Edward Mugamba

|the essence of love | the science of ag | the game of rugby |

[Edward Mugamba @Senor_Eadbhard]

🙏🏿👌🏿

[𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗲 @Awakenise]

Have love, show love, be love.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

The tale of Kalulu the Hare, and the season when the Hyenas took over the forest.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Over 1,300 British farms have joined a new app in about twelve weeks. It is called Only Farmers, it was named deliberately after OnlyFans, and the parallel runs deeper than the joke intends.

Both are platforms where the producer sells direct access to themselves, because the people who used to pay them stopped paying enough to live on.

Lisa Hogan built it with her son Wolfe Bentinck, after five years of farmers coming into the Diddly Squat shop to thank her for the programme and then tell her their own version of it. Her words: this is for smaller farmers who do not have a marketing budget or Amazon.

Look at what is being sold.

Farm stays. Vineyard tours. Cheese-making. Beekeeping. Weddings. Lambing days. Clarkson's own summary this week was that you could walk an alpaca or milk a cow.

Every item on that list is something a farmer does anyway. Unpaid, at four in the morning, in February, as part of a job that a government review found loses money on nearly a third of British farms.

The novelty version pays. The work does not.

A family will hand over real money to stand in a shed for two hours and watch a ewe give birth. That same lamb, reared for months and sold through the proper chain, goes at a price the farmer is not allowed to set.

The second half of the app is grimmer still, because it also runs farmer-to-farmer equipment rental. Farms hiring kit to each other, because too few can justify owning their own.

None of which is a criticism of Hogan. She has built something useful, after listening at a till for five years. Book the alpaca. The money goes where it should.

But 1,300 signups in twelve weeks is not enthusiasm for an app. It is 1,300 farms reaching the same conclusion in the same season, which is that the dependable money is in the experience rather than the food.

We have arrived at a country where a farm earns more reliably from charging strangers to watch it farm.

Nobody thought that was worth remarking on.

[Scott Brooks @scotti_brooks]

Harvard's 75-year study on what makes children successful found it wasn't grades, test scores, or extracurriculars.

It was one specific thing most parents stopped making their kids do by age 10:

[Ogon @chrisatuk]

...Fear No Evil
#ogoncartoons

[Yusuf Serunkuma🌹 @YusufSerunkuma]

In this scintillating piece, NUP podcast host, @Joshua_lawel, gently, carefully takes down Dr Robert Kirunda – & all of us with western degrees.

Even when I think Kirunda has been profoundly misunderstood – needs chance to re-explain – I think this is elegant thinking, and beautiful writing.

[Edward Mugamba @Senor_Eadbhard]

@cobbo3 That guy learnt that his only way to relevance was through hijacking of principle, purely a facade but never the objective. The proverbial wolf in sheepskin.

[AIDEN KALIISA @AidenKaliisa]

It costs you nothing to repost.

Where is Sam Mugumya???
#BringBackOurPeople

[WeedSmart @WeedSmartAU]

David Keetch, Nufarm’s green-on-green program director, says this technology is reaching maturity in Australia, with adoption being driven by demand for the new use patterns that it could enable.
https://t.co/g6CpUO2QW9

[Edward Mugamba @Senor_Eadbhard]

@qataharraymond Hey @BBCWorld this deserves the same megaphone

[Precision AI @PrecisionAi]

Today we're introducing Precision AI Open Release · Vol. 1 — the first in a new series of open agricultural AI models, benchmarks, and tools built for the real-world.

Most people know Precision AI for precision spraying and drones. But at our core, we're an agricultural AI company with a world-class applied research team — and today, we're opening up part of that work.

We're starting with a strong result. AgriEmbedding ranks first on both AgriStress-500 and a public agricultural image retrieval benchmark. It outperforms every DINOv2 and TIPSv2 model we evaluated, while using roughly 4× fewer parameters and half the embedding dimensions of the largest top-performing model in the comparison.

Vol. 1 includes:
• AgriEmbedding API: free, hosted, agriculture-specific image embeddings for retrieval, classification, and spatial vision. Both dense and compact options.
• AgriStress-500: a benchmark built from 500 challenging images captured in real fields.
• precisionai-agrieval — a Python library for evaluating agricultural vision models.

These are the first open components of our agricultural AI research stack, spanning self-supervised learning, real-world model evaluation, and emerging multimodal and agentic workflows.

We're inviting AI researchers, agtech engineers, robotics teams, agronomists, and academic labs to use the tools. Try it. Test it. Build with it.

🔗 AgriEmbedding API: https://t.co/OO7ECZgyxE
🔗 AgriStress-500 on HuggingFace: https://t.co/R1GeHSRNlj
🔗 precisionai-agrieval: https://t.co/oCeNsStXCf

Vol. 1 is just the beginning. We'll be releasing more agricultural AI research and tools on a regular cadence.

[Edward Mugamba @Senor_Eadbhard]

@nsengoba Without the ignorance of the masses these systems don't stand a chance.

[THE Blaze @blazey_blaze]

Kyadondo Rugby Club

Ethiopian Village

11 July, 2010

May we never forget.

[Edward Mugamba @Senor_Eadbhard]

@NadaAndersen I am really conflicted tbh, I have subscribed for the past couple of years but I have very little confidence in the new majority holder

[Edward Mugamba @Senor_Eadbhard]

@AKasingye Best to ask @Argentina, no drama required?

[John Goslino @GoslinoJ]

From a #Ugandan farmer: "It’s ironic how Ugandans will invest hundreds of millions in farm investment and then hire an equivalent of a shamba boy to run it. It beats my understanding" Agronomy is a profession. Farming is a business.

[Edward Mugamba @Senor_Eadbhard]

@regesa 🙏🏿🙏🏿

[Edward Mugamba @Senor_Eadbhard]

@kiizaeron Multidimensional failure of a man affects an entire nation. We as men must endeavour with all our being to be better men in all aspects of our existence.

[Edward Mugamba @Senor_Eadbhard]

@JoelSsenyonyi that was the sort of statesman's speech the nation has longed for. Thank you so very much. If that could be translated into the traditional languages then hopefully that could trigger a much wider national audience on how to think of the constitution.

[wes @weskambale]

when one of us is taken, i know i've just moved up on the list

sooner or later, it'll be my turn, and after me, it'll be yours

if you think the establishment will stop at takin' those it's taken, then you're an idiot

the drones will reach everyone, even the bootlickers

[first son 🇷🇼 🇺🇬 @Naturinda96]

Guys who started from Chaapa,Makobore,Muntuyera High School Kitunga,Nganwa,Kigezi high school and Butobere.

You used to be brave men in highschool ,how on hell do you watch what’s happening in this country and you stay silent?