igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026youtu.be/SHHvvjwkpWoyoutu.beIs Kenyan Manufacturing a Myth? The Truth About Local AssemblyYouTube video by Gearhaus 000
Reposted by igiriwM@Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026UFC event on the White House lawn serves this purpose. Not just the event itself, but the controversy and debate surrounding it, which allows in-group members to define themselves against the out-group. 07527
Reposted by igiriwM@Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/06/2026You have to admire the chutzpah of the BBC’s response to the Trump lawsuit www.ft.com/content/d2a0... 22813247
Reposted by igiriwM@Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...youtube.comA Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificatorYouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council 20628307
Reposted by igiriwM@Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I wrote about Anthropic, OpenAi and the Pentagon, quoting a post by @timnitgebru.bsky.social who encouraged people not to “fall for the theatrics.”zeteo.comThe Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Kill People Without Checks. Is Anthropic Really Pushing Back?Anthropic’s rupture with the Pentagon has sparked public backlash and soaring support. But an AI ethics expert warns against 'falling for the theatrics.' 08424
Reposted by igiriwM@Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 24/02/2026This is also the political economy of digitalisation. 02716
Reposted by igiriwM@BIG CHEECH CAKE @chelsisright.bsky.social · 11/02/2026The Angel of Death needs to be put on a PIP 15827
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Try 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 100
Reposted by igiriwM@Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026The 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. 85688193
Reposted by igiriwM@Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir 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 5783269214043
Reposted by igiriwM@Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026can'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 593931813
Reposted by igiriwM@dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026This 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. 37855296
Reposted by igiriwM@Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 06/02/2026There 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. 1112
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I'm not going to lie, I'm struggling to hold everything together 320
Reposted by igiriwM@The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/01/2026Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interesttheguardian.comMelania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of InterestDispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable 95956239
Reposted by igiriwM@mmnjug.bsky.social @mmnjug.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Al-Jazeera denounces YouTube's submission to the ban of its broadcast in Israel and calls for adherence to international conventions. 012
Reposted by igiriwM@Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I 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...wnycstudios.orgVideos of ICE Violence Are Plentiful. Accountability.… Not So Much. | On the Media | WNYC StudiosThe Trump administration called Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by federal officers, a “domestic terrorist.” And then bystander footage flooded the internet. On this week’s On th... 6348118
Reposted by igiriwM@Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 21/01/2026Gathering 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...bellingcat.comShot From Above: The Dangerous Work of Drone Journalists in Gaza - bellingcatExamining the high price those documenting devastation in Gaza pay. 113948
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026People 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. 102
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Akina 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 ? 001
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026If 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 000
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 05/01/20262026 it's podcasts by experts talking about their fields of work. Historians talking about History etc Podcast Relationship nonsense is killing our society 130
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I spent a total of 9 hours on Social Media last week and I've never felt better 000
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Today 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 000
Reposted by igiriwM@Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025We’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. 232254499
Reposted by igiriwM@Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 20/12/2025Yeah, I’m something of a sandwich artiste myself 2759356
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 21/12/2025The way people are moving? Msoto is just me. The economy is doing well and so are my friends 000
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Maybe 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 000
Reposted by igiriwM@Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025If 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. 892536586
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025It's been a while.... The 2025 Isuzu MU-X is now proudly made in Kenya! 020
Reposted by igiriwM@Nebullama @nebullama.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Yeah, s*x is cool, but have you heard the sound a page in a book makes when you turn it? 🫦 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 1022286164
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I'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 020
Reposted by igiriwM@Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Toilets 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.theconversation.comToilets can make Africa’s roads safer, according to this new studyThe lack of toilets makes travelling on Africa’s roads a less-than-pleasant experience. 142
Reposted by igiriwM@Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Previously, 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. 21346135
Reposted by igiriwM@Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025LLMs 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. 132300468
Reposted by igiriwM@Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025The 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. 111678161
Reposted by igiriwM@Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Some 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. 1108957
Reposted by igiriwM@Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Bellingcat’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. 543207839
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025There 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 011
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Right 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 :-( 000
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I 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 010
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025The problem with living in Kenya is the National Parks. As a citizen, that is actually my forest and those are indeed my monkeys. 002
Reposted by igiriwM@kate @thekatriarch.bsky.social · 06/11/2025According to a person familiar with jury lunches 25946131
igiriwM@ @mwirigi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025How will she look mid-afternoon on a boring weekend in a Dera and head wrap? 000
