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Official X-handle of AffordAfrica Continental.
...creating the largest cross-continental platform for private-sector drive of Affordable Housing across SSA.

[aacon @aacon_ssa]

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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk is building something no platform in history has actually attempted.

A system that judges ideas without knowing who wrote them.

Musk: “It should be possible for somebody to post content as a new user with no followers, and if that content is excellent, it gets seen by a lot of people.”

Every platform before this ran on a single hidden variable.

Identity.

Not quality. Not originality. Not depth. Identity. Who you were determined what got seen. The architecture didn’t surface the best thinking. It surfaced the most established thinker.

It chose pedigree over precision. Every single time.

Musk is the first person with the infrastructure, the capital, and the sheer indifference to consensus required to strip that variable out.

Grok reads everything. Every post from every account. Zero followers or ten million. No weighting for legacy. No deference to tenure.

It measures one thing.

Intrinsic excellence.

The printing press created publishers. Radio created networks. Television created anchors. Social media created influencers.

Every technology of liberation produced a new gatekeeper within one generation.

Musk is betting AI is the first tool that can’t be captured. An algorithm with no concept of identity has no incumbency to protect.

It just reads. And it surfaces what’s best.

If that works, it doesn’t just change a platform. It exposes something about every system that came before it.

Every trending page, every algorithm, every feed that claimed to surface quality was never measuring quality.

It was measuring proximity to power and calling it merit.

We never had meritocracy. We had hierarchy with better marketing.

Musk is building the first real one.

And the question it forces isn’t whether you can compete.

It’s whether your work was ever actually good, or you were just early.

Everyone wants meritocracy.

Almost nobody has ever lived in one.

[Adewale Yusuf @AdewaleYusuf_]

Google wants to release 32 million Mosquitoes into some states in the US.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Problems in Paris

[Adewale Yusuf @AdewaleYusuf_]

3 platforms to make money online.

[Adewale Yusuf @AdewaleYusuf_]

Platforms to start raising capital from anywhere in the World.

[NC Affordable Housing Conference @housingworksnc]

📢Exciting news!

Alexander Hermann, Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, will be our keynote speaker for the 2026 NC Affordable Housing Conference!

📅October 22–23, 2026
📍Raleigh Convention Center

For more info: https://t.co/L62XAnbmvl

[Toyyib Adewale Adelodun @taadelodun]

By the way, the man Dangote is speaking here manages a $2 Trillion fund.

This podcast is also an opportunity for Alhaji to get more investments.

🎵Dangote Dangote still dey find money🎵

[aacon @aacon_ssa]

Our Trillion Dollar Task

With close to 80% gap, Home Ownership is a glaring drawback to individual productivities of active working Africans and by extension, the economic productivities of their respective SSA countries.

Confronting and surmounting this singular hurdle after decades of failure is one of the most daunting and significant tasks of our present time.

This is the task that AACON is taking head-on.

[aacon @aacon_ssa]

https://t.co/WCHlos5YDh

[Jaynit Makwana @JaynitMakwana]

🚨 BREAKING: The richest man in the world says most people think by analogy... copying what already exists. He thinks by first principles... rebuilding from the ground up.

Elon Musk applied first principles to rockets, electric cars, and brain interfaces. Each time, experts said it was impossible. Each time, he proved them wrong.

The method isn't complicated. But almost nobody actually uses it.

I turned first principles thinking into 10 Claude prompts.

You describe any problem, any challenge, any "impossible" goal... and it strips away assumptions to show you what's actually true.

Here are all 10:

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

THIS IS INSANE!!!🤯

China just made it ILLEGAL to fire a human worker and replace them with AI.. and the way they found out is insane..

a quality assurance supervisor named Zhou worked at an AI company in Hangzhou.. his job was verifying AI-generated content.. matching user queries with model outputs.. filtering hallucinations and illegal content..

he was literally training the AI to do his own job..

once the model got good enough.. the company told him they were moving him to a lower position.. with a 40% pay cut.. from 25,000 yuan to 15,000..

he refused.. they fired him..

he sued.. and won..

the Hangzhou court ruled that replacing a human with AI is not a valid reason to fire someone.. period..

their logic.. adopting AI is a voluntary business decision.. not an earthquake.. not a government shutdown.. not a force majeure event.. it's a choice the company made to save money..

and because it's a choice.. the company has to absorb the cost of that transition.. not dump it on the worker..

this wasn't a one-off ruling either..

in Beijing.. a map data collector named Liu spent over a decade manually collecting geographic data.. the company switched to AI-automated data collection.. eliminated his entire department.. fired him..

he sued.. won.. exact same reasoning.. AI adoption is a proactive business strategy.. not an unforeseeable external shock..

and here's what's happening in the background that makes these rulings so urgent..

unemployment for chinese workers aged 25 to 29 just hit a record 7.7%.. the highest since they started tracking that age group separately..

companies across china are literally forcing employees to document their daily workflows so AI models can learn to replace them.. workers are training their own replacements and they know it..

a 24-year-old engineer built an open-source tool called "Colleague.Skill" that scrapes your work chat history, emails, code commits, and documents.. and creates a digital clone of you that can do your exact job after you're gone..

he meant it as a dark joke.. it got 13,400 stars on GitHub in three weeks.. top 0.1% of all projects globally.. because it wasn't really a joke.. it was exactly what companies were already doing to their employees..

workers in Shanghai and Beijing told MIT Technology Review that management was actively coercing them to document everything specifically to train AI replacements..

china's response.. make it illegal..

the State Council launched the "AI Plus" initiative.. a ten-year plan that explicitly mandates AI must augment workers.. not replace them.. companies must use AI to upgrade existing roles.. not eliminate them..

by 2027.. smart devices and AI agents must reach 70% penetration.. by 2030.. over 90%.. but the growth has to create jobs.. not destroy them..

now compare this to the US..

in america.. at-will employment means your company can fire you and replace you with AI tomorrow.. no warning.. no severance negotiation.. no retraining obligation.. as long as they're not discriminating based on race, age, or disability.. it's perfectly legal..

there is no federal law protecting american workers from AI displacement.. none..

california proposed a bill requiring just 30 days notice before deploying AI that affects employment.. that's the most aggressive protection any US state has attempted..

china made it illegal to fire you.. america doesn't even require a heads up..

and here's the irony nobody is talking about..

china.. the country the west accuses of having no worker protections.. just gave its workers more protection from AI than any democracy on earth..

the question isn't whether AI will replace jobs..

it's whether your country will protect you when it does.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They stole a nonprofit. It’s not right.

[Aria Westcott @AriaWestcott]

Deleting your internet history from your browser is never enough.

Every click, every search, is still saved.

Here's how to completely delete your internet history and turn yourself into a digital ghost:

[AFRICAMUSTBEFREE!!!!!!! @engrICO2015]

The latest palm oil processing machine . All you need to do is to cook the palm fruits and the machine completes the rest

Nice one 😄

[Pushpendra Singh Digital @PushpendraTech]

🚨 BREAKING: China Just Shocked the World with This Bold Move!

China has banned businessmen from profiting off education for kids aged 6–15 😳

No more private school money-making.
No more treating education like a business.

Authorities say: “Children are not a revenue model.”

The goal?
✔️ Reduce family pressure
✔️ Make education more equal
✔️ Kill the profit-driven school system

This decision is now going viral globally and raising one big question:

👉 Should other countries do the same?

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

She’s Chasing Mars… With NO Return Ticket 🚀

23-year-old Alyssa is Training to be the First Human on Mars… and She’s Not Coming Back to Earth Again! 🌍

[NASA @NASA]

Artemis II may have splashed down, but our photos and videos from the mission are still rolling in! Keep an eye on the latest: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Power Beast @powerbeastt]

THE FOUR BURNER THEORY.

IT DESTROYED ELON MUSK'S FIRST MARRIAGE. IT EXPLAINS WHY BEZOS IS JACKED BUT DIVORCED. AND WHY ZUCKERBERG HAS NO REAL FRIENDS. ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND IT, YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE SAME: 🧵