Kilem Li Gwet

Quantitative Management Consultant, Data Strategist, and Mathematical Statistician. Resides in Maryland, USA.

[Kilem Li Gwet @KGwet]

@linmeitalks Why did Britain get into the transatlantic trade of black African slaves to begin with? Was it to free them in the end? Whatever your yellow eyes and brain see is anybody guess.

[Kilem Li Gwet @KGwet]

@Farida_N Farida,
Your article is informative and thought-provoking. However, the timing of its publication is somewhat questionable, as it may unintentionally create the impression that you are minimizing the seriousness of the situation currently unfolding.

[Rama Yade @ramayade]

L’avenir du Sénégal entre les mains de Diomaye et de Sonko. Mon analyse.

[Scott Ritter @RealScottRitter]

Your President has committed Russia to a path of multi-polarity founded on the premise of a law-based global order.

This gives Russia a credibility that is unmatched.

Trump does not set the standard.

Putin does.

Russia just needs to stop believing that at this juncture in history America can be trusted.

We can’t.

And until which time the disease of Russophobia is cured in America, Russia has no business acting as if America is capable of changing its ways.

Russia must defend itself and its interests.

But don’t sacrifice the hard won credibility you have accrued by behaving properly in the eyes of international law.

Otherwise you just become a lesser clone of America.

[Célestin Monga @CelestinMonga]

A shockingly high level of witchcraft performed in public: Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown (from ⁦@SVG__Collection⁩).

[Célestin Monga @CelestinMonga]

…meanwhile ⁦@flyethiopian⁩ proudly conquers the sky over New York (from @benjimk). Why can’t we learn from African failures and successes, instead of constantly mimicking our demons? What does Ethiopian Airlines know that other African airlines happily ignore?

[Amine Idriss @amibiaka]

…ET annonce l’arrivée de son 30e Dreamliner! La vérité est que le modèle Ethiopian Airlines expose l’échec de beaucoup de nos gouvernements. Il ne s'agit pas de déclarations interminables ni de blâmer le reste du monde. Il s'agit d'une concentration silencieuse et rigoureuse sur 30 - 50 ans. Le résultat ce sont 167 avions dont 30 Dreamliners, une intégration verticale de classe mondiale (MRO, formation, fret). Ethiopian prouve simplement que l'Afrique peut atteindre l'excellence mondiale et qu’elle a juste besoin de vision, de focus et de discipline…. et pas de bruit comme on le voit partout…
#EthiopianAirlines #AfricaBusiness #FocusOrFail

[Kilem Li Gwet @KGwet]

@goddek After you finish glorifying the German culture and way of life, don't forget to also mention nazism, the holocaust and countless of genocides. Those, too, are an integral part of the German culture and way of life.

[Rebecca Enonchong @africatechie]

Le Grand Débat : Les Candidats Prennent la Parole / The Big Debate: Cameroon’s Candidates Speak https://t.co/QaCsTcmm5J

[Living Tricks @LivingTricks_]

Loosen Your Waist & Hips: 5 Easy Bedtime Leg Moves...

[Kilem Li Gwet @KGwet]

@MLP_officiel La question ne faisait pas référence au programme du RN, mais plutôt au discours de Marine Le Pen.

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

Global Wealth and Power are Pivoting to the East

History’s wheel is turning. China builds, India rises, BRICS surpasses the G7—while America punishes allies and empowers its Enemies.

In the West, the year 1492 is remembered for two episodes: Columbus’s arrival in the Americas and the fall of Granada, last stronghold of Moorish Spain. But its larger consequence was geopolitical: the compass needle swung westward, ushering in a centuries long reversal in global fortunes.

Wealth that once streamed toward Asia turned into rivers feeding Europe’s ascent.

Silver, gold, sugar, and spices from the Americas acted like jet fuel. They powered science, industry, and empire. Spain, France, Britain, and the Netherlands—naval and commercial predators—rose on the tide, hollowing out the Ottoman world and diverting trade from India and China to the New World.

Today another hinge of history is swinging. Washington’s unspoken fear of a 21st century turn is no less dramatic: economic gravity shifts eastward, led by China and—critically—India.

Beijing’s gamble in the 1990s—to let capitalism breathe, to draw in foreign capital, and to pour trillions into domestic infrastructure—proved as consequential as a century of US industrial growth.

The Belt and Road Initiative, worth more than $1 trillion, is less an infrastructure plan than a circulatory system of steel and concrete veins, designed to redirect the lifeblood of trade back across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

In contrast, Washington failed to invest in fast sealift or high speed rail, leaning too heavily on military power.

For the last 25 years, America exhausted itself in deserts and mountains, fighting costly wars that drained trillions, cost thousands of U.S. lives—yet delivered little of enduring strategic value.

Worse still, the technology of war is no longer America’s private domain. Precision strikes, robotics, artificial intelligence, persistent surveillance from seabed to space—once rare advantages—are now widely available, even to mid range powers.

The oceans that once carried American commerce and projected US power have become potential minefields. To move lumbering, World War II style forces across the Pacific, Atlantic, or Indian Oceans today is not just dangerous. It borders on suicidal behavior.

History’s cruel truth remains: the last major war seldom looks like the next.

The battle-space of the future is uncharted, yet America’s Armed Forces and its National Military Strategy remain deeply mired in the past.

The erosion of U.S. military advantage cannot be viewed in isolation; it reflects the widening gap between Washington’s appetite for global hegemony and America’s declining economic strength.

Partly because of Washington’s exhaustion, India has been forced to pick up the slack as a net security provider in the Indian Ocean.

At the same time, India has borne the brunt of fighting Pakistan backed insurgents, incurring heavy casualties just as America did.

India is a member of the Quad alliance with the US, Japan, and Australia, and the United States conducts more military exercises with India than with any other country.

Yet Washington recently imposed duties of 50% on Indian goods—more than double the 15% rate applied to Taliban run Afghanistan and far higher than the 19% levied on Pakistan.

This, even though both regimes sheltered and enabled militant networks that killed American soldiers for twenty years. The paradox is beyond belief: the firefighter is fined more heavily than the arsonist.

At the same time, India carries an outstanding $35 billion order book for Boeing passenger jets supporting 150,000 American manufacturing jobs in Charleston, South Carolina, and Everett, Washington. Yet India is penalized at America’s border.

The deeper problem for the United States is structural. Military dominance can no longer disguise economic erosion. According to the IMF, BRICS now outweighs the G7 in global GDP.

Measured by purchasing power parity (PPP), China’s economy is worth $40.7 trillion, India’s $20.5 trillion, while the U.S. stands at just $29 trillion.

China and India together: $61.2 trillion — more than double the U.S. total. This is not a forecast. It is today’s reality.

The turning point came in 2022, when Washington responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with sweeping sanctions.

The effect of weaponizing the Dollar was profound. The dollar looked less like a safe harbor and more like a trapdoor.

From Riyadh to Delhi, from Brasília to Beijing, capitals saw the risk of conducting commerce in a currency that could be switched off at will. De-dollarization, once a theoretical debate, became urgent strategy.

No surprise, then, that nations across Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America line up to join BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

They are dissatisfied with a Western order they view as inequitable and extractive. India straddles both worlds—deepening its bond with Washington through the Quad while cultivating ties with Moscow and Beijing in BRICS and the SCO.

Prime Minister Modi���s presence at the recent SCO summit in Beijing alongside President Xi and President Putin reminded Washington that India’s compass will not lock on one direction.

History’s lesson is clear. Trade routes form habits: habits build markets; and markets endure longer than armies. Empire is not lost in a single battle but in the slow corrosion of those habits.

The Ottomans discovered this too late. Nations that consume more than they produce, that intimidate rather than innovate, ultimately sow the seeds of their own decline.

The dollar’s dominance is already eroding. Trade settlements in yuan, rupees, and other currencies increase by the month. The shift is not only monetary: it is strategic.

But the world should remember what American innovation can achieve. From the heartland came inventions and technologies that transformed global life in the last century—from aviation to semiconductors, from biotechnology to the digital revolution.

These capacities still command respect, and if revitalized, they can once again help anchor U.S. prosperity in a multipolar age.

History’s wheel is turning again. Some nations will rise with it. Others risk being crushed beneath its weight.

If Washington seizes the opportunity to adapt—if it makes its business inside the new global order one of commerce and trade rather than unrelenting military intervention—Americans may yet avoid the fate of the Ottomans. But the course correction cannot come soon enough.

[Célestin Monga @CelestinMonga]

I didn’t like awards until I started getting them…
This year’s Excellence in Teaching award granted to me by @Kennedy_School at a time when Harvard is under attack brings special joy to me. Thank you to all my students and fabulous teaching team—Stephanie, Gustavo, and Isaac.

[RAVI KUMAR SAHU @RAVIKUMARSAHU78]

The Notes app on your iPhone is one of the most powerful tools available.

But 99% of people don’t know its true potential.

Here are 15 amazing features you must know:

[Nelly; @nrqa__]

AI Tools to Finish Hours of Work in Minutes:

1. Presentation @vidwud_ai
https://t.co/vY3I6koOK9

2. Ideas

- YOU
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Deepseek
- Bing Chat

3. Writing

- Rytr
- Jasper
- Copy AI
- Textblaze
- Sudowrite
- Writesonic

4. AI Model

- RenderNet
- Glambase App

5. Meeting

- Tldv
- Krisp
- Otter
- Avoma
- Fireflies

6. Chatbot

- Poe
- Claude
- Gemini
- ChatGPT
- HuggingChat

7. Automation

- ClickUp
- Drift
- Outreach
- Emplifi
- Phrasee

8. UI/UX

- Uizard
- Visily
- Khroma
- Galileo AI
- VisualEyes

9. Image

- Stylar
- Freepik
- Phygital+
- StockIMG
- Bing create

10. Video

- Pictory
- HeyGen
- Nullface
- Decohere
- Synthesia

11. Design

- Looka
- Clipdrop
- Autodraw
- Vance AI
- Designs AI

12. Marketing

- AdCopy
- Predis AI
- Howler AI
- Bardeen AI
- AdCreative

13. Twitter

- Typefully
- Postwise
- Metricool
- Tribescaler
- TweetHunter
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[Nelly; @nrqa__]

How Deepseek helped me write and publish a book with 12 simple prompts;

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The trick to being both happy and well-informed is making sure to expand your knowledge of your inner world as well as the outer world, and learning to get comfortable with the apparent contradictions this illuminates.

It is true that this civilization is rife with tyranny and abuse, and is constantly terrorizing the world with acts of mass military butchery. It is also true that beneath all the violence and wars there is an all-pervading peace which you can learn to experience in every moment. These facts may appear contradictory, but they do not negate each other.

It is true that the world is ruled by murderous tyrants who must be stopped, and ideally brought to justice. It is also true that all beings are ultimately innocent, with even our most destructive actions driven by unconscious impulses within ourselves whose underlying causes stretch back to the dawn of life on this planet. It is also true that from a certain perspective, cause and effect are an illusion, time doesn’t exist, and nothing has ever happened. All of these statements are true with regard to the sense in which they are true, and none of them cancel out the others.

It is true that we live in a mind-controlled dystopia where anything authentic gets marginalized and the masses are psychologically manipulated into thinking, speaking and behaving in ways which benefit the powerful. It is also true that there is a deep wisdom within us all that the propagandists have never touched, and will never be able to.

It is true that there are a great many ugly things happening in our world. It is also true that every single thing in every single moment is crackling with electrifying beauty, and that you can learn to see this for yourself.

It is true that we appear to be headed for planetary disaster in the not-too-distant future on multiple fronts. It is also true that humanity has dormant potentialities sleeping within itself which could awaken at any time and turn this ship around. It is also true that every instant contains heaven and eternity whether we steer clear of armageddon this time or not.

It is true that terrible things happen every day which will break your heart if you are an emotionally conscious person. It is also true that an unshakable happiness can coexist with that heartbreak, and with every other experience in life.

If you dedicate yourself to expanding your awareness both inwardly and outwardly, all of these paradoxical truths will become known to you. And you will learn to simply see the paradoxes as paradoxes, without any need to push or pull on them to square away their apparent contradictions.

I write about terrible things every day, which often leads people to assume I’m some kind of hardened, bitter individual with dark eyes and a callused heart, and I’ve had people tell me that they were very surprised to find something entirely different when they met me in person.

It is true that I spend much of my life staring into the heart of the murder machine and writing about butchered children and powerful psychopaths, but it is also true that I am one of the happiest people I know, and I find life rather blissful. I am frequently hurt and heartbroken by the awful things I see happening in places like Gaza, but the hurt and the heartbreak occurs in the context of something much larger which is always at peace.

I say this not to boast or make myself look special, but to show that it is possible. It is very possible to live a truth-driven life which does not shy away from the harsh realities of the world without being consumed by the darkness. All you have to do is make sure you’re expanding your knowledge in both directions, not just your knowledge of the outer world.

You do this by getting very curious about your own inner processes and your unquestioned assumptions about what this life is and how it’s occurring. If you rigorously interrogate your most basic beliefs about your self, your thoughts, consciousness, the senses, and the outer world, you will find that life isn’t happening in anything remotely like the way you’ve always assumed it is, and you will experience a shift into your way of perceiving things that is much saner and simpler than the egocentric framework we tend to think of as normal.

This might sound daunting, but really it’s no different from expanding your awareness of how the world works and getting rid of the power-serving worldviews that were indoctrinated into you when you were young — which, if you are reading this, you have probably already done to some extent. You’re just taking that same intense investigative energy you’ve applied to learning the truth about the outer world, and applying it to the inner world as well.

Then you’re really seeing life clearly. You’re getting a much more three-dimensional picture of the way this human adventure is actually playing out. And you get to be happy and peaceful while you engage in the work of steering that adventure in a healthy direction.

As an added bonus, you will find that understanding your inner world gives you a much better understanding of what’s going on in the outer world as well. All the destruction and abuse we’re seeing out there have their roots in what happened inside the people whose actions gave rise to it, and if you have some humility you can find things within yourself which could give rise to those same dynamics. The disorder of the outer world is just the inner world made manifest, and deepening our understanding of one can help deepen our understanding of both.

Once we see that we are not truly separate and separable from the world’s problems, we can also see the ways in which we can be part of the solution as well. We have maps toward a healthy world laid out within ourselves.

[KuntaKinte @RwigaraA40318]

@Presidence_RDC But Kinshasa never listens

[Manish Kumar Shah @manishkumar_dev]

I'm shocked by how many people still don’t use AI on their phones.

It can make your life easier and boost overall productivity.

Here are 20 ways to use AI on your phone (all free): 👇

[Manish Kumar Shah @manishkumar_dev]

Gmail has over 1.8 billion active users.

However, only a few know how to use Gmail effectively.

Here are 16 Gmail hacks that will save you hours of manual work: