Mtendere

The year I turned 23

it's only in formula 1 you'll get to see someone sad in a ferrari😂

Airtel Africa is planning a London IPO for its Airtel Money unit, aiming to raise up to $2B at a potential $10B valuation for a 50M-user mobile money platform finextra.com/newsarticle/47…

🚨 Breaking: Manchester United have officially qualified for the UEFA Champions League next season after Brighton lost to Newcastle United

🚨 Snippet of Drake’s new track ‘ICEMAN’ featuring Justin Bieber has leaked — in it, Bieber references Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams.

Two-thirds of under twos are watching screens, sometimes for eight hours a day. But what’s the actual impact of that on their brains? Sky's @MickeyCarroll0 explains. 🔗trib.al/EFFGLVZ

JUST IN: UAE exits OPEC

Being raised a Christian but later truly finding God on your own isn't talked about enough

People dont read. You think better when you read. Read books that challenge your perspective.

Your iPhone has a USB-C port because Europe passed a law. Europe is only 7% of Apple's sales. That 7% rewrote every iPhone on the planet, including the one in your pocket. In October 2022, the European Parliament passed a law requiring every new phone sold in Europe to use the same plug, USB-C, by the end of 2024. Apple had fought this idea for years, arguing that forcing one standard would slow innovation. Three weeks after the vote, Apple's marketing chief Greg Joswiak sat on a panel at the Wall Street Journal's tech conference and gave up the fight: "We'll have to comply." Eleven months later, Apple launched the iPhone 15. It had a USB-C port. The model sold in Berlin, Chicago, Mumbai, and Shanghai was the same phone. Apple could have built a USB-C iPhone for Europe and kept the old Lightning plug (in iPhones since 2012) for every other country. That would have kept Lightning alive, and Lightning was a real business. Apple ran something called the "Made for iPhone" program. If you wanted to make a Lightning cable, a dock, a car charger, or a speaker that actually worked with an iPhone, you paid Apple $99 a year to join, plus roughly $4 on every connector you sold. Thousands of companies paid in. But making two different iPhones is expensive. Apple sold about 247 million of them in 2025. Two designs means two factories, two parts orders, two boxes, two spare cables in the box, two warranty pipelines. Cheaper to copy Europe's rule and ship one phone to the whole planet. A law professor named Anu Bradford wrote about this pattern in a 2012 paper and a 2020 book. She called it the Brussels Effect. Europe has about 450 million people who buy things. Big enough that companies set the rules for everyone, everywhere, to match whatever Europe says. Your cookie pop-ups come from Europe, a law called GDPR. Safer chemicals in your shampoo and sofa come from Europe, a law called REACH. The new App Store rule that lets you install apps from outside Apple's store comes from Europe, the Digital Markets Act. The USB-C plug on your phone is the same story. The ripple is already spreading. India said every phone sold there needs USB-C by March 2025. California is working on the same law. Apple kept selling one last Lightning iPhone, the iPhone 14, outside Europe until September 2025, then quietly dropped it when the iPhone 17 came out. Lightning is gone from every store in every country. 7% of Apple's money rewrote 100% of Apple's phones.

Ambitious people are my type. I can’t even hide it, once you start talking about doing impossible work, the kind of talk that inspires greatness, you have my allegiance till the wheels fall off. We may fail (woefully) but we will never be guilty of not trying.

Jose Mourinho was the one who told Anatoliy Trubin to run up to add an aerial threat to the box. Trubin did the unthinkable, heading home one of Benfica's most important goals in the last decade 🔥 The Special One ✨

Sometimes a book's last sentence is so good you just have to sigh & stare into the distance & write it down in your journal

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If this degree no later buy me Porsche, problem go dey.

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This is who you’re competing against, Chinese fruit seller and chip designer. Yea, you’re cooked:

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EXCL🚨❌ | Pellegrino Matarazzo has denied sexual relations with Hansi Flick, insisting Sunday’s encounter was a One Night Stand #RealSociedadBarça (@spartankimmich )

NEW SUBSTACK - RAINDANCE IS A LOVE LETTER TO BLACK WOMEN Everyone’s focused on the obvious. Dave. + Tems = Chemistry. Speculation. I watched Raindance AGAIN and saw something else. It’s a love letter to Black women. On screen and behind the scenes. As leads. As architects. As decision-makers. With CARE, SAFETY, and EASEEEEEE. Nigeria filmed with intention, not aesthetic mining. @temsbaby allowed to exist without suffering or performance. Black women like @mxmsworld trusted to shape the vid, not decorate it. Raindance isn’t just a video. It’s a MIRROR. @Santandave1 well done !!!! open.substack.com/pub/mimithemus…