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Life is short, talk fast

I dabble in coding, poetry and randomness

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Opportunity by Walter Malone

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

quote this tweet with that poem!
THAT POEM!

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the nigeria we want is possible, we just have to be willing to fight for it

[Ụlọma @ulxma]

I’m so tired of bonding with strangers over how dysfunctional Nigeria is. It is the most guaranteed icebreaker. Your Uber driver, a random person at the store, a friend of a friend, someone seated next to you at an event… Nigeria is so draining to everyone. We are all drained.

[+ @olutola]

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler

[Goodreads @goodreads]

It's Friday! What are you reading this weekend?

[+ @olutola]

"Religion is culture" is true in a limited sense

but it does not explain why I have greater cultural affinity with a muslim or atheist yoruba than with a german christian

if you want to analyze these issues seriously, you need to move beyond simple cliches

[Gbenga Adewoyin🃏 @gbengadewoyin]

Religion is culture. People do not understand that but Confucianism, Islam, Christianity are all cultures. The reason why African forget this is that they inherited a foreign religion, you’d called Orisa religion cultural but why not Christianity?

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

This is so untrue and not backed by a single fact. The people packaging, selling, managing the idiots ruining Nigeria are not illiterate. The people who washed Buhari of all his sins and declared him to be better than an early morning blowjob were professionals: doctors, journalists, writers, lawyers, academics and even scientists.

Religious bigotry is curated and spread by very educated people, some with PhDs. Dangerous ethnic bigotry is spread by journalists, lawyers and academics. When Bayo Onanuga wrote nasty xenophobic things about Igbos during the last elections, declaring that Igbos have no business in Lagos politics was he illiterate? Is someone like FFK, illiterate? Sheikh Gumi (whatever you think of him) is a medical doctor with a PhD.

The opposite is what is true. A small elite minority forces the rest of the country into the hellhole that it is in and uses poverty, religion and ethnicity as bait to draw the illiterate masses into their schemes. Uneducated people are not the problem. They are simply used by the often very educated people who consciously create and benefit from the problem. It is not illiterate people emptying state coffers and sending their children abroad in luxury. It is not illiterate people making sure there is no infrastructure. It is not illiterate people designing mechanisms to rig elections, from INEC to the streets. It is not illiterate people who make corrupt judges uphold stolen elections in court.

It is so funny when the average city dweller in Lagos or Abuja arrogantly thinks they are more politically educated than the guy selling oranges or kolanuts in a small town in Kano or Bauchi. Many of these so called illiterates participate more fully in the democratic process than most people in cities. They know where their ward is, they know who their local councillor is, they know their local chiefs and district heads, a thing many people, even those arguing here do not know. That guy with a transistor radio in Sokoto knows more about local politics than you will ever know.

In terms of political consciousness or even ethics, there is not a single advantage the literate Nigerian has over the illiterate Nigerian. Literate and illiterate Nigerians alike participate in the anyhowness that defines Nigerian society.

[Gege @nigeriasbest]

And this is the mindset of the elite class.....

As long as they are benefiting from misgovernance.......nothing else concerns them.

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@gbengadewoyin "Germans drink beer, Muslims do not"

one is a country, the other a religion, neither is a culture. this show why your analysis is flawed

country, religion or culture are also not static

some muslims drink alcohol, US banned alcohol at some point

[DUNE @dunemovie]

“Forgive me for all I’ve done.” Experience the epic conclusion. Dune: Part Three only in theaters and IMAX December 18. #DuneMovie #FilmedforIMAX

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A physicist put 22 cars on a circular track and asked every driver to hold a steady 30 km/h, about 19 mph. No lights, no lanes, no obstacles. Within a minute the cars started bunching, and soon a full stop appeared out of nowhere, then drifted backward around the loop.

This was Yuki Sugiyama at Nagoya University in 2008. His team spaced the cars evenly on a 230-meter ring and filmed them from overhead. For a while the flow stayed smooth. Then the tiny differences no human can avoid, one driver a hair slower, the next a hair too close, began to feed on themselves.

One car eases off slightly. The driver behind sees the brake lights, reacts a fraction of a second late, and brakes a little harder to be safe. The next driver brakes harder still. A dozen cars back, someone is stopping dead. The squeeze rolls backward through the line like a compression running down a Slinky, and it keeps going long after the first driver has sped up again.

Car count was the tipping point. With fewer than 22 on that track, the bunching sorted itself out. At 22, a jam formed every time. Engineers call that a critical density, the point where a road holds just enough cars that one small tap can snowball into a standstill.

These waves are eerily consistent. Measured on highways around the world, the jam rolls backward against the traffic at roughly 20 km/h, and that speed barely shifts from one country to the next. Different drivers, different roads, same number.

The same setup later became the cure. In 2017, a US team rebuilt Sugiyama's ring with 22 cars and turned just one of them into a self-driving car running a program to smooth its own speed. That single car soaked up the small slowdowns instead of passing them back, and the waves died. Fuel use across every car fell by up to 40 percent. Fewer than 5 percent of the vehicles had to be automated to steady the whole group.

In 2022 the idea moved onto a live highway. Researchers ran 100 cars with cruise control guided by AI into the morning rush on Interstate 24 near Nashville, mixed into normal traffic. Early numbers pointed the same way: a small share of smoother-driving cars, up to 40 percent less fuel for everyone around them.

The jam you sat in this morning likely had no crash and no cause you could see. It was a few hundred drivers, each braking a moment too late.

[Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala @NOIweala]

Enjoy some lovely videos of Nigerian masquerade and dancers at the @wto Open Day.

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

This man walked into a Nigerian restaurant in Texas, met with the owner (Tola), saw multiple whyte people inside eating Semo and Egusi and then ordered goat meat pepper soup and vegetable soup/pounded yam with beef and fish. Sat down and ate everything there on the table😂🥘

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

In Nigeria's Benin City, artisans keep the ancient bronze-casting tradition alive, pouring molten bronze into clay moulds and building statues.

The craft, linked to the looted Benin Bronzes of 1897, is now back in global focus amid repatriation calls https://t.co/mAHRLNRDex

[+ @olutola]

@Mayoveli I think we overstate the role of religion in society

change (or revolution) won't come from the masses, whether they're religious or not. change comes from a determined minority, and the masses follow

religion is mostly a distraction and a tool

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@sugabelly being wealthy in a place like nigeria is the ability to outsource and multiply violence

a rich person can have people arrested, detained, and tortured by the police, the reverse is rarely true

violence isn't just about how many people commit it, but how many people it affects

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@sugabelly @SobaSzar by this logic, only physical violence counts

the rich can order, incite and fund violence, but only those who carry it out are called violent

it is an illusion some nigerians use to convince themselves they're better than the poor

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality.

This is not true. 🧵

[Pope Crave @ClubConcrave]

Pope Leo quotes Gandalf in encyclical debut:

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

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@Mayoveli truly democratic countries (like botswana) outperform the fake ones (like nigeria)

even china is more democratic than nigeria. you are likely to have stability in a democratic (read as representative) govt than a non democratic one

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[+ @olutola]

Great Advice

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Read old books

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@Jaydon225 Happy Birthday