A Singaporean colleague gifted me this book. After reading it, it’s clear: national development is serious business that demands clear, strong resolutions. Zambia — and many African countries — don’t seem ready for that yet. #Zambia
Zambia has a poverty rate of 63%, how many Zambians can afford flights?. Why not invest in high speed rail which is a cheaper means of transport for the masses. Anyway let’s applaud the UNZA Economist for the brilliant idea.
The President of the Republic of Zambia has today revealed that four UPND members voted against Bill 7. This is an extremely important revelation.
Was the vote unanimous? did some MP’s vote against the Bill? If so how many? Like the President, I am interested to know exactly who voted for or against Bill 7. According to the standing orders of the National Assembly, every vote is followed by the publication of the votes and proceedings of the day. When a vote is taken, a division list is always published showing exactly how each and every MP voted. For some reason, the Division list for Bill 7 has never been published by the National Assembly.
Could the National Assembly please publish the division list on Bill 7 vote.
🏆 Referee announced for 2026 #SuperCup!
We're pleased to share that Somali referee Omar Artan will officiate the highly anticipated match between PSG and Aston Villa in Salzburg.
You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.
You thought it was you. It is not you.
Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.
Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.
The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.
Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.
What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.
Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.
They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.
The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."
The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.
This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.
The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.
Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
“Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.”
This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.
The UK government are looking to BAN Kanye West from entering the UK because of his opinions…
They’ve just allowed an ex ISIS fighter to visit Number 10 and Buckingham Palace…
Day 36 of asking His Excellency, President Hakainde Hichilema, for an opportunity to serve.
I am a qualified Registered Nurse, ready to work, learn, and contribute to Zambia’s healthcare system. I remain committed and hopeful for a chance to make a difference.@HHichilema
⚠️Missing child alert
Please help with information regarding the whereabouts of Asher Kaluba aged 4, who went missing from his place in Lusaka's Chalala area this morning.
Any information kindly call:
+260974384530 or +260770838980.
Please share post widely to help find Asher.
Imagine if a country announced it was introducing the death penalty, but only for Jews. Imagine the global outcry.
But apparently it's fine to introduce the death penalty only for Palestinians...
When Childhood is Violated
A Palestinian infant was subjected to abuse after soldiers forced his father away at gunpoint and detained the child for several hours. During this time, he was exposed to physical harm, as confirmed by medical reports.
This is not an isolated incident, but part of a broader pattern of psychological and physical pressure targeting families in areas under Israeli military control in Gaza.
While the child is now receiving treatment, the effects of trauma remain؛ etched not only on his body, but also within a wider collective reality where basic principles of humanity continue to erode.
#Palestinians #Palestinian_children #HumanRights