Terrifying thread.
Due to a legal ruling which lets AI companies off the hook for copyright infringement as long as they destroy the original book, they're buying up millions of rare books, scanning them as AI training data, and then destroying them.
I kinda don’t want to let this go until I hear from Spur and know she’s been recognised. She’s saving to study medicine. I want people to go there and say, “I want Tebogo. Here’s a big tip. Now please be my doctor.” @SpurRestaurant
People talk like China just possessed a magic wand and use it to make themselves rich overnight. China went through vicious and bloody internal cleansing of traitors and uncle toms. Africans must be prepared to do such.
i'm realising its not every friend u should talk to when it comes to your romantic rships. but it's imperative that there is someone u do talk to.
my criteria now is they have to have known me through different seasons of my life + share similar values to me
at 65 people should be sipping lemonade on a porch somewhere, instead they have to write pages begging people to treat them like human beings while working for minimum or less
Criminal of Gayton McKenzie to spend R31 million taking his cronies to the World Cup after he cut funding from arts festivals, impacting hundreds of thousands of citizens.
➡️ National Arts Festival (Makhanda): funding withdrawn (R5.5 million lost)
➡️ Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK): national funding withdrawn
➡️ Cape Town International Jazz Festival: funding withdrawn
➡️ Aardklop National Arts Festival: funding withdrawn
➡️ Suidoosterfees: funding withdrawn
➡️ Woordfees (Stellenbosch): funding withdrawn
➡️ Innibos: funding withdrawn
➡️ Vrystaat Kunstefees: funding withdrawn
➡️ Open Book Festival: funding withdrawn
➡️ Cape Town Carnival: funding withdrawn
Understaff it, defund it, delapitate it, deregulate it, devalue it then when it's nice & ripe for the picking privatize it.
The 6 step playbook of "privatisation by stealth"...