Ali

Son of Man and Servant of the Zhul Arshil Majeed'

[Olóyè. @Ol0ye]

Stadiums will be built and completed in 24 hours.

During half time, they'll change the direction the stadium is facing so that the sun doesn't enter the Chinese team's eyes.

[• @Al__Quraan]

It was said to Luqmăn (‘alayhi salām):

“How did you become so wise?” He replied: ‘I do not ask for what I don’t need, and I don’t speak about what doesn’t concern me”.

Source: The Manners of the Knowledge Seeker, Abü ‘Abdilläh Muhammad Sa’id Raslän, p.38

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

“I think the more impressive stat is that 63% of CEO's went to Grad School!”

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

12-year old Maryam Qadoum, killed after Israeli forces struck displacement tents in the Al-Jawazat area of Gaza. Zionists see these videos too, the difference is their hearts are dead.

[MUSTAPHA @angry_ustaaz]

May our graves be better than our beds.
Ameen.

[Elijah 🌊 @juiceboy_of_abj]

Every software developer happiness started from here right??

[Arojinle @arojinle1]

Kidnapping in the middle of Ìbàdàn! The people in government keep trading accusations and excuses, instead of working. Whether you inherited the problem or not, you contested and won. The responsibilities were not forced on you. You begged, campaigned and asked for them.

This is a gross failure on the part of the president and the governors of all the states involved.

[Praise @tufpraise]

If a monkey or a penguin had done this, the internet would be overflowing with feelings of pity...

[DonAza @DonAzag]

The Danger of Thinking You Are Safe

Many Nigerian leaders believe they can buy safety. They move in armored convoys, live behind high walls, and use heavy security. They treat banditry like it is only a problem for the poor, but this is a dangerous lie.

The bandits you fail to stop today are growing hungrier and bolder. They know a poor farmer cannot pay millions in ransom, but you can. That means you and your loved ones are their ultimate targets.

Your power is temporary. Your government position, your armed escorts, and your official protection will not last forever. One day you will step down, your security detail will shrink, and you will be left completely exposed in the open.

Even while you are in power, you cannot guard your family every second of the day. The road you refuse to fix and secure today is the exact road your wife, your children, or your relatives will have to travel tomorrow. No armored jeep is completely ambush-proof, and no title can stop a bullet.

Look at the news today. High-ranking officials, wealthy elites, and even retired generals are being dragged into the bush. If you refuse to crush these criminals out of pity for the common man, you must do it for your own survival.

Every single day you sit in office and do nothing, you are giving these killers the time to grow stronger and move closer to your own home. If you do not use your power to destroy them today, they will use their weapons to destroy your family tomorrow. Act now, before it is your turn.

[julaibib @julaibib18]

If someone keeps crossing your mind, make dua for them. You never know what they're battling, secretly.

[Big Akh @Thoughtful1_]

“You're in this world to build a place for yourself in Jannah. Don't forget that.”

[♕♕🇸🇴🌊♕♕ @HangingByA]

im honestly glad.

i do think something changed in young muslim's consciousness. i see our generation re-learning, re-calibrating, re-uniting & finding spirituality & consistency in worship & rediscovering the importance of our rituals.

Allah will always guide us to him.

[Minnie @saintdutchess]

My brother said he knew since I was born premature I had no intention of surviving this life 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[addison @uwunetes]

peak of android was when you could boot up Lucky Patcher and get most game in app purchases for free. downhill ever since.

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

In the 1970s a Detroit car salesman named Joe Girard had a rule. Every person you meet knows roughly 250 other people they would invite to a wedding or a funeral. Treat one customer badly and you have not lost one sale. You have lost 250.

Today the average person has 400 to 800 Instagram followers. A casual TikTok user reaches 5,000 strangers.

That 250 has became 2,500 today. For anyone who actually posts, it's closer to 25,000.

Multiply that by the country.

If 10 million Americans each have a real reach of 2,500 people, that's 25 billion exposures before counting overlap. Even after stripping shared connections, a coordinated message reaches hundreds of millions of people in 72 hours.

This is just math. The same math social media companies use to value themselves.

People underestimate the power of coordination today.

Each person is a node. Each connection is an edge. The information doesn't travel through random people. It travels through clusters. Your friends know each other. Your community knows each other. Religious communities, immigrant diasporas, fan bases, industries, political tribes, they are all densely linked internally.

A clustered network passes information at the speed of light inside the cluster. It doesn't need to convince the rest of the country. It needs 5% of the country, sitting inside a particular brand's customer base, sustained for 6 months.

That's all it needs.

In April 2023, the conservative network coordinated against Bud Light.

$25 billion in market cap evaporated.

Bud Light loses its 20-year run as America's best-selling beer. Marketing executives are fired.

In October 2023, the pro-Palestine boycott of Starbucks dropped share price by 17% in 48 hours.

McDonald's followed the same pattern with a 6-month lag. Disney walked back its political marketing. Every consumer brand watched these companies bleed and learned the lesson.

The lost dollar originating from a boycott, shows up in same-store sales.

Two negative quarters and analysts downgrade the stock. Lenders demand higher interest to keep funding the business.

Cost of capital rises across the balance sheet. Marketing gets cut. Suppliers get squeezed. The reputation premium that made the stock worth 20 times earnings instead of 14 quietly evaporates.

Each step reinforces the next.

A corporation is not a moral actor. It is a profit-maximizing entity owned by passive index funds that only care about returns.

When a clustered community starts costing it money, the board does not debate whether the community is right.

The board calls the CEO and tells him to make the problem go away before the next earnings print.

The CEO fires the marketing chief. The marketing chief disowns the campaign. The product gets pulled. The company donates to the opposite cause.

Whatever it takes to break the cycle.

The whole loop runs in 30 days once damage crosses 10% of market cap.

The corporation has shareholders. Shareholders only care about returns. When the boycott damage shows up on the income statement, the company surrenders. That's how this always plays out.

If you think your individual choice doesn't matter, you are doing the math wrong.

You are a node. Your reach is 2,500 people. Your community is clustered around you. The coordination problem economists used to write papers about has been solved by the phone in your hand.

The corporation does not care about your opinion. It cares about your money.

Take it away and they will speak any language you want to hear.

[David Uchenna @callmidavid]

Meet Flink

Flink is the agricultural social network that helps farmers, buyers, logistics, and agribusinesses connect, trade, and grow, all in one place.

Flink is now live on the Google Play Store.
Go check it out and be part of the future of agriculture.

[dylan ツ @demian_ai]

Synthetic data was the consensus answer but Meta might have just admitted the consensus was wrong.

For the last 2 years, the standard reply to "we are running out of training data" has been: generate more. Self-instruct. Bootstrap. Distill. Use a teacher model to write a student curriculum. Use a strong model to label a weaker model's mistakes. The Phi family, the RedPajama line, the synthetic-instruction papers, all real research, all useful, all assumed to be the future of the data layer.

The frontier labs spent the same 2 years quietly proving the opposite.

What you actually need to push a frontier model into the next capability tier is not more tokens. It is more demonstrations from people who are smarter than the model's current ceiling. You need to see a senior engineer solve a thorny refactor. You need to see a researcher fix a broken test on the third try. You need to see a designer choose between three options and explain why. You need behavior, not text.

Behavior is expensive. Behavior cannot be synthesized convincingly because the model that synthesizes it is, by construction, dumber than the behavior you want. A model cannot pull itself up by its own bootstraps past the people it imitates.

Meta's "Model Capability Initiative" is the operational acknowledgement of this. Install software that records keystrokes and screen activity on the devices of the smartest engineers in the building. Convert the recording into training data. Run it against the model. Repeat.

This is what the data-labeling industry sounds like when the labels need to come from experts.

The synthetic-data answer never scaled past the middle of the human distribution. It was a way to manufacture more average examples cheaply. The frontier needs the top of the distribution, not the middle. The top of the distribution is finite, and it works at Meta and OpenAI and Anthropic and Google and a small number of research labs, and it has been told that its behavior is the most strategic input to the next model.

Synthetic data was the wrong answer to the right question.

The right answer is uncomfortable. It is what Meta named on April 30 and announced layoffs against on May 20. The most strategic resource in 2026 AI is not GPUs and not synthetic tokens. It is high-IQ human demonstrations, captured live, at industrial scale.

The labs that already employ those humans are at a structural advantage the open market cannot replicate.

Everyone else has to buy them.