Boniface Githinji

An edtech entrepreneur with interests in community empowerment centers, business incubation & early stage investing. 🚀

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[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

Kenyans on Twitter - a theatre of "predetermined outcomes"

You would be very lucky to get any intellectual rigor on Twitter as most of the players are optimizing for different outcomes.

...don't be too emotionally invested. You cognitive surplus will quickly diminish

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

@barrowfaustus Say you ask an architect to design you a house; how often do you enthrall yourself with the intricacies of architecture?

You trust they know what they are doing and let them be, right? This is where we are going with AI as a coding tool.

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

Reasons quoted are exactly why they 'feint' lagging behind - they have too much to lose if a 'fable-class' model were to be outed for using personal data Google would never recover.

[baba yaga @babayagatwt]

I still can’t figure out why Gemini struggles to compete with Claude and GPT.

- Owns Chrome
- Backed by Android
- Stores most search results
- Holds ~95% search history
- Google has the biggest user data
- Even incognito data isn’t fully private

So what’s the problem?

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

Damn!

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇷🇺⚡FAB-3000 on a Ukrainian position in the Zaporozhye region. 100+ eliminатеd.

Yet somehow Russia is the one losing 30,000 men a month according to Zelensky, while dominating 9 to 1 in fire power...

If you don't understand the 1:32 KIA exchange, this is how.

[Mustafa @oprydai]

i often think about this…

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

@realsooraj @AravSrinivas Very narrow minded. There's so much we aren't doing today for lack of knowhow or resource unavailability. AI is coming to democratise this. Think of how little we know about our own human anatomy, deep seas, pathology, UBI... very excited

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

What's there to show for KES 600+ billion invested in Kenya's tech startups since 2012?

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

What a cheap shot. Criticize Mamdani’s policies all you want, but saying he has built nothing because he hasn’t built companies at your scale only shows how narrow your definition of value has become.

Public life, organizing, legislation, and representation count too.

Wealth does not give anyone a monopoly on contribution.

Greatness should come with humility not Lex Luthor style hubris.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

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64,537 videos
17,905 photos
Ability to download individual videos
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We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way.

God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it.

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[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions, among them the conviction that inviolability of home is grounded in the constitution which guarantees it. In reality, it is grounded in the family father, who, sons at his side, appears at the door, axe in hand"

—E Jünger

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

"The truth is spoken only by those who are ready to depart."

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

"Pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the land." 🤏

[Greg Koenig @gak_pdx]

I’ve held the original iPod functional prototype. It is the size of a large pizza box cut in half and stacked. Cast from a resin that has yellowed over the years. The first click wheel prototype is inside, it was the size of a DVD player and totally hacked together. The battery was a giant thing from a laptop. The only thing that I think made it onto the launch iPod was the screen, because it was an off-the-shelf part from a vendor.

Oddly, despite being a foot long, 9” wide and 4” thick, it still looked vaguely like an iPod… just giant.

The point is, very few people have ever laid eyes on it. Apple didn’t hold a press conference to show it off. Steve Jobs didn’t humiliate himself by showing it stuffed down the front of his jeans.

The LG Prada was the world’s first touch screen phone, pre-dating the iPhone by a few months. Absolutely nobody remembers it beyond geek trivia.

Pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the land.

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

@_Locke_XX @sambendett Not quite. Pretty obvious.

Earth is roughly 510 million sq km. With approximately 10,400 active satellites in orbit, each covering about 49,000 sq km of global real estate.

A small 20 sq km territory represents less than 0.004% of a single satellite's dedicated segment

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The distinction between engineering and magic is entirely a modern linguistic conceit.

To the ancients, a wizard, a magus, a sorceror, was not a man who commanded forces outside the laws of nature. He was a man who commanded the forces of nature, by manipulating them through his understanding of natural law.

But the modern word for a man who commands the universe by understanding its laws is "engineer".

Yes, the ancient sorceror would try to commune with the spirits of the dead, or read the destiny of kings in the stars, or perform fertility rites to make the crops grow, but this wasn't some special supernatural discipline to him.

This was simply his model of how the natural world worked.

He would not have made a distinction between understanding heat and phase changes, and thereby distilling alcohol, and cutting out the intestines of a bird to predict the fortunes of a business venture.

Both, to him, were philosophy and natural law.

But as our understanding of the laws of physics grew more sophisticated, we gradually exiled the term "magic" to that which had not been proven to work, and to that which had been proven not to work.

Were we given the opportunity to take an ancient Egyptian king on a tour of modern society, riding in an electric car, he would remark that we are a rich people, because we have many powerful magicians.

Some of us might hasten to correct him, telling him that there is no magic used here.

But he would not, in fact, be wrong.

[Eduardo Verástegui @EVerastegui]

En todo hay límites.
Esto no está bien.
Blasfemia.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Iranians just published the new very banger LEGO AI movie that Trump almost wants to put onto agreement list to stop them.

Do whatever you need to do but don't let Trump watch this 😭🤣😂

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

🎯

[Boniface Githinji @UncleBoni]

Subjugating the natural order? Won't happen as there are no other parallels in the universe. And if we did manage to, then we'd have to contend with a whole worrisome can of unknowns.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Getting old shouldn't be viewed as inevitable, just because it happens to everyone. It's a disease that kills over 100,000 people a day, and hopefully it will be optional in the future.