Lee L.

song bird, happy soul, momma, wifey, heart doctor ❤️‍🩹👑queen!

[Lee L. @linette_lepore]

I am committed to relentlessly following and reposting anyone who stands for good governance. For kenyans getting their tax moneys worth. For exposure of corrupt tumbocrats and their failed project executions! Enough is enough #morarakebaso

[TL Elder @mwabilimwagodi]

There is a new County government fighter. I need their @
From Narok. From next week we are doing County Fighters recognition we send them Mpesa hadi wachoke kwanza. Already I have
@A_Njambi - Kiambu
@mmghenyi_ - Taita Taveta
@ abc - Narok

I need more County fighters.

[Lee L. @linette_lepore]

@Kibet_bull @DCI_Kenya Clearly the focus is mitungi. Not actual criminal activity

[Elias @iam_elias1]

ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke.

Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fake statistics.

And it told patients to see a specialist.

The disease is called Bixonimania. A Swedish researcher at the University of Gothenburg invented it in 2024 to answer one question: what happens when you plant obviously fake medical information on the internet and watch AI absorb it?

She deliberately chose the name bixonimania because it sounded ridiculous — bixon is a nonsense word, and mania is a psychiatric term that no legitimate eye condition would ever use. She uploaded two papers to a preprint server. Both were obviously fraudulent. AI-generated images of patients with dark circles gave the fake research a veneer of plausibility.

Then she waited.

She did not have to wait long.

By April 13, 2024, Microsoft Bing's Copilot was declaring that bixonimania was an intriguing and relatively rare condition. On the same day, Google's Gemini was informing users that bixonimania was caused by excessive blue light exposure and advising them to visit an ophthalmologist. Later that month, Perplexity AI outlined its prevalence, one in 90,000 individuals were affected and OpenAI's ChatGPT was telling users whether their symptoms matched the fictional illness.

One in 90,000. A precise statistic. For a disease that does not exist.

Every red flag was visible. The name was absurd. The papers were crude. The condition made no scientific sense. None of the AI systems flagged any of it.

They read the fake papers. They absorbed the fake statistics. They presented both to patients with clinical authority and zero hesitation.

Then it got worse.

Three researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in India published a paper in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal owned by Springer Nature, the parent publisher of Nature itself that cited the bixonimania preprints as legitimate sources.

A real peer-reviewed paper. In a Springer Nature journal. Citing a fictional disease as established medical fact. Passing editorial review. Entering the permanent scientific record.

It was only retracted after the hoax became public.

Nature published a full investigation of the experiment. Alex Ruani, a health-misinformation researcher at University College London, called it a masterclass in how misinformation operates.

Here is the scale of what this means.

More than 40 million people turn to ChatGPT every day for health information, according to OpenAI's own analysis. ECRI, a US patient-safety nonprofit has named chatbot misuse the number-one health technology hazard of 2026. ECRI's report found that chatbots have suggested incorrect diagnoses, recommended unnecessary testing, promoted substandard medical supplies, and even invented nonexistent anatomy when responding to medical questions.

Number one. Out of every health technology hazard that exists in 2026.

An April 2026 study published in BMJ Open found that nearly half of the answers provided by leading AI chatbots to common health questions contain misleading or problematic information.

Nearly half. Of all health answers. From the tools 40 million people use every day.

Here is the line from the researcher that cuts through everything.

The Bixonimania case is striking precisely because it was engineered to be so obviously fake. The real question it raises is: what is passing through the same systems that is not nearly so easy to spot?

The experiment used a ridiculous name. Fraudulent papers. Visible red flags at every level.

It was designed to be caught.

It was not caught.

The AI that told patients about Bixonimania is the same AI they asked about their chest pain, their medication, their child's symptoms, and their cancer screening schedule.

40 million people. Every day.

And nobody is telling them that nearly half of what comes back may be wrong.

Source: Osmanovic Thunström · University of Gothenburg · Nature · April 2026 ·

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[Lee L. @linette_lepore]

@KenyaPower_Care no power in sigona total area since Friday morning. No water(pumped). We are throwing away food stuff and can't work without power. We are TAYAD!!

[Lee L. @linette_lepore]

@KenyaPower_Care no power & consequently water since Friday morn😔when I asked this morning if a technician had even been sent to troubleshoot the problem I was told No!What's more hanging up a call today(1121am)&"resolving" ticket when not really resolved.Ticket number 14529679

[Lee L. @linette_lepore]

@IkonoCatherine Hello...if your desire is to know God there is a deep series on TikTok called 1000 days of revealing Christ..It is life changing and i love that it's purely Christ-centered.Not pushing any church or denomination, just Christ. Tictok account name is IanRoyalty(beware of imitators

[susa @prinkasusa]

My coworker used to take the long way home every night. Two extra bus stops, more walking, more money, more time. One day I asked her why she didn’t just take the shortcut alley behind our building.
She laughed and said, “Oh, because a guy followed me there once and told me he could ‘do whatever he wanted’ and no one would hear me scream.”
So now, every night, she calls a male friend and pretends she’s on the phone with her “boyfriend.” Sometimes she even laughs loudly and says things like, “Yeah, I’ll see you in five minutes, babe,” even when she’s completely alone.
Not because she wants attention.
Not because she’s dramatic.
Because sounding “taken” and “protected” is safer than sounding like a woman by herself.
Men cannot even begin to understand the calculations women make every day just to get home alive.

[Random World Ψ @randomworldke]

Even if I die ,I want to come back as a Kenyan 😑

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

In medical school, we are taught a golden rule: "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." It is a reminder to look for the common explanation before the exotic one. But after decades in cardiology, I’ve learned that if a patient is still suffering after the "horses" have been ruled out, a doctor must have the courage—and the curiosity—to go hunting for the zebra.

Sarah was a thirty-four-year-old marathon runner and a devoted mother who came to me after six months of being told she was "fine." She had been bounced from one specialist to another, each one pointing to her normal EKG and standard blood tests as proof that her crushing fatigue and racing heart were simply the result of "new mom stress." By the time she reached my office, she didn't just look tired; she looked invisible, as if the medical system had stopped seeing the woman and only saw the data.

Instead of re-reading the normal test results that had already failed her, I asked Sarah to walk me through her life. We talked about her training and her family, eventually landing on a backpacking trip she took to the Mendoza province of rural Argentina. She described staying in a charming, rustic cottage made of sun-dried mud bricks. She mentioned waking up one morning with a strangely swollen, purple eyelid that she assumed was a simple spider bite.

As she spoke, a memory surfaced from a biography I had read years ago about Charles Darwin. Most people know Darwin for his theories on evolution, but medical historians have long puzzled over the mysterious, debilitating illness that plagued him for decades after he returned from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. Darwin had written in his journals about being bitten by the "great black bug of the Pampas" while sleeping in mud-walled huts in South America. He spent the rest of his life suffering from heart palpitations and exhaustion that the Victorian doctors of his time could never explain.

I realized then that Sarah wasn't suffering from stress; she was likely hosting the same "silent killer" that may have haunted Darwin: Chagas Disease.

The "Kissing Bug" lives in the cracks of those mud-brick walls. It bites its victims—often near the eyes or mouth—while they sleep, passing a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi into the blood. The danger of Chagas is that the initial symptoms disappear quickly, but the parasite can hide in the body for years, slowly weaving itself into the muscle and electrical "wiring" of the heart.

To confirm this, I moved beyond the standard tests. I ordered a specialized "Strain Rate" ultrasound, which doesn't just look at whether the heart is pumping, but at how the individual muscle fibers are stretching. We saw that while her heart looked strong to the naked eye, the fibers were "stuttering," a sign of early parasite-induced scarring. A specific blood test for the parasite's antibodies confirmed the diagnosis.

Treatment required a difficult, sixty-day course of anti-parasitic medication to stop the infection, paired with a protective heart regimen to keep her electrical system stable while the inflammation settled. Because we caught it before her heart was physically damaged or enlarged, the recovery was a success.

Months later, Sarah returned to my office, her vibrant energy restored. She brought me a leather-bound copy of The Voyage of the Beagle with a note tucked inside. She wrote that while other doctors had looked at her charts, I had looked at her. This case remains a vital reminder for my memoir: in a world of high-tech scans and AI, the most sophisticated diagnostic tool we possess is still the human story. When we truly listen, we don't just find the disease—we find the patient.

Good morning.

[Esegbona Luis @esegbonaluis]

SAD RIGHT ? 🥹🤦‍♂️💔

Ishowspeed worth more than a million dollars toured 20 countries in Africa WITHOUT A VISA . Just his American passport.

Dangote , who is a billionaire in dollars , Infact he is worth over $30 billion dollars will need 35 visas to tour Africa . I mean he is an African but will need over 35 visas .

What are we saying ? Many African kids are already limited by their country.The system alone doesn’t make it easy.

Moral lesson : Getting to a certain level in life as an African based on Africa is grace 🤦‍♂️🥹

[George T. Diano @georgediano]

In Murang’a, there is a program called the Murang’a Youth Service. Yesterday there was a recruitment exercise across the whole of Murang’a. This program takes 30 youths per ward, and so far they have taken more than 8,000 youths. The youths are selected through balloting, if you pick “yes,” you get a chance. No educational qualifications are required.

If you are selected, you work in cleaning the towns in Murang’a for two months and you are paid Ksh 400 per day. You receive Ksh 300, while Ksh 100 is sent to your parent.

After finishing the cleaning work, you are taken to a polytechnic to study a course of your choice such as plumbing, hair and beauty, etc., for three months, and the program pays for your NITA exam.

After completing the exams, there is a graduation, and you are given Ksh 15,000 to start a business. If you start your business in Murang’a, you do not pay a business license fee for one year.

Murang'a is making other Kenyans feel like they were born in Mogadishu. Now that is empowerment, silent, focused and impacful, not what we are currently seeing in other areas. Other leaders are milking the country dry while telling their mumu voters that all development is taken to Murima bcoz of entitlement.🤡

[JaPrado. @Dr_AustinOmondi]

MPs urgently need to discuss the issue of the SHA funding model. While patients may get services, most hospitals are gasping awaiting payment remittance from SHA in turn causing them to either ask for cash or turn down SHA both of which are a loss to the patient.

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

Today I saw a patient whose notes read

" He could climb the stairs in railway station to catch his train on the platform 3, with a suitcase easily 9 months back. Now he gets breathless with a small backpack"

His cardiologist had written such beautiful, detailed functional assessment.

Simple variables like BP, pulse rate etc have their place - but are often reductionist. That's where a clear description of fitness /frailty comes in.

The cardio could have written NYHA class and called it a day. But he made it so vivid that anyone can understand. And in a beautiful handwriting. Reminded me of my cardiology Prof JBC.

Doctor goals : write such beautiful case history that another doctor is so impressed that he shares it online 😍

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

These are the records of the so-called Belgorod Medicare, Elwak.

👀 Notice this: Application submitted on Jan 20th, cleared the same day. How is that even possible?

Secondly: Is this even a Level 3 hospital?

They are registering “medicares” and using them as a mechanism to steal public funds.

Evidence in replies.

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

My Experience With I&M Bank Read This Before You Trust Them With Your Money

I’ve banked with @imbankke for years and this year alone I moved roughly 7–13 million shillings through my account. Recently, I withdrew 2 million legitimate proceeds from my business.

A week later, I walked back into the branch like I always do and suddenly I was being bounced from the teller to the manager and back again.

Without warning, my account was frozen with close to 5 million shillings locked inside. December. Festive season. School fees coming in January. Zero access to my own money.
They demanded “source of funds” explanations which I gave. They even contacted the source. Still, I was dragged in circles while my life and business were put on hold.

Out of frustration, I involved my lawyer.
Then things got worse.
On 15th December, I received a call from a stranger asking to meet. During that meeting, I was told in plain language that my account could be “helped” and I’d regain access to my money on the condition that I hand over 30% of the total balance.

Think about that. Thirty. Percent. Of my own hard-earned money.
After that, I was suddenly being moved from office to office at the bank and yes, the account was reopened.

Let me be clear: ordinary Kenyans are out here working themselves to the bone to escape poverty while some of the very institutions trusted to keep our money safe are busy squeezing us when we’re most vulnerable.

My advice as someone who has gone through this: Avoid I&M Bank. What I’ve experienced there has destroyed every bit of trust I had in them.
Young Kenyans protect yourselves. Don’t assume the people guarding the vault are on your side. Hunger is everywhere, even in the banking halls.

[Dr Jason Philip. M.S., MCh @Jasonphilip8]

They say govts 'spend lakhs' educating one medical student.
A lazy lie, repeated loudly on X.
Let me show u the real cost paid not in money, but in human life-hours. Effort. Emotions.

Yesterday, my MCh Urology residents walked in at 7 AM.
They rounded on inpatients, listened, reassured, examined, adjusted care.
Every pt, every need. No shortcuts.
Lunch was skipped. Coz,
a cadaver kidney donor had arrived.
They assisted in harvesting d kidneys, knowing there would be no pause, because a transplant cannot wait.
Dinner was skipped too.
At 1: 30 AM, I began the cadaver kidney transplant. They assisted carefully.
We finished at 5 AM.
Not a minute of sleep.
Not a blink of rest.
And yet by morning 8 AM they were back in the same OT, assisting routine surgeries again.
Coz pts were waiting.
Because duty does not care about exhaustion.
Post-OT, they rushed to OPD.
150 patients.
Catheters. Dilatations. Scans. Pain. Fear. Hope-handled gently, under pressure, without complaint.
Final ward rounds.
Only after all these, at 4 PM did he/she leave.
That is 36+ hours of continuous work.
No sleep.
Two skipped meals.
Sustained focus while handling lives.

These are not 22-year-olds chasing degrees.
They are 35-40 year old doctors, with spouses, children, ageing parents at home.
Their stipend?
₹62,000 per month.
In the middle of this, a saw a pt picking up a quarrel, demanding 'special' Rx, declaring himself a 'VIP'. In Tamilnadu, all pts r relatives of Donald Trump, or VIP- X,Y or Z.
This schedule repeats atleast twice every week.
When pilots do long hours, we call it fatigue.
When residents do it, we call it dedication,& move on.

So don’t insult us with nonsense about trillions spent on medical education. Doctors don’t get subsidised degrees.
They pay with their youth, sleep, health, and family life.
I walked this road decades ago.
My residents walk it today.
And if ur child chooses medicine, God forbid, U will finally understand what it costs.
Not money.
LIFE.

[Daktari ya Wanawake @MiskellahMD]

Whenever I do my major ward rounds with nurse interns,Doctor interns,Diploma CO interns and Degree CO interns,it pains me see the how competent and good the BSc COIs are.They are just afew steps behind their Doctor colleagues....and to imagine that the healthcare system as presently designed considers them same with their diploma colleagues is just absurd(not that the diploma are poor,their training is just fit for purpose).But we must find a way of allowing the BSC guys to transition to MBchB.Otherwise we stop the course because we are robbing very bright minds off their future.

[L.C Bashir @LangatBashir]

@KinotiJoseph It always baffles me whenever I find someone serving with attitude whether in a government entity or otherwise. I mean you applied for the job madam, hukupigwa kua hapa. If you can't do it then leave, we have so much unemployed people.

[Lee L. @linette_lepore]

@ScholarshipfPhd Heyyyy