Lorna @fireproofcode

i’ve never once regretted going for a hike or rolling out my yoga mat. the resistance always belongs to the moment before, never afterward.

You can always tell whose ancestors were collaborators

nyorude @nyorude

2 weeks ago

A rare photo of JKL host Jeff Koinange while in Primary school🇰🇪

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the size of your life is up to you. that thought should terrify you and thrill you in the same breath. everything you are not is a choice. every limit is self imposed. every ounce of potential you haven’t touched is sitting there waiting for a version of you willing to reach for it. you can have anything you are willing to work for. so go work. go take it. stop admiring the life from a distance and go grab it.

A 30-year-old engineer at IBM invented the technology that makes every modern computer chip fast, and one year later IBM fired her, erased her name from the project, and told her she would never work in computing again. Her name was Lynn Conway. In 1965, IBM had put her on a secret supercomputer project called ACS. She solved a problem the rest of the team had been stuck on for months: how to make a processor do more than one thing at a time without breaking. The technique she invented is called dynamic instruction scheduling. Every phone, laptop, and server on Earth still runs on a version of it. In 1968, she told IBM she was transitioning. They fired her the same year. Not for her work. The work was brilliant. They fired her because the CEO decided her existence was a liability, and the ACS project quietly buried her contributions in internal memos so nobody outside the company would ever know she had been there. She was 30 years old, with no degree in her new name, no references, and no way to prove she had ever written a line of code that mattered. So she started over. She took a job as a contract programmer at a small firm, worked her way back up, and within a few years landed at Xerox PARC, the lab that was quietly inventing the future of computing. At PARC, she did it again. She and Carver Mead wrote a textbook called Introduction to VLSI Systems. It taught engineers a completely new way to design chips, breaking a process that used to take teams of specialists years into something a single graduate student could do in a semester. Universities picked it up almost overnight. Within five years, it was the standard textbook at every serious engineering school on the planet. The chip industry calls what happened next the Mead-Conway revolution. Without it, there is no modern semiconductor industry. No consumer GPUs. No smartphones. No AI training runs. She built the pipeline that let students actually fabricate the chips they designed too. It was called MOSIS. It became the model every university chip lab still uses. And through all of it, almost nobody knew who she was. She lived quietly for 30 years, never mentioning the IBM years, never explaining the gap in her resume, watching men accept awards for work built on the foundation she had laid twice. In 1999, she finally came out publicly. The response inside the industry was silence, then slowly, recognition. She started giving talks. She started writing. She started documenting everything IBM had tried to erase. In 2020, 52 years after they fired her, IBM formally apologized. She was 82 years old. The chip inside the phone you are reading this on has her fingerprints on it twice. Once from 1965, in the way it schedules instructions. Once from 1978, in the way it was designed and manufactured. They told her she would never work in computing again. She built half of it anyway.

one of the biggest reasons you don’t have what you want isn’t because a lack of talent or hard work. you have a fear of being fully seen. but the life you’re trying to manifest requires you to not hide anymore. it requires visibility + confidence.

telling your brain "i know you don't wanna do the thing and it'll be very uncomfortable for you at first but you can do it buddy. it'll be fine" is actually surprisingly effective. it sounds too simple but that fuckass organ WILL listen to you if you treat it with kindness lol

Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday

2 months ago

🚨: Neuroscientists discovered something shocking: your brain doesn't care if your thoughts are true... it just believes whatever you think on repeat

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This is a simple thing. Produce your own publication countering all the "in 6 months.." promises that were front page of the newspaper. Just go bar for bar and show how they were wrong. You don't have to tweet as if you are entirely helpless. Haha.

William Samoei Ruto, PhD @WilliamsRuto

4 weeks ago

GMoi,your STANDARD media’s 5 days a week EXTORTIONIST propaganda HEADLINES on me & my administration’s transformative track record will get you NOTHING & NOWHERE.BLACKMAIL to yield to your GREED? NEVER.Kenya belongs to all Kenyans,not you alone.Jaribu 8 days a week. Do your WORST

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Soon after independence, Kenya’s political elites embraced an Extractive System of government in which a small cabal use their positions to loot public resources at the expense of the ordinary citizen.   Today, under William Ruto, that extractive system has become a full-blown criminal enterprise. Across virtually every public sector, the President, his cabinet, top officials in government, and corrupt businessmen have turned government into their own business. #ukombozi

A levy that was presented as a housing solution is now being transformed into a long-term debt instrument, potentially binding current and future workers to obligations they never consented to. This is exactly how temporary government measures become permanent burdens on citizens. This nonsense needs to stop

NTV Kenya @ntvkenya

2 months ago

Housing Levy Locked Forever: A bold fiscal manoeuvre could lock the controversial housing levy into Kenyan payslips for generations. Government plans to use the housing levy as loan security to borrow Sh100 billion. #NTVTonight @MichelleNgele_ @Karanja_Ibrah

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Speeding tickets on roads with no markings, no street lights, no drains, filled with portholes at risk of robbery Shame on you @ntsa_kenya @KURAroads

So how much is Sakaja crossing with then if that’s how the county planning guy is rolling?

Paul Njuguna, a retired technical manager at the Agricultural Development Corporation, invested Ksh 16 million in 2019 to set up Elgon Pine, a refined oil and animal feed plant in Eldoret. At its peak, the plant processed 90 tonnes of canola, sunflower, and soya annually, with capacity for 300 tonnes. Njuguna contracted about 100 farmers who supplied raw materials, while he also farmed 10 acres himself. The business also produced poultry feeds and soap from crop by-products. The venture collapsed after Kenya Power slapped him with a Ksh 400,000 bill in August 2021, compared to his usual monthly bill of about Ksh 30,000. Njuguna disputed it as an error and filed a complaint, but Kenya Power claimed underbilling and refused to adjust. When he failed to pay, Kenya Power disconnected electricity to both his plant and home. Though EPRA ruled in his favour and ordered reconnection, the power was never restored, forcing him to shut down operations. The shutdown affected the entire value chain - contracted farmers, suppliers, and employees - all of whom lost income. Njuguna now questions whether the disconnection was deliberate sabotage and why Kenya does little to protect small industrial ventures. His case has raised concerns about how utility billing errors and slow dispute resolution can destroy promising local businesses and the livelihoods tied to them.

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To destabilize the region, the West has found a greedy statesman willing to sell out his country and its people for the right price. William Ruto.

Trump paused USAID when he came to power and said, “Africans should handle African problems.” I wonder why the US wants Kenya, an African country, to handle their Ebola problem. Tafakari

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we never question why the super rich are never satisfied with what they already have.

If you allow the state to break the law during an emergency, it will create emergencies to break the laws. Ebola is NOT a Kenyan problem today.. don't let him make it one.

I think the questions that we are not asking loudly enough are: If Ebola is mainly in the DRC why is America crying the loudest about it? How are Americans getting Ebola? What are Americans doing in DRC?

This habit of lecturing Kenyans that no president has ruled this country for one term, so Uliam has to rule for two terms, is a very terrible entitlement. Kenyans don't owe anyone two terms. You are allowed to be president as long as we choose to. If we say half-term, so be it.

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.

People MUST resist Freehold Land being turned into Leasehold and oppressive TAXES imposed with the Land being auctioned upon failure to pay the those taxes.Objective is to disposess people of their Lands and turn them into labourers for the new owners.We have a CRIMINAL regime