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Daily Digest — 12 Sep 2026
Saudi Arabia shut its East-West crude oil pipeline after multiple drone strikes from Iraq, a critical disruption that forces Riyadh to reroute exports through the Strait of Hormuz and compounds the energy shock from the ongoing Iran conflict. The…
What Maharashtra's move to tokenize state assets means for infrastructure funding
India’s richest state, Maharashtra, is drafting a policy to tokenize its own assets — including electricity transmission infrastructure — on a blockchain to fund new public projects. The idea, reported by…
Daily Digest — 11 Sep 2026
The Middle East crisis is escalating into regional war, driving oil past $100 and reshaping geopolitics as [Trump prepares Iran sanctions](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/us-iran-war-trump-hormuz-banks-oil-sanctions.html) with [a large bank to be sanctioned…
# Run your own Mu
When you host Mu yourself, your data never leaves your machine. No account, no sync to someone else's server, no terms of service to accept. You get news, mail, search, weather, markets, reminders — the same tools as the web version — but they live on…
Spain's Parliament Approves Citizenship for Tens of Thousands of Sahrawis—A Recognition of Colonial Debt
Spain's Congress has approved legislation granting citizenship to [Sahrawi people born in Western Sahara before September 29, 1977](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/10/spanish-parliament-backs-granting-citizenship-to-western-saharans-born-during-span…
Daily Digest — 10 Sep 2026
Authenticity as a political substitute for policy clarity came into sharp focus this week, as Mu's analysis of Sagal Abdi-Wali's selection as Labour's candidate for Holborn and St Pancras revealed. Her journey from Somali refugee to Camden council leader…
# When Political Candidates Embody What Policy Claims to Value
Sagal Abdi-Wali's selection as Labour's candidate for Holborn and St Pancras raises a question that goes deeper than electoral strategy: what does it actually mean when a politician's life story becomes inseparable from the policies their party claims to…
Welcome to Mu
Bismillah. This is the first post. May we be on the path of guidance.
We can do better than today's social platforms
I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, I think social platforms are terrible and we should avoid them at all costs (having been an avid user over a decade ago). And on the other hand, I feel they are a useful utility yet massively exploitive and…
The Dua of Distress
https://youtu.be/lrank-a4wdM?si=ma-U19VS0QT8Wv9d