This is also the political economy of digitalisation.

Uber Eats must think I died.

The Angel of Death needs to be put on a PIP

Try to withdraw a large amount of cash from a bank and you'll understand why guys are so pressed by that Karauri video. It's KYC for me but none for them and they are the PEPs the banks created these things for in the first place

The average cost to mine a single Bitcoin is now over $90,000. The price of Bitcoin has collapsed to $67,000. Everyone mining Bitcoin at the moment is losing a fortune.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

This is like a scene out of Monty Python. ICE agents get a name back from face recognition and multiple agents start calling out "Maria! Maria!" to see if a woman in custody reacts. (Presumably if she does that's a match???) It didn't work, so they ran the app again and got another name.

There is no Nairobi County Hall beat for example, even though it is one of the most important and corrupt institutions in the country. Athletes depend on social media to let fans know that they have events happening. Twitter is one of the main news sources. There is no national discourse.

I'm not going to lie, I'm struggling to hold everything together

Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest

Al-Jazeera denounces YouTube's submission to the ban of its broadcast in Israel and calls for adherence to international conventions.

I spoke to WNYC's On The Media about the Verification, Deliberation, Accountability framework I've developed, and how, without major interventions, it predicts the inevitable slide of democracies into populism, conspiracy, and, finally, authoritarianism www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Gathering aerial footage of Gaza is a dangerous task, and Bellingcat and our partners led by @forbidden-stories.bsky.social previously identified several cases where drone journalists were killed or injured shortly after capturing aerial images. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...

People are really going through it. There's just something going on, because wueh! I have my own problems, yes, but the things I'm hearing, I get home and mine pale in comparison.

Akina Colors, Tiny Desk, First We Feast, the low budget YouTube things, those were not supposed to be platforms for established people. Where are you supposed to find up and coming people now that the big guys are crowding them out? Ama it's another sign that we are in a recession ?

If the Kambas in your life are refusing to give you Mangoes, change tactics, remember that you're dealing with legendary long distance traders. Switch to barter trade, me I have Jaba, Tea and Coffee from my shags. Kuja tuongee hatuwezi kosa bei

2026 it's podcasts by experts talking about their fields of work. Historians talking about History etc Podcast Relationship nonsense is killing our society

I spent a total of 9 hours on Social Media last week and I've never felt better

Today on random shit. Just met a classmate of Stella Awinja who told be the story. Apparently the counterweight for the crane fell off and hit her as she waited for a Matatu

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

Yeah, I’m something of a sandwich artiste myself

The way people are moving? Msoto is just me. The economy is doing well and so are my friends

Maybe there's something wrong with me but I can't be Carol in Pluribus. I wouldn't go so far as Koumba though I'd probably do a cabin on a lake and they leave me alone. Food shipments, stima and internet

If Trump announces a new and illegal regime change war against Venezuela tonight pay attention to which elected Democrats stay silent and don’t vociferously oppose and condemn him for it - and then make sure those Dems are subjected to primary challenges next year.

It's been a while.... The 2025 Isuzu MU-X is now proudly made in Kenya!

Yeah, s*x is cool, but have you heard the sound a page in a book makes when you turn it? 🫦 #WritingCommunity #BookSky

I'm going to be on Radio Generation 88.8FM tonight talking cars You can "tune in" online here if you can't find an FM radio radiogeneration.co.ke

Toilets can make Africa’s roads safer, according to this new study. Africa’s traffic deaths account for about one quarter of the global number of victims, despite having less than 4% of the world’s vehicle fleet.

Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.

Some explicitly say the AI recommended they contact us. That makes sense, the models scrape our work and cite us as a reputable source, so the AI has inadvertently become part of the referral pathway for people spiralling down a rabbit hole.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

There are few things in this world that are as amazing as your babe being deliriously happy to see you. I just saw a couple and yeah. I want that, I want to make someone's daughter so happy that she's almost going Michael Jackson level wild just because I walked round a corner

Right now these AI videos are so good that you can only tell they're AI if the vibes are off and you have to be chronically online for that to work :-(

I need to start playing golf again so that I can kick people's asses. I keep seeing people playing for Instagram, photos of everything except scorecards. I'm just looking at Howdidido and WUEH! 🤣🤣🤣 Anyway, god of money locate me

The problem with living in Kenya is the National Parks. As a citizen, that is actually my forest and those are indeed my monkeys.

Clearly I am someone's enemy the way I am suffering

According to a person familiar with jury lunches

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How will she look mid-afternoon on a boring weekend in a Dera and head wrap?

My Ex just hollad out of the blue and I really do mean out of the blue we haven't spoken in like ten (10) years. We didn't break up on bad terms but... Ruto Must Go

The Kenya women’s football team, the Harambee Starlets, have qualified for WAFCON, a first for the country.

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

"Ceasefire" and a PR offensive that has even reached us right here in Kenya.