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2018: “New Dawn”. Cyril vows there would be “no holy cows” and that those responsible for state capture would be held accountable.   2019: Cyril vows to end state capture, corruption and hold those responsible to account.   2020: Cyril promises reform and accountability to fix corruption and state capture.   2021: Cyril vows action against fraud and corruption, with investigations and recoveries.   2022: Cyril commits to implementing state capture Commission recommendations and intensifying the fight against corruption.   2023: Cyril promises procurement reform to close corruption loopholes.   2024: Cyril says government will not stop until corruption is history and stolen money is recovered.   2025: Cyril pledges a permanent anti-corruption body and stronger prosecution of high-level corruption.   Feb 2026: Cyril promises tougher procurement reform and an independent anti-corruption body. June 2026:

South African Government @GovernmentZA

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RECAP ↔️ There will be no tolerance for corruption, regardless of position, status or political affiliation. The Presidency continues to oversee and coordinate the implementation of the recommendations of the State Capture Commission. #GovZAUpdates 🇿🇦 #CapableState

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“¿No hay pruebas? Yo soy la prueba”: Ilana Gritzewsky desafía a una funcionaria de la ONU que niega la violencia sexual del 7 de octubre La ex rehén Ilana Gritzewsky se presentó ante el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU en Ginebra y confrontó la narrativa de quienes minimizan o niegan los crímenes sexuales cometidos durante la masacre del 7 de octubre. Tras su intervención, relató que terminó temblando por la intensidad emocional del momento. Frente a ella se encontraba Reem Alsalem, quien ignora las evidencias y testimonios de las víctimas israelíes. Declaraciones destacadas de Ilana Gritzewsky “Es difícil mirar a los ojos a alguien que niega todos los crímenes del 7 de octubre, todos los abusos sexuales.” “Esa mujer debería proteger a todas las mujeres del mundo.” “No le permitiremos hacerlo y no nos quedaremos en silencio.” “Llegaré, si es necesario, a cualquier lugar del mundo para hacer oír la voz de las secuestradas que sufrieron abusos sexuales.” “Lamentablemente hay muchas personas asesinadas que ya no podrán testificar.” “Me enfrentaré a cualquiera que lo niegue.” “Seguiré mirándolos a los ojos y diciéndoles la verdad.” “No me callaré.” Antes de su discurso también explicó el enorme costo personal que implica volver a abrir sus heridas una y otra vez: “Es muy difícil abrir cada vez las heridas y los traumas.” “No pedí ser conocida. Quiero mi tranquilidad.” “Pero es importante hablar en estos lugares donde no nos quieren.” “Debemos seguir diciendo nuestra verdad en la cara de la gente.” “Siento que esta es mi misión.” “Esta es una herida que permanecerá con nosotros toda la vida.” ¿Alguien me puede explicar por qué la ONU no le cree a las víctimas judías?

This is the UN. Look at the face of the UN special rapporteur who is meant to stand up for women but has refused, again and again, to speak up for Israeli women. Look at her face when a former hostage challenges her.

his “AI server” is 4 mac minis stacked next to the toaster linked by free software into one machine that runs 235B models no single computer could load regulated clients pay him $3,500/month each to use it he has 6 of them that’s $21k/month from a tower of silver boxes in his kitchen the stack runs exo - open-source, $0, turns four separate minis into one pool of memory. the monitor shows all four nodes firing together, one model spread across the whole cluster the thing nobody tells you about local AI: a model either fits in your machine’s memory or it doesn’t run. that’s the wall everyone hits. it’s why people assume serious AI means a $40k server exo walks straight through that wall. it splits one massive model across every box in the chain. four minis at $599 each suddenly run what a single high-end machine can’t touch and the people who need this aren’t chasing the newest model they’re the ones the cloud locked out: → a law firm with privileged case files → a medical practice under HIPAA → an accounting firm holding client financials they need AI nowhere near a third-party server. a stack they can point to during an audit ends every objection their models run on his cluster. the data never leaves equipment he controls the breakdown: → 4 mac minis: $2,400 total → exo software: $0 → electricity: ~$25/month → what he charges per client: $3,500/month → 6 active clients the kitchen stack paid for itself in the first 3 weeks month 1: 2 clients, $7k month 3: 4 clients, $14k month 6: 6 clients, $21k he’s not running a startup with an office and a logo he’s running four silver boxes between the coffee machine and a bowl of fruit, clearing $21k/month from hardware that cost $2,400 clients picture racks and cooling fans reality is four minis humming next to where he makes breakfast the cloud companies charge a fortune for compute and access to your own he charges $3,500 a month for the one thing they can’t sell - a machine that never phones home

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There is an old laptop in your closet. Gathering dust. Dead battery. Slow processor. You keep it because you feel guilty throwing it away. That laptop can replace every cloud subscription you pay for. - Netflix - Google - Dropbox - 1Password That is $42 a month. $504 a year. To rent things you used to own. The old laptop in your closet could do all of it. Now meet CasaOS. A free and open source system that turns any old laptop, Raspberry Pi, or mini PC into your own personal cloud. You run one command. In 30 minutes, the laptop becomes a server. You open it from your phone, your TV, your work computer, anywhere in the world. Then you pick the apps you want from a built-in store. One click each. - Jellyfin to replace Netflix. Stream every movie and show you own. - Immich to replace Google Photos. Faces and search included. - Nextcloud to replace Dropbox. Sync every file across every device. - Vaultwarden to replace 1Password. All your passwords, your keys. - Syncthing to keep files in sync across every device, no cloud. - Home Assistant to control every smart device in your home. - AdGuard to block ads on every device on your wifi. Setting up a home server the old way took an entire weekend. Install Linux. Learn Docker. Write config files. Set up storage. Fix errors. Look up every app one by one. CasaOS does all of that for you. No code. No config files. No Linux skills. You see icons on a screen. You click them. 34,116 stars on GitHub. Apache 2.0. Free forever. Built by a small team starting September 2021. Runs on Raspberry Pi, Intel NUC, old laptops, and most home servers. Over 100,000 Docker apps can be installed. A new Raspberry Pi costs $50. The old laptop in your closet costs $0. It already works. It is already in your house. Netflix charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. Google charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. Dropbox charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. 1Password charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. Here is the wild part. The laptop you forgot about is more powerful than the web server that ran most websites in 2008. It is sitting in a drawer. It costs you nothing. It already works. One command. Thirty minutes. Five hundred dollars a year back in your pocket. Your files. Your photos. Your movies. Your home. Your closet just became a data center.

In 2017, freelance writer Oobah Butler decided to test how much people trust online ratings and carefully crafted appearances. He invented a restaurant called The Shed at Dulwich, listing it on TripAdvisor as an exclusive, appointment-only dining destination hidden in South London. There was just one problem: the restaurant didn't exist. Using household objects such as shaving foam, paint, and cleaning products, Butler created convincing "gourmet" food photographs. Friends were asked to leave positive reviews, and curious callers were told the restaurant was fully booked for weeks because of its supposedly limited seating. The mystery surrounding the venue only seemed to make it more desirable. As glowing reviews accumulated, The Shed steadily climbed TripAdvisor's rankings. Within about six months, the fictional restaurant had reached the impossible milestone of becoming the No. 1 rated restaurant in London, outperforming thousands of real establishments despite having no kitchen, no staff, and no paying customers. Eventually, Butler decided to open The Shed for a single evening. In his backyard, guests were served inexpensive supermarket and frozen foods that were plated creatively and presented as fine dining. Many diners praised the experience, complimenting the flavors, atmosphere, and exclusivity of the meal. The experiment became one of the most talked-about demonstrations of how easily perception, social proof, and online reputation can shape our judgments.

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic. Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined. Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written. She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious." She is not the only one. In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence. AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix. Here is what the math says. If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem. If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through. There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective. The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy. The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine. Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year. 750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves. The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible. The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused. arxiv.org/abs/2603.20254

When 46 individuals capture over half of all BEE mining deals, the grand illusion of economic transformation is completely shattered. This is not empowerment. It is institutionalised kleptocracy disguised as social justice. The BEE has functioned as a closed loop syndicate for a tiny, politically connected elite. In South Africa, you do not achieve success through operational excellence, mineral innovation, or capital efficiency. You achieve it through proximity to the ruling party's deployment committee. Forty-six ANC cadres get unimaginably wealthy by simply signing their names on ownership certificates, while the actual miners and surrounding communities continue to live in absolute squalor. Global capital and serious mining houses look at South Africa and see an uninvestable landscape. They are forced to hand over massive equity chunks to non-productive political cronies just for the permission to build. Instead of investing profits back into advanced machinery, geological exploration, and stable logistics, billions are siphoned off into luxury estates and foreign bank accounts. When a regime treats its national resources as a private treasury for a selected few, it has surrendered all moral legitimacy to govern.

If she wasn’t working for Elon Gwynne Shotwell would be hailed as an incredible success story and the most powerful woman in aerospace. Instead it’s radio silence from the media

A fundamental truth that none of their supporters in this country will face is that @MYANC came to power to steal - period. They believed that years of fighting to end apartheid - despite contributing relatively little to its eventual demise - and decades spent in exile meant they were owed a debt. And they have been collecting that debt every day since 1994. There is no room in South Africa for innovation, entrepreneurship, or development that benefits the country and its people at large. Theft and destruction are so deeply entrenched in the ANC's DNA that they have become its defining characteristics. The overwhelming majority of South Africa's new billionaires owe their fortunes to political patronage, B-BBEE rent seeking, and/or outright theft.

Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu

2 weeks ago

A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire, but with an American citizenship and an American portfolio. His success is a mirror that reflects South Africa's absolute failure. Elon Musk's historic milestone proves that wealth, progress, and

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SpaceX's 11th employee just became a billionaire. Gwynne Shotwell joined SpaceX in 2002. She was employee number 11, joining as VP of Business Development before the company had proven a single rocket could fly. She didn't even go there looking for a job. She had taken a colleague to lunch to celebrate him leaving for SpaceX, ran into Musk at the restaurant, and got interviewed on the spot. A week later, she joined him. Her job: sell rocket launches for a company nobody had heard of. She built the Falcon vehicle manifest to over $5 billion in commercial contracts. She managed SpaceX's growth to 22,000 employees. She was the one who told NASA, the Air Force, and paying commercial customers why SpaceX could get to orbit cheaper and faster than anyone before it. She was also the one who said no to going public for years. "I wasn't sure the company would go public," she said on CNBC yesterday. She resisted the pressure because she believed the public markets would force SpaceX into quarterly thinking, which would kill the mission. She finally decided it was time. "I do not want to focus on quarterly earnings," she said on IPO day. "What we're doing is very futuristic." Her stake is now worth north of $1.3 billion. She's SpaceX's fifth-largest Class A shareholder. The 24 years of operational work that made yesterday possible have Gwynne Shotwell's fingerprints on them.

2. Motion Smoothing (The Soap Opera Effect) What it does: Hollywood movies are shot at 24 frames per second. Your TV tries to make them look smoother by using its graphics processor to invent totally fake, artificial frames and shoving them between the real ones to force the video up to 60 frames per second. Why it kills performance: Frame interpolation is an incredibly heavy math problem. Your TV is attempting to predict the trajectory of moving objects and render millions of new pixels in a fraction of a millisecond. If you hit the home button while a movie is playing, the menu will lag terribly because the TV chip is absolutely maxed out trying to draw fake frames in the background. How to kill it: Samsung: Picture → Expert Settings → Auto Motion Plus → Off LG: Picture → Picture Mode Settings → TruMotion → Off Sony: Picture → Motion → Motionflow → Off

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Steinhoff (loss R18bn) was incorporated in Netherlands. Originally founded in Germany in 1964. No Afrikaners involved. Def not an 'Afrikaner' coy. The 15 Companies were not PIC's only losses...they are the 100% losses. PIC has 'lost' (Lol) >R55billion in bad investments and corruption. Additionally, PIC has >R30bn at risk in financially distressed entities. This excludes R58bn exposure to Eskom in the form of bonds & bailouts. Eskom: A 1st world Afrikaner company devastated by cadre looting and incompetence...now it's a pos

The DA told farmers it was their party. Then this happened. 🧵 1/ SA's worst FMD outbreak. All 9 provinces. A national crisis. A KZN farmer emails the minister — thanking him for vaccines, offering to help coordinate the rollout. John Steenhuisen's chief of staff Jana le Roux forwards it to the DG and DDG with one line: "for some amusement." 2/ She has no agriculture background. She's a corporate lawyer who followed Steenhuisen from Cape Town city hall into the GNU. Steenhuisen's response when it went viral? "I requested the person to apologise." She kept her job. 3/ This is the same ministry that removed veteran FMD expert Dr Danie Odendaal for publicly questioning the vaccine strategy. Mock the farmers trying to help. Fire the experts trying to fix it. Then ask for an apology and move on. This is the DA's "agriculture reset." 🌾

Which is why they’re unemployable. We spend a higher percentage of our budget on education than most countries, only to find that most kids who go through our basic education system cannot read or add. Failure.

Unathi Kwaza @KwazaUnathi

2 weeks ago

dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/1… 47.1% of South African adults do not have matric

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Colonel Sebola: Commissioners, things are happening, things have been happening. At some point I was deployed at OR Tambo. We confiscated dollars, we were instructed to take them back to the owner. We took the dollars to the Reserve Bank as per procedure, they declared them as something else other than dollars. We were instructed to take them back to the owner. Protect this man! 😭 He spoke after a very long pause, and says there's more such cases. This Commission must not be closed. We must demand that the money be found. #MadlangaCommission

South Africa’s ANC is facing a major political collapse. Voters are losing faith in ANC. • ANC support has dropped below 50% across most groups • Even among black South African voters, it is polling under 50% • Rural support is also below 50% • Only 4% of suburban voters say they would vote ANC People are getting poorer. Real GDP per person has fallen from over R80,000 in 2012 to around R75,000 in 2025. Job creation has also collapsed from about 1 million new jobs a year in the early 2000s to around 100,000 a year under Ramaphosa. Many South Africans feel their lives are getting worse. The government also continues to block Starlink from launching. The service is already operating in many other African countries. This denies high-speed internet to millions of South Africans, especially in rural areas. It limits education, small business growth, and economic opportunities. Their corrupt officials even asked Elon Musk for bribes to approve Starlink, but he rightfully refused.

This could've been South Africa now. Instead, these ANC cadres refused to connect schools if they were not given 30% for mahala. I'm also sick and tired of the constant outages with fibre because of vandalism by criminals thinking they're stealing copper. All this would end if we have Starlink!!!

Elon Musk @elonmusk

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Starlink connecting schools in Bolivia

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This FMD crisis was entirely preventable. John Steenhuisen’s authoritarian power trip was overturned by the High Court, after causing massive damage to farmers. Now DA members are congratulating him on 'successes' from the very court judgment that slapped him down? Peak irony.

Leon Schreiber @Leon_Schreib

3 weeks ago

What a wonderful milestone: “This is all possible due to the vaccine programme that @jsteenhuisen has implemented…We can only thank you for your dedication.” Our beef exports are starting to flow again, as tangible proof of the rapid progress being made against FMD! 🇿🇦

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