> be Ray Youssef > spawn NYC, son of Egyptian immigrants > grow up broke, even homeless at one point > 1999: launch ringtone startup aka "Napster of ringtones" → millions/month > discover problem of “unbanked” teens can’t pay > build social media platform w/out ads → disgusted it’s turning into proto-OnlyFans → ragequit > spend 7 years as MMA fighter / spiritual wanderer > come back to tech, fail a few startups → dark rabbit holes: health, politics, history, science, Quran > 2014: broke, homeless again, learn to sell PayPal gift cards for BTC on LBC > realize gift cards = world’s first digital bearer instrument > idea.exe → build Paxful, LocalBitcoins for Global South > teach Nigerians to bypass “economic apartheid” with gift cards → Bitcoin adoption booms > Paxful hits \$88M revenue just by word of mouth > builds 11 schools in Africa (13 worldwide) because “everyone eats” > DOJ + US compliance nightmare → 88 compliance staff > most banks → \$4.5M in user funds frozen > co-founder embezzles, blows \$40K/week on parties, booze, hookers > Ray offers him \$87M to walk away → refuses → sues Ray → locks up payments → wallet goes down > Ray personally saves it in 11 days no sleep → still walks away with nothing > 2023: Paxful implodes, users stranded → emergency launch of Noones > vision: "WeChat of the Global South" → gift cards, crypto, OTC, jobs, services + messenger + non-custodial wallet > radical transparency: CEO dashboard public > 50% of gross revenue back to users & schools > mission: onboard 1B users in 5 years across Africa, ME, SEA, LatAm, CIS > self-styled "War Chief," building decentralized nation for free people > “West doesn’t want Africa to be served? fine, I’ll build my own tech stack” Reads like fiction, but it’s real pure insane lore.

Ibrahim Traore was right to undertake a complete overhaul of the Burkinabe school curriculum and text book to remove some of the nonsense that is being taught in African schools to our children. For example, children are thought the following nonsense, which could not be further from reality: Mongo park discovered river Niger Zambezi river discovered by David Livingstone Victoria falls discovered by David Livingstone. Orange river, discovered by European explorers. So the people that lived and fished in those communities didn't know that the river existed, until the Europeans came. It is not only Burkinabe Faso education system that needs complete change, the entire frican education system needs a total overhaul, too. Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 has taken the lead

If I ran a game studio, I wouldn't send out DMCAs. I'd be shipping SDKs. AI will decompile all the games. The only choice left is whether it happens with you or around you. Open source the code for anything older than a few years. Worried about piracy? id Software did this with Doom in 1997. It still runs on everything and people still buy it. Let the fans port your iconic gaming classics using assets from copies they purchased. You keep selling the game without paying for a remaster. Give modders a storefront and revenue share. Hire the best ones. Sega did that for Sonic Mania and got one of the best reviewed Sonic games of all time. Valve let Black Mesa sell on Steam. Fans get remasters sooner. Studios get to focus on shipping what's next, and IPs keep a community that's willing to pay for it. Fight your fans or fund them. Your move.

We will not have another Salluhdin under current conditions of muslim world

The Prophet Mohammad said: Indeed, Allah chose the Arab Kinanah from the descendants of Ismaʿil. He chose Quraysh from Kinanah. He chose Banu Hashim from Quraysh. He chose me from Banu Hashim.

Au #BurkinaFaso🇧🇫 fini l'importation des réfrigérateurs, désormais c'est fabriqué sur place avec des matériaux adaptés à notre climat.

1) Iran is based and cool because they lob missiles at Israel/America 2) Killing Sunnoid jihadists is based and cool 3) The Saudis deserve it because they betrayed Palestine and let the Americans use their bases to attack Iran 4) This is literally false 5) Nigga if you ain’t chewing on Qat you ain’t living life 6) They have successfully driven the Americans out of all nearly all their bases in the ME They are doing more now to liberate Palestine than the cursed ‘ummah’ has done in nearly 80 years.

FORBIDDEN STUDIOS PRESENTS: WHEN PILOT IS FIGHTING, PLUMBER IS FLYING One plane. One sword. One plumbing emergency. The biggest Bollywood action psyop of the year has arrived.

Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: IB ALWAYS 😳, it's UNBELIEVABLE, Breast Cancer: Comrade Captain Ibrahim Traore is bringing "MammaTyper" technology to his country for the very first time to save the lives of millions of Burkinabè women and even those from the AES!!! Burkina Faso now has the molecular diagnosis of breast cancer using MammaTyper, installed at the Bogodogo and Pala University Hospitals. This latest-generation technology allows for precise identification of the molecular sub-type of cancer and guides treatment in just six hours, thus reducing hospitalizations and inappropriate treatments. The services are available to Burkinabè at subsidized rates. On the occasion of October Rose 2026, the Ministry of Health invites women to get screened for free. The Editorial Team, Bobo Dioulasso Afferage

When you deposit your money with a bank: 1. The bank becomes the legal owner of the money you deposited. 2. The bank can use that money as it chooses, including deciding where to allocate credit. 3. Every time the bank issues a new loan, it creates new money in the process. You are the product. Debt is the magic trick.