To Imane, pt 65

Greta mentioned Lebanon, without any possible interpretation that it was about refugees or about journalists being targeted, and I had to look up what exactly I said the consequences would be if she did that.

23 Mar 2026
"if Greta posts another image on Instagram about Lebanon without sharing the idea, it means that if Maya is interested in me, then I'm not interested in Greta"

This was partly just a reason to mention Maya. She deleted her account maybe a year after the Beirut explosion, which I treated as unimportant, and so today I finally watched footage of the explosion.

The condensation shockwave was weird at the start. In the first few frames, it's visible at the bottom, but not at the top. I ended up looking up footage of other explosions, like Sailor Hat and Minor Scale (intentional detonations with a high probability of good footage), to see if there was a similar shockwave and how it looked.

I was wondering if there were like multiple detonations. But after a bit of thinking, I understand why: above the explosion, where the fireball had passed a fraction of a second before, the air was hot. That means that the shockwave didn't form condensation, just like mist or clouds evaporating in hot air.

While looking up Minor Scale, someone in the comments suggested that Flock of Seagulls, I Ran would be a good song to match to the silent test footage. While I was playing that in one tab while also trying to watch a video about the Beirut explosion in another tab, my browser experienced a bug where a content process causes 100% CPU and the tab doesn't change visually until I manually kill the process. If this bug is caused by an outside agency interfering by sending data that causes the bug, then it could be an indication that Mei is involved with a conspiracy and that she recognized the song, which was featured in World First -- Stars vs yogg saron Alone in the Darkness 25man.

I sent a link to Mei in 2009 (the original video and kill was in June 2009); she said she had seen the footage of the fight enough times and didn't watch the whole video. But maybe she did.

My file, 'online tasks2, 16 Sep 2022.txt' has a note on 24 Jan 2025: "comment https://genius.com/Kamelot-center-of-the-universe-lyrics"

The people who made annotations there just made the song to be about the overall frame story for the album. But, "in the center of the universe, we are all alone". In the center: not trying to hide. All alone: despite not trying to hide, no one else is affected by your actions, for good or for bad. Just do what you want.

Four days ago: @_iris._13 beat it - *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ, jump spin with sync tuning, from https://www.tiktok.com/@_iris._13/video/7158878639105363205 (private).

 in='/media/misaki/Nao/storage/short/@_iris._13 beat it - *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ  [7158878639105363205].mp4'

 fd="-framedrop -vf drawtext=fontcolor=white:fontsize=10+H/50:x=W-200*(10+H/50)/24:y=10:shadowx=2:shadowy=2:text='%{pict_type} %{pts}':fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf -vf copy -af asetpts=PTS-0/TB -v quiet -seek_interval 2.5" s1="-seek_interval 1" l="$fd -loop 0"

Quick sync test:
 async=+0.0 vol=0dB gain= vsync=0 extra="" note="[a ${async}s]" exp="TS+$vsync/TB"; [ "$old" = "$in" ] || { ffmpeg -i "$in" -t 10 $sd; old="$in" ; } ; ffplay "$in" ${fd/-0\/TB/$async/TB-$vsync/TB,volume=$vol} -window_title "$async -$vsync ${in/*\//[...]/}" -loop 0 && read && end=${in##*]} out=${in/%$end/$note$end} out=${out/ [/$extra [} ext=${end##*.} d=/dev/shm && ffmpeg -itsoffset $async -i "$in" -copyts -c copy -y -vn $d/acopy.$ext && ffmpeg -i "$in" -i $d/acopy.$ext -time_base:v 1/30k -bsf:v "setts='pts=$exp:dts=$exp'" -copyts -c copy ${gain:+-bsf:a opus_metadata=gain=}$gain -map 0:v -map 1:a -movflags faststart -map_metadata 0 $d/copy.$ext && ffplay $l $d/copy.$ext && touch -r "$in" $d/copy.$ext && mv -iv $d/copy.$ext "$out.temp" && sync "$out.temp" && mv -iv "$out.temp" "$out" && rm -iv "$in" #audio sync with Opus input

 extra=", jump spin" exp="TS+0.08/TB-0.07/TB*clip((TS*TB-0.9)/1.3,0,1)-0.04/TB*clip((TS*TB-2.2)/1.1,0,1)-0.09/TB*clip((TS*TB-3.3)/1.5,0,1)+0.09/TB*clip((TS*TB-5.6)/0.8,0,1)-0.05/TB*clip((TS*TB-6.6)/0.7,0,1)-0.05/TB*clip((TS*TB-7.3)/2,0,1)" end="${in##*]}" out=${in/$end/[sync tuning]$end} out=${out/ [/$extra [} d=/dev/shm ext=${end##*.}; ffmpeg -seek_timestamp 1 -i "$in" -itsoffset 0.08 -seek_timestamp 1 -i "$in" -c copy -map 0:v -map 1:a -time_base 1/30k -bsf:v "setts='pts=$exp:dts=$exp'" $d/temp.$ext; ffplay $d/temp.$ext $fd $s1

 ffmpeg -i $d/temp.$ext -i $d/temp.$ext -c copy -copyts -map 0:v -map 1:a -max_interleave_delta 0 $d/copy.$ext && touch -r "$in" $d/copy.$ext && mv -iv $d/copy.$ext "$out.temp" && sync "$out.temp" && mv -iv "$out.temp" "$out" && rm -iv "$in"

Note: anyone performing this dance, DO NOT PREVENT THE PERSON'S LEG FROM ROTATING WHEN THEY SPIN. The left dancer's hand goes from under the leg, to above the leg, so the foot doesn't get twisted. One of these is probably someone failing to correctly do that, with serious results:

'@annikenholmen04 + @_eldrid_ beat it - *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ [7158396222615719174].mp4'
'@futuremilfho3 beat it - *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ ~ fail [7162732051274222891].mp4'
'@glowingfrogturds beat it - *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ ~ fall [7161954637589974318].mp4'
'@heheheh331 beat it - *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ ~ fail [7161927723965943086].mp4'
'@leigh.munro beat it - *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ [7160864979871108398].mp4'
'@userb93051h8fu beat it - *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ ~ fail [7159517031245630726].mp4'

After the Beirut explosion, some people suspected it of being caused by Israel. But it wasn't.

"I can't believe a problem like this would happen" is exactly the kind of outcome that would be prevented with better signals. In one of my emails to Elyse before I joined the US military, I asked her, "what is an emergency?" A word that every English speaker knows. But why is it so similar to the word 'emerge'?