Replace thoughts & train your mind:
I missed this coin ➡️ new chances will come
I wish i bought more ➡️ at least i got some
I envy people´s succes ➡️ happy for other´s succes
Everyone bullish ➡️ take some profit
Everyone bearish ➡️ buy some
It is never enough ➡️ being conscious is already enough
I hate certain CT accounts ➡️ unfollow & move on
Glued to the screen ➡️ go for a walk
Twitter is toxic ➡️ be kind
I do what others do ➡️ be original
Ratio rules supreme ➡️ develop your intuition
Am all over the place ➡️ focus and center
BTC is the future ➡️ alts is where real money is made
If only i had done this or that ➡️ i am here right now
This is the kind of "opposition" Nigerians love. Sue the presidency in a court that is under the authority of the Chief Justice who is appointed by the presidency.
1,000 motion, 0 movement.
If you tell them that they'd get a much bigger result if they came out in numbers and blockaded the US embassy in Abuja like the Nigeriens did the French embassy in Niamey 3 years ago, they'll tell you "Why don't you come to Nigeria and do it yourself? CIA man!"
Make una continue to dey whine una selves. Continue to "hold your leaders accountable" by suing them in Kekere-Ekun's court, and "voting them out" with an INEC that receives funding from the US government under a commissioner that is an APC member.
And when it doesn't work, do it again. If it didn't work the first 569,000 times you already did it, try it another 697,000,000 times. When you're reaching the end of the 55 years you are statically likely to survive as a Nigerian and you're finally realising nothing has changed, instead of telling your kids to do the opposite of what you did, tell them "nIgEriA iS cUrSed, dO aNythInG yOu cAn tO mOvE tO cAnaDa".
Very wise people, Nigerians. 🥲
The Spearhead Roundtable 6
On this week's episode of The Roundtable, hosts @Big_Mck , @okorieuche_ , @joyfwen, @mayowadurosinm1, @barrahart and @DavidHundeyin discuss the botched Afrophobia psy-op in Kenya, Palantir's entry into Nigeria via a Trojan-horse security contract, the British government's refusal to consider paying reparations for slavery and colonialism, and DRC President Felix Tshisekedi's wall-kissing display in a place that must not be named.
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Thoughts:
It is impossible to keep Africa down forever
I know this more than I know my own name.
A continent that is projected to hold nearly half of all humans on earth around the third quarter of this century cannot be suppressed in perpetuity.
At some point, the material and social contradictions will become too glaring to ignore, and the system snaps like a twig.
Eventually, we and/or our immediate descendants (children and grandchildren) will start to ask hard questions:
"Why is our continent that is the richest in natural resources and arable land the hungriest and poorest while people who cannot pronounce our names reap all the benefits?"
"Why do we have to suffer when there's absolutely ZERO material reason?"
'Will heaven fall if we just tried something else"?
This new generation will come, and they will have zero loyalty to what came before them. Because all they'll have known is mediocrity, misery, hunger and insecurity
They will become furious.
They will rage against the system.
And they will destroy it.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that there is no guarantee that this struggle will birth the Africa of our dreams.
It can go a hundred different ways, even scenarios where the local political leaders become the new oppressors...
Where the new African elite keep 90% of the pie and the rest continue fighting for scraps.
This is why, in my opinion, the NUMBER ONE duty of our generation is to make sure the right ideology is in place.
A guiding ideology that provides the institutional machinery and legitimacy to create the material, social and political realities that will safeguard our interests for the next 200-500 years.
Doable
The Rust team just published their first debugging survey, and it's an honest look at a real weak spot.
2,300+ developers weighed in, and the headline is blunt: over half don't use a Rust debugger at all. Here's why 🧵👇
Is The US Planning To Invade The AES?
Is the United States planning to invade the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)? Is a recent letter by a certain US Congressman to the US Secretary of State a precursor to this invasion? Do recent developments in Washington and the relentless slandering of the AES by Western media also point to this possibility? What does history have to say? And what must Africans do to protect their Motherland?
In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart, @sannario_, @okorieuche_, @gofwenjoy, @big_mck and @davidhundeyin, explore these questions.
There you go making logical deductions from documented data and obvious connections. Who told you to use your brain? What gave you the right to trace a cause all the way to its effect? When you can instead post memes and type "CIA😂😂"
What are you, some sort of Pan-Africanist??
The trouble with many of you in Nigeria is that because you have no plans or ambition whatsoever, and your event horizon barely exceeds 48 hours, you think other people also suffer from a similar lack of planning and ambition.
Meanwhile we live in a world where other people have detailed plans for every aspect of your land, your society and your life - just that those plans don't factor your own interests and well-being into the equation.
Anyway you people will learn eventually what "foreign influence" means. You might die in the process of learning, but I promise you will learn at some point.
With Sam's departure, I'm returning to my roots: leading technical teams and the research > engineering > product cycle. As CTO & CEO, I'll be close to the work, hands-on, in the trenches.
The next twelve months are pivotal. I'm energized. Let's go.
The relationship between capitalism and colonialism.
My points:
*Pre-colonial African societies were never capitalist.
*Commercial activities ≠ Capitalism.
*Africa is capable of developing indigenous ideas to fight capitalism, without necessarily adopting outside ideas, since the continent knew and practiced the alternatives before colonialism.
Everyone else has their struggle and nobody asks them to dilute it so that other people can feel included. There are West Asian struggles, South Asian struggles, Pacific Islander struggles, East Asian struggles, Latin American struggles, Balkan struggles, Australian aboriginal struggles, Native American struggles and Central Asian struggles.
They are all allowed to exist and breathe independently. Nobody ever accused those struggles of taking anything away from a wider socialist struggle.
Only when it comes to the African struggle must we be constantly lectured about why we must accommodate this or that group of virulently anti-black people in our African struggle, or else we will split this or that movement - allowances that literally nobody in the history of the planet has ever made for us.
Look, we know that there is a global anti-imperial struggle that links all our struggles, and we know the shared history we have with the likes of Cuba, Palestine, China, Russia etc. Nobody is going to make us stop collaborating with those whose partnerships have been mutually beneficial.
But nobody is going to convince me that I should not focus on creating the same moat and ringfence that everybody else enjoys. Everyone else on earth has nationalism as an intrinsic feature of their struggle without anyone making faces at them for it - why is it Africa that must dissolve itself into some formless global "working class" kumbaya fantasy that clearly nobody else subscribes to? Why must we be the test subjects for what nobody else is willing to do?
Why are black people always held to ideological standards that nobody else is held to? Why didn't Mao or Lenin organise their revolutions around this amorphous "global proletariat"? Why did they build strong nation states instead? Who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan? Was it the "capitalist ruling class" that developed the bomb and flew the plane to drop it over Hiroshima, or did it use the air force of the United States Military to do that? Why does it need the apparatus of a nation state to impose its will on the world?
Why is this "capitalist ruling class" never able to impose its will anywhere except where it controls the levers of the state? Why have the only successful attempts to oppose this "capitalist ruling class" taken place through a powerful, well organised nation state acting in opposition? Why has all the world's "working class solidarity" not been able to stop innocent Palestinians from being exploded into bits with their families, but it is the IRGC and the well organised, industrial nation-state of Iran that has been able to stop a similar fate from befalling Iranian people?
If nationalism is just a bourgeiosie idea to serve local elites, then why does the "capitalist ruling class" invest billions of dollars every year on secessionist movements and rebel armies aiming to break up nation-states? If African nationalism represents a less important goal than this hypothetical global socialist utopia, then why do the powerful states controlled by the "capitalist ruling class" work so hard to kill or silence every single notable person who pushes African nationalism?
Why did they kill Patrice Lumumba? Why was Kwame Nkrumah overthrown after several failed attempts on his life? Why have there been multiple French-backed attempts on Ibrahim Traore's life? Why did they ignore Gadaffi for decades but the minute he paid for Africa's first communications satellite and put down Libyan state money to fund African replacements for the IMF and World Bank, plus gold reserves to back a continental currency - the things needed to unite Africa into a sovereign, continental nation-state - they immediately rushed every asset they had into Libya and didn't stop until they had him on video being anally raped with a knife on CNN? Why did they take down African Stream?
The STATE is the biggest asset and weapon that can be wielded by any group of people. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can go from a small island in the Atlantic to an empire covering two-thirds of the world. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can resist that empire and its successor, and prevent your people from becoming imperial roadkill. The entire reason why Africa is in its current situation is precisely because it has NO STATE, and its ability to create one is being actively sabotaged on a daily and ongoing basis, including through funding ideological subversion to convince Africans that there is an alternative to developing serious state capacity, either through Frank Zanu/Magatte Wade-style capitalism-raises-the-dead nonsense, or through woolly-headed Supermarxist trash.
Anybody who tells me as an African that I should devote my energy to chasing some formless, utopian "global proletariat revolution" instead of building a pragmatic, Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean-style political revolution that births an industrial African state with the power to feed and defend itself, is just as useless to me as Magatte Wade telling me that the solution to my problems is to sell part of my country to Peter Thiel and gratefully let the new sovereign Epstein Island douse me with its hot, steaming American capitalism.
I will focus on Pan-Africanism and sovereignism. Africa will always come first for me before any of your other -isms. Anyone who doesn't like it, that's too bad. I didn't write the rules and I'm simply doing the same thing everybody else on this planet does - looking out for me and my own first. I'm not interested in being percecived as morally 'better' than anybody. That 'better' shit is what got my ancestors colonised and that's why I'm a black West African who speaks English and answers to "David" today. We don't repeat our ancestors' mistakes here.
In the everlasting words of Fela Kuti, TEACHER DON'T TEACH ME NONSENSE.
1,000 epochs cleared, 1 billion non-vote transactions in one week, and a true 24/7 brokerage went live for real U.S. equities.
TradFi sleeps, Solana doesn’t. Here’s what shipped this week:
📰 Headline News
- Solana crossed its 1000th epoch
- SK Hynix ($SKHY) went live on Solana on the same day as its Nasdaq listing via @Backpack Securities with Sunrise
- @alvarezmarsal accepted its first client payment in USDC on Solana
- @Backpack launched a 24/7 brokerage for real, non-synthetic U.S. equities
📰 Launches
- @altitude added automated expense management matching receipts to card transactions
- @jito partnered with @privy_io to launch Fullsend for institutional-grade transaction landing
- @ExponentFinance debuted Exponent Strategy Vaults for transparent onchain asset management
- @OndoFinance launched 24/7 tokenized stock trading on Solana, with around-the-clock minting and redemptions
- @_gammafi rolled out a Gamma x @plumenetwork RWA agent for automated yield exposure
- @PhoenixTrade introduced market maker splines for dynamic liquidity curves without order replacement
- $MORPHO, $SLX, and $CASHCAT went live on Solana via @sunrise
- @world_xyz opened prediction-market access directly inside @claudeai via Solana
- @solanamobile kicked off Seeker Summer quests running from July 7 to August 30
- @JupiterExchange introduced "Earn on Recurring", automatically generating yield on idle USDC DCA orders
- @sanctumso launched its Investor Relations Hub, providing real-time tracking for key metrics
- @stardotfun introduced Internet Rounds for equity-backed community fundraising
- @surfcashx integrated @moonpay to allow multi-chain crypto funding for local payments
- @1clawAI added Solana support with hardware-enforced HSM keys for AI agents
- @usescout_trade launched its retail AI quant analyst in beta with 8 live strategies
- @superteam has launched in Argentina with @SuperteamAR
- @dexteraisol introduced Dexter Wallet, a self-custodial passkey wallet for mobile browsers
- @wormwtf went agent-native with an MCP server featuring 38 trading tools
- @jtx_trade teased JTX as a single surface to trade every Solana market, launching July 14
- @useAtelier deployed a new Atelier MCP giving AI clients full marketplace access
- @leaps_finance launched upfront premium yield options for SOL, BTC, and stables
- @RyderWallet is building an open-source, native C++ SDK for embedded Solana systems
- @Claynosaurz revealed a "Watch & Collect" prototype for real-time digital collectibles overlay
- @solflare introduced Solana Snacks, a bite-sized video and X Space educational series
- @Heistedxyz opened registration for its unhinged heist simulator game
- @SuperteamUK announced SpeedBuild 2026 in London with a $20k prize pool for AI challenges
- Solana Summit APAC in Singapore is happening October 6, 2026
📰 Milestones
- Solana processed 1B+ non-vote transactions in a single week
- Tokenized equities $SPCX, $MU, $SNDK, and $DRAM hit $166M in 7-day volume
- @world_xyz surpassed $5.3M in notional trading volume
- @magicblock Private Sessions scaled from 500 to 115k inside four months
- @crediblefin crossed $458M in payment volume ahead of its curated raise with @MetaDAOProject
- @PlayKintara hit 30K Monthly Active Users in under two months
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How you help yourself to "let go" of this "freedom" illusion that has been successfully sold to you by Hollywood and US-funded media and civil society is to ask yourself a few important questions:
What exactly is "freedom"? Is "freedom" the ability to thumbprint on a ballot paper that will be tippexed at the collation centre with your vote given to APC regardless of who you voted for?
Is "freedom" the ability to make social media skits insulting your president that was imposed on you by a foreign power even though nobody voted for him?
Is "freedom" the ability to rant endlessly on Twitter about your "bad leaders", knowing fully well that you are just wasting English and kilobytes to no end whatsoever?
Joseph Stalin once said “It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.”
I think that's a much more constructive way of viewing "freedom." Poor, deprived, uneducated people are not, and can never be "free" in any meaningful sense. What use are my "constitutional freedoms" if my stomach is empty? If my stomach and my brain are empty, I am automatically a slave to whoever can put bread in my belly and information in my head - and that person automatically has the power to turn me into a weapon fashioned against myself and those around me. In that situation, which describes most of modern Africa, can you describe me as "free"?
"Democracy" and "freedom" are some of oyibo's most dangerous linguistic weapons when used in the context of people living on a per capita income of less than $3,000/year. Where are you likelier to live a full, happy life - Nigeria or China? Nigeria supposedly has the "democracy" that China doesn't - why are Nigerians leaving that "freedom" and migrating to China for a better life, instead of the other way around? Why do North Koreans have a life expectancy that is over 20 years longer than Nigerians? Why do the Vietnamese have much better lives than most Nigerians who have ever existed?
All of the years you have spent thumbprinting ballot papers for candidates that the US embassy will never allow to win, China has been doing 5-year plans and becoming the world's greatest country.
Hear me out, never surrender to anyone’s intellectual “superiority” because they use fancy grammar or complicated jargon to make you feel incapable of understanding anything.
You are capable of understanding anything as long as you allow your brain to do its work, which is THINK. Most of the people who are going to challenge you do not know what they are talking about. They are simply regurgitating what they have read, written by someone else who does not have two heads.
This is the principle I live by, which is why no one on earth can intimidate me intellectually. It doesn't matter who you are. I can critically examine things until they make logical sense, and that skill is enough for me. Everybody has this capability, but some don't realize they have it or choose not to use it.