UpperBoy

Upper Boy from Sakponba

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Be strong
Be bold
Don’t bend too easily!

[UpperBoy @Sakponba]

@dataexplain IDGAF

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Will Elon musk become a trillionaire this year?

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💧 By 2030, AI data centres are projected to consume 9.3 trillion litres of water a year.

That's equal to the basic annual domestic water needs of all 1.3 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The electricity generation of 945 terawatt-hours alone is nearly three times the combined yearly consumption of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria, which are countries with a total population of over 650 million.

"The public debate still treats AI as software. AI is also physical infrastructure: data centres, electricity generation, cooling systems, transmission networks, chips, minerals, land and water." — UN lead researcher Kaveh Madani.

Big Tech is investing $600 billion in building data centres this year. Meanwhile, the UN has just released its environmental impact report.

Is anyone actually accounting for this, or is the AI boom creating a resource crisis nobody wants to talk about?

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As U.S.–Iran tensions rise, the nuclear data tells a clearer story:

~90% of the world’s nuclear warheads, and almost all “ready-to-launch” weapons, belong to Russia and the U.S.

Iran isn’t a nuclear weapons state.
It’s a threshold state.

Global nuclear risk is still shaped by Washington and Moscow, not by who trends in the headlines.

Sources: Arms Control Association

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Only ~16% of the world’s population lives in high-income countries.
→ World Bank classification, 2024
Meaning: most global “averages” are shaped by a small minority.

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The #Grammy aren’t just one night.
They’re the final output of 365 days of filtering music at scale.

• 100k+ songs uploaded daily
• ~20k submissions
• ~13k voters
• 94 winners

Which is why chart dominance and Grammy wins rarely overlap.

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90% of world trade moves by sea.
Yet shipping emissions = ~3% of global CO₂

Source: IMO

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Wow

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The state of work in 2025:

👷 3.5 BILLION people employed worldwide
📊 58% global employment-to-population ratio
👩‍💼 Women leading shift to high-skilled jobs:
• 23.2% of women in high-skilled roles
• 18% of men

🏭 90% of informal work is in agriculture
📉 84M jobs at risk from US trade tensions
🎓 52% of workers are mismatched to their education:
• 33.4% under-educated for their job
• 18.9% over-educated

The global workforce is growing.
But it's not matched to skills, education, or geography.

Sources: ILO, World Bank

#dotd | @dataexplain

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Latin/Mexican artists hold 13 of the top 50 spots:

🇵🇷 Bad Bunny (#1)
🇵🇷 Rauw Alejandro (#17)
🇲🇽 Peso Pluma (#23)
🇨🇴 KAROL G (#25)
🇲🇽 Junior H (#27)
🇲🇽 Tito Double P (#29)
🇲🇽 Neton Vega (#33)
🇨🇴 Feid (#35)
🇵🇦 Beéle (#36)
🇨🇴 J Balvin (#37)
🇵🇷 Anuel AA (#41)
🇨🇴 Shakira (#42)
🇵🇷 Myke Towers (#43)
🇲🇽 Fuerza Regida (#10)

That's 26% of the top 50. Reggaetón and música mexicana are DOMINATING global streaming.

Presented to you by @dataexplain

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Share a piece of lore about being married!

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If you haven’t signed up to attend the customer acquisition masterclass then you are going to miss out on the best strategies to grow your customer base and revenue in the new year!

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Intimate Partner Violence: The Global Numbers
❗️54% of all female homicides globally are committed by an intimate partner
❗️Only 6% of male homicides are by an intimate partner

(Sources: @OurWorldInData, @WHO)

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Since 2020, Nigeria has added hundreds of new death-row inmates, mostly tied to terrorism, murder and armed violence.
Executions remain rare, but convictions keep climbing.

This is the context behind #NnamdiKanu sentencing discourse.
Numbers tell a different story than the noise.

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Share a piece of lore about being married!

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Make I go lock in!

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@TheEghosa @jon_d_doe @SHEAYI Senior man, I hail

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Someone stole car car, and you expect them to show empathy and accountability while they use it?

Y’all are jokers

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@TheDamiForeign Make I find am one benin boy to break her heart

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@SeniorBro11 Space plenty for upper sakponba