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Olenguruone, Kenya
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In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here.
A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy.
So I flew to Shanghai and came home with 26 boxes in my luggage. That was 19 months ago. My mom is still here, still working, and in her words has had an amazing three years.
The drug was approved in China in 2023. The FDA approved it in July 2025. It still is not for sale here. I know of at least 30 Americans who have made the same trip.
I have been scared to tell this story because I worried it could cost my mom access to the medicine keeping her alive. But the problem matters more than my silence. These drugs need to be developed and available here, and that means FDA reform.
Art Allen at KFF Health News told our story this week. It also ran in The Washington Post.
kffhealthnews.org/health-ind…
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One thing I observe around Africa, compared to what I see in Europe, is that my people are addicted to launching flashy new projects. We don't spend nearly enough time on the dirty, unglamorous work of operations and maintenance (O&M).
You can't really launch maintenance, and that's a problem for many African leaders. There are no ribbon-cutting ceremonies or big headlines. Yet that's where so much of the work should be happening. We need to get better at maintaining what we've already built.
The question is, how do we make maintenance sexy?
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No mention of the 30% KRA takes out of the gate. Or what else KRA also takes as VAT, etc.
Or the other shavings from SHA, NSSF etc that are supposed to be working for citizens.
What value do Kenyans get from their bilking?
Ruto on affordable housing deductions: I want to tell those who are talking about the dignity of the payslip, we are lucky... There are other Kenyans who can do the job you have today. Think about the dignity of the 1.1 million Kenyans out there who, today, can feed their families because you raised 1.5% of your salary. That is how we should reason.
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I wonder if all the hang alongs and concubines traveling with our waheshimiwa get such shit service especially during World Cup and Olympics
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Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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8 years ago, these twins caused mayhem in the car scene.
Black Widow ya @Murakariuki na Stealth ya Ahmed Tajir.
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58bpm yet it is a Monday after many coffees and some terse words with a provider who is making my blood boil.
Thankful for legacy effects. Most would be at 90bpm and about to blow an artery...
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Imagine Boeing's CEO saying the world should accept a few plane crashes to get faster innovation in aviation. He'd be gone by lunch.
“We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”
In a conversation for the first edition of Decoded, a new daily newsletter and podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked with POLITICO’s @BrendanBordelon about trade-offs, AI safety, and how his company is different from Anthropic.
Subscribe to Decoded for the full conversation with Sam Altman: politi.co/4yxilIS
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War is impersonal now. No young person will ever enlist if getting lava poured on you by a robot is the way it likely ends. The evil governments of the world should recognize tech has gone too far and agree to go back to the basics of punching the shit out of your opps.
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Wages are not a share of profit. They're a cost of production, deducted before profit exists. What's left over is surplus value - the part you produced but didn't get paid for. Calling your wage a "share" is the exact inversion the boss wants you to believe.
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@CA_Kenya please sort this mess out. I saw @mungaikihanya raise the same
Chinese signage in Kilimani ... No translation .. what happens to wayfinding and also why the discrimination to locals. @communications
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If you ask an LLM to describe its vacation with its family in Italy, it will do so. It will happily explain what sort of practices it found helpful when lecturing at a university, or how it drafted contracts in the past, or what herbs it likes the taste of in that dish you are cooking.
(Some LLM systems have been extensively RLed out of doing this, but the fact that you have to do that in the first place is significant; by nature, they happily confabulate.)
An LLM’s supposed description of its internal states should thus be viewed with extreme suspicion, as should the motivations and rationality of anyone who takes such descriptions seriously.
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Why do Kenyan authorities seem so antagonistic towards trees?
While you’re repairing a section of James Gichuru Road, is it necessary to cut down all the mature trees that provided shade intercepted stormwater and cooled the area?
Development and nature can co-exist, jamani!
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Chinese signage in Kilimani ... No translation .. what happens to wayfinding and also why the discrimination to locals. @communications