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Rebel, Agnostic, Software engineer.

[Strategic Advisor @BBDaybreakEU]

Assuming you're literate, it's a selfish way of communicating. It saves the sender a small amount of time where they can 'ummm' instead of formulating a point properly. Then the receiver has to sit through it all, spending multiples of the amount of time they'd spend to read it.

[Undefined @barmmie_]

Money remains a lossy abstraction for value.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine.

In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on:

- retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels
- RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life
- small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol
- Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection
- this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors

This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.

[𝓐𝔂𝓸✯ @shefwayo]

me holding my opinion after realizing I cannot fix this person's entire educational history in just one conversation.

[Undefined @barmmie_]

@_baretto You no longer pay for entri?

[Sevalla @sevalla_hosting]

Built an HTTP client for modern PHP: Relay.

Fiber-native concurrency, immutable requests, no exceptions for 404/500 - just explicit Success or Failure signals.

Concurrent code that reads synchronously, zero bloat, ext-curl only.

Not a Guzzle replacement, a clean-slate transport for PHP 8.5+.
https://t.co/IsEvAsNVBT

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

This is how traditions and biases are passed down from generation to generation.

[Neto @docneto]

😅 I'm from a village in Akwa Ibom please, Ikoyi is for the bourgeoisie like flying doctor.

I've spent a lot of time and effort understanding the trenches, I sell N500 insurance plan to millions of poor people. I've also spent time in gilded academic halls consuming lots of literature so let me clearly spell out my position.

Nigeria does not have a social contract! As a result we have no basis for accountability or institutions. No basis for a govt to care about you.

Over the course of their history, countries with good public services have negotiated a social contract that forms the foundation for accountability and institutions; we haven't done that work, and that is why complaining is ultimately futile.

We're in reality more like a feudal state with hangovers from colonialism. Get a gun and you get your way.

How do complaints become useful without needing a gun? The first step is to establish an actual social contract. That, however, doesn't happen magically.

Thanks to the two publics colonialism introduced, the eastern path to this seems unlikely. We will have to adopt a Western approach. This western path requires active citizens (read as elites) who organise around ideas and force issues with the powers that be. Eventually, over time, that organised resistance to governmental impunity forces a negotiation of a social contract.

That's why you will find me on this app where most of us are in the top wealth quintiles, encouraging people to organise ourselves so we can extract concessions from people in power. I do not go into ajegunle or my village in Akwa Ibom to preach this.

Powerless masses in the villages and slums can complain, you on this app should move beyond complaining. You are well resourced to do more to extract a social contract from an uncaring government.

If I've ever "harangued citizens for demanding accountability", it is to help you make your case stronger. We need to organize ourselves and present the best possible case at every turn.

[Elyon @0xkitng]

Let start from here

March 6, 2017, Executive Order 13780 was issued for a comprehensive worldwide review to identify countries with deficient information sharing practices. The review directed identification of “whether, and if so what, additional information will be needed from each foreign country to adjudicate an application by a national of that country for a visa, admission, or other benefit.”

State Department Trafficking in Persons Report 2017

Official Complaint on Passport Fraud
The State Department reported: “A Nigerian official reported some immigration officials knowingly facilitated the issuance of falsified passports to enable traffickers to make minors appear 18 years of age for foreign travel; the government did not report investigating these claims.”

Justice Department Documentation 2016 - 2018

Official research documentation
The US Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review documented concerns about Nigeria’s passport system, noting the need for research on “prevalence of fraudulent passports” in multiple reports spanning 2016 2018.
https://t.co/COB7Yq3SX2

On September 13, 2019, the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, after consulting with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, and the heads of other appropriate agencies, submitted a fourth report recommending the suspension of, or limitation Nigerian national based on identity management and information sharing metrics.

Official US Government Documentation
Presidential Proclamation 9983 of January 31, 2020

Nigeria does not comply with the established identity management and information sharing criteria assessed by the performance metrics. Nigeria does not adequately share public safety and terrorism related information, which is necessary for the protection of the national security and public safety of the United States. Nigeria also presents a high risk, relative to other countries in the world, of terrorist travel to the United States.

https://t.co/1jjGDIg1rN

US Embassy in Nigeria Official Announcement July 8, 2025

This reduction is not the result of any nation’s stance on third country deportees, introduction of e visa policies, or affiliations with groups like BRICS. Rather, it is a part of an ongoing global review of the use of US visas by other countries using technical and security benchmarks to safeguard US immigration systems.”

https://t.co/ZKDzw0RIIz

2017 - Executive Order 13780 initiated worldwide review identifying Nigeria’s deficiencies
2019 - DHS September report identified Nigeria among worst performing countries
2020 - Presidential Proclamation 9983 formally restricted Nigerian immigrant visas
2020 - Federal Register published official complaints
2025 July US Embassy reduced visa validity to 3 months
2025 - December New presidential proclamation expanded restrictions

Numbers of complaints
1.Department of Homeland Security multiple times 2017, 2019, 2020, 2025
2.Department of State 2017, 2019, 2020, 2025
3.Department of Justice or Attorney General 2017, 2019, 2020
https://t.co/rtS1eji1aV of the Director of National Intelligence 2017, 2019, 2020
5.The White House or Office of the President 2020, 2025
https://t.co/rDcqhnw7sQ Embassy in Nigeria 2025

All complaints consistently centered on the same core issues: Nigeria’s inability to adequately identify its citizens through reliable identity management systems and failure to share necessary security and criminal information with US authorities.

[Yewande O @yewiedewie]

This was very good to watch/listen and has a lot of insights. Here Ridwan mentions that he left OPay because they didnt (refused to?) issue him his stock options. Ofcourse he is now on his way to build a billion dollar company (rev). Timely watch.

[Bobby @nteoniro]

If you own a sports asset in Africa. I’ll work for you for free for six months and if you like what you see, we will talk money.

[Ugo @Sir_Fin]

Taking a more than a moment to ask yourself “what and what could possibly result from me doing this?” before you do stuff or take steps, will definitely help you make better decisions.

[Oreoluwa Awolowo 🖤 🚚 @NoraAwolowo]

These days, I detest plenty of talks.
If you want to do something, just go ahead and do it.

We as people tend to do more senrenre and shalaye rather than just executing and doing.
Plenty conferences and meetings about what you plan to do. Just execute please.

[Tosin Orimogunje @Reemtos]

Every time I step out of The Netherlands, I am instantly reminded of how very functional, reliable, optimal, and inclusive the entire system is. Everything just works.

Very, very impressive! 👏🏽

[Kaj Sotala @xuenay]

A trauma book I was reading had an interesting claim that indecision is often because the person looks for the approval of an internalized authority figure but is unable to predict what action they would approve of.

[Cavalry! 🏇 @mykeels]

Just by holding yourself accountable for your problems, a whole new world of solutions opens up to you that wouldn't be possible if you were holding on to the idea that someone else is responsible for your situation.

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

@PresentWitness_ @BretWeinstein I’m religiously agnostic. My entire position is that I don’t have the answers.

But that doesn’t mean that any number of the thousands of religions got it right.

[Muhammed Sarı @mabdullahsari]

✍️ I've just published “Unorthodox Eloquent”

#laravel #php

https://t.co/AG0Lp4nRlj

[Undefined @barmmie_]

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[jola. @jola_adebayor]

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