Otonyo Mangete

@thetripathi58 @threadreaderapp unroll

A woman walked into Verizon ready to change her phone number after 12 years. She was getting 47 spam calls a week. Robocalls at 7am. Scam texts during meetings. Voicemails in Mandarin selling fake insurance. She had blocked 200+ numbers. Reported them to the FTC. Downloaded three different spam apps. Nothing worked. The calls kept coming. She filled out the number change form and slid it across the counter: "I just want a clean start." The rep looked at the form, then back at her phone. "Before you lose your number forever, let me show you something. Your number isn't burned. It's exposed. There are 18 ways they're tracking you right now. The carriers won't tell you this because the data broker ecosystem pays them. Let's fix it." Here's what he showed her in the next 11 minutes:

@ImtiazMadmood @threadreaderapp unroll

The year was 1957. Inside a modest Sony research laboratory in Tokyo, a 32-year-old physicist named Leo Esaki was doing something that looked almost embarrassingly simple. He was pressing a tiny sliver of germanium semiconductor between two electrodes and watching what happened. No massive particle accelerators. No sprawling university budgets. Just a quiet man, a small crystal, and an idea that the textbooks said shouldn't work. What Esaki noticed was extraordinary. Electrons weren't behaving the way classical physics demanded. Instead of climbing over an energy barrier the way any sensible particle was supposed to, they were slipping straight through it. Vanishing on one side and reappearing on the other, as if the wall simply didn't exist. This was quantum tunneling, a phenomenon that had been theorized for decades but never cleanly demonstrated in a semiconductor until that moment. The implications were staggering. Esaki hadn't just confirmed a ghostly quirk of quantum mechanics. He had shown that it could be harvested, controlled, and put to work. The device born from his discovery, the tunnel diode, could switch between states faster than any conventional transistor of its era. It was a signal that the future of electronics wouldn't just be about building smaller components, but about bending the rules of nature itself. Physics laboratories across the world took notice almost immediately. The tunnel diode ignited a wave of research into quantum devices that rippled from Bell Labs in New Jersey to research centers in the Soviet Union. Scientists who had spent careers working within the comfortable boundaries of classical electronics suddenly found themselves peering into the strange, probabilistic world of quantum mechanics. In 1973, the Nobel Committee in Stockholm made it official. Esaki was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Ivar Giaever, the two of them recognized for independently illuminating the tunneling phenomenon from different angles, Esaki in semiconductors and Giaever in superconductors. It was a recognition not just of two brilliant careers, but of an entire new chapter in the story of physics. Today, Leo Esaki turns 101 years old. Born in Osaka on March 12, 1925, he has lived long enough to watch the quantum principles he uncovered in that Tokyo lab become foundational to the technology billions of people carry in their pockets every single day. The man who once watched electrons walk through walls is still here. And the world he helped build is still catching up to him.

Watch Falcon 9 launch 24 @Starlink satellites to orbit from California twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@trigottista @threadreaderapp unroll

Tinubu’s JAMB Registrar was born in 1986 and became an expert in 1988 What a wonderful Oluwole CV

@elonmusk @threadreaderapp unroll

SpaceX is actively hiring world-class engineers/physicists for SpaceXAI, even if you have zero prior experience in AI. Smart humans figure it out fast. Please send an email with ~3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to ai_eng@spacex.com.

@AncientHistorry @threadreaderapp unroll

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse. An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of: They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field. His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family. When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message. The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit. He accepted. Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved. He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control. Instead, he resigned on day 16. He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done. Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days. He died poor. On his farm. 2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power. King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble. The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die. Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him. Most people who live there have no idea why.

@TrendingEx @threadreaderapp unroll

@OoTheNigerian @threadreaderapp unroll

Anyone that has built or hired at scale understands the point Tosin of Moniepoint is trying to make. Finding one person is different from when you need 50 in a short while. And no, you cannot pass arround the same developers. Let's leave tech. Can you find great plumbers, mechanics, electricians in Nigeria? At scale? If you you want to repair a Mercedes with a complex problem in Lagos (10 million people) you'd be given the same 5 names. 3 would be those doing side waka from Coscharis. For Lekki Bridge, they imported people cos they could not find the 10 or so deep sea welders in Nigeria. Some skills take years to build and require systems. We are not talking tying gele, doing drop shipping. A global company competing no dey find who go "run am". There is a place for interns etc. But those are not the person that will build the company. We lied to ourselves that population = asset is where our problem stated. Nigeria has many problems and Tosin is not one of them. Go elsewhere and look for who will massage ya egos.

@mathemetica @threadreaderapp unroll

This algorithm is the optimal recursive estimator that secretly guides every rocket to orbit, lands Falcon 9 boosters, and fuses GPS on your phone. It’s pure applied math with CS: the Kalman Filter - minimum-variance linear estimator under Gaussian noise. No Kalman = no precision guidance. Let’s derive it. 🧵

@seyfunmi @threadreaderapp unroll

There is something about Nigeria 🇳🇬 that someone needs to research: its ability to elicit speech in non verbal autistic children. A friend just told me about her 5 year old daughter, who had never uttered a word while they were in Canada. However, after just few months in Nigeria

@UnkleAyo @threadreaderapp unroll

You'll open Twitter and see your sweet mother expanding politically-empowered pants. Omo. Na to commit seppuku o. 😭

@TrendingEx @CitizenMonitors @threadreaderapp unroll

Trending Photos: Kano government distributes branded panties to women.

@TheYorubaTimes @threadreaderapp unroll

"I was breastfeeding when they broke in and they sliced my baby into two” — Woman loses baby, husband, son in midnight raid by suspected Fulani Islamic jihadist

@elliot_solution @YarKafanchan @threadreaderapp unroll

A Nigeria medical doctor governed Rivers State and stole N100 billion or $75 million from state funds. He wasn't arrested because the wife was a Supreme Court Justice. He served two terms. 1999 to 2007. Oil-rich state. Theoretically one of the wealthiest in Nigeria. In January 2007, three months before his tenure ended, the EFCC released an interim report. Fraud. Money laundering. Conversion of public funds. Abuse of oath of office. The number they put on it was over N100 billion stole from Rivers State. Odili did not wait for the charges. He went to a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt. On March 23, 2007, Justice Ibrahim Buba granted him a perpetual injunction. The EFCC was barred from investigating him. Arresting him. Prosecuting him. They could not even look at Rivers State finances during his eight years in power. Odili walked out of office untouchable. His wife is Mary Odili. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2011. She sat on that bench until she retired in 2022. For 11 of those years she was one of the most powerful judicial officers in Nigeria. During the same years the EFCC was trying to appeal her husband's injunction. The EFCC filed the appeal in 2008. It went nowhere. Justice Ibrahim Buba, the judge who signed the original injunction, was later removed from the bench for issuing similar orders shielding other powerful people. In 2018 the Court of Appeal finally granted the EFCC leave to challenge the 2007 ruling. Rivers State fought back. The state Attorney General and the Speaker of the House of Assembly took it to the Supreme Court to block the EFCC. The Supreme Court dismissed their appeal on March 10, 2025. 18 years. That is how long the injunction held. 18 years the EFCC could not ask Peter Odili one question about N100 billion. He is 77 years old now. He has never been tried. Never been charged. Never spent a day in a cell. The draft criminal charges prepared by Festus Keyamo in 2007 are still sitting in a file. Nobody has read them in court. Meanwhile Nuhu Ribadu, the EFCC chairman who first investigated Odili in 2007, is now Nigeria's National Security Adviser under Tinubu. The man who tried to prosecute him is now the second most powerful security official in the country. And Odili is still free. 😂💀🇳🇬

@HannahIamthest1 @threadreaderapp unroll

🤣🤣 Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard when he lives in the jungle without a razor? Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat? Why do banks charge a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they know there is not enough? Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets? Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? Whose idea was it to put an 'S' in the word 'lisp'? What is the speed of darkness? Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up every two hours? If the temperature is zero outside today and it's going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be? Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer? How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage? Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground? Did you ever stop and wonder....... Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?' Who was the first person to say, 'See that chicken there... I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta it's bum.' Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat? Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is? Why does your Gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway? Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs ! If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from? If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune? Stop singing and read on...... Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window? Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster? Do you ever wonder why you followed me? 🤣

@RealOlaudah @threadreaderapp unroll

SCANDAL IN NIGERIA 11,000 Indians hired to work in the Dangote refinery! Dangote, India, and the burning mirror: what is happening to Nigeria is happening to all of Africa There are truths that do more than wound pride; they puncture illusions, strip hypocrisy bare, and throw us—naked—before our own contradictions. The Dangote case is one of them. 11,000 Indian technicians recruited because Nigeria couldn’t find 100 locally. In a country of 235 million inhabitants, Africa’s largest economy, the self-proclaimed giant of the continent. This is the clinical diagnosis of an illness that affects not just Abuja: it runs through the entire African body. Many are shouting “scandal.” I see a mirror. And a mirror never lies. 1. Africa wasn’t defeated by tanks, but by polytechnics People accuse Dangote of preferring Indians. False. Dangote prefers people who know how to run a refinery. Period. It isn’t India that is humiliating us; it is our inability to produce skills that match our ambitions. While Africa organizes summits, “national dialogues,” endless conferences, India organizes classrooms. While we politicize technical education, India professionalizes it. While we glorify long chains of theoretical diplomas, India trains thousands of hands-on technicians. Indians didn’t take Lagos by force. They are entering with their screwdrivers, their software, their skills. 2. Without skills, even our billionaires become dependent Dangote is not the problem. He’s actually the proof that wealth cannot compensate for weak human capital. We may have oil, bauxite, gold, cobalt, lithium… But until we have the men and women capable of transforming them, we remain tenants of our own development. We provide: the land, the raw materials, the tax exemptions, sometimes even public money… Others provide the brains. And in the end, they walk away with the largest share of the added value. Africa is a continent where you can build a port in 18 months—using foreign labor. But where it takes 25 years to modernize a technical high school. That should wake us up. 3. Technical education: our silent Waterloo Our technical schools, where they still exist, operate with: machines from the 1980s, teachers who haven’t been retrained, frozen curricula, workshops turned into dusty museums, students considered “less brilliant” than those in general education. This is where everything begins. This is where India beats us. Not at Dangote. Not in Lagos. At school. African parents dream of lawyers, doctors, and MPs… Rarely of industrial mechanics, electromechanics, maintenance technicians, or process engineers. Our societies continue to look down on technical jobs, even though the modern world depends entirely on them. 4. Nigeria’s problem is Africa’s problem: DRC, Kenya, Cameroon, Senegal… same fight What is happening today in Nigeria is not exceptional. It is the predicted future of all African countries if they do not wake up. Across the continent: Our power plants are repaired by foreigners. Our mines are calibrated by foreigners. Our dams are built by foreigners. Our data centers are configured by foreigners. Our roads are paved by foreigners. And we applaud, as if development were about cutting ribbons. Real development begins when we no longer need them for basic operations. 5. The mental revolution: turn every technical school into a talent factory No magic. No slogans. No hollow “Vision 2030.” Development requires: qualified welders, certified electronic technicians. Culled

@AbujaPresident @threadreaderapp unroll

Abuja 🇳🇬 District Names and Their Meanings 1. Maitama • Origin Name: Maitama • Meaning: One who possesses iron ore • Lang: Hausa 2. Wuse • Origin Name: Wushekwo • Meaning: Look up to God • Lang: Gbagyi 3. Asokoro • Origin Name: Asokoro • Meaning: Land of the Koro tribe • Lang: Koro 4. Apo • Meaning: Wisdom or common sense • Lang: Gbagyi 5. AYA • Origin Name: AYA • Meaning: Alhaji Yahaya Ahmed 6. Mpape • Origin Name: Unape • Meaning: Rock of Upna • Lang: Gbagyi 7. Gwagwalada • Origin Name: Gbangadan • Meaning: Bamboo stick • Lang: Gbagyi • Reason for the Name: There were many bamboo sticks in the area 8. Gwarinpa • Meaning: Settlers on the rock • Lang: Gbagyi • Reason for the Name: Because of the area’s rocky topography 9. Lugbe • Origin Name: Lugbe • Meaning: Mouth of a bird • Lang: Gbagyi 10. Nyanya Origin Name: Nyanya Meaning: Dance Lang: Gbagyi 11. Karu • Origin Name: Karuwa • Meaning: Increase • Lang: Hausa 12. Lokogoma • Origin Name: Lokogoma • Meaning: 10 o' clock 13. Garki • Origin Name: Peyi • Meaning: The Hills 14. Area 1 • Origin Name: Areawane • Meaning: One place for hustlers 15. Karmo • Origin Name: Karmo • Meaning: Land of wealth • Lang: Gade 16. Galadimawa • Origin Name: Gazihima • Meaning: Settlement where title owners live • Lang: Gbagyi 17. Abaji • Origin Name: Abaji • Meaning: Come together 18. Bwari • Origin Name: Bawaya • Meaning: Pound here • Lang: Gbagyi 19. Dawaki • Origin Name: Dawaki • Meaning: Horse • Lang: Hausa 20. Idu • Origin Name: Idu • Meaning: Honor or resp • Lang: Gbagyi

@HannahIamthest1 @threadreaderapp unroll

Puns for Educated Minds 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. 4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption. 5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery. 6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering. 7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. 8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie. 9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it. 10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. 12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: "You stay here. I'll go on a head." 13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me. 14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: "Keep off the Grass". 15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large. 16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran. 17. A backward poet writes inverse. 18. In a democracy, it's your vote that counts. In feudalism, it's your count that votes. 19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion . 20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine. 21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, "I'm sorry, sir! Only one carrion allowed per passenger." 22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says "Dam!" 23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. 24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, "I've lost my electron". The other says "Are you sure?" The first replies, "Yes, I'm positive." 25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication. 26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did. 🤣🤣🤣

@it_unprofession @threadreaderapp unroll

Why do I need a firmware update to use my own living room? Three years ago, I decided my house needed to be a "smart home." I spent $800 on WiFi-enabled lightbulbs. This was a catastrophic mistake. Yesterday, the internet went out for ten minutes. My wife tried to turn on the kitchen lights using the physical wall switch like a Luddite. The bulbs factory reset themselves. Now they cycle through rave colors while emitting a high-pitched pairing frequency. I spent my entire Saturday trying to connect my kitchen ceiling to our router using a 2.4GHz band. I am a 52-year-old man standing on a stepping stool screaming at a lightbulb because my phone can't find its Bluetooth signal. Tomorrow I'm going to Home Depot to buy $2 incandescent bulbs. I want my house to be stupid again.

@VisionaryVoid @threadreaderapp unroll

The Luckiest Fool in American History. In 1700s New England, a barely literate leather tanner named Timothy Dexter married a wealthy widow and decided he was a business genius. His wealthy rivals, eager to watch him fail, fed him deliberately terrible investment advice. They told him to ship warming pans to the tropical West Indies, where no one could possibly need them. Dexter did it without hesitation. He sold every single one. Plantation owners bought them as ladles for their molasses vats. Then his rivals told him to ship coal to Newcastle, England, a city literally famous for its coal mines. Dexter loaded a ship and sailed. He arrived to find the miners on strike and sold his entire cargo at a massive profit. He crowned himself “Lord” Timothy Dexter, filled his Newburyport estate with 40 life-sized wooden statues of famous figures, Washington, Jefferson, Napoleon, and one of himself, inscribed: “I am the first in the East, the first in the West, and the greatest philosopher in the Western World.” He wrote a book so devoid of punctuation that the second edition included an extra page of periods and commas for readers to “salt and pepper as they please.” His final act of absurdity was staging his own funeral while still alive. Three thousand people attended. A eulogy was delivered, a coffin was buried in the garden, and wine flowed freely. Then mourners heard screaming from the kitchen, Dexter had emerged from hiding and was beating his wife with a cane because she hadn’t cried hard enough during the service. He died for real in 1806 at age 59. Every scheme his enemies designed to ruin him only made him richer. History’s greatest argument that the universe has a sense of humor. Sometimes the best business strategy is being too clueless to know you should fail.