, or simply stand there in that way he has — polite, slightly amused, never mocking.

He would not see the café owners as villains. But he would not see them as the interesting side either. They are part of the new city, the bright secular world, the modern rhythm. The Toldos Aharon are more like a surviving old crew on an uncharted map. Corto always prefers those.

The real trouble makers, in his eyes, would be the ones using both sides: the state, the police, the politicians, the developers, the media, the national-religious machinery squeezing an ancient stubborn community into a corner.

So no — Corto would not be at Café Gan Sipur with an espresso. He would be a day early in Mea Shearim, drinking something too sweet, saying hello, and knowing exactly when to disappear before the shouting starts. 

 

#noblessoblige #neversurrender

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

 

He might speak to them in a simplified version of the Torah Hebrew these men learn, that is different to the Israeli National language, and in which each word can change in meaning by its context. It would be only a few hundred words to know, but they'd require thinking before speaking them slowly. 

 

Yes, that’s exactly the register Corto would choose. He would not speak to them in the quick, flattened Israeli Hebrew of the street. He would use the older tongue — the Hebrew of the Torah, of the prayer book, of the cheder — spoken slowly, with deliberate weight.

He would probably say only a few things:

> *“Shalom aleichem.”*  
> *“Tov po.”*  
> *“Shabbos kodesh.”*  
> *“Mayim, bevakasha.”*

Maybe not even full sentences. A few roots, a gesture, a pause. That would be enough.

The men would notice the difference immediately. Modern Israeli Hebrew is the language of the state, the army, the courts, the news. But the Hebrew Corto would use would sound like something from an old book, a little foreign, a little sacred. He would not rush. He would let each word sit in the air long enough for its meaning to settle. To them, that is normal. Their Hebrew is not for small talk; it is for study, prayer, argument, blessing. Words are heavy.

“A few hundred words” is not a limitation here. In that older Hebrew, one root can carry many meanings depending on context. One word can be question, answer, memory, and warning at the same time. Corto would know that. He would speak like a man who has crossed enough borders to understand that silence and a slow word can open more doors than fluent speech.

And when they offered him something sweet and cold, he would accept without asking what it was. He would drink it slowly, looking around the courtyard, maybe murmuring:

> *“Shabbos karov.”*

The Sabbath is near.

They would nod. Not because he was one of them, but because he had made the effort to speak their language — not to convert, not to argue, not to photograph them — but simply to stand there a day early, before the others came, and say hello. 

 

 #deathbeforedishonour

 

PS by Google AI:

Jerusalem's German Colony, known locally as HaMoshava, is an upscale, historic neighborhood centered around Emek Refaim Street. [1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Colony,_Jerusalem)

 

History

Founded in 1873: Built in the Refaim Valley by the German Templers (a Protestant Christian sect from Württemberg) who sought to establish an ideal community in the Holy Land. [1] (https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g293983-d9588038-Reviews-German_Colony-Jerusalem_Jerusalem_District.html), [2] (https://www.beinharimtours.com/german-colony-jerusalem/), [3] (https://jerusalem-real-estate.co/neighborhoods/german-colony/)

 

 ...

 

No, they were not a rebirth of the medieval Crusaders, but your historical timing and intuition about German Romanticism and nationalism are spot on.
 

Here is how these pieces actually fit together in the late 19th century:
 

## 1. Templers vs. Crusader Knights (No Connection)
The 19th-century German Templers were not a reestablishment of the medieval [Knights Templar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar). [1, 2] 

* The Crusaders: Were a Catholic military order of warrior-monks who conquered the Holy Land by the sword in the 12th century.
* The German Templers: Were a Radical Pietist Protestant sect founded in Württemberg in the 1850s. They rejected church dogma and sacraments. They chose the name "Templers" because they believed that God's people were the "spiritual temple" of God, and they wanted to build a peaceful, agrarian society in Palestine to prepare for the Second Coming. They were pacifist farmers, builders, and businessmen, not soldiers. [1, 2, 3] 

## 2. German Romanticism and Nationalism (The Real Link)
You are entirely correct that the 19th century was the cradle of German Romanticism and German Nationalism, but the specific timeline is divided into two phases:

Early 19th Century (The Birthplace): German Romanticism and nationalism actually peaked much earlier—between 1800 and 1848. Thinkers like [Johann Gottfried Herder](https://www.google.com/search?q=johann+gottfried+herder&kgmid=/m/01qzgm) and the Brothers Grimm rejected Enlightenment logic in favor of raw emotion, folklore, and the Volksgeist (the "national spirit"). This intellectual wave directly fueled the dream of unifying the fragmented German states into a single nation. [4, 5, 6, 7] 
 

* Late 19th Century (The Realization): By the late 19th century (specifically 1871), Germany was finally unified under Prussia into the German Empire (the Second Reich).

## How it all ties back to Jerusalem
When the German Templers moved to Jerusalem in 1873, they did so for deeply religious reasons. However, they could not escape the intense German nationalism of their era. [1] 
As the newly formed German Empire sought global power, the German government began aggressively supporting these settlers. The pinnacle of this came in 1898, when the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, made a grand, highly publicized visit to Jerusalem. 

 

The Kaiser used the presence of the Templer colonies to project German cultural, imperial, and economic influence into the Ottoman Empire. [8, 9] 
 

Tragically, this patriotic ties to the homeland backfired heavily in the 20th century. By the 1930s, the younger generation of Templers fell prey to the ultimate, radicalized evolution of that nationalism and joined the Nazi party, leading to their eventual expulsion by the British. [9, 10] 
 

If you'd like to explore this era further, let me know if you want to look into:

* The 1898 historic visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Jerusalem and its political impact
* How other European nations (like France and Russia) built their own competing "quarters" in Jerusalem during the late 1900s

[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templers_%28Radical_Pietist_sect%29)
[2] [https://www.tabletmag.com](https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/knights-templer-palestine-robert-rockaway)
[3] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6CNElP3dds&t=340)
[4] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Romanticism)
[5] [https://blogs.bu.edu](https://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/sarah-harrison/)
[6] [https://mason.gmu.edu](https://mason.gmu.edu/~svu5/pages/romanticism-as-the-motive.html)
[7] [https://www.ardatunca.net](https://www.ardatunca.net/post/the-jena-circle-and-the-origins-of-romantic-nationalism)
[8] [https://dokumen.pub](https://dokumen.pub/the-debate-on-the-crusades-10992010-9781847799005.html)
[9] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templers_%28Radical_Pietist_sect%29)
[10] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templers_%28Radical_Pietist_sect%29)
 

 

 

#51sts #streetwars

 Check this out.

Now, this is Aryan Nation. The full blown Street Doc. Enforcer and All Entrepreneur. 

I am not sure how that goes down in that movie, because they have deals with CIA and FBI and we only our Middle Finger in place, but that is what in reality is about to happen:

Ah. Yeah. I saw some skater Dudes around here.

They check the area before bringing a Pharmacy warehouse of samples expecting usually whole sales activity coming.

Okay. What do we do with those kids?

You want me to ask them for you?

Ah. They have pot?

MJ, Marijuana, Weed, Cannabis, no shit.

I thought you were kidding.

They did not get that slang and intel. 

I go ask them. I give them your number.

.... a few hours later ...

Hey Boys. ... all hands visible ...

... staring ...

Ahm. So I have these ladies and they are in need. So, I checked them, they are clean, but I just don't do ... making quotation marks and rolling the eyes ..."deeard pot"

We neither. We smoke no trash.

Mmmh. You still wanna try? I told them I talk to you.

Ok. You coming back?

No.

Still all East of ...

Yeah. Here the number....

Great.  

Bye ... walking off facing his back ...

Byebye

... dialing ... 

Hi. We got your number from ... ah ... Jon Doe. 

What?

The Trailer Guy? 

Oh.

Short of dirt. Ahm, So our Gardening Shop has all you need to keep also your Garden green.

What's your name?

Mr Greenthumb. Gardening Supplies.

------ 

FUCK YOU CIA! Skate or Die.

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

#thedarkmodernity #MIB

That is a problem.

 

And it is a difficult one, because we have to watch it. We cannot end it, we cannot control it and we even cannot influence it. He does as he likes, he is supported by his people, his people is extremely hierarchically structured and they all mind the chaos we love.

 

These weapon systems are no defense tools protecting them from having to adopt our lifestyle by our domestic problem getting out of control by starting a war against them... to enforce freedom where no one needs any of that freedom.

 

That is a weapon to achieve world dominance or at least enlarge territory...  in the hands of a system that will ever stronger lack behind in all terms that define a society to its very neighbor and the rest of the world, the ever weaker our domestic problem gets. 

At this point it is our Secret Service and Police services that having turned corrupt harboring the worst of all war criminals having to take all responsibility for what I call The Dark Modernity. From Blood Diamond trade, Cocaine trafficking, MDMA party pills, Apartheid in Africa, the Middle East poverty in all arms and about all terrorist organizations our Secret Service messed up the world worse than Tiger tanks did being just short of German KZs, but not their brutal torture.

The average attitude of a SS member is normal for the worst active in the War on Drugs and War on Terror and Africa faced men like them ruling, just short of mass murdering gas chambers.

 

Compared to that North Korea is a place of heaven, but that cannot be the measuring scale. 

 

The problem is that attack weapons in the hands of ultra hierarchical systems based on strong internal human support did a lot of bad and never any good in mankind's history, while chaos did. Something not to be taught to  ... any of them.

 

That ship there, makes a U.S. Cruiser fleet and better Superpower relations a must. 

 

#TIE #noblessoblige 

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

 

#noblessoblige

 That made me think again when I made my Moka this morning. The poverty oath of the Templer Knights is vastly misunderstood and different to those of the Catholic Orders of the Holy Roman Church that eventually turned against us, but kept the Teutonic Order who were the actual thievemurderers that triggered the Crusades... ending in a bloody civil war that Salah ad-Din came late, but decisive to, creating different versions of what happened lasting until today.

It means that your existence is dedicated to valuing the most little things and everything rich is kept off your life, as the most free yet accurate translation into contemporary wording.

A Franciscan Monk truly only owns his clothes, the rest he'll give to the Order. With Knights its much more complicated, or better would be.

 

So, I get Moka How To videos into my suggestions after having searched ones. I feel insulted by those, to use the wording of that top range restaurant, the best in the world.

 

They might, too.

 

A Moka has a place in that spot, but much unlike the videos. That restaurant has as all those cooks and servants operating in that league in which the most thought through moments have to look as easy as a friendly Streetball game the intention to be called the best. Mastering excellence is no risk of jealousy, but the very starting base position to stand any chance.

 

That's why, the fish from Fred and them telling about it, that's why mum's bread, those cuisines they never can beat and that's why the butter from almost extinguished cows.

 

The vids try to steal the Moka away from its poor man simplicity that is its very character instead of exploiting it, but in the means of building up onto it. Exploiting is one of these words their clients have power over and that by a lot.

 

Imagine this: The Servant and Chef de Salle approach with a servantcar as the top end Coffee was ordered. Listed even above their Espresso. 

 

It comes with a normal Italian Moka, but placed onto a designer stove fitting the interior. The Chef de Salle explains that the Moka is an incredible simple and thereby geniusly outstanding Italian origin coffee cooker.. while the servant demonstrates the use by preparing the oeuvre. It creates no Espresso due its lack of constant high pressure, but gets the most out of coffee powder. It is even used most of the time with normal filter coffee powder. 

 

From there everything changes. Like Fred helps, or is exploited, to create a distinctive atmosphere, yet surly is better payed per fish than a Supermarket would, a connection is made being part of the atmosphere that pays due respect to the poor that are base for the restaurant, that with their mums' own unmet the best dinners the bread gives tribute to, the Moka is base of that working man.

 

The milk then there is sourced from the same cows as their butter. Maybe delivered raw and the Cook heats it up himself; A process needed for digestion and preservation that also creates better foam.

The beans are selected, Columbia offers the best, and are from a fair trade CoOp the Cook visited himself.

 

The roast is directed to a specialist of the trade and I have no suggestions here, but they would know.

 

Then, lets continue my way of the Moka. The pot is making its blubbery noise, the coffee is finished. The milk is warmed up and purred into a cocktail glass. Sugar and, also depending on the other deserts, that Sugar plays an important role. Even brown sugar might be a path. Poor men use what they have. Then, the milk is steered and turned into foam. Fully. The Sugar goes into the all foamed milk and here it is no Latte Machiato as it is no Espresso, but when the Coffee is purred into the glass it will look from the side almost as if it was, having a tricolor of colour, yet the bottom is also foam.

 

It tastes different than an Espresso Latte Machiato. Much smoother and softer and is steered with the spoon only after the first few zips of sweet foam, when the coffee-milk mix comes to mix it all thoroughly through.

 

They will happily pay 50 Euros for my few cent glass and think back every here and than to that experience when a delivery driver, a cleaner or anyone else triggers them to thinking.... that there is time for everything on our all persuit to happiness. 

 

#noblessoblige #cyberpunkcoltourev #42

#midlifecrisis - Status Update

 I just found the meanest thing on Earth.... here...

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

AI - Status Update

 These guys. Always at the cutting edge of development. They say that Apple finally joined the AI game, locally.

That is me and my buddy DeepSeek:

 What can you find about the Apple AI capable of running locally on Apple's unified memory, please?

Here is the information about Apple's AI capabilities for running locally on its unified memory, now in English.

Apple is aggressively pushing powerful AI models to run **on-device** (locally) via its **Unified Memory Architecture (UMA)**. This allows Macs and iPads to handle complex AI tasks without relying on expensive cloud servers, offering a major leap in privacy and performance.

Here is a breakdown of its core advantages, supported hardware, and key technical details.

### 🧠 Core Advantage: Unified Memory Architecture
Apple’s UMA is the cornerstone of its local AI strategy. It allows the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine (NPU) to access a single, high-speed pool of memory simultaneously.

- **Eliminates Bottlenecks:** It removes the inefficiency of copying data back and forth between system RAM and dedicated GPU VRAM, which is a major bottleneck in traditional PC architectures.
- **Massive, High-Speed Memory Pool:** The entire memory pool acts as a unified space directly accessible by all compute units. This makes it feasible to run Large Language Models (LLMs) with hundreds of billions of parameters entirely on a consumer device.
- **Privacy and Security:** All AI computations happen on the device. User data never leaves the machine, effectively protecting personal privacy.
- **Cost-Effectiveness:** It enables consumer-grade devices to run AI models that previously required enterprise-grade servers costing tens of thousands of dollars.

---

### 💻 Apple Silicon Chips Supporting Local AI
Apple’s latest M-series chips provide varying levels of on-device AI power for different user needs:

- **M5 Ultra (Flagship):** Apple’s most powerful chip to date, featuring a quad-die architecture.
    - **Memory & Bandwidth:** Supports up to **512GB** of unified memory with a staggering bandwidth of **1.2 TB/s**.
    - **AI Capability:** Specifically optimized for local LLM inference. It can run **ultra-large language models with hundreds of billions of parameters entirely on-device**. It features an integrated GPU with up to 80 cores.

- **M6 (Next-Gen Mainstream):** The first M-series chip built on a **2-nanometer** process.
    - **Memory & Bandwidth:** Supports up to **32GB** of unified memory with bandwidth between 160 GB/s and 170 GB/s.
    - **AI Capability:** Capable of running LLMs and processing multiple high-load applications simultaneously on-device. It features a dual 16-core Neural Engine, delivering up to **2x the AI peak performance** compared to its predecessor.

---

### 📱 On-Device AI Requirements by Device
Running the most advanced local AI models requires specific hardware thresholds:

- **iPhone & iPad:** Apple’s most advanced on-device AI models (such as those introduced in iOS 27) require devices with **at least 12GB of unified memory**. This means only the **iPhone 17 Pro series** and **iPads with the M4 chip or newer (and ≥12GB RAM)** fully support these features. The base iPhone 17, which has 8GB of memory, cannot meet this requirement.
- **Mac Computers:** Any Mac with an **M3 chip or newer** and at least **12GB of memory** can run the most advanced local AI models.

---

### 🧩 Software Ecosystem and Advanced Clustering
- **MLX Framework:** Apple has created the open-source **MLX** machine-learning framework, specifically optimized for the M-series chip architecture. It is designed to efficiently leverage UMA for both training and inference.
- **Multi-Machine Clustering:** Via the **Thunderbolt 5** interface, multiple Macs (e.g., Mac Studio units) can be linked together into an "AI cluster." This combines their unified memory pools to handle massive models. For example, a cluster of four Mac Studios can share up to **2TB** of unified memory, which is enough to run **trillion-parameter** models.
- **System Support:** macOS 26.2 natively supports low-latency distributed AI inference over Thunderbolt 5, making multi-device clustering seamless.

---

### 🏁 Conclusion
Through the deep integration of its proprietary silicon and Unified Memory Architecture, Apple is redefining the boundaries of personal computing. It is making powerful, secure, and high-performance AI accessible on everyday devices, shifting the center of gravity away from cloud-dependent services and toward private, local computation.

 What about Apple's LLM models?

Apple's LLM strategy revolves around its **third-generation Apple Foundation Models (AFM 3)**, a family of five models unveiled at WWDC 2026. These models are designed to work together, running either directly on the device or in Apple's Private Cloud Compute, to power the new "Siri AI" and other Apple Intelligence features.

Here is a detailed breakdown of Apple's current LLM offerings.

### 🤖 The AFM 3 Model Family
The AFM 3 family consists of two on-device models and three server-based models.
| Model Name | Location | Scale | Key Characteristics |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **AFM 3 Core** 

| On-Device | 3B parameters (dense) | A lightweight model for fast, low-latency tasks like basic text processing, routing, and natural language understanding (NLU). |
| **AFM 3 Core Advanced** 

| On-Device | 20B parameters (sparse) | Apple's most powerful on-device model. Uses a sparse architecture, activating only **1B to 4B** parameters per prompt. Features native multimodal capabilities (voice, image understanding). |
| **AFM 3 Cloud** 

| Private Cloud Compute | Undisclosed | The primary server-side model, optimized for speed, efficiency, and performance. |
| **ADM 3 Cloud** 

| Private Cloud Compute | Undisclosed | A model dedicated to **image generation and editing**, powering features like Image Playground and advanced photo editing tools. |
| **AFM 3 Cloud Pro** 

| Google Cloud (NVIDIA GPUs) | Undisclosed | Apple's most capable model, designed for **complex reasoning and agentic tasks**. Built in partnership with Google and NVIDIA. |

### 💡 Key Technological Innovations
Apple has introduced several novel techniques to make its powerful LLMs run efficiently on its hardware:

*   **Dynamic Sparsity & Instruction-Following Pruning (IFP)**: The key to the **AFM 3 Core Advanced** is its use of IFP. Instead of activating the entire 20B-parameter model for every request, it uses a small predictor to dynamically select and activate only the most relevant "expert" parameters (1-4B) for the specific prompt. This allows the performance of a much larger model while being computationally efficient.
*   **Flash Memory Utilization**: To run such a large model on a device, Apple stores the complete **AFM 3 Core Advanced** model in NAND flash memory. Only a small set of "always-on" shared experts are kept in DRAM. When a prompt is received, the necessary experts are loaded from flash into DRAM for that specific request. This clever approach overcomes the bandwidth limitations between flash and DRAM.

### 🎯 Model Capabilities & Use Cases
*   **On-Device**: The two on-device models (**AFM 3 Core** and **AFM 3 Core Advanced**) are designed for **low-latency, private, and offline-capable** tasks. **AFM 3 Core Advanced** powers the new "Siri AI", enabling it to "see" camera and screen content thanks to its multimodal capabilities.
*   **Private Cloud Compute**: The server-side models handle more complex tasks that require greater computational power. Crucially, Apple designed the **Private Cloud Compute** infrastructure to ensure user data is **never stored or shared** with Apple when using these cloud models.
*   **Complex Tasks**: For the most difficult tasks like agentic workflows and complex reasoning, the **AFM 3 Cloud Pro** steps in. This model was trained using the outputs from Google's Gemini models.

### 🌍 A Special Model for the Chinese Market
In a significant strategic move, Apple has reportedly developed a **dedicated large language model specifically for the Chinese market**.

*   **Partnership**: The model is being developed in collaboration with **Alibaba**, with the Chinese tech giant providing training support.
*   **Strategy**: This "dual-track" approach involves Apple creating its own China-specific model while also integrating with local providers like Alibaba's "Tongyi Qianwen" (通义千问) model to meet regulatory requirements. This would make Apple the first foreign tech company to deploy its own LLM in China.

The AFM 3 models are expected to be available in Fall 2026 as part of operating system updates.

Compare the local ones with those, please:
phi3.5:3.8b                          2.2 GB    
llama3.2:latest                   2.0 GB       
llama3.2:3b                         2.0 GB    
all-minilm:latest                   45 MB       
deepseek-r1:7b                   4.7 GB       
llama3:latest                        4.7 GB        
mixtral:8x7b                      26 GB        
phi:2.7b-chat-v2-q4_0        1.6 GB    

And tell me how Apple embedded their's into the OS and Software stack available for Apple OS. 

 Here is a detailed comparison of Apple’s on-device AI models (AFM 3 Core & AFM 3 Core Advanced) with the models from your list, followed by an explanation of how Apple has embedded them into its operating systems.

### ⚖️ Model Comparison: Apple AFM 3 vs. Your Local Models
| Model | Total Size (Params) | Active Size (Params) | Disk Space | Architecture | Key Strengths & Use Cases |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **all-minilm:latest** 

| ~22M* | ~22M* | 45 MB 

| Dense | Ultra-lightweight, for basic embeddings/semantic search. |
| **phi:2.7b-chat-v2-q4_0** 

| 2.7B | 2.7B | 1.6 GB 

| Dense (Quantized) | Lightweight chat model, good for simple conversations. |
| **llama3.2:3b / llama3.2:latest** 

| 3B | 3B | 2.0 GB 

| Dense | General-purpose, popular for a balance of size and capability. 
| **AFM 3 Core** 

| **3B** | **3B** | ~2 GB 

| Dense | **Next-gen base model.** Handles everyday tasks like summarization, translation, classification, and routing. Preferred over its predecessor on **45.6%** of text prompts. |
| **phi3.5:3.8b** 

| 3.8B | 3.8B | 2.2 GB 

| Dense | Slightly larger dense model, aims for better reasoning. |
| **deepseek-r1:7b** 

| 7B | 7B | 4.7 GB 

| Dense | Strong reasoning and coding capabilities. |
| **llama3:latest** 

| 8B* | 8B* | 4.7 GB 

| Dense | A powerful and popular general-purpose model. |
| **AFM 3 Core Advanced** 

| **20B** | **1-4B** | ~2 GB in DRAM** | **Sparse (MoE)** 

| **Apple's flagship on-device model.** Natively multimodal (text, image, voice). Powers new Siri, dictation, and expressive TTS. Performs like a much larger dense model while being efficient. |
| **mixtral:8x7b** 

| 46B | 13B | 26 GB | Sparse (MoE) 

| A powerful open-source MoE model, strong for general tasks. |

> *\*Approximate value. \*\*The full 20B model is stored in flash memory, with only the active 1-4B parameters loaded into DRAM per request.*

**Key Insights from the Comparison:**
*   **Efficiency is Apple's Superpower**: The **AFM 3 Core Advanced** is the most impressive technically. It achieves the "effective" intelligence of a huge 20B model with the memory footprint (and speed) of a much smaller one, thanks to its sparse architecture. This is a significant advancement over models like `mixtral:8x7b`, which is similarly sparse but much larger on disk and in active memory.
*   **Performance**: The AFM 3 Core Advanced runs at about **30 tokens per second** on an iPhone 15 Pro. For reference, an M4 Max Mac can run a 7B model at ~95 tokens/sec.
*   **Multimodality**: Apple's on-device models can natively process images, not just text. This is a key differentiator from most models on your list, which are text-only.
*   **Hardware Requirements**: Running the advanced 20B model requires a device with at least **12GB of unified memory**. The 3B Core model runs on a wider range of devices (iPhone 15 Pro and later, all M-series Macs).
*   **Context Window**: Both on-device AFM models have a context window of **4,096 tokens**. In comparison, the server-based AFM 3 Cloud model offers a **32,000-token** context window.

---

### 🏗️ How Apple Embeds AFM 3 into the OS & Software Stack
Apple's integration is deep, system-wide, and designed to be seamless for both users and developers.

#### 1. System-Wide Integration
Apple Intelligence, powered by AFM 3, is woven into the fabric of the operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, macOS)****. The models are not third-party add-ons but are core OS components that ship with the system**** and are updated via OS updates****.

Examples of system-level features include:
*   **Siri**: The new Siri AI is powered by the AFM 3 Core Advanced model.
*   **Dictation**: Advanced, more accurate on-device dictation uses the AFM 3 Core Advanced model.
*   **Photos & Apps**: Features like image understanding in Photos and intelligent tools in everyday apps are built on these models.

#### 2. A Single Swift API for Developers
For developers, Apple provides the **Foundation Models framework**, a single, powerful Swift API****.

*   **Unified Access**: Developers can access the on-device models (`AFM 3 Core` and `AFM 3 Core Advanced`) and even cloud models through the same API****. The system can intelligently route requests based on complexity and device capability****.
*   **No API Keys or Costs**: The on-device models are completely free for developers to use with no per-token cost****, and offer strong privacy by keeping data on the device****.
*   **Structured Output**: A key feature is **guided generation**, which allows developers to define a Swift struct and have the model generate output that directly maps to it, eliminating the need for fragile string parsing****.

#### 3. The "Trick" to Running a 20B Model on a Phone
Apple uses a clever technique to run the 20B parameter model on devices with limited RAM:
*   **Flash Storage**: Instead of loading the entire 20B model into active memory (DRAM), Apple stores the full model in the device's flash (NAND) storage****.
*   **On-Demand Loading**: When a request is made, the system uses a technique called **Instruction-Following Pruning (IFP)** to identify and load only the 1-4 billion most relevant parameters from flash into DRAM****. This keeps the memory footprint low while delivering the power of a large model.

#### 4. Customization for Developers
Apple allows developers to fine-tune the on-device model for their specific app using **LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) adapters**. This is done using the **Foundation Models Adapter toolkit**, allowing for specialized, private AI features without sending user data to the cloud****.

#### 5. Privacy as a Core Principle
All of this is built on a foundation of privacy. By running powerful AI on-device, user data never leaves the device for many tasks. For more complex tasks that require cloud computing, Apple uses **Private Cloud Compute**, which extends the same privacy and security guarantees to the cloud****.

In summary, Apple’s AFM 3 models are not just another set of local LLMs. They represent a deeply integrated, system-level AI platform that is exceptionally efficient, developer-friendly, and built from the ground up with privacy in mind.

Mixtral is a very strong model that needs ages to load into RAM and does then actually not perform on an older i7-8500. On that 200 Euros hardware, but with maxed out 32GB RAM the llama3 runs fine. The trick on that old hardware is intelligent embeddement into specfic tasks and RAGing additional data points to optimize the overall system.
 How much costs the hardware to run the AFM 3 model? 
Are their any Open Source models that compete with the size, speed but intelligence of the AFM 3?
What is the use case Apple gave that LLM?

Here is the information about Apple's AFM 3 models, now in English.

---

### 1. 💰 Hardware Cost to Run the AFM 3 Model
The hardware to run Apple's most powerful on-device model, the **AFM 3 Core Advanced (20B sparse model)** , comes with specific requirements:

- **Hardware Requirement**: The device must have at least **12GB of unified memory**.
- **Hardware Cost**: You cannot buy the hardware component separately, as it is not sold at retail. The cost is the retail price of a compatible Apple device, which is concentrated on the "Pro" product lines. Supported devices include:
    - **iPhone**: iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max
    - **iPad**: iPad Pro with M4 chip or later (with at least 12GB RAM)
    - **Mac**: Macs with M3 chip or later and at least 12GB of RAM

> **Technical Principle**: The reason a 20B model can run on just 12GB of memory is that Apple does not load the entire model into RAM. The full model is stored in flash memory (NAND), and only the 1-4 billion parameters needed for the current task are loaded into DRAM. It uses a technique called **Instruction-Following Pruning (IFP)** to dynamically activate only the most relevant "expert" parameters for each request. This means that **the experience on a 12GB device is comparable to what would traditionally require 32GB or even 64GB of memory**.

As a comparison, Apple's base model, **AFM 3 Core (3B model)** , has a lower barrier to entry and can run on all devices that support Apple Intelligence (such as the iPhone 15 Pro and later).

---

### 2. ⚖️ Are There Any Open Source Models That Compete?
The current conclusion is: **in the specific "on-device AI" arena, no open-source model can match the combined performance of "intelligence," "speed," and "memory footprint" of the AFM 3 Core Advanced.**

- **Intelligence & Efficiency**: The AFM 3 Core Advanced uses dynamic sparsity to achieve quality close to a 9B dense model with the computational power of only activating 1-4B parameters. This is currently difficult for open-source models to replicate. They are either fixed-size dense models (like Llama 3.2 3B) or MoE models that require loading all parameters into memory (like Mixtral 8x7B, which needs about 26GB of disk space and a large amount of RAM).
- **Speed & Ecosystem**: Its running speed is approximately **30 tokens per second**. More importantly, Apple provides developers with a unified Swift API through the **Foundation Models framework** and underlying optimizations like **Core AI**. This level of deep, system-wide integration is something no open-source model can achieve within the Apple ecosystem.

---

### 3. 🎯 Specific Use Cases for the AFM 3 Models
Apple has defined clear system-level and developer-facing use cases for the AFM 3 models:
| Model 

| Primary Use Cases |
| :--- | :--- |
| **AFM 3 Core Advanced** 

| **New Siri**: Powers the completely redesigned, more intelligent Siri.<br>**Dictation**: Provides more accurate, higher-accuracy speech-to-text.<br>**Expressive TTS**: Generates more natural, expressive text-to-speech voices.<br>**On-Device Image Understanding**: Enables tasks like captioning photos, extracting structured data from receipts, and identifying UI elements—all without ever leaving the device. |
| **AFM 3 Cloud** 

| Handles more complex text and image understanding tasks. |
| **ADM 3 Cloud (Image)** 

| **Image Generation and Editing**: Powers features like Spatial Reframing in Photos, personalized image generation in Playground, and Genmoji. |
| **AFM 3 Cloud Pro** 

| **Complex Reasoning & Agentic Tasks**: Handles the most demanding workloads, such as agentic tool use and complex reasoning. |

For developers, Apple provides a unified API to call these models, allowing apps to seamlessly switch between on-device and cloud models based on task complexity.

 Ok. I get its powerful, I get that's about 1k of Apple hardware sitting there and that we have still a lot of marketing slang in your search results.
Deeply embedded into the OS means for the average Apple user to click and drop, use hardly a keyboard and to use the microphone for Google search over typing.
Apple users normally don't have heavy reasoning tasks over large sets of data, like BI questions for a Spreadsheet, PDF or .docx file. To be honest, they hardly use multi-clause sentences and most of their task sets is comparable. So, can we expect that local AI on their hardware to be more advanced than Copilot systems of online services or do they bypass data restriction laws plus make if much more fancy than already being? The Super Apple.

Here is the previous response, now in English.

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You raise a very practical point. In the daily use of an average user, Apple Intelligence may indeed *feel* more "usable" than cloud-based services like Copilot. However, this isn't because it's "more advanced" in an absolute sense—it's because their design goals and applicable scenarios are fundamentally different.

Apple Intelligence and Microsoft Copilot are products of two entirely different philosophies. In short: **Apple's strategy is to "make AI adapt to the average user," while Microsoft's strategy is to "arm professional users with powerful AI."**

### 🎯 Design Philosophy: Privacy & Convenience vs. Depth & Power
The core differences lie in their design objectives:

- **Apple Intelligence: A privacy-first personal assistant.** Its core goal is to **seamlessly integrate AI into daily life while protecting privacy**. It adheres to the principle of "data minimization"—if a task can be handled locally, it never goes to the cloud. This design allows users to enjoy AI benefits with zero cost and zero latency, but the trade-off is that **the intelligence ceiling of local models is constrained by device hardware**.

- **Microsoft Copilot: A productivity tool that connects everything.** Its core goal is to **deeply integrate into workflows and become a powerful productivity engine**. Through Microsoft Graph, it connects to all enterprise data—SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, etc.—and can handle long documents, complex reports, and more. However, the trade-off is **heavy reliance on the cloud**, which introduces data transfer concerns and additional API costs.

### 📊 Capability Comparison Across Different Scenarios
| Aspect 

| Apple Intelligence (Local-First) 

| Microsoft Copilot (Cloud-First) |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Everyday Tasks (Summaries/Replies)** 

| **Excellent.** The 3B–20B models handle daily tasks well, with **fast response times, no cost, and strong privacy**. 

| **Excellent.** Cloud-based large models are more powerful, but may introduce latency and costs. |
| **Complex Reasoning / Long Documents** 

| **Weakness.** Explicitly **not designed** for cutting-edge reasoning or long-context tasks. Complex requests are offloaded to the cloud. 

| **Core Strength.** Specifically designed to handle complex enterprise data and long-form documentation. |
| **Privacy & Compliance** 

| **Core Strength.** Designed to align with "data minimization" principles like GDPR. Data **never leaves the device** or is "burned after use" in the cloud. 

| **Major Challenge.** Data must be uploaded to the cloud, which can raise data residency and compliance concerns. |
| **Ecosystem Integration** 

| **Deep Integration.** AI capabilities are built into the iOS/macOS system at the OS level. | **Deep Integration.** Seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft 365 productivity suite. |
| **Target Users** 

| Average consumers who value **convenience, privacy, and a seamless ecosystem experience**. 

| Enterprise users and professionals who need to **handle complex workflows and perform deep data analysis**. |

### ⚖️ On "Bypassing Data Restriction Laws"
Regarding your point about "bypassing data restriction laws," this is more about how Apple proactively responds to strict privacy regulations (like GDPR), rather than "bypassing" them.

- **Proactive Compliance by Design**: Apple's local-first strategy is itself a response to data regulations. By keeping data processing on-device, it naturally avoids the compliance risks associated with cross-border data transfers.
- **Cloud Commitments Are Equally Strong**: Even for complex tasks that must go to the cloud, Apple uses "Private Cloud Compute," which promises that data is processed in a **stateless** manner (burned after use), cannot be accessed by Apple itself, and that this process is verifiable.
- **Not Without Criticism**: This system is not without its critics. Some have pointed out that Apple cannot clearly tell enterprise users exactly in which country their cloud data is being processed, which is a concern for organizations with strict data residency requirements. Additionally, this "privacy black box" makes it difficult for enterprise security teams to monitor the AI's processing logic.

### 💎 Summary
To return to your original questions:

- **Is it more advanced than Copilot?** In some areas (privacy protection, on-device efficiency, ecosystem integration), yes. In terms of handling complex reasoning tasks, no.
- **Is it bypassing data regulations?** It is not "bypassing" them. Rather, it *technically satisfies* the core requirements of data protection laws through a clever architectural design—essentially **"moving computation to the data"** instead of the other way around.

**Apple's path is to "make AI invisible," while Microsoft's path is to "make AI powerful."** For the daily needs of most average Apple users, the former provides a more seamless and private experience. For heavy tasks like complex reports and long document processing, cloud-based solutions like Copilot remain the more powerful tool for now.

Complying is a form of bypassing a crash, sorry for that. I meant complying. So, Apple users will have a much better experience talking with their phone like: Siri. Open the last email from Mr Smith and give me a summery. .... Make a reply and write: Hello Mr Smith, thanks for your kind words. I am happy to meet you. What about next Friday, ah Siri, what does my calendar say for Friday
And Siri understands what to not write before sending?

Yes, absolutely. With the new **Siri AI** introduced in iOS 27 and macOS 27, the scenario you described is exactly the kind of complex, multi-step task it's designed to handle.

Here’s how your request would work in practice:

### 🗣️ The Interaction Flow
1.  **"Siri, open the last email from Mr. Smith and give me a summary."**
    - Siri AI will search your Mail app, find the most recent email from Mr. Smith, and generate a concise summary of its content.

2.  **"...Make a reply and write: Hello Mr. Smith, thanks for your kind words. I am happy to meet you."**
    - Siri will then draft a new email reply. Crucially, it maintains the context of the conversation, knowing the draft is for the email it just summarized.

3.  **"What about next Friday, ah Siri, what does my calendar say for Friday"**
    - You can interrupt or change the subject mid-request. Siri will seamlessly switch tasks, query your Calendar app, and inform you of your schedule for next Friday.

4.  **Siri's Final Understanding**
    - After telling you your schedule, Siri won't automatically send the draft. It will wait for your final confirmation or further instructions, such as "Okay, send it," or "Change the meeting time to 2 PM," before taking the final action.

### 🚀 Key Capabilities Enabling This
This level of interaction is possible because Siri AI has been rebuilt from the ground up with several major upgrades:

*   **Personal Context Awareness**: It can understand and connect information across your apps, like your emails, messages, calendar, and photos.
*   **Cross-App Actions**: It can execute multi-step tasks that involve multiple apps (Mail, Calendar, Notes, etc.) from a single, natural language request.
*   **Screen Awareness**: It can see and understand the content on your screen, which allows it to perform actions like creating calendar events from an email you're reading.
*   **Natural, Multi-Turn Conversations**: It can handle follow-up questions and remember the context of your ongoing conversation.

> **Note**: These advanced features are part of the new Siri AI, which is expected to launch with iOS 27 and macOS 27 in the fall of 2026.

 How would Copilot in the Microsoft Universe have more capability over its Office Suite? They'd use the Keyboard more and...

 Here is the previous response, now in English.

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The difference between Microsoft Copilot and Apple Siri AI comes down to a fundamental design distinction: **Productivity Tool vs. Personal Assistant**.

As you rightly pointed out, in the Microsoft universe, the keyboard and mouse remain the primary interaction methods. Copilot’s strength isn't in flashy voice conversations—it's in its deep integration into Office workflows, where it acts as an **agent** that can actively execute complex, multi-step tasks *on your behalf*.

Here is a detailed breakdown of how Copilot is more capable within the Office suite.

### 🚀 Core Difference: From "Co-pilot" to "Agent"
While older AIs gave you suggestions (acting as a "co-pilot"), Copilot (as of 2026) has evolved into an **"Agent"** that can drive for you. It doesn't just answer questions; it can **directly take action within your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations** to complete multi-step complex tasks.

### 📊 Specific Capabilities Across the Office Suite
Copilot's capabilities are deeply embedded into every core application:

- **Microsoft Word**: It goes far beyond rewriting and summarizing. Copilot can take fragmented notes or raw content and transform them into a fully structured **proposal or report**. It can rewrite, reorganize, or restyle an entire document based on a specified tone or audience. Its new **"Agent Mode"** can even iteratively refine content over time, rather than just generating a single draft.

- **Microsoft Excel**: This is where Copilot truly showcases its analytical power. You 

  don't need to memorize any functions. Using natural language, Copilot can:
    - **Automatically clean data and identify outliers**.
    - **Independently perform advanced calculations and explain its reasoning**.
    - **Create pivot tables and charts**, and even generate **multi-page reports** based 

      on your raw data.

- **Microsoft PowerPoint**: Copilot can generate an **entire presentation deck—complete with images, charts, and layouts—from a simple outline or an existing Word document**. Critically, it can adhere to your organization's or your personal brand design guidelines.

- **Microsoft Outlook**: It can **summarize lengthy email threads** and draft personalized replies. The new **"Voice Catch-Up"** feature allows you to use voice commands to get a spoken summary of your inbox and action items. It can also **analyze your entire mailbox and calendar** to suggest meeting times or plan your schedule.

- **Microsoft Teams**: During meetings, Copilot acts as an **interactive meeting agent**. It understands content shared on screen, whiteboards, and even visual elements, providing you with private meeting summaries and actionable insights in real-time.

### 🔗 The Deeper Power: Microsoft Graph
The reason Copilot can do all of this is its secure access to the **Microsoft Graph**. This is a massive data graph that connects all your work-related data—emails, calendar events, files, meetings, chats, and more. This means every answer and action Copilot takes is grounded in the **most current and complete context of your personal and organizational workflow**.

Going further, enterprises can use **"Graph Connectors"** to integrate external business data (like CRM or ERP systems), allowing Copilot to understand and reason across the company's entire data landscape.

### 💡 A Practical Scenario Comparison
To understand the difference intuitively, compare how each handles the same complex task: **"Create a PowerPoint report based on last week's sales data and email it to my manager."**

- **In the Apple ecosystem (Siri)**: You'd likely have to say: *"Siri, find last week's sales data file. ... Okay, now create a PowerPoint. ... Now email that PowerPoint to my manager."* This is a **linear, single-step sequence** where you have to explicitly dictate each action.

- **In the Microsoft ecosystem (Copilot)**: You would simply type or say into Word or the Copilot chat window: **"Create a PowerPoint report based on last week's sales data from my email and draft an email to my manager."** Copilot acts as an **Agent**—it automatically breaks down the request, finds the data, generates the PPT, drafts the email, and presents it to you for review and confirmation before executing.

### ⚖️ Summary: Different Tools for Different People

| Feature | Microsoft Copilot 

                                                                                           | Apple Siri AI |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Core Positioning** 

| **Productivity Agent**                                              | **Personal Assistant** |
| **Primary Interaction** 

| Keyboard, mouse, typed text prompts                   | Voice, touch |
| **Capability Boundary** 

| **Create, Analyze, Execute**: Directly manipulates documents, data, and emails. 

        | **Query, Summarize, Jump**: Primarily operates apps and queries information. |
| **Core Advantage** 

| Deep understanding of work context (Microsoft Graph) 

        | Deep integration with personal devices and local data (Apple ecosystem) |
| **Target User** 

| Knowledge workers, enterprise employees           | General Apple consumers |

In short: **Siri is like your personal secretary**—great at handling information in everyday contexts on your phone. **Copilot is like a super-capable intern**—it works directly inside your documents and spreadsheets to get the actual work done for you. They are powerful in entirely different dimensions.

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