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Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
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This was done with tight resources and endless effort and imagination. Humanware!
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I AM FRANKELDA, Mexico's first stop-motion feature, premieres June 12. From directors Arturo and Roy Ambriz, protégés of Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro. In 19th-century Mexico, a gifted writer journeys into her subconscious to face the monsters she’s created.
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KLED BROKE OUR LAWS. @ndpcngr look into this. I am making this last post before i put it to rest. Kled AI collected personal data from 25,000 Nigerians, sold it to AI labs and governments, then IP-banned the entire country. What they did not tell you is that while they were operating in Nigeria, they appear to have been breaking Nigerian law. Here is the legal case, point by point, with every source linked. FIRST. UNDERSTAND WHAT KLED ACTUALLY IS Kled, registered as Nitrility Inc., is not a neutral tech platform. By their own published terms of service (app.kled.ai/terms), the moment you upload anything to Kled, you are not just sharing content. You are irrevocably selling it. Their exact words: "YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE IRREVOCABLY SELLING SUBMITTED CONTENT TO COMPANY TO BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE." They then grant themselves the right to "sell, share, sublicense, transfer and/or distribute Submitted Content to our affiliates, our customers, partners and/or prospective customers and partners to be used for any purpose, including without limitation the development of artificial and machine learning products." Their own website (kled.ai) states they power the world's leading AI companies, governments, and research institutions. Your photos, videos, and identity documents were being sold the moment you hit upload. But here is the part that exposes the entire "we pay you fairly" narrative as a trap. Their terms also contain this clause: "If the consents, covenants, releases and/or rights granted to Company are deemed legally unenforceable or otherwise revoked, reversed, invalidated, or withdrawn with respect to any Submitted Content, then you are required to immediately refund to Company any compensation you previously received in connection with such Submitted Content." Read that again. If a Nigerian court or the NDPC ever rules that their consent clause is unenforceable under Nigerian law, Kled can legally demand every naira they paid you back. They built a clause to reclaim payments the moment their legal framework gets challenged. They did not come to empower you. They came to extract from you, and they made sure they could take back even the few dollars they offered if anyone tried to hold them accountable. That is not fair compensation. That is a legal trap dressed as an opportunity. VIOLATION ONE: OPERATING WITHOUT NDPC REGISTRATION The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 classifies any organization that processes the personal data of more than 200 Nigerian users within six months as a Data Controller of Major Importance. That classification triggers a mandatory legal obligation to register with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission before operating at scale. Kled had 25,000 Nigerian users. The NDPC maintains a public register of all compliant organizations here: services.ndpc.gov.ng/repo/?f… Search for Kled or Nitrility Inc. yourself. They are not on it. ( I have provide screenshots below) Operating on Nigerian user data at that scale without NDPC registration is a direct violation of the Act. VIOLATION TWO: PROCESSING DATA AFTER CONSENT WAS COMPROMISED By his own public admission, Nigerian users were actively submitting KYC documents through Kled's verification system. He stated this himself in his original post when he described being "flooded with thousands of fake Japanese passports and identity cards with Nigerians photoshopped onto them" in their KYC system. The NDPA requires that when a user's ability to complete the consent process is blocked or their data is rejected, all processing of their personal data must stop immediately. But Kled's own App Store developer responses, which you can verify yourself (apps.apple.com/ca/app/kled/i…), show a pattern of telling users that uploaded content remains in processing even after their accounts are rejected or flagged. Their terms of service (app.kled.ai/terms) confirm this further, stating explicitly that if consent is ever deemed unenforceable, the company retains the right to reclaim payments while making no commitment to delete the data already collected. Nigerian users went through KYC. He confirmed that himself. Their data was retained after rejection. His own terms confirm that. Under the NDPA, that is unlawful data processing. VIOLATION THREE: UNLAWFUL CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFER The NDPA is explicit. Nigerian user data can only be transferred abroad if the receiving organization provides a level of data protection substantially equivalent to Nigerian law (cookieyes.com/blog/nigeria-d…). Kled's business model is selling Nigerian user data to AI labs, governments, and research institutions internationally. Their own terms of service (app.kled.ai/terms) confirm they sell, share, sublicense, transfer and distribute submitted content to customers, partners, and prospective partners for any purpose. Nowhere in their privacy policy (kled.ai/privacy-policy) do they disclose whether those buyers meet Nigeria's data adequacy standards. That is not a minor oversight. That is a legal violation. Their governing law clause makes it even worse. Their terms state: "This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware." Nigerian law is not mentioned anywhere in their entire terms of service. They designed this contract to operate entirely outside Nigerian legal jurisdiction while collecting data from Nigerian citizens. VIOLATION FOUR: NO DATA PROTECTION OFFICER Under the NDPA and the GAID 2025 (ndpc.gov.ng/wp-content/uploa…), every Data Controller of Major Importance must appoint a qualified Data Protection Officer to monitor compliance, handle user rights requests, and liaise with the NDPC. Kled processed the data of 25,000 Nigerians at millions of uploads per day. They have never publicly disclosed the appointment of a DPO for their Nigerian operations. VIOLATION FIVE: NO COMPLIANCE AUDIT FILED Data Controllers of Major Importance are required to conduct annual compliance audits and submit Compliance Audit Returns to the NDPC (ndpc.gov.ng/faqs). A company that processed 10 million uploads from Nigerian users, collected biometric identity data through KYC, and sold that data to third parties internationally, has no public record of submitting a single compliance audit to Nigeria's data protection authority. THE PRECEDENT THEY SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT The NDPC and FCCPC jointly fined Meta $220 million for the same category of violations, including unauthorized data collection, failure to file a compliance audit, and unlawful cross-border data transfers. That fine was upheld by a Nigerian tribunal on April 25, 2025 (fccpc.gov.ng/violations-trib…). The NDPC has also launched formal investigations into Temu over improper handling of Nigerian user data. This is not a toothless regulatory environment. It is a live one. Kled processed data from 25,000 Nigerians, transferred it internationally to unnamed AI labs and governments, collected biometric identity information through KYC, built a contract designed to reclaim payments if their legal framework is ever challenged, and did all of this without registering with the NDPC, without appointing a Data Protection Officer, without filing a compliance audit, and without disclosing whether their data buyers meet Nigerian legal standards. That is not a business decision. That is a compliance failure with legal consequences. WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW If you are a Nigerian who uploaded data to Kled, you have rights under the NDPA. You have the right to know what data they hold on you, the right to request deletion, and the right to know exactly who they sold your data to. File a formal complaint directly with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission here: ndpc.gov.ng Read the full NDPC resources and official documents here: ndpc.gov.ng/resources They banned Nigeria. Nigeria has a law. Use it. @ndpcngr Please take this seriously.
I'm going to make 1 more post on this before I put it to rest because the amount of very clearly misinformed and very emotional individuals spreading misinformation is getting out of hand. 1. This is very clearly NOT a marketing stunt. We certainly don't need the exposure or the users. Even if we did, why would we ban a region from the app store and then market to that same region? 2. Kled is ONLY available on iOS, not on Android. There is a very clearly fake Android app (the logo isn't even our logo) that is impersonating us with only 5k downloads that we have reported for takedown. 3. Kled was top 100 in the Nigeria App Store several times over in a 4-month timespan, again we very clearly did not need the marketing. You can verify the legitimacy of this claim via this link which shows the app store rankings over time in Nigeria: app.sensortower.com/app-anal… 4. Some very low IQ individuals think that the link above is fake. This is from Sensor Tower, which is a multi-billion dollar company that everyone uses for analytics. Again, some very misinformed individuals think that the "edit" text in the link above means that the graph is altered or fake. That is literally not how websites work. You CANNOT alter the rankings content of Sensor Tower via link, this is physically impossible. You are welcome to check any other app ranking provider on the planet and they will all verify this same data. 5. Kled does not steal people's data. We are an opt-in AI data marketplace, meaning if you want, you can download Kled on the App Store today and submit pictures, videos, or documents of any kind that are used for AI training data, and instead of getting it ripped off your device, we pay you for it. Fair compensation for your efforts is what we have been built on. 6. Kled had over 25,000 users in Nigeria alone. Across a 10 million upload sample from this region, 94.2% was fraudulent, meaning data was either AI generated, fake, altered, internet plagiarized, etc. Kled easily catches this and bans users accordingly, but this costs us resources and time, not to mention no fraud detection pipeline is perfect, meaning bad data can inevitably fall through the cracks. This bad data can severely harm the trust that AI labs have put in our business. If the fraud rate was even 50%, we as a team would have chosen to keep Kled on the Nigeria App Store, but 95% is too much. 7. Kled has only been banned in Nigeria. It is available EVERYWHERE else in Africa. This was the only region that was committing this level of fraud. 8. Anyone seeing this that isn't based in Nigeria, feel free to look at all the angry comments on this tweet and you may click their profile and very clearly see that they are based in Nigeria. Extremely emotionally charged response for a very fair business decision that has 0 racial motivation. Respect our choices, we will be back here when the time is right.
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this guy avi patel (kledai founder) is a fraud > rugged previous tokens > raised $9m and wanted to reward $20m > has 10 reviews on ethos (all negative) > metadata of passport he uploaded shows it's edited > deleted link to the dashboard he shared (claimed proof) sadly, we nigerians agreed to this without verifiable claims, meanwhile he is doing this to trend and create awareness for his platform [a platform that pays people to upload their faces?] > i made a research about him and his platform before and how he pulled previous rugs as i usually say, "failed founders turning to anti-regional police"
We have removed Kled from the Nigerian app store and IP banned the entire region. The first thing I would like to say is I have nothing against Nigeria. I have a ton of friends from this region and these were some of our earliest app adopters. Genuinely, thank you all for the support. Kled has been up and running and out of beta for 4 months now. We have paid out hundreds of thousands of people for their data, and our users have uploaded over 1 billion assets onto our platform. After several months of uploads we found that Nigeria had a ≈95% fraud rate. Instead of real, usable data, users were uploading pictures of black screens, duplicate photos, internet generated images, AI generated images, etc. at an unimaginable scale. In comparison, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines have a less than 10% fraud rate across 10x the userbase size. Our fraud system is fast to catch these issues but the level of complexity of these schemes is getting out of hand. This weekend we were flooded with thousands of fake Japanese passports and identity cards with Nigerians photoshopped onto them in our KYC system. That was the final straw. As a startup we can't afford to eat the costs of that data overhead, so we temporarily removed the app from the region while we improved our fraud detection and banning system to quickly filter out bad actors when the time is right. On top of all of this, every time we make a post there is someone asking us to bring the region back within seconds. We hear you, but it's gotten out of hand. We've made this decision with great care. We love everyone who has genuinely supported Kled from Nigeria, and we hope to return when the time is right. -Kled Team
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Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
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Hi Hamid, I am Yusuf. I came across your mountains post from yesterday 25/4, and it stopped me completely. I decided to push myself to the limit and implement your formula from scratch, pixel by pixel, as a personal mathematical challenge. After careful study of the image, I have successfully identified and understood 12 of the 14 mathematical objects: ✓ F(x) — color compression to [0, 255] ✓ N_s(x,y) — fractal noise with 6^5 * 5^(-s) frequency scaling ✓ E(x,y) — fractal envelope as a 50-term weighted sum ✓ Z_s(x,y) — layer occlusion product ✓ S(x,y) — sky value ✓ R(x,y) — layer depth value ✓ T(x,y) — distance to mountain center ✓ B(x,y) — slope angle via arctan ✓ A(x,y) — layer brightness ✓ H_v(x,y) — final color channel for v = 0, 1, 2 ✓ Coordinate mapping: x = (m-1000)/600, y = (601-n)/600 ✓ The full N_s structure The two I cannot read precisely enough from the image are: ✗ J_s(x,y) — the mountain shape indicator ✗ K_v(x,y) — the lighting kernel I can see the general structure of both. J_s uses a double exponential with cosine products and E(x,y)/1000 in the exponent, and K_v sums 50 terms of (91/100)^s weighted by cosines involving T, B and v. But the exact coefficients inside the ridge shape term of J_s and the cosine arguments of K_v are too dense to read at the resolution I have. What I am currently seeing in my attempts: the layering and occlusion work correctly and the fractal texture E renders as expected, but without the exact J_s the mountain silhouettes are wrong. Peaks appear at incorrect positions and the snow and rock boundary does not match your image. This is purely a personal challenge. I am not doing this for any commercial purpose. Could you point me to where the full formula is published, or share a higher resolution crop of the equation panel from that post? Even just confirming those two functions would be enough to complete the implementation. Thank you. Yusuf
I drew these mountains with mathematical equations.
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There are already very few buyers out there. Original ideas and non legacy IP is extremely hard to get made by a major studio or network. The winnowing down of choices results in less opportunity for new voices and diverse viewpoints in what we all are given the opportunity to see. It’s already been challenging for years, and the merger will only make this worse.
HBO was the only streamer willing to make “I Know This Much Is True”. Very difficult material. We won an Emmy and a Golden globe for it. Knocking out even one streaming service, or combining even two, would have made “I Know This Much Is True” impossible to get made.
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That is not orisa Olokun, that is “Oba Ohen”, the father of Oba Ewuare. His legs were carved like that because he got paralyzed by stepping on a charm, he tried to hid his leg paralysis, but was exposed by his chiefs, he was later tricked into a hole, he couldn’t jump out and so he was stoned to death by his own chief. This excerpt can be found in page 13 of Jacob Egharevba’s book published in 1968, and the book was endorsed by the Benin Palace.
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Eu tô amando os irmãos da Nigéria compartilhando as imagens do carnaval do Rio. Sempre tive a curiosidade de saber se eles têm conhecimento da importância da cultura Youruba no Brasil e dos esforços que a nossa população construiu para exaltá-la.
Yoruba Yemoja and Osun float at Brazil Carnival 2026! Amazing 🤩
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June 3rd marks the Yoruba New Year, according to the traditional Yoruba calendar known as Kọ́jọ́dá. We're currently in year 10,067 and this coming June ushers in the year 10,068. The Yorùbá calendar consists of 364 days and 13 months, which shows a long-standing and sophisticated indigenous system of timekeeping. This is a powerful reminder of the depth and intellectual richness of our indigenous cultures. Yoruba civilisation is ancient, spanning thousands of years, yet today we primarily follow a calendar system tied to the birth of a foreign religious figure. It raises an important question about the value we place on our own traditional knowledge systems.
Yoruba Indigenous Calendar The Chinese are currently celebrating Chinese New Year, which in 2026 began in mid-February. It marks the Year of the Horse on their lunar calendar. This period is observed nationwide in China, with public holidays (of about seven days) and near-total shutdowns across many sectors during the Spring Festival. The new year officially began on February 17 but many businesses were already closing for days now. Some would use about 15 days for the holiday. They have managed to sync their civilisation, time, culture, economy, and identity. The Yoruba need to get here, too — soon. A time when we collectively recognise and celebrate our own New Year, from our Indigenous calendar which usually starts early June. We have to stop living perpetually by borrowed clocks. And beyond the celebration, we must also embrace the message of Ifa revealed for each year as a moral, spiritual, and philosophical guide for our collective journey. It is important for our survival. For example, this year Odu Ifa is Oturupon Meji (also Ologbon Meji). We do not have any future outside our cultural identity. Any progress detached from our cosmology, values, and ancestral knowledge is imitation. Following our calendar is how we realign with ourselves and chart a future that is truly ours. — Ayankola Ayanwuyi
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I hope every African country’s tourism ministry is aware of this so they don’t allow you and your cameras anywhere around their museums or their preserved things
I guess you guys finally know the truth 🤣. And to the people of Benin 🇧🇯, this is for entertainment purposes not to stop your $$ from coming in🙏
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A sincere message to all our brothers and sisters from South Africa 🇿🇦 They say it's not about the journey or the destination, it's about the friends you made along the way .. just kidding, we still made it further than you at #AFCON2025

ALT Lol GIF

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This is a very good song. It’s called Preacher Man. Rt if you love it 💕
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Replying to @DONJAZZY
@DONJAZZY Baba mi, did I offend you? 😭😭
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You’ve never seen this level of creativity in Nigeria before. No cap!
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The technology may already exist, but that doesn't mean that Nigeria has it. CFM International, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, GE, etc do not share the patents or blueprints behind their jet engines. They only share generalised information and basic operating principles. So as a recipient of that generalised information, you might "know" how a jet engine works, but they will never share what metal alloys they used to make their engines, their design specifications to make it fuel efficient, wind tunnel testing data, safety testing data etc. In reality, you are not much closer to having that technology than a farmer in the 16th century. All you have is the ability to rent temporary access to it by paying money to the manufacturers and their designated maintenance companies. This means that every jet engine in Africa is foreign-made, and all significant maintenance involving proprietary knowledge on those engines is usually done abroad, which means vast amounts of USD must be spent regularly just to keep Africa's airspace running, and the US government can ground almost every plane in Africa if it likes by issuing sanctions that prevent engine manufacturers or maintenance firms from doing business with African airlines. That isn't theoretical BTW. It's exactly what happened to Russia in 2022, when NATO sanctions against Russia made Russian Airlines unable to access spare parts and supplies to keep their Boeing and Airbus fleets operational. And that's why Russia accelerated its indigenous Yakovlev MC-21 program, which has created a fully homegrown alternative to the Boeing 737 with indigenous engines, body, and avionics. Just because a technology exists and you have access to it does not mean that you have the technology, especially when it is a complex technology like aircraft engines. You're basically just renting space on it from the technology owner, and if you have a geopolitical disagreement with the owner, it can lock you out and return you to the stone age at any time. That's why countries often need to "reinvent the wheel." If Nigeria ever becomes a wealthy and important country in the future, US trade sanctions are 100% guaranteed. To prepare for those inevitable sanctions, multiple technologies that we are currently renting must be fully localised. Not that they impose sanctions and then we realise that we can't build roads anymore because the technology to drive bridge pillar piles into a river bed was something we were just renting from white people. That's why Ziko's jet engine is important. It won't power a passenger aircraft anytime soon, but it provides the technical foundation to even begin that project. If your country has no Ziko's, then you don't own your country. All of you are just tenants of richer countries.
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We are very comfortable where we live, and our local governments protect us just fine without your alerts or demands. Do not pretend to speak as the Jewish leader, you are not even a part of us. Jews worldwide are not collectively responsible for Israel, and your ‘warnings’ only put us in more danger.
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509 MILLION!!!! My goodness! 😩😩😩😩😩🙏🙏🙏 HE STOOD FIRM BY ME AND WITH ME!!!! OLUWABUKUNMI! I'm so proud of you. 💕🥹💕 Thank you everyone! We did it! GINGERRR did it. 🙏🙏🙏
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Tucker Carlson speaks on the recent diplomatic developments in Nigeria.
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