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[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

This is not true, surely. In Kenya, hustling has been an official national policy since 2022, and a subtle one since 1895. This is a systemic problem, it's not a morality one. The headlines alone demonstrate how stealing is so entrenched in Kenya. Kenyans do not believe in honest work because why should they? They are punished for it, al the time, while the richest Kenyans are those who steal from the public.

So the sister is just marketing CCTV cameras and security consultancies. She's not talking about business. Capitalism creates social problems and sells technology to solve it.

#MaishaKazini

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Palantir's CEO just exposed Sam Altman and Dario Amodei for robbing every Fortune 500 company.

Within two minutes, Alex Karp took the entire frontier AI industry apart on national television.

His exact words:

"Every single enterprise in this country, these people are LIVID. They are paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and alpha of my business."

He literally said the entire frontier AI business model is intellectual property extraction dressed up as a subscription.

Then he also destroyed the pricing model with a single question that Silicon Valley still refuses to answer:

"If it was so valuable, let's say I can make you $1 billion tomorrow. Wouldn't I say I'll make you $1 billion and I want 30 percent? Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?"

That question breaks the industry.

If OpenAI and Anthropic's models truly delivered the productivity gains the labs claim, they would take equity or a share of the profit they generate. They would not sell access by the million tokens.

Token pricing is itself the CONFESSION that the product cannot produce reliable value at scale. If it did, they would price for the value. But they price for the compute because that is what they are actually selling.

Karp went even further...

He called the entire arrangement "a wealth tax that does not help the poor. It just punishes."

American businesses are transferring the alpha of their operations, meaning the workflows, the customer data, the strategy memos, the internal models that make them competitive, directly into the training pipelines of a handful of Silicon Valley labs. Once those labs retrain, the customer's own edge becomes the next enterprise product sold back to their competitors.

And the part the AI industry does not want anyone thinking about:

Every enterprise running its confidential documents, its customer conversations, and its financial models through a frontier model is potentially teaching that model HOW to replace them.

The vendor collects the token fee AND the compounding intelligence about that customer's business. That is the mechanism. And that is why Karp used the word "stealing."

He claims this is why every executive he meets is furious in private and silent in public. Nobody wants to be the CEO who called out the labs and then discovered their next competitor was built on their own leaked workflows.

The entire AI industry has been priced for perfection on one assumption:

That frontier labs produce durable, defensible value that justifies infinite compute spend.

But Karp just told us that the customers do not believe that assumption anymore. They believe they are being taxed without benefit, watched without consent, and copied without recourse.

The moment enterprises stop believing, the whole valuation stack shakes.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

Meta burns $2.65B a year on AI tokens. at $300K for a Meta engineer, that's enough to pay ~9,000 engineers for a full year.

now ask yourself: since the layoffs, has Meta shipped anything that feels like 9,000 engineers’ worth of output?

[millicent bystander @Nyokaffiii]

Aki these people.
So... Everything else that is paid via ecitizen is fraudulent?

[EUGENE @reggaeholic_]

Drainage utatuma goons wachimbe baadaye ama?

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

- James Baldwin

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Republicans pretend "communism" is an actual political force in the United States because they agree with the Democrats on every real issue of substance, so they need to make up fictional enemies to stand in opposition to.

[Anwar Saddat @AnuarSaddat]

According to PS of Interior, this is a Kenyan walking to board an Uber to go lock himself in his house and sleep.

There are reports that somehow his body transported itself from the house where he was sleeping and booked itself at City Mortuary as a victim of hit run accident.

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

Nonsense. I'm personally sticking to using USSD and SIM Toolkit. If they ever disable those things to force us to use the app, wakae na line yao. This hamfisting the app down our throats is sus AF, and the damn thing is so glitchy but they aren't taking feedback.

[Dusty Sahara @NoCountryHere]

After sabotaging an education system for decades, muzungus at the UN have suddenly discovered that the issue primarily lies in classroom language.
If you've not picked it up yet, this is insulting & racist: the reason you're poor is bc you don't quite grasp muzunguman's language.

[Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog]

He did turn Libya into a giant slave market, didn't he.
And yes, greatness is negated by being a slaveholding genocidaire. Watch closely though, you can see that he is struggling with making the case for what he knows to be nonsense.
The late Glen Ford said that was an Obama specialty, reconciling the irreconcilable. And those of you who defended him should not have the nerve to be mad now. Obama was always like this.

[MOgada @m_ogada]

Lack of imagination is a terrible tragedy in an individual. On a national scale, it is a catastrophe of biblical level. This explains the parasitism of our leaders
https://t.co/iTOGAajbzm

[ghetto intellectual™ @kzshabazz]

Winnie Mandela condemns attacks on Black immigrants and likens it to "digging a spear into my heart."

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

So that’s why white people didn't assimilate to Native American culture?

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

I said the same thing about Miriam Makeba being asked about the doctrine of discovery, and Africans asked me whether I'm saying she's not qualified to talk about law. The point wasn't her qualification but her expertise. She was a musician. Was she asked about the role of music in freedom, the imperial power over the music industry? No. She was asked to talk about a legal colonial doctrine.

The real issue is that racist capitalism doesn't think non-Europeans can be experts on anything. Footballers are asked about war, soldiers are asked about identity politics, politicians are made to sing "American pie," the point is to ask us about anything EXCEPT the work that we actually do. And they do this because if our work is not recognized, our skill doesn't exist, neither does the real impact of our work. And that means the West can steal the fruit of our labor because, after all, we didn't do any work in the first place. We have no expertise in anything. So we won't notice when our work is plundered and stolen. #MaishaKazini

[samet dogan @sametdgn1]

İsrail son iki yılda 300 bin ton bomba kullandı dünya kirleniyor bile diyemediniz.

[Karani Mutonga @Karanimutonga]

I service my vehicle on regular basis. It is inspected yearly by the insurance company before renewing insurance cover. But the government thinks that NTSA inspection will disappear the potholes in the middle of the road, mark the roads, light up the highways.

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

I'm going to say something today that I will repeat in 2027 after the election: The Soul of Kenya will need all hands on deck. We are seriously sick as a culture, and the work ahead of us now and then, is immense. All of us must find our part and pull.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In other words: "please, dear legislators, ban my competition"

[Ivie Ani @ivieani]

The wealthy elite (not specific to Dave) want everyone to believe AI is the future & the end-all-be-all because they’ve invested heavily into it. They need a return on their investment and this narrative helps secure that. imo, basic skills, creativity, & critical thinking will become even more valuable