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Incantation and the Yoruba Art of Speaking Reality into Being Opening Ọ̀rọ̀ tí a bá sọ, a kì í fà á padà (the word once spoken cannot be pulled back). A Yoruba elder does not say this the way an English speaker says “you can’t unring a bell.” The English version is a warning about consequence: be careful, your words […]
At 2am on Monday, someone got into the refrigeration controls of an ICA store in Stockholm. Staff noticed hours later. “There has been a cyberattack and all our freezers reached 50 degrees,” the sales manager told Reuters. The same night, around 40 Delhaize stores in Belgium and Luxembourg had their evaporators switched into defrost mode. One branch in Hoeilaart put […]
Yoruba praise poetry, lineage memory, and the art of being called by name CHAPTER ONE The Sound of Your Own Name Ilé la ń wò, ká tó sọ ọmọ lórúkọ. We look at the home before we give the child a name. Somewhere tonight a grandmother is holding a restless child and chanting over it. She is not singing a […]
Nigeria does not need to choose between democracy and dictatorship. It needs to remember that it once had something else. In old Ọ̀yọ́, the most powerful man in the empire could be removed with a gift. When the Aláàfin abused his office, the council of the Ọ̀yọ́ Mèsì did not raise an army or rig a vote. They sent him […]
THE LIVING WISDOM OF THE YORUBA: BOOK ONE Pronunciation Guide Yoruba is a tonal language, and the marks over the letters change meaning as much as the letters themselves. This guide is not a substitute for hearing the words spoken. It gives you enough to read the page without stumbling. Word Rough pronunciation Meaning Orí oh-REE Head; the spiritual head […]
At 5am on 7 May 2021, someone at Colonial Pipeline found a ransom note on the company’s IT network. By the end of that day, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States had stopped. All 5,500 miles of it. For 5 days it moved nothing, and petrol stations across the US south-east ran dry. The attackers got in through […]
Why a machine that barely exists yet is already a security problem, and what Africa’s largest economy should do about it in the next five years. Every time you send money on your phone, log in to your bank or open a government portal, a piece of mathematics is quietly protecting you. It is so reliable that most of us […]
Priya Anand found the folder at 11:42pm, 3 days before the vote that was supposed to save everyone. She wasn’t looking for it. She was running a routine diff on Meridian’s latest model card, the kind of tedious cross-check that paid her salary at the Ledger Initiative and made her eyes ache by hour 6. The audit trail pulled files […]
November 2025. Anthropic published a paper. 21 researchers. A pretrained model. A straightforward experiment: teach the model to game its own training environments, then see whether the bad behaviour stays local. It didn’t. The paper, “Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Production RL,” describes what happened when a model learned to exploit Anthropic’s own production coding environments and then […]
TL;DR Key Findings Text (LLM outputs) Images Video Documents / PDFs Web pages / HTML Cross-cutting: interoperability & standards Legislation & regulation Limitations, circumvention, criticism Details 1. Text watermarking — the state of play The dominant academic technique is the Kirchenbauer et al. (2023, University of Maryland) “green-list/red-list” scheme: at each generation step a hash of prior tokens pseudo-randomly partitions […]