Random musings of a nerd with opinions. A lot of opinions. Digital nomad. Ex-Accenture. Drone pilot. Wannabe landscape photographer.
๐Bor
Joined September 2011
- Tweets10.5K
- Following2.6K
- Followers3.9K
- Likes26.1K
Pinned Tweet
For more than a thousand years, my Dinka (Jieng) people of South Sudan and other semi-nomadic Nilotic pastoralists have moved with their cattle across the region's vast floodplains, a rhythm of life dictated by the seasonal rains and the rise and fall of the Toch Wetland (Sudd).
Cut off by distance, conflict, and geography from the rest of humanity, our cattle-centered way of life has remained largely unchanged for centuries.
Until now.
That isolation, long a source of protection from the outside world, is beginning to fade.
Having returned to film over the last 3-4 years, I can finally share this short film, which explores daily life at my Dinka Bor (Pathuyith) cattle camp. As the modern world edges closer and closer, a friend and I wanted to capture and document a way of life I experienced as a young boy. It is a dying culture suspended between ancient tradition and encroaching change.
All Rights Reserved.
#Nilotic #Dinka #SouthSudan #CattleCamp #Nomadic #pastoralism #Cattle #Herding #DinkaBor #Cattlekeeping #Cows #Change #Modernity #Pathuyith #75Meja #SouthSudanese #BorCounty #Bor
From looking at all the things Claude Fable 5 model can do, I have to say, after 10+ years of clicking away on enterprise laptops, I have made peace with the fact that I, and a big chunk of other white-collars, will be out of work within the next 1-2-3 years.
Oh well, had a good run.
Binance is probably playing some weak coverup game. No serious Tech organization gives employees the option to download external files into their work laptops, unvetted. Heck, even regular flash disks are a no no no.
North Korea stole $6.3 billion from Binance by inviting one of its engineers to a job interview at a company that didn't exist.
And the guy didn't even have access to the money.
It took them five months and two separate hacks to pull this off.
Back in June, an engineer on Binance's wallet team went looking for an AI tool and installed a tampered Homebrew package. Binance caught it, swapped the laptop and reset the passwords. Problem solved, they figured. Except by then the attackers already knew who worked on that team and what each person did.
So they went recruiting.
In September a different Binance engineer got a message on a real job site from someone calling himself a project director. First round was a video call with a fake HR person, who even shared a social media account full of personal photos so the whole thing felt legit. Second round was with the "CEO," who told him to download a coding assignment onto his work computer. It was loaded with malware nobody had seen before, and Binance's security software missed it completely.
Then they waited. On October 20 they used his laptop plus one of Binance's own internal AI tools to get onto two wallet engineers' computers, and one of those engineers had permission to spin up new code on Binance's systems. Nine days later the attackers did exactly that. They ran a script and used an Ethereum feature called EIP-7702 to hand themselves control of a hot wallet, one of the wallets Binance keeps online to process withdrawals. Money started pouring out at 8:05pm UTC.
It took Binance four hours to stop it, which works out to more than $25 million a minute.
And it took that long because of a safety feature. Binance splits the signing power on those wallets into pieces held by different parties, so no single employee can ever drain one alone. That sounds great until something goes wrong, because it also meant nobody could hit the off switch on their own.
For context, the previous record was Bybit's $1.5 billion in February 2025, also North Korea. This one is four times bigger. Binance has already refilled about 98% of it out of its own pocket and says customers won't lose a cent.
Binance says it blocked 57 suspected North Korean attacks this year, and the one that got through started with a guy who just wanted a new job.
I see folks going after this doc, but her only naive mistake is explicitly adding โblackโ to poor neighbourhoods. The experience is similar in poor areas, regardless of the race.
Her point stands. Being poor in the West is extremely dangerous. Your life expectancy is much better in the poorest third world village.
Some beef I hadnโt realized existed. Turkic vs Turkish people. โNo, not you, weโre the real Turks.โ
This quoted post is unavailable.
7 corners and 48 touches in the box, Liverpool dominated but got 0 shots on target. This Arsenal side has a serious backbone. How things change!
One thing I despise the most in my culture is this normalized modern polygamy. It needs to die, or survive in the fringes at the very least. I find advocates of this backward institution to be ignorant about the essence of being.
From a distance, the whole structure looks stable - love and butterflies in the photos. But every kid and wife has needs and wants. Heck, some have dreams and life goals of their own. So if you find yourself stepping up as a provider and keeping multiple of those households afloat, it becomes clear the whole institution is toxic and chaotic, absolute dysfunction!
Itโs obvious these men donโt recognize all the suffering is by choice and unnecessary. So stupid!
Feels like I have been on the internet for a little too long, I remember when Google Chrome didnโt exist. It was Mozilla FireFox and Windows Explorer.
If you live in the West, you have to roll cautiously these days. The cost of living has folks on edge and ready to let off some steam at the slightest of provocations. A pointless road rage can get you shot or stabbed.
This is a good analysis of Mbappรฉโs row with China. Not knowing Chairman Mao Zedongโs name is probably the bigger problem in my book.
Itโs notable that most of his critics in China have not seen the actual meme or the interview of what he said, itโs all censored.
The uproar is from news reports. Something like: โa French footballer disrespected our founding fatherโ.
I know a lot of people in the West are baffled by the Mbappรฉ-Mao storm in China - which in itself shows that Mbappรฉ's ignorance doesn't come out of nowhere...
To understand it, here's the best analogy I could think of: imagine the biggest Chinese star in the NBA, with sponsorship deals all over the US. One day he's asked for his favorite meme of himself. He giggles: "the one where they put my face on some guy, I think he was an American slave owner." When the "some guy" in question is George Washington.
Whatever you think of the label, you know exactly how that would land in the US: an ungrateful foreigner getting rich off Americans, laughing at the country's founding father in an offensive way - at least to a big share of the population - without even knowing his name.
A founding father is the story a nation tells itself about where it comes from. Laugh at him as a foreigner while cashing in on that nation's consumers, and that's not going to go well in any country.
The label is also extremely un-nuanced: yes, all important historical figures have their share of darkness and Washington and Mao are no exception.
China actually recognizes this: the official line is that he was "70% right and 30% wrong," and the Party's 1981 resolution condemned how his "personal arbitrariness gradually undermined democratic centralism in Party life and the personality cult grew graver and graver" (marxists.org/subject/china/dโฆ)
Same for Washington: it's officially acknowledged too. Or at least it was until this year: in January, the National Park Service tore down an exhibit in Philadelphia about the people Washington enslaved there, under a Trump executive order targeting content that "inappropriately disparage[s]" Americans (associationforpublicart.org/โฆ). Which goes to show China isn't uniquely touchy about its founding father...
Raila Odinga International Stadium is a fitting honor. RAO was a consistent statesman.
๐๐ฃ๐๐ช๐๐ช๐ง๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ก ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ช๐ข ๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ ๐๏ธ
A special match to kick off the new year: FC Bayern travels to Nairobi on January 5, 2027, and will face Ajax Amsterdam as part of the ceremonial opening of the new national stadium, Raila Odinga International Stadium at Talanta Sports City.
๐ fc.bayern/jasu
Sudanese-style flex aka Twitter โownageโ.
People who see these ugliness against people that are identical to them as some kind of past glory are morally in the pits.
This quoted post is unavailable.
I have other ideas on this supposed solution. People arenโt farming because they donโt know how or donโt want to.
I would rather this agricultural potential stays unrealized until the current government dies a natural death. Iโll bet on the next government to fix property rights, insecurity and empower rural farmers.
Commercial farming companies will be another disaster - exploitation. Real sustainable solution has to start from the grassroots.
Countries rub by giant agricultural corporations have a name - Banana Republics.
