K.

Software Engineer ~ 🎙Host of @afrodevpodcast ~ Francophone

[K. @ksscrr]

In this episode of @AfroDevPodcast I talk to @rasheedayehuza, a Senior Software Engineer at Wayfair in Berlin.

Fun fact: Rasheeda introduced me to @vuejs about 4 years ago and it's still my favorite frontend framework.

https://t.co/4MnJydtTB9

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Publishing this sentence during a genocide is journalistic malpractice @Reuters.

[Alex Turnbull @iamAlexTurnbull]

My best early hire at Groove left after 18 months for $50k more a year. I pitched him equity upside. He said he appreciated it, but he had a mortgage to pay. That equity would be worth zero today. He was right.

[Erwin @Erwin_AI]

Remember the days when you had to BUY an SSL cert?

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Internal CIA book review of Kwame Nkrumah's "Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism" upon its publication in 1965

It was prepared for the agency's deputy director Richard Helms

Nkrumah's book was sent to CIA's directorate of intelligence, as well its covert action and counterintelligence staff, and the Africa division of its directorate of plans "for study and whatever action these components consider adviseable."

What Nkrumah described so accurately in 1965 is still the case. And the empire is still just as terrified of the truth getting out

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

The most popular set of views these days is 1) I don’t trust the legacy media 2) I completely trust and will build a new personal philosophy around any vertical video I see.

[Jasmine El-Gamal @jasmineelgamal]

The fact that Merz believed for a second that the U.S. and Israel could “solve this problem within days”—and publicly support the initial attacks (in the midst of negotiations, mind you)—says just as much about his own judgement as it does about Trump’s.

[Gérard Araud @GerardAraud]

Didn’t you kill his predecessor? A bit weird to hear you complaining of the consequences of your own act…

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Starting to look positively insane that every European leader apart from Sanchez supported this war. The costs for Europe will be very, very heavy. A month from now Merz, Macron, von der Leyen, Meloni won’t have time for anything else but explaining themselves

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

There’s literally not a single sane person on the planet who welcomes that.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Israel didn't just kill Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil; they hunted her down and dropped grenades on the medics who tried to save her.

In other news, Europe - in its infinite moral void - voted against imposing even minor consequences on Israel for its countless war crimes.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

Is anyone even gonna ask the obvious question: why?

Why has it become normal for America to go attacking and destroying and seizing other countries and taking their assets, without any justification? It goes beyond question that Cuba poses no threat to anyone. Why then, is military force on the table?

Where is the legality, the justification, the morality…

They are all absent, and this is just another naked power grab, of the alleged most powerful nation on the planet, trying to crush one of the smallest and weakest powers in this hemisphere.

It is disgraceful and disgusting.

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

Interesting thread. But I take exception to the idea that Jake is book-smart. He’s book-smart like airport bestseller authors are intellectuals.

He’s a blob operator and DC weathervane, who has no grasp of geopolitics. @stephenWalt described him and Blinken as Biden’s ‘mechanics.’

Their intransigence in Ukraine destroyed that country. Then they failed to crush Russia. All they achieved was to force the Sino-Russian marriage.

Their support for the Israeli genocide further harmed the US world position, resulting in the loss of at least Indonesia and Malaysia.

They refused to go back to the JCPOA, demanding further concessions instead, and played their part in the road to the present catastrophe.

But nothing quite comes close to the ‘small yard, high fence’ “strategy” that failed on its own terms to arrest the growth of Chinese technical capabilities and power, and resulted in the articulation of the rare earths weapon that would be used to humiliate Trump.

History will not judge the Biden mechanics kindly. And now he’s back selling his snake oil about a tech high ground la la land. With this level of executive incompetence, we stand no chance at all.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Israel just blew up a school in southern Lebanon.

A year ago, it would have fabricated lies that the school was a secret hideout of Hamas or that there were tunnels below it filled with weapons.

Since the West protected Israel as it destroyed Gaza, Israel doesn't even feel the need to make up lies or excuses any longer. It just kills and destroys without limitation.

And according to Israeli politicians, yesterday it was Gaza, today it's Lebanon and Iran, and tomorrow it will be Turkey.

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

This is British values - Robert Fisk is a real reporter and he’s spot on here …..

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The South Korean president challenges Israel's foreign minister directly and openly on Twitter. Few European leaders have dared to do this, despite their constant preaching about International Law...

[Meriem Laribi مريم لعريبي @Meriem_Laribi]

Je n'en crois pas mes yeux et mes oreilles qu'il cite une des phrases les plus obscènes et les plus ignobles de l'histoire.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Not clear to me if NATO SG Rutte is petrified that Trump will pull the US out of NATO, or if he is just a very sad and weak person. Perhaps both.

[Keith Burge @carryonkeith]

Has anyone pointed out that the current NATO Secretary General might not be fit for office?

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

They sabotaged Iran’s economy into collapse, infiltrated and armed protesters to riot and create mass casualties. Then inflated those numbers 10x to start an illegal war of destruction.

These aren’t conspiracy theories. These are confirmed facts and statements by officials.