Patrick Ibn Battuta

Anchored in the infinite God of Spinoza, fueled by the untamed wanderer spirit of Ibn Battuta.
Architizer | Zen Gardener | History Geek

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@Minembweiwacu @RefugeesRwanda @RefugeesAfrica @UNHCR_Education @RwandaEmergency @Rwanda_Edu @RituShroff3 You can’t trash Rwanda for letting refugees study, work, and integrate, then demand UN protection for Burundians and Congolese in Kenya when local politics turns ugly.

Don’t send your kids to American schools if you claim foreign education won’t help Congo!

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@mkainerugaba Is President Kagame Ugandan?
You called a foreign head of state a killer using the same ethnic labels (Mututsi) that fueled the genocide he stopped — then claimed it has nothing to do with Rwanda?

You are rubbing salt into the wounds!

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@SamuelBaker_B What is your point?
Every society has people who hold or express ethnic prejudices. There are white people or leaders (AfD, Le Pen,Trump) who use the N-word & tell Black immigrants like you to “go back to your sh*thole jungle”.

The same words the West claims to have buried.

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@davido Begging Trump to solve a domestic political crisis is like a gazelle running to a leopard to complain about a hyena.

We miss when artists stood tall in Panafrican power like Fela Kuti, Makeba,Belafonte & Kwame Ture. They never begged the evil empire to save Africa. RIP #Lumumba

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@aaronmmakiki Donc le M23 ne contrôle que 3% du territoire! Puis les mêmes idiots vont dire que le Rwanda pille TOUS les minerais du Congo et est responsable de tous les problèmes. Ces deux récits ne tiennent pas.

La thèse de l’invasion massive et du pillage s’effondre d’elle-même 🤣🤣

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@stats_wire This is fake news.

​Spain can't grant visa access to the Schengen zone without the EU's approval.

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@Reuters Reuters calls Ebola outbreak small, but North Kivu (twice the size of Belgium) saw many cases, triggering WHO emergency & travel bans.

M23's efforts are more effective than Kinshasa's chaos. Acknowledging good governance is impossible without the boring "Rwanda backed" framing😅

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@airindia @airindia Still no feedback. What kind of airline takes a whole week to track a payment & reissue a ticket? This is ridiculous. Today is my deadline before I book with another airline and issue a bank chargeback. I need my ticket reissued TODAY. #AirIndia

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@airindia Stranded in Nepal for 6 days because the airline took my flight change fee but won't issue the ticket. Customer service keeps sending generic templates.
Booking Ref: 7NT4RU.
I need HELP

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@airindia Reg: Case # 42368598
Booking Changes

[UncSants @SantsRNTL]

All the fake activists for the Qatar World Cup are awfully quiet

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@aruhoarnold @WamanyaPious Rwanda & Uganda should be a single entity. We should accelerate monetary union & political federation; the best way to avoid unnecessary conflicts. We are divided by borders drawn by Wazungu in Berlin.

I wouldn't mind if the president of EAC came from the Maasai or the Bakiga!

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@aruhoarnold @WamanyaPious Banyarwanda are Ugandans just like Acholi or Baganda. Judging loyalty by ethnicity isn't just unfair; it’s dangerous.

​Vetting for public office is fair, but systemic ethnic suspicion breeds the exact divisions and civil wars Uganda must avoid.

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@IGIHE 😂Mind blown.
Rwanda’s entire assets, all those roads, lands, buildings etc. valued at $15 billion; is basically half of Dangote’s $30B net worth.

So it would only take one month for Elon Musk to buy Rwanda's assets.

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

Free space. Grants. Free workshops. Free marketing. Tourists encouraged to visit. Even Ministers giving them attention.

If after all that you still can't pay rent, the issue is not “society abandoning artists.” The issue is that dependency became the business model.

This is not how Eleéeh, Bruce Molodie, Michelangelo, Basquiat, Beethoven or Michael Jackson were born.

Sustainability is possible. INEMA, NIYO, Gihanga, MADS & Gakondo Art Centers built strong brands without turning dependency into an art form.

Legends are built by talent, discipline and audiences, not lifetime INKUNGA and extensions on unpaid rent.

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@Katsuva_R Donc le petit Rwanda pille un œuf et en fait une omelette… pendant que le géant Congo assis sur tout un poulailler meurt de faim depuis 60 ans. 🤣🤡

À un moment, il faut arrêter d’accuser la cuisine des autres pour expliquer sa propre faillite.

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

Même si vous débattez de qui a abattu l’avion, cela ne change rien à ce qui a suivi. Une réponse militaire aurait consisté à cibler les positions du FPR.

Ce qui s’est produit à la place, c’est le massacre systématique de civils tutsis; des personnes réfugiées dans des églises, des écoles et dans la brousse. Ce n’était pas une guerre. C’était un génocide.

La différence est évidente, et la réécrire ne la fera pas disparaître. Un génocide se définit par l’intention et l’exécution; pas par ce qui l’a déclenché.

Même après l'assassinat de l'Ayatollah Khamenei lors d’une frappe israélienne, l’Iran a riposté militairement; sans rassembler ni exterminer tous les civils Juifs vivant en Iran.

Aucun événement déclencheur; assassinat ou attaque ne peut justifier l’extermination systématique d’une population civile.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“We are a responsible global player” says a representative of the government that is currently funding and arming the RSF in Sudan.

[Patrick Ibn Battuta @Patjam_]

@Katsuva_R Imaginez le Président de l’Europe en train de pleurer et d’accuser le petit Kosovo (Rwanda) d’être responsable de tous les malheurs de l’Europe, puis de céder toutes les ressources de la France (Katanga) et de l'Allemagne (Kivu) à Trump pour qu’il vienne à leur secours. 🤡