Fola Oluwafemi

The more you dig into me the more you'll find curiosity.

Making it easier to experience life with the people that matter @HarpeninHq

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@bbbyqman @DavidHundeyin Mastodon?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Following @Spearhead_Af's nonsensical and unjustified TikTok account ban yesterday, our new TikTok account has also been banned for a "circumvention violation" which means that following a human review, TikTok has decided it doesn't ever want us on its platform again.

We've just been African Stream-ed.

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@thesupermannx @grok isn't this a lie?

[Nathalie Yamb @Nath_Yamb]

Le 9 octobre 2026, l’Union européenne a renouvelé ses sanctions à mon encontre. En cause: ma lutte pour la souveraineté africaine et l’éveil des consciences à travers des analyses géopolitiques, des conférences, des articles et des vidéos... Mon influence, disent-ils.

Ces sanctions sont prise sous le régime des ”activités déstabilisatrices de la Russie.” Qu’est-ce que cela a à voir avec la Russie, mystère et boule de gomme!

Je suis Suissesse et Africaine, je ne vivais pas dans un État-membre de l’UE, je n’ai jamais eu aucun avoir dans l’UE, le gouvernement suisse n’a pas repris les sanctions de l’UE à mon endroit, et pourtant, voici un aperçu de ce que je subis depuis le 26 juin 2025, date des sanctions initiales.

•Comptes bancaires gelés en Suisse.
•Comptes bancaires fermés en Suisse.
•Avoirs volés par Bank Cler en Suisse.
•Toutes les cartes de crédit désactivées.
•Compte Paypal fermé et argent volé. •Compte Binance fermé, argent séquestré.
•Compte Kraken fermé, argent séquestré.
•Comptes bancaires fermés en Afrique.
•Compte Airbnb fermé.
•Compte Amazon fermé.
•Compte Netflix fermé.
•Compte Stripe fermé.
•Compte Ebay fermé.
•Compte Wise fermé.
•Compte Booking fermé.
•Compte Spotify fermé.

•Tout ce qui se paie par carte de crédit, terminé.

•Cagnotte GoFundMe, fermée.

•Monétisation Facebook, YouTube, X, supprimée.

•Interdiction de survol du territoire de l’UE: les sanctions m’ont trouvée à l’étranger, je n’ai plus jamais pu regagner mon domicile en Suisse, qui est enclavée dans l’UE. Mon premier petit-enfant est né cette année, je n’ai toujours pas pu le voir. Ma mère a fêté ses 80 ans, je n’ai pas pu être avec elle. Elle va être opérée l’an prochain, je ne serai pas là pour l’assister.

•Interdiction d’entrer et de transit dans le territoire de l’UE (on s’en fout, sauf pour ce qui concerne les territoires ultra marins).

•Interdiction de fournir/recevoir des services de citoyens membres de l’UE: vous n’avez pas le droit de m’offrir une glace, de me vendre un livre ou de me donner un pain au chocolat.

•Expedia m’a laissée acheter des billets d’avion pour des trajets en dehors de l’UE, puis a refusé de les émettre et n’a jamais remboursé l’argent.

•Impossibilité de payer mon loyer (les banques suisses, bien que ne faisant pas partie de l’UE, refusent d’accepter ou d’exécuter des paiements pour des factures à mon nom, même si elles sont réglées par des tiers).

•Impossibilité de payer mon assurance maladie.

•Impossibilité de continuer un traitement médical.

•Impossibilité de payer mes avocats.

La liste n’est pas exhaustive.

Les ”nouveaux motifs” pour le renouvellement de mes sanctions sont:

•Le discours que j’ai prononcé au Sommet Russie-Afrique en 2019;

•Une vidéo sur l’opération Wuambushu à Mayotte datant de 2023;

•Ma nomination comme conseillère spéciale du président de la République du Niger, et le passeport diplomatique que j’ai reçu à cette occasion;

•Un tweet de 2025 dans lequel je critique l’Ukraine, ce pays voyou qui arme et entraîne les terroristes au Sahel, et torture ses propres citoyens comme on l’a vu récemment.

Et vous savez quoi?

Les sanctions sont administratives. Quand vous décidez d’exercer un recours devant le Tribubal de l’UE contre ces sanctions extrajudiciaires, cela prend plus d’un an avant d’aboutir à une audience.

Et quand, 2 à 3 mois après l’audience, le délibéré sort, même si le verdict est en votre faveur, cela n’a aucun impact, puisque l’UE a entre temps renouvelé vos sanctions dans un acte distinct, que vous devrez de nouveau attaquer…

Un châtiment à la Sisyphe.

Vive la démocratie et les valeurs européennes!

Ce que vous avez commencé, on va terminer.

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@stackedlol https://t.co/IrVNcc3Aob

tell me this isn't good design

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@Cartidise @mediastorm_en it's easier to touch on a button or a location, than to move your hand all the way to the trackpad, move the mouse/cursor all the way to that button and then tap on it.

that's the core idea, and I promise you, you notice after a while.

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@mediastorm_en it's easier to touch on a button or a location, than to move your hand all the way to the trackpad, move the mouse/cursor all the way to that button and then tap on it.

that's the core idea, and I promise you, you notice after a while.

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

to keep it simple...it's easier to touch on a button or a location, than to move your hand all the way to the trackpad, move the mouse/cursor all the way to that button and then tap on it.

that's the core idea, and I promise you, you notice after a while.

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

Dude, I hate everyone saying that this thing isn't useful...

it's a skill issue, coming from a windows laptop that supported touch, it's really just the little things
...once you get used to it, it's quite difficult to come back.

[Tim Pan @mediastorm_en]

MacBook Pro Review: A Lot of Touches Later…

[Keller Cliffton @Keller]

Today, Zipline raised $1.5b at a $21.5b valuation.

When we started Zipline, flying autonomously in the US was illegal. Which made it really hard to convince investors to give us money! But we were too naive to think that meant we shouldn’t try.

We started the company on a cow farm. We worked out of run-down construction trailers so that we could keep engineering, manufacturing, and flight test all unified and in one place. Hiring people from normal companies like Google was hard because we didn’t have a cafe or laundry service. But enough risk takers and rebels wanted to go on an insane adventure with us. They became the early team.

We decided to launch in smaller countries and focus on life-saving use cases. We hired incredible entrepreneurs and operators in Rwanda, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, and other countries. For eight years, Zipline expanded our service across Africa, serving thousands of hospitals and health facilities and reducing maternal mortality by 51%. Today, the network saves over 14k lives every year and is cash flow positive.

Last year, Zipline launched at scale in the US and the service exploded. We grew flight volumes about 100x over the last 18 months, and now make more than a million deliveries a year per metro. We’re now expanding with our partners to millions of deliveries per day. Normal families love having access to anything they need in 10-20 minutes, no matter where they live. Spend more time with loved ones and less time worrying about errands.

Zipline builds drone delivery that is silent and safe. No one wants to hear an extremely loud “swarm of bees” delivering to their backyard or their neighbor’s. Automated delivery needs to be insanely quiet, which guided the overall architecture of our technology delivering from 330 ft in the air. We are 6 times quieter than the closest competitor during delivery. Zipline also now has over 150m commercial autonomous miles (10x the rest of the industry combined) and no safety incidents. Neighborhoods should demand silent and safe delivery!

Today, Zipline is announcing two things. First, we just signed the largest autonomous vehicle contract in human history to expand automated delivery nationally with Walmart, our first and biggest partner in the US. We’re starting by scaling to 300 supercenters throughout the country. Second, we’ve raised $1.5b at a $21.5b valuation from existing and new investors, led by Paradigm, WCM, and Layer.

Zipline was a hard company to believe in for the first ten years of our history. Investors didn’t think the company was “investable”. Most people didn’t even think Zipline was an economic venture. Thanks to those who have rooted for us along the way. To all of the tens of millions of customers and families who rely on Zipline day in and day out: thank you for helping us build the future. Zipline has grown more than @ryanzip, @keenanwyrobek, I, and all others at the company could have imagined.

There is a big opportunity to build a new layer of infrastructure for humanity over the coming years. We want to approximate teleportation. We can build a logistics network that connects and serves all people on earth. We can free human flourishing from the choking constraint of traffic and roads. There are no roads where we’re going. 🚀🌎

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@AdamHoltererer where is deepseek v4.1 flash?

[West Africa Weekly @WestAfricaWeek]

Nigeria's House Bill 2659 could jail you for two years for selling herbal tea or cooking traditional food without a license, while Section 32 lets a new council collect foreign grants with no federal oversight. Local food culture criminalized, foreign money unchecked, and an existing Dietitians Council already doing the job. This is not public health. It is a fight over who controls your plate.

[Maze @mazeincoding]

introducing /untangle-codebase

say goodbye to messy code:

- leaky abstractions
- copy paste
- temporary workarounds
- useless wrappers

and more.

[Axiom @axiommathai]

Most think vibecoding at scale is slop. Here’s a counterexample.

Today we release a 16M-line formalization of the entire Stacks Project, critical infra underlying modern math, with optimized code quality and its highly interconnected structure preserved.

A mathematical city 🌆

[Shane @shinyobjectz_]

Im tired of infinite canvas startups.

Im tired of generative video snake oil providers.

Im tired of hype for hyperframes, as html and playwright is a dumb long term solution for video rendering.

So I decided to build Raea. Open source. Free for everyone.

Faster and more capable than hyperframes or remotion. (10-20x faster with real footage and complex scenes).

And it renders without a browser….

Capable of more than just video. It’s built on @BevyEngine so it’s highly capable at producing 3D art, shaders and games.

It’s also built on Blitz Dom @dioxuslabs , and a bridge between the page and the 3d world behind it allows you and your agent to write everything in typescript and react… without a browser.

This video below was made entirely with Claude, Raea, and a weekend. I never had more fun playing and toying with creative work than I did making this.

But to be honest, that’s not where I’m stopping. I want Raea to be an engine that correctly empowers creatives and agents, while not cognitively offloading the parts that make your work unique.

I’m excited to continue working on this project as long as I can, and always open to feedback!

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@jjint2019 @warDaniel47 @grok pls tell them how inaccurate this is

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@steveruizok @grok can you give me an example of an implicit state machine and what an explicit variant looks like

[Sherifdeen of Nigeria 🇳🇬 @AbuUbayy1]

Two interesting things I discovered this week are:

1. That you can get genuine court affidavits online from the Nigerian Federal High Court. A genuine one, not the ones those roadside people give you.
The website has all sorts of affidavits, even ones I didn't know existed.

2. The National Population Commission has a working portal. You can register your newborn online and get a certified birth certificate that is accepted worldwide.

You can do all these things without any bureaucracy.

For 1, visit: https://t.co/mMEjgphabJ

For 2, visit: https://t.co/vEssNLkZ5l

Joseph Adedeji

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@Xeunbadejo Jesus! 🔥

[Fola Oluwafemi @folabuilds]

@sab8a @grok I get that the first one is stripe card number

but what about the others? what are they?