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27 is a weird age you feel like you're 19, but then you meet a 19 year old and realize you're 45.

Okay, Documentary Twitter. Here are ten of my favourite YouTube documentaries with links. I tend to avoid AI videos because human beings aren't meant to consume AI slop. A thread.

@G_Man_Explains @GitaGopinath 🫡 It's also why the last 30 years, the West has been losing to China around the world. Too much feminine leadership slows progress. They are not wired to deal with risk effectively Naturally, in an emergency, women scream to notify the tribe. Men act to address the threat.

@GitaGopinath That is why they are the two largest economies

@roselinenjogu This is deep. You argue like Michael S heiser in his book "The unseen realm". I'd Recommend you check it out.

Tonight in Athens, seated within sight of the Acropolis and the Areopagus, I was reminded that civilizations are not built merely by armies, economies, or constitutions. They are built by gods. Or more precisely, by the ideas of the divine that societies enthrone, defend, legislate, and normalize into law and culture. To my right stood the Acropolis, symbolic center of classical Greek civilization and the worship of Athena. To my left, the Areopagus, where St Paul delivered his famous “unknown god” sermon in Acts 17, proclaiming a God who “does not live in temples built by human hands.” It struck me that this was more than a religious encounter. It was a civilizational encounter: a contest between governing cosmologies. Between competing understandings of morality, authority, and communit. As I reflected on this, I found myself thinking again about my article , Gods at War: Religion and Law-Making, in the Routledge Handbook of African Law (lnkd.in/drWP7p7n) One of the arguments I make there is that law is never neutral. Legal systems are shaped by deeper metaphysical assumptions about family, personhood, morality, freedom, and power. The question is never whether societies are governed by transcendent assumptions. They are. The question is: whose assumptions become codified into law? Colonialism understood this very well. The form of Christianity that arrived in Africa alongside colonialism was not an abstract or universal Christianity detached from history and power. It was a very specific expression of Christianity, shaped by European modernity, empire, race, hierarchy, and particular understandings of civilization itself. In many cases, it arrived clothed not only in scripture, but in the cultural assumptions of empire. But the story did not end there. Christianity in Africa did not remain unchanged, nor was Africa merely a passive recipient of imported theology. African realities, African cosmologies, African moral imaginaries, and African spiritual sensibilities also transformed Christianity itself. What emerged was not simply the triumph of one civilization over another, but an ongoing process of contestation, adaptation, translation, and remaking. In many ways, this is what Gods at War is ultimately about: the making and remaking of civilizations as an ongoing project. The “war of gods” never truly ended. Today, these contests are often fought through constitutions, courts, education systems, media, and international institutions rather than temples and idols. Yet beneath many of our fiercest legal and political debates still lies the same ancient question: What vision of the human person should govern society? Athens has a way of making history feel startlingly alive.

You're right bro, Christianity brainwashed me. I want to spend the rest of my life with one person, pray for those who hate me, forgive easily, raise a beautiful family, stay away from gossip, and find true purpose in Jesus.

When I was in university, my roommate used to wake up every morning at 5am and leave the hostel dressed like she was going to class. We all thought she had a rich uncle sponsoring her because she always had food, clean clothes, and never borrowed money. One day I followed her out of curiosity. Turns out she was working at a bakery before lectures started every morning. She hid it because she didn’t want people mocking her. Fast forward to graduation day, while most of us were searching for jobs, she already had enough savings to open a small food spot. Today she owns three restaurants. That experience taught me something: Never laugh at humble beginnings. Some people are sacrificing in silence while building the life everyone will admire later.

After finding Christ ❤️ Leandro de Souza was once known as the “most tattooed man in Brazil,” with nearly 95% of his body covered in ink. But after giving his life to Christ, he began the painful process of removing the tattoos, saying he wanted the outside to reflect what God had already changed on the inside.

So I opened my Bible this morning like I always do. No bookmark. No theme. No plan. Just opened it and started reading. And I about fell out of my chair. My eyes landed on a verse I have read before but clearly never felt. Isaiah 45:3 “I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the Lord, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel.” Treasures. Of darkness. That stopped me. There are things you learn in grief you will never learn in comfort. There is authority forged in suffering that cannot be manufactured on a stage. There is intimacy with God that only grows when everything else has been stripped away. Hidden riches. Not obvious blessings. Not flashy miracles. Hidden. There is depth being built in you that applause could not sustain. The darkness is not your grave. It is your treasury. And when God brings you out, you will not just be relieved. You will be refined. You will be stronger. You will know Him in a way you never could have if the lights had stayed on. I thought I was randomly opening my Bible this morning. But Heaven had an appointment. And if you needed this today, maybe it was not random for you either💗

🇨🇳 This might be the most futuristic thing you’ll see today: Artificial skylights that use LED panels + nanotechnology to create hyper-realistic blue skies and sunlight in completely windowless rooms. You can even switch from bright midday sun to warm sunset glow with a remote. We’re now simulating the sky indoors because real windows are apparently too much to ask for in dense cities. This is either peak innovation…or lowkey dystopian. You decide.

The atheists that actually care about evidence end up becoming Christians.

A man spent 50 years teaching at MIT. Near the end, he knew time was running out. So he recorded one final lecture, everything he learned distilled into one hour. He passed away 5 months later. This is that lecture. Bookmark it.

Maya Johnson, a U.S. Army soldier deployed to Iraq (2019–2021), was nicknamed “Church Girl” for praying before every mission despite being mocked by teammates. She remained consistent in her faith, and during the time she joined convoy missions, her team avoided bomb attacks. When she was removed, the unit began getting hit, but after she returned, the attacks stopped again. After a close call where she drove over a bomb that didn’t explode, she became even more bold in her faith. By the end of the deployment, all 300 soldiers in her unit returned home safely. Her message: don’t stop praying, even when people mock you; you never know whose life it may impact.

"AI will take your job." But These opportunities will rise: - Inference Engineering for LLMs/VLMs - Demand Forecasting with RL Agents - Data Engineering at scale (evergreen) - GTM Engineering & Strategist - AI Product Managers - DevRel for B2B AI - Mathematician for AI Research - Federated/Distributed Engineering - Networking and Security for AI - AGI R&D Engineering - CUDA GPU kernels - Technical Content Creation with human taste - Sales & Marketing (evergreen) - Teaching AI by Humans - Observability in AI - Solo founder with AI team - Quant Finance with ML - Multi-agent system engineering - Cloud Deployment for AI services - LLMs/SLMs in IoT All technical skills require architecture design, business alignment, and distribution. Coding will never be that tough, but understanding the basics is important. Why? So things won’t be a black box for you. Basics mean concepts, not syntax. Learning these is mandatory to stay relevant: 1. Neural Networks 2. Transformers & LLMs 3. RL 4. Inference for LLMs 5. Linear Algebra 6. Distributed Systems 7. Ops 8. Content Creation (text or video) 9. Marketing and Sales 10. Public Speaking Keep basics clean to stay relevant in next tech wave.

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a few weeks ago i created my local version of Wispr Flow. works great and uses the open source models locally with options to use cloud models too. i named it "rekody" (repo in comments). this led me down the rabbit-hole of understanding these Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models and how they convert speech to text. i then explored fine-tuning my own version. but then i thought about my mother tongue Kalenjin which has ~6M speakers across Kenya and diaspora. none of the major ASR systems support it. low-resource languages, especially African, are missing almost entirely from the AI models out there right now. if it exists, it's not good at all. several issues that cause this but fixable. so i decided to fine-tune whisper on Kalenjin dataset i found on @huggingface and ran it on @modal. three things I learnt from this experiment: 1. data curation mattered more than model size or training tricks. ~80% of the work was dataset, ~20% was ML. 2. i built it to scratch a heritage itch but didn't anticipate the messages from diaspora Kalenjin friends saying "i understand it but can't speak it. could this become a learning app?" 3. the next step is a Kalenjin text model. so the speech model can eventually help teach the language back to people who lost it. i wrapped the fine-tuned LoRA in an app you can try it out and also a blog write up of the entire build (links in comments).

Moses asked God for two things. God said no to both. Then Moses died. Fifteen hundred years later, on a mountain in Galilee, God answered both prayers in front of three terrified fishermen. Most Christians read this story every year and miss it completely. Here is what they miss. Prayer one. Moses asked to see God's face. "And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live." (Exodus 33:20) No. Prayer two. Moses asked to cross into the Promised Land. "Get thee up into the top of Pisgah... but thou shalt not go over this Jordan." (Deuteronomy 3:27) No. Moses dies on the mountain. Buried by God Himself. End of story. Except it wasn't. The Mount of Transfiguration. Christ pulls back the veil. His face shines as the sun. And who shows up standing next to Him? Moses. "And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him." (Matthew 17:3) In the Promised Land. Looking at the face of God in the flesh. Both prayers. Granted. Not on Moses's timeline. Not through Moses's law. Through the Son. The no was not rejection. It was redirection. Every prayer God seems to deny, He is answering through Christ. The Mount of Transfiguration is the receipt. The face. The land. The healing. The marriage. The vindication. He is not closing the door. He is telling you which door. Through Christ. Or not at all. Moses found out. So will you. Full piece on Substack ↓ [deadhidden.substack.com link]

Vibe coders are not going to like this. UC San Diego just published the first real field study of experienced developers using AI agents. They watched 13 of them code in the wild and surveyed 99 more. Zero of them vibe coded. Not one developer "fully gave in to the vibes." Not one trusted the agent to ship. The researchers found the opposite of what every Cursor demo on your timeline implies. Experienced devs plan before they prompt. They load the agent with heavy context. They verify every diff and refuse to merge code they haven't actually read. "Flow and joy" coding, the whole Karpathy vibe coding pitch, got quietly rejected by every professional in the study. They said it's fine for throwaway prototypes. Not for anything that ships. The devs still liked using agents. They just don't let the agent drive. Turns out the people who've shipped software for a decade know something the vibe coding influencers don't. Huang et al., UC San Diego. December 2025. Paper in comments.

The Blue Whale produces milk so rich and thick it has the consistency of soft butter or flowing cream. It’s 50% fat—nearly 15 times more concentrated than human milk. ​Why? Because in the vastness of the ocean, a liquid would dissolve into the salt water before it ever reached the calf. Instead, this "liquid gold" stays intact, allowing the baby to gain 200 pounds every single day. ​"He who fashioned the depths of the sea left nothing to chance." ​From the gargantuan heart the size of a car to the microscopic precision of a mother’s milk, we are witnessing a masterpiece of engineering. This isn't just "survival"—it is divine intentionality. ​Every ripple in the ocean and every breath in your lungs is a quiet, powerful reminder: Every detail was crafted. Every need was anticipated. ​Nature isn't just magical; it’s a witness. ​God is Amazing. 💙 ​#Creator #BlueWhale #NatureIsArt #GodsDesign #DeepOcean #WondersOfWorld

Me to Claude: "Make no mistakes. DO NOT HALLUCINATE. YOU ARE AN EXPERT SOFTWARE ENGINEER WITH 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE."