John Seno

Co-founder & Director of Finance & Strategy at OTB Africa. CEO at Seno Group Limited. Avid Reader. Cyclist. Christ Follower.

[John Seno @jjseno]

The Gospel Explained
https://t.co/OumvUA1bfQ

[John Seno @jjseno]

@DukeofEmbu92 @Papa_Ibeji 😂😂

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

AOC and her fiancé have called it quits after ten years together. But she says they can still be comrades.

[Laura Powell @LauraPowellEsq]

When I was a leftist in a blue bubble, I often spoke about politics with the presumption that others generally agreed with me.

No one ever challenged me, though I now realize there must have been people who disagreed.

I wish I could apologize to them.

[Alexander Stahel 🌻 @BurggrabenH]

Helen Andrews’s thesis on the feminisation of Western institutions helps explain something increasingly obvious about progressive politics in both the US and Europe.

Politics is becoming less a contest between competing ideas and more a system of social conformity: you are either with us or against us. Disagreement is no longer merely disagreement. It becomes evidence that there is something morally wrong with you.

That mechanism matters because it allows emotionally compelling narratives to substitute for intellectual coherence. Wind and solar are “green”, therefore questioning their economics, intermittency or system costs makes you a climate denier.

Mass migration from low-trust societies is framed as compassion, therefore questioning its fiscal, social or institutional consequences becomes evidence of moral deficiency.

The contradictions inside the policies matter less than the emotional legitimacy attached to supporting them. Emotions matter, not facts.

Once politics operates this way, social enforcement becomes more powerful than argument. People do not need to believe every proposition. They merely need to understand the reputational cost of challenging it. Nobody wants to be expelled from the respectable tribe.

This is where Timur Kuran’s concept of preference falsification becomes so powerful. People publicly endorse positions they privately doubt because dissent carries a social price.

The apparent consensus then intimidates the next person into silence, making the consensus look stronger still. Eventually you have preference falsification at scale: weak ideas protected by powerful social conformity.

The extraordinary feature of this system is that policy can remain emotionally successful long after it has become economically or socially destructive.

The moral narrative is immediate; the consequences arrive with a lag. By the time energy costs rise, institutions deteriorate, fiscal burdens compound or social trust erodes, years of policy have already been locked in.

It’s a fucking nightmare but it is how a society can keep voting for the Greens or Democrats or Labour etc, subsequently destroy the best nuclear plants, de-industrialise entire sectors, welcome barbarians at the gates etc until the state discovers that the constant false virtue signaling does not balance a budget.

[Wokal Distance @wokal_distance]

At some point liberal women need to decide: are they oppressed by men because men have all the wealth and opportunity, or are there no good men because men are failures who don't make enough money.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Being a normal person from 2006 makes you a 'right wing extremist' now.

[Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch]

American women now hold more payroll jobs than American men.

It's not that women took men's jobs—it's that men are opting out of the market.

Fewer are finishing college or looking for work; more are living with parents, gaming and being "stay-at-home boyfriends." @WSJFreeEx:

[Jedediah Bila @JedediahBila]

It's actually wild that this is type of logic men have to deal with in 2026. I'm tired just from listening to her for 30 seconds 😳

[Anthony @Catholicizm1]

Eminem’s ex wife. How different her life could’ve been

[Business Daily @BD_Africa]

Diesel consumers miss Sh14-a-litre cut as State shifts relief to petrol
https://t.co/e9kXFEdmrb

[Business Daily @BD_Africa]

Jumia's sales in Kenya hit a record Sh6.4 billion in the three months to June 2026, as strong demand for fashion and beauty items offset a slump in smartphone sales caused by supply disruptions and rising prices. https://t.co/sPvUrrLVi9

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Google's investment in SpaceX grew from $900 million to $90 billion — a 100X return.

[Business Daily @BD_Africa]

Toon of the day

Aug 14, 2026 🗞️ 📊

https://t.co/rOzi3dKb1i

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Study Finds Most Americans Trust Dr Pepper Over Dr. Fauci https://t.co/yY5rU1wlUF

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Jeff Bezos is among a group of investors that agreed to buy a minority stake in Britain’s Liverpool Football Club in a deal that values the team at more than $7 billion https://t.co/KZggI2sBZ7

[Business Daily @BD_Africa]

Advocates face permit losses for fraudulent business registrations https://t.co/DT3T8l2dey

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

This scene from White Lotus is very poignant. It perfectly captures every progressive person that I know especially academics. It is unthinkable to them that a person might not share their political orientations.

[Business Daily @BD_Africa]

Vodacom expands Safaricom board control after Sh204bn stake deal
https://t.co/5uH0gvJBIx

[Kennedy Wandera @KennedyWandera_]

Zambia’s🇿🇲 opposition leader Brian Mundubile claims to have won the presidential election against President Hakainde Hichilema and secured a majority of seats in Parliament.

Mundubile warns against delays by the electoral commission in announcing the results. He alleges that the military is being used to manipulate the outcome.

Zambia's electoral commission is yet to begin announcing the official results.

Official announcement of the winner of the presidential election is expected on Monday.

[The Mining Guy. 👷🏾‍♂️ @TheMiningGuySA]

As an adult you literally have 37 minutes to celebrate a win until you face another inconvenience. 😭