nEbEd.

Jack of all trades Master of Some. Cloud Architect/DevOps.

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

😭

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

“To start Akara business doesn't take a lot of money. To start roasting corn and kuli-kuli doesn't take much. We didn't give them a loan, we gave them a grant. We have encouraged Nigerians as best as we could.”

- First Lady Remi Tinubu

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

Toronto Condo builders are about to take the piss.

[Ritwik Pavan @ritwikpavan]

Philips introduced Skylight, a ceiling-mounted LED panel that makes windowless rooms feel like they have a sky-facing window.

It uses Signify’s NatureConnect tech to create the depth, brightness, and color shifts of natural daylight.

@Philips also follows the sun throughout the day, moving from cool morning light to warmer evening tones.

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

@slfchkoutbandit I think it just sounds like an ABBA song, like Mama Mia, but it's not exactly the same

[VICTONY @vict0ny]

SLICK 🫟👀

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

@SFAjayi @Alowonle__ Even from the data you've shown, the amount of money being withdrawn pre-retirement has increased significantly since 2022, which still supports his claim, so what's your point?

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

Just realized there's no point buying a Pixel for the software features anymore, when the Google versions of whatever App has the feature includes them even on other Android phones.

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

A straight line from all these racist happenings to the USA electing Trump as president

[Zara Hussain @zarahussain999]

A Nigerian migrant on his way home from work in Belfast is approached by the far right, who question him about being in Northern Ireland.

“Who told you to come to our country? You F……g n……s need to go home!”

“You banana eater.”

When is enough enough?

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

Equal work deserves equal pay.

Three years ago, the EU adopted the Pay Transparency Directive.

Now, EU countries are bringing these new rules into national law:
✔️ Pay transparency for jobseekers
✔️ Right to information for employees
✔️ Gender pay gap reporting
✔️ Joint pay assessments

Because equal pay starts with pay transparency.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Wow, the S&P Dow Jones Indices has just officially announced that they will NOT be changing their inclusion rules to make it easier for “MegaCap” companies (such as @SpaceX) to be fast-tracked into the S&P 500.

Their reasoning:
"S&P DJI determined that exceptions to the financial viability, seasoning, and IWF requirements should not be granted solely based on market capitalization. The decision not to adopt the proposed exceptions preserves core index principles by maintaining consistent application of these key requirements. Although there may be trade-offs between strict adherence to these eligibility requirements and broad representativeness, the current methodology provides substantial market coverage and sector balance. As a result, the indices can continue to meet their stated objectives while preserving their role as representative and investable benchmarks for the U.S. equity market.

No changes will be made to the eligibility criteria including financial viability screens, seasoning period, or minimum IWF, for the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, or S&P SmallCap 600 as a result of the S&P Dow Jones Indices consultation on the treatment of MegaCap companies. Accordingly, there will be no changes to existing methodology for this index family."

This means that the earliest @SpaceX could be eligible to be added to the S&P 500 would now be June 2027.

The requirements that will now remain in place are:
• No changes to S&P 500 eligibility rules for mega-cap companies.
• Mega-cap companies will still need to wait 12 months after their IPO before being considered for S&P 500 inclusion.
• S&P will not waive profitability requirements for mega-cap companies. The company must have positive GAAP net income in the most recent quarter, and the sum of the most recent four consecutive quarters.
• S&P will not waive minimum public float requirements for mega-cap companies. At least 10% of a company's shares must be publicly tradable ("free float").

The S&P rejected proposals that would have:
• Reduced the IPO seasoning period from 12 months to 6 months
• Waived profitability requirements
• Waived minimum public float requirements

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

😂 dead

[TheTinMen @TheTinMenBlog]

This is where I sleep, but I’ve had long conversations with my gf about how (if there was an intruder) strategically it makes more sense for the layout flip.

My rationale, is if someone was to come in, and start pummelling the person nearest the door, surely it makes sense for the person who offers the greatest chance of physically defending the household (the man), to be spared from that opening critical hit?

If I am closest to the door, and I am pummelled by an intruder whilst asleep, that just leaves my gf in a 1 vs 1.

However, if she sleeps near the door, and she is pummelled, then I am unhurt and therefore have a much better chance in the 1 vs 1, where I can also seek medical care for my (pummelled) gf afterward.

I know it doesn’t sound very heroic, but using the woman as an unconscious pummel shield objectively gives the best chances IMO.

Anyway, she didn’t buy it, and I still sleep closest to the door regardless.

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

Already sold S&P earlier this year. I want nothing to do with whatever is going on in the US now

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

Rule changes for the SpaceX $SPCX IPO:

Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5.

This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations.

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates S&P 500 funds must absorb 19% of SpaceX's float within 6 months.

Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 funds will absorb 24%.

The rules built to protect passive investors:

1. S&P 500 has required 12 months of trading and 4 quarters of GAAP profitability since 2002. Both waived.

2. Nasdaq cut its inclusion window from 90 trading days to 15.

3. FTSE Russell cut its to 5.

All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing.

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

Typing in the prompt to generate this is more gay than actually being gay.

[Clyp Keeper @DGrayTexas45]

Democrats have been trying to turn Texas “purple” for Decades and they believe this ‘Ambiguously Gay Duo’ were/are the ones to do it. 😂🤪🤡

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

@ayokxnle @Ssaasquatch 😂😂

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Trump every time his ratings go down

[nEbEd. @UcheNebed]

I've done this analysis several times, Energy cost in Nigeria is greater than several countries in Europe and North America. We are paying more than market value.

[Naija @Naija_PR]

Electricity sector reforms will always fail until Nigerians pay true market value.

[ABC News @ABC]

The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.” https://t.co/0IhIU0SwWo

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.

But the story of how he got it is even worse.

County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent.

That is absolutely insane.

Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
https://t.co/M2nm9qFXc8

[interrobang @interro_9]

"but im a white guy working on ai"

you can only fucking lol at something so incomprehensibly ignorant and out of touch

let me get this straight–

you were born and raised in quebec, and had the good fortune to study at mcgill - literally one of the world's best universities - for less than $5000 a year.

then you did graduate studies at waterloo - canada's top school for computer science, and earned a masters in maths and a phd there.

you then went on to move to America, work for Google, and later started your own ai company.

and the narrative you want to weave around your upbringing and training is that you ESCAPED canadian socialism?

so the socialism was good enough for you to grow up safe, have healthcare, receive a literal world-class education that helped you into one of the top technology firms in the world, but is also so bad that america has a moral imperative to ensure you, a technologist working there, should be granted permanent residency.

and if your lack of gratitude for your upbringing wasnt enough, you were promoting a presidential candidate who was vehemently opposed to immigration – while you, an immigrant, were staying in their country with a temporary visa.

i guess you can be smart enough to work on ai and quantum computing but still be dumb enough to not only think these things, but actually post them on twitter expecting sympathy

[🍒 @mariyamx_]

Noni Madueke to Cole Palmer after being called up to the WC ahead of him 😭😂

[Blacki.e @beingblackie_]

Some players should be sold in pairs 😩, because this linkup was insane...