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The EFF will celebrate its 13th Anniversary and launch its 2026 Manifesto on 25 July 2026 at Thohoyandou Stadium. The event will be addressed by the President and Commander-in-Chief, @Julius_S_Malema.
Clear your calendars and join us as the organisation of the rejected and dejected masses marks 13 years of unwavering struggle, growth, and service to the people.
#EFFTurns13
Growing up in South Africa, coding always felt like it belonged to someone else's language.
So I built my own.
Introducing CMT-IsiZulu — write Python code in isiZulu South African can now write codes in their home language
🇿🇦 Sikhona. We exist.
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Bro I cannot stop thinking about Cuba. an absolute giant of history, theyve done SO much for the whole world - Apartheid only fell in South Africa because Cuban troops went to fight the fascists in Angola!!! - and now they're abandoned, being strangled in front of us
A 22-year-old graduate student in Kazakhstan got so angry at journal paywalls in 2011 that she built a pirate website holding 88 million scientific papers, and last month she turned the whole thing into an AI that lets you ask one question and get the actual research as the answer.
Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan, and the website is called Sci-Hub.
The AI she just launched is called Sci-Bot. It lives at https://t.co/6w0IBtOEYB and almost nobody outside academia knows it exists yet.
Here is the story, because it is one of the strangest things to happen in science publishing in the last 50 years.
Elbakyan was born in Almaty in 1988, the year the Soviet Union started to collapse. She taught herself programming at 12. She read Soviet science books that explained things her family used to call miracles. She got into computer security at university and graduated in 2009 with a degree she barely needed because by then she was already a serious hacker.
Alexandra moved to Moscow that fall. Then Germany. Then a research internship in the United States. She was working on brain-computer interfaces, the kind of research that requires you to read hundreds of papers a year just to keep up with the field.
And every single one of those papers was locked behind a journal paywall that cost between 30 and 50 dollars to read once.
She did the math. A graduate student in Kazakhstan could not afford to read science.
The first thing she did was learn how to get around the paywalls one paper at a time. She passed the trick around to other students. They asked her for papers constantly. She got tired of doing it manually.
So in September 2011, in three days, she wrote a script that automated the whole thing. A user pastes a DOI. The script logs in through a donated institutional credential. The paper comes back free. The website caches it.
The next person who asks for that paper gets it instantly because the previous request already saved a copy.
That was Sci-Hub. Three days of code. One graduate student. Done.
15 years later, the cache holds 88 million scientific papers. Almost every piece of scholarly literature published before 2020 is sitting on her servers. Researchers in 190 countries use it. Studies in Nature have shown that roughly half of all academic paper downloads worldwide now go through Sci-Hub, not the publishers who actually own the copyrights.
Elsevier sued her in 2015 and won a 15 million dollar judgment. She did not pay. The American Chemical Society sued her and won an injunction. She did not comply. Courts in India, France, Russia, and the UK have tried to block the domain. She just moves it. https://t.co/3sAWJzNe8I. https://t.co/tGIETesZ8i. https://t.co/H5WQ1f9lqR. The site has had over 20 domains and is still up.
Nature put her on its list of the 10 people who mattered most to science in 2016. The New York Times compared her to Edward Snowden. The Verge called her the pirate queen of science.
She has not been to the United States in over a decade because she would be arrested at the airport.
The Sci-Bot launch in April 2026 is the part that nobody is talking about.
She took the 88 million paper database and put a small language model on top of it. You ask a question in plain English. The model searches the entire shadow library, pulls the relevant papers, synthesizes an answer grounded in real citations, and links you to the full text of every source. Free. No login. No institutional credential. No paywall.
Three real scientists tested it for a Chemical and Engineering News article last month. They asked it medical and chemistry questions. The radiologist said the answer he got was usable. The chemist said the gaps in recent literature were obvious but the older science was solid. The publisher community is furious.
What she built is what the paid academic AI tools are trying to build. Except the paid ones are limited to what their parent publisher legally owns. Hers is limited to almost nothing.
Alexandra still lives somewhere in Russia. She does not give her address. She does not do video interviews. She gives talks over Skype with the camera off. She runs the largest illegal library in human history from a laptop and a donation page.
A graduate student who could not afford to read science built the system the entire scientific community now quietly depends on.
The publishers have spent a decade trying to shut her down.
She just shipped an AI that makes their entire business model outdated.
Who controls the media?
Meta owns:
Facebook
Instagram
WhatsApp
Messenger
Threads
Oculus / Meta Quest VR
Meta AI
Meta is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg who is jewish
Alphabet owns:
Google
YouTube
Android
Gmail
Chrome
Pixel phones
Nest smart home devices
Fitbit (acquired in 2021)
DeepMind
Gemini AI assistant/model family
Waymo — self-driving cars
Verily — health technology
Calico — longevity research
Wing — drone delivery
Alphabet is controlled by Larry Page and Sergey Brin who are both jewish
Tic Tok
U.S. algorithm, cybersecurity and infrastructure is controlled by Oracle
Oracle is controlled by Larry Ellison and he’s jewish
Hookup Apps
Match Group owns:
Tinder
Hinge
OkCupid
https://t.co/piiSIKCUS4
Plenty of Fish
Meetic
The League
BLK
Archer
OurTime
Was founded by Barry Diller who is jewish
Grindr
Was founded by Joel Simkhai who is jewish
Bumble
Was founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd who is jewish
Porn
Onlyfans
Owned by Leonid Radvinsky who is jewish
Vixen Media Group owns:
Blacked
Blacked Raw
Vixen
Tushy
Deeper
Founded by Greg Lansky who is jewish
Aylo/MindGeek Owns/owned:
Pornhub
YouPorn
RedTube
Brazzers
Reality Kings
Digital Playground
https://t.co/qkqIK03f0k
Sean Cody
Tube8
Solomon Friedman is the owner of Aylo and he’s jewish
Gamma Entertainment owns/operates:
Adult Time
Pure Taboo
Wicked
Girlsway
many affiliate studios/platforms
Founded by Karl Bernard who is jewish
Movies/TV/News
Warner Brothers Discovery owns:
Warner Bros. Pictures
HBO
CNN
DC Studios
Cartoon Network
Discovery Channel
TNT
TBS
Max (formerly HBO Max)
Adult Swim
HGTV
Food Network
Animal Planet
Warner Brothers is run by David Zaslav who is jewish
Disney owns:
ESPN
ABC
Marvel Studios
Lucasfilm
Pixar
20th Century Studios
Disney+
Hulu (major controlling stake)
National Geographic
Disney is run by Bob Iger who is jewish
Paramount Global owns:
Broadcast & News
CBS
CBS News
CBS Sports
Local CBS stations
Film Studios
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Animation
Paramount Players
Cable Networks
MTV
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
BET
VH1
CMT
TV Land
Smithsonian Channel
Logo TV
Pop TV
Streaming & Premium
Paramount+
Showtime
Pluto TV
Major franchises/IP
Top Gun
Mission: Impossible
Star Trek
South Park (licensing/streaming arrangements)
SpongeBob SquarePants
Transformers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Paramount Global is controlled by Sheri Redstone, who is jewish
Comcast owns:
* NBCUniversal
* NBC
* Universal Pictures
* Peacock
* MSNBC
* CNBC
* Telemundo
* Sky (Europe)
* DreamWorks Animation
* Xfinity
Comcast is controlled by Roberts family who is Jewish
AI/Data Centers
OpenAI/ChatGPT
Run by Sam Altman who is jewish
Palentir provides advanced data integration, surveillance, AI, and analytics infrastructure used by military, intelligence, law enforcement, and major corporations. Its platforms help organizations combine massive amounts of fragmented data into real-time operational intelligence for warfare, policing, logistics, cybersecurity, manufacturing, and decision-making, making it one of the most strategically influential data and defense technology companies in the world.
Owned and operated by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp both jewish
Oracle owns:
Oracle Database
Java
MySQL
NetSuite
Cerner
Sun Microsystems technologies
It’s important because it owns core infrastructure software that powers governments, banks, hospitals, corporations, and large parts of the internet. Its control of technologies like Oracle Database, Java, MySQL, and Cerner gives it enormous influence over the backend systems modern society depends on.
Owned by Larry Ellison who is jewish
To our boys called up to the preliminary 🇿🇦 squad, we are incredibly proud of you.
Your work rate, commitment, sacrifice, and the way you carried yourselves throughout the season is a true reflection of why you deserve this recognition. The journey this team has been on, and where we finished on the log, speaks volumes about the character and quality within this group.
As the mighty Amakhosi family, we stand firmly behind every single one of you. We know the sacrifices, the pressure, the hard work, and the belief it takes to reach moments like these. This call-up is earned.
We stand with Bafana Bafana. We stand with South Africa. And most importantly, we stand with our players as you chase the dream of representing the nation on the biggest stage.
Wishing you nothing but strength, success, and favour on the road ahead. We hope to see you in that final squad and no matter what happens, know that your Amakhosi family is behind you every step of the way. 🇿🇦💛
Together we believe. Together we rise.
#BafanaBafana
#RoadToTheWorldCup
#FIFAWorldCup
#SouthAfrica
#Amakhosi4Life
#AlwaysHomeAlwaysUs
#ProudlySouthAfrica
Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo 🇨🇩 who was executêd in a firing squad and his body was dissolved in sulfuric acid, by Belgium/USA allies because he tried to protect his country’s minerals