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[denny @dennylife_]

How can an artist's song reach 1 billion streams in a single month if they have fewer than 100 million monthly listeners during that same period?

[Cde Mupombovhomo👏🇿🇼 @Moooldridge]

REASON WHY Zimbabweans DON'T BUY NEWSPAPERS.

[Starz09 @WTarambwa070]

They give away 100s of cars, millions of cash, boxes of chicken inn,millions on fuel for rallies, get their children hectares of Harare prime land but they don't care about citizens welfare, they don't chip in when citizens are in need...

Rest in Power babeygirl😭😭😭

💔💔💔

[Dandaro Online @DandaroOnline]

#dandarostreets Fourteen-year-old Shalom Onoja, who is battling rare bone cancer, has penned three emotional letters, including one detailing how she wants her funeral conducted. She wishes to be dressed in a purple dress or an all-white outfit, with a colourful ceremony celebrating her life.

According to H-Metro, Shalom’s cancer has reportedly spread to her lungs, and she is currently admitted to Parirenyatwa Hospital, relying on oxygen support. She has also written heartfelt messages thanking the nurses and well-wishers who have supported her journey.

Despite her deteriorating condition, Shalom’s family refuses to give up hope, continuing to pray for her recovery. Her heartbreaking story has touched many as she battles the devastating illness at just 14 years old.

H-Metro

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[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

A wise man once told me: Before you play the game, study the winners. If you don't want their life, don't play their game.

[Brilly Boy @BEbumeda]

I have now witnessed 4 primes of Lionel Messi

1. Ankara Messi
2. prime Messi
3. old Messi
4. doctor Messi

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Derek Rae has been calling soccer games for 40 years, and before every single one he fills a whole sheet of paper with tiny handwriting. Then the game kicks off and he barely looks at it.

That's on purpose. It's the same reason the cheat sheet you made in college helped you even on tests where you never flipped it over.

He said as much back in 2018, when he posted his notes from a World Cup game between Iran and Portugal. Rae's a languages guy, and writing everything out by hand and color coding it is how he gets it to stick. If he does need something fast, he just knows where on the page it is.

Psychologists put a name on this back in 1978. Two researchers, Slamecka and Graf, showed that stuff you produce yourself sticks way better than stuff you just read. So when Rae boils hours of research down into his own little shorthand, the boiling down is basically the studying.

The pen is doing work too. In 2024, a lab in Norway put caps with 256 electrodes on 36 college students and had them write words by hand, then type the same words. Writing by hand lit up connections all over the parts of the brain tied to forming new memories, and typing didn't light them up the same way.

Look at how he lays out the page, too. Real Madrid's on the left in blue and purple ink, Sevilla's on the right in red, with the squad numbers running down the margins. Researchers have known since the 1970s that people remember where on a page they saw something, usually without even trying. So when there's a VAR check or a guy's down injured and Rae has to fill dead air, one glance at the right color and the right row and he's got what he needs.

He's like this about names too. He speaks fluent German, and he's been known to call consulates to make sure he's pronouncing a player's name right.

It goes all the way back to when he was 7. His family in Aberdeen bought their first tape recorder in 1974, and little Derek started doing commentary into it during that summer's World Cup. He was on BBC Scotland by 1986 while still in college, and the next year, at 20, he won British Sports Broadcaster of the Year.

Rae's called at least eight World Cups, and he's still running the same play every college kid stumbles into the night before a final.

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

The poor are often told to develop better habits in environments designed to punish them for having limited resources.

[ǝdɐɔsǝʇıʍpıɯ @cnb_1992]

"People are easier to govern when their suffering is framed as a personal failure rather than a systemic problem."

[Voltaire Archive @VoltaireQuote]

when Voltaire said:

[ScreamingGoat @ShitTalkinGoes]

@endliste nostalgia bias used to be way way way more important

[cinny 𐔌՞. .՞𐦯 @oomfatuated]

@endliste primacy bias clears

[Liste @endliste]

Just found out about recency bias. Maybe the most important bias ever

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

People are easier to govern when their suffering is framed as a personal failure rather than a systemic problem.

[Mohit @codewith55]

Can I ask a DUMB tech question?

Why does 1 TB of storage show up as around 931 GB on my computer?

Where did the remaining 69 GB go?

Is it a scam OR is there a technical explanation? 👀

[Mwenja 👑 @MwenjaMuhoro]

We should be able to study African history without needing every historical figure to be a hero and every tradition to be morally perfect. History is not a public-relations department.

[Peché Africa 🇿🇦 @pmcafrica]

Brandon Mashandudze, a Grade 9 learner from Mahikeng, has received top international honours from Harvard professor for proposing a diagnostic tool to detect lung cancer early using artificial intelligence (AI).
#NoDNA just ...

[Joe Ruzvidzo @JoeRuzvidzo]

Win the Caine Prize? BBC ignores you.
Get attacked? BBC piles on.

The agenda is CLEAR!

[Prof Changamire @1changamire]

Why is South Africa’s scientific research output so much higher than Zimbabwe’s? Beyond university funding, a massive structural barrier is pushing local researchers away: Zimbabwe’s prohibitive regulatory fees for ethical clearance. Imagine you’re a Zimbabwean doing your PhD at an international university (e.g., in SA, UK, or US). You want to return home to conduct health research in your own community. Before asking a single survey question, the system hits you with massive paywalls. Because your PhD degree is from a foreign university, you trigger dual-layer regulatory fees:

$500 USD to the Research Council of Zimbabwe (RCZ Foreign Permit)

$200 USD to @MedicalZimbabwe (normal PhD Review)

1% of your total budget as a statutory levy

While local university students get local currency rates and fee relief, Zimbabwean scholars abroad must pay hard USD. A simple $15,000 PhD grant gets slapped with over $850 USD in state fees before you buy a single pencil or hire transport.

Now look at South Africa’s model:

SA uses a decentralised HREC system (run by local universities like Wits, UCT, Stellenbosch).

Enrolled students pay $0.

External researchers pay a flat admin fee (~$160–$450).

The result? Zimbabwean PhD candidates studying abroad are actively priced out of doing fieldwork in their home country. Instead of generating local data to inform Zimbabwean health policies, students shift their field sites to South Africa, where ethical approval is cheaper and faster. If Zimbabwe wants to boost its scientific output, reforming these regulatory fees for returning scholars is essential.

[Eleven @Elevennotten]

“It is okay for us to embarrass ourselves a little in pursuit of human connection.”

Lol, I understood every bit of this sentence today.