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[jwriddle @jwriddle_]

Next level commentating

[Emmy @Emmykeyz]

@hackSultan VLC extra volume changed my life 😅

[Precious R. XII @PreciousJakeR]

Hi,

I'm a Nigerian game dev, and we made this at @Raven_illusion set in Lagos,
Adventurers: Mobile

Available on playstore and Appstore

[Emmy @Emmykeyz]

Yes. Swansea City (2018–19) are the only team in the 38-game era to receive zero penalties in a full season.

[James D @BobHope12000]

Has a club ever had no penalties in a 38 game season?

[Emmy @Emmykeyz]

Hey @AnthropicAI, @claudeai, I have an infobip endpoint "blocked by network proxy allow list"

Are you able to add infobip to Cowork's allow list?

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Most mammals are born with a "budget" of one billion heartbeats; the faster you spend them, the sooner the clock runs out.
Modern medicine lets humans cheat that limit, but a slow resting heart rate is still the ultimate biological insurance policy!

[Emmy @Emmykeyz]

@aakashgupta This is why (smart) TV prices have dropped innit 🤔

[⁹² @fatllingham]

do yall think hes been gimmicking for years or did he actually go insane along the road

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan.

In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have.

So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently.

An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident.

The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010.

The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Babájídé @Babajiide]

Again, a lot of you have the wrong mindset about your work and career. When you get advice, you question it.

We need more successful employees to start speaking up about how to grow your career. We have left it to too many aspiring-to-desire folks.

[Jil Theo @theo_jil]

Branding is how people see you.

Marketing is how they find you.

Sales is how you get paid.

Master all three.

[🌞HELIOS🌞 @helios_brah]

Same reason Electricians always birth girls and
Radar Technicians always birth girls and
Jet Pilots always birth girls and
High Voltage Linemen always birth girls and
Radiologists always birth girls:

EMFs

[NASA @NASA]

Even in darkness, we glow.

In this image of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, we can see the electric lights of human activity. In the lower right, sunlight illuminates the limb of the planet.

[Brian ☀️🌏🌘 @balail]

Artemis ii

[Emmy @Emmykeyz]

@andyreed @asemota "That is not a crash—it is a high-velocity arrival at a lower elevation"

[Akintola Steve @Akintola_steve]

When you build a payment system and you do not understand KYC, AML, and compliance properly, I genuinely hope you do not learn it the hard way.

On KYC, the CBN framework for Nigerian financial systems is structured into three tiers:

Tier 1
BVN or NIN is required.
Max daily transaction: ₦50,000
Max wallet balance: ₦300,000

Tier 2
BVN + liveness or facial verification + a government-issued ID
Max daily transaction: ₦200,000
Max wallet balance: ₦500,000

Tier 3
Full KYC: BVN, NIN, government ID, proof of address, plus enhanced due diligence
Max daily transaction: ₦5,000,000
Unlimited wallet balance

If your system does not enforce these and you ship, you are not just dealing with bugs. You are dealing with regulators.

And when regulators show up, it is not a debugging session.
I am putting this out there because you might be excited about building a solution, not realizing you're just preparing yourself for jail time.

There is a lot to building in the fintech space.
This is why I strongly advise against vibe coding a fintech product.

AI tools do not keep up with regulatory updates. They will not warn you about compliance gaps.
And in fintech, ignorance is not a defense.

[Chisom Rutherford @ruthefordml]

This is now available. It's the most comprehensive collection of Nigerian treatment guidelines and covers 270 medical conditions. Can be used to build RAG pipelines or to validate your health AI application. You can access it here:

[Emmy @Emmykeyz]

@a_derll

[Emmy @Emmykeyz]

Dalot as always