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"The greats never sacrifice the important for the urgent, they handle the immediate problem and still make sure to secure the future" -Bob Axelrod

Nigerian defense-tech startup Terra Industries unveiled its latest autonomous defense systems including interceptor drones, mine-detection vehicles and battlefield intelligence software reut.rs/4sYfyow

Not sure which is harder, shooting this video or curating this dataset. Definitely the latter! 😅 We spent more than a year working on this. I have a new kind of respect for data curators. Hectic stuff! 😅 To all builders and researchers, If you're building speech tech for Yoruba speakers, please check out our dataset called YECS Corpus at lyngualLabs.org/yecs. 120 hours of Yoruba-English Codeswitching! It took a whole village to pull this off. The dataset is very rich in metadata, it includes word level annotations, emotions, and domains. Huge Congratulations to the Team for this milestone 🎉 and to Mozilla Data Collective for the uplift. Many many thanks to all our mentors, and the amazing individuals who supported us from the ground up @ChrisEmezue, @tolusophy and many other amazing folks. 🙌 Excited to see what the community builds!

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The US started at the top of the escalation ladder, then counting down while concerned that the Iranians are not capitulating! Netanyahu is the king of chaos, he doesn’t care if the US wins or loses as far as he can continue is genocidal war to protect his seat!

@MikaelCBernard @Designer_verge1 YDM! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Designer_verge1 Im the first man to be accused to crashing the naira by Tinubu.

Tunde was so desperate for a win after being dragged, that he brought more disgrace to himself Already everyone in the chess community saw him as a joke. He’s not a grandmaster, hasn’t won any major tournaments, hasn’t produced any students that compete globally and now this

الخارجية: الاسرى الفلسطينيون أولوية على الاجندة الوطنية والدولية أكدت وزارة الخارجية والمغتربين لدولة فسطين أن قضية الاسرى البواسل داخل سجون الاحتلال الاستعماري الإسرائيلي هي أولوية على الاجندة الوطنية، والاجندة الدولية للدبلوماسية الفلسطينية، وان الانتهاكات والجرائم التي يتعرض لها الاسرى المعتقلين تعسفا، هي جزء من الجرائم المركبة التي تنتهجها سلطات الاحتلال، وجزء من سياسة واسعة النطاق للابادة والتهجير القسري. واشارت الخارجية الى استنفار كادرها للعمل مع المجتمع الدولي نصرة الأسرى، الذين يواجهون ظروفًا قاسية وانتهاكات ممنهجة تخالف قواعد القانون الدولي الإنساني وقانون حقوق الإنسان، والقانون الجنائي. وتشدد وزارة الخارجية أن قضية الأسرى الفلسطينيين تمثل أحد أبرز أوجه المعاناة الإنسانية التي يعيشها شعبنا تحت وطأة الاحتلال، في ظل استمرار سياسات الاعتقال التعسفي والإداري، واتي تفتقر لأدنى معايير العدالة، إلى جانب الممارسات اللاإنسانية التي تشمل التعذيب وسوء المعاملة، والإهمال الطبي المتعمد، والعزل الانفرادي، وحرمان الأسرى من حقوقهم الأساسية، بما في ذلك الحق في الزيارات والرعاية الصحية. كما تؤكد وزارة الخارجية على أن هذه الممارسات تأتي ضمن إطار منظومة أوسع من السياسات الهادفة إلى فرض السيطرة على الشعب الفلسطيني، وبث الخوف والاضطهاد في صفوفه، وتقويض نسيجه الاجتماعي، بما يشكل جريمة مستمرة تستوجب المساءلة والمحاسبة الدولية. وفي هذا السياق، تجدد وزارة الخارجية والمغتربين دعوتها للمجتمع الدولي، بما في ذلك الدول والمنظمات الدولية، إلى تحمل مسؤولياتها القانونية والأخلاقية، والتحرك العاجل لوقف هذه الانتهاكات، والضغط على سلطات الاحتلال للإفراج الفوري وغير المشروط عن جميع الأسرى والمعتقلين الفلسطينيين، وضمان احترام حقوقهم الأساسية وفقًا للقانون الدولي. كما تؤكد الوزارة استمرار جهودها الدبلوماسية، بالتعاون مع الشركاء الدوليين والمنظمات الحقوقية، لحشد الدعم الدولي لقضية الأسرى، وتعزيز المساءلة عن الجرائم المرتكبة بحقهم باعتبارها جرائم حرب وجرائم ضد الإنسانية، بما في ذلك الدفع باتجاه فرض إجراءات عقابية ومقاطعة ما يُسمّى بالكنيست الإسرائيلي باعتباره أحد أدوات منظومة الاحتلال. مؤكدة الوزارة على أن قضية الأسرى ستظل في صدارة أولويات العمل الوطني والدبلوماسي الفلسطيني، إلى حين نيل حريتهم الكاملة.

If you have not watched the BBC documentary on the killing of children in Gaza, I would implore you to please watch it. They documented over 160 cases. 95 of the children were shot in the head and chest. If this doesn't trigger you, nothing else will. youtu.be/orR7H8GnhCY?si…

Most people don’t seem to understand how exceptional @matanSF is They will soon

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

A Doctor Doctors No More: The harsh reality of Nigerian healthcare

.@ScottNolan started his career as employee 30 at SpaceX. He left to join Founders Fund after Peter Thiel recruited him personally in 2011, and spent the next 12 years backing companies like SpaceX, Anduril, Radiant, and Crusoe Energy. The through line across all of it, and the worldview Thiel built Founders Fund around, was finding important problems that incumbents have no incentive to solve. Scott's version of that thesis was physical-world companies in a decade when venture capital had largely decided not to fund them. Before starting @generalmatter, Scott met nearly every advanced reactor company in America. They all were constrained by the same problem - no one was enriching uranium domestically at scale. He spent 2023 looking to invest in a company solving it and found none. The US once led the world in enrichment. But it let its enrichment plants calcify and shut down its last domestically owned facility in 2013. Today Russia supplies about 25% of the enriched uranium that fuels 20% of the country's electricity. Congress has already passed a ban on those imports that takes full effect in 2028. So Scott started General Matter, the first private American uranium enrichment company, built on DOE land in Kentucky where the country's last enrichment plant once operated. In January, the DOE awarded it a $900 million contract. Thiel sits on almost no boards, yet he joined General Matter's. Enjoy this great conversation with Scott Nolan. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Finding Important Problems 6:18 Lessons from Peter Thiel 9:32 Spotting Underappreciated Companies 21:46 The Danger of Falling in Love with Ideas 25:12 The Nuclear Energy Bottleneck 30:44 Why America Needs to Vertically Integrate 37:55 AI, Data Centers, and the Energy Squeeze 45:41 Advanced Nuclear Reactors 49:27 The Bring Your Own Energy (BYOE) Concept 53:45 Navigating America's Nuclear Fuel Cliffs 1:15:32 The Trade-offs Between Investing and Operating 1:18:00 Kindest Thing

We're taking over a cafe on April 25th in Lagos Grab coffee, Cursor credits, and build together

The first time I heard about 'core values' was as far back as 2013/14... I remember our first attempt at it from Great Hall in FUTA Obakékeré... 😭

@FurkanGozukara Many years ago, Obama said these people at the top are just ordinary folk, and some... maybe even more, actually very dumb. Will they force Lloyds to insure ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz? + this will trigger a blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait by the Houthis.

frontier progress requires capital deployment at unprecedented scale excited to share that @NicolaiTang1, who stewards the $2 trillion norwegian sovereign fund, is joining us in @CS153Systems at stanford to shed some light on how to do this we'll post the lecture on youtube

Israel remains a rogue state! No humanity at all!

1000reasons.vote Remember the ministry of health allegedly received only N38M last year. Now in Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Pidgin. (Still optimizing).

They all said he wasn’t attractive, but she held her balloon and after hearing how he treats women they all regretted 😭😂