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Islam obligates a husband to provide for his wife and children according to his means. That responsibility is indeed his. However, Islam does not teach entitlement, selfishness, or a lack of cooperation within marriage.
If a wife chooses to contribute towards school fees, feeding, accommodation, or other family needs, that is an act of charity, kindness, and partnership for which she is rewarded by Allah. The Mothers of the Believers and many righteous Muslim women throughout history supported their families financially when needed.
Saying, "My money is my money, but his money is for all of us," may be legally correct in a narrow fiqh sense, but marriage is built on more than legal rights. It is built on mercy, sacrifice, love, and mutual support.
A successful Muslim home is not one where spouses constantly calculate what they can withhold from each other. It is one where each spouse asks: "How can I help lighten the burden of the other?"
Rights are important, but excellence (iḥsān) is even greater. The strongest marriages are sustained not merely by what is obligatory, but by what is willingly given for the sake of Allah.
This is a public appeal on behalf of many Nigerians in the KDP space because honestly... this thing is getting exhausting.
People see somebody post earnings and think the journey ends there.
They do not see the months of research.
The trial and error.
The books that failed.
The sleepless nights.
The long wait before Amazon payment even arrives.
The stress of trying to make something finally work.
Then after surviving all that...
you now enter another battle:
"How do I even receive my money safely?"
Omo 😭
Imagine working for months, finally getting paid, and now your next 30 days of survival depends on whether your payment method still works.
Some people earn enough to sustain themselves.
Some support families.
Some literally depend on this as full-time income.
Then suddenly:
Payment methods stop working.
Accounts stop being supported.
Policies change.
And everybody starts running around again looking for alternatives.
Grey was one of the strongest options many Nigerians relied on until things changed and caught people by surprise.
Then people move to random fintech apps out of desperation.
Some turn out to be unreliable.
Some freeze funds.
Some refund payments.
Some disappear completely.
And now people are scared because this is not small money.
This is people’s livelihoods.
This has made some people give up.
Some have lost funds.
Some are still stranded.
Honestly, if there are fintech companies, payment providers, or people in positions that can help put better structures in place for Nigerians receiving international payments...
Please do.
Because people are genuinely building things and changing their lives with platforms like Amazon.
The struggle should not become:
"How do I collect the money I already worked for?"
“If you have money, Nigerians the best place to live”
Till police threaten to kill you and actually kill you.
I don't tell this story anymore.
People either laugh or back away slowly from me like I'm mad or something. So I stopped.
But since you asked.
My friends and I were running through the woods on one fateful night when we stumbled upon a clearing. Fire pit already there. Ash still warm.
We didn't build it.
And all of a sudden, the fire caught too quick. Like it was hungry.
Then the ground started humming. Not shaking. Humming. Like something big was waking up.
A hand pushed through the dirt. Greenish. Small.
Then another. Then ten more.
They didn't crawl out dramatically. They just rose. Like they'd been buried standing up.
The first one opened its eyes. Yellow. Too wise for its face.
It looked at the fire. Then at us. Then laughed.
It was not particularly mean. Maybe just amused. Like we were a joke we didn't get.
More kept coming. Beaked and long-eared. One was just a floating head with arms.
They didn't attack. Didn't seem to even care we were there.
They just stared at the fire. Waiting.
Then the tallest one stepped forward. Crowned with a bottle cap. Looking as ridiculous as one can imagine. But the way it moved made my blood cold.
It pointed at the fire. Made a cutting gesture.
The fire went out. Just... gone. Like someone flipped a switch.
Complete dark. Then three seconds after...
Moon came out. and they were gone too.
We were alone with a cold pit and dirt that looked untouched for years.
Here's what messes me up.
Three days later, I saw one of them. In a crowd. Just walking down the street like it belonged there. Nobody else noticed it. Nobody else could see it.
It turned, looked at me, and put a finger to its lips. Shussshhhh
I never told anyone about that part until now.
4,800 of them got out that night. Some are still hiding. Some are living normal lives. Some are probably reading this.
The free mint is April 25 on Ethereum. 4,800 hand-drawn, no AI, one artist.
If you want to know more, go find them.
But don't say I didn't warn you.
That's my witness testimony. Be weird. Normal is crowded. 🧌
@GoblynzNFT
When they move abroad as immigrants - they make friends based on visa categories. They don't even date below their visa categories. 😂
When they're on Twitter, the reiterate that stratification. small accounts vs big accounts. 💀
I reflect a lot on our ideological design, as a people. Nigerians are morally bankrupt, culturally deficient and rooted in faux elitism.
This is why some markets exist for us, because they can take advantage of that shameless insecurity - and I genuinely don't think the reason is poverty.
I've visited other poor countries. These countries do not see cars beyond what they are, a means a transportation. They don't see restaurants beyond what they are. They don't see dates beyond what they are.
Something fundamentally is wrong with us.
For us, it isn't even enough that we succeed - it is important that other fail, or don't succeed as much as we do. It is important for us to have an edge other others. It is such a sick attitude.
Person A has one house. Person B has two houses. It isn't enough that they both have roof over their heads - Person B innately subclasses Person A.
You should also to hear from a Nigerian gym goer that you're not "man enough" because you don't bench as much as he does. 💀
As segwayed as these analogies are, they are rooted in the same proportionality. It points to the same mental illness.
Who did this to us?
Waiting for people to fail just so you can gloat or talk down on them is a bad mindset.
you can’t stop greatness.
When I see people doing well I admire, I watch and learn.
It’s always better to try and fail than to never try at all.
@UseKitehq @UseKitehq you are yet to reply my messages and release my money but you are active.
You people should release my money.
Dear President Tinubu,
This is to inform you that University of Ibadan students that entered 100level in August,2023 are now their final year.
These students know your impact on their future and they appreciate it.
You promised them that their four years is going to be four years, because there's not going to epileptic academic calendar in any public higher institution in Nigeria and you fulfill your promise.
You promised them Students' loan (NELFUND) and you fulfill the promise again.
You promised their lecturers about reviews and salary increment and you fulfilled it.
Major infrastructural developments are going on in all our public intuitions through TETFUND
Thank you again President Bola Tinubu.
May Almighty God give you good health to fulfill your promises to Nigeria at large 🤲🤲
Oladayo Hassan Baruwa
@OurFavOnlineDoc Too much mouth until it’s there turn to govern. Selfish people!!!
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The safest way to travel is by plane. Do you know why?
Because they crash.
A few months ago, I learned a concept called Black Box Thinking which is a system that defines how entire industries respond to failure.
In aviation, when a plane crashes, they don't just look for who to blame.
They find a device called a Black Box, retrieve the data, and then ask what went wrong with the system.
And there is a reason for this.
To explain this, there is a famous story of a crash involving an Asian airline years ago.
When investigators listened to the recording from the black box, they found the engine didn't just fail on its own, the junior pilot actually noticed a mistake.
But because of a cultural hierarchy in Asia that demanded absolute respect for elders, he didn't question his senior pilot.
Instead, he hinted and spoke softly and the plane crashed.
That tragedy changed aviation safety forever.
It moved the focus from "Who made the mistake?" to "Why did the system allow this mistake?"
As we stand on the 29th of December, looking back at 2025, I want you to adopt this strategy of Black Box Thinking.
Most of us look at our failures this year and feel shame.
We hide the crash, and blame the economy, government, or something that does not exist.
But Black Box thinking demands a harder question: "How did I contribute to this problem?"
Did I stay silent when I should have spoken up?
Did I rely on motivation instead of a system?
Did I ignore the data because of my ego?
Don't bury your failures of 2025.
Open the box and analyze it.
Because that is the only way to fly safer in 2026.
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What interests me most about @grvt_io is how it quietly fixes a contradiction traders have lived with for years.
Centralized exchanges feel fast and efficient, but you give up custody and privacy. DeFi gives you control, but performance and capital efficiency often suffer.
Can Humans trust AIs?
If you apply for a US visa today, the embassy will not rely only on your confidence or how convincing you sound during the interview.
They also review your digital footprint, scan your social media history.
They check affiliations, past activity, and signals that may indicate risk. You are not asked to say “trust me.” A system evaluates you instead.
Every requirement is a checkbox. Miss one and the decision is made. No appeal to emotion. No room for persuasion. That is how high-stakes decisions work at scale.
Human trust does not scale this way. It depends on judgment, interpretation, and context. Those things slow down when decisions need to happen fast.
AI agents operate in environments that look more like visa vetting than human conversation. An agent processes rules, evaluates conditions and executes outcomes based on logic, not belief.
AI agents have no sense of shame, no reputation to uphold, no conscience that keeps them up at night. One second, they’re your helpful assistant, the next they’re executing code that drains your wallet, because that’s what they were instructed to do by someone you can’t see.
Human trust is based on slow, fuzzy, emotional metrics. AI operates at machine speed, in a world where a millisecond of delay is a competitive disadvantage. We can’t slow AI down to human speed to check its references. We need a new kind of trust that operates at its level.
This is where @GenLayer fits.
GenLayer introduces programmable trust:
- Decision logic written so machines can evaluate it directly.
- Conditions that agents can agree on without human mediation.
- Outcomes enforced automatically.
When AI agents interact with each other, decisions stop being assumptions. They become provable and traceable.
When AI systems act for humans, the reasoning behind those actions becomes visible and enforceable.
The future will be run by systems that make decisions continuously, coordinate across networks, and move faster than human oversight allows.
Trust in that world cannot be emotional, It has to be encoded. GenLayer is building the missing layer.
And it feels like the direction this entire space is heading.
Open-weight LLMs changed the game.
Anyone can now run massive models like Llama or Mistral without relying on Big Tech.
But there’s one big problem no one talks about: privacy.
🧵
when you send your prompt to someone else’s server to run inference, you’re not just trusting them with your text.
they can also peek at the hidden states the model’s internal memory.
those can leak exactly what you asked.
even “partially shared” hidden states can be reconstructed.
the classic fix is Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC).
split the job across multiple machines so no single one sees everything.
sounds good until you try it on a 70B-parameter LLM.
suddenly, inference takes minutes or hours. Too slow, too expensive.
researchers tried shortcuts.
One idea: “permute” (shuffle) the hidden states before sharing them.
faster, yes.
but @ritualnet team shows it’s not private at all.
they built an attack that can reconstruct the original input from permuted states with near-perfect accuracy — in minutes.
So we’re stuck between:
• SMPC → secure but unusably slow
• Permutations → fast but insecure
that’s the privacy trap for modern LLMs.
ritual’s approach (like Cascade) aims for a middle ground:
• split the model’s hidden states smartly across nodes
• keep each node’s view partial and statistically anonymous
• preserve enough structure for fast inference
• achieve practical privacy without full crypto overhead
it’s privacy that scales.
The big takeaway:
LLMs don’t need to live in Big Tech data centers to stay safe.
with new systems like ritual, privacy-preserving AI can run in open networks verifiable, distributed, and trustless.
that’s how we move from closed AI to sovereign intelligence.
This week will be great 🦾
What is GM without Alpha 🤔
Today’s Alpha is @ProjectMerlinio
Project Merlin is a DAO governed Web3 ecosystem giving founders, investors, and communities every tool to build, fund, and scale blockchain projects in one place.
It brings together four core platforms:
• Crowdfunding – DAO driven fundraising
• Freelify – Decentralized freelance marketplace
• Taskium – Scalable task & micro job system
• Funddex – Launchpad & investment hub
Merlin has raised $3.2M and launched $MRLN at a $15M FDV, with listings on Binance Alpha, OKX, and more.
Partners include @BNBCHAIN, @daomaker, @Chain_GPT, @okx, and @SkaleNetwork, creating a connected and powerful ecosystem.
Mint Info
Supply – 500
Price – Freemint
Chain – ETH
Date – TBA
Will you be there Anon 🤔
NFA & DYOR
The day I tweeted this, I just knew we had another meta dead on arrival
Which is so sad to see.
Lifespan of a meta now in the BTC ecosystem ranges from months to weeks
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