Ata Dudu

Nigeria actually has 371 ethnic groups with different languages.

Narratives like this are so dangerous if we let them fly, simply because there are naive girls on here who can’t sift truth from BS. Your first statement is already an inherent contradiction. If a man was truly great, he would not wife a whore. Because a great man cannot be successfully conned into marriage by a cheap whore. Great men care about their reputation, their children’s upbringing, and the empire they are building. So what you have done here is to craftily repackage what it means for a man to be great, as the word con-artist that you are. In your dishonor, words are only as useful as you can bend and manipulate them to serve your selfish ends.

@josh_olonade @aboo_aamir @josh_olonade please don’t stop schooling the bastard. This made my day 😁😁

What you don’t understand (which is a pretty common thing among your kind) is that every religion is backed by cultural force of the pioneers of that religion, and whenever a people bring a religion to you, it always run with a subtle agenda to use the religion as a ploy to subdue the culture of those people, hence they try to make instrumental parts of your culture look alien or contradictory to your religion and then say that you have to put aside those parts, that’s what the Christian missionaries and the Muslim conquerors did when they came to Nigeria, now it’s for you to take the good part of the religion that’s being preached to you and put aside the part that’s just a ploy to subdue you. Why do you think northerners are considered more superior Muslims than you are?? Because they’ve eroded more and exchanged a chunk of their culture for religion, there’s ZERO MAJOR traditional ruler that’s rooted in their cultural tradition but religious. It’s the inability to take religion and sieve out the part used to just conquer your culture that caused for Ilorin to get conquered by the north because in the facade that he saw and thought he was one with the north because of religion, he failed to prioritize the security of his own people and culture and he got taken over. I definitely won’t be shocked if all this runs way over your head, if you don’t possess enough intellect to understand this nor go research on it, you sinple wont understand. So when your religion discourages you from praying in your language, that’s the bad part of your culture that’s going??? Lmao.

Ibadan son to Ibadan son. With due respect. If Islam is your ONLY pride, then you are a bastard. If your ancestry and the blood of your fathers isn’t your pride but a foreign heritage is then you’re a bastard. If your respect for your Yoruba heritage is ONLY as long as it doesn’t contravene Islam then you’re a bastard.

There is no such thing as the right speed for intelligent reading. Some things should be read quickly and effortlessly and some should be read slowly and even laboriously. The sign of intelligence in reading is the ability to read different things differently according to their worth. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through you — how many you can make your own. —Mortimer Adler

Introducing Roughdraft! A new open source project designed to make collaboration with agents better. The idea is to bring commenting and suggested changes to markdown (e.g. plan docs) in a nice interface. Free, local, etc. 👉 roughdraft.md 👈

It is tragic that those of us here in Africa who are victims of imperialism, who still carry the physical and psychological scars of colonial looting, are comfortably celebrating the rise of imperial monopolies like Netflix, Uber, and Temu or Shein, just because we want to deliver a cheap punchline for a few brainless retweets, to chase worthless online clout, or to sound intellectually superior while cheering on our own economic destruction. Netflix did not "out-innovate" DStv, and DStv was not sleeping. The fundamental, unaddressed difference is that one is a local African broadcaster working with meager, heavily taxed local funding, while the other sits on a mountain of subsidized Western capital, an endless money-printing machine backed by Wall Street, and the geopolitical muscle of the US government. Netflix gets about $17B in effectively interest-free capital and tax-subsidized benefits every year, which allows them to run their operations at a massive loss while aggressively capturing sovereign markets. On the other hand, DStv is treated as a value stock, meaning public markets ruthlessly demand immediate dividends, strict fiscal discipline, and quarter-by-quarter profitability. If DStv spent ten billion dollars on a single year's content, its share price would crash into oblivion overnight, its board would be wiped out by panicking investors, and its credit lines would be cut. And just in case you are wondering, the South African government cannot step in to rescue DStv with interest-free loans, thanks to the predatory, highly restrictive treaties enforced by the ruthless World Trade Organisation. If the South African government dared to offer DStv a simple one hundred million dollar grant, they would immediately face brutal litigation at the WTO, because African nations foolishly signed suicidal trade agreements which dictate that if a sovereign state subsidizes its own local industry, it is legally obligated to offer the exact same financial welfare to the foreign predators invading their market. And this is just the WTO. We have not even discussed the financial hitmen at the IMF or the World Bank, who view any form of state support for local industries as fiscal irresponsibility, a violation of free-market dogmas, or an outright sin. If the government gave DStv a massive loan, the IMF would immediately downgrade the country's credit rating into junk status. This engineered downgrade would make it punishingly expensive for the South African government to build clinics, fund schools, or repair highways, because the interest rates on their national debt would skyrocket to line the pockets of Western lenders. But brainwashed Africans, who are the primary victims of this neo-colonial economic castration, will happily log onto Western platforms to tell you that Netflix was innovative while DStv was just sleeping. The absolute worst part of this farce is the brain-dead comparison between Uber and local taxi drivers. A local driver must make an immediate profit today to buy maize meal, bread, and petrol tomorrow. He cannot compete with a multinational behemoth that has an explicit mandate from Wall Street to burn five billion dollars a year in predatory pricing, artificially subsidizing rides just to starve local operators into bankruptcy and clear the field. The local taxi driver is the most visible, highly vulnerable target of his own state's predatory municipal machinery. He is hunted daily by corrupt traffic officers for compliance, like an expired permit, a slightly worn tire, a missing fire extinguisher, or an arbitrary traffic offense. For him, a single fifty-dollar ticket is not just a minor inconvenience; it is a catastrophic blow, the difference between his children sleeping with a full stomach or going to bed hungry. But Uber does not even recognize these drivers as human beings with labor rights. They see no need to protect the dignity of work, the right to a living wage, or the basic sovereignty of the citizen. Instead, Uber smugly informs the courts that local labor laws do not apply to them, because they are just an app, and their drivers are merely independent contractors. With this legal sleight of hand, they have effectively deleted the Bill of Rights for millions of working-class men and women. They have engineered a lawless corporate territory where they can terminate a breadwinner's account via a heartless algorithm with zero human review, pay him slave wages after stealing 30% in service fees, and refuse him a single cent of medical coverage for the crashes he suffers while lining their pockets. Worse, they offer their rides at a 50% discount because they are heavily subsidized by Silicon Valley venture capitalists playing a global game of market conquest, and local governments are too terrified to intervene, knowing that any attempt to regulate these giants will result in immediate economic retaliation, diplomatic bullying, or Washington threatening to sanction them into oblivion. Newspapers did not lose because they were lazy. There is no physical way a local newspaper can compete with Facebook or Instagram, which sit on massive surveillance networks, endless pools of free user data, and algorithmic monopolies designed to capture human attention for profit. This is exactly why China banned these digital parasites and built their own sovereign ecosystems to allow local industries to develop. How do you expect African manufacturing to ever survive when Shein and Temu are allowed to flood our markets with heavily subsidized, ultra-cheap fast fashion and low-quality equipment? Do you honestly think China would have transformed into an industrial superpower if they had allowed their territory to be used as a digital and physical dumping ground, a massive cesspool where the West discarded their second-hand clothes, their obsolete laptops, their toxic e-waste, and their plastic garbage under the fraudulent banner of free trade? This is the core problem I have with motivational speakers, with their brainless "grindset" rhetoric, and with how they completely erase the structures of global capital to blame the victim, because in their world, your poverty is a personal failure rather than the predictable outcome of an international economic system designed to keep you subjugated. Let me conclude by saying that we must stop applauding the very chains designed to bind us, we must stop worshipping the corporations that are asset-stripping our continent, and we must realize that true innovation cannot exist without economic sovereignty.

Fanta is trying to kill Nigerians.

the moment you realize that your life revolves around the unwritten rules (ones that you can't go against) is the moment you will start achieving quantum leaps + rapid progress

Women have always been this way A letter from a woman to her husband on the front in WWI talking about how she let another man get her pregnant after not getting any letters for 3 weeks and how she hoped the baby would just die. She also tells him to keep sending her money!

Very nice breakdown of how @linear is fast. The why we had from the beginning was: fast software gets used and is loved, and software that is about coordination and communication benefits from that.

Introducing performance.dev! A new space where I explore how the best apps in the world are built. First piece: How's Linear is so fast? a technical breakdown. performance.dev/how-is-linear-…

Meet Bitrig Remote: a professional app development environment for iPad. Connect to Bitrig running on your Mac and build with: - The full Xcode toolchain - Streaming Xcode Simulator previews - Real Xcode projects - GitHub integration - Claude Code and Codex

If you are a mathematician, then you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.

REAL PHOTOGRAPHY MUST REMAIN IN PEOPLE'S HANDS Today, we are launching VWFNDR™ + MBL, a compact camera for everyone. A camera you always carry should work like a camera, not as a computational filter, not as an AI image generator, but as a tool for intentional photography.

I regret to inform the community that all that the source code for Vector has been leaked. This has been tough on the team, most likely, it's being auctioned on the dark web. 🧵 Whoever purchases it will regret it for the reasons in this thread.

Introducing: Cohere Command A+ We’ve created our most powerful LLM yet, optimized it to run on as little hardware as possible, and released it open-source for all.

Chain rule! #math #mathematics #maths #classic #calculus

Microsoft Senior AI developer just showed how they build AI agents with Claude at Microsoft. 34-minutes. free. By Microsoft team Opus 4.7 + 1,400+ pre-built MCP tools plug Claude into agent → give it tools → ship to production worth more than any $500 vibe-coding course.

Empty State & Navigation - built with Claude Code