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motho ke motho batho babang

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

One critic advised Acemoglu and Robinson to “stop by the history department, grab a book, and read the whole thing.” https://t.co/PxVhN021R2

[Ian Arawjo @IanArawjo]

Stats for Evals is now live, and we got a site, too: https://t.co/5FZNj9EF4I We'll be posting regular investigations across the summer. For now, we're starting with the basics: comparing models and prompts. Also has resources, principles, example code, and guidance for others:

[jessica dai @jessicadai_]

this is comically bad science and completely irresponsible marketing

[avalanche @valanchee]

@mmitchell_ai Agentic AI has a human oversight problem - https://t.co/KIEMom9r2G

[avalanche @valanchee]

@STS_News @BigMeanInternet There are a number of recent cool papers by HRI & STS scholars on NBL's ABS as a new form of technology regulation.

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

International law students should just go ahead major in literature since y’all are dealing with fiction anyway.

[Ian Arawjo @IanArawjo]

Yes, I’m sure Opus 4.6 can head to Kenya to conduct a 4-month ethnographic study of intercultural collaboration in intro programming classes, in an afternoon. AI has certainly gotten better, wow

[avalanche @valanchee]

New paper alert 🚨

"Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya" is conditionally accepted to #CHI2026

The paper is based on a recent 9-month ethnography of AI and data science practice in the financial worlds of Nairobi: https://t.co/LEu3suyUtZ

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

LLMs are in essence digital humanities projects with hundred-billion-dollar budgets and no expertise in the humanities.

[Crazy Kennar @crazy_kennar]

WHEN YOU ANNOUNCE YOU ARE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENCY IN UGANDA 😂😂😂😂

[Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo @CKyobutungi]

About this PhD debate:
1) Africa needs more not less PhDs, actually about 100k more in the next ten years by some estimates
2) Highly capacitated people are the engines that'll drive the continent's future. Those people need trainers, who in turn need trainers..PhD holders...

[Solomon King #FreeBesigye @solomonking]

As someone who fundraises heavily, and has brought in a significant amount of money into this country, I'd bet that a 5-year election cycle causes much, much less capital flight than consistently broken systems, systemic corruption, citizen kidnaps and infrastructure dysfunction.

[avalanche @valanchee]

@bwesigye @nmategyero Very interesting exchange! I am looking forward to your extended review, Bwes!

[avalanche @valanchee]

@jxmnop Congrats dr yoda!

[Tuhin Chakrabarty @TuhinChakr]

Sorry HCI researchers having been asking this for years :-)

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

Just a girl, who got to debate brilliant scholars on a topic so relevant to our times.

It was truly a highlight of my year to have participated in the #DohaDebates.
Check out the debate featuring @yanisvaroufakis @evgenymorozov @danielsusskind and yours truly. 😊
👇🏾

[avalanche @valanchee]

The FIFA world cup 2026 ticket bidding process is such a sham! Ticket sales opened and within 2 minutes, 99% of tickets are gone -- probably acquired by bots. As if that's not enough, tickets are dynamically priced at 7x their price. Nope not gonna participate in this VISA heist

[Stephen Deng @mrstephendeng]

M-KOPA's growth and profitability is impressive and you've gotta give the team their flowers.

But make no mistake, this was built on millions and millions in equity and debt earmarked for climate / PAYGO solar. They've raised ~$600m in funding (debt/equity/grants).

Those assets (distro, backend, underwriting, debt facilities, human capital) were built over a decade by a company that was squarely trying to solve last mile energy in Africa. And for most of that time, the impact capital that backed M-KOPA also backed that mission.

Today, they are primarily a PAYGO smartphone platform. There's now very little solar footprint on their site.

We've gotta feel good for the team who've been able to pivot into a lucrative category with deep market pull. But we also need to ask ourselves what the last decade of impact investing has really yielded.

[avalanche @valanchee]

@waweru @Tom_Courtright