Al.x_2011

Nobody makes it out of life alive. All men must die (Valar Morghulis)

So live your life with no regrets. YOLO

[Oladipo @DipoAW]

If you like, let them whine you that your countrymen are more violent because of the colour your skin

[legalnaija @LegalNaija]

In 1987, Baba Adeleke bought land in Ibeju-Lekki.

It cost him ₦12,000.

He was a primary school teacher. It took him three years to save that money.

He built nothing on it. Just held it. Told his four children it was their future.

He died in 2019 believing he had given them something.

He had no idea what he had actually given them.

🧵 A thread.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

i’m a christian, and i think one of the biggest problems with these conversations is that many people are more passionate about preventing the abortion than they are about supporting the life that comes after birth.

i understand why people disagree with her conclusion but i also think many of the responses are missing her actual point.

her point isn’t really about down syndrome, her point is about responsibility.

a lot of people are speaking from a place of moral conviction while ignoring the environment these children are born into, in many communities, children with down syndrome are mocked, isolated, denied opportunities, and treated as burdens, their parents are often left to navigate everything alone.

what frustrates me is that some of the same people condemning her tweet will never advocate for disability inclusion, never support affected families financially, never push for better healthcare, and never challenge the stigma these children face every day.

christianity is not just about defending principles, it’s also about carrying burdens, if we’re going to speak about what families should do, we should be equally advocating for society to support them.

[Praise🎀 @Praiseinterests]

This would make a perfect intro for Drake's next project.

[ajay @1meajay]

if devil wan punish you as a man, he go first make you believe say you fit use money buy woman love.

[Al.x_2011 @OwekaAlexander]

Right, & I've come to realize that sometimes they do it without realizing how content like this can cause a deep division in the black community. A division between bm (black men?) & bw (black women?)

Accounts like OP only chases high engagement, views & click/ragebait content

[Dr.Brown @0g_1k]

@missshrey_ @Nine4West They do that to keep bm and bw fighting

[EvilMowa @EvilMowaa]

If i eat your pussy from the back twerk alittle so i can breath every now and then😭

[Tottenham Hotspur @1882_Tottenham]

Winning in Europe isn’t for everyone

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.

Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.

You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp

[Al.x_2011 @OwekaAlexander]

@joph007_ God have mercy

[Al.x_2011 @OwekaAlexander]

Is it just me or did she really add igbeaux to the catfish sauce???? 😦😦

[Olajide @joph007_]

God have mercy

[Tonte @tontebriggs]

a wikipedia read of Alhassan Dantata's own father says he was a slave trader in his time, another modern day billionaire dynasty you can trace to slave trade

[Al.x_2011 @OwekaAlexander]

@the_lateefah @framer Link?

[Ben X @Benn_X1]

This is the best time to be a competent and knowledgeable software engineer.

While everyone else is vibe coding, study the fundamentals and read books.

1. Designing Data Intensive Applications
2. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
3. A Philosophy of Software Design
4. System Design Interview: An Insider‘s Guide

[smv @slimvnsn]

My father never came to a single thing I invited him to.

Not my primary school graduation. Not my secondary school prize giving where I collected 3 awards and kept looking at the gate. Not my university matriculation. Not the ceremony when I got called to bar in 2012. I'd send him the date weeks in advance and he'd say I'll try and that was always the full sentence. I'll try. No follow up. No explanation after.

My mother would sit in his place and clap loud enough for 2 people.

I stopped inviting him after the bar call. Not from anger. Some people love you completely and still cannot show up and after a while you stop making them feel guilty about it.

He was not a bad man. I want to be clear about that.

He was a mechanic in Mushin for 35 years. Worked 6 days a week. Sent every one of us to school. Never raised his hand. Never left. The lights stayed on and the rent was paid and there was always food and he did all of it quietly without asking to be celebrated.

He just could not sit in a plastic chair and watch something.

I accepted that and moved on.

Last year I bought my first property. A flat in Ojodu. Took 9 years of saving and 2 years of paperwork and a lawyer who nearly finished me. When the keys finally came I sat in the empty flat on the floor for an hour just breathing.

I called my mother first. She screamed. My sister cried.

I didn't call my father.

3 days later he called me.

Said he heard about the flat from my mother. Said he wanted to come and see it.

I didn't know what to do with that so I just said okay. Gave him the address. Figured he'd say I'll try and we'd never speak of it again.

He showed up on Saturday at 9am.

Stood at the door in his good agbada. The one he only wears for serious things. Holding a small nylon bag.

I let him in and he walked through every room without speaking. Not quickly. Slowly. Like he was counting something. He checked the pipes under the kitchen sink. Knocked on the walls. Opened and closed the windows twice each. Looked at the ceiling in every room the way only a man who has fixed things his whole life looks at ceilings.

Then he came and stood in the sitting room and looked at me.

Said the pipework is good. Said the windows seal properly. Said whoever built this knew what they were doing.

I nodded.

Long silence.

Then he opened the nylon bag.

Inside was a small framed photo. Me at maybe 7 years old sitting on the bonnet of an old car in his workshop. Grinning. Both legs swinging. He's standing beside me with his hand on my shoulder looking at something outside the frame. I remember that day. I had gone to the workshop after school and he let me sit there while he worked and gave me a Fanta and put a Michael Jackson cassette on the small radio.

I didn't know anyone had taken a photo.

He said he kept it on his workshop table for 22 years. Said he wanted me to have something for the new place.

I held that frame and stood very still.

He said he knew he missed things. Said he was not good at the sitting and watching. That crowds made something in him go wrong in a way he never knew how to explain.

Then he said the flat was good and he was proud and he asked if there was anything in the kitchen because he hadn't eaten.

I laughed.

Made him eggs and bread while he sat at my kitchen table in his good agbada like he owned the place.

We ate and he told me about a car he was working on. I told him about a case that was giving me trouble. Normal conversation. The kind we should have been having for years.

He left at 1pm. At the door he gripped my shoulder the same way he did in that photo.

Didn't say anything.

Didn't need to.

The photo is on my sitting room wall now. First thing I hung in the whole flat.

Some fathers cannot sit in the plastic chair.

But mine drove to Ojodu in his good agbada on a Saturday morning with a 22 year old photograph in a nylon bag.

That was his standing ovation.

I just didn't know to look for it in that shape.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, under the guise of "countering Communism," the CIA infiltrated Christian movements all over Africa and the Global South with the mission of steering Christian doctrines away from so-called "Liberation Theology" (teachings that encouraged people to stand up to corrupt governments and take collective action to better their lives), because this doctrine apparently was "Communist."

It funded and assisted the explosive growth of a whole new form of Christianity, which you recognise today as Prosperity Gospel, and it pumped millions of dollars into pushing it all over the Global South as part of its Cold War effort. This new doctrine ignored any kind of collectivism and encouraged people to see their Christian faith and salvation as individualistic issues that can be measured with specific individual outcomes, such as economic "blessing."

It was the perfect capitalist trojan horse because it convinced people to stop thinking of progress as a shared national issue and rather as an individual responsibility, which meant they did not need to organise into pressure groups, political movements, trade unions, student unions, or any other collectivist entities that the US government considered "Leftist" or "Communist." It succeeded wildly, and turned the world's poorest people in Sub Saharan Africa into rabid, money-obsessed capitalists without capital.

And in case you're wondering whether this means that all your mega pastors in Lagos and Abuja are US government-funded industry plants, the answer is simple: do a 1-minute Google search and find out where they all gained their theology degree or pastor training. There's your answer.

Anyway this is all on open record on the FOIA section of the CIA's own website, but the oyibos have convinced you that "Africans don't read," and you have internalised your own false stereotype, so you definitely won't read regardless. Your job is to enter my comment sections and drop laughing emojis because your forced laughter is your coping mechanism for dealing with how completely powerless and lost you are in a world you haven't begun to understand.

Anyway for the benefit of the 2 people who understand the value of reading and exervising their brains:

CIA and Missionaries: Half a Loaf by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
https://t.co/CtDot4WW1v

CIA Covert Action Information Bulletin Number 18: The CIA and Religion
https://t.co/BZq01WaHqm

Blowback of the gods: the U.S. government's covert use of religion as a tool of foreign policy in the Cold War by Wallace, James C.
https://t.co/GHAoz9ZP3J

Liberation Theology: Religion, Reform, and Revolution
(CIA Directorate of Intelligence Research Paper)
https://t.co/UAHlslAHRR

[Al.x_2011 @OwekaAlexander]

We cannot afford to be blinded by greed or "mankind's progress" at the expense of our future and the continued existence our race.

We cannot afford to live in a Dystopia.

[Al.x_2011 @OwekaAlexander]

Well said 👏🏽👏🏽. AI is a powerful and useful tool. In my opinion, it is one of the best inventions of the modern era.

It can change the way we work, study, play and generally live.

As with anything that man creates & profits from, AI needs to be exploited responsibly.

[L. David Fairchild @David_Fairchild]

He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.

That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?

The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.

[Al.x_2011 @OwekaAlexander]

I believe that implementing fair policies...policies that protect consumer rights without stifling innovation; investing in renewable energy; and designing efficient (energy) grid systems as well as data centers, etc is important for sustainable use.

[L. David Fairchild @David_Fairchild]

He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.

That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?

The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.