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Netflix is at war for Warner Brothers. For a company that has built itself from the ground up with no major acquisitions, this one is weird. I investigated. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/eugeneo/p/…

Jollof Rice vs Manchester City: 90 Minutes 0 Interceptions 3 Fouls Dribbled 2x 15 Possessions Lost MINOXIDIL UGARTE 🤩🤩🤩

Osaka Bin Laden vs Manchester City: 90 Minutes 0 Goals/Assists 0 Dribbles 12 Possessions Lost 2 Big Chances Missed Dribbled 5x BETTER THAN NEYMAR 🔥🔥🔥

Max Dowman to become the youngest ever Carabao Cup loser.

saka RW AM CM F9

Over $1 billion spent on players and still no trophies since 2020 for Mikel Arteta's Arsenal 🕸️

One of the most gangsta tweets ever

@Mukiteee Yep I’m even in that pic

@30005k You attended?

Me & who?

Integrated multimodal hubs. Imagine high-speed rail links connecting Lamu directly to landlocked markets in Ethiopia and South Sudan, or Walvis Bay serving as the primary gateway for a fully industrialized SADC region.

@Mukiteee Haha surprisingly it did. Was a great time

You have to be a bimbo or performatively smart tho juu sidhani this activity attracts the other side tbh 🙂

Kids on a street in central Havana playing dominoes by torchlight just now.

Nobody fell off harder than the hammerhead shark. Was a top shark for me as a kid and now completely obsolete in media and conversation.

FDO

Since the technology is changing so fast, AI takes really expose who is able to think on the fly versus who is totally impervious to new evidence because they carved out some "brand" years ago.

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Gotta love the grifters who just sit back and postulate on how the world works without living in it That podcast is best way to learn about wealth induced stupidity.

Unfortunately, this is the default African technocratic position, particularly among those who went to university in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Many of them studied in the West. The niche, elite, reformist intellectual position of that era was to be anti-West, and they seem to have kept it. They came home and taught the same thing. That is why anti-imperialism, which in African economic discourse is functionally anti-Western, has such deep roots. It is also grievance-led, to the extent that it has not yet recognised that the imperialist extracting value from Africa right now is China. David lists "responsiveness, value for money, customer service" as the reason Chinese contractors dominate. The framing is emotionally satisfying. It is structurally incomplete. Chinese dominance in African infrastructure is vendor financing. Chinese policy banks fund the project. Chinese contractors build it. Chinese equipment fills it. Chinese supply chains service it. Africa owns the road. The industrial learning curve stays in Guangzhou. The "value for money" is a tied procurement model where the money circulates back to Chinese firms before the ribbon is cut. The "conditionality" that African elites resent, competitive tendering, transparency, enforceable standards, is precisely what lowers the cost of capital. African Eurobonds yield 9.1 per cent. Latin America pays 6.5 per cent. Asia pays 5.3 per cent for comparable ratings [Feb 2026]. That premium reflects governance risk, not Western interference. Chinese financing avoids the lecture but delivers inflated prices through tied procurement, not improved creditworthiness. The deeper question: what happens after the road is built? China's household consumption sits at 39.9 per cent of GDP. Its goods trade surplus exceeded USD1.19 trillion in 2025. 89 per cent of Africa's exports to China are extractives. 94 per cent of China's exports to Africa are manufactured goods. Africa exchanges rocks for finished products. If Africa wants to move beyond extraction, to process its own cobalt, refine its own copper, it needs markets that can purchase what it makes. Those are absorber economies: the US at 68 per cent household consumption, the EU at 52 per cent. China cannot absorb African manufactures because its own industrial capacity already exceeds domestic demand. Selling value-added goods to a competitor whose policy is designed to dominate those same markets is a dead end. Chinese contractors are not treating Africa as valued customers. They are treating Africa as a valued input. One builds capacity. The other feeds an export machine that sells finished goods back to the continent it extracted from. The question is not who builds the road cheaply. It is whether the road leads to industrial capacity, or to a port where unprocessed minerals leave and finished goods arrive. I wrote about this in "The Forced Choice." canarycompass.com/p/the-forced-c…

WNBA and WNBPA officially announce tentative agreement on a new 7-year CBA. Details:

Last year, I met a Mexican athlete who told me an incredible story—that he’d been kidnapped in 2023 and forced to compete for his life in a secret tournament of cartels. Once I started reporting, the story only got more surreal. For the May issue: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

Michael Mann’s sequel/prequel to his seminal Los Angeles crime saga will star Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, and (if we're lucky) Austin Butler. This crew is good. gq.com/story/the-heat…