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[Thomas. O @ThomasGreat3]

People who give up never go up

-- Thomas. O

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You cannot punish gold with fire. You only prove its worth.

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Freedom begins the moment you stop living under the weight of other people’s opinions.

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Be so valuable at what you do that losing you becomes more expensive than keeping you.

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@ifetemini If their own doing, it's mainly because they over analyze things. If a doing of others, it's mainly because they come across as a threat to established systems or seen as outliers.

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@OGreat6 True, that's why the mindset overhaul is key in the process.

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Life rarely gives you exactly what you want. You have to Ask, Seek, & Knock most times to get access.

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@garyvee Thinking aloud. Literally, is it possible to start from zero?

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@GbengaWemimo Curious. If geography is destiny, does it mean people born in the supposedly undesirable places now moving to the assumed desirable places/climes are working against their destiny?

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@Chime_Fave No. A 30-year-old cannot start all over again, irrespective of whatever they are venturing into, whether they failed/passed previously. They are too rich in failures and success that anything they decide to do, they'd be doing with experience that can't be bought.

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The moment you understand that your failures and successes are deeply rooted in what goes on in your MIND, you'd be more intentional in guiding your mind diligently.

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@AskMichaelTaiwo For me to see the world 🌎, but alas, at that point I can't be hidden from the world's view

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@SolaTheAnalyst IMO, this mindset is deeply rooted in the Nollywood messaging from 15-20 years ago. It's good that people are beginning to speak up. My advice to anyone abroad is to never lose yourself for others. Keep your head up doing legal things. 🌳 take time to grow.

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@asemota Agreed. The current state of web3 is far from what I expected, adoption-wise. Perhaps web3 is not mature yet, and those who'll eventually benefit from early adoption are the loosers of today that stay.

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FEAR is the real enemy

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A lot of similar startups exist in the crypto space. Mostly used as data collection pipelines for vulnerable populations. They base their arguments on the fact that it is voluntary participation. Can't fault them.Perhaps the Nigerian IT governance system should be more proactive.

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I put on my fraud detection hat whenever I see a 22 year old Tech bro who supposedly dropped out of college to fund an AI startup. In this case, what I found about this Kled guy is incredibly disturbing.

K5 Global is Kled’s lead investor. K5 Global is a firm that frequently invests alongside the Palantir and Thiel network. Another Kled backer, Aglaé Ventures, owned by Bernard Arnault, has a massive AI portfolio that intersects with the same labs that Palantir’s AIP integrates with.

Basically, Kled is the Data Harvester for Palantir. Their job is to mobilize hundreds of thousands of gig workers, mostly from the Global South, to upload personal photos, videos, and documents. They convert raw human life into a machine readable product. Their clients like Palantir act as the Data Refinery. Palantir’s software, specifically Foundry and AIP, is designed to take that data and make it actionable for governments and corporations to put into global surveillance and military use.

We can safely conclude that this Kled guy and other similar AI startups harvesting user data are human meat shields. They are specifically set up and funded to do the dirty work for Silicon Valley tech empires.

Understand that these Large AI labs are currently being sued by artists, writers, and publishers for stealing data through web scraping. To win these court cases, OpenAI and Palantir need to prove they have clean, consented data. Buying a dataset from Kled, where every user signed a 50 page digital consent form in exchange for $20, gives these billion dollar tech companies a free pass.

Also, imagine if Palantir, a company already criticized for government surveillance and US military war campaigns, offered to pay people in developing countries to film their living rooms and daily activities. It would look like a global surveillance network. By using Kled as a middleman, they get the same data but keep their hands clean in the public eye.

Even though we cannot verify his claim of Nigerians defrauding his company, what we can verify is that he is an industry plant. He is set up to allow AI data labs to continue harvesting user data for global surveillance and military use.

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I mean, he's got lots of admirable potential. Why even throw him in a pit? Was the pit the only option to conceal their evil act? The best of men still live in pits, some of/not their own choice. Who will save him/them?🤔

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Shedding old skin is the price of becoming new.

NB: Every layer we shed is a quiet reminder that growth is not gentle, but it is always necessary.

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The mind is so powerful yet so useless when idle. To be airborne, the blades of the mind need to spin as fast as possible.

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MMXC