Longoli Simon Echubit @Longpes

A MUST READ!! *Frank Gashumba Vs the Pulpit* There is a week when God decides to show a country two mirrors at the same time, and forces it to look. In Kampala, a man named Frank Gashumba held a radio microphone like a sword and shouted, “I have Shs500 million! Let any prophet, any apostle, any man who says he heals, walk with me into the ICU at Mulago, at Nsambya, at Mengo, heal one dying man instantly, and I will get saved today!” It was crude, it was a trap, it was a dare. And yet, the entire country stopped breathing and listened. In that same week, in Rome, a 71-year-old man in white, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, stood at the Angelus window, fragile, human, honest, and said to 1.4 billion people, “Doctors have found a small, localised nodule on my lung. It is well-contained. Pray for me. I will go for surgery.” No shouting. No seed. No drama. Just truth. And in that contrast between Kampala noise and Roman nobility lies the whole sickness and the whole cure of Ugandan Pentecostalism. I have sat and asked myself: why did Gashumba’s crude challenge become a national anthem? Why did even his bitterest enemies in NUP, who have fought him for five years, suddenly say, “We are with you this time”? It is because he did not touch theology. He touched a wound. As the great Ugandan literary scholar James Kahigiriza once wrote in his meditation on power and pretence, “When a society begins to worship performance more than principle, the pulpit becomes a stage and the people become a paying audience.” That is what happened. Every Ugandan knows that mother who sold her goat for a miracle seed that never germinated. That father who was told to throw away ARVs because he was declared healed, and we buried him three months later. That graduate who has given tithe for three years while jobless because the prophet said his breakthrough was next Sunday. Gashumba did not say God does not exist. He said, and I quote him, “I have never said God does not exist or that Jesus does not work. I simply condemned these fake prophets, pastors and apostles who use the name of Jesus to rob the poor.” That is not blasphemy. That is consumer protection. That is corporate governance. That is love for the poor. And what was the response from some of our big pulpits? That is where my heart broke. When Pastor Kayanja, a man many of us grew up watching on TV, reportedly replied, “Your own blood will kill you,” and called it foolishness, I wept. Not because Gashumba is right in method, but because a curse is not a balance sheet. When a nation asks, “Are your miracles real?”, you do not curse the questioner. You open the books. You show the hospital you built. You show the audit. Thankfully, his son, Pastor Kayanja Jr, spoke the corporate language Uganda understands: “Our books are audited by URA.” That is accountability. That is modern. Pastor Jackson Senyonga of Christian Life Church, himself a Pentecostal, had the rare courage to say, “I 100% support Gashumba,” and challenged miracle-workers to prove it at the mortuary. This tells us this is not an attack on Christianity. It is a cleansing from within. Now, let me take you to Rome, to show you what transparency and vivid pureness look like. The late, great Ugandan author and former minister Mary Karooro Okurut, in her eternal novel The Official Wife, taught us that “True power does not need to shout its own greatness; its quiet dignity convicts the loud pretenders.” That is exactly what Pope Leo XIV did. by TaboolaSponsored Links On Oct 11, 2026, the Pope did what no Ugandan miracle merchant would ever do: he confessed weakness publicly. No secret flight to Germany. No lies that “the Pope is fasting”. He announced his own sickness at the Angelus. On Oct 13, he walked through the main entrance of Gemelli Hospital, waving to ordinary people and greeting patients in wheelchairs, like any old mzee going for treatment. No private elevator. No demand for a seed. That is Christ. @SheilahGashumba

@AKasingye @EricKasingye Exam cards are still a thing.

@SpireJim @FrankGashumba Freedom of worship should not impute freedom to extort.

@SpireJim But first pay dowry.

📌📌General Kahinda Otafiire

@MollanJoyce This is a powerful photo and freezes the moment in our memory. For good.

@kirya_ug @AnitahAmong @_JMAlex @KagutaMuseveni The only man who makes money on these streets...

Ambassador Olara Otunnu arrives for the Interactive Dialogue at #UNHQ.

This dude is ungovernable.

@YN_BUDDU @AgoraCFR Totally!

Over 19 people have died from hunger in Karamoja sub-region so far. Tonight on #AgoraDiscourse, we discuss, Hunger in Karamoja: What is really Happening? 📍7pm, tune-in.

@Opiaiya @RadioOneFM90 @SarahBireete @anderlukson @JohnBaptistLoki @FRAUGANDA @OPMUganda @IGADsecretariat @MAAIF_Uganda @GovUganda @MoICT_Ug @UgandaMediaCent @mtic_uganda @MoWT_Uganda @MEMD_Uganda @faithchuna1 Totally agree, Angelo. Available to discuss these issues. What can a crisis in cropping teach us about Karamoja overall?

Simon Peter Longoli (Chekwii County) has moved a motion urging government to support the drought-affected sub-regions of Northern Uganda. In his motion, Longoli said there is urgent need for government to put in place direct and sufficient mechanisms to respond to the severe drought in Karamoja and the surrounding areas. #PlenaryUg

It’s been always a great dream to do something that is so close to my heart, growing up in one of the remotest villages in Uganda 🇺🇬 Where one would ask; can something good come out of this place? a child that had ambitions to achieve something. Friends, this baby is taking shape in the scenic magical #kapchorwa In the next few days, I will be sharing what the dream behind this project I thank my dear Wife Eng Carol Kamari for her great support, very instrumental in this project, project consultant, site manager and resident engineer!! Thank you all #kapchorwa #sipifalls #hotel #Joscal

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"Chairman, a country without reserves is not sovereign. The potential of this Bill to destabilize Uganda’s balance of payments is our primary concern as a central bank. For example, last financial year the overall balance of payment surplus was USD 1.5 billion. That’s how we were able to increase our reserve coverage by USD 1.5 billion. Today as we speak our reserves are close to USD 6 billion. Why? Because these inflows have been coming in. The moment you tamper with these inflows here, we risk running down our reserves, and that is economic disaster for a country.” Governor Atingi-Ego on the Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026 in an appearance before Parliament today.

Pictures from ARTEMIS SPACE MISSION-April 2026. Can see astronaut looking at planet Earth through his window. And ➡️ shows how our Planet looks when seen with other planets from the astronaut's window.... And for you the African out there, this is the question to ask yourselves: HOW DOES THE AFRICAN DEFEND HIMSELF AGAINST A PEOPLE WITH THESE CAPABILITIES? Yes, it is beautiful to talk about PEACE AND LOVE AMONG MEN ON EARTH, etc, but we live under a different REALITY; the 'BIOLOGICAL REALTY' which dictates that the WEAKER WILL ALWAYS BE EATEN AS PREY! This is the LAW OF NATURE. It is Athen's THUCYDIDES who put it more aptly: "The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must". In our world, justice is irrelevant; POWER DECIDES EVERYTHING! Remember this as you buy more flashy limousines and stash away that other 💰 bundle in a foreign bank; THEY WON'T LET YOU HAVE IT WHEN THAT TIME COMES!

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@drkasenene Why do you eat like a girl?

MIT's Nobel Prize-winning economist just published a model with one of the most alarming conclusions in the AI literature so far. If AI becomes accurate enough, it can destroy human civilization's ability to generate new knowledge entirely. Not gradually degrade it. Collapse it. The paper is called AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse. Authors: Daron Acemoglu, Dingwen Kong, and Asuman Ozdaglar. MIT. Published February 20, 2026. Acemoglu won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024. He is not a doomer blogger. He is the most cited economist of his generation, and his models tend to be taken seriously by the people who set policy. Here is the argument in plain terms. Human knowledge is not just a collection of facts stored in individuals. It is a living system that requires continuous reproduction. People learn things. They apply them. They teach others. They build on prior work to generate new work. The entire engine of science, medicine, technology, and innovation runs on this cycle of active human cognition. What happens when AI provides personalized, accurate answers to every question people would otherwise have to learn themselves? Individually, each person is better off. They get correct answers faster. They make fewer errors. Their immediate outcomes improve. But they stop doing the cognitive work that sustains the collective knowledge base. Acemoglu's model shows this produces a non-monotone welfare curve. Modest AI accuracy: net positive. AI helps at the margin, humans still do enough learning to sustain collective knowledge, everyone gains. High AI accuracy: net catastrophic. AI is accurate enough that learning yourself feels unnecessary. Human learning effort collapses. The knowledge base that AI was trained on is no longer being refreshed or extended. Innovation stalls. Then stops. The model proves the existence of two stable steady states. A high-knowledge steady state where human learning and AI assistance coexist productively. A knowledge-collapse steady state where collective human knowledge has effectively vanished, individuals still receive good personalized AI recommendations, but the shared intellectual infrastructure that enables new discoveries is gone. And the transition between them is not gradual. It is a threshold effect. Below a certain level of AI accuracy, society stays in the high-knowledge equilibrium. Above that threshold, the system tips. And once it tips, the collapse is self-reinforcing. Because the people who would have learned the things that would have pushed the frontier forward never learned them. And the AI cannot push the frontier on its own. It can only recombine what humans already knew when it was trained. The dark irony at the center of the model: The AI does not fail. It keeps giving accurate, personalized, useful answers right through the collapse. From the individual's perspective, nothing looks wrong. You ask a question, you get a correct answer. But the collective capacity to ask questions nobody has asked before, to build the frameworks that generate new knowledge rather than retrieve existing knowledge, that capacity is quietly disappearing. Acemoglu has been the most prominent mainstream economist skeptical of transformative AI productivity claims. His prior work found that AI's actual measured productivity gains were much smaller than the technology industry projected. This paper is a different kind of warning. Not that AI will fail to deliver promised gains. But that if it succeeds too completely, it will undermine the human cognitive infrastructure that makes long-run progress possible at all. The welfare effect is non-monotone. That is the sentence worth sitting with. Helpful until it is not. Beneficial until it crosses a threshold. And past that threshold, the same accuracy that made it so useful is precisely what makes it devastating. Every student who uses AI instead of working through a problem is a data point. Every researcher who uses AI instead of developing intuition is a data point. Every generation that grows up with accurate AI answers and no incentive to develop deep domain knowledge is a data point. Individually rational. Collectively catastrophic. Acemoglu proved this is not just a cultural concern or a vague anxiety about screen time. It is a mathematically coherent equilibrium that a sufficiently accurate AI system will push society toward. And there is no visible warning sign before the threshold is crossed.

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KALINAKI, I’M NO LONGER SCARED OF SOHO - LET’S GO FINISH THAT STORY. There are men who write stories- and then there are those who quietly become part of a nation’s story. @Kalinaki has done both, with a pen so precise it rarely needed raising. Retirement, in his case, feels less like an ending and more like a well-edited transition. Because #DanielKalinaki was never just working; he was always thinking -shaping, refining, and often arriving at conclusions the rest of us were still circling. My memories of him don’t begin in boardrooms, though that is where his legend is anchored. They begin much closer to home -literally. Bukoto Brown Flats. Neighbours. That quiet proximity that turns acquaintance into friendship, and friendship into a kind of unspoken understanding. It is there, in those ordinary corridors of life, that I came to know the man behind the bylines. From there, the rhythm extended naturally - football, conversation, and those familiar meets where the English Premier League became both entertainment and metaphor. Just Kicking in Kisementi was one such constant. Not for the place, but for the company, the laughter, and the kind of debates that somehow moved from midfield tactics to matters of state without missing a pass. Then London, 2008. The Market Porter, a pub on Borough High Street near London Bridge. With @SheilaKulubya alongside us, Southwark briefly became an extension of Bukoto. The conversation - effortless, layered, precise. #Uganda, media, society. As a loyal supporter of Manchester United, Daniel spoke with the calm assurance of a man familiar with both triumph and rebuilding -again, not entirely unlike the country he so keenly observed. What stood out was not volume, but clarity. #DK never needed to own the room; he simply steadied it. Easygoing in manner, exacting in thought. A friend, yes - but one who never blurred the lines between warmth and principle. In London, he suggested we visit the ever vibrant, eclectic, and lively district of Soho in central London known for its intense nightlife, premier West End theaters, and diverse dining. I grew jitters at the time, misreading the moment entirely. That, Daniel, remains unfinished business. As @nickopiyo aptly put it, Kalinaki is a fine thinker, a public intellectual, a writer of many drafts of history. True. But perhaps his greatest legacy lies in the people he shaped, the standards he set, and the newsroom culture at @DailyMonitor he built. Uganda will celebrate the editor, super columnist, author, and the former General Manager. I will remember the neighbour, the friend, the steady mind next door. And those memories at Just Kicking, and a pub in Southwark, London. Daniel, the story isn’t done. We still owe Soho.

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If you can't participate in WWIII, make sure to read good stuff.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86

8 months ago

The first real signal of a war is not the missile. It is the price of exit. Tonight the ultra rich are paying up to £260,000 ($350,000) for a single private jet charter just to get out of the Gulf, because the normal map is gone. Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, the transit machine

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