Dennis

Take me to your leader🖖🏽

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

1. What did David Oyedepo establish Covenant University for?
2. South Korea has historically sent between 20,000 and 27,000 long-term foreign missionaries abroad, placing it #2 globally in total volume behind the United States. South Korea is also a technology powerhouse.

[Charles @charliefx_]

The game only ends when the coffin closes

[Pяom Pяom🌚 @effxzzzyy]

if my son does something like this, he’s becoming the father of the house for free.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[Catarina Senora Gatita @WyattCatarina]

Matt Rife isn’t just hilarious, his heart is ENORMOUS. ❤️🫶❤️
As much as he loves roasting the entire crowd with zero exemptions, he can flip the switch in a second and make you cry tears of joy. What a guy! Wait till you see what he did for that girl in the wheelchair. 🫶

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.

Here’s what this means for you:

Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.

On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.

We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

[Chris Lane Jones @cljwebdev]

☠️☠️☠️

[Jason 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎 𝑮𝒖𝒚 Tetro 🇨🇦 @JATetro]

Overheard behind me while watching #H5N1 NAS workshop today: "You want to really make a pandemic, make hantavirus human transmissible"

[Gap | Suby @gaspardlezin]

I sent $1,000 from New York to Lagos through 8 payment rails. The best delivered ₦1,400,000. The worst delivered ₦1,323,000. That ₦77,000 gap = one month of groceries for a family in Lagos.

Yesterday's rail comparison got sharp feedback. The strongest critique: "Try this on a low-liquidity corridor. I bet stablecoins don't look the same."

Fair. So I redid the experiment on the hardest corridor I could find: Nigeria.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 ��𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲:

The Naira isn't one currency. It's two.
→ The official CBN rate: ₦1,345 per USD. Banks, SWIFT, Wise, Western Union must use it.
→ The parallel market rate: ₦1,400 per USD. It's where real dollar supply meets real demand.

That 4% gap isn't a fee. It's the government pricing the naira higher than anyone is willing to pay for it.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 $𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗴𝗼𝘀:

🥇 USDT P2P: ₦1,400,000 (30 sec, $0.01)
🥈 Yellow Card: ₦1,393,000 (2 min)
🥉 Bitcoin: ₦1,393,000 (~10 min)
4️⃣ Sendwave (International Remittance): ₦1,372,000 (15 min)
5️⃣ Wise: ₦1,344,000 (CBN rate)
6️⃣ Swift: ₦1,344,000 (3-7 days, $50 fee)
7️⃣ Western Union: ₦1,330,000
8️⃣ PayPal Xoom: ₦1,323,000 (5.5% hidden spread)

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵���� 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁:

That USDT P2P rate only exists because someone, somewhere, holds naira and wants dollars. The P2P desk IS the off-ramp. It's real infrastructure, with real liquidity risk.

But here's what they couldn't see on the Paris–NY corridor:

In a dual-rate economy, stablecoins aren't just faster. They give you access to a different price. The real price.

Nigeria has the world's 2nd-largest P2P crypto volume. Not speculation. Access to the actual dollar rate, without flying to Lagos with a suitcase.

The next decade's fintech question isn't "will stablecoins replace SWIFT?"
It's "what happens when 2 billion people in dual-rate economies realize they can bypass the official channel?"

₦77,000 on $1,000 tells me the question is worth asking.

PS: I'm the founder of @subyhq and I weekly posts on payments, stablecoins, and building across borders. Follow for more.

[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

AWS AI & ML Scholars Program 2026 - Free AI & Machine Learning training program delivered by AWS and Udacity

Open to anyone 18+ worldwide.

No prior AI or tech experience required.

Deadline: June 24
https://t.co/cQoeG47RS8

[Evan Luthra | KBW2026 🇰🇷 @EvanLuthra]

🚨BREAKING: ANTHROPIC IS GIVING AWAY THE SAME CERTIFICATION THAT DELOITTE IS MASS-TRAINING 15,000 EMPLOYEES TO GET.

It costs $0. You need a laptop. That's it.

It's called the "Claude Certified Architect."

Think of it like the AWS cert but for AI.

If you were around when AWS certs started, you know what happened. They went from "cool to have" to "you're not getting hired without one." That took about 5 years.

This is going to happen way faster.

Look at who's already moving:

Accenture - training 30,000 people on Claude
Cognizant - rolled it out to 350,000 employees
Deloitte - opened Claude access to 470,000 people
Infosys - anchor partner

These aren't startups experimenting. These are billion dollar consulting firms restructuring their entire workforce around Claude.

And the certification they need? You can take it right now from your bedroom.

Let me be real though. This is not one of those "watch 2 videos and get a badge" type certs that nobody respects.

This thing is hard.

60 questions. 2 hours. Proctored. Webcam on. No breaks. No googling.

They drop you into real scenarios like designing a customer support agent that handles refunds or setting up Claude in a CI/CD pipeline. The wrong answers look right on purpose. They're the exact mistakes real engineers make in production.

720 out of 1000 to pass.

People who took it are saying the agentic architecture and multi-agent orchestration sections are brutal.

Most of the exam is about building AI systems that actually work in the real world. Not prompting. Not chatting with Claude. Architecting production systems.

All the prep? Free. Anthropic put out 13 courses on their Academy. No paywall. The cert itself is free for the first 5,000 people. After that $99 per attempt.

How to get it:

1. Join the Claude Partner Network (free) → https://t.co/TWMshPoKDn
2. Start the free prep courses → https://t.co/9OVwtjbvh0
3. Register for the exam → https://t.co/WWFAhSZUVd
4. Take the official practice exam
5. Book the real one when you're ready

It launched 10 days ago. Almost nobody has it yet.

That's the whole point. Get it before it becomes the thing everyone has.

[Bloomberg @business]

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote’s refinery is being flooded with inquiries as African governments scramble to secure fuel supplies https://t.co/25BkrNXnSS

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[The Knowledge Bank @xKnowledgeBANK]

In 1998, Warren Buffett gave a 1-hour masterclass on how to never lose money investing.

[Olaoluwa David Daramola @__Laolu]

When visiting Nigeria as an ijgb you’ll get a tiny itch to move back it’s important that you buy Nixoderm to treat the craw craw

[Olivia @116Olivia]

Went to Harvard because there, like in labs in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Uganda and across Sub Saharan Africa, scientists are doing all kinds of work right now speeding through solving the Malaria problem.
Absolutely grateful I get to tell a small part of that story.

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

Tech-abstinence is the next big status symbol. Sustained focus without the need to check your phone. Immunity to brainrot. Total detachment from the algorithmic overlords.

Most people are already too far gone.

[Dada @marvy_101]

> Sorce is now a part of @ycombinator

the backstory...

> run after @thesamparr to pitch him idea 1 yr ago
> drop tesla & dell offers to work on idea
> live in @theresidency hacker house with 10 other men
> convince @therealdajayi & @davidalade to drop their lives and join me
> Start building tinder for jobs
> @hthieblot & founders inc. write a check
> go back to college and grow the app
> graduate
> move to sf after college
> convince @benanchetaiii & @mattrltrent to drop their lives and join us
> apply to yc after deadline
> get a call from @davidlieb that we got in
> dreams do come true

Please download my app - source[dot]jobs/download

[Donte @bmoreopensource]

First drop of the week. Free network labs below.
Network
Linux
Cyber
Automation.

All you need is GitHub account and use the free code spaces. I've kept the labs low overhead as possible.

https://t.co/mmKmzpD8sR

[HAPPINESS ✨💫 @thehappywriterr]

for my dad's wake keep service, my siblings asked me to write & read the eulogy. instead of writing it solely from my own perspective, i asked each of them & my mum to share their favorite memories of him. together, we wove those stories into one tribute.

https://t.co/1PHw40C05p