I understand the appeal of being in circles with people achieving financial success in their careers and businesses.
But choosing and keeping friends based solely on something as fickle as money will never sit right with me.
No level of ambition or success will make that path make sense.
My own standard is simple; my friends must have a healthy sense of self-esteem and confidence.
I never want a conversation with you to feel like I’m bragging. And no matter how much money you make, I won’t be timid or shrink myself either.
I want you, not what you have.
I bookmarked this to respond later. I think I have about 5 mins to weave my thoughts.
If religion didn't exist, the North would have skinned all her politicians alive - home by home.
At the core of Nigeria's working engine as a business, is a simplistic architectural design woven by the trifecta compact of religion, politics & culture.
None of these individual units from the trifecta can function by itself. Religion needs politics, politics needs culture.
All of these individual units are important for the Nigerian people to remain a certain way, for Nigeria to work - for some people.
The reason why certain Christians get abroad and stop going to church altogether is because they discovered that most of the requests the Nigerian church made us pray for, are basic amenities we lacked because of terrible governance.
The church has a market to sell, which is the merchandise of hope but for that merchandise to be relevant, the political beampoint has to do its part - keep policies in place that make sure the people keep seeking hope.
If policies work, everything runs, the ordinary Nigerian can feed, provide and slowly scale upwards the Maslow's hierarchy of needs - the hopeless wouldn't need the church.
If wicked policies run long enough, sometimes the hopeless might seek to speak up - that's where tradition and culture comes in. They create a taper of morality that forbids rebellion.
Sometimes they work hand in hand with religion but the goal is simple - make sure people don't and can't speak. Trap them under the guilt of rebellion. Repeatedly echo that leaders are "appointed by God".
This my friend, is the machinery that has ensured the wheels of the weaponization of poverty run smoothly.
This is a complex conversation we keep avoiding, a conversation that spotlights the instructive elements in a social experiment, like Nigeria, that keeps people chained.
Fire is good - good to cook, good to warm but fire once razed down the entire city of London. This is my point.
Religion is one of the paradoxical social tools that has entrenched into the fibres of our humanity.
As much as it is designed to enforce good, it's been responsible for a lot of bad.
As much as it liberates, it imprisons.
It unites communities, while demonizing others.
The destructive part about this social experiment is that, it is not forceful. Despite its design, it makes you feel like you're willing participants.
As long as you're within, you'll think you're wearing bangles - but people outside the matrix can see visible chains.
It is difficult to step into the awareness of these operational standpoints and not be consistently angry. It is not difficult. It is impossible.
SS planning marriage with SS
AS planning marriage with AS
SS planning marriage with AS
SS planning marriage with SC
AS planning marriage with SC
And you people are going to have children rather than adopt?
That relationship will scatter today!!!!
What's your problem nau?
Thanks for this @OloladeVincent
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I've got students messaging me asking if cybersecurity is still a "safe" field to go into because of the advancements of AI
Dawg, our career value has fucking EXPLODED. Are you fuckin' with me right now?
- AI vibe coded slop as far as the eye can see
- AI deep fakes as far as the eye can see
- AI written emails, scams, as far as the eye can see
On top of that, due to how accessible the internet is now, there is a "cyber attack" literally every god damn second. It's nonstop. The internet is still very much the wild, wild, west.
Like, bro, this shitty little malware website I run brings in 20,000+ malwares a day with a budget of $15, a slice of pizza, and cat pictures. Do you have any fucking clue how widespread cybercrime is?
Don't even fucking start me on crypto theft
I'll lose my mind writing this post, bro. It's literally nonstop, around the clock, weekends and holidays. It never ends. Cybersecurity is only getting bigger.
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I almost gave up on leading and publishing @aicybermagazine Fall 2025 issue!
I’ve recently had to pause many things because of the season of life i’m currently in, but I fought HARDDDDDDD for this issue to not be one of them.
So you can imagine how much dopamine my brain is producing right now, as I type this caption with so much fulfillment. We did it! AI Cyber Magazine will be publishing its Fall 2025 issue on Friday this week!
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An Access Control List (ACL) is a list of rules used in computers to define who can access specific resources and what actions they are allowed to perform with said resources. Entities who try to access resources when not on it’s ACL would receive a permission denied error.
One lesson I had to learn to become better at speaking is getting knowledgeable.
Many have the courage to speak but don’t know what to say.
You have to go for knowledge first.