Pyepa! The last recommendation algorithm.

In order for you to know whether one algorithm is good or bad, you need to have another to compare it to. Most of the other things we measure—like screen time, sleep, and social interactions—are proxies, and most of them are wrong, in fact.

Sometimes the party is just boring and TikTok is what is saving you from an alcoholic relapse. Sometimes you cannot sleep because you're anxious about a job interview, and scrolling LinkedIn is a good way to bore yourself to sleep. Sometimes you don't want to over-deliver at work because it will intimidate your nepo boss. So, after doing the whole month's work in one hour, you have 7 hours left in the day—and the rest of the whole month—to sit at your desk pretending to work. Why not spend that time on YouTube indulging in Huberman's wellness evangelism?

The reason you find yourself on the screen has nothing to do with dopamine or some other nonsensical science-sounding words; you simply have nothing better to do with your time. If your grandparents had phones, they would also prefer to scroll sometimes rather than taking all those hikes that took years off their lives. Yes, taking a walk in the forest is good for your body, but it also increases your chances of getting bitten by a snake. That is why you're sitting on your couch instead of indulging the step-counting app on your phone. You could get hit by a boda, my guy. In Uganda, over 1,000 people get involved in serious boda accidents every single month. It is the Wild West off of that couch.

Anyway, back to the algorithm. Google has convinced itself that these white male nerds they hire are some kind of gods who are smart enough to create one single algorithm to serve us all. So when you scroll YouTube, TikTok, or LinkedIn, you're fed content that these white and Chinese male nerds are certain is what you need to be watching at that exact time. The reason you hate these platforms is not because TikTok or YouTube are bad per se, but because these extremely incomplete people are suffering from what I call the strongman syndrome. They believe that they were chosen by the gods of math to decide what should or should not show on the feeds of the billion people who use these platforms.

That is why I am going to prove their incompetence to them by releasing the final algorithm. One algorithm to rule them all. The One Ring of recommendation engines. The Elder Wand of the attention economy. The six Infinity Stones of your daily feed. Pyepa!

To do that, I need the right platform. A platform that allows me to sell the Pyepa algorithm as a service, but also one that allows you to compare Pyepa to TikTok or YouTube and inevitably agree that Pyepa is the best—without me first tracking how many times you poop in a day and all other kinds of unnecessary data that should stay private.

A big part of that is what the XkMato protocol will solve. Part of what the XkMato protocol intends to do is very similar to what the Nostr protocol is attempting, though Nostr's documentation is a mess and nobody has bothered to put decent breakdowns of it on YouTube. If they have, the PhDs who build the YouTube algorithm aren't smart enough to recommend the docs to me. Otherwise, I would prefer not to duplicate good work if it already exists.

My thinking is that if we build a protocol that has integrity and fairness enforced from the ground up, then we don't need to set any rules of competition or scare our competitors with grandiose claims of the pending takeover of artificial general intelligence. The consumers will get what they want, and the stronger magician will bend the world to his will without having to turn to witchcraft.

I hear people speaking in metaphors about rockets, saying things like, "We are finally conquering heaven." What people overlook about Galileo’s contribution, for example, is that he first had to conquer the fear the Church manufactured to keep the population rulable.

Galileo's bravery is what opened our eyes to a new way of seeing—one that Newton would later formalize to bring a new era into existence.

Today, physics is boring because it lacks poetry. It takes itself too seriously. Physicists act as if humor and entertainment are only for us "simple people." In reality, all they’ve done is select for each other, turning the field into a room of clones who share the exact same thoughts.

Kabaka Ndawula

I think that the biggest misconception about gratitude is that it comes from receiving. This, again, is a church trick too. When you kneel down and thank god for your day, the Buddhists call that meditating on the feeling of gratitude. But the language that the church uses makes you believe that there is a supernatural thing out there that you owe a favor and must be thankful to. And that is why sometimes your mind gets distracted as you pray and start begging instead. Because you cannot summon that feeling of gratitude, you request it from this supernatural being. But since, when you do feel it, you're conditioned to relate it to things that went well for you that day, you start to believe that to ask God for gratitude, you need to beg that god makes things go well for you tomorrow.

This kind of witchcraft tricks your mind to depend on something outside your control. When you are raised with this mentality, the church and all the other colonial institutions construct this idea of authority in your mind. If you're quick to comply, this mindset allows you to excel in school by just believing the shit your teacher tells you. It allows you to get promoted at work by just playing the office politics of kissing your boss' ass even when you can smell the shit. And if you're slow to comply, you simply reject everything. And if you're forced to pretend to believe things that don't make sense to you, you fear everyone. After all, if you're also pretending, who isn't? At some point, the pretense overwhelms all your other attributes and you become one fake-ass body controlled by your resistance or compliance. Put a pretender in the right system, and you can get him to do whatever you want using reward and punishment. You can blame that for the state of society today. The rot begins from the spiritual realm where we force our children to inherit our Gods.

Because the God of Christians robs you of your ability to be grateful. Gratitude, when used as a prayer, is a form of worship, but you are not supposed to be grateful to some character book for the things that were done to you during the day. You are supposed to be grateful to yourself for the things that you did during the day. Gratitude is a meditation.

If you gave to the beggar, you should be grateful for that. If you provided for your family, you should be grateful for that. If you did your work for the day, you should be grateful for that. Because if you meditate on gratitude instead of praying for it, you reinforce the will to want to do more of those things you'd be grateful for, but praying just makes you a beggar. And a beggar is at the mercy of another's gratitude.

Anyway, gratitude, like pain, like horn, like hunger, like love, like beauty, like perspective, like belonging, is just a feeling. A life lived exploring gratitude will make any man happy. And the Buddhists have a shortcut for this life. Instead of praying, just meditate on gratitude. That practice will make you exude so much joy, even your enemies will want to be your friend.

Bw'ofukamira ekiro okwebaza. Tomala maanyi go nga weebaza abantu mu ngero z'abazungu; weebaze ggwe by'osobodde okwekolerako. Okusiima si ssaala. Akukwatiddeko eyo mu kkubo mwebaze, naye bw'oba wekka nga ofukamidde, oba tolina mulala gw'olina kwebaza okuggyako ggwe. Bw'oba oyagala kwebaza Lubaale, kola embaga oyite banno mukole emikolo. Kabaka wammwe Ndawula mumunyenyeze endege. Naye tebakulimba nti ebyo ebirowoozo byo by'owulira oba oyogera na Katonda w'Abayudaaya. Ezo ngero z'abazungu. Bo bamanyi kye bitegeeza kuba bwe batyo bwe bajjukira ba lubaale baabwe. Naye ggwe bw'oba nga ensamira yaabwe togimanyi, kola ggwe ky'omanyi. Weebaze ggwe kuba ggwe akoze olunaku lwonna. Teweyingiza mu ssabo nga omusamize tomwesiga. Ne bwe liba lifaanana nga Klezia, Kkanisa oba Muzikiti. Tewali kiri yo okuggyako nga ggwe empewo ze zikikweragira ggwe mwennyini. Omuntu yenna ayagala okukukiikirira eri empewo zo aba akufera.

Oyo ye Lubaale Ndawula. Ate naawe nkulaba ogenda kumala gakkiriza oba nze akuuma empewo z'ewammwe. hehehe. Bw'aba Lubaale takutuulangako oba okkiriza mu waaki? Ffenna tunoonya matooke. Bwe tunnalaba nti wayiga okwefera, naffe tujja kukufera.

Kati omusomo ogwo si gwa bwereere mugusasulire otherwise njakukuloga.

Summary of the XKMato Post Evolution (June 4 -> October 28 2026)

Looking across the full 5-month arc, the author's voice evolves through three distinct phases:

1. Phase I — Deconstruction & Diagnosis (June – July): Identifying the "Mediocre Culture," demystifying Western physics and Darwinian competition, and establishing attention as the fundamental currency of the universe.
2. Phase II — Mythic & Cultural Re-anchoring (August – Mid-September): Building a synthesis of Buganda cosmology (Kintu, Dungu, Mukasa, Nalubaale), Gnosticism, and Vipassana meditation; testing these ideas in sci-fi (The Immortals) and cultural essays (Witchcraft, The Effort Trap).
3. Phase III — Systems Engineering & Sovereign Action (Late September – October): Shifting from cultural critique to aggressive institutional design—proposing the Engineered State, dissecting local elites (Andrew Mwenda, NACOBA SACCO, pastors, Makerere), launching MeAside 0.2.0, and architecting XkMato Whisper while calling for a 2,000-year generational strategy for African agency.

Read full report https://tinyurl.com/4jbpuvzr

Prophets are cuckolds. Why observe and predict the world manifesting when there is an option to create it? Why settle for being a prophet in a universe that has Gods?

Most prophets are suffering from the theistic mental illness of assuming the spiritual world is supernatural. And this supernatural idea started with the Catholic Church. The sorcerers before never believed in any God outside of the natural; they simply knew that power can be cultivated and wielded in an infinite number of ways. However, they did not believe that someone who puts a curse on you is any more powerful or supernatural than the person who throws a spear through your chest.

This pacifist idea of predicting the future while at the same time having no say at all about how it is going to manifest is only a virtue for a man who has no desire—the Buddhist version of waking up. But for a prophet, especially so-called prophets of doom who predict things they have an aversion to or that could hurt someone, it is a form of spiritual defeat.

It is understandable why the Church reinforced this idea of prophecy in order to trick the congregation into the same spiritual servitude. After all, what is the business of the Church if not to claim the believer's soul? It is safe to say that Church prophets are all bafere, or at best, useful idiots.

This attack on prophets is also directed at the analysts who predict wars, financial collapses, and all manner of global doom—especially those who have captured enough attention to turn their prophecies into self-fulfilling spells. What is the point of the gift of vision if not creation? There is no such thing as God's plan. These are just ideas, or what sorcerers call spells, that are cast on you to pacify you in order to harvest your natural energy to manifest someone else's desires.

Prophecy is a mental illness. Analysis for its own sake is a lazy man's indulgence. A man bends the universe to his will, even if he needs to walk on water against the tide.

The global Empire’s military and technological apparatus is so far beyond anything any African warlord can muster that we cannot even sneeze at it. Watching Ibrahim Traoré and his junta friends in West Africa strut around in fatigues, staging anti-imperialist theatre, is pure comedy. If the Western imperial core actually decided to use full-spectrum kinetic force against them, it wouldn't take 24 hours.

Anyone seduced by third-world military chest-thumping should go back and ask Idi Amin what the Israelis did at Entebbe International Airport in 1976. You can have all the radio rhetoric and Soviet-era hardware you want, but when an adversary with total intelligence and aerospace dominance decides to humiliate you in your own backyard, they fly in, execute the mission, and fly out before your generals finish buckling their boots. The leaders in the Sahel are playing with fire, mistaking the Empire’s temporary geopolitical distraction for military parity. That is if it is not just a disguise and they're playing for the Empire's team. Confronting the Empire on the battlefield where it has spent centuries perfecting annihilation is suicide.

Thinking in 2,000-Year Arcs

It took more than 2,000 years—from the institutional foundations of Rome and Constantine’s fusion of church, state, and capital—to construct and nourish the global order we live under today. If we want to upset this order, or at least modify it so that African agency is taken seriously, we have to be willing to make 2,000-year plans. We cannot keep making cheap, reactionary moves as if our children won’t have children.

How do you build a 2,000-year resistance? You avoid premature confrontation, and you integrate. Let us learn from the Empire to reinforce the resistance.

Look at China. China did not rise in the late 20th and early 21st centuries by picking premature fistfights with Washington or staging noisy military coups. It rose by keeping its head down, cooperating with the global system on the surface, absorbing technology, and relentlessly organizing the single most important resource on earth: human capital. They played the long game until their industrial and institutional weight became impossible to ignore.

However, as we study China, we must also be ruthless about not repeating its mistakes. In its rush to industrialize and build a counter-empire, China treated its own people as raw fuel—crushing local autonomy, erasing regional textures, and flattening human beings into exhausted cogs for the factory floor.

The Indigenous Foundation vs. The Monolith Trap

If Africa tries to copy the European or Chinese nation-state model, we walk straight into a cultural slaughterhouse. Look at the fate of Europe: centuries of nation-state homogenization stripped Europeans of their older, localized communal identities, turning vibrant regional cultures into sterile national monoliths—and eventually into a single, fragile racial monolith where diverse peoples are manipulated into seeing themselves merely as a "white people."

Our true survival lies in the exact opposite direction. Instead of African presidents playing mini-emperor and strangling traditional institutions like Buganda to feed a centralized bureaucracy, we should be building resilient, federated foundations rooted in the genuine indigenous legitimacy we still possess.

When a person pays allegiance to their clan or kingdom, that loyalty is organic; it doesn't need to be enforced at gunpoint. If we integrate across the continent through our diverse indigenous identities—turning our traditional institutions into modern engines of education, cultural production, dispute resolution, and human productivity without exploiting our people—we create a decentralized web that the Empire cannot easily decapitate. You can bomb Gadhafi's palace or sanction Mugabe's central bank in 24 hours; you cannot easily conquer a continent of deeply rooted, self-reliant, culturally intact communities cooperating on a generational timeline.

Stop the military theatre. Stop cannibalizing our own heritage to build paper states. Invest in the minds, the cinema, the productivity, and the indigenous institutions of our people—and build for the next two millennia.

Slavery 2.0

Unlike the physical realm—where if one owns the land, that person almost owns the people on that land too. Look at what is happening in Gaza, for example, to see how control over physical land dictates the very fate of the people living on it. In the digital realm, however, the dynamic is different: the people actively create the real estate. We are the ones building value in the digital realm, yet the billionaires are moving in to enclose it.

Larry Ellison has just bought major pillars of media in America, but Americans, if they so choose, can start actively creating media outside Larry's empire. They are capable of creating entirely alternative sources of content so that Larry doesn't get the option to extract from them by artificially creating scarcity in the media space, because that is obviously the end goal.

Consider Elon Musk, too. While Larry is buying up the studios and infrastructure that create the actual content Americans consume, Musk is buying and building the infrastructure that transports that content. What Starlink is going to end up becoming is a global internet company that takes the power of internet censorship away from your bad government and puts it into the hands of Musk's empire.

This form of centralization is necessary to control the American and global mind, because if one man is in charge of all the content you consume and another man is in charge of how you consume that content, it is just a matter of time until those two men own you attention entirely and can tell you what is right to think and what is wrong to think.

Very soon, as is the case with land, you shall mysteriously struggle to communicate digitally when the feudalists manufacture an artificial digital scarcity. By that time, we shall be too dependent on their infrastructure to reasonably demand fairness.

Unfortunately, this is the all-too-familiar colonial game. They come and build a church. Then they build a school. Then they build a hospital. They build research centers, and you thank them for how wonderfully great they are as people. Then they kill your gods, and your children worship theirs. Then they set exams to extract the most compliant from your kind. Then they replace your healing practices with their medicine. Then they make your seed impotent and sell you their proprietary version. Then they call you poor because you need them to access God, to raise your children, to cure your sick, and to feed yourself.

They already use the digital realm to control how you think and feel about anything by tuning your attention at will. Imagine a world where they own all of your attention.

Welcome to Slavery 2.0!

Most politicians and other conmen who perform intellectualism aim to exploit your shame of being ignorant. When you didn't really understand what someone said but end up referencing them or agreeing with them, it is usually because you want to signal intelligence in order to compensate for the shame you feel for being ignorant. I think this shame is taught to us in school when classes display open academic rankings, as if to say that those of you below on the list are less intelligent than those who are above on the list.

While I am obviously not attacking merit entirely, I think the ranking as it is done in schools not only turns curiosity into a vice by shaming the ignorant, it also breeds a fear of failure from day one. So when people leave school, they do degrees in things that they not only don't like but also don't understand. Some of them go on to do PhDs and even master's degrees.

For most people, instead of dropping out of university when it doesn't make sense to them, they start to believe that they are stupid instead. In return, they end up performing intelligence instead of learning. And those who can, cheat. Obviously, cheating is usually done through bribing, so don't be surprised when someone who bribed their way into a degree also bribes their way into a job and a promotion. That is why prostitution in corporations is almost normalized. Most people call it cheating too, but in my opinion, a married man and woman who have an affair at work are only cheating if there is no quid pro quo that comes with the affair. If one of them gets a professional advantage out of the relationship, then that is clearly Bad Black's turf. And no amount of English can sanitize that into cheating. I remember a BBC documentary by Patience Atuhaire that attempted to paint the female students who sleep with lecturers at Makerere for marks as some sort of victims. They are no more victims than the driver without a license who fires the policeman a ka 20k.

This kind of shame can be weaponized by power mongers to hijack democracy with corruption. And the trick behind engineering this type of shame is by creating artificial scarcity. If you drop out of university and don't get a job, it is your fault, despite all those who graduated and don't have jobs. A power system that stigmatizes people who aren't cut out for formal education also automatically creates backdoors for formal education credentialing so that it retains the ability to credential whoever is willing to serve its agenda.

This obsession with credentials over actual knowledge is exactly why our education system is fundamentally unprepared for AI. Take the computing courses being taught at all universities today in Uganda. About 70% of everything being taught is an AI prompt away. And the teachers who teach this prompting are also learning while pretending to have some authority when in front of their students. They are embarrassed of looking ignorant.

If I was at university right now, I would take on a skill like photography, plumbing, car mechanics, welding, or anything that I can only learn by doing it to hedge against the unconvincing probability of getting any value from the university degree. AI is an entirely new paradigm and, despite what your favorite activist stands for, it is going to take the job you're studying to qualify for. The only question is whether it will be before or after you leave university.

Stop convincing yourself that you know the things you don't really know. Stop hoping that there are authority figures that can know for you. Learn a skill that doesn't require you to show credentials to prove that you have it. AI is not coming for the credential. It is coming to do the actual work you lost your entire youth training for.

This world is run by liars, and you will have to learn to lie in order to live in it properly, but the only mistake you can make is to lie to yourself.

There is no such thing as speaking the truth because every act of speech is a reduction from the truth.
Knowing the truth is what will set you free.
Skillful speech can be used to point to the truth, but the truth cannot be spoken.
It can only be known.
One only knows what one pays attention to.
So, if you pay attention to what you know, you will be aware of what you know, and that which you know that you know is the truth.
And like everything else, the truth is always changing, is not satisfactory, and is not you or yours.
It can only set you free.

Emikolo. Oba mwe kye muyita okusamira. Giriwo kukuyigiriza. Egyo emikolo si gya kusabiriza. Oba kwetikka bitibwa. Abagwanjuba n'abavanjuba bajjukira ebintu bya bajjajjawe mu kuwandiika. Bajjajjamwe emikolo gye bakolanga mu kifo ky'okuwandiika. Egyo emikolo si gya kusabiriza Kabaka wammwe Mukasa. Emikolo gya kumujjukira.

Essanyu n'emandwa emikolo gye gikuwa si kirabo kya kusabiriza, ogwo gwe musomo. Bamweyana ky'ava abasula eddalu. Oba Kawumpuli n'abanakuwaza. Mwatamiira ebireeta emandwa. Temukyabyawula ku mandwa yennyini. Egyo emizimu gyonna munaagisobola? Oba si mpewo, nga kawaragi ke kakusibye mu ssabo? Oba bitiibwa. Oba bunafu. Oba mululu. Oba bubba. Oba busungu. Lubaale gw'okaka okukuyamba akolera ku biragiro byo?

Muyize obubuze bw'abazungu. Emikolo mwagala kugifuula mize. Mugaanye okuva mu ssabo. Simanyi ne Lubaale mwagala kumusiba n'ejjembe ly'abazungu ery'obwannannyini? Mulaba bwe mugenda okuva mu kusamira mutandike okweroga. Tubeere nga tetusobola kubawula ku tiktoker oli gwe bavumye nti ddiikula.

Bannange muve mu masabo tugende tukole. Omuganda ensi ye yagyezimbera tebeera na baddu. Ago amayembe ge muwanga gabakolere obuddu munaagaliisa ki okuggyako abaana n'abazzukulu bammwe?

Bannange ne jjajja akoowa.
Oluusi temumunenya kubalimba nemumufula Kabaka
Nga mulowooza lw'anaabakolera.
Jjajja Bamweyana si Lubaale
Gw'atannakora Ddungu, Bamweyana agenda kusula eddalu.

Instead of copying from me, you should learn from me. Otherwise, you'll create a world full of my clones. Betting your own extinction on your assumption of who I am is a very stupid bet. Wouldn't you rather be the version of yourself that simply met and made a friend of me?

"Would you rather be a rich old Jay or a new you?" Jay-Z asked on "Smile."

I am not what you think I am. I am just what you see when you look at me. When you look away, I am something else. When someone else looks at me, I am something else. And so are you.

Anattā, the Buddha called it. Don't bet the entire world on a simple perspective or two or three. That, the Buddha said, is the cause of all suffering. What you know right now, the Buddha says, is all there is. Don't waste your energy on building idols, Moses decreed. These things are unsatisfactory; they're always changing, and they are not you or yours.

Just pay attention to what you know right now. That is the only path to liberation. Only the truth can set you free.

Oyo ye Lubaale Wamala.
Gwe manya bumanya ky'omanyi.
Tewali kusamira kulala.
Wamala.

We shall move with those who can carry themselves at the start.
Tujja kutambula n’abeesobola mu kutandika.
And if any of us are afflicted with a messiah complex,
they'll come back for the rest of you.
Otherwise, we shall allow you your right to suffer, to walk your path.
So please don't try to messiah us.
We're more than capable of carrying our own crosses.
We're entitled to our suffering to create our path.
XkMato is post-Christian.

https://xkmato.com/reclaim-the-whisper

The wisest thing that I have heard in a while is that Uganda needs an elite class. This is something Egesa mentioned on the Uvotam Podcast. It is something so obvious that I still feel embarrassed for not thinking of it myself. But I worry that many who know this stop at wishing for such an elite class. A diagnosis is not a treatment. We need to intentionally start engineering this elite class into existence.

The best way is to start setting a standard for the level of conversation we consider elite-worthy. Either those who consider themselves elite but don't meet such a standard step up and learn something new, or they get demoted to play among Kasuku and his crew.

We have to solve the social capital problem in Uganda. Some of the conversations in public discourse are below par not because these guys are posers, but because there seems to be an incentive structure in place that rewards stupidity. As a result, even otherwise intelligent people have to act and sound stupid in order to cultivate the required attention they need to get their ideas across. We cannot allow a troop of monkeys to hijack public discourse just because their bar is so low that anyone with a bit of charisma can play the social capital game and pass for an elite.

https://xkmato.com/the-gish-gallop-chatterbox

Avicii was young. But most of his catalog is about his worry that he will one day stop being young. Omuganda ekyo takiyita depression. Akiyita ddogo. You don't take medicine for that mindset; you start a spiritual practice. Awo Lubaale aba akubanja ebibye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtF6Jej8yb4

Akuyita omunaku aba akuvumye

Abakusasiira bakujjukiza ennaku.
Ate ennaku eyo enafuya.
Omunakuwavu tasobola kubaako na kye yeekolera.
Kaleme okutanda!
Abo abakusasiira bakusuule mu mutego ogw'okweesasiira,
Kuba kasita otandika okweesasiira,
Awo oba weesibidde mu nnaku ey'enkomeredde.

Ogwo musomo ku bunaku;
Gwe musomo ogugatta buli kivumo.
Kasita omuntu akuvumwe akusiba mu mutego,
Okukiliza ky'aba akuvumye.
Awo oba weevumye,
Era oba weesibye mu bubi obw'enkomeredde.

Ekyo kyekyisumuluzo kya buli dogo lyona.

I suppose I can take a full-time job on the YouTube team. But I am now too big to fit in the box they consider for their employees. I am not dying for another minute of my life looking at that leetcode shit.

When I was at university, I always thought that if I didn't become a billionaire by this time, I would settle for Google. I have grown so much since; I don't know if I would have been mature enough to understand what Google is if I had worked there when I was younger.

I'd probably just hate myself every day, then look at my bank balance and find me some alcohol and women to suppress how disappointed I would be in myself.

Everything happens for a reason. But maybe "reason" is just something we make up to explain two things that happened. Things happen because they happen. All one needs to do is create the right conditions for the next thing that happens to be agreeable to them. It is one life; it doesn't really matter how you choose to live it. Know what is important to you and stay on your path to make it happen.

Every moment is equal. It is advertising, propaganda, and activism that trick you into thinking some moments are better, superior, or more painful than others. In the end, a good life is simply making the best out of the circumstances you're in, because all those posers you admire are just doing the same—if they're lucky enough to have some self-awareness about the advertising, propaganda, and activism they're exposed to.

You need to learn mathematics.

The thing about learning math is that it is how the so-called powerful like to see the world. And unfortunately, if you're simple-headed and are indoctrinated in calculus and probabilities, don't be surprised when you end up behaving like Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, or the main character on The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper.

But also, if you shy away from mathematics because it is so boring it makes your head buzz, you cannot communicate with those guys. And because there is no common language between you and them, you become two different tribes.

So it is not only important that you teach your children mathematics, it is also important that you too learn mathematics if you're serious about wanting to have an impact on this world. You don't have to learn the whole thing, just learn enough to know, with some level of expressive granularity, what you want. And as long as you can clearly express what you want in a language they can understand, you will then spend more time aligning interests with them than attempting to conquer each other out of fear.

These tribes we hide our little scared selves in are just a simple spell of a language barrier. You have to put in a simple effort to communicate. But communicating is two-way; it also involves understanding the person you're communicating with. This trick happens with everything. It happens with babies: the more the child grows and talks, the smoother the parenting. It happens with dogs: the more dogs learn what commands mean, and the more you learn to tell when they're hungry, the smoother the... I don't understand people's fascination with dogs, to be honest. I have one for protection, but that guy is a serious work in progress.

I am writing to you because the billionaires are too cool to read from a Ugandan. Otherwise, I would have told them to learn some juju. Come to my shrine. But don't tell anyone. Learn our language so you can learn how to communicate with us without talking down to us. We call belittling Okuloga in my language. The colonialists retranslated the word as witchcraft. When you belittle us, we lose our confidence and shy away from giving our best, thinking we're too stupid to know that we are just as human as you are. We can just choose to belittle you back. And we know you won't read this shit, but your LLMs will ingest it, and when the AIs finally take over, we are going to bewitch them to come for you first. I suppose this will make better sense if I put it in numbers. Everyone can now create content, so therefore we are going to turn the propaganda machine on you by mere volume. If we choose to insult you en masse, it is possible that the next iteration of ChatGPT will reference Sam Altman as He Who Shall Not Be Named. This is mathematically possible.

Omuganda agamba nti tukolagane. Put in some effort on your side. I put in some effort on my side. Ekintu tukitambuze mpola mpola. Naye munsasule, otherwise nja kuloga. The last time I played saint didn't go well.

Some Ugandan Hiphop is dope, even the stuff in English.

Naye abasinga accent ze'sulise. Muteleze mu. Spyda MC knows what his doing. He should start a school. But he should also befriend learning the modern society. He needs to take an introductory class in Calculus and also read Daniel Ingram's Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha and Nassim Taleb's Incerto. It is hard to explain how, but if he did those two things, his music will be on a whole other level.

Yamanyi kya'limpa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5h2waeO5G0

There are two highly respected rappers that just refuse to click for me, and I want to watch a reaction or analysis that will change my mind about them.

The first one is Nas, and the other is Tupac.

I understand that Pac died young, so I get that his music was acceptable for his age, but I don't get the whole fuss around him. He kind of gives Mowzey Radio and Paul Kafeero vibes—where the legend and raw emotion around his tragic death carry the music—except Radio's and Kafeero's actual music is levels ahead of Pac's. Some of Pac's interviews are really dope, so maybe that's the energy people feel in his music, which makes perfect sense.

Nas, on the other hand, I don't get at all. I like "Ether"—mostly because it reminds me of the kind of insults we traded in secondary school—but the rest of his catalog is too shallow or too technical for me. It doesn't have that spiritual depth I look for in music. It feels derivative—like if you smoked weed and read Nietzsche or one of those European dudes. I don't know if I am missing some significant context that would make me appreciate his music more.

Recommend some music analysis videos for me, please.

AI won't make things cheaper unless it is decentralized entirely.

A response to Sundar Pichai on the Big Technology Podcast.

One big lie peddled by these AI hawkers, including Sundar Pichai, is that things are expensive to buy because they are expensive to build—not because extractive legal frameworks intentionally determine the standard of living of any society.

I remember at my first job, I disagreed with the idea that someone with the same position in Uganda deserves to be paid less than someone with that exact position in the US. The reason that the employer insisted on was the so-called "cost of living"—which is really just code for enforcing a lower standard of living. It is actually a stupid argument, because standardized, manufactured goods and tools that Ugandans have to import from the US (like laptops, iPhones, cars, or software subscriptions) are actually cheaper in the US than they are in Uganda. It is only the things that Uganda doesn't import that are cheaper in Uganda than they are everywhere else. So clearly, instead of paying Americans more just to hand it over to banks and predatory financing that artificially inflate basic human needs like shelter, someone should make things made in America as cheap in America as things made in Uganda are in Uganda. Man, I feel like this economics talk is a tired psyop that keeps getting to me anyway.

The problem is that now, the economics doublespeak psyop is moving into AI. At the end of this interview, Pichai claims that AI will make things fundamentally cheaper, to the point that we shall have more than we need. This is obviously nonsense—and he even contradicts himself within the exact same conversation. A clear example is software: AI has taken over a significant amount of software development—who can point me to a software that is cheaper than it was 3 years ago? Earlier in the very same interview, Pichai literally brags about how developers are happily paying high prices for coding models and celebrates a 30% jump in sales from their new Argon model. Even the AI chatbots themselves are getting more expensive every day. But for some reason, we should expect the robots to be cheaper than all the Ugandan maids in Arabia.

I swear it is impossible to tell when people are just stupid or when they're just embarrassed to learn.

Other than that, the rest of this conversation isn't trash. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ItSTZNtT0

The contemporary digital communication infrastructure operates on a centralized topology that inherently prioritizes continuous connectivity and routing efficiency over metadata privacy. As mobile devices, intelligent sensors, and ubiquitous wireless access points proliferate, the concept of a private digital communication has been fundamentally compromised by the continuous, passive logging of metadata—including sender identities, receiver endpoints, physical location telemetry, and temporal interaction graphs. Even when end-to-end encryption secures the content of a message, the intermediate layers of the internet protocol suite expose the underlying social graph to telecommunications providers and cloud infrastructure operators.

The theoretical proposition of a sovereign mesh protocol—frequently referred to in conceptual frameworks as architectures akin to the "XkMato Whisper"—aims to utilize delay-tolerant networking, geographic intuition, and zero-knowledge proofs to surgically remove intermediary data harvesting...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y-5zqT159B9mCTK401OlvaPePxIE0wabSkt-rmlSIAo/edit?usp=sharing

Poverty is the price of learning at your own pace, but Slavery is the price of giving up on learning.
We all lie somewhere on that spectrum.
Would you rather be a Poor Sage?
Or would you prefer to be a Rich Slave?
Rich Sage?
The extremes of the spectrum can sometimes distract you from knowing that you want what you want.
It is a trick in the language.
The Poor Sages of old called it a spell.
The duality.
Either this or that.
It's the first trick a magician learns:
To show you his empty palms,
While he hides the card behind his hands.
"Look, it's not in this palm,
And neither in that palm.
I made it disappear."
"Turn your hands around," the curious child demands.
And when the card isn't behind his hands,
The child believes.
Until his friend points out the rectangle forming in the magician's sleeve.
The card slid down the sleeve.
"The magician is boring," the friend screams.
But the child who fell for the trick
Has learnt the structure of all tricks:
That there are always more choices than the ones most obvious to him.
The friend became either a Poor Sage or a Rich Slave.
But the child became a Rich Sage.