Kenyascape

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[Kenyascape @kenyascape]

AI is just about to go bust. Uncle Sam will bail them out.

[Lorenzo Elijah, PhD @LorenzoElijah]

I once had a student at Oxford who could beautifully explain everything about the assigned readings. She almost failed the course.

When reading her essays I’d think, wow she clearly understands what this debate is really about. And then the essay would just… end.

She spent 90% of it telling me what other people think. And then she wrote a few sentences at the end saying she preferred one view over the other.

This was a problem because the rules at Oxford are very clear: you have to choose a position upfront, and defend it with your own arguments. So unless we fixed this, she wouldn’t pass.

We worked on it week after week until I realised, she’s scared. She was hiding behind the ideas of others because she was afraid to put her own ideas out there where they could be criticised.

So I changed my approach: gentler comments, more Socratic questions and so on. Eventually we built up her confidence to the point where she passed.

It’s not enough to perfectly recall the ideas of others. You also need the courage to put yourself on the page.

[Mads @europemaxxed]

Humiliation ritual

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Interestingly, one of the worst things about the Nigerian character - bloviating, buffoonish overconfidence - is also a superpower that sets Nigerians apart when it is intentionally harnessed and channelled correctly.

Whenever Nigerians (born and raised in Nigeria) learn how to combine their social confidence with actual intellectual substance and a good amount of self awareness, the world will have a serious problem on its hands.

I believe in my people🙏🏿

[Bambulu @Bqmbulu]

"If you're so smart, why do you find it hard to take your own advice"

Dostoevsky: "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently"

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Multipolarity doesn't mean Western people will become poor.

It means they will become normal.

It means a Congolese engineer and a German engineer will negotiate on terms that reflect their actual value rather than the legacy of who colonized whom.

It means the dollar will be one currency among several rather than the rent the whole world pays to America for existing.

It means European countries will have to make foreign policy based on actual relationships rather than the assumption that their preferences automatically constitute the international consensus.

Normal.

The horror with which this prospect is greeted, the language of civilizational threat, of decline, of loss, tells you everything about how far from normal the current arrangement actually is.

And who it's normal for.

[Zarathustra @zarathustra5150]

Interesting answer from Julian Assange in this interview.

Peter Thiel reached the same conclusion in his book Zero to One, writing:

“Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.”

[H_R_V @SpacemanAp]

The resume of every single Tinubu cabinet member. The US will convinct this guy, and give him a deal, “if you don’t want to spend the rest of your life in jail, you’ll go to Nigeria & start a political career sponsored by the state department & your job is what we say it is”.

[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

🚨🇸🇳 Shocking new revelations have emerged over the chaos surrounding the Senegal national team:

🔸 Several federation officials spent their stay focused on everything but football, with claims of gala evenings, vintage bottles of alcohol, expensive gifts, lavish spending, and "female company."

🔸 Pape Thiaw signed his contract just five hours before the match against Norway and was even considering not taking his place on the bench at first.

🔸 Some officials allegedly invited friends and content creators to join the delegation, while players looked on in disbelief at what was happening.

🔸 Hotel staff complained about the behaviour of several members of the Senegal delegation.

🔸 Some players were left to fend for themselves, ordered fast food and even left the hotel without supervision.

(Source: @snewsafrica)

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

In Niger 🇳🇪, embezzlement of $350,000 and above in public funds is now punishable by death.

[21st Century @21stCenturyTime]

The 21st Century is 25.50% complete.

[BeatinTheBookie.com®️ @BeatinTheBookie]

Apparently this bet was for regulation only.

The bettor lost.

[Philosway @philosway]

"When a child fears your reaction more than their mistake, what exactly are they learning?"

— Gabor Maté

[Mod @CFCMods]

If we’re talking about trophies it’s Michael Olise but if we’re talking about playmaking, dribbling, passing, chance creation, goals, assists, it’s still Olise

[Ossy Vincent @ossynoya]

You can almost tell how an African team will play at this World Cup by how the country itself functions.

DR Congo, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and South Africa all followed the same script: they competed well, got into winning positions or stayed in the game, then switched into survival mode instead of going for the kill. Eventually, they paid the price.

It’s the same mentality we see off the pitch: settle, manage, survive. never dominate: especially when the adversary is of an European origin.

[lobistars🇳🇬 @john322226]

FIFA president is unhappy! They are going to lose a lot of money and viewers if DR Congo eliminate England 😭😂😂

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Hey @FIFAcom, why would you have your boss sitting next to @howardlutnick who was friends and next-door neighbors with the convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and who lied under oath about never having visited Epstein's child rape island?