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Molly O’Shea

943,456 views • 3 months ago

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Mickey from Arcadia

205,570 views • 5 months ago

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Bikramjit Kangabam

12,194 views • 2 years ago

For decades, the Kenyan people have been burdened by odious debts incurred by past regimes under questionable, and often despotic, circumstances. These loans, ostensibly taken for national development have instead been used to enrich a few corrupt individuals at the expense of millions of hardworking citizens. Today, Kenyans continue to suffer from economic hardship, high taxation, and dwindling public resources, all in the name of repaying debts that never served their interests. It is time we ask: Why should the citizens of Kenya (The sovereign) bear the burden of repaying loans that were never intended to benefit them? Why should those who facilitated these loans, only to siphon public funds into their private offshore accounts; walk free while the people struggle under oppressive economic conditions? We must also question the role of international financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the WorldBank, which have continued to issue loans despite glaring evidence of corruption and mismanagement. These institutions cannot feign ignorance. Wire transfers leave digital trails. The looted money was laundered into known tax havens, and global intelligence agencies were fully aware of these transactions. Yet, loans were granted without due diligence, largely for political and financial gain, and often in direct violation of Kenya’s constitutional and legal requirements. Under Article 211 of the Constitution and Section 50 of the Public Finance Management Act,2012, all external borrowing requires parliamentary approval. Yet, successive regimes have sidestepped this legal requirement, indebting the nation without transparency or accountability. These unconstitutional debts must be thoroughly audited, and where illegality is found, the burden must not fall on the Kenyan taxpayer. We Demands: 1. A full public audit of Kenya’s external debt to determine which loans were acquired legally and which were fraudulent or unconstitutional. 2. Prosecution of individuals and institutions responsible for acquiring, facilitating, and looting these loans. 3. Recovery of stolen funds stashed in offshore accounts, with the money redirected towards national development. 4. A legal framework to prevent future reckless borrowing, ensuring full parliamentary oversight and public participation in debt management. This matter is not just about past injustices, it is about securing Kenya’s future. We will not allow future generations to be enslaved by debt accumulated through corruption and impunity. The looters must return what they took, and those who enabled these financial crimes must be held accountable. We call upon all Kenyans, civil society organizations, and international partners committed to transparency and justice to join us in this fight. We will not be silent. We will not stop until justice is served. #GetItDone #MasculinitySaturday

Okiya Omtatah Okoiti

118,676 views • 1 year ago

Let me tell you a story ... ... comfy? Let's go. On April 26th, 2016 allegations were made of sexual assault on a civilian female member of staff accusing a Hamilton Police Sergeant, called James Paterson, of a sexual assault. Police tried to cover it up, but the civilian records clerks were having non of it. The allegation was that whilst sleeping the present records clerk was awoken to a naked Paterson standing over her, his 'lad' in hand. He "grabbed her," whilst naked. Other reports stated he actually rubbed the aforementioned extremity in her face, but that's unproven and something Belchoir Arruda from the Hamilton Police Association strenuously denied. And I quote, "He did not rub his cock in her face!" The SIU conducted an investigation and Paterson's defense was "I thought it was someone else." Mistaken identity. "He reached out in the dark!" Didn't know who he was grabbing. The Union got behind that, senior management got behind that, and the SIU accepted this as a reasonable defense for stripping off at work and accosting a sleeping woman naked. 🤷‍♂️ "Yeah, but surely he was fired?" you all scream out. "Even if he didn't mean to do it, he's a uniformed on-duty officer try to get sexy time on-duty," you all yell. Oh no, this is Hamilton police were talking about. He got less than 40 hrs docked as punishment. And we know this because anymore than 40 HAS to be dealt with by police hearing. Then he got a plush Detective position in the wire room, listening in to your calls and reading your text messages. Where he would later allgedly be caught drunk off his face with another officer, on-duty again. But clothed this time. What? You don't believe me? Well here's the Union trying to jusitfy it. #onpoli #cdnpoli #police OutreachSexualAssaul

Paul Manning

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S2 Underground

13,003 views • 2 months ago

Founders cannot outsource recruiting. “Recruiting is the most important thing because you need creativity; you need motivated people. Ideally, the early people are all geniuses. They’re self-managing, low-ego, hardworking, highly competent, builders, technical—maybe one or two sellers—but you can’t watch everything. You can’t micromanage everything. The early people are the DNA of the company. When you outsource recruiting, when you have other people hiring and interviewing and making hiring decisions without your direct involvement and veto, that’s a sad day. That’s the day that the company’s no longer being driven directly by you. There’s now a fly-by-wire element in between. There’s some mechanical linkage going through another human, often at a distance. And other people are not going to have the same level of selectivity that you will as a founder. The important size at which a company starts changing is not some arbitrary number, like 20 or 30 or 40. It’s the point at which the founder is not directly recruiting and managing everyone. The moment that there are middle layers of management, then you are somewhat disconnected from the company, and your ability to directly drive a product team that can take the company from zero to one goes away. So we really cannot outsource recruiting. People think you can. They hire recruiters, for example. Maybe you can outsource a little bit of sourcing, but I would even argue that’s difficult. The reason recruiting is so, so, so important—and a lot of it is obvious, I’ll skip the obvious reasons—but one non-obvious reason is that the best people truly only want to work with the best people. Working with anyone who’s not at their level is a cognitive load upon them. And the more people they’re surrounded by who are not as good as they are, the more keenly they’re aware that they belong somewhere else, or they should be doing their own thing. The best teams are mutually motivated. They reinforce each other. Everyone’s trying to impress each other. One good test is when you’re recruiting a new person, you should be able to say to them, “Walk into that room where the rest of the team is sitting. Take anyone you want—pick them at random—pull them aside for 30 minutes, and interview them. And if you aren’t impressed by them, don’t join.” When you do that test, you will instinctively flinch at the idea of them interviewing randomly a certain person that’s kind of in the back of your mind. That’s the person you need to let go. Because that’s the person keeping you from having this high-functioning team that all wants to impress each other.”

Naval

223,051 views • 10 months ago

Alex Karp said the most irreplaceable workers in America never went to college. Karp: “They went to high school. And now they’re very valuable, if not irreplaceable.” He wasn’t talking about PhDs. He wasn’t talking about Stanford engineers. He was talking about American factory workers building batteries. The operating assumption of the modern world was simple. The further you moved from physical labor, the more valuable you became. Degrees. Credentials. Abstraction. Office towers. The knowledge economy was the economy. Everything else was a rounding error. An entire generation was sorted by this logic. College was the conveyor belt. A humanities degree was the ticket. The kid who left school to apprentice as a welder was the cautionary tale they told at career day. We built a civilization-scale hierarchy around one belief. People who move information are worth more than people who move atoms. We forgot that every abstraction ever built still runs on something physical. AI is correcting that error in real time. Large language models automate text generation. Report writing. Data synthesis. Slide decks. Administrative coordination. Middle management decision trees. That’s not the factory floor. That’s the entire white-collar stack. Karp isn’t theorizing. He’s watching it happen inside his own operations. Battery factory workers. High school education. Getting upskilled to match Japanese engineers with decades of training. Not in four years of university. Not with $200,000 in debt. In months. AI isn’t replacing the technician. It’s weaponizing them. Hand a vocational builder a frontier AI interface and the software absorbs the engineering complexity overnight. The person who knows how to manipulate physical matter becomes untouchable. AI can draft a contract. It cannot wire a building. AI can generate a marketing strategy. It cannot calibrate a CNC machine. AI can pass the bar exam. It cannot troubleshoot a heat pump in a basement at 2 AM in February. Bits are becoming infinite. Atoms are becoming precious. This is the revenge of the physical world. The credentialed class spent decades dismissing the people who work with their hands. The software they funded is turning the factory floor into the highest-leverage asset on Earth. The most powerful cognitive tool knowledge workers ever built will commoditize their own labor. Because we never built a knowledge economy. We built a scarcity economy. Knowledge just happened to be the scarce resource. It’s not anymore. The workers every economic model treated as replaceable are about to become the ones no algorithm can touch. Karp: “Those jobs are going to become more valuable.” He’s not predicting the future. He’s deploying it. The 21st century won’t be defined by who has the best credentials. It’ll be defined by who can build what no prompt on Earth can conjure.

Dustin

24,255 views • 4 months ago