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In a world that often feels chaotic and fast paced, sometimes the most profound advice is the simplest. Country music star Tim McGraw delivers exactly that in his hit song and official music video for “Humble And Kind.” With beautifully straightforward lyrics, the track serves as a gentle reminder of the values that truly matter.

Whether you are a longtime country music fan or just hearing it for the first time, the song offers a universal message about navigating life with grace. Here are the core themes that make this song so resonant.

1. The Foundation of Family and Roots

Early in the song, McGraw sets the scene by reminding listeners of the comfort of home, noting that there is always a light on and the key is under the mat. He emphasizes the importance of family connections, urging us to go to church because our mothers ask us to and to visit our grandparents every chance we get. It is a poignant reminder that time spent with loved ones is never wasted time.

2. Integrity and Everyday Politeness

As the song progresses, it shifts into a masterclass on basic human decency. McGraw highlights the simple acts that define our character, like holding doors, saying please, and saying thank you. He pairs these everyday manners with deeper moral imperatives, reminding listeners not to steal, cheat, or lie. It is a call to maintain your integrity even when you have massive mountains to climb in life.

3. Navigating Success and Ambition

Around the one minute mark, the lyrics touch on ambition and hard work. McGraw acknowledges that it is wonderful when your efforts pay off and your dreams are realized. He encourages listeners to let themselves feel the pride of their accomplishments. However, he quickly balances this by warning against entitlement and bitterness. He notes that expecting a free ride or holding a grudge will only keep you from flying.

4. The True Meaning of Love

Approaching the two minute mark, the song offers profound advice on intimacy and relationships. It draws a clear line between casual encounters and true connection, urging listeners to truly know the difference. By stating that “I love you” is not a pickup line, the lyrics challenge us to treat love with the respect and honesty it deserves.

5. Enjoying the Little Things and Paying It Forward

In the later parts of the track, the message shifts to cherishing the simple joys of life, like eating a root beer popsicle on a hot day or shutting off the AC to roll the windows down and feel the summer sun. The final verses deliver the ultimate lesson of the song: when you reach your destination and achieve your goals, do not take the love in your life for granted. Instead, turn back around and help the next person in line find their way.

Final Thoughts

“Humble And Kind” is more than just a country song. It is a beautifully written blueprint for living a fulfilling and grounded life. By reminding us to stay connected to our roots, treat others with respect, and help those coming up behind us, Tim McGraw delivers a timeless message that everyone can take to heart.

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When you think of the world’s most ambitious mega-projects, you might picture Silicon Valley tech campuses or Middle Eastern skyscrapers. But one of the most audacious industrial feats of our time is happening in Nigeria, spearheaded by Aliko Dangote. In a recent episode of the In Good Company podcast, Nicolai Tangen (CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund) sat down with Dangote, founder and CEO of the Dangote Group and Africa’s wealthiest person. From his humble beginnings to building a $20 billion oil refinery, Dangote shares a fascinating look at what it takes to industrialize a continent. Here are the biggest takeaways from their conversation.

1. The Roots of an Empire: Discipline and Focus

Dangote didn’t start with massive factories. Coming from a long lineage of traders, he launched a small trading company in 1978, initially buying and selling trucks of cement, and later branching into commodities like rice and sugar. Raised by his grandfather after losing his father at a young age, Dangote credits his success to an intense work ethic and discipline. Around the 3-minute mark, he notes that he wakes up at 5:00 AM daily and firmly believes that “business and pleasure don’t mix.” In fact, his dedication is so absolute that when he decided to shift from trading to manufacturing, he sold his luxury homes in the US and the UK so he wouldn’t be distracted by taking holidays abroad.

2. The Power of “Backward Integration”

A core philosophy behind the Dangote Group’s massive growth is “backward integration.” Instead of relying on imports for everyday necessities, Dangote set out to produce them locally. This strategy transformed his company into a cement manufacturing powerhouse that currently operates across 14 African countries. By manufacturing essential commodities like cement and fertilizer, his companies directly address the continent’s supply shortages while retaining wealth within Africa.

3. The $20 Billion Mega-Refinery Gamble

Perhaps the most jaw-dropping segment of the interview covers Dangote’s latest venture: building the world’s largest single-train oil refinery. Despite Nigeria being a massive producer of crude oil, the country historically lacked refining capabilities, forcing citizens to endure chronic fuel shortages and long lines at the pump. Around the 10-minute mark, Dangote details how he decided to fix this by building a $20 billion refinery from scratch. The challenges were monumental:

• Building the Infrastructure: Because no local port could handle the 3,000-ton equipment needed, the company had to build its own harbor, road networks, and a massive water-treatment facility.
• Scale of Employment: The project required a staggering 67,000 workers on-site.
• Overcoming Resistance: Dangote faced significant pushback from an entrenched “oil mafia” that heavily profited from the dysfunctional system of importing subsidized fuel. Despite admitting that he might have backed out had he known the full scale of the challenges beforehand, Dangote pushed forward, successfully testing and launching a facility capable of processing 650,000 barrels of crude a day.

  4. Why China is Winning the Investment Game in Africa

  When asked about foreign investment past the 31-minute mark, Dangote offered a candid perspective on why China currently dominates the African business landscape. According to Dangote, Chinese firms win out because they bring “their balance sheet to the table.” When an African company wants to build a power plant or factory, Western nations often demand massive upfront payments. In contrast, Chinese institutions will provide the equipment, technology, and flexible, long-term financing to make the deal happen seamlessly. However, he notes that American and European financial institutions are finally beginning to recognize these missed opportunities and are becoming more competitive.

  5. Philanthropy and the “Arsenal” What-If

  Beyond business, Dangote is deeply focused on his legacy. Later in the interview, around the 45-minute mark, he explains his dedication to philanthropy. He has donated over $1.25 billion to his foundation, partnering with global figures like Bill Gates to tackle issues like polio eradication, primary healthcare, and education across Africa. He firmly believes that foreign investors are only attracted by domestic investors, and he hopes his investments will signal to the world that Africa is a promising, capable market ready for rapid growth. A Fun Fact for Sports Fans: Near the 47-minute mark, Dangote shares that he is a massive fan of the Arsenal football club and nearly bought the team when it was valued at around $2 billion. Ultimately, he chose to inject those funds into completing his massive oil refinery instead. He remains a dedicated fan, proving that even for a man laser-focused on business, there’s always time for the beautiful game!

  Final Thoughts

  Dangote’s advice to young Africans is simple but powerful: believe that the future is bright, stay on the continent, and help build it. With over 1.6 billion working-age people projected to be in Africa by 2050, the continent’s potential is undeniable.

This video by Kwabena Kwabena - ASO REMIX Stonebwoy x Kofi Kinaata (Visualizer) was published on December 6, 2026. It already has 1.3 Million Views and counting on YouTube.

Language disclaimer: This commentary is a mix of English and Twi

Kwabena Kwabena featuring dancehall/Afrobeats superstar Stonebwoy, and highlife/hiplife rap star Kofi Kinaata.

Here is the context and breakdown of the video in markdown format, based on its metadata and animated visualizer:

1. The Song & The Artists

• The Track: The video is the official animated visualizer for “Aso Remix.” * The Original Classic: “Aso” is originally a legendary, classic Ghanaian highlife song by Kwabena Kwabena, known for its deep themes of infidelity, betrayal, and intense heartbreak.
• The Feature Heavyweights: This modern 2025 remix brings together three heavyweights of Ghanaian music: the original highlife legend Kwabena Kwabena, dancehall/Afrobeats superstar Stonebwoy, and highlife/hiplife rap star Kofi Kinaata.

2. The Animated Storyline (The Visual Context)

The animation (credited to creator/director Berimah Boateng and “Sobolo Made It”) perfectly visualizes the painful narrative of the song through a dramatic, cartoon storyline:

• The Betrayal: The visualizer begins with a devastating discovery. The main character (animated Kwabena Kwabena) comes home with a bouquet of flowers to surprise his wife, only to catch her in bed with another man.
• The Fallout: We see the immediate destruction of the relationship. He drops the flowers, shatters their framed wedding photo on the floor, and spirals into a deep depression—depicted by scenes of him drinking alone, crying in the rain, and sitting isolated in a dark room.
• The “Trial of Heartbreak”: The video features a literal courtroom setting where the cheating partner is put on trial for her betrayal. Kwabena Kwabena is seen passionately testifying about his broken heart to the judge.
• The Hospitalization: The heartbreak is so severe that it becomes physical. In one scene, Kwabena Kwabena is lying in a hospital bed while an animated Kofi Kinaata (acting as a doctor) listens to his chest with a stethoscope, diagnosing a literally shattered heart.

3. The Roles of the Featured Artists

• Stonebwoy: Stonebwoy’s animated avatar is seen in a neon-lit recording studio. He acts as the harsh voice of reality, shown on a video call aggressively rejecting the crying ex-girlfriend (who is left stranded at a bus stop with her luggage). He represents cutting off the toxic ex.
• Kofi Kinaata: Kinaata appears as the “doctor” diagnosing the heartbreak and later is seen chilling by a tree, delivering his signature Fante rap verses to comfort the protagonist.
• The Climax Concert: The video concludes with a vibrant, neon-lit rooftop performance where Kwabena Kwabena (on guitar), Stonebwoy (on drums), and Kofi Kinaata (on keyboard) all jam together, turning the painful heartbreak into a massive collaborative hit.

The nicest parts are the part where Stonebwoy says ‘Niɛ ɛshi me kraa ni sɛ we got matching tattoos’ and also the parts where Kofi Kinaata says “You’ve fallen in love, but sometimes stand in love kakraa”

FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet Lex Fridman Podcast Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X.

Y Combinator’s request for startups organized in a searchable dashboard. Y-combinator has published their Request For Startups (RFS) with the page showing previous RFS up to summer 2024. I’m not reading all of that so I put it in json, & made a dashboard now you can search by domain and query across cohorts 2024-2026

Here’s a rough list of domains covered over the years

• Aerospace
• B2B
• Internal tools
• Medicine
• Robotics
• Software
• Space

The project’s on github, open-source under the MIT license

Find the app here if interested

http://ycombinator-rfs.netlify.app

According to the comments:

@Air_China_Productions Fun fact: the original writer for the song Jin Sheng Yuan which translate to “Affinities of this life” actually wrote it when he was in prison.

English translation thanks to Youtube User: @el.hombre.danilo

We are meant to be on the road As long as we never forget each other My friend, let’s keep it firmly in mind Don’t care about these heartaches and sorrows Friends, let’s keep in mind together Don’t care about these heartaches and heartaches Our life is meant to be vicissitudes cry and laugh My friend, let’s keep it firmly in mind Our brotherhood is long in this life My friend, let’s keep it firmly in mind Our brotherhood is long in this life

We are meant to be on the road in this lifetime As long as we never forget each other Friends, let’s keep in mind together Don’t care about these heartaches and heartaches Friends, let’s keep in mind together Don’t care about these heartaches and heartaches Our life is like a dream What’s the point of getting drunk with you Friends, let’s keep in mind together After the end of the mortal world, there will be no worries Friends, let’s keep in mind together After the end of the mortal world, there will be no worries Friends, let’s keep in mind together After the end of the mortal world, there will be no worries

In this video, Derek from Veritasium teams up with cybersecurity experts to demonstrate a real, unpatched vulnerability that allows hackers to drain funds from a locked iPhone without the user’s knowledge. He successfully demonstrates this by “stealing” $10,000 from Marques Brownlee’s (MKBHD) locked phone [03:09].

The Mechanism: A Man-in-the-Middle Attack

The hack relies on intercepting and altering the near-field communication (NFC) data sent between an iPhone and a payment terminal using a device called a Prox Mark and a Python script [05:32]. To make the theft work, the hackers have to bypass three layers of security by telling “three lies”:

- Lie 1: Bypassing the Lock Screen. Apple’s "Express Transit" mode allows users to tap and pay for subway rides without unlocking their phones [06:25]. The hacker's device broadcasts a code pretending to be a transit gate, tricking the locked phone into initiating a payment. The script then modifies a bit of data to tell the phone that the reader is offline.
- Lie 2: Bypassing High-Value Verification. Normally, a $10,000 charge requires FaceID or a PIN. However, the phone relies on the _reader_ to flag whether a transaction is "high value" or "low value." The script intercepts the terminal's request and flips the "high value" bit to a zero, tricking the phone into thinking it's approving a tiny transit fee [09:12].
- Lie 3: Fooling the Payment Terminal. When the phone approves the transaction, it flags that no customer verification (FaceID/PIN) was provided. If the actual payment terminal sees this for a $10,000 charge, it will reject it. The script intercepts the phone's response and flips the verification bit to a one, tricking the terminal into believing the user verified the massive payment on their device [11:08].

Why Visa and not Mastercard?

This specific hack only works with a Visa card set up in an iPhone’s Express Transit slot [15:15].

While both Visa and Mastercard use symmetric cryptography (a shared secret key between the card and the bank), Mastercard adds a mandatory layer of asymmetric cryptography between the card and the reader [16:17]. This requires the card to send a unique digital signature. Because the hacker’s script alters the transaction data, the signature wouldn’t match, and Mastercard would block the payment. Visa, however, skips this signature check when the payment terminal is online, leaving a loophole for this specific attack to succeed.

The Corporate Response

This vulnerability was made public by the researchers in 2021, yet it remains unpatched:

- Apple: Stated this is a concern with the Visa system and noted Visa's stance on the matter [22:18].
- Visa: Claimed that this type of fraud is highly unlikely to scale in the real world [22:43]. They argue their network defenses are adequate and point out that affected consumers are fully protected by Visa's zero-liability policy (meaning victims will be refunded).

How to Protect Yourself

Since the exploit relies entirely on Apple’s transit feature, you can easily protect yourself by either turning off Express Transit mode entirely, or ensuring you do not have a Visa card assigned as your primary transit card [21:44].

Chronological Breakdown of the Video Script

• [00:00:00] The Heist Setup: Derek introduces the premise with Marques Brownlee (MKBHD). Without Marques unlocking his phone, Derek places the locked iPhone on a device and successfully charges $5 to it via Apple Pay.
• [00:02:00] The $10,000 Escalation: Derek tests the limits of the exploit by typing a $10,000 charge into the terminal. Despite Marques believing a charge that high would absolutely require FaceID or a PIN, the terminal approves the $10,000 charge from the locked phone, leaving Marques stunned.
• [00:04:00] The Hackers & The Loophole: Derek introduces cybersecurity professors Yana Borenu and Tom Chofia from the University of Surrey. They explain that this hack was actually made public back in 2021. It uses a “Man-in-the-Middle” attack, where a device called a Proxmark intercepts the NFC data, passes it to a laptop running a Python script to alter the data, and then sends it to a burner phone to complete the transaction at the terminal.
• [00:06:00] The First Lie (Bypassing the Lock Screen): The script exploits Apple’s “Express Transit” mode (introduced in 2019), which allows users to pay for subway rides without unlocking their phones. The hackers broadcast a transit gate code to wake the phone up, then flip a bit of binary code to convince the phone it is talking to an offline subway gate.
• [00:08:20] The Second Lie (Bypassing FaceID): To get $10,000 out, they have to bypass customer verification. The iPhone relies on the reader to categorize a transaction as “high value” or “low value,” rather than checking the number itself. The script intercepts the terminal’s request and changes the “high value” flag to a zero, tricking the phone into thinking it’s a small transit fee.
• [00:10:19] The Third Lie (Fooling the Terminal): The terminal expects proof that the customer verified a $10,000 charge. The script intercepts the phone’s response and flips a zero to a one, artificially stamping the transaction as “verified on device.”
• [00:11:50] Why Samsung and Mastercard are Safe: The video notes this only works on iPhones, because Samsung phones check the actual numerical value of a transit charge (rejecting anything over $0). Furthermore, it only works if a Visa card is in the Express Transit slot.
• [00:15:15] Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Cryptography: The script takes a deep dive into cryptography. Mastercard uses asymmetric cryptography, requiring a unique digital signature between the card and the reader for every transaction. Because the hackers altered the data, this signature wouldn’t match and Mastercard would block the hack. Visa, however, skips this digital signature check if the payment terminal is online—which is exactly how the hackers keep the loop open.
• [00:20:14] Testing on the Crew: To prove how easy this is to replicate in the real world, Derek successfully uses the hack to steal from his own card, as well as the channel’s CFO.
• [00:22:00] Apple and Visa’s Response: Derek explains that Apple declined an interview but sent a statement blaming the Visa system, citing Visa’s “zero liability policy.”
• [00:22:35] The Visa Interview: A Visa representative claims this vulnerability is highly unlikely to scale in the real world. Because in-person fraud is incredibly low (two cents for every $100 spent), Visa believes its network defenses are adequate, and that victims will just get their money refunded.
• [00:24:28] The Conclusion: Derek pushes back on Visa’s logic using an airline analogy: airlines don’t accept a small number of crashes as the “cost of doing business,” they fix the technical issues. He concludes that even if a user gets refunded, waking up to a missing $10,000 can cause massive real-world stress (missed rent, bounced bills), and the tech industry should be expected to patch known vulnerabilities.

Google AI Pro Users Locked out of Antigravity IDE after paying $200 a Year

TL;DR: Google’s agent-first IDE, Antigravity, promised a 5-hour quota reset but is currently locking AI Pro users out for up to 7 days. Worse, the built-in bug reporter is also broken, leaving users stuck with zero support and a suggestion to upgrade to a $200/month plan.

Locked Out Featuring Claude Code and Copilot Users

For a perfect summary of the community’s current vibe, complete with Antigravity users being mocked by Claude Code and GitHub Copilot devs, this YouTube video captures it perfectly