Pleaaaaseeee!!!!

@tobyasky So, I wasn't crazy when I had to look at Atleti's previous matches in which he started to see when he got substituted

Like I tweeted yesterday, no matter how the game is going, Lookman must come off before 60mins most times. It tells me it might not be tactical, Simeone did this to Griezmann because of a clause in the loan contract with Barcelona. In fact, Barcelona reported them…because tell me why you always substitute your best player on the pitch. I cannot really fathom why, it’s just utterly ridiculous. Taking off Lookman every game when he’s the only one in the team that can beat players 1v1. In the first half alone, he almost killed that Real Sociedad’s right back, creating so many chances, and even scored. Boom, Simeone takes him off. Why?

@Vaaltimothy2 @AbsoluteBruno Must be some streamer's league

@AbsoluteBruno Which league is this? Why is the goalkeeper wearing chains while playing?

Trivela freekick wtf😭😭

@trisnite @Illusionist_126 Your response is all over the place, but do you. 1. Because Tunde should read the room. 1M is good but improved governance is infinitely better. He has a platform to ask for more but he's satisfied with 1M regardless of its source. Thus, the criticism (not attack)

@PerspectiveLord @Illusionist_126 What exactly are you on about? Poverty didn’t start in 2015, and it’s not one person’s job to end it. It’s a collective responsibility. Even developed countries have poverty + charities tackling it. So why attack someone actually helping, just because he chose to be neutral?

Do you know what the main problem is with you folks and shite arguments like this? You are treating these children simply as symbols of governmental failure rather than as human beings with present, immediate needs. It is also evident most of you do not know how NGOs and Civil societies work. For example, you cannot simply walk up to a public school and start handing out incentives to pupils without due permission from the Ministry of Education. If you also try to antagonize the government, your efforts will be utterly frustrated. You will go on to condemn Tunde for compromising while you remain morally spotless but also entirely useless to the children in question. You want to keep them under the bridge, theoretically, so the bridge can function as an indictment of the state. Do you actually think you are more righteous by performing outrage on social media? Listen, the children under the bridge are already there. The question is not philosophical anymore. They are hungry, undereducated, exposed to violence, and statistically on their way to lives you hypocrites will later lament. If he leaves these children right now and start supporting your candidate, will this immediately destroy all the slums in Lagos State? All of you using these children's suffering as rhetorical ammunition against someone trying to address that suffering directly, I want to ask you plainly now: What exactly are you proposing instead, and when does it begin?

@Illusionist_126 5. Simple. Solution? Use your platform to clamour for more . 1M is good and he could put it right back into the slums but imagine the govt actually doing their jobs better this time due to his voice.

@Illusionist_126 1. They are not symbols of governmental failure. Their circumstance is evidence of governmental failure. 2. We are both performing the outrage, aren't we? 3. "The children under the bridge are already there". That's actually a very insensitive statement to make.....

@Illusionist_126 It's always useful to peek into the past in order to understand the present and prevent it from also becoming the future. 4. I don't think people expect him to leave the kids. Tunde is doing a wonderful job.

@WaveLens @Illusionist_126 Lol. Yes.

@Illusionist_126 Even in Las Vegas, people live inside the sewage tunnels beneath the vibrant city. Are we saying its their government that failed them?

@aproko_doctor What's going on in this comment section?

Rest Well Temisan.

@felixherbt All activism is basically opportunism. Not just in Nigeria. Worldwide. If the world was perfect, we wouldn't have "activists". But I agree with one of your points..... x.com/i/status/20453…

Remove emotions from your heart and reflect on this. Why do so many Nigerian influencers like VDM and Tunde Onakoya, aka the Chess Man, prefer a failing nation like Nigeria so their self-proclaimed goodwill can continue to speak louder for them? Instead of joining the millions of Nigerians who are calling for the government to do its basic job so that everyone can thrive, they have chosen to become celebrities in the graveyard of our collective failure. Look at VDM. The man would rather fly around building boreholes and class room and posting viral videos of grateful villagers drinking water than use that same massive platform to demand why, in 2026, millions of Nigerians still lack clean water, electricity, or basic infrastructure that any serious government should have provided decades ago. He prefers to be the hero fixing what the government deliberately abandoned. In a functional Nigeria, his saviour brand loses its shine. The same applies to Tunde Onakoya, the Chess Man. He takes vulnerable children and families, the very ones this government’s bad policies have kept poor, uneducated, and hopeless, and turns their hardship into feel-good content, Guinness records, international praise, and personal enrichment. Teaching chess is beautiful, but when you keep profiting from the poverty the system manufactured without ever calling out the system itself, you are not a solution, you are part of the business model. These influencers are not stupid. They understand the game perfectly: a broken, suffering Nigeria is the perfect stage for their philanthropy performances. This is not activism. This is opportunism wearing the mask of compassion. Nigerians, it is time we open our eyes. We must be extremely careful about the kind of people we elevate into the hall of fame and crown as national heroes. It is patriotic to demand a Nigeria that works for all of us, not just for the influencers who shine brightest when the rest of us are in darkness.

@Whizdomtalks I kind of get Tunde though. He's going to further his work irrespective of politics but it gets sticky when that same politics is what's feeding your work. A beautiful paradox.

@PerspectiveLord @DreadHound0 Let's grant him a plausible deniability, but his response to the pressure is making it worse.

Imagine a jobless couple with no known occupation or career, giving keynote speeches on how to be employable. You people are not serious in that country.

@Whizdomtalks @DreadHound0 Person wey dey play chess no dey aware say dem dey use him reputation for photo op? Who dey whine?

@DreadHound0 There are no coincidental photo op in politics, it's a game of (as they say) strategy. Tunde's image is being exploited (through association) by the APC. They are aware of what they are doing, but is Tunde also aware?

@chiefdavidsays We'll clutch our pearls till it actually works.

Right move!

@0xSweep Lol. Spotify uses bots too. Just check out any "sleep" playlist and look up the artistes for each track

A guy in Bulgaria scammed $1 MILLION out of Spotify Spotify pays around $0.004 every time someone streams a song for at least 30 seconds So he uploaded 467 tracks that were all barely over 30 seconds After this he bought 1,200 Spotify Premium accounts, set them to loop his playlist 24/7 and sat back Those 1,200 bots generated 72 million streams a month, which accounted for over $400,000 in royalties from only $12,000 worth of subscriptions. The playlists were called "Soulful Music" and "Music From The Heart" Both made it into Spotify's global top charts and "Soulful Music" hit number 11 in the US, higher than any major label playlist at the time Meanwhile the whole operation was showing up in Spotify's own weekly revenue reports They sent that data to record labels every single week for months and nobody noticed it The craziest part is none of it was illegal The accounts were paid for with real money, real premium subscribers streamed the songs and every upload had valid copyright When journalists reached out for comment, a Spotify spokesperson refused to even call it a scam He only got caught because he got too successful. Breaking into the top 50 made one major label executive look twice at the charts By the time Spotify deleted the tracks in October 2017, he had already pulled over $1 million in royalties Years later an American named Michael Smith tried to do the same scheme with AI generated music and 10,000 bot accounts He made $10 million in royalties but to make it work he had to buy bulk email addresses, lie directly to Spotify when they flagged him and pay for subscriptions using fake names on corporate debit cards Those lies turned the whole operation into wire fraud The DOJ busted him in 2024, he pleaded guilty and had to return $8 million Same scam, different execution and a small detail changed the entire outcome One guy became rich, the other is waiting for his sentencing

@chiefdavidsays @cacnigeria1 @RemitaNET @Sterling_Bankng Might be a "she" or a "they" though, except it's verified it's a "he"

I emailed ByteToBreach, the threat actor behind the Sterling Bank, Remita, and now Corporate Affairs Commission breaches, with 10 accountability questions. He answered all of them. In my latest piece, I break down the Corporate Affairs Commission breach in full. How he got in. What he accessed. The scale of what was taken, a second access vector into the CAC's systems that he revealed directly to me, not in any published artefact and direct confirmation on whether any corporate records were modified. He also confirmed he was in active ransom negotiations with Sterling Bank for €250,000 before dumping their data. The CAC has since issued a public statement. I break down what it says and what it leaves unanswered. And he told me directly why Nigerian institutions have become his focus. Read the full piece here: securityintelligence.substack.com/p/i-spoke-with…

@OrwellNGoode Ramanujan didn't let that keep him down

@wearegst Keep up the good work but please, slow down on the LLM use. It could go sour at any point. Might be better to go a step further and look at the literature cited in the answers the LLM provides.

We will keep educating.

@tohire_ng Try to double check before you post spoil. Abeg

You studied political science, but you're looking for a job in the bank? You studied religious studies, but you want to work in the bank? That's the reason for most unemployment in Nigeria!

@DiscussingFilm Didn't he try that with Leave The World Behind?

Sam Esmail's ‘PANIC CAREFULLY’ will be the first IMAX digital release presented entirely in the 1:43:1 aspect ratio during the entire film. • Starring Julia Roberts & Elizabeth Olsen • Described as a paranoid thriller that is a mix of ‘Mr. Robot’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs’

@War_Causes_It @nonregemesse

@nonregemesse Conductors are there to tell you how much of a crescendo you should do, or your ritardando. They are also there to maintain time (you should be good at this yourself, but its a good indicator of whether or not you're rushing or dragging)

You’re telling me if the conductor didn’t wave his hand a certain way all these musicians would be clueless as to what they should do?

@ruthefordml That feature is actually not really good

Gemini can now join meetings on Google Meet and take notes. What happens to all the startups that built AI note takers?