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Extraordinarily ordinary while #TickingTargets🎯

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Joy @MissJoy_01]

@SSFootball @LAWRENC25055815 @Masandawana It’s not.

[Maduna kaNokhala @ta_kweila]

When I say young black people must go to JHB, this is not Tigers Milk talk. It is about proximity to opportunity.

You may not have read Bonga Bangani's letter to Richard Wright, and Tinyiko Ngwenya’s letter to all of us

You will do a bit of reading today

🧵

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

The devastating part? This isn’t accidental, it’s a regulatory failure. It’s a governance failure. The state-owned, publicly funded SABS (Bureau of Standards) has no safety regulations in place for menstrual product chemical safety. Others countries do. South Africa does not.

[UFS @UFSweb]

𝗨𝗙𝗦 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲-𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

Menstrual products are used by millions of South Africans every month – but new research from the University of the Free State has found that every sanitary pad and pantyliner tested contained hormone-disrupting chemicals, even those marketed as ‘chemical-free’.

UFS scientists are calling for greater transparency, stronger safety standards, and continued research to protect consumer health.

Read more: https://t.co/H6tYXd0wpV
#UFSResearch #WomensHealth #MenstrualHealth

[Tannie @nubian6]

To every woman that wants to be a mother but can't afford IVF, here a plug.

We are not gate keeping anything this year aker

[Ella Maulding @ellamaulding]

Anyone asking Grok to remove clothing from a woman on X should be registered as a sex offender.

And anyone having Grok remove clothing from a child on X should legitimately be charged with child pornography and jailed.

Disgusting filth.

[iDiski Times @iDiskiTimes]

🎙️ Hugo Broos: "When I came here four years ago, there was nobody in the stadium. It was very difficult for us to play in an empty stadium. Now today, everyone is behind us and this is a very, very nice feeling."

@ToyotaSA

[Dan Corder 📺 @DanCorderOnAir]

Springboks are a beautiful miracle for South Africa, but many people are about to discover what a soccer-mad nation we are. The joy that is coming, the energy in the streets. First time we qualify for a football World Cup by our own hand in 24 years if it stays this way 😭🇿🇦

[BIN DIESEL @BinweA]

as African people, we are failing Sudan in a big way. like we really need to lock in and speak up the way we've done for Palestine. it's not one or the other, but it absolutely HAS to be both. and urgently.

[Madame La Directrice @jenny_gxo]

Just an FYI, ALL smartphones (iPhone AND Android) and laptops use materials from Congo - mainly cobalt for batteries, plus tantalum, tin, and tungsten. The entire electronics industry exploits it. Every major tech company sources these critical minerals from DRC. Not just Apple.

[ifeoluwakiishi⁷ 💋 @ifethesabigirl]

Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls &women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Joy @MissJoy_01]

@zanele_matome Eish

[Sayo Thee Succulent @Simply_Sayo]

Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls &women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Pontsho Pilane @pontsho_pilane]

Soul City returns to TV in 2026 with a new edutainment drama focussing on violence against women & girls, paired with community mobilisation to truly drive social behaviour change to prevent violence.

Oh, and open auditions for the four lead roles! https://t.co/V6fUsZyl8B

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The world's worst humanitarian crisis is being ignored, with over 8 million people displaced, 500,000 children dead from hunger. Cholera and war crimes spreading in silence.

This is not just a Sudanese issue — it is a test of our shared humanity. 🇸🇩

[zinah𓂆 @zhal80]

Don’t forget Sudan
They’re starving just like we're in Gaza..

[Sisi Amàh💫 @ella_innoh]

Sudan is not talked about enough, the sights I've seen give me nightmares. This horror really needs to end!

[JEW @Langatt_KE]

They mocked our ancestors for walking barefoot.
Now Western scientists call it "Earthing" and write research papers.
The ancestors were never primitive.