Cuthbert Asingwire

Data scientist, farmer, chef, software engineer, game developer, growth hacker, screenwriter, comic book illustrator and Director, Technology @OcajaTech.

[Sheilah C Gashumba @SheilahGashumba]

There’s no male Ugandan artist as professional, disciplined about his music career and talented like @IamApass ! I happened to book him last week for Guvnor’s Saturday night Fever, he posted and promoted the gig , did a drop for the night without any reminder. Arrived 1 hour before his performance, he came with his music technician and performed with live instrumental sounds so we can hear his voice. Not seen something like that before! Everyone was happy and complimenting his performance! Apass deserves his flowers. BOOK HIM!

[Aurora Martel @AuroraMar1eL]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

Link
https://t.co/H2jhabQDu3

[Manisha Mishra @manishamishra24]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Kevin Orango @kevorango]

@Young_Pharmacie Step 1: Register an LLC in a Tax advantage jurisdiction
Step 2: Become an employee of the LLC on a fixed salary.
Step 3: All winnings, image and commercial rights proceeds to be transferred to the LLC.

Enjoy your winnings. Pay tax on your salary.

[William Makis @MakisMedicine]

BREAKING NEWS: Mayo Clinic is offering me an "Executive Director" position for up to $400k 😃

Oh and they're not the only one. My email inbox is suddenly filling up with Executive job offers from several big Pharmaceutical companies.

So this is what I get for helping 9000+ Cancer patients with Ivermectin & Mebendazole and leading the largest Ivermectin Cancer Project in the world?

After talking about a New Florida Cancer Clinic? 🤔

If they can't sabotage me, they'll just buy me out? 💵

I have to admit, it is mildly amusing.
Ten years ago, I may have jumped at something like this. It's almost tailor made for me.

But at this stage of my life...can't say I felt even a hint of temptation. They really don't know me very well 😃

Sorry, Mayo Clinic.
I'm building a Cancer Center in Florida.
It's going to be a bit different from yours. 😉

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

“When my father passed away, his best friend of over 50 years sent me a picture of them both on a bridge in Zurich. It was from when they were young university graduates, travelling to Europe for the first time together. A year after my father’s passing, his friend’s daughter (who is like a sister to me) and I met in Venice. We decided to take a train to Zurich, buy clothes similar to what they wore in 1974, and try to recreate the same photo on Quaibrucke.”

[Awelo Millers @AweloMillers]

Very excited…..
Added 2 big boys to the fleet….🔥#outgrowers #Feed_the_nation

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Steve Jobs literally predicted the iPhone, the Internet, AI and the next 50 years of technology in a single speech from 1983:

[B’RAKA @itsJoshuaBaraka]

The stars finally aligned✨🇲🇦

[Football 2.0 @CitiBall]

Wenger ball was so cold it just breaks me how it died with Ozil😭😭

[Champions League Out Of Context @uclooc]

Gabriel Martinelli takes advantage of Manuel Neuer's absence in goal😂

Arsenal 3:1 Bayern

#UCL

https://t.co/wRm7ccjEqW

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

She destroyed him..🤯

[E.M.Leki @EmmanueLeki_]

Chatgpt, say no more, 😅.

[Gerald Katabazi. @GKatabazi]

THE COBRA EFFECT

During the British Raj, officials grew concerned about the rising number of venomous cobras in Delhi. To tackle the issue, they introduced a bounty for every dead snake.

At first, the policy seemed successful, many cobras were killed.

But soon, an unintended consequence appeared. Enterprising locals began breeding cobras to claim the reward. Once the government realised this loophole and scrapped the bounty programme, the breeders released their now-worthless snakes.

The result? The cobra population surged to even higher levels than before.

This episode is remembered as the Cobra Effect, a classic example of how well-meaning incentives can backfire, producing the exact opposite of the intended outcome.

The “Cobra Effect” is such a powerful reminder that policies and incentives don’t just create results, they create behaviours.

When you reward outcomes without thinking of human ingenuity, people will always find a shortcut.

That’s why in governance, business, or even personal systems — designing incentives matters more than setting targets. Otherwise, you end up with more cobras, not less @Rosethechosen @Marion25612 @weskambale heading to Kasese/Mubuku Irrigation tomorrow

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[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A brand-new luxury yacht, valued at $1M USD, sank just 15 minutes after its maiden launch.

https://t.co/8pQJGKKxvb

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Chinese car suspension vs BMW and Audi

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Tariffs are taxes paid by American importers, not foreign govts, meaning the money “flowing in” is actually coming from US businesses and consumers, not China, India or anyone else.

It’s like robbing your own citizens and calling it foreign income. For someone who claims to be a business genius, not understanding this basic economic principle either points to a dangerously low IQ or deliberate deception, and neither is reassuring.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We’re bringing back Vine, but in AI form