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Tanishk Sharma Shared
6 Jul 2026 · 8:53 pm

Somalia is quietly losing its war

Al Jazeera, Inside Story: Has the fight against al-Shabab failed?
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This barely makes the news, which is exactly why I'm flagging it. Al-Shabab launched an offensive in early 2025 and has clawed back most of central Somalia, setting up checkpoints within 50km of Mogadishu.

It is not a far-away problem. A jihadist-controlled state on the Red Sea shipping lane reshapes migration, trade and security across the Horn of Africa. Fifteen minutes here is worth more than a month of headlines you will not see.

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Tanishk Sharma Post
5 Jul 2026

Every founder unlocks their domain expansion eventually, usually by the fourth loss-making startup. Mine is Unlimited Runway: a barrier technique that traps you in a 2BHK hacker house in Koramangala where every bed is a bean bag, every wall is a whiteboard, six founders share zero revenue, and rent is paid in equity. My cursed technique is announcing a sovereign LLM for Bharat, then shipping a ChatGPT wrapper that burns 4x more cloud credits than the subscription revenue. The only escape is a successful exit. We are pre-revenue, pre-idea. Nobody is leaving.

#startups #satire
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