Ayo Francis

Trying to maximize my happiness. A Software and DevOps Engineer. I make YouTube Videos. Hobbist Photographer

[Ayo Francis @TheAyoFrancis]

I published a @bot to help you find an apartment within your price range, preferred commute time and balances crime as well. I used @bot to find an apartment very recently and I think you'd love it too.

https://t.co/8rDh9VuFMr

[Ayo Francis @TheAyoFrancis]

@peterrhague Watching from Reading 🥳🥳🥳

[Ayo Francis @TheAyoFrancis]

@smiley_193 I hail you o!

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Click the link to register https://t.co/g1QJTxsdt5

[Ayo Francis @TheAyoFrancis]

To that end, I am creating a WhatsApp developer community in Nigeria to meet people, develop cool stuff on WhatsApp, showcase their awesome products, and introduce more people to how to build for WhatsApp. If you find this interesting and would like to join us. All are welcome.

[Vendy (YC W22) @UseVendyHQ]

Relive the highlights from our launch at #Moonshot2024 🚀

Vendy provides sellers with customised WhatsApp Shops. We have enabled buying, selling, and payments all within WhatsApp, the first in Africa.

Tap on the link in our bio to experience Commerce as Simple as a Chat.

[Vendy (YC W22) @UseVendyHQ]

We’ve received some great reviews about the user experience while trying to purchase tickets for the December 27th Cavemen Concert.

However, there were a few complaints from some users about their experience.

We are also aware that most of these complaints came from those who choose the Pay-with-Transfer payment method.

In these cases, the usual transfer experience will persist where confirmation of transactions can sometimes be delayed.

This is why Vendy has enabled several payment methods to provide users enough options on our platform.

These videos below show how easy it is to buy a ticket on Vendy. It takes less than 2mins.

[Ayo Francis @TheAyoFrancis]

@StayCavy I just got my ticket! I like this WhatsApp ticket flow, it's such a game changer!!

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

For people who don’t understand what this means, here’s an abbreviated history lesson:

What’s proscription? It was essentially a list made of enemies of the state. There were a variety of punishments for different crimes one could be listed for. It ranged from death, loss of citizenship, loss of family rights, loss of possessions or all of the above. Death was a VERY common punishment and was referred to as "summum supplicium", or the "extreme penalty". For treason the punishment was nearly always death.

So here’s a short recap of Marius vs. Sulla

Marius was a warrior turned Roman politician who was elected 7x to the highest elected office in Rome. The 7th time, it happened amid division among Rome when he joined forces with Cinna. They captured Rome and then both Marius and Cinna were elected consuls. This joining of forces is important later.

Marius is remembered in part for settling his political scores by jailing, killing or exiling people that he deemed as enemies of the state via proscriptions. One of the people Marius had declared an enemy of the state was Sulla but he escaped death.

Sulla was another general turned politician who took power through force after he won a civil war. Some say he would’ve never taken power if Marius hadn’t meddled in his military command. Marius hated Sulla and the feeling was mutual.

Marius set the standard of proscriptions being used to settle political scores but he died before Sulla took his revenge. Sulla used that standard set by Marius to exact political revenge of his own. Marius’ only son died fighting against Sulla in 82.

Sulla wanted to take his revenge against all the former supporters of Marius and Cinna who he felt had wronged him. So in 82 BC, Sulla instituted the process of proscriptions again to purge the state of former Marius and Cinna supporters.

Estimates range from 500 to 4,000 Marius + Cinna supporters condemned to death. Their supporters were named as enemies of the state and anyone who murdered them got to split their property with the state. People were given reward money for reporting others who supported him. Many were decapitated and had their heads displayed in the Forum or in the streets as a lesson. The money the state took from these people helped pay for the endless wars Rome fought.

Their relatives were punished as well.

Many say without the earlier proscriptions, Sulla would’ve never gotten away with this.

Instead because it was all normalized, Sulla ruled and later retired in Roman luxury.

The lesson is that when you set new rules or standards, they often boomerang back you in politics. It’s best not to create new standards or rules that you don’t want to have deployed against your side or your loved ones.

[AriyikeAde @Temini_A]

Omolodun 🤭
Fagbohungbe T.D LLB(Hons)

[Vendy (YC W22) @UseVendyHQ]

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year ahead. From all of us at Vendy 🎅🏾🎉 #BlueChristmas #Vendy

[Vendy (YC W22) @UseVendyHQ]

"Hello World! Hi I’m Vendy.” 👋🏾 #AsSimpleAsAChat #IamVendy #HelloWorld

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

I gave GPT-4 eyes.

Here’s what I did:
- added some data to a vision model
- gave the AI camera access
- asked it questions about the scene
- it identified objects
- it searched web for info
- used that info to accurately answer

Watch it get 3 questions 100% correct!

[Ayo Francis @TheAyoFrancis]

@yorubachic God when

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

If the game is fair, Elon will buy Twitter. If the game is rigged, there will be some reason why he won’t be able to. We’re about to find out how deep the corruption goes.

[Ayo Francis @TheAyoFrancis]

@thesegunadebayo Happy Birthday Segun and congrats on getting married too. Blessings on blessings.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Censorship is a weapon of the powerful, not of the marginalized. The marginalized are, by definition, always its targets.

The core purpose of censorship is to shield majoritarian sentiments from being questioned or challenged. Only power centers have the capacity to censor.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

When Iron Man came out in 2008, Robert Downey Jr. was *not* a marquee star.

He was rebuilding his career and paid a below market rate of $500k.

But the deal terms set him up for one of the great acting comebacks ever and he's earned $450m+ as Tony Stark.

Here’s the story🧵