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📍From Uswazi to the world 🌍

Uswazi Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Zeddy@ZeddyShizzle·
Day 1 📍Mombasa, Kenya 🇰🇪 They say charity begins at home and what better destination to start with than my home town. Representing 001 and spreading that Uswazi vibe everywhere I travel. 🏡 #21Days21Destinations
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Zeddy@ZeddyShizzle·
Can’t believe I am actually happy for Kateam. That was a beautiful game 😭
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Chetuya Math Chinagolum@Chetuyachinago·
I put on my fraud detection hat whenever I see a 22 year old Tech bro who supposedly dropped out of college to fund an AI startup. In this case, what I found about this Kled guy is incredibly disturbing. K5 Global is Kled’s lead investor. K5 Global is a firm that frequently invests alongside the Palantir and Thiel network. Another Kled backer, Aglaé Ventures, owned by Bernard Arnault, has a massive AI portfolio that intersects with the same labs that Palantir’s AIP integrates with. Basically, Kled is the Data Harvester for Palantir. Their job is to mobilize hundreds of thousands of gig workers, mostly from the Global South, to upload personal photos, videos, and documents. They convert raw human life into a machine readable product. Their clients like Palantir act as the Data Refinery. Palantir’s software, specifically Foundry and AIP, is designed to take that data and make it actionable for governments and corporations to put into global surveillance and military use. We can safely conclude that this Kled guy and other similar AI startups harvesting user data are human meat shields. They are specifically set up and funded to do the dirty work for Silicon Valley tech empires. Understand that these Large AI labs are currently being sued by artists, writers, and publishers for stealing data through web scraping. To win these court cases, OpenAI and Palantir need to prove they have clean, consented data. Buying a dataset from Kled, where every user signed a 50 page digital consent form in exchange for $20, gives these billion dollar tech companies a free pass. Also, imagine if Palantir, a company already criticized for government surveillance and US military war campaigns, offered to pay people in developing countries to film their living rooms and daily activities. It would look like a global surveillance network. By using Kled as a middleman, they get the same data but keep their hands clean in the public eye. Even though we cannot verify his claim of Nigerians defrauding his company, what we can verify is that he is an industry plant. He is set up to allow AI data labs to continue harvesting user data for global surveillance and military use.
Avi Patel@avipat_

We have removed Kled from the Nigerian app store and IP banned the entire region. The first thing I would like to say is I have nothing against Nigeria. I have a ton of friends from this region and these were some of our earliest app adopters. Genuinely, thank you all for the support. Kled has been up and running and out of beta for 4 months now. We have paid out hundreds of thousands of people for their data, and our users have uploaded over 1 billion assets onto our platform. After several months of uploads we found that Nigeria had a ≈95% fraud rate. Instead of real, usable data, users were uploading pictures of black screens, duplicate photos, internet generated images, AI generated images, etc. at an unimaginable scale. In comparison, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines have a less than 10% fraud rate across 10x the userbase size. Our fraud system is fast to catch these issues but the level of complexity of these schemes is getting out of hand. This weekend we were flooded with thousands of fake Japanese passports and identity cards with Nigerians photoshopped onto them in our KYC system. That was the final straw. As a startup we can't afford to eat the costs of that data overhead, so we temporarily removed the app from the region while we improved our fraud detection and banning system to quickly filter out bad actors when the time is right. On top of all of this, every time we make a post there is someone asking us to bring the region back within seconds. We hear you, but it's gotten out of hand. We've made this decision with great care. We love everyone who has genuinely supported Kled from Nigeria, and we hope to return when the time is right. -Kled Team

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𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉
Full grown adults who can’t vacation, take a gap year, have hobbies, play an instrument, speak multiple languages, swim, cycle, skate, or backpack. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to escape survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics no one really talks about.
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le.hl@0xleegenz·
Walking alone through a foreign city at night and realizing how far you’ve come has to be a top 3 peak moment of all time
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Larry Madowo@LarryMadowo·
Kenya honors Sabastian Sawe’s sub-2-hour marathon with a presidential welcome, $62,000, a car of his choice, and custom plates with his record-breaking time
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Zeddy@ZeddyShizzle·
@Rainmaker1973 This was AI of the industrial age, imagine a farmer seeing this beast.
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A restored 1905 Case 150 steam tractor, the largest ever built by Case, pulling 44 John Deere plows
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@ivymuthe @jer_kir In a global world these are kids on the other side of the continent they will be competing against. Corruption should actually be placed as crimes against humanity. x.com/j00ny369T/stat…
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IVY@ivymuthe·
It is heartbreaking 💔 to see our area leaders dining lavishly in Nairobi and shopping in Dubai, while so many children still lack access to decent, free meals.
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NFL Africa@NFLAfrica·
A dream come true for Joshua Weru 🇰🇪 Coming from a rugby background, he will join fellow IPP alum, Uar Bernard 🇳🇬 on the @Eagles, and will currently be the lone Kenyan in the NFL, paving the way for others 🙏 #FlyEaglesFly
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Magatte Wade@magattew·
When Africa becomes prosperous, racism against Black people everywhere will drop dramatically. That's not wishful thinking, you can actually watch this pattern play out in history. The Japanese were heavily discriminated against in America until Japan became an economic power.  Then suddenly Japanese culture was cool, Japanese products were premium, and the hostility faded. The same happened with South Korea. Prosperity rewrites how the world sees your people.  Nothing else even comes close.
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TENIOLA@Teeniiola·
Omoh! Na so God take save this woman oo! According to the story the woman who owns the shop have been unable to sell and the shop have been closed for the past one year. The heavy rain exp0sed the bottle and this man took a bold step to release the person. This happened live today at woji port harcourt.
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Magatte Wade@magattew·
I've spent my whole life trying to understand why Africa is the poorest region in the world. Low IQ. Malnutrition. Lack of education. Colonialism. Racism. Laziness.  I've heard every explanation. None of them made sense. If it’s colonialism, why was Ethiopia (never colonized) for a long time the poster child for African poverty? Why was Botswana, which was colonized, one of the best performers in Africa? And why is Singapore richer than its former colonizer? If it's lack of education, why are half of African university graduates unemployed? Why were math degrees from Eswatini raising chickens before we hired them to teach at our virtual school? The real answer is something nobody wants to talk about:
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Global Athletics Hub
Global Athletics Hub@glblathletichub·
Fastest 100m per country in history: 🇯🇲 Usain Bolt - 9.58s (+0.9) 🇺🇸 Tyson Gay - 9.69s (+2.0) 🇰🇪 Ferdinand Omanyala - 9.77s (+1.2) 🇮🇹 Lamont Marcell Jacobs - 9.80s (+0.1) 🇹🇹 Richard Thompson - 9.82s (+1.7) 🇿🇦 Akani Simbine - 9.82s (+1.0) 🇬🇧 Zharnel Hughes - 9.83s (+1.3)
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