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Meaningful Pause: Write to Think Right I will be hosting a weekly one-hour session on Tuesdays from 1815hrs(EAT) where you can join myself and other writers to write what is on your mind! Feel free to join! Video call link: meet.google.com/pgj-krqx-rmn

The lead maintainer for linux kernel memory subsystem is stepping away, hehas been doing this job for 26 years. So far they haven't figured out a clear path to replacement & considering this subsystem accounted for 17% of linux kernel CVE's between 2020-2024,are we fucked?

You've got to throw in the pirates

I love people who create open source software. Doing all that work to create a piece of software and distributing it for free is honestly impressive. And the hackers who create modded apps to free us from bullshit micro transactions, TechBigs and Apkmody, I love you guys.

Learning African history from colonial masters is the craziest thing we ever did

Day by day we are turning into that country with the Green & White flag and it's heartbreaking to watch

Ready for Saturday 🔥

This is deeply thought provoking and yet so basic at the same time - thank you Prof W. Njoya for these insightful comments!

The prostitute country. No standards, no principles, no vision. In a few weeks, those of us who need to travel will face ebola-based restrictions from the very people who set it up here. The intellectual collapse of Kenya is probably the most painful thing in my lifetime

So, @OoTheNigerian never built a breakout startup of his own. Yet for more than a decade, he has been one of the quiet forces shaping Nigeria’s tech ecosystem. From Paystack to Bumpa and Lemfi, his fingerprints are on some of the ecosystem’s most consequential success stories. Every tech ecosystem celebrates its founders: the visionary builders who bend reality to their will in pursuit of billion-dollar valuations. But ecosystems are also shaped by another kind of operator: the connector. The person who makes introductions, opens doors, lobbies institutions, and quietly makes things happen. Read the full article here: open.substack.com/pub/foundersco…. Written by @Jolomijo

Behind the scenes with the champions 🏆 🔴 @Arsenal

Waiting in Budapest ✨ #UCLfinal

Looking good, Gunners 😎 Trying on our new Oakley Meta glasses 🔥

When I was in China, a Chinese friend of mine looked me straight in the face and asked: “I hear in America that if you don’t have food to eat, they will just let you starve and die. That can’t be true, right?”

Gary Neville once said that Arteta should leave if he ends up making the top 4, because he has hit his ceiling. Arsenal responded today by inviting him for an interview to discuss winning the title, and presented him with a shirt saying ‘to our biggest supporter’. Unreal.

Here is what we shall do in 2027 after elections, upload all results to eclipss.

god what a bleak chart

I was honored to accept my Human Rights Defender of the Year award today. Ahsante 🥹 It comes with $1,000 cash prize (Ksh129,000). I will donate it to a young journalist anywhere in Kenya who highlights issues in the community. Please nominate yourself or someone in the comments

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Gabriel in 2025/26 🔴 #UCL