#25-06-2024🇰🇪❤️🤍✌🏾

Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times - Hopf

Sic semper tyrannis

[#25-06-2024🇰🇪❤️🤍✌🏾 @mur3ithi]

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https://t.co/AonZ2O7OHH

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

@laure_khoury 4) The best summary

[Nyakundi Report @NyakundiReport]

KTN reveals that OSU ghost leader Zachary Kariuki, who doubles as Driver to DCI director Amin was leading the team that abducted Standard Media Editor Alex Kiprotich

[KTN News @KTNNewsKE]

Kariuki is no ordinary officer. While stations across the country go without cars or fuel, he has 17 vehicles assigned to him. Insiders at DCI say his fleet includes 14 new Subarus, one D-Max, a Ford Ranger and a Toyota Double Cab. The source says the many Subarus that were doing rounds during protests belong to his unit.

https://t.co/E7Qk9jYjrF

[Ory Okolloh-Mwangi @kenyanpundit]

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[Max Weinbach @mweinbach]

There are some hidden things here if you login with ChatGPT

The Not Twitter app works, and Messages/Email works with people who also logged in and created a username (this was a follow up prompt not part of the oneshot tho)

[Pietro Schirano @skirano]

I had early access to GPT-6. This model will completely shatter your understanding of what's possible, and it will start a new era of creativity.

It's hard to explain how big of a jump this is, so I'll share my tests.

1/6 Made this 3D model and animation in code from an image.

[Thomas Ricouard @Dimillian]

Astra is very good at 3D modeling, and I can't wait for all of you to experience it, for now here is a little walkthrough on how I built the demo house for our launch blog post. From a Blender scene to a Unreal Engine 5 walkable experience. 🧵

[Max Weinbach @mweinbach]

The model, in this example, is the Leica imaging pipeline for M3 and M9 image simulation from the Xiaomi 17 Ultra

The entire pipeline, including segmentation and all processing

It then ported it to my iPhone 17 Pro. It's not perfect, but I was curious if it could... and it did!

[Max Weinbach @mweinbach]

Oh another cool thing about this

I did it on my M5 Max MacBook Pro, but it would have taken like 8 hours to render that video.

I told Astra to use the Mac Studios on my network with ssh to render, and it setup headless blender to spread out the workload

It worked

[Bonnie Mwangi, CPA, LLM, MBA @MwangiBonnie]

Yesterday, I shared my findings on eCitizen.

Which is under siege.

There is no other way to put it.

Some people wanted a shorter version - which is shocking. (Never take an easier route when a tough one is available).

Here's the summary:

(1) No full government control — despite the August 2017 handover, the Government Digital Payments Unit still relies on the vendor for critical functions: a "single point of failure," and no independent way to verify how much was actually collected.

(2) Audit access denied — the National Treasury refused or could not facilitate application-, database- and network-level access, so security and privacy controls couldn't be verified, with no third-party assurance filling the gap.

(3) KSh36.5bn unsupported in one year — FY2023/24 reported collections of ~KSh100.84bn, but bank statements provided supported only ~KSh64.30bn.

(4) KSh2.575bn unmatched to invoices — settlement account receipts at 30 June 2024 that couldn't be tied to Pesaflow invoices; partial, erroneous and duplicate payments.

(5) KSh 127.85m left the paybill — four transactions on 25 January 2024 went from Paybill 222222 to private entities instead of sweeping to the KCB settlement account, with no approval documentation provided.

(6) An undisclosed account in the chain — ~KSh6.33bn entered Equity Bank eCitizen collection accounts from an account not approved by the Treasury, and its bank statement was never produced.

(7) Paying to use its own platform — KSh492.16m plus US$414,299.60 under the ICT Authority framework by 30 June 2024, of which ~KSh142.16m plus the dollar amount was for gateway services the Auditor-General called irregular and illegal, and recommended be stopped and recovered.

(8) Illegal convenience fees — the prescribed prorating mechanism was ignored in favour of a flat KSh50/US$1 per transaction: ~KSh1.808bn plus US$3.334m before January 2023, and a further ~KSh349.8m to June 2024.

(9) Settlement is still manual — collections are automated but MDA transfers are prepared and approved by hand, averaging an eight-day delay, even though the accounts needed to automate are already mapped.

(10) Unreliable service records — duplicated services, services without MDA names, missing linked bank accounts and unmapped account numbers, forcing manual entry from physical correspondence; some revenue couldn't be settled at all.

(11) No structured helpdesk — incidents couldn't be systematically tracked to resolution, risking service denial since payment happens throughout the service process.

(12) Unclear governance — operations spread across institutions and committees whose composition, tenure and terms of reference were "unavailable," with no oversight body mandated to coordinate them — the same document-unavailability pattern the World Bank encountered.

@Senate_KE @NAssemblyKE @FlavNasmbu @MoGAbdi @webmasters

[Karani🇰🇪🇨🇦 @Weyne_west]

Malala sikuhizi anatembea na Mic yake. Mkizima yenu anatoa yake.

[molson 🧠⚙️ @Molson_Hart]

The 5 reasons why Vietnam will be rich:

1. Vietnamese are smart and the country is investing in education

2. They work hard

3. The government is competent

4. They have self respect

5. They have a communal spirit and work together

PS you gotta go down rabbit holes. That’s what life is about.

[Dr. Ho Yinsen @kinjeketile]

Nyamakìma just keeps on winning.

[Jack Mac @JackMac]

Influencers have ruined the US Open for actual tennis fans.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Muscles talk to the brain to fight depression.

The gym bros were right.

[Max Weinbach @mweinbach]

I had early access to GPT-6 Astra and it's maybe the most insane model I've experienced

In Blender, I had it recreate Apple Park from just images. It did an absurd job.

[Max Weinbach @mweinbach]

Actually the craziest part of Astra is it will continue to work for days or weeks until something is done

I have it building a custom ROM for my Xiaomi 17 Ultra (the goal is to embed codex app-server) and it's been running for ~8 days straight and used over 1600 subagents

[Julians Amboko @AmbokoJH]

The Communication Authority of Kenya (@CA_Kenya) has now published the procedure & technical safeguards for deactivation & recycling of
inactive cell phone numbers by Telcos in the country.

This follows the May 19th High Court determination that a registered cell phone number constitutes a digital identifier linking personal data & qualified for protection under Article 31(c) & (d) of the Constitution (see quoted tweet).

Here are the guidelines which are effective Sep 19th, 2026:

· Cell phone number deactivation & recycling shall be triggered when a number records no revenue-generating activity (making/receiving a call, sending/receiving an SMS, using data, topping up airtime or using the number for value added service) for a period of 3 months

· Upon detection of inactivity for the stated period, the service provider shall make efforts to notify the owner of the affected number using the contact details collected during the number registration KYC process

· The means of notification may include SMS to the number & other contact information associated with the subscriber as collected during the KYC process

· The notification process for an inactive number will continue for an additional 3 months unless the owner initiates a revenue generating activity

· 30 days before the lapse of the 3 months & with the number still inactive, the service provider shall publish the list of numbers susceptible to deactivation & recycling if they are not activated within 30 days from the date of publication

· The generic notice of intention to deactivate and recycle inactive numbers shall be posted on the provider’s website, publicised in other media, and published in the daily newspaper with nationwide circulation on a quarterly basis

· The public notice shall include the *106# option for checking the status (suspended, active, under recycle or deactivated) of the number

· Upon the lapse of the notice period and with the number still inactive, the service provider shall de-link & securely archive the personal data, cached data, & services associated with the previous owner such that they are not accessible to or inherited by
any new subscriber, while retaining records required by law

· The service provider shall send a list of all deactivated/recycler numbers to the centralized system on a quarterly basis, which shall be used by third parties to update their records prior to calling, sending SMS with regards to obligations associated with that number

· The service provider shall then initiate the number recycling process & avail the number for provisioning to a new subscriber

· The service provider shall maintain & retain a record of the efforts made to contact the subscriber for a period that is in line with the provisions of the Data Protection Act, 2019

Other guidelines:

· Before deactivating & recycling any number, the service provider shall delink the number from any previously opted-in B2C messages

· Newly issued, as well as recycled numbers, shall not receive any marketing messages from either the number issuing service provider or third parties

· For any business-to-customer (B2C) message, the subscriber MUST have explicitly dialed a USSD
consenting to receiving messages from that specific business

· The dialed USSD code shall be business-specific, and dialing a given USSD shall not imply consent to receiving all B2C messages

· Service providers shall maintain and retain a record of the subscribers’ USSD dials consenting to receiving B2C messages for the entire period during which the number remains active

· Any person, including caregivers of persons who may be indisposed & unable to use their numbers for a potential period of more than 6 months, can notify the respective service provider of the need to whitelist a subscriber’s number

· The Commissioner General of Prisons shall, within 3 months of a person being committed to a jail term of more than 6 months & having exhausted their
appeal options, submit the details comprising the convict’s telephone number & the associated national identification number indicating the duration of the conviction, for whitelisting, to the respective service providers, and notify the convict accordingly

[🗽 @verritass]

Not being able to deal with your emotions is a skill issue and you've never been shown how to actually deal with them and from the shadows they control your life.

When you face something challenging (sadness, guilt, anger) you attempt to run away from it or push it down. Escaping through whatever vice soothes you. Whether you scroll, do drugs, party, gamble or fill your life with busy tasks to avoid facing yourself.

Your vice of choice is directly proportional to the weight/depth of the emotional charge you're experiencing.

Example: Most people who are on hard drugs have had to face extremely traumatising events in one way or another, and the underlying goal of a vice is to provide enough stimulation to distract yourself from sensing the undercurrents of the weight you're carrying.

The biggest misconception with emotions is that they're something that just randomly happen to you because of chemical pathways in your brain. When in reality your emotions are the greatest teachers that help rewire your entire perspective of life, and the idea that they are just random neurological firings is what keeps you stuck in self destructive patterns.

Here's how they look at each stage

Unconscious Incompetence -> You don't even realise you're escaping or suppressing your emotions. You indulge in self-destructive habits that stimulate you enough to forget about the emotion

Example: You feel fear about not having enough money so you go and gamble -> lose money now you feel guilt and shame but that GUILT and SHAME is just a more potent reflection of that fear, and the cycle repeats itself until your life is a direct reflection of that specific fear "I never have enough money" but you can't see that you just repeat cycles of feeling sorry for yourself + gambling instead of actually building something of value.

Conscious incompetence is when you become AWARE of the feelings and thoughts that are arising and you still allow the self destructive patterns to play out. Though when the emotions arise you sit with them, feel overwhelmed and then RUN AWAY from them, but here you are CHOOSING to run away from them.

Conscious competence is when you are aware of the emotions and instead of playing out the self destructive patterns you are learning how to sit with the emotions and see what they're telling you. (This takes genuine practice and intention to sit down as it's very uncomfortable at first).

Though over time, as you hold space for the emotion to rise, you'll see that it leads you back to a part of your identity that gets LIFE from feeling that specific thing.

That memory of your dad telling you, you'll never amount to nothing arises and you realise that YOU have never felt worthy to make a lot of money because you absorbed that idea as a belief.

Then you'll see that the FEAR was never real and it was only a reflection of the belief you absorbed that validated a part of your identity you clung on to.

So now because you see it has not grounding in reality as a REAL thing and that it was only a projection your dad spewed up, you can stop caring about it and let it go.

LETTING GO is the practice of conscious competence, and every belief you hold will arise out of the unconscious at some point, you'll give it space and allow it to run it's course and fade away.

Unconscious competence is when you have practiced letting go so much that EVERY TIME an emotion rises, you hold space, let it run it's course, provide you the necessary perspective upgrade and then it fades away (WITHOUT you even needing to consciously think about it).

This is the state of LETTING FLOW.

That is how you develop the skill of dealing with your emotions.

Understand this: Emotions are TRYING to get your attention to SHOW you something.

When you learn how to actually harness the wisdom your emotions are presenting to you, your life begins to upgrade in quality of experience, the depth and sensitivity of every felt experience is INCREASED and even something as simple as watching a sunset can fill your heart with joy to the point of tears. This translates to every aspect of your life and carries a carefree lightheartedness into everything you choose to do.

This sounds basic but the carry over effects and insane, you no longer feel blocked by an invisible wall, it's easy for you to be yourself, to choose the life you want to live and live in a way that is true to you. You're not bound to unseen strings of guilt and shame your family put onto you about "what you have to do". You're not blocked by the fear of "things not working out".

It's not that you don't experience anger, guilt or shame anymore, but they don't control your life. You can face them with courage and take on the lessons they bring to you about how to navigate your lived experience.

Genuine grounded joy lies on the other side of letting flow. You can taste the entire flavour of the human experience without letting it corrupt your sense of being. You can transform every experience into a positive that helps create a richer experience of life for all.

This is how you unlock childlike joy again.

[Rigathi Gachagua @rigathi]

Bwana IG,

I have seen that you have purported to order a thorough investigation into the abduction of Alex Kiprotich, the Associate Editor of the Standard Media Group.

That investigation, like all the others you have ordered, will go nowhere because it was done by police officers outside your command.

You are clueless about the operations of the National Police Service. I do have more information as to the happenings in the Service than you do. The National Police Service was taken over a long time ago by Mr. Kipchumba Murkomen and Mr. Raymond Omollo, with the concurrence of Mr. William Ruto; orders are directly issued to your DIG, Eliud Langat, and DCI Mohamed Amin.

You are just a flower girl leading a shell, and you will be sacrificed at the right time and blamed for the excesses in the Service.

Let me bring you up to speed.

Mr. Alex Kiprotich was preparing for an assignment in the Mau Forest, where thousands of Mau evictees from the Kipsigis community have been conned out of millions of shillings in compensation money by officials of the National Government Administration under the direction of Mr. Murkomen and Mr. Raymond Omollo. This money has been paid by the duo to their brokers and proxies.

Alex was to publish an exposé giving a blow-by-blow account of how the funds have been stolen, leaving the evictees helpless and in anguish.

A late-night meeting on Monday evening between Mr. William Ruto and Mr. Kipchumba Murkomen sealed the fate of Mr. Alex Kiprotich, where it was decided that he had to be stopped.

The DCI, Mr. Mohamed Amin, was instructed to put Alex under 24-hour surveillance. The DCI assembled a team headed by one Mr. Zachary Kariuki, who, though retired, has been recalled by Amin to coordinate this squad trained in abductions, killings, and cover-ups.

This is the team that abducted Alex Kiprotich and was instructed to abandon the earlier plan to eliminate him after the abduction was captured live and provoked public outrage.

This team of 60 rogue police killers is responsible for the abduction of businessman Jimmy in Mlolongo, as ordered by DIG Langat, Zizo Abdulaziz, Lawyer Molu, and killed Rachel Wandeto after you and Kipchumba Murkomen visited her in hospital.

That is why, even after Mr. William Ruto told Kenyans that the killers of Rachel Wandeto would be arrested, it has not happened and will not happen.

Bwana Kanja, before you order investigations into the abduction of Alex, kindly first release the findings of the previous investigations you ordered into the death of Rachel Wandeto, the attack on Witima ACK Church, the attack on Mwiki PCEA Church, the attack on Kariobangi PCEA Church, and the killings and mayhem in Ol Kalou, to name but a few.

You have no report to release because no investigations were carried out, and none will be carried out. You cannot investigate your seniors, and police cannot investigate themselves.

IPOA is dead, and the rule of law has been suspended.

I can see you crying at the International Criminal Court in The Hague next year.

|Photos courtesy of SG|

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

In the next few months, you are going to witness your favorite “influencers” pieces of shit rather, completely collaborate with evil. They will gaslight you with all manner of excuses. They will try to convince you to give this government a chance. They will even rub it in your face.
Because they have to work for the money.

But no matter how hard it gets, don’t forget the truth. Don’t forget all the dynasties have ever done is guard their resources. Don’t forget the hustler just used that narrative to get your votes.
Don’t forget that as your parents retire, their parents are getting luxurious jobs. Don’t forget how much of a mess our education system is.
Don’t forget how much of a mess our healthcare system is. Please don’t forget the ones who walked so you can run.

This is the era of homeguards and real fighters.
No matter how much they tell you to sell your soul, don’t do it. You deserve to sleep better at night knowing you are not a sellout.

This too shall pass✌🏾
Also, yes, I said pieces of shit