Ronnie Eyight
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Ronnie Eyight
@ronieyit
IT Nerd : Full Stack Developer : Moonwalking into InfoSec & Cloud Services : Wont Turn Down a BEER Invite 🍻
Kampala, Uganda Katılım Haziran 2009
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🚨META’S SMART GLASSES ARE RECORDING YOU IN YOUR MOST INTIMATE MOMENTS..
AND SENDING ALL OF IT TO WORKERS IN KENYA WHO WATCH EVERY SECOND.. THEN META FIRED 1,108 OF THEM FOR TALKING ABOUT IT..
Swedish journalists discovered that footage from Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses is being sent to a facility in Nairobi, Kenya.. Where workers manually watch and label everything the glasses capture..
Not AI watching.. Humans watching..
Over 30 workers confirmed what they see every day.. People in intimate situations.. People on the toilet.. People undressing.. Credit card numbers.. Banking passwords.. Private messages on phone screens.. All completely visible..
One worker said.. “I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording”..
Meta marketed these glasses as “built for your privacy”.. “You’re in control of your data and content”..
The AI features cannot function without sending your footage to Meta’s servers.. There is no local option.. If you use the AI.. Your private life leaves your device..
Swedish journalists visited 10 retail stores.. Every single sales rep incorrectly told customers all data stays on the phone.. Not one knew the footage goes to Kenya..
Meta claims face-blurring protects identities.. Workers say it barely works.. Faces fully visible in low light, fast movement, complex backgrounds..
People in your bedroom.. Fully visible.. To strangers making $1.50 an hour..
Workers said the facility was “saturated with content that could trigger enormous scandals if leaked”.. So the company put them under constant camera surveillance and banned personal devices..
Workers surveilled to prevent them from leaking the surveillance footage they were watching..
Then the investigation went public..
Meta terminated the entire contract.. Claimed Sama “didn’t meet our standards”.. Sama fired back.. “At no point were we notified of any failure to meet those standards”..
1,108 Kenyan workers.. Fired.. Six days notice..
Labor activists called it retaliation.. “The workers who trained the AI saw everything.. Owned nothing.. And lost their jobs the moment they spoke about it”..
55% of these workers report clinical distress.. 52% meet thresholds for major depression.. They earn $1.50 an hour.. Meta made $56.3 billion last quarter..
The head of the Data Labelers Association said it best..
“It is African Intelligence powering European intelligence.. Which they are now calling Artificial Intelligence”..
Meta has sold 7 million of these glasses.. Targeting 10 million by year end.. A class-action lawsuit has been filed.. Kenya’s courts ruled Meta can be sued directly.. 200 former workers are pursuing a $1.6 billion claim..
7 million cameras on 7 million faces.. Sending everything to the cheapest labor market they can find..
And they called it “built for your privacy.”


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@DieoHosen With that age ...l will let them be any day as long as no one is inconvenienced - such moments are precious to them . ❤️
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The reason I woke up so early today, even though it’s a weekend, is this:
I was deep asleep, then suddenly woke up at around 2:34am. We have a neighbor downstairs, we all know him. Every Friday, he plays loud music till morning. We’re okay with it because he pays all of us for it.
I actually woke up and it was Cindy’s song Mbikooye playing.
Now, loud music at night when you’re sleeping is supposed to make you mad when you wake up and find it annoying, right?
But in this case, I actually felt so fvcking good. You all know the song, how melodic and sweet it is.
But what made me mad and I didn’t even get back to sleep was this:
I remembered that we, as a country… like the whole of Uganda… among all the musicians, dead or alive… actually allowed Cinderella Sanyu, aka Cindy The King herself, to go into a musical battle with Sheebah Karungi 😭😭😭.
It didn’t sit well with me. It still doesn’t.
Era I am asking myself… whose idea was it?
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@nku6170 @kyeruphiona Hahahaha. Same way l saw Forest Whitaker a few years back in Kiryandongo. I looked twice and the additional personnel confirmed it all for me 🤭
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@ronieyit @kyeruphiona Someone took a random selfie in a restaurant, they almost slapped themselves seeing who was in the background much later 😂
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I know people who fly back home and don't tell a single soul until they’ve already landed and checked into a hotel under a different name.
Some call it paranoia; they call it 'protection.' Whether it’s the fear of witchcraft, 'evil eyes,' or just the overwhelming weight of village demands, the modern migrant has learned that privacy is the only way to enjoy home. They’d rather be called 'arrogant' for staying in a hotel than be 'vulnerable' staying in the family compound. Better to be judged from a distance than targeted up close.
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@Brian_Twesigye1 @ShaffiuK I'm guessing u wrote off the previous 😎
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@ShaffiuK No I’m not. How on earth do you add a debt on another debt?
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@thatfirstlady I'm coming with you - l have much respect and also many questions for that guy 😂
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@erich_mboowa Top speed is about 2,400km/hr...am assuming that is with the afterburners on
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My father's best friend was a man called Uncle Bayo who disappeared from our lives without explanation. I was 12 the last time I saw him. He came to our flat in Gbagada, argued with my father in the bedroom for an hour, and walked out without saying goodbye to me. My father never spoke his name again. Neither did my mother. Uncle Bayo became a silence with a shape.
Twenty-six years passed. I was in Philadelphia for a conference. A networking dinner at a hotel downtown. Across the room, a man about my father's age caught my eye and held it too long. He approached me during dessert and said my surname like it was a question he already knew the answer to.
We sat in the hotel lobby until 2am. He told me the story my father never did. They had started a construction company together in the early 90s. It had failed because of a contract dispute with a senator. The senator had paid only half the money and refused the rest. The debt had crushed them. Uncle Bayo had blamed my father for trusting the senator. My father had blamed Uncle Bayo for not reading the fine print. The friendship had shattered. Two men who had been closer than brothers had become strangers over something neither of them could control.
Uncle Bayo had moved to America after the falling out. He had built a new life, a new business, a small contracting firm in West Philly. He had married a Ghanaian woman and had two daughters. He had never returned to Nigeria. He had never called my father. He had assumed the silence was mutual.
I asked why he approached me now. He said he recognised my face because I looked like my father at 30. He said he had been waiting for decades to see that face again, to explain something that was never about betrayal. He said the argument had been about shame, not money. Both men had felt they failed each other. Neither had known how to say it.
I called my father from the hotel room. It was 3am in Lagos. He answered on the second ring, voice thick with sleep and alarm. I told him who I was sitting with. The line went quiet. Then my father did something I had never heard him do. He cried. Not softly. The kind of crying that comes from a place words cannot reach.
Uncle Bayo flew to Lagos 3 months later. They met at the same flat in Gbagada. They sat in the same living room where the argument had happened. They didn't re-litigate the past. They just sat together, two old men with white hair and matching hypertension medication, and let the silence heal.
My father died last year. Uncle Bayo spoke at the funeral. He said the greatest thief in life is not money or failure. It is the belief that there is always more time.
Call them. The debt is not theirs. It is yours.
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Grok-4.20 just took the #1 spot in the world for Medicine & Healthcare on Text Arena
Grok is already saving lives by identifying critical conditions that human doctors miss. There have been many real cases where Grok saved lives ❤️
Grok is officially outperforming every other model on the leaderboard, completely crushing Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and all other competitors
This is massive. Healthcare is one of the most important fields where humanity needs help, and right now, Grok does it best

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