A man is no one

Maker of things

[A man is no one @kibee]

@ElijahKipteng @mohammedhersi Ni kama huja soma hio thread vizuri ... 89 acres

[Adeo Ressi @adeoressi]

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story...

Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us.

When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination.

Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime.

So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice.

We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM.

Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable.

As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space.

Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history.

I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing.

Congratulations, E. Amazing.

[Nahashon Kimemia @NahashonKimemia]

State Houses/Lodges and who built them

Colonialists
- State House Mombasa
- State House Nairobi
- Sagana State Lodge
- Nakuru

Jomo
- None

Moi
- Kisumu
- Eldoret
- Rumuruti
- Kitale
- Cherang'any
- Others

Kibaki
- None

Uhuru
- Kisii

Ruto
- Homa Bay
- Kwale
- Bungoma
- Wajir
- Kitui
- Meru

[Dhee✨🌎 @UncleDhee]

Allocated money vs Actual Spendings in government projects 😂

[isaac Samuel @rhaplord]

The oldest foreign artefacts found in Australia were copper coins minted in East Africa, 800 years ago
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[Vionna @Kurlycheeks]

My fave Kenyanism word: Rada? Depending on the context it could mean WTF? It could mean “seriously?”. It could mean “what’s up?”. It could mean “the hell’s wrong with you?” And you can understand it by the tone someone uses when saying it, and I find it so beautiful.

[Reality G @soundreece]

Zi○nist dictionary: If you've ever wondered what they are on about, here's a translator. (Satire)

Advocacy - Propaganda

Animal - Palestinian

Anti-Semite - Person who wins an argument against a Jeш

Anti-semitism - Any legitimate criticism of Jeшs or Israel

Baby formula - Dangerous substance that must be denied to Palestinians for ‘self defence’

Bolsheviks - Jeшs from the early 1900s to the early 1920s in Russia

Child Sacrifice Ritual - When an IDF sniper kills a child at the perimeter wall

Ceasefire – A 72-hour ad break before more bombing

Citizen - Word used to try to make Israel look like a democracy. “Every citizen can vote, just not the millions that we deny citizenship to”.

Conflict - An IDF press-release way of saying 'we just carpet-bombed a refugee camp'

Commando - Israeli terrorist

Democracy - Rule by the people (unless we deem them subhuman)

Designated (US)/Prescribed (UK) - Because we said so

Dialogue – When CNN invites two ex-ambassadors to agree that bombing is exactly what Gandhi would do

Dictator - Head of a “regime”

Diplomatic Terrorism - Any form of Palestinian diplomacy

Economic Terrorism - Non-violent Palestinian boycott of Israel

Fabricated – Eyewitnesses who forgot to die on camera at the approved timestamp

Gaza - 25 x 5 mile Concentration Camp

Genocide - Ethnic Mass Murder of anyone but Palestinians

Greater Israel - The real goal

Hamas - Standard answer to every difficult question

Hate Speech - Valid criticism

History - Stories told by Zi○nist-controlled curriculums through Zi○nist-controlled publishers

Hostages - Persons held captive, except when Israel does it, then use “prisoner”

Hostile – Any Palestinian kid with a Twitter account and a rock emoji

Human rights - Rights for everyone except Palestinians

Human Rights Organisations - Antisemites

International Law - Law for all countries except Israel

Israel - Palestine

Jew Hate - Whenever a Zi○nist is proved wrong

Journey – A two-mile commute that costs three checkpoints and nine hours of human anxiety

Land – God’s IOUs with no date and a forever-increasing balloon payment

Messiah - A real estate agent that gives away land

Moral - Genocidal

Murder - depends who commits it, but never used for an Israeli

Muslim - Terrorist

Nick Fuentes - The Real N*gga

Offspring - Arab child

Operations – Netanyahu’s word for everything, including his morning espresso

Oppressed – The most privileged people in the world

Palestinian peace offensive - When Palestinians become too moderate and Israel has to compromise

Pogrom – Pre-1948 event that must never be repeated (unless rebranded as eviction notices with legal letterhead)

Pre-emptive precision hit - Israel started it

Propaganda – Any camera footage shot in Gaza

Pro-Hamas - Anti-genocide, anti-apartheid

PR Terrorism - Peaceful protest

Regime - Any ‘Government’ that stands up to Israel

Security – Anything that lets you level city blocks and still claim victim status

Security barrier - Apartheid wall, Expansionist conquest wall

Self defence - Murder

Self-hating Jew - Jeшs who are against buildings being collapsed onto children

Six million - 271,000

Subhuman - Arabs

Surgical Strike - Murder

Targeted Precision Strike - Murder

Terrorism - Any Palestinian resistance, however nonviolent

Terrorism in Prison - When Palestinian detainees go on a hunger strike to demand dignity

Terrorist - Any enemy of Israel

Terrorist Sympathiser - Term for people who are against buildings being collapsed onto children

Threat - When Palestinians exist

Tragedy – When a bulldozer accidentally tears down a Palestinian olive tree then gets 50 likes on Instagram

Truth - Lies

Two plus two - Six million

US Government - Israeli Government

Victimhood - Power

War - Destruction of a captive people

Young Terrorist - Palestinian child

Zi○nists - Atheist Ashkenazi Jews that believe God promised them free land that they’ve never been to.

[A man is no one @kibee]

@DehMao @Paul_Muite Wueh ! Sounds good and ideal but ... very very dangerous, it's giving loopholes, violence, disorder, upheaval

[A man is no one @kibee]

@lukeliao1 Should we look to China for the new model ?

[A man is no one @kibee]

@nxt888 But do we want it to collapse when all of us 3rd world people have been waiting to enter the SanctumAmerica ? We've modelled on that formula, where do we look now? Internally? Singapore ? China who does not evangelise it's model? Russia? Rhodesia ?Will we crumble with the empire?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The American century lasted from 1945 to approximately 2003.

Iraq is where the unipolar moment broke.

2008 is where the financial credibility broke.

2022 is where the sanctions credibility broke.

2025 is where the allies started doing the math.

Each break was called a "challenge" that America would overcome.

At some point a series of breaks is not a challenge.

It is a trajectory.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

What makes COVID particularly significant in the imperial decline timeline is the global audience factor.

Previous American failures had geography.

Vietnam happened in Vietnam. Most of the world knew it abstractly.

2008 was legible primarily to people who understood financial systems.

Iraq required following a war.

COVID happened everywhere, simultaneously, with a universal metric: deaths per million.

A number any government on earth could read and compare.

For the first time in the post-war era, the entire world had a standardized, real-time scorecard for state capacity.

And the United States, the self-declared model, the nation that had spent seventy-five years telling the world how to govern, landed mid-table.

Behind Cuba.

Behind Vietnam.

The scorecard has no footnotes explaining American exceptionalism.

It has numbers.

Numbers are hard to narrate around.

[A man is no one @kibee]

Trump, Vance and Rubio trying to open the Straits of Black Gold

[A man is no one @kibee]

@TheAmericanSaf We wuz tryna drink black gold

[A man is no one @kibee]

The Matatu strike has really shaken Ruto, Teachers and lecturer can strike for 6 months nothing ... Doctors and nurses strike patients die for months ... nothing

Matatu strike ... 48 hrs wako brown envelope State House

[A man is no one @kibee]

The new look State House is a very clear reflection of President Ruto's character ... shiny and flashy on the outside ... cheap and empty on the inside

[KIPRONO @Onorpik]

Ruto has spent Ksh. 10.7 billion so car renovating the statehouse, only for us to see a very CHEAP hidden roof. Where have the billions gone? Probably to purchase houses in Dubai

[A man is no one @kibee]

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[AilaunchX @Ai_Tech_tool]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[A man is no one @kibee]

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[Rony @Ronycoder]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix tonight.

This 45-minute Stanford lecture will teach you more about building companies than most founders learn in years.

Bookmark it & give it 45 minutes today. Your future self will thank you.

[A man is no one @kibee]

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[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

The regret on their faces lmao

[A man is no one @kibee]

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[Elias Al @iam_elias1]

Here's probably the best Claude Cowork tutorial under 25 minutes.

It is by Tina Huang ( ex-Meta data scientist).