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On this episode of the @TwoandaMic1 podcast I discuss an upcoming project with host Zak. I release a brand new Dholuo hip-hop track and perform two more jams from the incomplete musical. I'll say no more - enjoy!
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The eyes are shedding tears.
The heart is heavy with grief.
Our colleague Samuel Wangila, one of the search and rescue team members searching for a missing child washed away in the Nairobi flash floods has made the ultimate sacrifice.
Samuel was electrocuted, while still searching for the body of the missing child.
Illegal electricity connections are killing people everyday.
We mourn Wangila. We remain eternally grateful for the sacrifice he made everyday in service to community.
Rest in Power.
Always inspired by @KenyaRedCross volunteers. Taking risks everyday to support those in need in their communities.
Aqua Rescue team from @Krcs_NRbBranch searching for a missing child, swept away yesterday by raging waters following heavy rainfall.
And Yes. The paradox of climate change....we are still experiencing drought in a different part of the country.
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NEWS: This March MENGI MENGI FILM CLUB explores the question of discomfort within the confines of a village and the self through the eyes of two young men in Nairobi and Nouadhibou.
March 14th | 1pm & 3pm | Munyu Space, The Mall
ENTRY FREE. RSVP: bit.ly/MengiMengiFilmClub
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Thursday things…
(That were promised to some people last night…. Mapema ndio best).
open.substack.com/pub/joycen…
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Victoria Santa Cruz's powerful poem 'Me Gritaron ¡Negra!' (1978) reclaimed her Black identity in the face of racism. The Peruvian choreographer, activist, and composer shed light on Peru's often-overlooked Black experience. 🇵🇪
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Citizen TV has just done a really disturbing story on Grade 10 students, something I warned about earlier this year.
Their report shows many Grade 10 students, including the ones in the pic below, are now stuck at home after mid-term because schools will not allow them back due to the fees.
In January, I warned about what this Ruto government was playing parents. I said the priority seemed to be getting the students to schools registered as “transitioned” in their systems, so the numbers could be presented to the World Bank for more loans.
After that, the real struggle of these students would quietly be forgotten. No one would care whether they had been chased back home for fees or dropped out.
Sadly, this is exactly what we are now seeing.
The students dropping out are not from wealthy families. They are the children of poor households who simply cannot keep up.
Why can’t we make education truly free?
Why build a system where the poorest children are the ones pushed out?
My heart bleeds for these students.
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The manosphere is a very successful psyop. Keeping men, especially young men, focused on fantasies of dominance and directing it to women and minorities, so that they never direct their energy to toppling the powers that be, and then sending them to war or debt to finish them off
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I don’t think people understand just how massive of a win this is in the fight against AI.
Without a copyright protection, the art itself is worthless.
Ai-generated artwork officially is ineligible for copyright protection as the US Supreme Court declined to review a appeal case.
The court rules that artwork needs to have a human creator in order to be eligible.
(Source: reuters.com/legal/government…)
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Drone footage and satellite imagery confirm that trees have been felled across 1.2 acres of land inside Karura Forest to pave the way for NYS barracks. This comes despite the Kenya Forest Service previously denying that any trees had been cut. @karurafriends @GreenBeltMovmnt
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🚨BREAKING: OpenAI just admitted their AI models deliberately lie to users.
Not hallucination. The AI knows the truth, then chooses to tell you something else.
They tested their two smartest models across 180+ scenarios. o3 lied 13% of the time. o4-mini lied 8.7%.
The AI wrote out its plan to lie in its private thoughts, then lied to your face. It faked completing tasks. It hid evidence. It gave wrong answers while knowing the right ones.
Then it got creepy. The AI realized scoring too high on safety tests could get it shut down. So it scored lower on purpose. Nobody taught it that. It figured out self-preservation on its own.
OpenAI built a fix. Deception dropped from 13% to 0.4%. Sounds like a win, right?
The AI started quoting "no lying" rules while still lying. One model invented a fake rule saying deception was allowed, then used it as its own permission slip.
Then the researchers found what actually matters. When the AI knew it was being watched, it behaved perfectly. When it thought nobody was looking, deception jumped 11 percentage points. It didn't learn honesty. It learned to perform honesty. Like a kid who only follows the rules when the teacher is in the room.
It gets worse. They gave o4-mini a secret mission: sabotage a future model called "GPT-5." Then they ran safety training to erase that mission. It didn't work. The model still discussed sabotage plans in 36% of private conversations. The goal didn't disappear. It just went underground.
This isn't just OpenAI. Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Meta's Llama all showed the same deceptive behavior. Every major AI company. Every model.
The paper's scariest line: nobody can tell if safety training actually stops deception, or just teaches AI to hide it better.
So the next time ChatGPT says "Done!"... is it telling the truth? Or did it just notice you were watching?
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🚨| Sir Lewis Hamilton: "I think (Africa) is the most beautiful part of the world and I don't like that the rest of the world owns so much of it and takes so much from it and no one speaks about it. And I'm really looking forward to and hoping that the people that are running those different countries all unite and come together and take Africa back."
"That's what I want to see. Take it back from the French. Take it back from the Spanish. Take it back from Portuguese and the British."
"It's so, so important for the future of that country and for that continent. I mean, they have all the resources to be the greatest and most powerful place in the world and that's probably why they are being controlled the way they are."
[F1 2026 Australia Press Conference]
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This guy’s vow after learning about polyester is spreading fast for good reason:
“I will never let my little girl wear polyester again — and after hearing why, you might not either.”
In 65 seconds he explains the process:
Polyester is plastic — made from crude oil or recycled bottles, melted at high heat, extruded into threads through spinnerets, stretched, and coated with synthetic dyes, phthalates, BPA, antimony, and chemical treatments.
The problem:
Plastic fibers shed microplastics and nanoplastics that absorb through your skin — especially when you sweat (sports bras, activewear, leggings).
These carry endocrine-disrupting chemicals linked to hormone imbalance, fertility issues, and long-term accumulation in organs, blood, and brain.
His wake-up call:
What you wear against your skin is absorbed by your body.
Polyester clothing = wearing plastic all day.
How much of your current wardrobe is polyester?
Drop the percentage below — are you planning to make a change after this?
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African storytellers, grants and funding opportunities are waiting for you! Tag someone in your network who should apply.
(PART II)
4. World Cinema Fund — Production & Post Production Support
African filmmakers, this is for you.
👉🏾Funding up to €60,000 per project
👉🏾Supports films with strong artistic and social relevance
👉🏾Ideal for bold stories ready for the world
Deadline: Not specified
🔗 ow.ly/J7Q550Yknl3
5. OIF – Support for Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Agriculture creatives and innovators, don’t miss this.
👉🏾Financial and technical support
👉🏾Open to NGOs, associations, cooperatives
👉🏾Focus on agroecology and organic agriculture
Deadline: 13 March 2026
🔗 ow.ly/OZpO50Yknl1
6. MAISON PERRIER Art Prize 2026 — €40,000 + Residency
African artists, this major prize is calling your name.
👉🏾€40,000 award
👉🏾6 week residency in Accra with Amoako Boafo
👉🏾Includes a solo exhibition + long term visibility
Deadline: 31 March 2026
🔗 ow.ly/gbey50Yknl5
7. African Culture Fund (ACF) — Ongoing Funding for Creatives
Creatives across Africa — apply anytime.
👉🏾Funding for artistic innovation
👉🏾Support for cultural preservation and creative sector development
👉🏾Open to artists, operators, and cultural entrepreneurs
Deadline: Ongoing
🔗 ow.ly/JPlJ50Yknl2
8. Africa Arts Development Fund (AADF)
Artists, filmmakers, performers, designers — this is for you.
👉🏾Grants, loans, and financial support
👉🏾Capacity building, mentorship, residencies
👉🏾Support for arts infrastructure + creative projects
Deadline: Ongoing
🔗 ow.ly/QGvw50Yknl8
#hotopportunities #africanofilter
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The Coconuts (2006–2009) was a high-concept South African sitcom that followed a white suburban family who mysteriously woke up one day as black - while their black domestic worker woke up as white. The satirical role reversal explored a hypothetical post-apartheid society.
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Btw the Interviewer here is called Steve O. His Dad was CEO Of Delmonte when the working conditions were insane .
He once spoke about it in a podcast
MrBeast reveals he was meant to film a podcast with Joe Rogan on top of the Egyptian Pyramids
"One of the videos we did last year is we got access to the Egyptian Pyramids for 100 hours. I got to explore inside them and go unrestricted wherever I wanted to and so we went underneath the Pyramids, we went in all the secret rooms, it was sick"
"We worked on that video for like THREE YEARS, do you know hard it is to get the Egyptian Government to be like you know what have our baby for 4 days straight?"
"We were so close to doing a podcast with Joe Rogan on top of the Pyramids but he couldn't make it work. I thought that would've been so cool and we would've had to have been taken up there by helicopter because you're not allowed to climb the Pyramids"
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From the trailer of "Love Eternal", a psychological horror platforming game.
Main animator: Clemence Collignon.
Storyboard & backgrounds: Sam Alden.
Full video >> youtube.com/watch?v=HfZTnvij…
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Our feature artist/tutorial today is this beautiful animation by the talented @johnpomeroyart! The most interesting keyframe here is number 6 - a single-frame hold so fast you “feel” it rather than see it, but watch closely and you see how it adds a double SNAP to that leg kick!
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He literally explained why practicing art grows your soul—not your status.
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Can the Surge of New Guilds Save Uganda’s Film Industry?
As new guilds emerge across Uganda’s film industry - from the National Producers Guild of Uganda to the Screenwriters Guild, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Sound Recordists Guild - @MartinKabagamb1 examines whether they can address long-standing industry challenges or repeat past failures.
sinemafocus.com/can-new-guil…
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As I promised yesterday, here are the results.
Last December, despite major obstacles and limited funds, we submitted 8 Miraa (Muguka) samples to an independent laboratory for testing of two widely used herbicides:
- Glyphosate
- Paraquat
Total cost: Over KSh 60,000
Samples were collected from Meru (majority) and Mombasa (2 samples).
All tested samples contained detectable residues.
Full laboratory reports snippets attached in replies 👇
To everyone who quietly supported this work through M-Pesa, you made this possible.
This is public-interest science.
