Don Corleone ♠️

Making waves while you still at the shore. - Omar Sterling

[Don Corleone ♠️ @manlikegaddafi]

May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows

[Kaykay 🇨🇮 @kaydaplug_]

Ton oncle en Europe t’écoutant lui raconter ton projet de venir chez lui pour tes études alors que sa femme a déjà dit non.

[Don Corleone ♠️ @manlikegaddafi]

@DanielD98644564 @haydovez bro it’s crazy😂

[Don Corleone ♠️ @manlikegaddafi]

@ifoklo exactly lol

[tyris ✰ @TYRISPRINT]

sol after kissing gabriel in soul ties

[Don Corleone ♠️ @manlikegaddafi]

need sth like Aniya and KC fr

[. @hitaboutit2]

Injury prone above average PL player moves to less intense league with clown defenders, stays fitter, racks up GA, performs better & is fitter in big games

No discredit to Olise but every ‘top’ PL attacker would look like this in BuLi / Ligue 1

[Don Corleone ♠️ @manlikegaddafi]

Melanie has lost Sincere fr lol

[SL Benfica @SLBenfica]

A Benfica SAD comunicou à CMVM que o Real Madrid CF formalizou a intenção de contratar José Mourinho pelo valor de 15 milhões de euros, tendo o treinador dado o seu acordo.

Obrigado, José Mourinho.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

‘Love Island USA’ Season 8 becomes Peacock’s most-watched TV season debut ever with 824 million minutes watched after three episodes.

This is a 74% increase compared to the first three-day total of Season 7.

[shafman 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @yaron__zango]

you used to have a lot to say about the "arrogance" of the npp.

[ESPN UK @ESPNUK]

England players hitting their trademark celes during their World Cup photoshoot 🥶

[bella 🇵🇹 @ronaldoptgl]

Our starting 3 in the midfield, don’t play games @ Roberto Martinez

[Daniel @xdxnxiel]

Love island is so fun to watch if you got someone to talk about it with.

[Don Corleone ♠️ @manlikegaddafi]

bruh today gonna be messy lol

[tyris ✰ @TYRISPRINT]

melanie walking in on sincere & sol kissing omg this crash out is going to be one for the BOOKS

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

Famous funnyman, Trevor Noah, just shared that old story about how Uber got its fingers burnt in Nigeria.

It showed up & started dishing out fat bonuses to drivers per ride to boost uptake. At some point it started even giving bonuses to riders as well.

Before long, drivers figured out that they could create fake rider accounts, call themselves up, take quick rides, and keep scooping up bonuses.

Some then upped the ante. They installed GPS spoofing apps. Now, they didn't even have to move. You just park, rack up fake rides, grab bonuses till you taya, then go house & bed.

When Uber finally figured out the game, they were so shocked by the sheer scale that they suspended the incentives structure WORLDWIDE.

(Clearly someone at Uber didn't take his economics lessons seriously & probably never took the course on perverse incentives like "moral hazard," "Campbell's Law," "Goodhart's Law," & "Peltzman Effect." 🤦🏽‍♂️)

Now, Trevor is just trying to get us to have a good laugh at the expense of some too-smart-for-their-own-good Silicon Valley tech bros. Just like in some Akan & Caribbean communities, folks laugh at Ananse the spider when he gets tied up in his own schemes of trickery.

But then he used the word "ingenuity" to describe the drivers' actions. Which prompted a recall of my now fading stock of classical Greek learning.

You see, in ancient Greece, they distinguished between SOPHIA and METIS. Sophia was the stuff frequently translated as "wisdom." But we call "philo-sophers" and "philo-sophy" by those terms because "sophia" reflects the deeper use of intellect to solve problems one believes afflict the WHOLE SOCIETY. Metis is primarily about applying one's brain power to serve their own, or their group's, parochial problems or interests.

Simple enough distinction, but I argue that it is an essential device in the plot of every society's transition story.

In the 1000-year old Norse sagas, the Scandinavians begin very much with a cunning Ananse-like character called Loki. He was always the soul of all witty plays. He made the stories tick. Pure ingenuity!

Then he tricked someone to kill the god, Baldr, Lord of Light, truth, & beauty. Loki is finally unveiled as the chief enemy of the universe's progress.

Is it "ingenuity" if in the end it breaks the world?

😊

The Akans does not have a unifying word like Sophia for the use of the intellect to advance collective progress. They have several.

But they do have a pretty compact word for the kind of low cunning used to "mumu" Uber. They called it "aniteɛ" - keeping one's eyes opened. It starts off being about shrewdness,in which form it is generally admired because it prevents others from taking one for a fool.

But soon, ANITEƐ becomes a barrier to sound cooperation in a complex society. A society with too much aniteɛ or metis struggles to get enough people to sacrifice - to "close their eyes" to certain self-interests - in order to advance greater collective smartness.

It is hard to quibble with the truism that in low-trust situations, defensive cleverness is essential. But how then would one ever start to build trust?

At any rate, too much individual cleverness can manifest in common solutions becoming dumber. Like why there are no pedestrian walkways in Accra Airport City because every real estate developer maximises the gain from every square meter of land.

To repeat: too much personal ingenuity can sometimes lead to less social intelligence.

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Portugal remains the only team at the World Cup to have sold out all of their group-stage match tickets. 🇵🇹

[Don Corleone ♠️ @manlikegaddafi]

this won’t work lol

[CHIEF @tailorMARIQUE]

On of the biggest interventions that can happen is for governments to not permit anymore ‘luxury’ residential complexes in this city.

In Barcelona they have banned residential style building that operated as Airbnb or short term stay and in 2027, the over 10k properties that were doing this will have to rent them out.

They did this cos they were facing rent crisis and expensive rent cos of this short term stay practice.

All the luxury apartments buildings you see in Accra, people buy apartments and use them for airbnb. A lot of them are still not bought or occupied. Meanwhile there are people looking for regular places to stay

Again this country is all about the money, the quality of life of citizens is not a priority.

[1984 @akinjide_]

The president is either complicit by giving his tacit approval or he’s incompetent for not knowing what is happening in his administration. My vote is on the former. He’s not naive. If he chooses not to dismiss ineffective ministers, the reset was nothing but a campaign slogan.

[Nike @Nike]

Looks like The GOATs’ Goodbye is going back to the drawing board…

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