Gomotso

I am an African. A fan of the arts and tech. I believe in Building, Renewing and Healing under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

How it started. -> How it's going.

[Verashni Pillay @verashni]

Newsmaker of the week, hands down.

Drushantha Ramsamy also showed us how it's done, trying to navigate unethical workplaces. Keep receipts, note your objections and never, ever get seduced into doing what's wrong just because everyone else is normalising it.

#MadlangaCommission #AndreaJohnson #IDAC

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

Quite cool

[mrdoob @mrdoob]

Transferring data with rapidly flashing qr codes 🫰
https://t.co/3qnijxjV1R

[Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh @SizweMpofuWalsh]

South Africa is, by and large, a land of impunity. I guess that’s why the Madlanga Commission feels so satisfying; it offers a glimpse of what accountability might look like.

[David (TalkingCents) @talkcentss]

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆, 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. 🤯

Let me break down exactly what the government is doing with this World Bank loan. It’s actually insanity. 🔻

The government has officially taken out a $1.5 billion adjustable-rate (variable) loan denominated entirely in U.S. dollars.

✅The Grace Period of 3 years means they pay interest-only on the loan. (meaning zero reduction in the principal loan amount for the first 3 years).

✅The Current Rate is 3.66% (6 month, SOFR Variable Benchmark) + 1.35% (Fixed Margin) = 5.01% initial interest rate.

𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲

❌Interest Rate Risk: The 5.01% rate is variable and tied to global benchmarks. If global rates rise, the loan instantly becomes more expensive. (in dollars).

❌Currency Risk: The loan must be repaid in U.S. dollars. If the ZAR currency weakens against the USD, it will require significantly more Rands just to buy the dollars needed to service the same debt.

𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆:

An interest-only, variable loan in a foreign currency pushes massive, unpredictable risk onto the country's future balance sheet.

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

@c4talyst Did you try Ternary Bonsai? What are your thoughts on it?

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

@c4talyst My eyes are glued to hugging face😂

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

Historic. 1 year ago I said Open weight models will beat Frontier... I got some strange looks 😂. Just a month ago they were claiming Open Weights are 6 months behind.

[Design Arena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: Kimi K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is officially 1st on Frontend Web App Arena by DesignArena

With an Elo of 1326, this open-weight model leads the way, ahead of Fable 5, Sonnet 5, and Opus 4.8 by @AnthropicAI

Huge congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team for this achievement!

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

@Abramjee My guess is that they were tailed, they noticed, they went to the garage for refuge but underestimated the threat.

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

@Abramjee The BMW knew it was coming. It parked at an odd place, seems engine on because it moves a little. Seems like he/she didn't think it is a hit. They were ready to confront them when they came. Also think they chose the gas station because they knew the cameras were there.

[GPTware @GPTWare]

Qwen3.8-27B + Qwen3.8-35B-A3B
🙏🥹🙏

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

@c4talyst 👏👏👏

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

Kimi K3 took this one😂

[Stav Zilbershtein @mightyking]

Fable 5 vs KIMI K3

I swear it gave me a hidden message

Created with maxfusion MCP

[Cline @cline]

We tested Kimi K3 and Fable on a real bug from the Cline repo, and found that while both models were able to fix it - Fable wins on speed & Kimi wins on cost.

- Kimi used 1.7x more tokens than Fable (1.2M vs. 730K)

- Fable finished 3.4x faster - 3.5 min and 18 tool calls vs. Kimi’s 12 min and 34 tool calls.

- Kimi cost 2.3x less ($0.92 vs. $2.13) thanks to its 3.3x per-token discount

Both runs used the same Cline harness, and the traces indicate that Kimi is RL trained to spend more tokens thinking and verifying before completing.

This is the first time we've seen an open weight model compete head to head with SOTA. Congratulations to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on this milestone!

[the tiny corp @__tinygrad__]

Started with the $39 plan and used it up, @Kimi_Moonshot is a user-aligned company I'm happy to send money to. GLM-5.2 feels Opus tier, Kimi K3 feels Fable tier!

[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

IDAC could have pursued people like the looters of Tembisa Hospital and they would be celebrated.

But they chose to arrest a young black woman for applying for a job she was qualified for and for “future state capture”

The Hangwani Maumela syndicate already stole R2 Billion.

[Prince Junior @KhayaMhlongo12]

It is so disturbing, disappointing that Lt General Mkhwanazi gave them hint/ clue what they should investigate on #AdhocCommitte but bona didn’t find any wrong doing.

Sorry Lt General Mkhwanazi for wasted you time, you were dealing with a bunch of incompetent MPs.😭

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

@CowansView Bro lost sleep over Andrea😬

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

@MightiJamie The wicks family is very resourceful 🧐

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

The country wants the truth.

[Haji @khal_haji]

The Madlanga Commission has you all by the throat 🤣 #MadlangaCommission

[Gomotso @GomoSDG]

@MDNnewss Sounds like AI Slop😂