Hamza Katende

Billie in the making @tuesdaymarkets

[Hamza Katende @Mannmansoor1]

Kids are the future.

[FC TOORO QUEENS👑 @FCTooroqueens]

A lovely visit to Kamwenge where we got a win against Bwizi SS She Falcons FC
#TheCountryQueens 👑

[Muhoozi Kainerugaba @mkainerugaba]

From today and forever more ALL Ugandan Police Officers will wear their name tags on their right chest pocket. They must also wear their police badge and number on their left chest pocket. Finally, all Ugandan citizens have the right to demand the name and badge number of any arresting officer. If they do not respond, you have the right to resist arrest.

[Muhoozi Kainerugaba @mkainerugaba]

Police will start implementing my instructions from today!

[Chelsea Dodgers @TheBlueDodger]

WHAT A GOAL! ⚽️🥶

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[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

ROMEO LAVIAAAA!!! ✊

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[FC TOORO QUEENS👑 @FCTooroqueens]

Enkuuba etutiire!!
Omukama oyo atuulize

May your soul rest in peace your Majesty 🙏

[Muhoozi Kainerugaba @mkainerugaba]

Today, I was very happy and honoured to meet the American superstar Tyrese Gibson. I told him to consider Uganda as his second home and bring more of our black brothers and sisters in America to visit.

[AM7NEWS @OfficialAM7News]

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[FC TOORO QUEENS👑 @FCTooroqueens]

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[FC TOORO QUEENS👑 @FCTooroqueens]

🍳🔜 26/27 season
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[FC TOORO QUEENS👑 @FCTooroqueens]

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[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Netflix aquired Ben Affleck’s AI film startup InterPositive for up to $600 million (based on certain milestones).

Affleck’s AI tool augments existing filmmaking workflows:

▫️directors can train a small model from their own dailies
▫️improves the post-production editorial process
▫️more quickly mix, color and finish films (use their trained model to change shots, add props, enhance backgrounds or remove visuals while keeping consistency)

Seems similar to work James Cameron is doing with AI and VFX.

Cameron says his interest in GenAI is to reduce post-production costs by making the “cadence faster, so your throughput cycle is faster and artists get to move on and do other cool things.”

If AI can reduce VFX costs by 1/2, Cameron thinks that means more blockbusters (including original IP or up-and-coming directors that wouldn’t otherwise get greenlit).

Affleck mentions “getting more episodes” of your favourite TV shows with his tech.

If Affleck hits the full $600 million cash deal, this looks to be Netflix’s largest tech acquisition ever.

Whether or not the tech is worth that much, Netflix is getting the Affleck halo of a well-known (but still skeptical) AI practitioner.

He has been Hollywood’s go-to takesman (eg. Rogan) on how AI can or can not change Hollywood (he doesn’t think it has creative chops for scriptwriting and thinks unions will protect a lot of acting/writing jobs for foreseeable future).

If Netflix wants to ramp its use of AI, Affleck’s narrow view of the technology’s use makes it less threatening and helps with creative talent (David Fincher already using it for Brad Pitt film, probably the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sequel).

“It’s not about text prompting or building something from nothing,” Affleck says. “You’re building a model from your own material.”

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Lucas Shaw at Bloomberg on deal structure: https://t.co/MdijcgBVei

Netflix CCO and CTO full interview Affleck: https://t.co/IlJb1LEPqk

[Tuesday Markets @tuesdaymarkets]

Ruth Mamba , a rural poultry farmer from Malawi narrates how impactful Ziweto Enterprise feeds have been to her business, her family and her community at large.
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[Tuesday Markets @tuesdaymarkets]

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[NBS Television @Fireliglntfi]

VIDEO: Ugandans applying for U.S. visas for tourism, business, or visits will, starting January 21, 2026, be required to pay a security deposit, or visa bond, ranging from UGX 18 million to UGX 54 million.

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[Ryan (“Phunky”) Haczynski @ThePhunky1]

Over 20 years ago Chappelle did “Black Bush”

Today it could be “Black Trump”

Change Iraq to Venezuela and it’s basically the same exact skit

Nobody did politics better than the goat

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[French Montana @FrencHMonTanA]

I just touch down in Moroccoooo 🔥 my verse done 🇺🇬 🇲🇦

[notch @notch]

Levers and Chests is basically on life support as we're about to drop to just one programmer.

I do not understand how it can be this impossible to find programmers in LA.

Well, I have some theories.

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Uganda has completed 20,000 capacity Hoima City Stadium and 2,000 capacity Hoima City Arena at a cost of $130 million ahead of the 2027 AFCON.

Uganda will co-host the tournament.