Last Man on Earth

Engineering for Sustainability

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

For Father’s Day, I’ll share this letter to Karl Marx from his dad

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz did not affect our fuel supply - CS Opiyo Wandayi

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Too many "smart" people are trying to fix their mental struggles with more thinking, when what they actually need is to get out of their mind, and learn how to exercise with more resolve, love with more sincerity, have more interested conversations, commit to deeper relationships, stop planning forever and actually start living life.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[NewUs @newusof]

No necesitas cientos de alimentos para poder bajar de peso.

Estas son las mejores combinaciones para perder grasa:

#1 Pollo y brócoli

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The first thing you should buy with money is a lifestyle that allows you to think more clearly.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Have a fantastic day, Poldi ❤️

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Threepeat.

[Last Man on Earth @clyde_miler]

😂😂😂

[Anwar Saddat @AnuarSaddat]

Singapore President tasting Dihydrogen Monoxide, an inorganic compound formed when two hydrogen atoms covalently bond with one atom of oxygen.

The President flew over 500 Kilometers to launch this rare molecule, discharged from the ground through 1.5 inch steel pipe.

Looking on at this miracle are other visitors from Nairobi who accompanied the President to launch the tap 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Tolstoy’s advice to achieve a long term goal:

[Dr. Eng. John Mativo CP³P @MativoMJohn]

China has shipped the world’s largest offshore converter station for installation at sea, where it will connect two massive offshore windfarms to the national power grid.
This massive energy hub weighs 25,000 tonnes and measures 85.5m long by 82.5m wide. It is the world's first ±500-kilovolt, 2,000-megawatt (2 GW) flexible HVDC platform.

Uses seawater for passive cooling instead of energy-heavy air conditioning, achieving an incredibly efficient Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.15

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A reminder from Carl Jung:

[Last Man on Earth @clyde_miler]

@k_mcogolla Bro are you saying you were yet to decide?

[EIońomyX @ElonomyX]

Elon Musk:

“I don't think most people understand just how quickly machine intelligence is advancing. 

It's much faster than almost anyone realizes, even within Silicon Valley and certainly outside Silicon Valley. People really have no idea.”

[him @OnemanJakom]

You know, what baffles me completely to the core, is the fact that, we still have to convince some people NOT to VOTE William Ruto.

It disturbs me.

[Last Man on Earth @clyde_miler]

🤣🤣🤣

[Sun Tzu @ItsChanzu]

No one:

Central people in 2021 :

[Sen Mong'are Okong'o @senmongare]

Morara, even Aristotle warned that democracy is messy, emotional and vulnerable to manipulation, yet he still preferred it over tyranny because bad democracy can be corrected, while unchecked power rarely corrects itself. Africa’s tragedy is not democracy itself, but weak institutions, tribal patronage and leaders who fear accountability. The answer is not abandoning democracy; it is deepening civic education, strengthening institutions and electing leaders with ideas instead of slogans, handouts and manufactured outrage.

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

What Julians has submitted is extremely critical. Extremely.

Right now:
• You partly tell KRA what you earned
• You tell KRA what tax you owe

If finance Bill 2026 passes,

It is KRA that will strictly tell YOU:
• What you earned
• What tax you owe

How?
• By pulling data from anywhere
• eTIMS, banks, third parties, govt ministries integrations, etc

If KRA sends you a tax bill. And it is insane. And you disagree. Who must prove it is wrong?

The bill says it is you.

But here is the danger. KRA is NOT required to tell you:
• Where they got the data from
• Or how they arrived at the figures

So you are left there. Trying to fight numbers you cannot see.

And some of those numbers could be system errors.

Now ask yourself,
- How do you disprove something you don’t even understand? Are you an angel?

What Julians is saying is simple.

If KRA wants to tax you using their data, KRA must prove to you and the courts that that data is:
• Accurate
• Reliable &
• Defensible

Is that a fair argument?
Or should taxpayers just fight ghosts?

[George T. Diano @georgediano]

Oscar Sudi audaciously claims that Uhuru knew nothing about the economy. He said Uhuru left office when the dollar was trading at KSh 160, and that through his input and Ruto’s leadership, the dollar has now dropped to KSh 129. Keep in mind Uhuru went to Amherst College in the United States, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science while Sudi is graduate of Kapsoya ECD where he attained a leaving certificate.

Facts: when Uhuru left office in September 2022, the dollar was trading at around KSh 122. It was under Ruto’s regime that it later rose to KSh 160. But then again, this is Oscar Sudi, a man so daft he can’t even whistle to the English version of our nation anthem.

These are the same people telling you that you don’t need to read the Finance Bill because they’ll interpret it for you. I can bet with my life that Sudi doesn’t even know how to spell “finance”. But he somehow wants to convince us that he has read the finance bill to the last page. Hii ni Maajabu ya Musa.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

The latest propaganda being pushed around UDA and 2027 is very simple.

They want Kenyans to believe that the election is already gone, that Ruto will rig, that voting will not matter, that registration is useless and that the people should enter 2027 already defeated in their minds.

That is why you are seeing this “they will rig” line being sponsored and amplified everywhere, including by sections of the media that have become very friendly to this regime.

NTV itself has carried the framing of UDA leaders allegedly plotting to rig 2027, showing how loud this narrative has become in public conversation.

To be honest, the optics of serious, countrywide rigging are too heavy for this regime.

This is a government that cannot repair potholes, cannot manage fuel prices, cannot manage schools, cannot manage hospitals, cannot manage salaries, cannot even explain simple taxes without creating anger.

You really believe the same confused regime has the intelligence, discipline, secrecy and technical sophistication to manage a clean nationwide rigging operation without being caught?

Rigging a presidential election is not like bribing a few brokers in a hotel or manipulating a small party nomination. A national election has agents, polling stations, forms, constituency tallying centres, observers, media, screenshots, live streams, parallel tallies and millions of angry citizens watching every number. The moment Kenyans realize even one vote does not tally, this country will enter a crisis bigger than anything this regime can control.

That is why I believe this “he will rig anyway” chorus is not just a warning.

It is psychological warfare meant to kill voter registration, kill turnout and create apathy. It is also meant to make young people say, “Why vote if they will steal it?” That is exactly where they want you mentally.

The real answer is not to stay home but massive registration, massive turnout, agents in every polling station, parallel tallying, civic vigilance and zero fear.

Elections are not stolen from people who are awake, organized and watching every vote. Elections are stolen from people who were discouraged before the first ballot was even cast.

So don’t fall for the propaganda. The vote still matters, registration matters, turnout mattes and polling station vigilance matters.