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[lud @EtimRaphael]

Cape Verde football team is special ❤️

[Thariq @trq212]

I’ve found the most important part of working with Fable is discovering my own unknowns so I can prompt it better, heres how I do that.

[Phil Chen @philhchen]

https://t.co/oMoEAYkqGl

[lud @EtimRaphael]

Timi Dakolo’s Brotherly hits all the right chords. As a man, the lyrics are too real. The melody is soothing and the words resonates deeply.

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

If you’re due a life changing win, retweet this.

[lud @EtimRaphael]

He who pays the piper dictates the tune.

[Osasu Obayiuwana @osasuo]

“You came here to interview me. Is it free? Am I not going to pay, for the live interview? It’s not free, so what am I benefitting? I pay.” - @GovWike to @channelstv. Hmmmm… 🚶🏽‍➡️🚶🏽‍➡️🚶🏽‍➡️

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

You think I'm happy living abroad?

I have a family I grew up with, whom I love with all of my heart - and the reality keeps dawning on me, on how many times I will see them before I one day turn 60.

People I saw daily, or once a month - I haven't seen in years, and would realistically only see once a year, going forward.

You think I'm happy?

That one day, I might end up having children and my siblings might not have the relationship with them - the relationship I had with my uncles, in my formative years? I remember clearly how they would take us to MrBiggs every Sunday - I am currently reliving the flavour from that meatpie.

How we would go to the family house in Ikeja, every year for Eid. The grandchildren uniforms, the snacks while watching your uncles slaughter rams.

You think I'm happy that I might one day lead a family of children who might not know their version of that?

WTF will I be doing in another man's land, if I did everything they asked me to do from childhood (face your studies, be exceptional, stay away from crime, be hardworking) and opportunities lined up for me to be the best I could, in my motherland? WTF will I be doing here?

Why will I condescend myself to living in a clime where I have to mentally switch from sun burning weather to teeth clenching winter - when I came from a land where I never needed gloves? You think I'm happy?

If I could do honest work, be on my way home and not have to bother about the risk of getting shot by the people meant to protect me, because I have some lines of tattoos on my body - you think I would leave?

If I could trust a justice system to defend me, ensure my rights even though I am a nobody - have trustworthy institutions banking on the highest standards, not have to worry about the bread I eat, the fake drinks from the club or streets, the fake drugs - you think I would leave?

Don't get me wrong. I am grateful for the opportunities this clime has given me, to test my limits - to be everything I thought I could be. But all of these, in replacement for the soul I grew up with?

You know the satisfaction that settled within me when I could wake up on a Saturday morning, stroll to the Iya wanke's place - relish an entire plate, or some ewa agonyin while watching children battle it out, in a 5 v 5 across the streets.

That communal living that relished my soul, is now replaced with silent streets and finely divided sealed terraces.

You walk through the city centres in the evenings - you see friends having an aperitif (they do so every evening), you see grandfathers meeting up with their children, you see entire families with extended families living across the streets, first cousins are even able to use the same gym and you remember what that looked like for you back home?

You think of all your friends scattered across continents, some you might never get to hug again.

For a lot of diasporans, you don't want Nigeria to work more than us. A lot of us want to come home, but what is home? Where is home? When will home feel like home?

I hope to continue living life without lack, in comfort, with accomplished dreams - but I want to do so, with soul. When I die one day, I want to do so - with soul.

[Valyu @ValyuOfficial]

Introducing Valyu DeepResearch.

The most accurate AI-native research API on the market - ahead of Perplexity, Parallel, Claude, Tavily, and Exa.

[lud @EtimRaphael]

Feels more like checkers than chess

[lobistars🇳🇬 @john322226]

I Actually underrated portable but tbh, he’s fully aware of how “Showbiz” works.

After he lost to caterefe, a flow on his brand will be affected but this bro suddenly brought a card of his wife just giving birth, and just did interview with Egungun of Lagos

This is chess play!

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Fellow Nigerians, good morning.

I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you.

Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances.

We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal.

More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism.

We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power.

Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise.

Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them.

However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.

Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated.

And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions.

There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline?

Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from.

Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all.

A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[lud @EtimRaphael]

@ngnstx @OO_Funds I think they would deduct directly from source

[lud @EtimRaphael]

@mrbayoa1 Arsenal wey no get Arsenal 🌝😂🐒

[lud @EtimRaphael]

Bayern and PSG are giving us a festival of goals. Epic stuff. This is football ❤️

[lud @EtimRaphael]

Paying for GitHub Copilot Pro and now getting tighter usage limits, no Opus models? Loyal customers shouldn't be the ones absorbing the cost of scaling problems. This is exactly how you lose developer trust.
https://t.co/d6soxnWPry

[Sean Nelson @Sean_ADFIntl]

This might be the most important 15 minutes you watch this year.

Heartbreaking testimony of Christian widows in the Middle Belt of Nigeria 🇳🇬

They faced unspeakable violence as their families were murdered by Fulani jihadists.

This is Lisa’s story.

Great doc from @Channel4

[PATRIOTIC SOJA ($TSIR-MUNCHAN) @Pressman2040]

🇳🇬💔As a Nigerian soldier on the front line, I’m tired of this nonsense.

Bandit Gede Sabiu is flexing brand new military uniforms and carrying 10 magazines of AK-47 (300 rounds) ammunition that we soldiers don’t even get access to for one proper operation.

While we fight with limited rounds, these t£rror!sts are being fully kitted and supplied like reserve forces.

This is clear internal sabotage and collaboration.

The military must trace every supplier, every store, and every person involved in leaking uniforms and ammunition to bandits.

We are bleeding daily with shortages, yet enemies are well-dressed and well-armed.

Enough of the betrayal from within!

Investigate now and punish those feeding the terrorists.

🪖 From the battlefield we see everything and we see the truth.

#StopArmingBandits #EndInternalSabotage

[lud @EtimRaphael]

• One that excels at structured reasoning and deep logic
Both are impressive, but optimized differently.

Curious if other developers building with AI agents are seeing the same pattern.

[lud @EtimRaphael]

Interesting observation from using AI agents daily.

Google’s Pro agent consistently produces better UI and design outputs. Layouts, spacing, component structure. It often understands visual intent almost immediately.
But when the problem becomes deeply logical,

[lud @EtimRaphael]

complex architecture, algorithmic reasoning, multi-step constraints, Claude Opus 4.6 tends to outperform. It feels like working with two different kinds of intelligence:
• One that excels at visual pattern recognition and design intuition.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

LLM Knowledge Bases

Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So:

Data ingest:
I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki includes summaries of all the data in raw/, backlinks, and then it categorizes data into concepts, writes articles for them, and links them all. To convert web articles into .md files I like to use the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, and then I also use a hotkey to download all the related images to local so that my LLM can easily reference them.

IDE:
I use Obsidian as the IDE "frontend" where I can view the raw data, the the compiled wiki, and the derived visualizations. Important to note that the LLM writes and maintains all of the data of the wiki, I rarely touch it directly. I've played with a few Obsidian plugins to render and view data in other ways (e.g. Marp for slides).

Q&A:
Where things get interesting is that once your wiki is big enough (e.g. mine on some recent research is ~100 articles and ~400K words), you can ask your LLM agent all kinds of complex questions against the wiki, and it will go off, research the answers, etc. I thought I had to reach for fancy RAG, but the LLM has been pretty good about auto-maintaining index files and brief summaries of all the documents and it reads all the important related data fairly easily at this ~small scale.

Output:
Instead of getting answers in text/terminal, I like to have it render markdown files for me, or slide shows (Marp format), or matplotlib images, all of which I then view again in Obsidian. You can imagine many other visual output formats depending on the query. Often, I end up "filing" the outputs back into the wiki to enhance it for further queries. So my own explorations and queries always "add up" in the knowledge base.

Linting:
I've run some LLM "health checks" over the wiki to e.g. find inconsistent data, impute missing data (with web searchers), find interesting connections for new article candidates, etc., to incrementally clean up the wiki and enhance its overall data integrity. The LLMs are quite good at suggesting further questions to ask and look into.

Extra tools:
I find myself developing additional tools to process the data, e.g. I vibe coded a small and naive search engine over the wiki, which I both use directly (in a web ui), but more often I want to hand it off to an LLM via CLI as a tool for larger queries.

Further explorations:
As the repo grows, the natural desire is to also think about synthetic data generation + finetuning to have your LLM "know" the data in its weights instead of just context windows.

TLDR: raw data from a given number of sources is collected, then compiled by an LLM into a .md wiki, then operated on by various CLIs by the LLM to do Q&A and to incrementally enhance the wiki, and all of it viewable in Obsidian. You rarely ever write or edit the wiki manually, it's the domain of the LLM. I think there is room here for an incredible new product instead of a hacky collection of scripts.