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BREAKING: Mercedes-Benz announced Thursday it will halt all investment in Germany and is mulling plant closures, per YF
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Dear Kenya 🇰🇪,
This is almost exactly how things looked in Turkey before the fund scandal. Be careful out there.
A friend
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Art is work. It's not talent. I've seen students not put in the time to refine their craft and wing it when it's time to perform, because they think they have the "talent." Talent is not even a word I use in my classroom. I never have, and I never will. The students whom you hear me call good are students who put in the work. If they don't, I don't care for their so-called talent.
That's a political philosophy decision. Especially because I know the great suffering we in the arts face when our subjects are perceived as not worth learning, because they are about "talent." Become an arts educator who has to fight for your subjects, or become an artist who does work and doesn't get paid on time, if at all, or not the full amount, then you will discover how bad that idea of talent is. If you do arts as a pass time, hobby or interest, or if you are in a position where you're in the arts and your career is never threatened, you may find it a challenge to understand how bad the idea of talent is. And if you're a parent accepting your child's school to use that idea, sorry, but that a big, big mistake.
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Nearly a third of statistically significant findings in development economics may be false discoveries
In a new NBER working paper, Qingyuan Chai, Kevin Lang, and Liang Zhong question the statistical credibility of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which have become one of the main tools of modern empirical economics.
The authors analyzed 745 tests of primary hypotheses from 190 papers published in leading economics journals and arrived at some rather troubling findings.
nber.org/papers/w35999
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"Tragically, we don’t like theory so we think TVET and the Competency-based Curriculum will make our kids learn “practical skills”, forgetting that that too counts as theory." @TweetingPundit
Come to think of it; I don't get why Kenyans hate theory so much when they don't know what theory is. #CBCisheretostay
theelephant.info/analysis/20…
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Did you know that you don't have to be an MP to propose to make/change a law? On this day, @TheUstawi_ke with @CJPDKENYA convened a peer workshop to train on legislative processes, and yes, the fun part was a simulation session on "Petition hearings at Committee Stage."
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If someone is sabotaging you during campaigns because they also want to be president, picking them as deputy president also poses a risk to you. They will sabotage you from within. They will be very insubordinate too.
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The colonial obsession of the government with policing individuals, instead of diagnosing and treating social causes, is very strange when it comes from a doctor. I keep asking if Fanon is part of reading lists in Kenyan medical schools.
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The World Bank says corruption concerns and misuse of public funds have been documented in several Kenyan projects and sectors.
They include:
— New stadium construction
— New health insurance system, involving fictitious entities
— SGR construction
— Pipeline projects
— Dam projects
— Road construction
— Education construction projects
— Public water utilities
— Power utilities
— County government projects
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You see how powerful the #ProteinAgenda can be?! 🍳🥛🥛🍗🥩
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As @TweetingPundit said, what's even more cruel about retirement is that many retirees still have children in school whose fees need to be paid. And then the NSSF people demand bribes from retirees, yet older people have higher medical bills to pay.
The political economy of Kenya is extremely cruel.
The Colonial Clock: Who Designed Africa's Retirement Models?
We talk about colonialism’s obvious legacies in Africa: IMF structural adjustment programmes, debt traps, "aid" tied to economically-crippling policy changes, externally-fueled conflicts and t*rror...
But what about those colonial legacies which we have normalized so much, we barely even notice or question them?
What if we told you that even the age at which you are allowed to retire as an African is just another Western colonial weapon fashioned against you?
@sannario_ reports for The Spearhead.
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Americans don't use WhatsApp because of a decision Apple made in 2013. We only know about it because the emails came out in court, and the whole thing came down to keeping your kids off Android.
It started with Eddy Cue, the guy who runs Apple's services. That April he emailed the team saying Apple really needed to put iMessage on Android. Google was reportedly trying to buy WhatsApp for $1 billion at the time, and Cue's pitch was that Apple already had the best messaging app, so why not make it the one the whole world used.
Craig Federighi, Apple's software chief, shut it down.
He asked how Apple was supposed to get Android users to leave WhatsApp when they didn't even have iPhone friends. So back in 2013, the guy running iPhone software was basically admitting WhatsApp already owned everybody who didn't have an iPhone. Then he got to what he was actually worried about. iMessage on Android would remove "an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones."
Phil Schiller, Apple's longtime marketing boss, backed him up in another email thread in 2016, writing that putting iMessage on Android would hurt Apple more than help it. None of this was public until Epic sued Apple and the emails got pulled into evidence in 2021.
Now look at what that does to WhatsApp. The entire reason WhatsApp exists is that it works on any phone, so it wins wherever group chats are a mix of iPhones and Androids. Apple went the other direction on purpose. For years, every Android user in an American group chat showed up as a green bubble and their videos came through blurry, and the fix everybody landed on was buying another iPhone.
Tim Cook pretty much said this out loud in 2022. A reporter at a conference told him he couldn't send videos to his mom because she had an Android, and Cook told him to buy his mom an iPhone.
And it worked about as well as anything Apple has ever done. Nearly 9 in 10 American teenagers own an iPhone, and iPhones were 75% of phones sold at the big three US carriers in early 2026. If almost everyone you text has the same phone, an app whose whole selling point is working across phones has nothing to offer you.
Worldwide, Apple only sells about 1 in 5 phones. Most of the world's group chats stayed mixed, so they ended up on the one app that ran on everything, and WhatsApp blew past 3 billion users. Meta says more than 100 million Americans use it now too.
Apple finally added RCS texting with Android in 2024 and turned on encryption for it this May, and they still kept those messages green.
Apple basically let WhatsApp have the rest of the planet so it could keep American teenagers.
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We asked for an Audit. In which language is that a defence of theft? It is the hope of the actual thieves to dissappear in the fog of the manufactured "outrage". The worst of Kenyans fear is you being in charge for we will lack words to describe the plunder that will ensue.
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Well, I didn't expect the reaction to my thoughts that I have! Most see what I was saying. Some of you are missing my point about podcasters and politics. We’re heading into a pivotal period where money, influence and power will be more intense than perhaps any election before it. Obinna is one of Kenya’s most-watched podcasters. Whether he wants it or not, that influence carries an equally heavy responsibility to the people who watch him. Screenshot is from research done by @OdipoDev that we co-published last year. As they say, with great power...
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In this government, there’s money for everything except the problems that Kenyans urgently need addressed
