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[His name @Obie_io]

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[DRUSKI @druski]

I SAID IT BUT I WHISPERED IT 🤫😂

[His name @Obie_io]

@joeejio4 @LwazilLanga @gimbakakanda You don't even see the incredibly sad irony of this statement... 😂

[Myles 🇯🇲🇧🇧 @myles_premium_]

They ain't even boarded the plane yet and the racismo has started? Fairs

[keep6ixsolid @keep6ixsolid]

Drake: Why don’t you say ‘Free Palestine’

DJ Khaled: I’m Jamaican

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

I put on my fraud detection hat whenever I see a 22 year old Tech bro who supposedly dropped out of college to fund an AI startup. In this case, what I found about this Kled guy is incredibly disturbing.

K5 Global is Kled’s lead investor. K5 Global is a firm that frequently invests alongside the Palantir and Thiel network. Another Kled backer, Aglaé Ventures, owned by Bernard Arnault, has a massive AI portfolio that intersects with the same labs that Palantir’s AIP integrates with.

Basically, Kled is the Data Harvester for Palantir. Their job is to mobilize hundreds of thousands of gig workers, mostly from the Global South, to upload personal photos, videos, and documents. They convert raw human life into a machine readable product. Their clients like Palantir act as the Data Refinery. Palantir’s software, specifically Foundry and AIP, is designed to take that data and make it actionable for governments and corporations to put into global surveillance and military use.

We can safely conclude that this Kled guy and other similar AI startups harvesting user data are human meat shields. They are specifically set up and funded to do the dirty work for Silicon Valley tech empires.

Understand that these Large AI labs are currently being sued by artists, writers, and publishers for stealing data through web scraping. To win these court cases, OpenAI and Palantir need to prove they have clean, consented data. Buying a dataset from Kled, where every user signed a 50 page digital consent form in exchange for $20, gives these billion dollar tech companies a free pass.

Also, imagine if Palantir, a company already criticized for government surveillance and US military war campaigns, offered to pay people in developing countries to film their living rooms and daily activities. It would look like a global surveillance network. By using Kled as a middleman, they get the same data but keep their hands clean in the public eye.

Even though we cannot verify his claim of Nigerians defrauding his company, what we can verify is that he is an industry plant. He is set up to allow AI data labs to continue harvesting user data for global surveillance and military use.

[Wale Gates @walegates]

This is why I ve lil respect for certain types of Black Conservatives, they never keep dsame energy. When black Kids were falling behind Sewell blamed Single Parent households & Culture, Now he blames the State for WW kids failing. He abandons his “personal responsibility” ethos

[Shady Doorags @shadydoorags]

Tubi: Acquires a vast library of millennial CN/WB shows and allows people to watch them for free.

Me: "I know you're up to something nefarious, I just can't prove it."

[BETWIZAD.COM @BetwizadTips]

Yet, you paid £50,000 to stay in another man’s land and refuse to return to your father’s land that will take you back free of charge.🤷🏽‍♂️

Your hypocrisy dey smell like gutter 😂🤣

[Fiyin @fiyinsiku]

Do not fall for this. It's bad advice. There's no age limit to anything. If you desire something earnestly, go for it.

[Eyan Buruku Oloko Eshin👹 @RadicalJimmah]

He strikes again.

[His name @Obie_io]

@iwas_official @kezirim_zino Just cause you're writing in grandiose terms does not change the fact that your take is, at best, ignorant and, at worst, obtuse. We have data. We've always had data. Research NBS. Data isn't and has never been the problem. Again, China didn't bruteforce its development with data

[His name @Obie_io]

I remember this exact same feeling. City not a small village but yeah, the same raw emotion. It's a raging mix of anger but also defeat.

[Takeshi Rhaenor Targaryen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬🇬🇧 @kezirim_zino]

I live in a remote village somewhere in England.
I'm not even joking when I say nowhere in Nigeria is more organised or near organised than this little town, no GRA, no city hub, Ikoyi, Banana Island, Asokoro etc is run as efficient as this village.

It’s been over a year since I got here. Light has not gone off once. The only time light threatened to, there was announcement of a storm coming and my landlady told me I would find some candles in the store and I should try use the gas cooker to start a flame if the lights go out, but the lights would come back in 10 minutes if I could wait.
News flash, the storm battered and roared, yet the light did not go out.

On my way here from London, I used the bus, when we left the urban centres, there were telephone booths every few measured distances along the express, everything works, everything is working.

There is no excuse for light, potholes, guy everything dey work!!, everything dey work!!!
All the systems are working, law and order is in order.

These politicians have kids here, they visit them, they see how everything works here and then they leave to create even more suffering, my question is why don't you do the same in your house?
Is it a pact with the devil?

When growing up, atleast when we visited someone and we saw what we liked at their place, we adopted it when we returned home.

This entire comparison is of Big Nigeria vs a Village of 5,000 people, the village even has a list of everyone living in it, that you can find online, the bus stop in this village get screen wey go tell you when the next buses are due!!!!! If the bus will be late, you get a notification on the app, the buses are synced with Google map and Apple maps.

Yet you are a Nigerian living in Nigeria, or ran from Nigeria and you are still defending APC, you should be angry, ready to storm the streets, ready to show them shege, be like Iran, be like Nepal.

My hatred for Nigeria, for how it is run knows no bounds, and I equally hate the docility of Nigerians even more, Nigerians were scared to come out in 2020 cos they didn't want to die, even in 2023 after the election was rigged and their futures stolen.

But can you count how many Nigerians, foreigners have died in Nigeria since Endsars as a direct result of bad governance.

Many of them, the same people scared of dying in a protest but dying anyway from something as avoidable as (think of the flimsiest reason, it has killed scores of Nigerians).

[His name @Obie_io]

@iwas_official @kezirim_zino China had data? Singapore had data? Even Rwanda had data ba?
Access to all this internet and Ai and still spewing utter effing gabbash, should honestly be ashamed of yourself.

[Rachel Jamison @RachelPAV]

In wealthy Gulf countries the majority of security jobs are done by African men. They are usually Ugandan, Kenyan, or Nigerian and often have military experience. They get offers to work security at clubs and businesses in the Gulf.

The vast majority of these jobs are very poorly paid. They often work 7 days a week and live in a room with 6 or 8 other guys. They are very often treated very poorly by employers and racial discrimination is very common.

This is an extremely easy population to recruit from for Russia. Russia has a huge presence in the Gulf already. Imagine how tempting it is for someone being abused and exploited to say we have something better.

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Carmelo Anthony was in TEARS laughing as Kevin Hart CLOWNED OGs trying to fit in with younger people 😭💀🔥

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Since we're gushing about Benin and its amazing roads, let me inform all of you that Patrice Talon is currently in the process of approving the sale of a part of Benin to a consortium of billionaire racist bros led by Peter Thiel, for them to build a private sovereign city with its private own laws and police, which will not be subject to the laws of Benin or the African Union.

It is called Prospera Africa and it is meant to follow the template of the same project funded by the same people in Central America called Prospera Honduras. If you Google what Prospera Honduras uses its sovereignty to do, you'll see the commercial investment into it is primarily for the purpose of "Biotechnology", i.e drug testing and human experimentation that would be extremely illegal anywhere there is an actual government.

These racist billionaire bros are trying to build a sovereign colony in Benin where they can legally experiment on Africans and do whatever other Epstein Island activities that eventually got them into a dispute with the government in Honduras. It's called Prospera Africa. Google it, it's not hard to find.

Take this very seriously. It is not something a little birdie told me - I myself almost ended up working on this project a couple of years ago before I started to understand what it was and who was behind it.

When you're done congratulating Patrice Talon for his smooth roads, please beg him not to give Peter Thiel an Epstein Island in West Africa for Elon Musk's friends to legally use Africans as live experiments.

Thank you.

[Joey Akan @JoeyAkan]

The blinding truth of this saga is, Fela Kuti's legacy is only worn as a costume or regalia to deepen acceptance and provide belonging.

And that manufactured proximity shows up as 'outsized claims of inspiration,' body mimicry presented as tattoos, a penchant for smoking, or even performing in underwear.

Once that value is extracted, the cloak of Afrobeat is removed, and what remains in its stead, is loathing. A deep seated revulsion at the fact that you can only aspire to touching the helm of his greatness.

Wizkid just said he's bigger than Fela. A barefaced lie. Burna Boy distanced himself from the icon, after nearly a decade of LARPing as his non-familial heir.

Heck, Nigerians who saw him alive and witnessed Fela's persecution and torture, voted two of his military oppressors — OBJ and Buhari — into democratic power.

Beyond the animus of FC, and the ricochet of egos, this modern repudiation of our history is the greatest tragedy.

[tyro @DoubleEph]

If as a developing country you failed to develop the critical skill of last mile connectivity that allows your country become legible, you can kick the can down the road but the problem never goes away.

If you didn’t do it with the post office, emails didn’t ‘leapfrog’ the problem. You still needed to do it landlines. If you didn’t do it with that, mobile phones didn’t ’leapfrog’ the problem. You still needed to do it with broadband.

You still need to do with power and grid connectivity. Rooftop solar panels won’t ’leapfrog’ the problem. It will show up elsewhere. Every solar panel installed on a rooftop ‘because it’s cheap from China’ is simply accepting that you’re just not going to make it.

I will never stop saying this.

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

The cut to Adam Tooze's face at the end is unbelievable