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My face is up at the Bristol Business School @UWEBusinessSch. Not sure what I did to deserve this😅. Honoured and humbled 🙏🏾.
The quotes/replies to this are EXACTLY why pre-colonial African history/art/culture should be mandatory in all schools.
Tribal exceptionalism is an extremely flawed ideology.
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
Canva is laying off 22% of its workforce which is 1271 employees, and this is what their CEO said.
We need more founders like thissss.
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
Same mistake blackberry made with BBM. By the time they got around to dropping the elitist gatekeeping, they'd been left behind
Americans don't use WhatsApp because of a decision Apple made in 2013. We only know about it because the emails came out in court, and the whole thing came down to keeping your kids off Android.
It started with Eddy Cue, the guy who runs Apple's services. That April he emailed the team saying Apple really needed to put iMessage on Android. Google was reportedly trying to buy WhatsApp for $1 billion at the time, and Cue's pitch was that Apple already had the best messaging app, so why not make it the one the whole world used.
Craig Federighi, Apple's software chief, shut it down.
He asked how Apple was supposed to get Android users to leave WhatsApp when they didn't even have iPhone friends. So back in 2013, the guy running iPhone software was basically admitting WhatsApp already owned everybody who didn't have an iPhone. Then he got to what he was actually worried about. iMessage on Android would remove "an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones."
Phil Schiller, Apple's longtime marketing boss, backed him up in another email thread in 2016, writing that putting iMessage on Android would hurt Apple more than help it. None of this was public until Epic sued Apple and the emails got pulled into evidence in 2021.
Now look at what that does to WhatsApp. The entire reason WhatsApp exists is that it works on any phone, so it wins wherever group chats are a mix of iPhones and Androids. Apple went the other direction on purpose. For years, every Android user in an American group chat showed up as a green bubble and their videos came through blurry, and the fix everybody landed on was buying another iPhone.
Tim Cook pretty much said this out loud in 2022. A reporter at a conference told him he couldn't send videos to his mom because she had an Android, and Cook told him to buy his mom an iPhone.
And it worked about as well as anything Apple has ever done. Nearly 9 in 10 American teenagers own an iPhone, and iPhones were 75% of phones sold at the big three US carriers in early 2026. If almost everyone you text has the same phone, an app whose whole selling point is working across phones has nothing to offer you.
Worldwide, Apple only sells about 1 in 5 phones. Most of the world's group chats stayed mixed, so they ended up on the one app that ran on everything, and WhatsApp blew past 3 billion users. Meta says more than 100 million Americans use it now too.
Apple finally added RCS texting with Android in 2024 and turned on encryption for it this May, and they still kept those messages green.
Apple basically let WhatsApp have the rest of the planet so it could keep American teenagers.
RS26 Shadows at Midnight
Model: Maryline Djimranger
Design & photography: Alexander Akande
Yaoundé, Cameroon.
One player led BOTH teams in pts, rbs, ast in 2015.
Same player led BOTH teams in pts, rbs, ast, stl, blk in 2016.
Same player led his team in pts, rbs, ast 7 times in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020.
That player was NOT Steph.
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
At every stop of his career, LeBron James has made handshakes with stars.
But he's also made them with role players, two-way players, and rookies.
With team staff, locker room staff, and photographers.
"His superpower is making everybody feel important"
inquirer.com/sixers/lebron-j…
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
Patrick Stewart, who will be remembered most for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and as Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, has died at 86.
variety.com/2026/tv/news/pat…
Someone put the “Ether” beat over this
Abdul El-Sayed: “We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in the room. Donald Trump is an idiot. He has one genius which is getting attention. Because his dad never gave him enough, because he was a nepo baby, he craved attention and used the bullying tactics to get it. But the man is an idiot. Just a fool”
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
Alexander 🇳🇬x🏴☠️ retweeted
We keep getting told Capitalism is the only system that works,
But France’s capitalist economy immediately implodes soon as it can’t steal from Africa.
Why France is protesting:
— Debt is 119% of GDP (similar to Greece in the 2009 crisis)
— Deficit spending is almost 6% of GDP (wider than Italy’s in 2011 crisis)
— Record poverty rate of 15.4%
— Consistent inflation, exacerbated by Ukraine war and now accelerating due to Iran war
— Interest rate explosion due to the Iran war (now pays more than Greece)
— Privatisation of public assets
— Crumbling public services & infrastructure
— Poor condition of public schools & lack of teachers
— Corruption, cronyism & elite self-dealing
— Special tax arrangements for elites and mega corporations who invest abroad
— Rising living costs & low stagnant wages (€2k median)
— Loss of African territories and exploitation schemes
— Police brutality & protest repression
— Comedians and journalists censored
Quality of life is evaporating in France while the elites loot everything and become more overtly corrupt and repressive as it becomes more clear to the common public how dire the situation is. Macron now has an 82% disapproval rate…
The Ukraine and Iran war are the straws on the camel’s back, skyrocketing both inflation and interest rates on debt. Europe simply cannot survive this.
Childhood acquaintance calls for help with something business related, so you go help.
You get back home and realize that person stole money from your wallet.
I’m tired and confused.
Terrible physics on display here.
- Stops car with magic
- Pedestrians blown back by force
- Windows shatter out TOWARDS the force instead of away from it.
It’s little things like this that destroy viewer immersion in modern movies 🤦🏾♂️. (Sidenote: the color grading is 🤢)
